Blessing of Torah.
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 are You, 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.
This portion is also known as the
“tochacha” or solemn warning. “Tochacha” comes from the word “hochacha” which
can mean “proof.” The inhabitants of this world may soon witness the proof of
ignoring YHVH’s Torah. Ignoring YHVH’s Torah is equal to ignoring YHVH’s
Messiah. The most severe judgment imaginable is about to come upon mankind
because Yahshua has been misrepresented or ignored.
Torah Readings:
1. 26:3-5
2. 26:6-9
3. 26:10-46
4. 27:1-15
5. 27:16-21
6. 27:22-28
7. 27:29-31
8. Maftir: 27:32-34
Haftarah: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14
Our haftarah portion reminds us that we have inherited
folly from our fathers.
Jer 16:19 O יהוה, my strength
and my stronghold and my refuge, in the
day of distress the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth
and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no
value in them.”1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3,
Isa. 60:2-3, John 4:22, Rom. 2:20, Rom. 3:2, Rom. 9:4.
Aliyah Rishon 26:3-5
Lev 26:3 ‘If you walk in My laws and guard My
commands, and shall do them,
Lev 26:4 then I shall give you rain in its season, and
the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit.
Lev 26:5 ‘And your threshing shall last till the time
of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing.
And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land
safely.
Vs 3 in the Hebrew reads: “if in my statutes (bechukatai) you will walk
and my commandments (mitzvoth) you will guard (shamar) and will do them (asah)
Remember a “chuk” or
statute is something which is to be engraved in our hearts and minds. We obey
these statutes but do not always understand exactly what they mean, for
example the appointments found in
Vayikra/Leviticus 23 where we find the words “chukat olam” is used four times –
this is a statute forever – In fact some 12 times this phrase is repeated in
the Torah. (These “chukot” are forever)
A “chuk” is something
that reminds us of when our parents told us to do something …. When we asked
“why” they said “because I said so”
However we walk this way
not because we must, but because we want to. We want to please the Father
because we love Him.
Joh 8:29 “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father
has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.”
Yahshua took a very serious view about how we obey the Father.
Mat 21:28 “But what do you think? A man had two sons,
and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’
Mat 21:29 “And he answering, said, ‘I do not wish to,’
but afterwards he repented and went.
Mat 21:30 “And having come to the second, he said similarly.
And he answering, said, ‘I go, master,’ but he did not go.
Mat 21:31 “Which of the two did the desire of the
father?” They said to Him, “The first.” יהושע said to them,
“Truly, I say to you that tax collectors and whores are entering into the reign
of Elohim before you,
Aliyah Sheni 26:6-9 – Rewards of obedience.
Lev 26:6
‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one
make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the
sword go through your land.
Lev 26:7 ‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they
shall fall by the sword before you.
Lev 26:8 ‘And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and
a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword
before you.
Lev 26:9 ‘And I shall turn to you and make you bear
fruit, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you. (Hebrew “uphaniti” YHVH will turn His
face towards His people)
Aliyah Shlishi
26:10-46
Lev 26:10 ‘And you shall eat the
old supply, and clear out the old because of the new.
Lev 26:11 ‘And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject
you.
Lev 26:12 ‘And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be
your Elohim, and you shall be My people.
Lev 26:13 ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the
land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your
yoke and made you walk upright.
In Yochanan/Joh 15:14 Yahshua said: “You are My friends if you do whatever I
command you.
Joh 15:15 “No longer do I call you servants, for a
servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends,
for all teachings which I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Joh 15:16 “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed
you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so
that whatever you ask the Father in My Name He might give you.
The following is the “tochacha” ie the proof of our
disobedience:
Lev 26:14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do
not do all these commands,
Lev 26:15 and if
you(pl) reject My laws,(b’chucatai) or if your(pl) being loathes My
right-rulings, so that you(pl) do not do all My commands, but break My
covenant, (annul the covenant)
The pronouns used here are plural. This means that when a
group of people decide to disobey the Torah, they will suffer the consequences.
However when a group of people walk in obedience, they will experience the
blessings.
According to the sages in the Gemara there is a
concept called “arvus” (“ar-voos”), this is the joint responsibility of one Jew
for another's performance of mitzvoth (commandments).
