Hebrew:
Baruch atah YHVH eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher
kideshanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu la'asok b'divrei Torah. V'ha'arev na YHVH
eloheinu et divrei toratecha befinu uvfi amecha beit Yisrael. V'niyeh anachnu
v'tze'etze'einu v'tze'etza'ei amecha beit Yisrael kullanu yodei sh'mecha
v'lomdei toratecha lishmah. Baruch atah YHVH hamelamed Torah le'amo Yisrael.
Baruch atah YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher bachar banu mikol ha'amim
venatan lanu et torato. Baruch atah YHVH, notein haTorah.
English
translation: Blessed art Thou, 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.
We will approach this week’s Torah study
from a slightly different angle. We will see from an investigation of the
Hebrew language (lashon ha kodesh) how YHVH reveals His purpose for man and
creation and how man was always meant to be one with his Creator.
It has been said that the Hebrew language
is the DNA of creation. We will see that
the Hebrew language spoken by YHVH that reveals the DNA of man’s redemption and
salvation.
Definition of DNA – it is a noun - deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material which is present in
nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the
carrier of genetic information.
The fundamental and
distinctive characteristics or qualities of someone or something, especially
when regarded as unchangeable.
We see from the opening line of the Torah
that YHVH creates all things by His Word – YHVH combines various Hebrew letters
and brings about all things by His Word.
We see this same truth repeated in the Good
News according to Yochanan.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. (note capital “W’s” were not used in
the original)
Joh 1:2 He(mistranslated – not “he” but ‘this”) was
in the beginning with Elohim.
Joh 1:3 All came to be through Him, (“him”
not in the original Greek ms) and without Him not even one came to be that came
to be.
Joh 1:4 In Him(Gk “auto” means the same) was life,
and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the
darkness has not overcome it.
Sadly this translation
contains error and is misleading. A more correct translation follows:
“1 In [a] beginning was the Logos [word], and the Logos pertained to Mighty One [Yahweh], and Mighty One was the Logos. (It can also be translated: and mighty was the Logos if you look at the context of the original Greek manuscript.) 2 This same was in [a] beginning, [and] pertained to Mighty One. 3 All things through it [the word] came into being and apart from it came into being not even one thing, which has come into being. 4 In it was life, and the life was the light of men; 5 and the light in the darkness shines, and the darkness does not overcome it.
14 And so, the Logos [word] came into flesh, [a physical body] and tented [tabernacled] among us, and we gazed upon his esteem, (esteem as an only brought-forth from a father), full of charisma and truth”
Note: In the above passage, words in square brackets [like this] are added for clarification, but are not in the Greek text. The words "Mighty One" has been substituted for the Greek word "Theos" which has the meaning of "Mighty One" in the original Greek language. The word G-d, is of pagan origin, and has no place in Scripture as a reference to the "Mighty One" YHWH (Yahveh).
The opening words of the Torah – Ber 1:1 - א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ
If we know the meaning of the words we can
discover the reality of who YHVH is. The sages tell us that the first
appearance of a word or letter lays a foundation for the significance and future
meaning of the letters and words. (The law of first appearances)
We
see the very first letter In the Torah is an enlarged “bet.” The meaning of
this letter is “house” we can deduce that the very first purpose YHVH has is to
build a house where He can come and dwell with His creation.
The
rabbis say the chemical language is the most closest to the Hebrew language,
because the chemical language like Hebrew state the very reality of the
substance they are describing eg NaCl or H2O – salt and water and many others.
If
we know the meaning of the aleph bet we can have a glimpse into the reality of
why things were created.
Analyse
the word “Adam” - Aleph daleth hey.
When
YHVH created Adam He took these three letters to show the reality of what man
really is.
Aleph
is connected to YHVH - it has a gematria
of one but the letter aleph is also composed of two yuds and one vav which has
a gematria of 26 the same gematria of YHVH.
Gematria
of Aleph – aleph lamed fey sophiet is 111 (1+30+80) One One One!!!!
Without
the Oneness of YHVH in our beings we will not be connected to our Creator as we
were meant to be.
Then
we have the next two letters of Adam which in Hebrew mean “blood” – daleth mem-sophiet.
This is the physical part of our existence.
It’s
blood that circulates through our bodies bringing healing and cleansing. It’s
about the offering of blood in this Torah portion that brings about our
reconciliation with YHVH when we have sinned and fallen short of His Esteem.
The human body really is amazing. Check out these
wonderful facts:
1. Approximately 80-90% of what we perceive as "taste" actually
is due to our sense of smell.
2. Your heart beats about 35 million times in a year. During an average
lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.
