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.)
Joh
5:30 I can do nothing of My own
self…..because I do not seek My own will, but the will of the Father who
has sent Me.
Joh 5:31 “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is
not true.
Joh 5:32 “There is another who bears witness of Me,
and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.
Jer 32:21
‘And You have brought Your people Yisra’ĕl out of the land of Mitsrayim
with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with
great fearsome deeds.
Jer 32:22
‘And You gave them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to
give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jer 32:23
‘And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice nor
did they walk in Your Torah. They did not do all that You commanded them to do,
so You brought all this evil upon them. (See also context of Yer 29:11-14)
Title for
this Torah Portion – “Life doesn’t always work out the way you want it to”.
BUT YHVH will
always work out all matters so that they will work together for the good to
those who love YHVH and are called according to His purpose – Rom 8:28
Deu 3:23
“And I pleaded (Heb – ve et chanan) with יהוה at that time, saying,
Deu
3:24 ‘O Master יהוה, You have begun to show Your servant Your
greatness and Your strong hand, for who is a mighty one in the heavens or on
earth who does according to Your works and according to Your might?
Deu
3:25 ‘I pray, let me pass over and see
the good land beyond the Yardĕn, this good hill country, and Leḇanon.’
Deu
3:26 “But יהוה was enraged(Heb – “hitavar” – to pass over
and ignore) with me, for your sake, and would not listen to me, and יהוה said to me, ‘Enough of that! Speak no more
to Me about this matter.
Deu
3:27 ‘Go up to the top of Pisgah,(a
place of contemplation) and lift up your eyes westward, and northward,(Ps 75:6)
and southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes, for you do not pass over
this Yardĕn.
Deu
3:28 ‘But charge Yehoshua, and
strengthen him and make him brave, for he shall pass over before this people
and causes them to inherit the land which you see.’
Deu
3:29 “And we dwelt in the valley opposite
Bĕyth Peʽor.
Beth
Peor was a place connected to shame, humiliation, defeat and even death – see
Num 25:3 and 34:6.
“The occurrences of the
verb (pa'ar) indicate adjunction with strong passion or feeling,
usually not very positive (Job 16:10, Isaiah 5:14, Job 29:23), and describe the
wide opening of the mouth, hence perhaps alluding to other body cavities.” –
passionate about doing what was wrong - (Abarim-publication)
The
word for feminine in Hebrew is “nekevah” which amongst other meanings can also
mean a