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. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the
Torah. Ameyn.)
And so, we see that the
underlying theme of “sefer devarim” (Deuteronomy) is “teshuvah” “repentance”
And so, the sages have rightly
stated that this parashah is about what is required to usher in the Messianic era.
Parashah Eikev begins with “if you will listen…”
paradoxically, then, it is hearing, rather than the more riveting experience of
seeing, that enables us to prepare ourselves wholeheartedly for the return of
Messiah.
2Co
5:7 for we walk by belief, not by sight.
Rom 10:17 So then belief comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of Elohim.
Heb 6:12 ….. imitate those who through belief and patience
inherit the promises.
The next parashah “Re eh” or “seeing” … “Deu
11:26 ‘See, I am setting before you
today a blessing and a curse:…….” follows our current parashah which focuses on
hearing and obeying.
There will be an end time
remnant whose hearts and lives will be prepared to meet the Messiah, because
they have listened, obeyed and done the word of YHVH.
This week’s Parashah begins:
Deu 10:1 “At that time יהוה said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets
of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain. And you shall make
yourself an ark of wood,
Deu 10:2 then I
write on the tablets the Words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
And you shall put them in the ark.’ -
See Stones Chumash p 989. Num 10:33 Stones p 787.
The Torah was always meant to have a resting place. The “Aaron” was the wooden box in which the tablets of the
Torah were kept. Today each synagogue has an ‘Aaron Kodesh’ a resting place for
the Torah scroll. The wooden box
reminds us of a fragile storage space, we can compare this to human beings or
human clay vessels.
2Co 4:7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
so that the excellence of the power might be of Elohim, and not of us –
The Torah found a perfect resting place in a perfect clay
vessel called “Emmanuel” or “with us is El”- Mt1:23. Through Yashua’s presence
and life, YHVH’s presence and life was made known.
The Torah in us, remaining in us, will bring us into the
perfect presence of the Almighty.
This is why the Torah instructs us again and again to
guard, do and hear this Torah and to teach it to our children all the days of
our lives.
Deu 10:3 “So I
made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went
up the mountain, with the two tablets in my hand.
Deu 10:4 “And He wrote on the tablets according to
the first writing, the Ten Words, which יהוה had spoken to
you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. Then
יהוה gave them to me,