Hebrew: Baruch atah YHVH eloheinu melech
ha-olam, asher kideshanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu la'asok b'divrei Torah.
V'ha'arev na YHVH eloheinu et divrei toratecha befinu uvfi amecha beit Yisrael.
V'niyeh anachnu v'tze'etze'einu v'tze'etza'ei amecha beit Yisrael kullanu yodei
sh'mecha v'lomdei toratecha lishmah. Baruch atah YHVH hamelamed Torah le'amo
Yisrael. Baruch atah YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher bachar banu mikol
ha'amim venatan lanu et torato. Baruch atah YHVH, notein haTorah.
English translation: Blessed art Thou,
YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His
commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim,
sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your
people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the
House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for
the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to
His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who
chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH,
Giver of the Torah.
Zec 5:3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that
goes forth over the face of all the earth: ‘everyone who is stealing shall go
unpunished,’ on the one side, according to it, and, ‘everyone who has sworn falsely
shall go unpunished,’ on the other side, according to it.”
Zec 5:4 “I shall send it out,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and
it shall come into the house of the thief and the house of the one who shall
swear falsely by My Name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house and
shall consume it, both its timber and stones.”
The instructions found in the Torah of YHVH
are the supreme authority over all of man’s conduct. Our Messiah made it
abundantly clear that there was no superior law in the universe and
disobedience to YHVH’S instructions carried serious consequences.
Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and
the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the
Torah till all be done.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 16:17.
Mat 5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of
these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the
heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the
reign of the heavens.
Many sincere believers
including ourselves will be
found guilty of violating the Torah when we stand
before Yahshua – YHVH’S appointed judge of the entire universe.
Rom 14:10 …. we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah.
May the following be the deep sincere prayer of our hearts:
Psa 139:23 Search me, O Ěl, and know my heart; Try me,
and know my thoughts;
Psa 139:24 And see if an idolatrous way is in me, And
lead me in the way everlasting.
This Torah section discusses three types of
transgression.
1.
The failure to give testimony
2.
The contamination of set apart things.
3.
The sin of false or unkept oaths.
Lev 5:1 ‘And when a being sins in that he has heard
the voice of swearing, (Heb “alah” an imprecation) and is a witness, or has
seen, or has known, but does not reveal it, he shall bear his crookedness.
Midrash:
“The
truth or inviolability of one's words was commonly attested in ancient Israel
by oath – a self-curse made in conditional form that went into effect if the
condition was fulfilled; e.g., "May harm befall me if I do so and so"
(cf. Eng. "I'll be damned if I will!"). The full form, including the
curse, is only rarely found, as, e.g., in the adjuration of the suspected
adulteress: "'If no man has lain with you … be immune to harm from this
water of bitterness that induces the curse. But if you have gone astray while married
to your husband … may YHVH make you a curse and an imprecation among your
people as YHVH causes your thigh to sag and your belly to distend'… and the
woman shall say, 'Amein, amein'" (Num. 5:19–22 Sotah)”
Let’s
apply this commandment to a situation where someone has been caught in the act
of adultery. This person has been accused by someone who actually saw the two
guilty parties engaging in a forbidden sexual relationship.
If
the accused denies what this witness saw and another witness who saw the same
transgression refuses to come forward to collaborate this testimony, he or she
shall be guilty and “bear their crookedness.”
2Co 13:1 … “By the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word shall be established.”1 Footnote: 1Dt. 19:15.
Deu 19:15 “One witness does not rise up against a man
concerning any crookedness or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two
witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a matter is established.
Talmudic law states “The oath is a residuary proof only: it is admitted
only where no sufficient evidence is available (Shev. 45a, 48b). Where an oath
had been taken and judgment pronounced, and then witnesses came forward and
testified that the oath had been false, the judgment is quashed and any money
recovered thereon restituted (BK 106a; Yad To'en ve-Nitan 2:11)
Moshe
realized how serious this instruction concerning oaths was that on the last day
of his life he uttered the following stern warning to anyone who would break their
promise to be faithful and serve YHVH only.
