11/02/2019

Parashat 8 Portion 33 Ber 35:9-36:43 Yesh 43:1-7 Matt 11:25-30



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.

Gen 35:9  And Elohim appeared to Yaʽaqoḇ again, when he came            
from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.Gen 35:10  And Elohim said to him,
“Your name is Yaʽaqoḇ, your name is no longer called Yaʽaqoḇ, but
Yisra’ĕl is your name.” So He called his name Yisra’ĕl. Gen 35:11  And
Elohim said to him, “I am Ěl Shaddai. Bear fruit and increase, a nation and
a company of nations shall be from you, and sovereigns come from your
body. Gen 35:12  “And the land which I gave Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq I give

To you. And to your seed after you I 
give this land.” Gen 35:13
And Elohim went up from him in the place where He had spoken With
him. Gen 35:14  And Yaʽaqoḇ set up a standing column in the place
where He had spoken with him, a monument of stone. And he poured a
drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it. Gen 35:15  And Yaʽaqoḇ
called the name of the place where Elohim spoke with him, Bĕyth Ěl.

This the classic journey of a Hebrew – You cross over (Heb –‘’avar’’) the
Euprates to go to Ysrael. In the process you are given a New name - Rev
2:17  “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give Some of the hidden
manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone a
renewed Name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”
(Pergamum) Rev 3:12  “He who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting
post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go out.
And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim and the name of
the city of My Elohim, the renewed Yerushalayim, which comes down out
of the heaven from My Elohim, and My renewed Name. (Phildelphia)
There is an order in the Kingdom – YHVH initiates, man responds.
We see again and again in the Torah and even in our own lives a
pattern of man seeking to initiate and expecting YHVH to
respond. YHVH decides when He shall appear and reveal Himself
to man.

Joh 6:44  “No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who
sent Me draws him. And I shall raise him up in the last day.
Joh 5:19  Therefore יהושע responded and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say
to you, the Son is able to do none at all by Himself, but only that which
He sees the Father doing, because whatever He does, the Son also
likewise does. Joh 5:30  “Of Myself I am unable to do any matter. As I
hear, I judge, and My judgment is righteous because I do not seek My
own desire, but the desire of the Father who sent Me. Joh 15:5  “I am the
vine, you are the branches. He who stays in Me, and I in him, he bears
much fruit. Because without Me you are able to do naught!

Dan 11:35  “And some of those who have insight shall stumble, to
refine them, and to cleanse them, and to make them white, until the
time of the end, for it is still for an appointed time. 

Here follows a quote from the second president of USA -  John Adams  –

1825 to 1829.-“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes,

exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did

not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less

proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious(greedy) than

aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in

history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple

government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud,

violence, and cruelty.” Only a very small remnant will return to Ysrael in

the last days - Isa 1:9  Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant,

we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.


In the last days a very small remnant of Yakov’s sheep will usher in a Theocracy (rule of YHVH) and a constitution for governance based entirely on the Torah of Moshe rabbeinu – Moshe our rabbi as followed and taught by Yahshua the Messiah – see Matt 5:17-19.

Gen 35:16  Then they set out from Bĕyth Ěl. And it came to be,
when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, that Raḥĕl
began to give birth, and had great difficulty giving birth.
Gen 35:17  And it came to be, as she was having great difficulty
giving birth, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for it is
another son for you.” Gen 35:18  And it came to be, as her life
was going out – for she died – that she called his name Ben-Oni.
But his father called him Binyamin.

Note Rachel like Leah gave names to all the sons of Yisrael. Yet in
the birth of this last son – Yakov steps in and changes the name.
In the Hebrew mind, the name of a child often reflects the destiny
of the child. Should not the fathers be taking more initiative in
giving their children names?

Gen 35:19  So Raḥĕl died and was buried on the way to Ephrath,
that is Bĕyth Leḥem. Gen 35:20  And Yaʽaqoḇ set a standing
column on her grave, which is the monument of Raḥĕl’s grave to
this day. Gen 35:21  And Yisra’ĕl set out and pitched his tent beyond the
tower of Ěḏer. (tower of the flock)

10/25/2019

Parashat 8 Portion 32 Ber 33:18-35:8 Nah 1:12-2:5 Matt 5:38-48



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.)


