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.)
Isa 42:18 “Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, and
see.
Isa 42:19 “Who is blind but My servant, or deaf as
My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as servant
of יהוה?
Isa 42:20 “You see much, but do not guard; ears are
open, but do not hear.”
Isa 42:21 It has delighted יהוה, for the sake of His righteousness, to
make the Torah great and esteemed.
Isa 42:22 But this is a people robbed and
plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison
houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver – for plunder, and no
one to say, “Restore!” (‘’hashav’’ to return)
Isa
42:23 Who among you gives ear to this, pays attention and hears for the
time to come?
‘’But the Torah, in and of itself, is unable to overcome
sin in the life of any individual—it simply has no reforming power with in it.
The power of the Torah is that which the Spirit supplies as He writes it upon
the heart.’’
Gen 2:4 These are the
births(‘’yalad’’) of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
(‘’hibaram) in the day that יהוה Elohim made earth and
heavens.
There is a
diminished “hey” in the Hebrew word “be hibaram” meaning “He caused them to be
created” - the heavens and the earth.
Perhaps this is a hidden reference that YHVH would create another heaven and
earth that would be much more superior – Rev 21:1 And I saw a renewed heaven and a renewed
earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea
is no more.
Vs 4 is also the
first mention of the name of YHVH (Yahveh, Yahuah, Yahweh and other
pronunciations).
“Even though the
name YHVH is etymologically difficult to explain, to a Hebrew audience it may
have looked very much like ‘’He Who Causes to exist’’.
Thus the first
time the name YHVH is used, it is used in the context of Creation, perhaps a
“lesser creation.” This causes us to believe that YHVH has even greater and
more grandiose ideas of what is to be created – this all for the sake of His
Son and those who are joined to His Son – Our Messiah – Yahshua. The meaning of
YHVH's Name assures us that He will cause to exist whatever is required for us
to reach our intended destiny – from esteem to esteem – perfectly conformed to
the image of His Son- Rom 8:28 – YHVH’s purpose for creating us.
Why do so few
then reach their intended destiny here on earth? Perhaps because we are not
content with the fruit of the Tree of Life - The Torah of YHVH. Perhaps we have
not yet been properly joined to His Son as was intended for us to be. Perhaps
too many have found satisfaction with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil – of Mixture or perhaps we are simply too impatient to wait on YHVH and
when YHVH seems to delay we take matters into our own hands and make our
decisions on what we believe is the right thing to do.
Gen
2:5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on
the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for יהוה Elohim had not sent rain on
the earth, and there was no man to till the ground,
Gen
2:6 but a mist went up from the earth
and watered the entire surface of the ground.
Gen
2:7 And יהוה
Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils breath of life. And the man became a living being.
For the first
time the earth became moist so that vegetation could start growing and
reproducing.
The
earth became moist and man was fashioned from the wet clay by the Hand of the
Almighty.
Gen
2:8 And יהוה
Elohim planted a garden in Ěḏen,(pleasure or delight) to the east, and there
He put the man whom He had formed.
Gen
2:9 And out of the ground יהוה Elohim made every tree grow
that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the
midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The Tree of
the knowledge of good and evil can be compared to a belief system that is in
opposition to the Torah. Those who seek life at this tree choose to live life
according to their own idea of what is right and wrong. These choices are based
on what people believe their ‘’god’’ (elohim) says is good and what their ‘’god’’
says is evil. This is the foundation of all manmade religion. You create the
kind of god you and others want you to serve and then manipulate others to serve
the god that has been created – and you warn those who disagree and do not obey
your religion, with hell and you promise those who agree that they will go to
heaven. Yoh 17:3.
Gen
2:10 And a river went out of Ěḏen to
water the garden, and from there it divided and became four riverheads.
Gen
2:11 The name of the first is Pishon, it
is the one surrounding the entire land of Ḥawilah, where there is gold.
Gen
2:12 And the gold of that land is good.
Bdellium is there, and the shoham stone.
Gen
2:13 And the name of the second river is
Giḥon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush.
Gen
2:14 And the name of the third river is
Ḥiddeqel, it is the one which goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the fourth
river is the Euphrates.
Gen
2:15 And יהוה
Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Ěḏen to work it and to guard
it.
Gen
2:16 And יהוה
Elohim commanded the man, saying, “Eat of every tree of the garden,
Gen
2:17 but do not eat of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it you shall
certainly die.”
Gen
2:18 And יהוה Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone,
I am going to make a helper for him, as his counterpart.”
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This is also the first time YHVH says “it is not good”
The Hebrew word “kenegdo”(helper) comes from the root
“neged” which can also mean to be “in front of or opposite.” We see this can
have both a positive and a negative effect on marriage relationships.
We need to look to the second writings for more insight on this
and other related issues. Marriage is
both a joyful and a painful experience for most people.
1Co 7:27 Are you
bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not
seek a wife.
1Co 7:28 But even
if you should marry, you have not sinned. And if a maiden should marry, she has
not sinned. But such shall have pressure in the flesh, but I would spare you.
1Co 7:29 And this
I say, brothers, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have
wives should be as though they had none,
This was not a commandment from Paul but a suggestion.
1Co 7:25 And
concerning maidens: I have no command from the Master, but I give judgment as
one whom the Master in His compassion has made trustworthy.
Yahveh also said that it is not good for a man to be alone.
However marriage is often very challenging.
Gen
2:19 And from the ground יהוה Elohim formed every beast of
the field and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see
what he would call them. And whatever the man called each living creature, that
was its name.
Gen
2:20 So the man gave names to all
livestock, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field.
But for the man there was not found a helper for him, as his counterpart.
