אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר מָלַךְ
Ber/Genesis 18:1 – 22:24
YHVH will always remain the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. He has no equal, He alone is YHVH.
Our Messiah was once asked “what is the most important commandment”.
Mar 12:28 And one of the scribes coming near, hearing them reasoning together, knowing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the first command of all?”
Mar 12:29 And יהושע answered him, “The first of all the commands is, ‘Hear, O Yisra’ĕl, יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one.
Mar 12:30 ‘And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first command.
Mar 12:31 “And the second, like it, is this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other command greater than these.”
Mar 12:32 And the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one Elohim, and there is no other besides Him.
Mar 12:33 “And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the being, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, is more than all the burnt offerings and offerings.”
Mar 12:34 And when יהושע saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, “You are not far from the reign of Elohim.” And after that no one was bold enough to question Him.
Why would this information be included in the apostolic writings? This statement made by Yahshua deeply resonates with the Torah. This is truly the watch word of our faith, the statement of a true witness of YHVH.
Let us pay careful attention to the significance of this statement. It says “shema” or “hear”
We humans have a history, starting in the Garden of Eden of NOT LISTENING.
YHVH seeks those who will truly hear what He has to say, first about Himself. In order for us to listen and obey, we need to first “hear” that HE ALONE IS YHVH.
If we don’t get this right, we are not going to get the rest of what He has to say right.
We as believers in Yahshua cannot “hear” this truth of HIS ONENESS while we are still listening to the voices of men and their religion which have been deeply influenced by paganism regarding this critical issue.
Baruch ha Shem there is a growing remnant out there that is “HEARING”.
See website: http://frank4yahweh.webs.com/
Mat 7:14 “Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed1 which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Footnote: 1Or the way is afflicted.
Affliction was the way of our fathers; we see this once again in the opening words of our parasha.
This afflicted remnant has a calling to intercession.
Yesh/Isa 1:9 Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah. Note the significance of the Hebrew words “small remnant”
This word “small” in Hebrew “me -at” means tiny or hardly recognizable.
The Hebrew word for “remnant” is the word “sarid” and means “to puncture” This is comparable to the image of someone “puncturing” a bag of wheat. The small amount of wheat that comes out of the hole or “puncture” is called the “sarid” or survivors. See Rom 9.
The same expression used when Yahshua was describing those who would inherit his kingdom.
Luk 12:32 “Do not fear, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign.
Blessing of the Torah:Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-O’lam, asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim,
v’natan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(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.)
The Number 4. – This is the fourth parasha.
The letter “daleth” is the fourth letter of the alphabet and has a numerical value of four. Yahsua/Yeshua came to show us that he is the door, the only way to the Father.
Yochanan/Joh 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
Yochanan/Joh 14:6 יהושע said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Torah Readings : (aliyiot)
1. 18:1-14
2. 18:15-33
3. 19:1-20
4. 19:21 – 21:4
5. 21:5-21
6. 21:22-34
7. 22:1-19
8. Maftir 22: 20 -24
Haftarah: 2 Kings 4:1-37(Ashken.) 4:1-23(Sefard.)
Aliyah Rishon – 18:1-14.
Gen 18:1 And יהוה appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, while he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Gen 18:2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and saw three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,
Gen 18:3 and said, “יהוה, if I have now found favour in Your eyes, please do not pass Your servant by.
Gen 18:4 “Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Gen 18:5 “And let me bring a piece of bread and refresh your hearts, and then go on, for this is why you have come to your servant.” And they said, “Do as you have said.”
Gen 18:6 So Aḇraham ran into the tent to Sarah and said, “Hurry, make ready three measures of fine flour, knead it and make cakes.”
Gen 18:7 And Aḇraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hurried to prepare it.
Gen 18:8 And he took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.
Gen 18:9 And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “See, in the tent.”
Gen 18:10 And He said, “I shall certainly return to you according to the time of life, and see, Sarah your wife is to have a son!” And Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.
Gen 18:11 Now Aḇraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah was past the way of women.
Gen 18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old too?”
Gen 18:13 And יהוה said to Aḇraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I truly have a child, since I am old?’
Gen 18:14 “Is any matter too hard for יהוה? At the appointed time I am going to return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah is to have a son.”
Let us consider what is happening here. Avraham is 99 years old, his wife is 89 years old. He has just circumcised himself and his household. He is in pain. This is the third day after the circumcision and Abram is sitting in the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day staring at the ground, when suddenly his attention is caught by three visitors. So he lifted his eyes and looked, and saw three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, (vs2) and Avraham immediately recognized that they were messengers from YHVH and even addressed them as YHVH.
