Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch
ata YHVH Eloheinu 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. Amein.)
Our Torah
Portion –
Right-rulings or “Mishpatim.” This Hebrew word
comes from the root “shaphat” which means to judge and by implication to
vindicate or punish and by extension to govern.
We could also say this is the way the Kingdom of
Elohim operates. We seek first His Kingdom and His Right Ways and everything
else will fall into place (Mat 6:33).
Exo 21:1 “These are the right-rulings (mishpatim) which you are to
set before them:
Exo 21:2 “When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves six
years, and in the seventh he goes out
free, for naught.
Exo 21:3 “If
he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he comes in married, then
his wife shall go out with him.