Are there sufficient numbers of people anywhere,
united and committed to live a life of Torah obedience – according to the
pattern that Yahshua the Messiah showed and taught us?
What follows now in verse 16 is the first of a series of
5 sets of 7 calamities that will come upon those who seek to disobey YHVH’s
Torah.
Lev 26:16 I also do this to you: And I shall
appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the
eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it.
Hiph verb – “I
will visit you with panic – sudden alarm and terror” “wasting disease”
implies that your health will be “peeled” off in strips and you will lose your
dignity bit by bit and not all at once.
Lev 26:17 ‘And I
shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies.
And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one
pursues you.
The first set of seven calamities include: burning fever,
frustrated longing, sowing seeds that will produce crops the enemy will steal,
being struck down before the enemy, being subjugated, and fleeing when no one
pursues.
Lev 26:18 ‘And
after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins.
Lev 26:19 ‘And I
shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and
your earth like bronze.
Lev 26:20 ‘And your
strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the
trees of the land yield their fruit.
Continuance of our refusing to obey Torah (and accepting
the true Messiah) will cause another group of seven judgments being released,
they include: the heaven would become like iron, the earth would become like
copper, you extending your strength will be in vain, the earth will not yield
crops, trees will not yield fruit and whatever fruit does grow it will drop off
before maturity. (Iron is a symbol of crushing and copper a symbol of judgment
due to disobedience and mixture)
Lev 26:21 ‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and
refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to
your sins, (the people will appear to refuse
to recognize that their misfortunes were divinely ordained, and that they merely were caused by natural
occurrences)
Lev 26:22 and send
wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children.
And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in
number, and your highways shall be deserted.
Lev 26:23 ‘And if
you are not instructed(disciplined) by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me,
Lev 26:24 then I
also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for
your sins.
Lev 26:25 ‘And I
shall bring against you a sword executing
the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities,
and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of
the enemy.
Lev 26:26 ‘When I
have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven,
and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and
not be satisfied.
In the above fourth series of a seven fold increase in
punishments we see how YHVH begins to withdraw revelation from the people so
that they no longer have discernment to know why these things are happening to
them.
These punishments include: the sword of foreign invaders,
siege forcing people into cities, plague, food shortage, lack of fuel,
crumbling bread and constant hunger.
Lev 26:27 ‘And if
in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
Lev 26:28 then I
shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times
for your sins.
Lev 26:29 ‘And you
shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
Lev 26:30 ‘And I
shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your
carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
Lev 26:31 ‘And I
shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not
smell your sweet fragrances.
The above fifth series include: cannibalism, destruction
of defense structures, death of people, loss of the presence of YHVH,
destruction of cities, desolation of the false places of worship, and YHVH’s
refusal to accept offerings. (Similar events have been recorded in the history
of Israel)
We see the coming future judgments also come in three
sets of sevens in the book of Revelation (seals, trumpets and bowls)
There are similarities between the judgments in Vayikra
(Lev) and those in the book of Revelation. The Tochacha is the refining fire
that comes upon YHVH’s people and will lead to repentance. The judgments in the
book of Revelations come upon all the
nations and bring about an almost total destruction of all life on earth.
Lev 26:32 ‘And I
shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished
at it.
Lev 26:33 ‘And I
shall scatter you among the gentiles and draw out a sword after you. And your
land shall be desert and your cities ruins,
Lev 26:34 and the
land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies’
land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Lev 26:35 ‘As long
as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when
you dwelt in it.
Lev 26:36 ‘And as
for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the
lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to
flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and they shall
fall when no one pursues.
Lev 26:37 ‘And
they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one
pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies.
Lev 26:38 ‘And you
shall perish among the gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up,
Lev 26:39 and
those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies’ lands,
and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with them.
This situation was prophesied by Zechariah.
Zec 13:8 And
it shall be throughout all the soil,” declares יהוה, “that two
thirds therein are cut off and die, and one third is left therein.
Zec 13:9 “And I shall bring the third into
fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They
shall call on My Name1, and I shall answer them. I shall say, ‘This
is My people,’ while they say, ‘יהוה is my Elohim.’
” Footnote: 1Zeph. 3:9.