Can we imagine an old man of almost 100 years old who has just “mutilated” his genitalia? To add insult to injury this man believes his wife of almost 90 years old is going to have a baby and he is going to make her pregnant.
Is this not a parable of the last days? In the third day (millennium) there will be a remnant of Yisrael in the wilderness also suffering from the pain and humiliation of having to put off the carnal ways of thinking and doing “tshuvah” repentance from all our dead works and pagan ways, waiting for the promised Son. In the book of Revelation (11:3-13) we see a similar pattern repeated in the last days.
Perhaps there is an even more imminent application. There are some believers in these days that are suffering the pain of having to put off the carnal ways and teachings of our fathers. This pain is made worse as we begin to loose friends and family because of the decisions we have made to obey YHVH and His Torah. We know that YHVH is busy preparing a bride for His son, but we sometimes doubt whether or not things are going to work out the way we would like them to. There seems to be no shortage of believers who are doing all they can to persuade us to leave our “foolish ways” and to rejoin them again.
Let us consider the warnings of the prophets:
Amo 8:11 “See, days are coming,” declares the Master יהוה, “that I shall send a hunger in the land, not a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the Words of יהוה.
Amo 8:12 “And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east – they shall diligently search, seeking the Word of יהוה, but they shall not find it1. Footnote: 1Jer. 5:13, Hos. 8:12, Ezek. 34:3-10.
There is coming a time when YHVH is going to “switch off the lights” and there is going to be very little revelation of His word.In the parable of the 10 virgins – Matt 25 – We are told that there will be some who will have paid the price to have light or revelation prior to Messiah’s return.
Maybe the revelation in this Torah portion is going to be very critical to many in these coming days.
Yahshua our Messiah came to earth 2000 years ago as the second and last Adam. His death and resurrection secured a righteousness for us accepted by YHVH. He is now seated at the right hand of YHVH, interceding for his bride and the coming together of the twelve tribes of Yisrael. He is waiting for permission from YHVH to return to earth for his bride and teach the Torah to the nations from Yerushalayim for 1000 years.
I would like to encourage all seekers after truth to once again look carefully at the teachings of the physical pre- existence of Messiah and the trinity. There are an increasing number of teachers in the restoration movement that are refuting these teachings.
See website: http://frank4yahweh.webs.com/ (I do not necessarily agree with all views expressed on this website and the website – links given)
Aliyah Sheni - 18:15-33
Gen 18:15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
Maybe she had understandably lost faith. But Abraham was steadfast.
Gen 18:16 And the men rose up from there and looked toward Seḏom, and Aḇraham went with them to send them away.
Gen 18:17 And יהוה said, “Shall I hide from Aḇraham what I am doing,
Gen 18:18 since Aḇraham is certainly going to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 18:19 “For I have known him, so that he commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that יהוה brings to Aḇraham what He has spoken to him.”
Gen 18:20 And יהוה said, “Because the outcry against Seḏom and Amorah is great, and because their sin is very heavy,
Gen 18:21 “I am going down now to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me, and if not, I know.”
Gen 18:22 So the men turned away from there and went toward Seḏom, but יהוה still stood before Aḇraham.
Gen 18:23 And Aḇraham drew near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?
This is the heart of the “waiting bride” she does not delight in the destruction of the unrighteous and she is extremely concerned about those who are trapped amongst the unrighteous who need to come out from amongst them. The heart of a Hebrew is to stand in the gap for the righteous and for the unrighteous. We know however that this time the time of YHVH’s favour towards the unrighteous is going to expire sometime in the future.
Gen 18:24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city, would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?
Gen 18:25 “Far be it from You to act in this way, to slay the righteous with the wrong, so that the righteous should be as the wrong. Far be it from You! Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?”
Gen 18:26 And יהוה said, “If I find in Seḏom fifty righteous within the city, then I shall spare all the place for their sakes.”
Gen 18:27 And Aḇraham answered and said, “Look, please, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה,
Gen 18:28 “Suppose there are five less than the fifty righteous, would You destroy all of the city for lack of five?” And He said, “If I find there forty-five, I do not destroy it.”
Gen 18:29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose there are found forty?” And He said, “I would not do it for the sake of forty.”
