Debarim/Deut
7:12 -11:25
Yeshayahu/Isa 51:1 “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness,
seeking יהוה: Look to the
rock you were hewn from, and to the hole of the pit you were dug from.
Isa 51:2 “Look to
Avraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For he was alone when I called
him, and I blessed him and increased him.
Isa
51:3 “For יהוה shall comfort Tsiyon, He shall comfort all her waste places.
For He makes her wilderness like Ěḏen, and her desert like the garden of יהוה. Joy and gladness are found in it, thanksgiving and the voice
of song.
This
prophecy is found in this week’s “haftarah” and gives us extremely important
insight as to how we can walk in the fullness of YHVH’s blessing.
“For those who trust
YHVH for the promises, the proper order for faith and obedience is set by the
sequence in which the covenants were given. In other words, faith must
precede obedience. But the kind of faith accepted by YHVH is one, which
naturally flows into obedience. True obedience never comes before faith, nor is
it an addition to faith. It is always the result of true biblical faith.” (Lyman)
Avraham believed (first had faith) then he
responded in obedience (circumcision).
In other words the evidence of true faith was and
will always be that obedience to Torah flows out of a faith in YHVH’s promise
to save us.
Blessing for 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,
(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.)
Torah Readings:
1. 7:12 – 8:11
2. 8:12 – 9:3
3. 9:4-29
4. 10:1-11
5. 10:12-22
6. 11:1-9
7. 11:10-25
8. Maftir: 11:22-25
Haftarah: Isaiah
49:14 – 51:3
Aliyah Rishon 7:12-8:11
Deu 7:12 “And it shall be, because you
hear these right-rulings, and shall guard and do them, that יהוה
your Elohim shall guard with you the covenant and the kindness which He swore
to your fathers,”
יב וְהָיָה עֵקֶב תִּשְׁמְעוּן, אֵת הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים הָאֵלֶּה, וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם וַעֲשִׂיתֶם, אֹתָם--וְשָׁמַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְךָ, אֶת-הַבְּרִית וְאֶת-הַחֶסֶד, אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע, לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ.
Note the future tense of the words “it
shall be,” “ you will hear,”” you will guard,” “you will do,” then YHVH “will
guard” His covenant with you.
The word “eikev” used here in the text as
“because” is unusual. The sages say much about this unusual use of the conjunction
“because” (a conjunction is a word that joins together words, phrases or
sentences)
In the context of this Torah portion
“eikev” which means “heel” is used as the conjunction between our keeping YHVH’s
Torah and YHVH’s blessing us.
Tzemach Tzeddek
(the 3rd Chabad Rebbe) sees it as a reference to ikvata d'meshichah, the
generation of "the heels of Moshiach" (the last generation of the
Exile is called "the heels of Moshiach" by our sages because: a. they
are the spiritually lowest generation, due to the "descent of the
generations"; b. it is the generation in which the footsteps of Moshiach
can already be heard).
This is the generation that will "hearken to
these laws," as Maimonides writes: "The Torah has already promised
that the people of Israel will return to YHVH at the end of their exile, and
will be immediately redeemed."
The first time the word “ekev” is used is
in Ber/ Gen 3:15 “And I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
seed and her Seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His
heel”(ekev). This is clearly one of the first prophetic references we have of
the coming Messiah in the Torah. It appears that the kind of “walk” the Messiah
would have would crush the head of the enemy and the enemy would do everything
in his power to hinder that walk. This is true of the followers of Messiah to
this day. If we (jointly) walk as Messiah walked we will experience the
blessing.
The
gematria of “ekev” (ayin, kuph, beit) is 172. The same number of words in the 10
sayings. If we reverse the letters of the word “eikev” we have the word “beka”
the weight of the nose ring for a bride as well as the sum required for redemption
of the ancient Yisraelites, the half shekel.
The Hebrew word used here for “hear” is
“tishme- oon” this is a Hebrew word used with an emphatic emphasis. We see this
same verb ending used with several verbs in this portion.
This is not just a casual hearing, it
implies a hearing that causes one to obey and do what you have heard with a
very serious intensity, in other words you have really, really heard and there
is a clear evidence to prove that you have heard.
What must they hear (tishme oon)? Thy must
hear the “Mishpatim” or right rulings.
