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.’)
The Choice of Life
and Death
Deu 30:11 “For this command which I am commanding
you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off.
Deu 30:12 “It is not in the heavens, to say, ‘Who
shall ascend into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear
it, so that we do it?’
Deu 30:13 “Nor is it beyond the sea, to say, ‘Who
shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so
that we do it?’ (Baruch 3:29-30)
Deu 30:14 “For the Word is very near you, in your
mouth and in your heart – to do it.
See Rom 10:1-21 – Cranfield –
“’But, if our understanding of Paul’s view of the law is right, he did not
think of Messiah and the law as two altogether unrelated entities; on the
contrary, he saw the closest inner connection between them. Messiah is the
goal, the essential meaning, the real substance of the law. It is therefore
only as one sets one’s eyes on Messiah, that one can see both the full
significance of that graciousness of the law which comes to expression in the
Deuteronomy passage and also the full seriousness of its imperatives’’ Paul
also applies this text as having to do with those who pridefully think their
knowledge or mystical experience has set them apart from the rest in attaining
an understanding of Torah, and thus have secured to themselves the rewards of
its blessings. Paul understands the point of the Torah text to be that the
blessings of the covenant are given to those who, in humble submission of
faith, receive from the hand of the Mighty One that which He desires to give to
His righteous ones. Therefore, if Israel could not point to her achievements
(ascending to the heavens, or descending to the depths) in securing the Torah,
she would have to receive it as a gift, and on the basis of faith. The Messiah,
to Whom the Torah points, is exactly the same way. The Messiah would come, not
as a conquering warrior or even as a dazzling ‘’chacham’’ (wise man) but as a
common man. Not “heavenly” nor of the “mystical darkness,” but as the son of
Mariyam, Himself a craftsman, Who walked the pure life of Torah obedience and
demonstrated His wisdom in the everyday course of life.
Deu 30:15 “See, I have set before you today life
and good, and death and evil,
Deu 30:16 in that I am commanding you today to love
יהוה
your Elohim, to walk in His ways, and to guard His commands, and His laws, and
His right-rulings. And you shall live and increase, and יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in the land
which you go to possess.
Deu 30:17 “But if your heart turns away, and you do
not obey, and shall be drawn away, and shall bow down to other mighty ones and
serve them,
Deu 30:18 “I have declared to you today that you
shall certainly perish, you shall not prolong your days in the land which you
are passing over the Yarděn to enter and possess.
Deu 30:19 “I have called the heavens and the earth
as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the
blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both
you and your seed,
Deu 30:20 to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to
cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in
the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ,
to give them.”
Yahushu to Succeed
Mosheh
Deu 31:1 And Mosheh went(va yelech Parashat 52) and
spoke these words to all Yisra’ěl,
Vayelech – Strongs 1980 – ‘’halach’’ - to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go
away; to die, live, manner of life (figuratively) Moshe came to the end of his life; his walk
here on earth.
Joh
5:45 “Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one
who accuses you: Mosheh, in whom you have set your expectation.
Joh
5:46 “For if you believed Mosheh, you would have believed Me, since he
wrote about Me.
Joh
5:47 “But if you do not believe his writings,[c] how shall you believe My words?” Footnote: c Luk_16:31.
Deu 31:2 and he said to them, “I am one hundred and
twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. And יהוה
has said to me, ‘You do not pass over this Yarděn.’
Deu 31:3 “יהוה your Elohim Himself is passing over before
you. He shall destroy these nations from before you and you possess them.
Yehoshua himself is passing over before you, as יהוה has spoken.
Deu 31:4 “And יהוה shall do to them as He did to Siḥon and to
Oḡ, the sovereigns of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them.
Deu 31:5 “And יהוה shall give them over to you, and you shall
do to them according to all the command which I have commanded you.
Deu 31:6 “Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor
be afraid of them. For it is יהוה your Elohim who is going with you. He does not fail you nor
forsake you.”
Deu 31:7 And Mosheh called Yehoshua and said to him
before the eyes of all Yisra’ěl, “Be strong and courageous, for you are going
with this people to the land which יהוה has sworn to their fathers to give them,
and you are to let them inherit it.
Deu 31:8 “And it is יהוה who is going before you, He Himself is
with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be
discouraged.”
The Reading of the Law
Deu 31:9 And Mosheh wrote this Torah and gave it to
the priests, the sons of Lěwi, who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה,
and to all the elders of Yisra’ěl.
Deu 31:10 And Mosheh commanded them, saying, “At
the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the
Festival of Sukkot,[a] Footnote: aBooths.
Deu 31:11 when all Yisra’ěl comes to appear before יהוה
your Elohim in the place which He chooses, read this Torah before all Yisra’ěl
in their hearing.
Deu 31:12 “Assemble the people, the men and the
women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that
they hear, and so that they learn to fear יהוה your Elohim and guard to do all the Words
of this Torah.
Deu 31:13 “And their children, who have not known
it, should hear and learn to fear יהוה your Elohim as long as you live in the
land you are passing over the Yarděn to possess.”
Moshe was unable to lead us into the promised land – only
our Master Yashshua would be able to do so.
See Gal 3 – faith comes before the law and both are
inseparable if we are to walk as we were called to walk in this life. Avraham obeyed YHVH’s Torah – Gen 26:5.
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)