Deu 31:25 that Mosheh commanded the Lĕwites, who bore
the ark of the covenant of יהוה, saying,
Deu 31:26 “Take
this Book of the Torah, and you shall place it beside the ark of the covenant
of יהוה your Elohim, and it shall be there as a
witness against you,
Deu 31:27 for I
myself know your rebellion and your stiff neck. See, while I am still alive
with you today, you have been rebellious against יהוה, then how much
more after my death?
Deu 31:28
“Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so
that I speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to
witness against them.
Deu 31:29 “For I
know that after my death you shall do very corruptly and turn aside from the
way which I have commanded you. And evil shall come to you in the latter days,
because you do what is evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke
Him through the work of your hands.”
YHVH felt so serious about falsehood
concerning His covenant that He gave the following warning:
Deu 29:19 “And it shall be, when he hears the words of
this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace
though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in order to add drunkenness to
thirst.
Deu 29:20 “יהוה would not
forgive him, but rather, the displeasure of יהוה and His
jealousy shall burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this
book shall settle on him, and יהוה shall blot out
his name from under the heavens.
Deu 29:21 “And יהוה shall separate him for evil, out of all
the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, according to all the curses of the covenant that are
written in this Book of the Torah.
It is extremely important to realize
that Yahshua came into this world to bear testimony to the truth.
Joh 18:37 Then Pilate said to Him, “You are a
sovereign, then?” יהושע answered, “You
say it, because I am a sovereign. For this I was born, and for this I have come
into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the
truth hears My voice.”
It
is a sobering thought that Yahshua came into this world to confirm that every
word given to Moshe was true and that it was binding on all who wanted to be in
a right relationship with YHVH.
For
this reason we have an obligation to state that many in the church bear false
testimony as to the truth and covenant of YHVH.
Therefore
it is an extremely dangerous heresy to claim that you are in a covenant with
YHVH when in actual fact you are not. Many who call themselves believers
believe that all you need to do to be in a covenant with YHVH is to say a
“little sinners prayer.”“ In fact many Christians will claim that if you don’t
do and believe the way they do, you will not be in a covenant with YHVH and
will be cursed and cut off from YHVH for ever.
Some
well-meaning Christian will quote Gal
3:13 “Messiah
redeemed us from the curse of the Torah” and proceed to claim that anyone who
wants to obey Torah is under a curse.
We know that to be
under the curse means to be in wilful disobedience to the Torah and that there
is serious consequences for such disobedience.
Therefore
in fulfilment of Lev (Vayiqra) 5:1 We cannot remain silent because if we do we
shall “bear our crookedness”.
However
we need to be wise and trust the Ruach (Spirit) of YHVH to lead us when to
speak and what to say.
Isa 59:12 For our transgressions have increased before
You, and our sins witnessed against us. For our transgressions are with us, and
as for our crookednesses, we know them:
Isa 59:13 transgressing, and being untrue to יהוה, and turning
away from our Elohim, speaking oppression and apostasy, conceiving and
pondering words of falsehood from the heart.
Isa 59:14 And
right-ruling1 is driven back, and righteousness1 stands
far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter.
Footnote: 1Amos 5:7.
Isa 59:15 And the
truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה saw, and it displeased Him that there was
no right-ruling.
Isa 59:16 And He
saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor. So
His own arm saved for Him, and His righteousness upheld him.
Failure
to obey the instruction of speaking out against a false testimony will cause a
believing community to become corrupt and depart from YHVH’s ways.
We
see how serious this was in the case of Annanias and Saphira – Acts 5:1-11
Act 5:1 But a certain man named Ḥananyah, with Shappirah
his wife, sold a possession.
Act 5:2 And
he kept back from the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a
certain part and laid it at the feet of the emissaries.
Act 5:3 But
Kĕpha said, “Ḥananyah, why has Satan
filled your heart to lie to the Set-apart Spirit and keep back from the price
of the land for yourself?