Gen
2:21 So יהוה
Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of
his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Gen
2:22 And the rib(Heb angular organ)
which יהוה
Elohim had taken from the man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the
man.
‘’The Hebrew
word that is traditionally translated as “rib” is tsela‘. Ziony Zevit, Distinguished Professor of
Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages at American Jewish University
in Bel-Air, California, believes that this translation is wrong, as do many
scholars. It was first translated as “rib” in the Septuagint, a Greek
translation of the Hebrew Bible from the mid-third century B.C.E. However, a
more careful reading of the Hebrew word for “rib” in the Adam and Eve story
suggests that Eve was created from another, very different, part of Adam’s
anatomy
Of the 40
appearances of tsela‘ in the Scriptures, the Adam and Chawwah (Eve)
story is the only place where it is translated as “rib.” Usually it means the
side of something. Zevit explains the nuance of this word:
Adam did not lose a rib in the creation of Eve. Any ancient
Israelite (or for that matter, any American child) would be expected to know
that there is an equal (and even) number of ribs in both men and women.
Moreover, ribs lack any intrinsic generative capacity. We think it is far more
probable that it was Adam’s baculum(penis bone) that was removed in order to
make Eve. That would explain why human males, of all the primates and most
other mammals, did not have one.
In addition, Genesis 2:21 contains another etiological
detail: “YHVH closed up the flesh.” This detail would explain the peculiar
visible sign on the penis and scrotum of human males—the raphé . In the human
penis and scrotum, the edges of the urogenital folds come together over the
urogenital sinus (urethral groove) to form a seam, the raphé. The origin of this seam on the external
genitalia was “explained” by the story of the closing of Adam’s flesh. Again,
the wound associated with the generation of Eve is connected to Adam’s penis
and not his rib.’’
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1Co
11:8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
1Co
11:9 For man also was not created for the woman, but woman for the
man.
1Co
11:10 Because of this the woman ought to have authority on her head,
because of the messengers.
1Co
11:3 And I wish you to know that the head of every man is the Messiah,[a] and the head of woman is the man,[b] and the head of Messiah is Elohim.[c] Footnotes: a Eph_1:22, Eph_4:15,
Eph_5:23. b Gen_3:16. c 1Co_3:23, Joh_14:28.
Gen
2:23 And the man said, “This is now bone
of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one is called ‘woman,’ because she was
taken out of man.”
Gen
2:24 For this cause a man shall leave
his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Gen
2:25 And they were both naked, the man
and his wife, yet they were not ashamed.
Gen 3:1 And the serpent was more crafty than any
beast of the field which יהוה
Elohim had made, and he said to the woman, “Is it true that Elohim has said,
‘Do not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
Gen
3:2 And the woman said to the serpent,
“We are to eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Gen
3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which
is in the midst of the garden, Elohim has said, ‘Do not eat of it, nor touch
it, lest you die.’ ”
YHVH did not say that you could not “touch the
tree.” So the sages admit that when you add to the command of YHVH you diminish
the command of YHVH.
Gen
3:4 And the serpent said to the woman,
“You shall certainly not die. (This was haSatan's original lie to Chawwah because
it WAS true that YHVH said they will die if.....)
Gen
3:5 “For Elohim knows that in the day
you eat of it your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like Elohim, knowing
good and evil.”
Gen
3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make
one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Where was Adam when all this was taking place?
“…her husband was with her” Heb “immah.” Stones Chumash adds “at one with her.”
Gen
3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were
opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together
and made loin coverings for themselves.
Gen
3:8 And they heard the sound of יהוה Elohim walking about in the
garden in the cool of the day, and Aḏam and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of יהוה
Elohim among the trees of the garden.
Gen
3:9 And יהוה
Elohim called unto Aḏam and said to him, “Where are you?”
Gen
3:10 And he said, “I heard Your voice in
the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.”
Gen
3:11 And He said, “Who made you know
that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that
you should not eat?”
Gen
3:12 And the man said, “The woman whom
You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate.”
“vaochel”
“and I ate” “In an astounding interpretation, the sages note that the verb is
in the future tense, As if Adam was saying, “I ate and will eat again!” the
implication was that if Adam was faced with the same temptation he would
succumb again and again – Stones Chumash.
Gen
3:13 And יהוה
Elohim said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said,
“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Gen 3:14 And יהוה
Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more
than all livestock and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you
are to go, and eat dust all the days of your life.
Gen
3:15 “And I put enmity between you and
the woman, and between your seed and her Seed1. He shall crush your
head, and you shall crush His heel.” Footnote: 1First promise of the
Messiah. Note it would not be the seed of a man but of a woman.
Gen 3:16
To the woman He said, “I greatly increase your sorrow and your
conception – bring forth children in pain. And your desire is for your husband,
and he does rule over you.” See ISA.
Gen
3:17 And to the man He said, “Because
you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of
which I commanded you, saying, ‘Do not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground
because of you, in toil you are to eat of it all the days of your life,
Gen
3:18 and the ground shall bring
forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Gen
3:19 “By the sweat of your face you are
to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For
dust you are, and to dust you return.”
Gen
3:20 And the man called his wife’s name
Ḥawwah )(pronounced Chawwah), because she became the mother of all living.
Gen
3:21 And יהוה
Elohim made coats of skin for the man and his wife and dressed them.
Gen
3:22 And יהוה
Elohim said, “See, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.
And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat,
and live forever...”
Gen
3:23 so יהוה
Elohim sent him out of the garden of Ěḏen to till the ground from which he was
taken,
Gen
3:24 and He drove the man out. And He
placed keruḇim at the east of the garden of Ěḏen, and a flaming sword which
turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan
lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn
ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are you Yahveh, our Elohim, King of the Universe,
you have given us your Torah of truth, and have planted everlasting life within
our midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn