Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Yisrael. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Yisrael, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Yisrael. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah
Deu 15:7 “When
there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, within any of the gates in
your land which יהוה your
Elohim is giving you, do not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your
poor brother, (Heb - make your heart rigid)
The sages
teach us that when a community guards the Torah, there should be prosperity for
all its members. Any breach of Torah could manifest itself in poverty or in
sickness. For this reason, it was incumbent on each member of the Torah
community to constantly examine themselves as to whether or not they are in one
accord with each other and with YHVH’s Torah –
We see the implications
of this principle illustrated in the Apostolic writings – Elevating the
instruction of this Torah Portion.
Mat 18:15 “And if your brother sins against you, go and
reprove him, between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
Mat 18:16 “But if he does not hear, take with you one
or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might be
established.’
Mat 18:17 “And if he refuses to hear them, say it to
the assembly. And if he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you
like a gentile and a tax collector.
Mat 18:18 “Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind1
on earth shall be having been bound1 in heaven, and whatever you
loosen1 on earth shall be having been loosened1 in
heaven. Footnote: 1Binding and loosening is Heḇrew idiom for
exercising authority (to prohibit and permit).
Mat 18:19 “Again I say to you that if two of you agree
on earth concerning any matter that they ask, it shall be done for them by My
Father in the heavens.
Mat 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together
in My Name, there I am in their midst.”
Mat 18:21 Then Kĕpha came to Him and said, “Master, how
often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”
Mat 18:22 יהושע said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
Poverty sickness and disease are a curse and will one day have no place
in the Community of those who are of “The Faith”
Psa
133:1 See how good and how pleasant it is for
brothers to dwell together in unity –
Psa 133:2 Like the precious oil on
the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aharon, Running down on the
collar of his robes –
Psa 133:3 Like the dew of Ḥermon, That comes down on the mountains of Tsiyon. For there יהוה commanded the blessing, Life forever!
The spiritual, emotional and prospering well being of the individual must become the spiritual, emotional and prospering well being of the community. If not, the well being of the community is at risk.
Deu
15:8 for you shall certainly open your
hand to him and certainly lend him enough for his need, whatever he needs.
CLV - 7 In case there should be among you a needy person, one of your
brothers within one of your gates in your land that Yahweh your Elohim is
giving to you, you shall neither make `your heart rigid nor shut `your hand
from your needy brother. 8 Rather you shall open, yea open− `your hand to him
and give him give security, yea security− sufficient for his lack what is
lacking to him
Why do we even speak of such faith
communities that are very rare and hard to find?
Because they will exist one day.
1Jn 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself….
Deu
15:9 “Be on guard lest there be a
thought of Beliyaʽal (Heb – without usefulness)in your heart, saying, ‘The
seventh year, the year of release, is near,’ and your eye is evil against your
poor brother and you give him naught. And he shall cry out to יהוה against you, and it shall be
a sin in you.
Some
Yisraelites may have been hesitant to give loans in the seventh year because
this was a year that all debts were to be cancelled. To have this spirit was
compared to having Beliyaal in your heart. Beliyaal also means to “seek profit
through wickedness”
Luk
6:38 “Give, and it shall be given to you. A good measure, pressed down
and shaken together and running over shall be put into your lap. For with the
same measure with which you measure, it shall be measured back to you.”
Deu
15:10 “You shall certainly give to him,
and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this
reason יהוה your
Elohim does bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.
Deu 15:11 “Because the poor one does not cease from the land. Therefore, I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall certainly open your hand to your brother, to your poor and to your needy one, in your land.'
Joh
12:8 “For the poor you have with you always..
This is may
not just be a statement of fact, but rather a accusation against us for having
poor amongst us – in YHVH’s covenant community this should not be so.
Jer 10:23 O יהוה, I know the way of man is not in himself, it is not for man who
walks to direct his own steps.
Jer 10:24 O יהוה, chastise me, but with right-ruling – not in Your displeasure, lest You bring me to naught.