Zec 14:2 And
I shall gather all the gentiles to battle against Yerushalayim1. And
the city shall be taken, the houses plundered, and the women ravished. Half of
the city shall go into exile, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut
off from the city. Footnote: 1Joel 3:2, Zeph. 3:8, Rev. 16:14.
Lev 26:40 ‘But if
they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their
trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked
contrary to Me,
Lev 26:41 and that
I also have walked ( Hebrew future tense)contrary to them and have brought
(Hebrew future tense) them into the land of their enemies – if their
uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their
crookedness,
Vs 40-41 “ then they will confess ….but then I too
will behave towards them with casualness. The commentators wonder why the
repentance of vs 40 is greeted with an outpouring of His wrath as assumed by
use of the future tense verbs in vs 2.
Lev 26:42 then I
shall remember My covenant with Yaʽaqoḇ, and also My covenant with Yitsḥaq,
and also remember My covenant with Aḇraham, and remember the land. (Note
reversal of names of patriachs)
Yakov in this verse is written with a “vav” and a yot or
tittel appears over the “vav.” This happens only 5 times in the Tenach. The
commentators point out on the reverse the “vav” is omitted 5 times from the
name of Eliyahu. Rashi suggests that Yakov took a pledge from Eliyahu, as it
were, and will return the missing letters to him when he heralds the coming of
Messiah.
Whatever the real meaning is we can assume that this yot
or tittel has some significance regarding Messiah.
Mal 4:4 “Remember the Torah of Mosheh, My servant,
which I commanded him in Ḥorĕḇ
for all Yisra’ĕl – laws and right-rulings.
Mal 4:5
“See, I am sending you Ěliyah1 the prophet before the coming
of the great and awesome day of יהוה. Footnote: 1Lk. 1:17.
Mal 4:6 “And he
shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the
children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with utter
destruction (fathers as in Avraham, Yitchak and Yakov).
This may also explain the reversal of the names of the
patriachs. Restoration will start with the sons of Yakov and bring us all back
to the father of our faith – Avraham (vs 42).
Lev 26:43 ‘For the
land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without
them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My
right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws.
Lev 26:44 ‘And yet
for all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not reject
them, nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with
them. For I am יהוה their Elohim.
Lev 26:45 ‘Then I
shall remember for their sake the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought out
of the land of Mitsrayim before the eyes of the nations to be their Elohim. I
am יהוה.’ ”
Lev 26:46 These
are the laws and the right-rulings and the Torot1 which יהוה made between
Himself and the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh.
Footnote: 1Torot - plural of Torah, teaching.
Commentary (FFOZ)
“It
is tempting to suppose that all of the curses of the law have been removed in
Messiah. It is common teaching, based on Galatians that, "Messiah redeemed
us from the curse of the Torah." (Galatians 3:13). This seems to indicate
that the Torah has lost its teeth, so to speak. In Messiah, the curses are
removed, but the blessings remain. But is this really true?
On closer examination,
it becomes obvious that "the curse of the law" spoken of in Galatians
3:13 is the curse for disobedience listed out in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy
28. Moreover, in Paul's view, the curse of the law brings death.
Therefore it is
incorrect to suppose that there are no longer any consequences for sin. The
ultimate consequence of condemnation has been removed--nailed to the stake. But
the laws of cause and effect are still very much at work. Sin still reaps
punishment. Obedience to YHVH still results in blessing. Disobedience to YHVH
still results in consequences dire.” End of quote.
The most infamous sermon on the topic is probably
Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," preached
to great effect at Enfield in New England in 1741. In this sermon Edwards is unrestrained
in the language that he uses to describe God's wrath:
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much
as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you and is
dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like a fire; he looks upon you
as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes
than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more
abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You
have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince.
And yet it is nothing but His Hand that holds you from falling into the fire
every moment.
O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in.
It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit full of the fire of
wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked
and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You
hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it,
and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder. …Consider this, you
that are here present, that yet remain in an unregenerate state. That God will
execute the fierceness of his anger implies that he will inflict wrath without
any pity.
