Devarim 21:10 – 25:19
"All the Torah learned in the present world
will be vain compared to the Torah of Mashiach." - Kohelet Rabba 11:12
Yahshua will not return ‘until the restoration
of all things’.
Act 3:19 “Repent therefore and turn back, for the
blotting out of your sins, in order that times of refreshing might come from
the presence of the Master,
Act 3:20 and that He sends יהושע Messiah,
pre-appointed for you,
Act 3:21 whom
heaven needs to receive until the times of restoration of all matters,
of which Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of
old.
Act 3:22 “For
Mosheh truly said to the fathers, ‘יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you
a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear according to all matters,
whatever He says to you.
Act
3:23 ‘And it shall be that every being
who does not hear that Prophet1 shall be utterly destroyed from
among the people.’ (Emphasis added) Footnote: 1Deut. 18:18-20.
Let us listen once again to the words of our Messiah
that will bring revelation to this Torah portion:
Yoch/Joh 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would
love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the
world, for that reason the world hates you.
Joh 17:14 “I have given them Your Word, and the world
hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:15 “I do not pray that You should take them out
of the world, but that You keep them from the wicked one.
Joh 17:16 “They are not of the world, as I am not of
the world.
Joh 17:17 “Set them apart in Your truth – Your Word is
truth.1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 119:142, 151.
Joh 17:18 “As You sent Me into the world, I also sent
them
into the world.
Hence the title of
this week’s Torah portion – “When you will go out.”
Rom 8:19 For the intense longing of the creation
eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Elohim.
The world longs to witness a people who will come out of the bondage of
religion and manmade ideas of how we should live our lives here on earth. The
world waits in great anticipation for such a people – may we be such an end
time people that will usher in the return of our Messiah.
This Torah portion contains the revelation of such a witness.
2Co 6:17
Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean,
and I shall receive you.
The number 49 which can be expressed as 7 x 7 also sums up the
perfection intended in this teaching.
This week's reading, Ki Teitzei, contains 74 commandments, more
mitzvot than any other Torah portion. Some of the commandments discussed:
the law of the rebellious son, the obligation to bury the dead without undue
delay, the requirement to return a found object, the prohibition against
causing pain to any living creature, the prohibition against prostitution, the
laws of marriage and divorce, the procedure of the Levirate marriage, and the
obligation to eradicate the memory of Amalek.
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.
21:10-21
2.
21:22 – 22:7
3.
22:8 – 23:6 (Heb. 23:7)
4.
23:7(8) – 23:23 (24)
5.
23:24(25) – 24:4
6.
24:5-13
7.
24:14 – 25:19
8.
Maftir: 25:17-19
Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-10
Aliyah Rishon 21:10-21
Deu 21:10 “When you go out to fight against your
enemies, and יהוה your Elohim shall give them into
your hand, and you shall take them captive,
Deu 21:11 and
shall see among the captives a woman fair of form, and shall delight in her and
take her for your wife,
The rabbis taught, "Do not underestimate the
value of parables, because by means of parables a person can master the words
of Torah" (Song of Songs Rabbah 1:8).
"All these things Y'shua spoke to the
multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them, that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: 'I will open my
mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the
world.' " - Matthew 13:34-35
And so when YHVH gave us this Torah portion He was
giving a most profound parable into the Supreme Issue of the Universe - A love
story between a Bridegroom and Her Bride.
The story (parable) of a beautiful woman He captures after defeating the
forces of heaven and hell – the story of an unloved woman who He draws to
Himself with great tenderness and compassion and assures her of His undying
love and affection for all time.
“In parashah Ki Tetze we
see a beautiful picture of an Israeli man finding a “goy” (gentile) wife and
taking her as a bride bringing her into the fold of Yisrael.”
From
this passage we can see that through a war this Yisraeli man is able to redeem
a goy (gentile) from their pagan life and through this Yisraeli man this “isha”
woman, or wife is able to be absorbed into the commonwealth of Yisrael and
become a part of the faith and life of Yisrael. This process of bringing the “isha”
into the “house” of the Yisraeli man, shaving her head, and cutting her nails
was the sign and process of one's conversion from an old life of being a
Gentile to being part of the commonwealth of Yisrael. Being brought into the
“house” of an Yissraeli family was intimate language describing full inclusion
and integration into the practices and faith of that “house”.
The
conclusion of this conversion process; the shaving of one’s hair, the cutting
off of one’s nails is culminated with the shedding the old garments. These are
the garments of bondage in which this goyish isha (gentile woman) was found
wearing at the time as she was redeemed during this war between Israel and the
pagan elohim (mighty ones). In Devarim (Deut.) 21:13 it says, “…and she
shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your
house…”
The old
garments symbolize one’s old life, faith, and practice. These garments where to
be replaced with garments as found in this Set apart Yisraeli “house” that she
was now residing.