Gen 33:18  And Yaʽaqoḇ came safely(Heb “Shalam”) to the city of Sheḵem, which is in the land of Kenaʽan, when he came from Paddan Aram. And he pitched his tent before the city. Gen 33:19  And he bought the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Ḥamor, Sheḵem’s father, for one hundred qesitah – (value unknown) Gen 33:20  And he set up an altar there and called it Ěl Elohĕ Yisra’ĕl. (The Mighty El of Yisrael) Gen 34:1  And Dinah, the daughter of Lĕ’ah, whom she had borne to Yaʽaqoḇ, went out to see the daughters of the land. (Big mistake! Assimilation is more dangerous than death.)
Gen 34:2  And Sheḵem, son of Ḥamor the Ḥiwwite, prince of the land, saw her and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.
Gen 34:3  And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Yaʽaqoḇ, and he loved the girl and spoke kindly to the girl. Gen 34:4  And Sheḵem spoke to his father Ḥamor, saying, “Take this girl for me for a wife.” Gen 34:5  And Yaʽaqoḇ heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Yaʽaqoḇ kept silent until they came. Gen 34:6  And Ḥamor, the father of Sheḵem, went out to Yaʽaqoḇ to speak with him. Gen 34:7  And the sons of Yaʽaqoḇ came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved and very wroth, because he had done a senseless deed in Yisra’ĕl by lying with Yaʽaqoḇ’s daughter, which should not be done. Gen 34:8  But Ḥamor spoke with them, saying, “My son Sheḵem’s being longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
Gen 34:9  “And intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves, Gen 34:10  and dwell with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and move about in it, and have possessions in it.” Gen 34:11  And Sheḵem said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I give. Gen 34:12  “Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.” Gen 34:13  But the sons of Yaʽaqoḇ answered Sheḵem and Ḥamor his father, and spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
Gen 34:14  And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us. Gen 34:15  “Only on this condition would we agree to you: If you become as we are, to have every male of you circumcised, Gen 34:16  then we shall give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us. And we shall dwell with you, and shall become one people. Gen 34:17  “But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we shall take our daughter and go.” Gen 34:18  And their words pleased Ḥamor and Sheḵem, Ḥamor’s son. Gen 34:19  And the young man did not delay to do this because he delighted in Yaʽaqoḇ’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father. Gen 34:20  And Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying,
Gen 34:21  “These men are at peace with us, so let them dwell in the land and move about in it. And see, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for us for wives and let us give them our daughters. (Big mistake – “Yakov’s sheep” should NOT assimilate with anyone outside the flock of Yakov.)

Gen 34:22  “Only on this condition would the men agree to dwell with us, to be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.  (this infers a kind of conversion to the Elohim of Yisrael). Gen 34:23  “Their herds and their possessions, and all their beasts, should they not be ours? Only let us agree with them, and let them dwell with us.”
Gen 34:24  And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son; every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

2Co 6:14  Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?

Many modern day believers frown on such radicalism. Listen to Yochanan on this issue.

2Jn 1:9  Everyone who is transgressing(wilfully and arrogantly disregards Torah) and not staying in the teaching of Messiah does not possess Elohim.1 The one who stays in the teaching of Messiah possesses both the Father and the Son.2 Footnotes: 11 Tim. 6:3. 2See 1 John 1:3, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 5:20.
2Jn 1:10  If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house nor greet him,
2Jn 1:11  for he who greets him shares in his wicked works.

10/11/2019

Parashat 8 Portion 31 Ber 32:3- 33:17 Ovad 1:1-15 /Joel 4:13-21 + Joel 1:11-12 Yakov 1:1-12



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.
     Gen 32:3  And Yaʽaqoḇ sent messengers before him to Ěsaw his brother in the land of Sĕʽir, the field of Eḏom

      New parashah – “va yishlach”  - “and he sent”



Yasher 32 – (Background information)

7 And those messengers went to Esav, and found him on the borders of the land of Edom going toward Yaqov, and four hundred men of the children of Seir the Horite were standing with drawn swords.
8 And the messengers of Yaqov told Esav all the words that Yaqov had spoken to them concerning Esav.
9 And Esav answered them with pride and contempt, and said unto them, Surely I have heard and truly it has been told unto me what Yaqov has done to Laban, who exalted him in his house and gave him his daughters for wives, and he begat sons and daughters, and abundantly increased in wealth and riches in Laban's house through his means.
10 And when he saw that his wealth was abundant and his riches great, he fled with all belonging to him, from Laban's house, and he led Laban's daughters away from the face of their father, as captives taken by the sword without telling him of it.
11 And not only to Laban has Yaqov done thus but also unto me has he done so and has twice supplanted me, and shall I be silent?
12 Now therefore I have this day come with my camps to meet him, and I will do unto him according to the desire of my heart.
13 And the messengers returned and came to Yaqov and said unto him, we came to thy brother, to Esav, and we told him all thy words, and thus has he answered us, and behold he cometh to meet thee with four hundred men.
14 Now then know and see what thou shalt do and pray before YHVH to deliver thee from him.
15 And when he heard the words of his brother which he had spoken to the messengers of Yaqov, Yaqov was greatly afraid, and he was distressed.