Deu 7:13 and shall love you and bless you
and increase you, and shall bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your
land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle
and the offspring of your flock, in the
land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
Deu 7:14 “Blessed are you above all peoples
– there is not going to be a barren man or a barren woman among you or among
your livestock.
Deu 7:15 “And יהוה shall turn away from you all sickness and
put on you none of the evil diseases of Mitsrayim which you have known, but He
shall put them on all those who hate you.
Deu 7:16 “And you shall consume all the
peoples whom יהוה
your Elohim is delivering over to you – your eye shall not pardon them. And do
not serve their mighty ones, for that is a snare to you.
Deu 7:17 “When (even though) you say in
your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I, I am unable to drive them out,’
Deu 7:18 do not be afraid of them. Remember
well what יהוה
your Elohim did to Pharaoh and to all Mitsrayim,
Deu 7:19 the great trials which your eyes
saw, and the signs and the wonders, the strong hand and the outstretched arm,
by which יהוה
your Elohim brought you out. יהוה your Elohim does so to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Deu 7:20 “And יהוה your Elohim also sends the hornet among
them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.
“A
hornet was a badge of Thothmes 3 and his successors, and would thus be a veiled
reference to the systematic series of invasions and conquests in Palestine
undertaken by that Pharoah. These invasions had reduced the fighting power and
resistance of the Canaanites”.
Deu 7:21 “Do not be afraid of them, for יהוה
your Elohim, the great and awesome Ěl, is in your midst.
Deu 7:22 “And יהוה your Elohim shall drive out those nations
before you, little by little. You are
not allowed to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too
numerous for you.
This principle gives us an interesting
insight into the Messianic realm, where the boarders of Yisrael will be much
larger. The implication is that b’nei Yisrael will need to grow in
righteousness to the place where they can effectively enjoy their inheritance.
Deu
7:23 “But יהוה your
Elohim shall deliver them over to you and destroy them with a great destruction
until they are consumed.
Deu 7:24 “And He shall give their
sovereigns into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the
heavens. No one is going to be able to
stand against you until you have destroyed them.
Deu 7:25 “The carved images of their mighty
ones you are to burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or gold that is on
them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination
to יהוה
your Elohim.
Deu 7:26 “And do not bring an abomination
into your house, lest you be accursed like it. Utterly loathe it and utterly
hate it, for it is accursed.
Deu
8:1 “Guard to do every command which I command you today, that you might live,
and shall increase, and go in, and shall possess the land of which יהוה swore to
your fathers.
“every
command” – “kol ha mitzvah” Moshe was telling them and us that we cannot choose
which commands we would or would not obey.
Deu 8:2 “And you shall remember that יהוה
your Elohim led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble
you, prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you guard His commands
or not.
Deu
8:3 “And He humbled you, and let you suffer hunger, and fed you with manna which
you did not know nor did your fathers know, to make you know that man does not
live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the mouth of יהוה1.
Footnote: 1Messiah quotes this in Mt. 4:4 and in Lk. 4:4.
In
these last days “manna” (Torah) is once again falling from the heavens, and
once again people are calling it strange.
Deu 8:4 “Your garments did not wear out on
you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
Deu
8:5 “Thus you shall know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so יהוה your
Elohim disciplines you,
Deu 8:6 therefore you shall guard the
commands of יהוה
your Elohim, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
Deu 8:7 “For יהוה your Elohim is bringing you into a good
land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of
valleys and hills,
Deu 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, of
vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,
Deu 8:9 a land in which you eat bread
without scarcity, in which you do not lack at all, a land whose stones are iron
and out of whose hills you dig copper.
Deu 8:10 “And you shall eat and be
satisfied, and shall bless יהוה your
Elohim for the good land which He has given you.
(This instruction
is the reason why we should pray after we have enjoyed our meals.)
Deu 8:11 “Be on guard, lest you forget יהוה
your Elohim by not guarding His commands, and His right-rulings, and His laws
which I command you today,
Aliyah Sheni - 8:12-9:3
We see again and again in the history of
YHVH’s people that when they are blessed they tend to forget the source of
blessing and to live in a way pleasing to Him. This is not going to happen to
the end- time Bride of Messiah.
