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.
Zec 5:3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that
goes forth over the face of all the earth: ‘everyone who is stealing shall go
unpunished,’ on the one side, according to it, and, ‘everyone who has sworn falsely
shall go unpunished,’ on the other side, according to it.”
Zec 5:4 “I shall send it out,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and
it shall come into the house of the thief and the house of the one who shall
swear falsely by My Name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house and
shall consume it, both its timber and stones.”
The instructions found in the Torah of YHVH
are the supreme authority over all of man’s conduct. Our Messiah made it
abundantly clear that there was no superior law in the universe and
disobedience to YHVH’S instructions carried serious consequences.
Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and
the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the
Torah till all be done.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 16:17.
Mat 5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of
these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the
heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the
reign of the heavens.
Many sincere believers
including ourselves will be
found guilty of violating the Torah when we stand
before Yahshua – YHVH’S appointed judge of the entire universe.
Rom 14:10 …. we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah.
May the following be the deep sincere prayer of our hearts:
Psa 139:23 Search me, O Ěl, and know my heart; Try me,
and know my thoughts;
Psa 139:24 And see if an idolatrous way is in me, And
lead me in the way everlasting.
This Torah section discusses three types of
transgression.
1.
The failure to give testimony
2.
The contamination of set apart things.
3.
The sin of false or unkept oaths.
Lev 5:1 ‘And when a being sins in that he has heard
the voice of swearing, (Heb “alah” an imprecation) and is a witness, or has
seen, or has known, but does not reveal it, he shall bear his crookedness.
Midrash:
“The
truth or inviolability of one's words was commonly attested in ancient Israel
by oath – a self-curse made in conditional form that went into effect if the
condition was fulfilled; e.g., "May harm befall me if I do so and so"
(cf. Eng. "I'll be damned if I will!"). The full form, including the
curse, is only rarely found, as, e.g., in the adjuration of the suspected
adulteress: "'If no man has lain with you … be immune to harm from this
water of bitterness that induces the curse. But if you have gone astray while married
to your husband … may YHVH make you a curse and an imprecation among your
people as YHVH causes your thigh to sag and your belly to distend'… and the
woman shall say, 'Amein, amein'" (Num. 5:19–22 Sotah)”
Let’s
apply this commandment to a situation where someone has been caught in the act
of adultery. This person has been accused by someone who actually saw the two
guilty parties engaging in a forbidden sexual relationship.
If
the accused denies what this witness saw and another witness who saw the same
transgression refuses to come forward to collaborate this testimony, he or she
shall be guilty and “bear their crookedness.”
2Co 13:1 … “By the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word shall be established.”1 Footnote: 1Dt. 19:15.
Deu 19:15 “One witness does not rise up against a man
concerning any crookedness or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two
witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a matter is established.