Gen 18:30 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me speak: Suppose there are found thirty?” And He said, “I would not do it if I find thirty there.”
Gen 18:31 And he said, “Look, please, I have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה: Suppose there are found twenty?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the sake of twenty.”
Gen 18:32 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me speak only this time: Suppose there are found ten?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the sake of ten.”
Gen 18:33 Then יהוה went away as soon as He had ended speaking to Aḇraham. And Aḇraham returned to his place.
May YHVH give us an opportunity to stand in the gap for our loved ones before that great and terrible day of His wrath comes upon the earth. May YHVH once again in His mercy send messengers to rescue our loved ones who have been disobedient to YHVH and His Torah.
May our eyes be opened to one of the most humbling revelations of our existence, WE AND OUR LOVED ONES WILL NEVER MAKE IT IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT WITHOUT AN INTERECESSOR.
Aliyah Shlishi -19:1-20
Gen 19:1 And the two messengers came to Seḏom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Seḏom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,
Gen 19:2 and he said, “Look, please my masters, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet, and rise early and go your way.” And they said, “No, but let us spend the night in the open square.”
Gen 19:3 But he urged them strongly, and they turned in to him and came into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Gen 19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Seḏom, both old and young, all the people from every part, surrounded the house.
Gen 19:5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us ‘know’ them.”
Gen 19:6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, and shut the door behind him,
Gen 19:7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil!
Gen 19:8 “Look, please, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish, only do no deed to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Gen 19:9 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to sojourn, and should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you worse than them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.
Gen 19:10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
Gen 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they wearied themselves to find the door.
Gen 19:12 And the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city – bring them out of this place!
Gen 19:13 “For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry against them has grown great before the face of יהוה, and יהוה has sent us to destroy it.”
Gen 19:14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking.
Gen 19:15 And when morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
Gen 19:16 And while he loitered, the men took hold of his hand, and his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, יהוה having compassion on him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
Gen 19:17 And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.”
Gen 19:18 And Lot said to them, “Oh no, יהוה!
Gen 19:19 “Look, please, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you have increased your kindness which you have shown me by saving my life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die.
Gen 19:20 “Look, please, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please let me escape there – is it not a small matter – and let my life be saved?”
During the time of Yakov’s trouble few people will truly understand and know what to do; as a result only a few will be rescued. In this case ONLY THREE MADE IT.
Tolerance and acceptance of Sodomy may prove fatal in the last days when YHVH will send messengers to rescue the righteous.
Aliyah Reviee 19:21-21:4
Gen 19:21 And He said to him, “Look, I have favoured you concerning this matter also, without overthrowing this city for which you have spoken.
Gen 19:22 “Hurry, escape there. For I am not able to do any deed until you arrive there.” So the name of the city was called Tsoar.
“Tsoar” means to be “small and insignificant” – those who compromise and disobey will find their lives to have lost meaning and significance.
Gen 19:23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tsoar.
Gen 19:24 And יהוה rained sulphur and fire on Seḏom and Amorah, from יהוה out of the heavens.
Gen 19:25 So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Gen 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a post of salt.
Luk 17:29 but on the day Lot went out of Seḏom it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all.
Luk 17:30 “It shall be the same in the day the Son of Aḏam is revealed.
Luk 17:31 “In that day, he who shall be on the house-top, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
Luk 17:32 “Remember the wife of Lot.
Luk 9:61 And another also said, “Master, I shall follow You, but let me first say good-bye to those in my house.”
Luk 9:62 But יהושע said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of Elohim.”1 Footnote: 1Lk. 14:26, John 12:24-26.
Gen 19:27 And Aḇraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before יהוה,
Gen 19:28 and he looked toward Seḏom and Amorah, and toward all the land of the plain. And he looked and saw the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.
Gen 19:29 Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Aḇraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
Gen 19:30 And Lot went up out of Tsoʽar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Tsoʽar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.
Gen 19:31 And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.
Gen 19:32 “Come, let us make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we preserve the seed of our father.”
Gen 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.
Gen 19:34 And it came to be on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, “See, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight as well, and you go in and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of our father.”
Gen 19:35 So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.
Gen 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
Gen 19:37 And the first-born bore a son and called his name Mo’aḇ, he is the father of the Mo’aḇites to this day.
