Baruch atah, YHVH Eloheinu, Melech haolam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu laasok b’divrei Torah
Blessed are You,
YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His
commandments and commanded us to engross ourselves in the words of the Torah.
Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah – Amein
כי
יקרא קן־צפור ‘’when you accidentally encounter a
birds nest’’
Deu 22:6 “When you come upon a bird’s nest along
the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother
sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young
–
Deu 22:7 let the mother go without fail, and take
the young for yourself, so that it might be well with you, and that you
shall prolong your days.
קָרָא Strongs 7122 - A primitive root; to encounter, whether
accidentally or in a hostile manner: - befall, (by) chance, (cause to) come
(upon), fall out, happen, meet.
This ‘’seemingly’’ least of all commandments may not be such
an ‘’insignificant encounter’’ as some may believe. It may be YHVH’s way of
revealing the true condition of our hearts.
The consequences of ignoring this instruction will have
serious consequences – see vs 7 The phrase ‘’so that you may prolong your
days’’ (includes millennium) is used by Moshe 30 times in the book of
Deuteronomy – always regarding obeying YHVH’s instructions. Isa 65:20 “No more is an infant from
there going to live but a few days, nor an old man who does not complete his
days, for the youth dies one hundred years old, but the sinner being one
hundred years old shall be lightly esteemed. Isa 65:21 “And they
shall build houses and inhabit them, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Isa
31:5 “Like hovering birds, (Heb A primitive root; to cover – or
protect) so does יהוה of hosts protect
Yerushalayim – protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.” (way
of escape)
Isa
31:6 Turn back to Him from whom the children of Yisra’ěl have deeply
fallen away.
Isa
31:7 For in that day, let each man reject his idols of silver and
his idols of gold, which your own hands have made for yourselves, as a sin.
Isa
31:8 “And Ashshur shall fall by a sword not of man, and a sword not of
mankind shall devour him. But he shall flee from the sword, and his young men
shall become slave labour, 2 Kings 19:35 – 185 000 Assyrian soldiers
killed by a messenger of YHVH
Isa
31:9 and his strength pass away because of fear, and his commanders shall
be afraid of the banner,” declares יהוה, whose light is in Tsiyon and whose furnace is in
Yerushalayim.
Isa
32:17 The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the service of
righteousness be rest and safety forever.
Isa
32:18 And My people shall dwell in a home of peace, and in safe dwellings,
and in undisturbed resting places,
Once
again our haftarah portion seems to suggest this the Torah portion can be
viewed and best understood in the context of the millennial rule of Messiah.
Deu
4:6 “And you shall guard and do them, for this is your wisdom and your
understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they
shall say, ‘Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!’
Deu
4:7 “For what great nation is there which has Elohim so near to it, as יהוה our Elohim is to us, whenever we call on
Him?
Deu
4:8 “And what great nation is there that has such laws and righteous
right-rulings like all this Torah which I set before you this day?
Deu
4:9 “Only, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you
forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart
all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and
your grandchildren.
Deu 22:8 “When you build a new house, then you
shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring blood-guilt on
your house when one falls from it.
Deu 22:9 “Do not sow your vineyard with different
kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of
your vineyard be defiled.
We are forbidden to ‘’mix or combine’’ ideas from any
religion or philosophy which contradicts the teachings and truth of the Torah.
Deu
4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away
from it,[a] so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you.
Rev
22:14 “Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall
be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.
(Only a Torah obedient end time people will be part of the Bride of Messiah)
2Th
2:11 And
for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe
the falsehood. (consequences of lawlessness – Mat 7:21-23)
Deu 22:10 “Do not plough with an ox and a donkey
together.
Deu 22:11 “Do not put on a garment of different
kinds, of wool and linen together.
Deu 22:12 “Make tassels on the four corners of the
garment with which you cover yourself.
When we wear ‘’tzitzit’’ we are declaring that we do
not want to be unequally yoked with people who do not believe it’s important or
necessary to obey the ‘’tzitzit’’ command or any other command. (we don’t
reject them; we can’t be unequally yoked with them)
Num
15:37 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh,
saying,
Num
15:38 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ěl, and you shall say to them to
make tzitzit[b] on the corners of their garments throughout their generations,
and to put a blue cord in the tzitzit[b] of the corners. Footnote: bSee
Explanatory Notes - “Tzitzit”.
Num
15:39 “And it shall be to you for a tzitzit[b], and you shall see it, and
shall remember all the commands of יהוה and shall do them, and not search after your own heart and your
own eyes after which you went whoring, Footnote: bSee Explanatory Notes -
“Tzitzit”.
Num
15:40 so that you remember, and shall do all My commands, and be
set-apart unto your Elohim.[c] Footnote: cAlso see Exo_20:6, Deu_7:9,
Deu_11:1, Deu_30:16, Neh_1:5, Dan_9:4, 1Jn_5:2-3,
2Jn_1:6.
Num
15:41 “I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you
out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am יהוה your Elohim.”
Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality
Deu 22:13 “When any man takes a wife, and shall go
in to her, and shall hate her,
Deu 22:14 and shall make abusive charges against
her and bring an evil name on her and say, ‘I took this woman, and when I came
to her I did not find her a maiden,’
Deu 22:15 then the father and mother of the young
woman shall take and bring out the proof of the girl’s maidenhood to the
elders of the city at the gate.
Deu 22:16 “And the girl’s father shall say to the
elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he hates her.
Deu 22:17 And see, he has made abusive charges
against her, saying, “I did not find your daughter a maiden,” and yet these are
the proofs of my daughter’s maidenhood.’ And they shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city.
Deu 22:18 “And the elders of that city shall take
that man and punish him, (Heb ‘’yasar’’ A primitive root; to chastise,
literally (with blows)
Deu
25:1 “When
there is a dispute between men, then they shall come unto judgment, and they
shall be judged, and the righteous declared righteous and the wrongdoer
declared wrong.
Deu
25:2 “And it shall be, if the wrongdoer is to be struck, that the judge
shall cause him to lie down and be struck in his presence with the number of
blows according to his wrong.
Deu
25:3 “Forty strikes he gives him but no more, lest he strike him with
many more blows than these, and your brother be degraded before your eyes.
Deu 22:19 and fine him one hundred pieces of silver
and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil
name on a maiden of Yisra’ěl. And she is to be his wife, he is not allowed to
put her away all his days.
Deu 22:20 “But if the matter is true, that the girl
was not found a maiden,
Deu 22:21 then they shall bring out the girl to the
door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death
with stones, because she has done wickedness in Yisra’ěl, to whore in her
father’s house. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deu 22:22 “When a man is found lying with a woman
married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man that lay with
the woman, and the woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ěl.
Deu 22:23 “When a girl who is a maiden is engaged
to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,
Deu 22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the
gate of that city, and shall stone them to death with stones, the girl because
she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has humbled his
neighbour’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deu 22:25 “But if a man finds the girl who is
engaged in the field, and the man takes hold of her and lies with her, then
only the man who lay with her shall die.
Deu 22:26 “But you shall do no matter to the girl.
The girl has no sin worthy of death – for the matter is like a man who rises
against his neighbour and murders him – a being –
Deu 22:27 for he found her in the field, and she
cried out, the engaged girl, but without anyone to save her.
Deu 22:28 “When a man finds a girl who is a maiden,
who is not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found
out,
Deu 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give
to the girl’s father fifty pieces of silver, and she is to be his wife because
he has humbled her. He is not allowed to put her away all his days.
Deu 22:30 “A man does not take his father’s wife,
nor uncover his father’s skirt.a Footnote: aHebrew - kanaph: wing, extremity,
border or robe.
Those
Excluded from the Assembly
Deu
23:1 “He
who is wounded by crushing of testicles or whose penis is cut off, shall not
enter into the community of יהוה.
Deu
23:2 “A mamzera shall not enter the community of יהוה, even a tenth generation of his shall not enter the community
of יהוה. Footnote: aMamzer (Hebrew)
- Born from prohibited union – usually some form of incest.
Deu
23:3 “An Ammonite or Mo’aḇite shall not enter the assembly of יהוה, even a tenth generation of them shall not
ever enter the assembly of יהוה, (possible reference to
males only)
Deu
23:4 because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way when
you came out of Mitsrayim, and because they hired against you Bil‛am son of
Be‛or from Pethor of Aram Naharayim, to curse you.
Deu
23:5 “But יהוה your Elohim refused to
listen to Bil‛am, and יהוה your Elohim turned the curse
into a blessing for you, because יהוה your Elohim loves you.
Deu
23:6 “Do not seek their peace nor their good, all your days,
forever.
Deu
23:7 “Do not loathe an Eḏomite, for he is your brother. Do not loathe a Mitsrian, because you
were a stranger in his land.
Deu
23:8 “The children of the third generation born to them do enter the
assembly of יהוה.
Uncleanness
in the Camp
Deu
23:9 “When the camp goes out against your enemies, then you shall guard
yourself from every evil matter
Mat
5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.[e] I
did not come to destroy but to complete. Footnote: eThe Law and the Prophets is
a term used for the pre-Messianic Scriptures.
Mat
5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away,
one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.[f]
Footnote: f Luk_16:17.
Mat
5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and
teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever
does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the
heavens.
Mat
5:20 “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of
the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the reign of the
heavens.
All
those who cling to the righteousness of the Torah will be hated - Joh
15:18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it
hated you.
Joh
15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But
because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for that
reason the world hates you.
Why is it called “Sinai”? (thorny) Because it is the
mountain from which hatred (Hebrew: sina) came down to the
Nations-of-the-World. (Shabbos 89a)
Rom
3:1 What
then is the advantage of the Yehuḏi, or what is the value of the
circumcision?
Rom
3:2 Much in every way! Because firstly indeed, that they were entrusted
with the Words of Elohim.
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.