3. Your body has about
5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. These 5.6 liters of blood circulates through
the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of
19,000 km (12,000 miles)- that's four times the distance across the U.S. from
coast to coast.
4. The heart pumps about
1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime - that's enough to fill
more than 3 super tankers.
5. If all arteries,
veins, and capillaries of the human circulatory system were laid end to end,
the total length would be 60,000 miles, or 100,000 km. That's nearly two and a
half times around the Earth!
6. Even though its
thickness averages just 2mm, your skin gets an eighth of all your blood supply.
7. The skull looks as
though it is a single bone. In fact, it is made up of 22 separate bones,
cemented together along rigid joints called sutures.
8. If a human adult's
digestive tract were stretched out, it would be 6 to 9 m (20 to 30 ft) long.
9. Red blood cells may
live for about four months circulating throughout the body, feeding the 60
trillion other body cells. Red blood cells make approximately 250,000 round
trips of the body before returning to the bone marrow, where they were born, to
die.
The challenge of life is for the physical
and the spiritual parts of our lives to be in harmony with one another. When
this is not the case we become sick and do not function as we were meant to.
Where do we get our blood type from? - From our mother and our father. In Hebrew
mother is “ Em” (spelled aleph mem-sophiet) and father is “av” (spelled aleph
bet).
The combined gematria of “dam” or blood is
44 and the combined gematria of Em and Av is also 44.
KJV -1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was
made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (Translation
should more accurately state that the last Adam came into or by the Spirit and
vilified or gave spiritual life)
The scriptures teach us that without the shedding of
blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
Heb 9:22
And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and
without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
We see in the book of
Beresheet/Genesis that the serpent deceived Chawa (Eve was a translated name of
the Hebrew Chawa)– (Gen 3)
The word for serpent
is “Nachash” – Nun cheit shin – and has a gematria of 358. See also
Bemidbar/Numbers 21 concerning the serpent on the bronze pole.
1Jn 3:8 The one doing sin(practising lawlessness) is
of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose
the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.1
Footnote: 1See Titus 2:14.
The gematria for
Moshiach – mem shin yud chet – is also 358 (Moshiach had to bear our sins).
This week our Torah
portion teaches us about the Torah of the five different offerings. The Korban
Olah or burnt offering; the korban ha mincha
or the grain offering; korban ha chatat or the sin offering; the korban
ha asham or the guilt offering and finally the korban ha shlamim or the peace
offering.
We should not take on
the full burden of understanding these offerings as these instructions were
primarily directed to the Levites.
When Messiah returns and the Temple and its service is restored (Ezekiel
chps 40 -48) we will be carefully instructed as to how we should go about
partaking in the blessing of the Temple service and its offerings.
Our Torah Portion begins:
Lev 6:12 ‘And the fire on the altar is kept burning on
it, it is not put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and
arrange the burnt offering on it,
and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings –
Lev 6:13 fire is continually kept burning on the
altar, it is not put out.
The fire burning
continually reminded them that their approach to YHVH was always and only
through the means of an offering. Their acceptance before the Almighty was on
the basis of a substitutionary offering – that and nothing else.
Maybe the person who
presented a burnt offering became aware of a distance or coldness between
himself and YHVH and felt prompted to spend some quality with YHVH beside the
altar until his entire offering had been consumed – bringing a pleasing aroma
to YHVH.
According to the sages
the “tamid” offering was the first offering of every day.
Exo 29:39 “Prepare the one lamb in the morning, and the
other lamb you prepare between the evenings,
Exo 29:40 and one-tenth of an ĕphah of flour mixed with
one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink
offering, with the one lamb.
Exo 29:41 “And prepare the other lamb between the
evenings. And with it prepare the grain offering and the drink offering, as in
the morning, for a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to יהוה –
Exo 29:42 a continual burnt offering (olat tamid) for
your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before יהוה, where I shall
meet with you to speak with you.
This “continuous” or
“tamid’ offering was usually done at nine o clock (the Third hour) in the
morning and three a clock (the Ninth hour) in the afternoon.
The times of these
offerings were amazingly similar to the time when Yahshua was nailed to an
execution stake and when he finally died on the Mount of Olives – Geth Semane –
Gat Shem – the place where the olives were pressed.
Mar 15:24 And when they impaled Him, they divided His
garments, casting lots for them, what each one should take.
Mar 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they impaled Him.
(9 0 clock in the morning)
Mat 27:45
And from the sixth hour (Noon) there was darkness over all the land,
until the ninth hour (3pm).
This
was a solar eclipse.