Deu 8:12 lest you eat and shall be
satisfied, and build lovely houses and shall dwell in them,
Deu 8:13 and your herds and your flocks
increase, and your silver and your gold are increased, and all that you have is
increased,
Deu 8:14 that your heart then becomes
lifted up, and you forget יהוה your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from
the house of bondage,
Deu 8:15 who led you through that great and
awesome wilderness – fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst – where there was
no water, who brought water for you out of the flinty rock,
Deu 8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with
manna, which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and to try you,
to do you good in the end,
Deu 8:17 you then shall say in your heart,
‘My power and the strength of my hand have made for me this wealth!’
Deu 8:18 “But you shall remember יהוה
your Elohim, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, in order to
establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.
Let us note carefully the reason YHVH gives
us increase and wealth – to establish the Torah not to secure a comfortable
future for ourselves and our children. It is only when we seek first His
Kingdom rule and His righteousness that all things will be added unto us. Matt
6:33
Deu 8:19 “And it shall be, if you by any
means forget יהוה
your Elohim, and follow other mighty ones, and serve them and bow yourself to
them, I have warned you this day that you shall certainly perish.
Deu
8:20 “Like the nations which יהוה
is destroying before you, so you are to perish, because (EKEV) you did not obey
the voice of יהוה
your Elohim.
Deu 9:1 “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: You are passing
over the Yardĕn today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and stronger than
yourself, cities great and walled up to the heavens, (a possible reference
to their occultic power)
Deu 9:2 a people great and tall, the
descendants of the Anaqim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who
does stand before the descendants of Anaq?’
Deu 9:3 “And you shall know today that יהוה
your Elohim is He who is passing over before you as a consuming fire – He does
destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall dispossess them and
destroy them quickly, as יהוה has said to you.
Once again we must consider the
effectiveness of a unified Torah-observant- people. The gates of hell will not
be able to stop them. – Matt 16:18
Aliyah Shlishi 9:4-29
Deu 9:4 “Do not think in your heart, after יהוה
your Elohim has driven them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my
righteousness יהוה has brought me in to possess this land.’ But it is because of
the wrong of these nations that יהוה is
driving them out from before you.
Deu 9:5 “It is not because of your
righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their
land, but because of the wrong of these nations that יהוה
your Elohim drives them out from before you, in order to establish the word
which יהוה
swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya’aqov.
Deu 9:6 “And you shall know that יהוה
your Elohim is not giving you this good land to possess because of your
righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Deu 9:7 “Remember, do not forget how you
provoked to wrath יהוה your Elohim in the wilderness. From the day that you came out
of the land of Mitsrayim until you came to this place, you have been rebellious
against יהוה.
Deu 9:8 “Even in Ḥorĕḇ you made יהוה
wroth, so that יהוה
was enraged with you, to destroy you.
Deu 9:9 “When I went up into the mountain
to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which יהוה
made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did
not eat bread nor did I drink water.
Deu 9:10 “Then יהוה gave me the two tablets of stone written
with the finger of Elohim, and on them were all the Words which יהוה
had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly.
Deu 9:11 “And it came to be, at the end of
forty days and forty nights, that יהוה gave me the two tablets of stone, the
tablets of the covenant.
Deu 9:12 “Then יהוה said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from
here, for your people whom you brought out of Mitsrayim have acted corruptly.
They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them, they have
made themselves a moulded image.’
Deu
9:13 “And יהוה spoke to
me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and look, they are a stiff-necked people.
Deu 9:14 ‘Leave Me alone, so that I destroy
them and blot out their name from under the heavens, and make of you a nation
stronger and greater than they.’
Deu 9:15 “So I turned and came down from
the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire. And the two tablets of the
covenant were in my two hands.
Deu 9:16 “And I looked and saw that you had
sinned against יהוה
your Elohim, and had made for yourselves a moulded calf! You had quickly turned
aside from the way which יהוה had commanded you.
Deu 9:17 “And I took the two tablets and
threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes,
Deu 9:18 “and I fell down before יהוה,
as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread and I did not
drink water, because of all your sins which you committed in doing evil in the
eyes of יהוה,
to provoke Him.
Deu 9:19 “For I was afraid of the displeasure
and rage with which יהוה was wroth with you, to destroy you. But יהוה listened to me that time once more.
Deu 9:20 “And יהוה was very enraged with Aharon, to destroy
him, so I prayed for Aharon at that time also.
Deu 9:21 “And I took your sin, the calf
which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very
small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw its dust into the stream that
came down from the mountain.