Gen 19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi, he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
Gen 20:1 And Aḇraham set out from there to the land of the South, and dwelt between Qaḏĕsh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
Gen 20:2 And Aḇraham said concerning Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Gen 20:3 But Elohim came to Aḇimeleḵ in a dream by night, and said to him, “See, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”
We see here once again that man cannot produce or steal the promised seed. Abimelech tried and he was cursed with barrenness. See vs 18. The Hebrew word for “dead” is “met” written here in the prefect tense.
Many religious people still try to steal and produce the promised seed BUT THEY HAVE ALL FAILED. This is the essence of the folly of REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY.
Once again YHVH calls on us as He did Abraham to intercede for the “Abimelech’s” of this world.
Gen 20:4 However, Aḇimeleḵ had not come near her, and he said, “יהוה, would You slay a righteous nation also?
Gen 20:5 “Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, even she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
Gen 20:6 And Elohim said to him in a dream, “Yea, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. For this reason I did not let you touch her.
Gen 20:7 “And now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall certainly die, you and all that are yours.”
Gen 20:8 So Aḇimeleḵ rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and spoke all these words in their hearing. And the men were greatly frightened.
Gen 20:9 And Aḇimeleḵ called Aḇraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? In what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my reign a great sin? You have done matters to me that should not be done.”
Gen 20:10 And Aḇimeleḵ said to Aḇraham, “What did you have in view, that you have done this matter?”
Gen 20:11 And Aḇraham said, “Only because I said to myself, the fear of Elohim is not in this place, and they shall kill me for the sake of my wife.
Gen 20:12 “And yet, she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
Gen 20:13 “And it came to be, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”
Gen 20:14 Then Aḇimeleḵ took sheep, and cattle, and male and female servants, and gave them to Aḇraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.
Gen 20:15 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “See, my land is before you, dwell wherever it is good in your eyes.”
Gen 20:16 And to Sarah he said, “See, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. See, it is to you a covering of eyes before all who are with you and before all others, and you are cleared before everyone.”
Gen 20:17 And Aḇraham prayed to Elohim, and Elohim healed Aḇimeleḵ, and his wife, and his female servants, so they bore children,
Gen 20:18 for יהוה had closed up all the wombs of the house of Aḇimeleḵ because of Sarah, Aḇraham’s wife.
Gen 21:1 And יהוה visited Sarah as He had said, and יהוה did for Sarah as He had spoken.
Gen 21:2 So Sarah conceived and bore Aḇraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him.
Gen 21:3 And Aḇraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitsḥaq.
Gen 21:4 And Aḇraham circumcised his son Yitsḥaq when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him.
Aliyah Chamishi 21:5-21
Gen 21:5 And Aḇraham was one hundred years old when his son Yitsḥaq was born to him.
Gen 21:6 And Sarah said, “Elohim has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of it laughs with me.”
Gen 21:7 And she said, “Who would have said to Aḇraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Gen 21:8 And the child grew and was weaned, and Aḇraham made a great feast on the day that Yitsḥaq was weaned.
Yitzchak means laughter. Who could have imagined this old woman of 90 years old would be breastfeeding a baby boy.
See website on breastfeeding. http://www.kathydettwyler.org/detchristian.htm
Little Hebrew babies could suck on their mommies breasts whenever they wanted to for as ever long as they wanted to up to the age of four years and even longer. Our modern day industrial culture and busy moms has put a stop to that. Children suffer possible psychological harm when these ancient ways of motherhood are discarded.
It was therefore a significant event when the baby decided it had enough of mommy’s milk and now wanted to pursue a more mature dietary path. When this event occurred it was accompanied by a great celebration. (Please note there were no birthday parties then, only coming of age parties).
The Hebrew word for weaned is “gamal” the same word used for “mature” It is interesting that this same Hebrew word also means “camel” ; these animals were known to store great amounts of water so that they could travel far distances without been nourished along the way.
Spiritual and emotional immaturity is measured by insisting on instant gratification.
Ask a four year child if he would prefer to have R50 in his pocket now or R500 in his pocket next week. Most four year olds want instant gratification; they would choose to rather have the R50 now.
Ask the average young person if they would prefer to have sexual intercourse now or wait until they are married. (less than 10% wait)
The apostolic scriptures warn us about spiritual immaturity. Men’s religious systems have produced the “curse of continual childhood.”
1Cor 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters. (see context)
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.
Gen 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrite, whom she had borne to Aḇraham, mocking.
Gen 21:10 So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this female servant and her son, for the son of this female servant shall not inherit with my son, with Yitsḥaq.”
