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 YHVH our Elohim – Giver of the Torah – Amein.’
Book of Jubilees 23:26
23:26 And in those days the children shall begin to study the laws, And to seek the commandments, And to return to the path of righteousness.
23:27 And the days shall begin to grow many and increase amongst those children of men Till their days draw nigh to one thousand years. And to a greater number of years than (before) was the number of the days.
Deu 23:22 “But when you abstain from vowing, (commitments/promises)
it is not sin in you. (don’t bite off more than you can chew- we often
learn through our mistakes in this regard – see also ‘’kol Nidre’’)
Isa
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your vision
with She’ol not stand. When an overflowing scourge passes through, then you
shall be trampled down by it.
See also parashat 42 Mattot – Numbers 30. Yahshua annuls
our covenant with death – Gen 15:
Deu 23:23 “That which has gone from your lips you
shall guard and do, for you voluntarily vowed to יהוה your Elohim what you have promised with
your mouth.
Deu 23:24 “When you come into your neighbour’s
vineyard, you shall eat to the satisfaction of your desire, but do not put any
in a receptacle of yours.
Don’t bite off more than you can chew – context vs 22-25
Deu 23:25 “When you come into your neighbour’s
standing grain, you shall pluck the heads with your hand, but do not use a
sickle on your neighbour’s standing grain.
Deu 24:1 “When a man takes a wife and shall marry
her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found
a matter of uncoverednessa in her, and he shall write her a certificate of
divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, Footnote:
aProof that she is not a maiden, indicating that she had previously been
fornicating. See also Mat_5:32 and Mat_19:9.
Deu 24:2 and if she left his house and went and
became another man’s wife,
Deu 24:3 and the latter husband shall hate her and
write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of
his house, or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,
Deu 24:4 then her former husband who sent her away
is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled, for
that would be an abomination before יהוה. And do not bring sin on the land which יהוה
your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.
This law of
uncoveredness maybe YHVH’s way of testing us, as to how merciful are we
willing to be.
1Co
7:11 But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried or be
restored to favour with her husband, and let a husband not send away a
wife.
1Co
7:12 And to the rest I say, not the Master: If any brother has an
unbelieving wife, and she thinks well to live with him, let him not send her
away.
Miscellaneous Laws
Deu 24:5 “When a man has taken a new wife, let him
not go out into the army nor let any matter be imposed upon him. He shall be
exempt one year for the sake of his home, to rejoice with his wife whom he has
taken.
Love comes after marriage. Most of these marriages were
arranged.
Deu 24:6 “No one takes in pledge the lower or the
upper millstone, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
Deu 24:7 “When a man is found kidnapping any of his
brothers of the children of Yisra’ěl, and treats him harshly or sells him, then
that kidnapper shall die. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deu 24:8 “Take heed, in an outbreak of leprosy, to
diligently guard and do according to all that the priests, the Lěwites, teach
you. As I have commanded them, so you shall guard to do.
Deu 24:9 “Remember what יהוה your Elohim did to Miryam on the way when
you came out of Mitsrayim.
Let us
now explore the cycle of images created by the root of tzara'at--tzara
(tzadik, reish, ayin):
Root
|
Word
|
Meaning
|
tzadik,
reish, ayin
|
tzara
|
leprosy
|
tzadik,
ayin, reish
|
tza'ar
|
hardship,
pain sadness regret remorse
|
reish,
ayin, tzadik
|
ra'atz
|
to
smash
|
reish,
tzadik, ayin
|
ratza
|
To
pierce - inflict stripes (by whipping with a strap)
|
ayin,
tzadik, reish
|
atzar
|
to
halt or rule to prevent anarchic expansion
|
ayin,
reish, tzadik
|
aratz
|
to
respect (a tyrant) because of his power
|
Deu 24:10 “When you lend your brother a loan, do
not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deu 24:11 “Stand outside, and let the man to whom
you lend bring the pledge out to you.
Deu 24:12 “And if the man is poor, do not sleep
with his pledge.
Deu 24:13 “By all means return the pledge to him at
sundown, and he shall sleep in his own garment, and shall bless you. And it
shall be righteousness to you before יהוה your Elohim.
Deu 24:14 “Do not oppress a hired servant who is
poor and needy, of your brothers or of your strangers who are in your land
within your gates.
Deu 24:15 “Give him his wages on the same day, and
do not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and lifts up his being to it,
so that he does not cry out against you to יהוה, and it shall be sin in you.
Deu 24:16 “Fathers are not put to death for their
children, and children are not put to death for their fathers, each is to die
for his own sin.
Deu 24:17 “Do not twist the right-ruling of a
stranger or the fatherless, nor take the garment of a widow.
Deu 24:18 “But you shall remember that you were a
slave in Mitsrayim, and that יהוה your Elohim ransomed you from there. Therefore I am commanding
you to do this word.
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.)