4/29/2016

Parashat 7 Portion 29 Ber/Gen 30:12-31:2 1 Sam 1:1-11 Acts 13:16-41


Gen 30:12  And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Yaʽaqoḇ a second son.
Gen 30:13  And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters shall call me blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr.
Gen 30:14  And Re’uḇĕn went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Lĕ’ah. And Raḥĕl said to Lĕ’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s love-apples.”

“During the wheat harvest” is possibly a prophetic secret that unlocks much of the meaning of this parashah.

Passover and Shavuot, most commonly known as the festivals that commemorate, respectively, the Exodus and the Giving of the Torah, each also have a pronounced agricultural element. For those of us who are returning to our Hebraic roots, these two festivals have profound significance to the Messiah’s first and second coming. Messiah first comes as the fullness of YHVH’s Word and will return one day after a mighty outpouring of the “Ruach Ha Kodesh” or the Set Apart Spirit – see Yoel/Joel 2


    Joe 2:29  “And also on the male servants and on the female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days.
    Joe 2:30  “And I shall give signs in the heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke,
    Joe 2:31  the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה.

The Torah instructs that on the second day of Passover we should bring the first cutting of our barley harvest to the Set Apart Temple in Yerushalayim as an offering to YHVH, and not to partake of that year's barley crop until that offering is made. On