God will have no other use to put you to, but to
suffer misery; you shall be continued in being to no other end; for you will be
a vessel of wrath fitted to destruction; and there will be no other use of this
vessel, but to be filled full of wrath. … [God] will not only hate you, but he
will have you in the utmost contempt; no place shall be thought fit for you,
but under his feet to be trodden down as the mire of the streets. …And seeing
this is his design and what he has determined, even to show how terrible the
unrestrained wrath, the fury and fierceness of Jehovah is, he will do it to
effect. There will be something accomplished and brought to pass that will be
dreadful with a witness. When the great and angry God hath risen up and
executed his awful vengeance on the poor sinner, and the wretch is actually
suffering the infinite weight and power of his indignation, then will God call
upon the whole universe to behold that awful majesty and mighty power that is
to be seen in it.”
There are very few people on this earth that can
speak like this. Yet when Yahshua teaches about hell it is almost always in the
context of people who are believers.
Aliyah Reviee 27:1-15
Lev 27:2 “Speak to
the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of lives unto יהוה,
Hebrew would read: “when someone makes an extraordinary
vow to YHVH, involving your appraisal of human souls.”
The Hebrew word for “seperates” is “pala” Strongs 6381
and can also mean: to do extraordinary or hard or a difficult
thing, to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary,
separate by distinguishing action.
A person can pledge the worth of an individual, in which case the
Torah prescribes how much the person must pay -- depending on the gender and
age of the individual who is being "assessed." An animal which is
pledged to the Temple must be offered on the altar if it is fit for sacrifice
-- otherwise it must be "redeemed" for its value. If the owner
chooses to redeem it, he must add one fifth of its value to the redemption
price. The same rule applies to a house which is pledged to the Temple.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe stated that every person was born to a mission in
life that is distinctly, uniquely and exclusively their own. No one--not even
the greatest of souls--can take his or her place. No other person can fulfill
that particular aspect of YHVH's purpose in creation in his stead – end quote.
1Co 6:20 For
you were bought with a price, therefore esteem Elohim in your body and in your
spirit,1 which are of Elohim. Footnote: 1See 7:23, 1
Peter 1:18-19.
We know that the blood
of Messiah was the price paid to redeem us. Why do we need to be redeemed? Like
these Israelites after we dedicated ourselves to YHVH we defiled ourselves
through our disobedience to the covenant of YHVH - His Torah.
Why would you want to redeem something that was dedicated to YHVH?????
BECAUSE IT LOST ITS VALUE AND BECAME USELESS!!!!!
After an end time people have been refined, there will be a special
redeeming by bringing specific offerings
to YHVH as specified by the Torah.
Note: Lev 27:29 ‘No one under the ban, under the ban among
men, is ransomed, but shall certainly be put to death.
Hebrew for ban is
“cherem” ie something that was devoted to YHVH but has become defiled is then
set apart to destruction.
Lev 27:3 when your
evaluation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your
evaluation shall be fifty sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of the
set-apart place.
Lev 27:4 ‘And if
it is a female, then your evaluation shall be thirty sheqels;
Lev 27:5 and if
from five years old up to twenty years old, then your evaluation for a male
shall be twenty sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels;
Lev 27:6 and if
from a month old up to five years old, then your evaluation for a male shall be
five sheqels of silver, and for a female your evaluation shall be three sheqels
of silver;
Lev 27:7 and if
from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your evaluation shall be
fifteen sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels.
Lev 27:8 ‘But if
he is too poor to pay your evaluation, then he shall present himself before the
priest, and the priest shall set a value for him. According to the ability of
him who vowed, the priest shall value him.
Lev 27:9 ‘And if
it is a beast of which they bring an offering to יהוה, all such
given to יהוה is set-apart.
Lev 27:10 ‘He is
not to replace it or exchange it, good for spoilt or spoilt for good. And if he
at all exchanges beast for beast, then both it and the one exchanged for it is
set-apart.
Lev 27:11 ‘And if
it is any unclean beast of which they do not bring an offering to יהוה, then he shall
present the beast before the priest;
Lev 27:12 and the
priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. According to your
evaluation, O priest, so it shall be.
Lev 27:13 ‘But if
he indeed redeems it, then he shall add one-fifth to your evaluation.
Lev 27:14 ‘And
when a man sets his house apart, to be set-apart to יהוה, then the
priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. As the priest values it,
so it stands.
Lev 27:15 ‘And if
he who sets it apart does redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the
silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his.
