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. Amein.
Gen 2:4 These are the births(or generations ‘’toldot’’)
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 amazing –
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.
“Even though the
name YHWH is etymologically difficult to explain, to a Hebrew audience it may
have looked very much like ‘’He Who Creates or Causes to come into Being’’.
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
His 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 transformed
from esteem to esteem (2Co
3:18 And we all, as with unveiled face we see as in a mirror the esteem
of יהוה, are being transformed into the same likeness from esteem to
esteem, as from יהוה, the Spirit) by the fruit of the
Tree of Life - The Torah of YHVH. Perhaps too many have searched for truth and
meaning from the fruit of 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
Adult humans are 60 percent water,
and our blood is 90 percent water.
This vegetation was so nutritious and
healthy man did not have to eat meat.
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.
Religion
comes from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – saving faith comes from
the tree of life.
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’’ 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(Heb –
delight) to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four
riverheads.
Gen
2:11 The name of the first is Pishon,(Heb
– increase) 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(aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh) is there, and the shoham (precious)
stone.
Gen
2:13 And the name of the second river is
Giḥon,(Heb – to gush forth) it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush
- the son of Ham and
grandson of Noah and the progenitor of the southernmost peoples located in
Africa.
Gen
2:14 And the name of the third river is
Ḥiddeqel,(Heb – rapid) 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.” (Lev 10:10)
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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 marriages and 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.
YHVH 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 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 child
born into the world) 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 this
bone.
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.
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, 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.
May
we be counted worthy to once again enter the Garden Paradise called the New
Yerushalayim.
Psa
24:3 Who does go up into the mountain of יהוה? And who does stand in His set-apart
place?
Psa
24:4 He who has innocent hands and a clean heart, Who did not bring his
life to naught, And did not swear deceivingly.
Psa
24:5 He receives a blessing from יהוה, And righteousness from the Elohim of his
deliverance.
Psa
24:6 This is the generation of those who seek Him; Ya‛aqoḇ, who seek Your
face. Selah.
Who
Shall Dwell on Your set
apert Hill?
Psa
15:1 יהוה, who
does sojourn (‘gur’’
visits) in Your Tent?
Who does dwell (‘’shachan’’from
‘’shachav’’ one who lies down and dwells permanently) in Your set-apart mountain?
Psa
15:2 He who walks blamelessly, And does righteousness, And speaks the
truth in his heart.
Psa
15:3 He has not slandered with his tongue, He has not done evil to his
neighbour, Nor lifted up a reproach against his friend;
Psa
15:4 In whose eyes a reprobate one is despised, But he esteems those who
fear יהוה; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
Psa
15:5 He has not put out his silver at interest, And has not taken a bribe
against the innocent. He who does these is never moved.
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 YHVH,
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 – Amein.