Quotes form Watchman Nee but the Name
restoring is done by author of thee notes:
“The Law requires
much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements. The requires Master
Yahshua requires as much, yea more
(Matt. 5:21–48). But what He requires from us, He Himself carries out in us. The
Law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Messiah demands, but He Himself fulfills in us the
very demands He makes.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian
Life
“Elohim must bring us to a point--I
cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and
dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so
that we no longer dare trust ourselves.”
― Watchman Nee, The
Normal Christian Life
“The idea of waste only comes into our
Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Master.”
― Watchman Nee, The
Normal Christian Life
“The vessel through which Yahshua haMashach
Himself in this generation is not the individual, but the body of Messiah.
True, “Elohim hath dealt to each man a measure of faith” (12:3), but alone in
isolation man can never fulfill YHVH our Elohim’s purpose. It requires a
complete body of Messiah to attain to
the stature of Messiah and to display His glory.”
A drowning man cannot be saved until
he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the
slightest effort to save himself.
― Watchman Nee, The
Normal Christian Life
“In the same way we can have our soul,
with the full use of its faculties; and yet the soul is not now our
life-spring. We are no longer living in it, we are no longer drawing from it
and living by it; we use it. When the body becomes our life, we live like
beasts. When the soul becomes our life, we live as rebels and fugitives from Elohim
- gifted, cultured, [and] educated, no doubt, but alienated from the life of .
But when we come to live our life in the Spirit, and by the Spirit, though we
still use our soul faculties just as we do our physical faculties, they are now
the servants of the Spirit; and when we have reached that point Elohim can
really use us.”
― Watchman Nee, The
Normal Christian Life
Rom 8:4 so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Deu
15:12 “When your brother is sold to you,
a Heḇrew man or a Heḇrew woman, and shall serve you six years, then let him
go free from you in the seventh year.
Deu
15:13 “And when you send him away free
from you, let him not go away empty-handed.
Deu 15:14 “You shall richly supply him from your flock,
and from your threshing-floor, and from your winepress. With that which יהוה has blessed you with, give to
him.
Deu
15:15 “And you shall remember that you
were a slave in the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה
your Elohim redeemed you. Therefore I am commanding you this word today.
Deu
15:16 “And it shall be, when he says to
you, ‘I do not go away from you,’ because he loves you and your house, because
it is good for him with you,
Deu 15:17 then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever(chadal). Do the same to your female servant.
The Hebrew word “chadal” is used in this verse
and means “will not cease or come to an end.”
It appears
that some people are better off been under some form of supervision over their
lives forever – see vs 17 – There seem to different aspects to this instruction
found in Shemot 21 and Vayikra 25. Hebrew slaves were encouraged to return to
their family inheritance in the year of Jubilee. Hebrew slaves were not meant
to be slaves forever. Woman slaves were to be treated differently- see Shemot
21.
Even
Messiah submitted Himself to His Master for ever and ever.
Isa 50:4 The Master יהוה has given Me the tongue of taught ones, that I should know to
help the weary with a word. He wakes Me morning by morning, he wakes My ear to
hear as taught ones.
Isa 50:5 The Master יהוה has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.
Isa 50:6 I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard, I did not hide My face from humiliation and spitting.
Deu
15:18 “Let it not be hard in your eyes
when you send him away free from you, for he has been worth a double hired
servant in serving you six years. And יהוה
your Elohim shall bless you in all that you do.
Deu
15:19 “Set apart to יהוה your Elohim all the
first-born males that come from your herd and your flock. Do no work with the
first-born of your herd, nor shear the first-born of your flock.
Deu 15:20 “You and your household are to eat it before יהוה your Elohim year by year in
the place which יהוה
chooses.
Deu
15:21 “But when there is any defect in
it, lame or blind, or has any evil defect, do not slaughter it to יהוה your Elohim.
Deu
15:22 “Eat it within your gates – the
unclean and the clean alike – as the gazelle, and as the deer.
Deu
15:23 “Only, do not eat its blood, pour
it on the ground like water.