Deu 21:12 then you
shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her
nails,
Deu 21:13 and put
aside (Heb -vehasira) the mantle of
her captivity, and shall dwell in your house, and mourn her father and her
mother a month of days. And after that you shall go in to her and be her
husband, and she shall be your wife.
Note the use of the hyphil Hebrew verb “soor” “to set
aside” the verb is followed by a feminine possessive pronoun indicating that it
was the woman herself that was removing her garments. In the previous verse we
see from the Hebrew that woman herself shaved her head and trimmed her nails.
This Hebrew word for nails is “tseda” and can also mean to “make desolate” in
other words you abandon your past life and its customs and await the fate your
captor will choose for you.
The thirty days reminds us of the 30 days of the month of
“Elul” where our Captor will observe us to determine whether we truly desire to
be his and his alone.
Your Captor will observe you during these ‘30 days of
Elul’ to determine whether you truly desire to be his and his alone.
Deu 21:14 “And it
shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go at her
desire, but you do not sell her at all for silver. Do not treat her harshly,
since you have humbled her.
The Unloved Wife.
Deu 21:15 “When a
man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him
children, both the loved and the unloved, and the first-born son is of her who
is unloved,
Deu 21:16 then it
shall be, on the day he makes his sons to inherit his possessions, he is not
allowed to treat the son of the beloved wife as first-born in the face of the
son of the unloved, who is truly the first-born.
Deu 21:17 “But he
is to acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the first-born by giving him a
double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength –
the right of the first-born is his.
The issue of Polygyny (a man having more than one wife)
is such an emotive and controversial issue, yet the Torah clearly mentions it
and how one should approach such an issue.
Western Christian
civilization has attempted to force monogamy on all of society and has greatly
succeeded in doing so. Most Christians oppose polygyny as YHVH’s loving way of
restoring wholeness to a people, providing it takes place within the structures
of the Torah.
Perhaps the true wholeness of any society can be measured
by how woman and other vulnerable people are treated.
This Torah portion has much to say about kindness towards
woman.
Even YHVH had two wives – Yirmeyahu/Jer 3:1-18; Ezekiel
23.
Jer 31:31 “See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a new covenant
with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah1,
Footnote: 1See Heb. 8:8-12, Heb. 10:16-17.
Jer 31:32 not like
the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke,
though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה.
Deu 21:18 “When a
man has a wayward and rebellious son who is not listening to the voice of his
father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him,
does not listen to them,
Deu 21:19 then his
father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of
his city, to the gate of his city,
Deu 21:20 and
shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is wayward and
rebellious. He is not listening to our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
Deu 21:21 “Then
all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. Thus you shall
purge the evil from your midst. And let all Yisra’ĕl hear, and fear.
We should all fear because our rebellion to His Torah
will bring DEATH.
Aliyah Sheni 21:22-22:7
Execution by impalement.
Deu 21:22 “And when a man has committed a sin worthy of
death, then he shall be put to death and you shall hang him on a tree.
Deu 21:23 “Let his body not remain overnight on the
tree, for you shall certainly bury him the same day – for he who is hanged is
accursed of Elohim – so that you do not defile the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an
inheritance.
Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from
the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written,
“Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.”1 – Footnote: 1Dt.
21:23..
What is the curse of the Torah? The penalty due to us because of our
disobedience.
Heb 10:28 Anyone who has disregarded (aorist active verb implies past and present) the Torah
of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three
witnesses. (Anyone who disregarded and continues to disregard the Torah)
Heb 10:29 How much worse punishment do you think shall
he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of
the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?
Note the well- known
use of the “chol v chomer” argument ie from light to heavy. In other words
disregarding the Torah is punishable by death, how much worse punishment will
we receive if disregard the power of Yahsua’s shed blood to pardon such a
transgression.
In other words the shedding of the blood of Messiah cannot be separated
from disobedience to the Torah, in fact the very blood of Messiah was shed for
our disobedience to Torah.
You
must return what you find to the original owner - Dev 22:1-3
Lost
property was returned to the village square where people could recover their
lost property.
Deu 22:1 “When you
see your brother’s ox or his sheep going straying away, you shall not hide
yourself from them. Return them to your brother without fail.
Deu 22:2 “And if your brother is not near you, or if
you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be
with you until your brother seeks it, then you shall return it to him.