Act 5:4
“While it remained, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold,
was it not in your authority? Why have you conceived this deed in your heart?
You have not lied to men but to Elohim.”
Act 5:5 Then
Ḥananyah, hearing these
words, fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all those who
heard of this.
Act 5:6 But
the young men arose and wrapped him up, carried him out and buried him.
Act 5:7 And
it came to be, about three hours later, that his wife came in, not knowing what
had taken place.
Act 5:8 And
Kĕpha responded to her, “Say to me whether you sold the land for so much?” And
she said, “Yes, for so much.”
Act 5:9 So
Kĕpha said to her, “Why have you agreed to try the Spirit of יהוה? Look, the
feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall
carry you out.”
Act 5:10 And
immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. And the young men
came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, they buried her beside her
husband.
Act 5:11 And great
fear came upon all the assembly and upon all who heard of this.
Zec 5:3 And
he said to me, “This is the curse that goes forth over the face of all the
earth: ‘everyone who is stealing shall go unpunished,’ on the one side,
according to it, and, ‘everyone who has sworn falsely shall go
unpunished,’ on the other side, according to it.”
Zec 5:4 “I shall send it out,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and
it shall come into the house of the thief and the house of the one who shall
swear falsely by My Name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house and
shall consume it, both its timber and stones.”
Lev 5:2 ‘Or
when a being touches any unclean matter, or the carcass of an unclean beast, or
the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping creatures,
and it has been hidden from him, he is unclean and guilty.
If we evaluate the
meaning of this verse and compare it with Vayikra 11:26-36 we have some serious
problems when considering having a meal in a restaurant where our food is
served and unclean food was prepared in the same cooking utensils!!!!!!!!!!
Lev 11:26 ‘Every beast that has a split hoof not
completely divided, or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Anyone who
touches their carcass is unclean.
Lev 11:27 ‘And whatever goes on its paws, among all the
creatures that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Anyone who touches
their carcass is unclean until evening,
Lev 11:28 and he who picks up their carcass has to wash
his garments, and shall be unclean until evening. They are unclean to you.
Lev 11:29 ‘And these are unclean to you among the
creeping creatures that creep on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the
tortoise after its kind,
Lev 11:30 and the gecko, and the land crocodile, and
the sand reptile, and the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
Lev 11:31 ‘These are unclean to you among all that
creep. Anyone who touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until
evening.
Lev 11:32 ‘And whatever any of them in its dead state
falls upon, (when a piece of bacon falls on your cheese and tomato sandwich in
the restaurant kitchen – it is unclean) becomes unclean, whether it is any wooden
object or garment or skin or sack, any object in which work is done, it is put
in water. And it shall be unclean until evening, then it shall be clean.
Lev 11:33 ‘Any earthen vessel into which any of them
falls, whatever is in it becomes unclean, and you break it.
Lev 11:34 ‘Any of the food which might be eaten, on
which water comes, becomes unclean, and any drink which might be drunk from it
becomes unclean.
Lev 11:35 ‘And on whatever any of their carcass
falls becomes unclean – an oven or cooking range – it is broken down. They are
unclean, and are unclean to you.
Lev 11:36 ‘But a fountain or a well, a collection of
water, is clean, but whatever touches their carcass is unclean.
Lev 5:3 ‘Or when he touches uncleanness of man, any
of his uncleanness by which he is unclean, and it has been hidden from him,
when he shall know it, then he shall be guilty.
Hegg comments that
according to Torah if anyone who knew they were unclean and went into the
temple could be cut off from Yisrael.
However if someone
went to the temple and was unaware of his ritual uncleanness and became aware,
that person was required to bring a guilt offering. The scenario envisaged here
was that a man may have been unaware of his wife’s niddah (come into contact
with her during her monthly cycle) before he went into the temple.
Some may feel that
this is excessive – we need to remind ourselves that YHVH is KODESH – Set Apart
and nothing unclean may enter into his presence.
This instruction may
also be applied to someone who has unknowingly been defiled by false doctrines
and teachings.