Deu 9:22 “And at Taḇ’ĕrah and at Massah
and at Qiḇroth Hatta’awah you made יהוה wroth.
Deu 9:23 “And when יהוה sent you from Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa, saying, ‘Go
up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the
mouth of יהוה
your Elohim, and you neither trusted Him nor listened to His voice.
Deu 9:24 “You have been rebellious against יהוה
from the day that I knew you.
Deu 9:25 “So I fell down before יהוה
the forty days and forty nights, for I fell down because יהוה had said He would destroy you.
Deu 9:26 “And I prayed to יהוה,
and said, ‘O Master יהוה, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have
redeemed in Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Mitsrayim with a
strong hand.
Deu 9:27 ‘Remember Your servants, Avraham,
Yitsḥaq, and Ya’aqov. Do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on
their wrong or on their sin,
Deu 9:28 lest the land from which You
brought us should say, “Because יהוה was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them,
and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the
wilderness.”
Deu 9:29 ‘And they are Your people and Your
inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched
arm.’
Aliyah Reviee 10:1-11
Deu 10:1 “At that time יהוה said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets
of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain. And you shall make
yourself an ark of wood,
Deu 10:2 then I write on the tablets the
Words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. And you shall put them
in the ark.’
Deu 10:3 “So I made an ark of acacia wood,
hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, with the
two tablets in my hand.
Deu 10:4 “And He wrote on the tablets
according to the first writing, the Ten Words, which יהוה had spoken to you in the mountain from the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. Then יהוה gave them to me,
Deu 10:5 and I turned and came down from
the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made. And they are
there, as יהוה
commanded me.”
Why two sets of tablets? This possibly
refers to the two comings of Messiah – first time as Ben Yosef and the second time as
Ben Dawid. The first time Messiah or the Torah in the flesh was broken for our
iniquities and sins the second time he comes to meet his bride (unified
Yisrael) and rule and reign over the nations for 1000 years.
Aliyah
Chamishi 10:12-22
Deu 10:11 “And יהוה said to me, ‘Arise, go before the people,
to set out, and let them go in and possess the land which I swore to their
fathers to give them.’
Deu 10:12 “And now, Yisra’ĕl, what is יהוה
your Elohim asking of you, but to fear יהוה your
Elohim, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve יהוה
your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being,
Deu 10:13 to guard the commands of יהוה
and His laws which I command you today for your good?
Deu 10:14 “See, the heavens and the heaven
of heavens belong to יהוה your Elohim, also the earth with all that is in it.
Deu 10:15 “יהוה delighted only in your fathers, to love
them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all peoples1, as
it is today. Footnote: 1See also 7:6, 14:2, 26:18, Ps. 135:4 and
Amos 3:2.
Deu 10:16 “And you shall circumcise the
foreskin of your heart, and harden your neck no more.
Deu 10:17 “For יהוה your Elohim is Elohim of mighty ones and
Master of masters, the great Ěl, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality
nor takes a bribe.
Deu 10:18 “He executes right-ruling for the
fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and a
garment.
Deu 10:19 “And you shall love the stranger,
for you were strangers in the land of Mitsrayim.
Deu 10:20 “Fear יהוה
your Elohim.
Serve Him, and cling to Him, and swear by His Name.
Deu 10:21 “He is your praise, and He is
your Elohim, who has done for you these great and awesome deeds which your eyes
have seen.
Deu 10:22 “Your fathers went down to
Mitsrayim with seventy beings, and now יהוה your Elohim has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
Cling to YHVH – Quote From FFOZ (First Fruits of Zion).
Deuteronomy 10:20.
Moses says, "You shall fear YHVH your Elohim; you shall serve Him and cling
to Him..." What does it mean to "cling to Him?" It is
actually the same Hebrew word which is used of Adam in the garden when it says,
"a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his
wife, and they shall become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)
But how is this
cleaving done in practical terms? The Rabbis ask, "Is it possible for a
man to cleave to the Divine Presence, seeing that it is written,
"For YHVH thy Elohim is a devouring fire?"
They answer the
question by suggesting that "clinging to YHVH" can be accomplished by
clinging to the servants of YHVH, i.e. those who teach Torah. This is explained
specifically as the act of discipleship to a man of Torah who is already
connected with YHVH and can teach you the way to YHVH.