Deu 16:1 “Guard
the month of Aḇiḇ, and perform the Passover to יהוה
your Elohim, for in the month of Aḇiḇ יהוה
your Elohim brought you out of Mitsrayim by night.
Deu
16:2 “And you shall slaughter the
Passover to יהוה your
Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place where יהוה chooses to put His Name.
Deu
16:3 “Eat no leavened bread with it. For
seven days you eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because you
came out of the land of Mitsrayim in haste – so that you remember the day in
which you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, all the days of your life.
Deu
16:4 “And no leaven should be seen with
you in all your border for seven days, neither should any of the meat
which you slaughter in the evening on the first day stay all night until
morning.
Deu 16:5 “You are not allowed to slaughter the
Passover within any of your gates which יהוה
your Elohim gives you,
Deu
16:6 but at the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make
His Name dwell, there you slaughter the Passover in the evening, at the going
down of the sun, at the appointed time you came out of Mitsrayim.
Deu
16:7 “And you shall roast and eat it in
the place which יהוה your
Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
Deu
16:8 “Six days you eat unleavened bread,
and on the seventh day there is a closing festival to יהוה your Elohim – you do no work.
Deu
16:9 “Count seven weeks for yourself.
Begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the
grain.
Deu
16:10 “And you shall perform the
Festival of Weeks to יהוה your
Elohim, according to the voluntary offering from your hand, which you give as יהוה your Elohim blesses you.
Deu
16:11 “And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your son
and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the
Lĕwite who is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the
widow who are in your midst, at the place where יהוה
your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell.
Deu
16:12 “And you shall remember that you
were a slave in Mitsrayim, and you shall guard and do these laws.
Deu
16:13 “Perform the Festival of Sukkot for seven days after the
ingathering from your threshing-floor and from your winepress, Footnote:
dBooths.
Deu
16:14 and you shall rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your
daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lěwite, and
the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.
Deu
16:15 “For seven days you shall celebrate to יהוה your Elohim in the place
which יהוה chooses, because יהוה your Elohim does bless you in all your
increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing!
Deu
16:16 “Three times a year all your males appear before יהוה
your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Matzot,[e]and at the Festival of Shaḇuʽoth,[c] and at the Festival of Sukkotd.
And none should appear before יהוה empty-handed, Footnotes: cWeeks. dBooths.
eUnleavened Bread.
Deu 16:17 but each one with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which He has given you.
Col 1:24 who now rejoice in my
sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in Messiah’s
afflictions, for the sake of His Body, which is the assembly,
Col 1:25 of which I became a
servant according to the administration of Elohim which was given to me for
you, to fill the word of Elohim,
Col 1:26 the secret which has been
hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His
set-apart ones,
Col 1:27 to whom Elohim desired to
make known what are the riches of the esteem of this secret among the nations:
which is Messiah in you, the expectancy of esteem,
Eph 3:5 which was not made known
to the sons of men in other generations, as it has now been revealed by the
Spirit to His set-apart emissaries and prophets:
Eph 3:6 The nations to be
co-heirs, united in the same body, and partakers together[a] in the promise in
Messiah through the Good News, Footnote: aSee Rom_11:17-24, Isa_14:1.
Eph 3:8 To
me, the very least of all the set-apart ones, this favour was given, to bring
the Good News of the unsearchable riches of Messiah among the nations,
Eph 3:9 and
to make all see how this secret is administered, which for ages past has been
hidden in Elohim who created all through יהושע
Messiah,[b Footnote: bSee Joh_1:3.
Eph 3:10 so
that now, through the assembly, the many-sided wisdom of Elohim might be known
to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies,
Eph 3:11 according to the everlasting purpose which He made in Messiah יהושע our Master,
Rom 16:25 And
to Him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching
of יהושע
Messiah, according to the revelation of the secret which was kept silent since
times of old,
Rom 16:26 but
now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known
to all nations, according to the command of the everlasting Elohim, for
belief-obedience.
Rom 16:27 To Elohim, wise alone, be the esteem, through יהושע Messiah forever. Aměn.
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
Please note these
notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are in no way a
final authority on any subject