Listening to “lashon
ha ra” (evil speech) will also defile you.
Lev 5:4 ‘Or when a being swears, speaking rashly with
his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man swears rashly with
an oath, and it has been hidden from him, when he shall know it, then he shall
be guilty of one of these.
Lev 5:5 ‘And it shall be, when he is guilty of one of
these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned,
If you have given your word and cannot keep it because either you were
unable or there was some hidden circumstances that made it impossible for you
to do so, you needed to confess it as a sin and bring a guilt offering to the
priest at the Tabernacle (and later the Temple) to make atonement for your sin.
Lev 5:6 and shall bring his guilt offering to יהוה for his sin
which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a female goat as a sin
offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin.
Lev 5:7 ‘And if he
is unable to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to יהוה, he who has
sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the
other for a burnt offering.
Lev 5:8 ‘And he
shall bring them to the priest, who shall bring near that which is for the sin
offering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but not sever it.
Lev 5:9 ‘And he
shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar,
and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is
a sin offering.
Lev 5:10 ‘And he
shall prepare the second as a burnt offering according to the right-ruling, and
the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin which he has sinned, and
it shall be forgiven him.
Lev 5:11 ‘But if
he is unable to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned
shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour as a sin
offering. He puts no oil on it, nor does he put any frankincense on it, for it
is a sin offering.
Lev 5:12 ‘And he
shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his hand filled with it
as a remembrance portion, and burn it on the altar according to the offerings
made by fire to יהוה. It is a sin offering.
Lev 5:13 ‘And the
priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has sinned in any of
these, and it shall be forgiven him. And it shall be the priest’s, like a grain
offering.’ ”
Guilt Offerings – “Asham”
Lev 5:14 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 5:15 “When a
being commits a trespass, and has sinned by mistake against the set-apart
matters of יהוה, then he shall
bring to יהוה as his guilt offering a ram, a perfect
one, from the flock, with your valuation in sheqels of silver according to the
sheqel of the set-apart place, as a guilt offering.
Lev 5:16 “And he
shall make good for the sin that he has done against that which is set-apart,
and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall
make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it shall be
forgiven him.
a. If a person commits a trespass: The
guilt offering was essentially the same procedure used in the sin offering,
except that the guilt offering was used when someone had sinned in regard to the Set Apart things. This
spoke of some type of desecration of the tabernacle or its associated items.
b. He shall make restitution for the harm
that he has done in regard to the Set apart thing: When Set apart things
had been desecrated in some way, a mere sin offering was not enough.
Restitution was also required, paying back what was lost plus twenty percent (he shall add one-fifth to it).
I. “If one has been unfaithful in the Set
apart things of YHVH it is not enough that one should confess and bring a
sin-offering. Restitution must be made for the wrong done; it must be put right.
There was something due to YHVH that was not rendered in it season, and things
will not be right until it is rendered.” (Coates)
ii. With the guilt offering, the priest was
allowed to keep the hide of a bull that was offering (Leviticus 7:8).
Lev 5:17 “And when
any being sins, and has done what is not to be done, against any of the
commands of יהוה, though he
knew it not, yet he shall be guilty and shall bear his crookedness.
Lev 5:18 “Then he
shall bring to the priest a ram, a perfect one, from the flock, with your
valuation, as a guilt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for his
mistake he committed unintentionally, though he did not know it, and it shall
be forgiven him –
Lev 5:19 it is a
guilt offering, he was truly guilty before יהוה.”
a. Though he does not know it, yet he is
guilty and shall bear his iniquity: If someone unknowingly transgressed any
commandments of the Torah they could not claim ignorance as an excuse.
b. So the priest shall make atonement for
him regarding his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it: Ignorance
can be sin. It is no excuse; it is sin and must be atoned for.
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu,
Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu.
Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are you YHVH, our Elohim, King of the
Universe, you have given us your Torah of truth, and have planted everlasting
life within our midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn
Please
note these notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are
in no way a final authority on any subject.
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