Mat 27:46
And about the ninth hour יהושע cried
out with a loud voice, saying, “Ěli, Ěli, lemah sheḇaqtani?” that is, “My Ěl,
My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?”
Mat 27:47
Some of those standing there, having heard, said, “This One calls
Ěliyahu!”
Mat 27:48
And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, and filled it with
sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave it to Him to drink.
"Jesus was delivered to him by Herod,
Archelaus, Philip, Annas, Caiphas, and all the people. At his crucifixion the
Sun was darkened; the stars appeared and in all the world people lighted lamps
from the sixth hour till evening; the Moon appeared like blood."
There was also an earthquake at the time of
Yahshua’s execution.
Mat 27:50
And יהושע cried out again with a loud voice, and
gave up His spirit.
Mat 27:51
And see, the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two from top to
bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split,
Mat 27:52
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the set-apart ones who had
fallen asleep were raised,
Mat 27:53
and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they went into the
set-apart city and appeared to many.
Mat 27:54
And when the captain and those with him, who were guarding יהושע, saw the earthquake and all that took
place, they feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of Elohim!”
Back to Torah poriton
Lev 6:14 ‘And this is the Torah of the grain offering: The sons of Aharon
shall bring it near before יהוה, in front of
the altar,
Lev 6:15 and shall
take from it with his hand from the fine flour of the grain offering, and from
its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering, and shall
burn it on the altar for a sweet fragrance, as its remembrance portion to יהוה.
Lev 6:16 ‘Then
Aharon and his sons eat the rest of it. It is eaten with unleavened bread, in
the set-apart place. They eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:17 ‘It is
not baked with leaven. I have given it to them as their portion of My offerings
made by fire, it is most set-apart, like the sin offering and the guilt
offering.
Lev 6:18 ‘All the
males among the children of Aharon eat it – a law forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by
fire to יהוה. All that touches them is to be
set-apart.’ ”
Remember these were offerings freely given from the
heart. What was going on in the heart of a person who brought such an offering?
Perhaps there was deep sense of gratitude that YHVH had continually provided grain
at the right time making it possible for them to have a continual supply of
bread - a staple part of their diet.
Lev 6:19 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 6:20 “This is
the offering of Aharon and his sons, which they bring near to יהוה, beginning on the day when he is anointed:
one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour as a daily grain offering, half of it in
the morning and half of it at night.
Lev 6:21 “It is
made on a griddle with oil. Bring it in mixed, bring the baked portions of the
grain offering near, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.
Lev 6:22 “And the
anointed priest from among his sons, who is in his place, prepares it – a law forever to יהוה. All of it has to be burned,
Lev 6:23 and every
grain offering for the priest is completely burned, it is not eaten.”
Lev 6:24 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 6:25 “Speak to
Aharon and to his sons, saying, ‘This is
the Torah of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is
slaughtered, the sin offering is slaughtered before יהוה, it is most set-apart.
Lev 6:26 ‘The
priest who is making atonement eats it, in the set-apart place it is eaten, in
the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:27 ‘All that
touches its flesh is to be set-apart. And when its blood is sprinkled on any
garment, you wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a set-apart place.
Lev 6:28 ‘But the
earthen vessel in which it is cooked is to be broken. And if it is cooked in a
bronze pot, then it is scoured and rinsed in water.
Lev 6:29 ‘Every
male among the priests eats it, it is most set-apart.
Lev 6:30 ‘And no
sin offering from which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting,
to make atonement in the set-apart place, is eaten, it is burned with fire. (Yom
Kippur)
The person that brought a sin offering was most probably deeply aware
that he had sinned and let down himself and others. This offering afforded such
a person an opportunity to deeply consider his transgression and the
implications of his transgression. Such a person possibly received wise counsel
from the Levite who assisted him with the offering and so helped him find peace
with himself and others, once again.
Lev 7:1 ‘And this is the Torah of the guilt offering
– it is most set-apart.
Lev 7:2 ‘The guilt offering is slaughtered in the
place where they slaughter the burnt offering, and its blood is sprinkled on
the altar all around.
Lev 7:3 ‘Then he brings from it all its fat: the fat
tail and the fat that covers the entrails,
Lev 7:4 and the two kidneys and the fat that is on
them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with the
kidneys.
Lev 7:5 ‘And the priest shall burn them on the altar
as an offering made by fire to יהוה. It is a guilt
offering.
Lev 7:6 ‘Every
male among the priests eats it. It is eaten in the set-apart place, it is most
set-apart.
Lev 7:7 ‘The guilt
offering is like the sin offering, there is one Torah for them both: the priest
who makes atonement with it, it is his.