Gen 21:11 And the matter was very evil in the eyes of Aḇraham because of his son.
Gen 21:12 But Elohim said to Aḇraham, “Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy and because of your female servant. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Yitsḥaq your seed is called.
Gen 21:13 “And of the son of the female servant I also make a nation, because he is your seed.”
Gen 21:14 And Aḇraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of Be’ĕrsheḇa.
Gen 21:15 And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs.
Gen 21:16 And she went and sat down about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.
Gen 21:17 And Elohim heard the voice of the boy, and the messenger of Elohim called to Haḡar from the heavens, and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Haḡar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Gen 21:18 “Arise, lift up the boy and hold him with your hand, for I make a great nation of him.”
Gen 21:19 And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.
Gen 21:20 And Elohim was with the boy, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Gen 21:21 And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Mitsrayim.
A muslim source quotes the following “That holy one who under persecution migrated from Paran (Mecca) to be received enthusiastically in Medina was none but prophet Muhammad.”
Aliyah Shishi 21:22-34
Once again we see the heart of Abimelech – to take what does not belong to him.
Gen 21:22 And it came to be at that time that Aḇimeleḵ and Piḵol, the commander of his army, spoke to Aḇraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do.
Gen 21:23 “And now, swear to me by Elohim, not to be untrue to me, to my offspring, or to my descendants. Do to me according to the kindness that I have done to you and to the land in which you have dwelt.”
Gen 21:24 And Aḇraham said, “I swear.”
Gen 21:25 And Aḇraham reproved Aḇimeleḵ because of a well of water which Aḇimeleḵ’s servants had seized.
Gen 21:26 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “I do not know who has done this deed. Neither did you inform me, nor did I hear until today.”
Gen 21:27 So Aḇraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Aḇimeleḵ, and the two of them made a covenant.
Gen 21:28 And Aḇraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Gen 21:29 And Aḇimeleḵ asked Aḇraham, “What are these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?”
Gen 21:30 And he said, “Take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, to be my witness that I have dug this well.”
Gen 21:31 So he called that place Be’ĕrsheḇa, because the two of them swore an oath there.
Gen 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Be’ĕrsheḇa. And Aḇimeleḵ rose with Piḵol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
Gen 21:33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in Be’ĕrsheḇa, and there called on the Name of יהוה, the Everlasting Ěl.
Gen 21:34 And Aḇraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
Aliyah Sheviee 22:1-24
Gen 22:1 And it came to be after these events that Elohim tried Aḇraham, and said to him, “Aḇraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Gen 22:2 And He said, “Take your son, now, your only son Yitsḥaq, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriyah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I command you.”
Are we willing to surrender to YHVH whatever He may require of us?
Gen 22:3 And Aḇraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitsḥaq his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place which Elohim had commanded him.
Gen 22:4 And on the third day Aḇraham lifted his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
Gen 22:5 So Aḇraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go over there and worship, and come back to you.”
Yoch/Joh 12:25 “He who loves his life shall lose it, and he who hates his life in this world shall preserve it for everlasting life.
Joh 12:26 “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father shall value him.
Luk 17:33 “Whoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life shall preserve it.
Gen 22:6 And Aḇraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Yitsḥaq his son. And he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
Gen 22:7 And Yitsḥaq spoke to Aḇraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “See, the fire and the wood! But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Gen 22:8 And Aḇraham said, “My son, Elohim does provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” And the two of them went together.
Gen 22:9 And they came to the place which Elohim had commanded him, and Aḇraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order. And he bound Yitsḥaq his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
Gen 22:11 but the Messenger of יהוה called to him from the heavens and said, “Aḇraham, Aḇraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Gen 22:12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor touch him. For now I know that you fear Elohim, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Gen 22:13 And Aḇraham lifted his eyes and looked and saw behind him a ram caught in a bush by its horns, and Aḇraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Gen 22:14 And Aḇraham called the name of the place, ‘יהוה Yireh,’ as it is said to this day, “On the mountain יהוה provides.”
Gen 22:15 And the Messenger of יהוה called to Aḇraham a second time from the heavens,
Gen 22:16 and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares יהוה, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Gen 22:17 that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.
Gen 22:18 “And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Gen 22:19 Then Aḇraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Be’ĕrsheḇa. And Aḇraham dwelt at Be’ĕrsheḇa.
(Blessed are you YHVH, 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, Yahweh giver of the Torah.
Ameyn.)
Please note these notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are in no way a final authority on any subject.