Aliyah Chamishi 27:16-21
This section discusses the endowment of land to the temple. If land
which was part of the family lot (given to his ancestors when Israel was
divided amongst the Tribes), then the redemption price is a fixed amount,
depending on its harvest yield. If the owner chooses not to redeem it, it may
be redeemed by any other individual. In this event, or if the land remains
un-redeemed, the land becomes the property of the priests during the next
Jubilee year. (in other words it was
possible to lose your inheritance – the only exception according to the sages
is if a son of the original owner chose to redeem the land)
Lev 27:16 ‘And if a man sets apart to יהוה a field he
owns, then your evaluation shall be according to the seed for it – a ḥomer of
barley seed at fifty sheqels of silver.
Lev 27:17 ‘If he
sets his field apart from the Year of Jubilee, according to your evaluation it
stands.
Lev 27:18 ‘But if
he sets his field apart after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him
the silver due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and
it shall be deducted from your evaluation.
Lev 27:19 ‘And if
he who sets the field apart ever wishes to redeem it, then he shall add
one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his.
Lev 27:20 ‘And if
he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is
no longer redeemed,
Lev 27:21 but the
field, when it is released in the Jubilee, is set-apart to יהוה as a dedicated
field, to be the possession of the priest.
Aliyah Shishi 27:22-28
Land which was purchased and then consecrated by the buyer can also be
redeemed, but it reverts to its original owner when the Jubilee arrives. All
firstborn livestock are sacrificed in the Temple, and their flesh is consumed
by the priests. A person also has the option of dedicating and consecrating any
of his belongings specifically for the use of the priests.
Lev 27:22 ‘And if a man sets apart to יהוה a field which
he has bought, which is not the field of his possession,
Lev 27:23 then the
priest shall reckon to him the amount of your evaluation, up to the Year of
Jubilee, and he shall give your evaluation on that day, set-apart to יהוה.
Lev 27:24 ‘In the
Year of Jubilee the field returns to him from whom he bought it, to him whose
is the possession of the land.
Lev 27:25 ‘And all
your evaluations is to be according to the sheqel of the set-apart place:
twenty gĕrahs to the sheqel.
Lev 27:26 ‘However, a first-born of the beasts, which is
first-born to יהוה, no man sets it apart – whether bull or sheep, it belongs to יהוה.
Lev 27:27 ‘And if
among the unclean beasts, then he shall ransom it according to your evaluation,
and shall add one-fifth to it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to your evaluation.
Lev 27:28
‘However, whatever a man lays under ban for יהוה of all that he
has, man and beast, or the field of his possession, is not sold or redeemed.
Whatever is laid under ban is most set-apart to יהוה.
Aliyah Sheviee 27:29-34
The
"Second Tithe," which must be consumed by its owners in Jerusalem, is
briefly mentioned -- as well as the rules for redeeming this tithe if it is too
burdensome to transport to Jerusalem. Also discussed is the animal tithe --
every tenth animal is offered as a sacrifice, and the meat consumed by its
owners. With this we conclude the Book of Leviticus.
Lev 27:29
‘No one under the ban, under the ban among men, is ransomed, but shall
certainly be put to death.
Every doomed one which is doomed of humanity shall
not be ransomed; he shall be put to death, yes death.
Hebrew word for “ban” is “cherem” it means
something or someone who completely and entirely been dedicated by YVHY for
complete and utter destruction.
Lev 27:30 ‘And all the tithe of the land – of the seed
of the land or of the fruit of the tree – belongs to יהוה. It is set-apart to יהוה.
Lev 27:31 ‘If a
man indeed redeems any of his tithes, he adds one-fifth to it.
Lev 27:32 ‘And the
entire tithe of the herd and of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the
tenth one is set-apart to יהוה.
Lev 27:33 ‘He does
not inquire whether it is good or spoilt, nor does he exchange it. And if he
exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it are set-apart,
it is not redeemed.’ ”
Lev 27:34 These
are the commands which יהוה commanded Mosheh for the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai.
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 Yahweh, 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.
CHAZAK! CHAZAK!
VENITCHAZEIK! - BE STRONG! BE
STRONG! AND MAY WE STRENGTHEN OURSELVES.