Deu 22:3 “And so you do with his donkey, and so you do
with his garment, and so you do with whatever your brother loses, which he has
lost and you have found. You are not allowed to hide yourself.
The fallen animal.
Deu 22:4 “When you see your brother’s donkey or his ox
fall down on the way, you shall not hide yourself from them. Help him raise
them without fail.
Transvestism – confusion of male and female roles.
Deu 22:5 “A woman does not wear that which pertains to
a man, nor does a man put on a woman’s garment, for whoever does this is an
abomination to יהוה your Elohim.
The sages call this mitzvoth concerning the birds nest
the least of all mitzvoth - Mat 5:17-19
Deu 22:6 “When you
come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young
ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take
the mother with the young –
Deu 22:7 let the
mother go without fail, and take the young for yourself, so that it might be
well with you, and that you shall prolong your days.
“One who says
(in prayer), "Your mercy extends to a bird's nest..." should be
silenced... Since this reduces the mitzvot to humane laws, when in truth they
are divine decrees.
(Talmud, Berachot 33b)
Aliyah Shlishi 22:8-23:6
Guard rails for a parapet roof - making your home friendly
and safe. (Especially also think of children)
Deu 22:8 “When you build a new house, then you shall
make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring blood-guilt on your
house when one falls from it.
Avoiding mixture.
Deu 22:9 “Do not sow your vineyard with different
kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of
your vineyard be defiled.
Deu 22:10 “Do not plough with an ox and a donkey
together.
Deu 22:11 “Do not put on a garment of different kinds,
of wool and linen together.
Deu 22:12 “Make tassels on the
four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.
Tzitzit are made of mixed materials – cotton and wool. Cotton comes from
the earth and wool comes from animals. YHVH desires for heaven and earth to
come together in the lives of His Set Apart Ones.
The Defamed Wife - Dev
22;13 – 21 (evidence virginity)
Deu 22:13 “When any man takes a wife, and shall go in
to her, and shall hate her,
Deu 22:14 and shall make abusive charges against her and
bring an evil name on her and say, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I
did not find her a maiden,’
Deu 22:15 then the father and mother of the young woman
shall take and bring out the proof of the girl’s maidenhood to the
elders of the city at the gate.
Deu 22:16 “And the girl’s father shall say to the
elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he hates her.
Deu 22:17 ‘And see, he has made abusive charges against
her, saying, “I did not find your daughter a maiden,” and yet these are the proofs
of my daughter’s maidenhood.’ And they shall spread the garment before the
elders of the city.
Deu 22:18 “And the elders of that city shall take that
man and punish him,
Deu 22:19 and fine him one hundred pieces of silver and
give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name
on a maiden of Yisra’ĕl. And she is to be his wife, he is not allowed to put
her away all his days.
Deu 22:20 “But if the matter is true, that the girl was
not found a maiden,
Deu 22:21 then they shall bring out the girl to the
door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death
with stones, because she has done wickedness in Yisra’ĕl, to whore in her
father’s house. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Penalty for adultery.
Deu 22:22 “When a man is found lying with a woman
married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man that lay
with the woman, and the woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕl.
The Betrothed Maiden.
Deu 22:23 “When a girl who is a maiden is engaged to a
husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,
Deu 22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the
gate of that city, and shall stone them to death with stones, the girl because
she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has humbled his
neighbour’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Rape. (engaged girl)
Deu 22:25 “But if a man finds the girl who is engaged
in the field, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who
lay with her shall die.
Deu 22:26 “But you shall do no matter to the girl. The
girl has no sin worthy of death – for the matter is like a man who rises
against his neighbour and kills him –
Deu 22:27 for he found her in the field, and she cried
out, the engaged girl, but without anyone to save her.
Rape. (girl not
engaged)
Deu 22:28 “When a man finds a girl who is a maiden, who
is not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,
Deu 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to
the girl’s father fifty pieces of silver, and she is to be his wife because he
has humbled her. He is not allowed to
put her away all his days.
A Father’s Woman.
(Concubine or second wife)
Deu 22:30 “A man does not take his father’s wife, nor
uncover his father’s skirt.
Mutilated genitals .
(Leaders had to be married)
Deu 23:1 “No one
wounded, crushed or whose member is cut off does enter the assembly of יהוה.
The Bastard. (Forbidden relationships such as incest,
a married woman who bore another man’s child)
Deu 23:2 “No one
of illegitimate birth does enter the assembly of יהוה, even a tenth generation of his
does not enter the assembly of יהוה.
