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.
Yisrael
and Yahudah
Are Unrepentant
Hos
6:1 ‘Come, and let us turn back to יהוה. For He has
torn but He does heal us, He has stricken but He binds us up.
Hos 6:2 After two
days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us up, so that we live
before Him.
Hos 6:3 So let us
know, let us pursue to know יהוה. His going
forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the
latter rain watering the earth.’
Hos 6:4 “Ephrayim,
what would I do with you? Yehuḏah, what would I do with you? For your(plural –
speaking to both houses) loving-commitment is like a morning cloud, and like
the early dew it goes away.
Hos 6:5 “Therefore I
have hewn them by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of My
mouth. And my right-rulings break forth as the light.
Hos 6:6 “For I
delight in loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of
Elohim more than ascending offerings.
Hos 6:7 “But like Aḏam they transgressed the covenant. There they acted treacherously against Me.
We are reminded again this week that both death and life is found in each one of us. This is also true of Yisrael and the bride of Messiah
The Ruach of YHVH
has given us this week’s Torah instruction in the form of a chiastic structure.
- Introduction (vs 1,2)
B. Abnormal male discharge (vs
2b-15)
C.
Normal male discharge (vs 15,17)
X. Marital relations (vs18)
C. Normal female
discharge (vs 19-24)
B. Abnormal female discharge (vs
25-30)
A. Summary (vs 31-33)
We see the focus of the
Torah portion is on marital purity. We can safely assume this can also refers
to a “bride without spot or wrinkle” waiting and preparing for her soon coming
Bridegroom.
Sadly the reality today is that believers who desire to be part of the Bride of Messiah have been profoundly defiled by false doctrines and disobedience to the Torah – the marriage covenant between YHVH and Yisrael.
1Pe 1:23
having been born again – not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible –
through the living Word of Elohim, which remains forever,
The end of this parashah contains a serious warning - Lev 15:31 ‘Thus
you shall separate the children of Yisra’ĕl from their uncleanness, lest they
die in their uncleanness when they defile My Dwelling Place which is in their
midst.
Death could have several
implications for both the believer and non-believer.
Lev 15:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Lev 15:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say
to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his flesh, his discharge is
unclean.
Some have also questioned whether or not the word "flesh"
(Leviticus
15:2)
actually refers to the sex organ, but, of course, it does. As Keil puts it,
"The fact that the same term `flesh' (Leviticus
15:19)
certainly refers to a sexual discharge points unmistakably to a secretion from
sexual organs."
Lev 15:3 ‘And this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge; whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped up by his discharge,(lit – man’s emission of seed is caused to cease flowing) it is his uncleanness.