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.)
Deu 4:1 “And now, O Yisra’ĕl, listen(shema) to the
laws and the right-rulings which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and
shall go in and possess the land which יהוה Elohim of your
fathers is giving you.
“ and now” – “ve ata” the desert wonderings are over and
“now” the time has come for Yisrael to possess the land. The whole purpose of
the desert wonderings was to prepare Yisrael to “shema” and embrace all
instruction of the Torah that they had received in the wilderness so that they
would never have to wonder in another “wilderness” ever again.
Deu 4:2 “Do not
add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it1,
so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim
which I am commanding you. Footnote: 1See also 12:32, Prov. 30:6,
Rev. 22:18-19. Rom 7:12
Sadly, many Christians believe that the doctrine of
“grace” has “taken away” our need to be obedient to the Torah – not to gain
salvation but the evidence of our salvation – Fruit – Matt 3:10
See Commentary – Tim Hegg on Romans, page 166 - Rom 6:10-15 – Rom 7
Vs 5 But how does the Torah stir up the sinful passions? The work of
the law, in the absence of the Spirit, . . . is to inflame our hearts still
more, so that they burst forth into rage and lustful desires – Gal 5:18-21
Challenged by the law which claims
man for God and for his neighbor, man’s self-centeredness—the sinful
ego—recognizes that it is being called in question and attacked, and so seeks
all the more furiously to defend itself – Ps 119:165
Yahshua warned the teachers of YHVH’s Word in his time
and in our time not to teach and exalt the doctrines of men above the Torah of
YHVH.
Mar 7:6 And He answering, said to them, “Well did
Yeshayahu prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This
people respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.
Mar 7:7 And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as
teachings the commands of men.’1 Footnote: 1See Isa.
29:13, 2 Ki. 17:19, and Mt. 15:3-9.