Deu 23:3 “An
Ammonite or Mo’aḇite does not enter the assembly of יהוה, even a tenth generation of them
does not ever enter the assembly of יהוה,
Ammonites Moabites. - Dev
23:4 – 7
Deu 23:4 because
they did not meet you with bread and water on the way when you came out of
Mitsrayim, and because they hired against you Bil’am son of Be’or from Pethor
of Aram Naharayim, to curse you.
Deu 23:5 “But יהוה your Elohim refused to listen to
Bil’am, and יהוה your
Elohim turned the curse into a blessing for you, because יהוה your Elohim loves you.
Deu 23:6 “Do not
seek their peace nor their good, all your days, forever.
Aliyah Reviee 23:7-23:23
Edomites and Egyptians.
Deu 23:7 “Do not loathe an Eḏomite, for he is your
brother. Do not loathe a Mitsrite, because you were a stranger in his land.
Deu 23:8
“The children of the third generation born to them do enter the assembly
of יהוה.
The army camp. Dev23:10 – 15
Deu 23:9 “When the
army goes out against your enemies, then you shall guard yourself from every evil
matter.
Deu 23:10 “When
there is any man among you who is not clean because of an emission in the
night, then he shall go outside the camp. Let him not come into the midst of
the camp.
Deu 23:11 “And it
shall be, when evening comes, that he bathes with water. And when the sun sets
let him come into the midst of the camp.
Deu 23:12 “And you
shall have a place outside the camp, where you shall go out,
Deu 23:13 and you
shall have a sharp implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside,
you shall dig with it and turn and cover your excrement.
Deu 23:14 “For יהוה your Elohim walks in the midst of
your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you. Therefore your
camp shall be set-apart, so that He does not see unclean matter among you, and
shall turn away from you.
Sheltering slaves
– Dev23: 15,16
Deu 23:15 “You do
not hand over to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.
Deu 23:16 “Let him
dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your
gates, where it is pleasing to him. Do not oppress him.
Prostitution. Dev 23:17,18 . (Dog is a euphemism for male
prostitute)
Deu 23:17 “None of
the daughters of Yisra’ĕl is to be a cult prostitute, nor any of the sons of
Yisra’ĕl be a cult prostitute.
Deu 23:18 “Do not
bring the gift of a whore or the pay of a dog to the House of יהוה your Elohim for any vowed offering,
for both of these are an abomination to יהוה your Elohim.
Charging of interest.
Dev 23:19,20
Deu 23:19 “Do not
lend at interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, or
interest of whatever is lent at interest.
Deu 23:20 “To a
foreigner you lend at interest, but to your brother you do not lend at
interest, so that יהוה your
Elohim might bless you in all that you put your hand to in the land which you
are entering to possess.
Keeping Vows. Dev 23:21-23
Deu 23:21 “When
you make a vow to יהוה your
Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for יהוה your Elohim is certainly requiring
it of you, and it shall be sin in you.
Deu 23:22 “But
when you abstain from vowing, it is not sin in you.
Deu 23:23 “That
which has gone from your lips you shall guard and do, for you voluntarily vowed
to יהוה your Elohim what you have promised
with your mouth.
Aliyah Chamishi 23:24-24:4
Neighbors vineyard and grain field. Dev 23:23,24 (No carrier bags or sickles.)
Deu 23:24 “When
you come into your neighbour’s vineyard, you shall eat to the satisfaction of
your desire, but do not put any in a receptacle of yours.
Deu 23:25 “When
you come into your neighbour’s standing grain, you shall pluck the heads with
your hand, but do not use a sickle on your neighbour’s standing grain.
Divorce and Remarriage. Dev 24:1-4
Deu 24:1 “When a man
takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in
his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness in her, and he shall
write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of
his house,
Deu 24:2 and if she left his house and went and became
another man’s wife,
Deu 24:3 and the latter husband shall hate her and
write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of
his house, or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,
Deu 24:4 then her former husband
who sent her away is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has
been defiled, for that would be an abomination before יהוה. And do not bring sin on the land
which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an
inheritance.
Aliyah Shishi 24:5-13
The New Bride and the Millstone. Dev 24:5,6 Wife’s
needs (even daily) were more important than going off to war.
Deu 24:5 “When
a man has taken a new wife, let him not go out into the army nor let any
matter be imposed upon him. He shall be exempt one year for the sake of his
home, to rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.
Deu 24:6 “No one takes in pledge the lower or the
upper millstone, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
Kidnapping.
Deu 24:7 “When a man is found kidnapping any of his
brothers of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and treats him harshly or sells him, then
that kidnapper shall die. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Leprosy – “tzarat” -
Deu 24:8 “Take heed, in an outbreak of leprosy, to
diligently guard and do according to all that the priests, the Lĕwites, teach
you. As I have commanded them, so you shall guard to do.
