Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach
l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol
ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.
”
(Bless YHVH
the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are
you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among
all the peoples, and have given us your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of
the Torah. Ameyn.)
‘’Re eh’’ we need the Ruach Elohim to give us specific
insight into the matters of eating, tithing and the Shmittah year.
To ‘’see’’ we need both the Word and Revelation from the
Ruach. (2Tim 3:16)
1Pe
2:8 and “A stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling,” Isa_8:14
who stumble because they are disobedient (a) to the Word, to which they also were appointed. Footnote: aSee Joh_3:36,
Heb_3:18.
Clean
and Unclean Food
Deu 14:1 “You are the children of יהוה
your Elohim. Do not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the
dead,
Lev 19:28 – forbidden to cut write or tattoo your body - a
forbidden pagan practice that seeks to honour the dead.
Deu 14:2 for you are a set-apart people to יהוה
your Elohim, and יהוה has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured
possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deu 14:3 “Do not eat whatever is abominable.
1Pe
2:9 But you are a chosen race,b Deu_10:15 a royal
priesthood,c Isa_61:6 a set-apart nation,d
Exo_19:6 a people
for a possession,e Isa_43:2 that you should proclaim the praises of
Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light, Footnotes: bAlso
see Isa_43:20. cAlso see Isa_66:21. dAlso see Deu_7:6.
eAlso see Exo_19:5, Tit_2:14.
Deu 14:4 “These are the living creatures which you
do eat: ox, sheep, and goat, Deu 14:5 deer, and gazelle, and
roebuck, and wild goat, and mountain goat, and antelope, and mountain sheep. Deu
14:6 “And every beast that has a split hoof divided in two, chewing the
cud, among the beasts, you do eat. Deu 14:7 “But of those chewing
the cud or those having a split hoof completely divided, you do not eat, such
as these: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they chew the cud but do
not have a split hoof, they are unclean for you.
Deu 14:8 “And the pig is unclean for you, because
it has a split hoof, but does not chew the cud. You do not eat their flesh or
touch their dead carcasses.
Deu 14:9 “These you do eat of all that are in the
waters: all that have fins and scales you do eat.
Deu 14:10 “And whatever does not have fins and
scales you do not eat, it is unclean for you.
Deu 14:11 “Any clean bird you do eat,
Deu 14:12 but these you do not eat: the eagle, and
the vulture, and the black vulture,
Deu 14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the
buzzard after their kinds,
Deu 14:14 and every raven after its kind,
Deu 14:15 and the ostrich,(the Hebrew word here
that is translated as ostrich's meaning is uncertain) and the nighthawk, and
the seagull, and the hawk after their kinds,
Deu 14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and
the white owl,
Deu 14:17 and the pelican, and the carrion vulture,
and the fisher owl,
Deu 14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its
kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
Deu 14:19 “And every creeping insect that
flies is unclean for you, they are not eaten.
Deu 14:20 “Any clean bird you do eat.
Deu 14:21 “Do not eat whatever dies of itself. Give
it to the stranger who is within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a
foreigner. For you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in
its mother’s milk.
Let's go back to
Exo/Shemot for a moment:
Exo
23:19 “Bring the first of the first-fruits of your land into the House of
יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s
milk.
Midrash Rabbah 1:1
says that YHVH created the heavens and the earth to receive the first fruit or
choice offerings from those whom He created.
So, what was the reason for adding the mitzvah of a young
goat in its mother’s milk?
Tithes
Deu 14:22 “You shall tithe without fail all the
yield of your grain that the field brings forth year by year.
Deu 14:23 “And you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, in the
place where He chooses to make His Name dwell, the tithe of your grain and your
new wine and your oil, and of the firstlings of your herds and your sheep, so
that you learn to fear יהוה your Elohim always.
This was the second tithe to be enjoyed during sukkot.
The first tithe belonged to the Levites – Num 18:21-24,31)
Deu 14:24 “But when the way is too long for you, so
that you are not able to bring the tithe, or when the place where יהוה
your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, when יהוה your Elohim is
blessing you,
Deu 14:25 then you shall give it in silver, and
shall take the silver in your hand and go to the place which יהוה your Elohim
chooses.
Deu 14:26 “And you shall use the silver for
whatever your being desires: for cattle or sheep, for wine or strong drink, for
whatever your being desires. And you shall eat there before יהוה your Elohim, and you
shall rejoice, you and your household.
Deu 14:27 “And do not forsake the Lěwite who is
within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
Deu 14:28 “At the end of every third year you bring
out all the tithe of your increase of that year and store it up within your
gates.
Deu 14:29 “And the Lěwite, because he has no
portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner and the fatherless and the
widow who are within your gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that יהוה
your Elohim does bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deu 15:1 “At the end of every seven years
you make a release of debts.
Deu 15:2 “And this is the word of the release:
Every creditor is to release what he has loaned to his neighbour, he does not
require it of his neighbour or his brother, because it is called the release of
יהוה.
Deu 15:3 “Of a foreigner you could require it, but
your hand is to release whatever is owed by your brother.
Deu 15:4 “Only, there should be no poor among you.
For יהוה
does greatly bless you in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess as an
inheritance,
Deu 15:5 only if you diligently obey the voice of יהוה
your Elohim, to guard to do all these commands which I am commanding you
today.
Deu 15:6 “For יהוה your Elohim shall bless you as He promised
you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And you
shall rule over many nations, but they do not rule over you.
Act 5:32 “And we are His witnesses to these
matters, and so also is the Set-apart Spirit whom Elohim has given to those who
obey Him.”c Footnote: cSee also 1Jn_3:24.
Heb
10:26 For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,d Footnote:
dSee also Heb_6:6. This type of sinning is in contrast with sinning
ignorantly – Heb_9:7, Num_15:15-28.
Heb
10:27 but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire
which is about to consume the opponents. Isa_26:11.
Heb
10:28 Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without
compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.
Heb
10:29 How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has
trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by
which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?
Heb
5:12 For indeed, although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need
someone to teach you again the first elements of the Words of Elohim. And you
have become such as need milk and not solid food.
Heb
5:13 For everyone partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of
righteousness, for he is a babe.
Heb
5:14 But solid food is for the mature whose senses have been trained by
practice to discern both good and evil.
Heb
6:1
Therefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Messiah, let us go on
to perfection,a not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,
and of belief toward Elohim, Footnote: a Mat_5:48.
Heb
6:2 of the teaching of immersions, and of laying on of hands, and of
resurrection of the dead, and of everlasting judgment.
Heb
6:3 And this we shall do, if Elohim indeed permits.
Heb
6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have
tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Set-apart
Spirit,
Heb
6:5 and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to
come,
Heb
6:6 and fall away, to renew them again to repentance – having impaled for
themselves the Son of Elohim again, and put Him to open shame.b Footnote: bSee Heb_10:26-31.
Heb
6:7 For ground that is drinking the rain often falling on it, and is
bearing plants fit for those by whom it is tilled, receives blessing from
Elohim,
Heb
6:8 but if it brings forth thorns and thistles, Gen_3:18 it
is rejected and near to being cursed, and ends up by being burned.
Our sin has been covered by a blood covenant, it is yet
to be completely removed from us – Jn 1:29
Rom
3:31 Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! On
the contrary, we establish the Torah.c Footnote: cSee Rom_7:12.
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)