Chasidic Judaism
believes that through clinging to one's rebbe (spiritual leader), one is
brought into union with his rebbe. Because the rebbe is in union with
YHVH, the disciple is also elevated into union with YHVH by virtue of that
connection. In the same way, our Rebbe, Yeshua, taught us that in order
to cling to YHVH we must cling to him (John 15:1-7) and by clinging to him, we
cling to YHVH. "In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you
in me, and I in you." (John 14:20)
Just as Adam's
cleaving to his wife made him one flesh with her, Yahshua's perfect cleaving to
YHVH makes him 'One with the Father.' When we cleave to him, we become one with
Yahshua, and thus we enter the unity of his relationship with YHVH. (John
17:21-23)
Paul
teaches the principle of clinging to Messiah. In 1 Corinthians 6:16-17 he
declares, "'The two shall become one flesh.' The one who joins himself to
YHVH is one spirit with Him." To the Ephesians he writes, "We are
members of His body, [as it is written,] 'For this reason a man shall leave his
father and mother and shall be cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one
flesh.' This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Messiah and
the Assembly." (Ephesians 5:30-32 quoting Genesis 2:24)
Aliyah Shishi 11:1-9
Deu 11:1 “And you shall love יהוה
your Elohim and guard His Charge1: even His laws, and His
right-rulings, and His commands, always. Footnote: 1See Gen. 26:5.
Deu 11:2 “And you shall know today – for it
is not your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of
יהוה
your Elohim, His greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm,
Deu 11:3 and His signs, and His works which
He had done in the midst of Mitsrayim, to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and
to all his land;
Deu 11:4 and that which He had done to the
army of Mitsrayim, to their horses and their chariots, when He made the waters
of the Sea of Reeds overflow them as they pursued you, and how יהוה
has destroyed them to this day;
Deu 11:5 and what He had done for you in
the wilderness till you came to this place;
Deu 11:6 and what He had done to Dathan and
Aviram the sons of Eliyav, son of Re’uvĕn, when the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the living
creatures that were in their possession, in the midst of all Yisra’ĕl.
Deu 11:7 “For yours are the eyes that saw
all the great work of יהוה, which He did.
Deu 11:8 “And you shall guard every command
which I command you today, so that you are strong, and shall go in, and shall
possess the land which you are passing over to possess,
Deu 11:9 and to prolong your days in the
land which יהוה swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, a
land flowing with milk and honey.
Aliyah Sheviee 11:10-25
Deu 11:10 “For the land which you are going
in to possess is not like the land of Mitsrayim from which you have come, where
you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden, (foot
refers to the irrigations systems used in Egypt)
Deu 11:11 but the land which you are
passing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from
the rain of the heavens,
Deu 11:12 a land which יהוה
your Elohim looks after. The eyes of יהוה your
Elohim are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the latter end of
the year.
Deu 11:13 ‘And it shall be that if you
diligently obey My commands which I command you today, to love יהוה
your Elohim and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being,
Deu 11:14 then I shall give you the rain
for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, and you shall
gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
Deu 11:15 ‘And I shall give grass in your
fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be satisfied.
Deu 11:16 ‘Guard yourselves, lest your
heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other mighty ones and bow down
to them.
Deu 11:17 ‘Then the displeasure of יהוה
shall burn against you, and He shall shut up the heavens, and there be no rain,
and the land not give its increase. And you shall perish quickly from the good
land which יהוה
is giving you.
Deu 11:18 ‘And you shall lay up these Words1
of Mine in your heart and in your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Footnote: 1See
footnote at 5:22.
Deu 11:19 ‘And you shall teach them to your
children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the
way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,
Deu 11:20 and shall write them on the
doorposts of your house and on your gates,
Deu 11:21 so that your days and the days of
your children are increased on the soil of which יהוה swore to
your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.
Deu 11:22 ‘For if you diligently guard all
these commands which I command you, to do it, to love יהוה
your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him,
Deu 11:23 then יהוה shall
drive out all these nations before you, and you shall dispossess greater and
stronger nations than you.
Deu 11:24 ‘Every place on which the sole of
your foot treads is yours: from the wilderness, and Leḇanon, from the river,
the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea is your border.
Deu 11:25 ‘No man shall stand against you. יהוה
your Elohim shall put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land
where you tread, as He has spoken to you.
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 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.