Deu 24:9 “Remember what יהוה your
Elohim did to Miryam on the way when you came out of Mitsrayim.
Security for
loans. Dev
24:10-13 A poor man should not be forced to pledge security for a loan and must be treated with dignity.
Deu 24:10 “When
you lend your brother a loan, do not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deu 24:11 “Stand
outside, and let the man to whom you lend bring the pledge out to you.
Deu 24:12 “And if
the man is poor, do not sleep with his pledge.
Deu 24:13 “By all
means return the pledge to him at sundown, and he shall sleep in his own
garment, and shall bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before יהוה your Elohim.
Aliyah Sheviee 24:14 -25:19
Paying wages on time. Dev 24:14,15
Deu 24:14 “Do not oppress a hired servant who is poor
and needy, of your brothers or of the strangers who is in your land within your
gates.
Deu 24:15 “Give him his wages on the same day, and do
not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and lifts up his being to it, so
that he does not cry out against you to יהוה, and it
shall be sin in you.
Incriminating testimony of close relatives
Deu 24:16 “Fathers
are not put to death for their children, and children are not put to death for
their fathers, each is to die for his own sin.
Widows and Orphans.
Dev 24:17-19
Deu 24:17 “Do not
twist the right-ruling of a stranger or the fatherless, nor take the garment of
a widow.
Deu 24:18 “But you
shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and that יהוה your Elohim redeemed you from
there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this word.
Deu 24:19 “When
you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field,
do not go back to get it. Let it be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and
for the widow, so that יהוה your
Elohim might bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deu 24:20 “When you beat your olive trees, do not
examine the branch behind you. Let it be for the stranger, for the fatherless,
and for the widow.
Deu 24:21 “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard,
do not glean behind you. Let it be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and
for the widow.
Deu 24:22 “And you shall remember that you were a slave
in the land of Mitsrayim. Therefore I am commanding you to do this word.
Mercy must be shown in judgment.
Deu 25:1 “When there
is a dispute between men, then they shall come unto judgment, and they shall be
judged, and the righteous declared righteous and the wrongdoer declared wrong.
Deu 25:2 “And it shall be, if the wrongdoer is to be
beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his
presence with the number of blows according to his wrong.
Deu 25:3 “Forty blows he gives him but no more, lest
he beat him with many more blows than these, and your brother be degraded
before your eyes.
Don’t withhold blessing – Levirate marriage.
Deu 25:4 “Do not muzzle an ox
while it is threshing.
Deu 25:5 “When brothers dwell
together, and one of them has died, and has no son, the widow of the dead man
shall not become a stranger’s outside. Her husband’s brother does go in to her,
and shall take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to
her.
Deu 25:6 “And it shall be that the
first-born son which she bears does rise up for the name of his dead brother,
so that his name is not blotted out of Yisra’ĕl.
Deu 25:7 “But if the man does not
desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the
gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name
to his brother in Yisra’ĕl, he does not agree to perform the duty of my
husband’s brother.’
Deu 25:8 “The elders of his city
shall then call him and speak to him, and he shall stand and say, ‘I have no
desire to take her,’
Deu 25:9 then his brother’s wife
shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and remove his sandal from his
foot, and shall spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘Thus it is done to the
man who does not build up his brother’s house.’
Deu 25:10 “And in Yisra’ĕl his name
shall be called, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’
Male emasculation
Deu 25:11 “When men fight with one another, and the
wife of one shall draw near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one
attacking him, and shall put out her hand and seize him by the genitals,
Deu 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand – your eye
does not pardon.
A judgment will come
upon woman who emasculate men - – feminist movement is subtly emasculating
men
Fair value – avoid exploitation.
Deu 25:13 “You shall not have in your bag differing
weights, a heavy and a light.
Deu 25:14 “You shall not have in your house differing
measures, a large and a small.
Deu 25:15 “You shall have a perfect and right weight, a
perfect and right measure, so that they prolong your days on the soil which יהוה your Elohim is giving you.
Deu 25:16 “For all
who do these, and all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to יהוה your Elohim.
Total destruction of enemies.
Deu 25:17
“Remember what Amalĕq did to you on the way as you were coming out of
Mitsrayim,
Deu 25:18 how he
met you on the way and attacked your back, all the feeble ones in your rear,
when you were tired and weary. And he did not fear Elohim.
Deu 25:19
“Therefore it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim has given you rest from
your enemies all around, in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to
possess as an inheritance, that you blot out the remembrance of Amalĕq from
under the heavens. Do not forget!
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.