Lev 7:8 ‘And the
priest who brings anyone’s burnt offering, the skin of the burnt offering which
he has brought is the priest’s, it is his. (Used for Torah scrolls)
Lev 7:9 ‘And every
grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the
stewing-pot, or on a griddle, is the priest’s who brings it, it is his.
Lev 7:10 ‘And
every grain offering mixed with oil, or dry, is for all the sons of Aharon, for
all alike.
The guilt offering was most probably brought by someone
who became aware that they had transgressed in regard to the set apart things
of YHVH - the Temple or its offerings or anything else having to do with its
service.
Lev 7:11 ‘And this
is the Torah of the slaughtering of
peace offerings which is brought to יהוה:
Lev 7:12 ‘If he
brings it for a thanksgiving, then he shall bring with the slaughtering of
thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened thin cakes
anointed with oil, or cakes of finely blended flour mixed with oil.
Lev 7:13 ‘Besides
the cakes, he brings as his offering leavened bread together with the
slaughtering of thanksgiving of his peace offering.
Lev 7:14 ‘And from
it he shall bring one cake from each offering as a contribution to יהוה: to the priest who sprinkles the blood of
the peace offering, it is his.
Lev 7:15 ‘As for
the flesh of the slaughtering of his peace offering for thanksgiving, it is
eaten the same day it is offered, he does not leave any of it until morning.
Lev 7:16 ‘And if
the offering he brings is a vow or a voluntary offering, it is eaten the same
day that he brings his slaughtering, and what is left of it is eaten the next
day,
Lev 7:17 but
whatever is left of the flesh of the slaughtering on the third day is burned
with fire.
Lev 7:18 ‘However,
if any of the flesh of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it
is not accepted. It is not reckoned to him who brings it, it is unclean to him,
and the being who eats of it bears his crookedness.
Lev 7:19 ‘And the
flesh that touches that which is unclean is not eaten, it is burned with fire.
And as for the clean flesh, all who are clean eat of it.
Lev 7:20 ‘But the
being who eats the flesh of the peace offering that belongs to יהוה, while he is unclean, that being shall be
cut off from his people.
Lev 7:21 ‘And when
a being who touches that which is unclean, of the uncleanness of man, or of the
uncleanness of beast, or of any unclean swarming creature, and shall eat the
flesh of the peace offering that belongs to יהוה, that being
shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
Lev 7:22 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 7:23 “Speak to
the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘Do not eat any fat, of bull or sheep or
goat.
Lev 7:24 ‘And the
fat of a dead body, and the fat of what is torn, is used for any purpose, but
you do not eat it at all.
Lev 7:25 ‘For
whoever eats the fat of the beast of which men bring as an offering made by
fire to יהוה, even the being who eats it shall be cut
off from his people.
Lev 7:26 ‘And do
not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, of bird or of beast.
Lev 7:27 ‘Any
being who eats any blood, even that being shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
Lev 7:28 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 7:29 “Speak to
the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘He who brings his peace offering to יהוה brings his offering to יהוה from the slaughtering of his peace
offering.
Lev 7:30 ‘With his
own hands he bring the offerings made by fire to יהוה. He brings the
fat with the breast, to be waved as a wave offering before יהוה.
Lev 7:31 ‘And the
priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aharon’s and
his sons.’
Lev 7:32 ‘And the
right thigh you give to the priest as a contribution from your peace offerings.
Lev 7:33 ‘He among
the sons of Aharon, who brings the blood of the peace offering, and the fat,
the right thigh is his for a portion.
Lev 7:34 ‘For the
breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution I have taken from
the children of Yisra’ĕl, from their peace offerings, and I give them to Aharon
the priest and to his sons, as a law forever, from the children of Yisra’ĕl.’ ”
Lev 7:35 This is
the anointed portion for Aharon and the anointed portion for his sons, from the
offerings made by fire to יהוה, on the day
when Mosheh presented them to serve as priests to יהוה,
Lev 7:36 which יהוה commanded to be given to them by the
children of Yisra’ĕl, on the day that He anointed them, a law forever
throughout their generations.
Lev 7:37 This is
the Torah of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, and of the sin
offering, and of the guilt offering, and of the ordinations, and of the peace
offering,
Lev 7:38 which יהוה commanded Mosheh on Mount Sinai, on the
day when He commanded the children of Yisra’ĕl to bring their offerings to יהוה, in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Baruch ha Shem YHVH all these offerings point us to the
complete work of Messiah in shedding his blood for us.
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 Yahweh, 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, YHVH 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.