Blessing for the Torah:
Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch
ata YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu
eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.
(Bless YHVH the blessed One;
Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. 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.)
Bilaam utters seven proverbs or
“mashalim”over the nation of Yisrael.
The proverbs contain
“mashalim”over the nation of Yisrael.
The proverbs contain
cryptic and hidden messages
Aliyah Reviee 22:39-23:12
Num 22:39 And Bilʽam went with Balaq, and they came to Qiryath Ḥutsoth – (city of streets-
creates impression that this was a busy place)
Num 22:40
And Balaq slaughtered cattle and sheep, and he sent some to Bilʽam and
to the heads who were with him.
Num 22:41
And it came to be the next day, that Balaq took Bilʽam and brought him
up to the high places of Baʽal, and
from there he saw the extremity of the camp.
“High place
worship is a false system that rebels against YHVH’s call to go up to
Yerushalayim.” It is not based on worshipping YHVH in spirit and in truth – Yoh
4:23
Today “high places”
could be considered to be places that offer up a kind of religion which in
essence opposes the instructions of the way Messiah taught Torah.
The prophet speaks
directly to this problem in a very graphic and almost crude way.
Eze 16:24 that you also built an arched(Hb “gav”) place
for yourself, and made a high place in every street for yourself.
Eze 16:25 “You built your high places at the head of
every way, and made your loveliness to be loathed. And you parted – “pasak”(opened
wide) your feet(or legs) to everyone who passed by, and increased your
whorings.
“Gav” or arched building was commonly known as a
place of idol worship as well as a brothel.
“High place” was a place of false worship – A place
of worship with a high tower.
A false place of worship is a place where you
received an impure or mixed “seed.”
Pro 29:18 Where there is no vision,(Hb “chazon” or
heavenly communication of Torah) the people are let loose,(become spiritually
immoral) But blessed is he who guards the Torah.
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Proverbs 29:18 teaches that when a nation is without the Torah of YHVH, the
people become unbridled and give free expression to their sinful desires. They
become lawless and rush towards anarchy and destruction. YHVH’s Torah empowered
by the Ruach Ha Kodesh (the Set apart Spirit) has the power to restrain man so
that he does not give free reign to the lusts of his flesh.”
High places are
strongholds in our thought patterns often brought through pagan influences and
the Torahless teachings of religion.
2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
fight according to the flesh.
2Co 10:4 For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly
but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing strongholds,
2Co 10:5 overthrowing reasonings and every high matter
that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every
thought to make it obedient to the Messiah,
2Co 10:6 and being ready to punish all disobedience,
when your obedience is complete.1 Footnote: 1John 3:36. (disobedience to what? - Torah!)
Eze 16:32 “The wife who commits adultery who takes
strangers instead of her husband!
Eze 16:33 “To all whores they give gifts, but you gave
gifts to all your lovers, and bribed them to come to you from all around in
your whorings.
Eze 16:34 “Thus you are different from other women in
your whorings, because no one whores after you, and in you giving a gift, while
a gift was not given to you. Thus you are different.”
Eze 16:35 ‘Therefore, O whore, hear the word of יהוה!
YHVH is speaking to Yisrael.
We have opened up our hearts to receive a strange
seed or a mixed seed. – You cannot sow two different seeds in a same field. Lev
19:19. The Torah is the perfect seed and cannot be mixed with other seed.
Psa 19:7 The Torah of יהוה is perfect,
bringing back the being;
Perfect law of liberty - Jas/Yakov
1:25 But he that looked into the perfect
Torah, that of freedom,1 and continues in it, not becoming a hearer
that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of
the Torah. Footnote: 1See 2:12.