We learn from this Torah portion that the spirit of Esav will always attempt to destroy or undermine the flock of Yakov (Yisrael) who hear the call (Vayikra) to return to the land of Yisrael.  This is evident today in Yisrael and it is also evident in the R’’eplacement Theology’’ taught by many churches. In the last days this will intensify more than any other time in history. From our haftarah portion we see that one day this Esav spirit will be destroyed.

Oba 1:8  “In that day,” declares יהוה, “I shall destroy the wise men from Eḏom, and discernment from the mountains of Ěsaw!
Oba 1:9  “And your mighty men shall be discouraged, O Tĕman, (near Petra) so that everyone from the mountains of Ěsaw is cut off by slaughter.
Oba 1:10  “Because of your violence against your brother Yaʽaqoḇ, let shame cover you. And you shall be cut off forever.

The prophet Yeshayahu speaks of a small remnant that shall return to the land of Yisrael.

Isa 10:20  And in that day it shall be that the remnant of Yisra’ĕl, and those who have escaped of the house of Yaʽaqoḇ, never again lean upon him who defeated them, but shall lean upon יהוה, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, in truth.
Isa 10:21  A remnant shall return, the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ, to the Mighty Ěl.
Isa 10:22  For though your people, O Yisra’ĕl, be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return – a decisive end, overflowing with righteousness.
Isa 10:23  For the Master יהוה of hosts is making a complete end, as decided, in the midst of all the earth.

The prophet Yezekel also prophecies of an end time remnant.

Eze 20:34  “And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.
Eze 20:35  “And I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there.
Eze 20:36  “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim, so I shall enter into judgment with you,” declares the Master יהוה.
Eze 20:37  “And I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall bring you into the bond of the covenant,
Eze 20:38  and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ĕl. And you shall know that I am יהוה.

Gen 32:4  and he commanded them, saying, “Say this to my master Ěsaw, ‘Your servant Yaʽaqoḇ said this, “I have sojourned with Laḇan and stayed there until now.
Gen 32:5  “And I have bulls, and donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants. And I have sent to inform my master, to find favour in your eyes.” ’ ”
Gen 32:6  So the messengers returned to Yaʽaqoḇ, saying, “We came to your brother Ěsaw, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”
Gen 32:7  And Yaʽaqoḇ was greatly afraid and distressed. (Heb – ‘’yetzer Jer 30:7)So he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two groups, (maybe this is connected with the distress that will come upon the two houses of Yisrael in the last days-Jer 30:7  Oh! For great is that day, there is none like it. And it is the time of Ya‛aqoḇ’s distress, but he shall be saved out of it.) 
Gen 32:8  and he said, “If Ěsaw comes to the one group and attacks it, then the other group which is left shall escape.”
Gen 32:9  And Yaʽaqoḇ said, “O Elohim of my father Aḇraham and Elohim of my father Yitsḥaq, יהוה who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives, and I do good to you,’
Gen 32:10  “I do not deserve the least of all the kind acts and all the truth which You have shown Your servant, for I passed over this Yardĕn with my staff, and now I have become two groups. (see Ber 32:2 - Mahanaim = “two camps”)

Yakov makes a clear assessment of himself – lit. “I am smaller than all the loving truth that you have done with your servant”

Gen 32:11  “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Ěsaw, for I fear him, lest he come and shall smite me and the mother with the children.
Gen 32:12  “For You said, ‘I shall certainly do good to you, and shall make your seed as the sand of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’ ”
Gen 32:13  And he spent the night there, and took what came to his hand as a present for Ěsaw his brother –
Gen 32:14  two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Gen 32:15  thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
Gen 32:16  And he gave into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put some distance between drove and drove.”
Gen 32:17  And he commanded the first one, saying, “When Ěsaw my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going? And whose are these in front of you?’
Gen 32:18  then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Yaʽaqoḇ’s. It is a present sent to my master Ěsaw. And see, he also is behind us.’ ”
Gen 32:19  So he commanded the second, and the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, “Speak to Ěsaw this same word when you find him,
Gen 32:20  and you shall say, ‘Also look, your servant Yaʽaqoḇ is behind us.’ ” For he said, “Let me appease him with the present that goes before me, and after that see his face. He might accept me.”
Gen 32:21  And the present passed over before him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.
Gen 32:22  And he rose up that night and took his two wives, and his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Yabboq.
Gen 32:23  And he took them and sent them over the stream, and sent over what he had.
Gen 32:24  And Yaʽaqoḇ was left alone. And a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day.

For the Hebrews wrestling with YHVH is part of the Hebrew way of life. Rather than accepting the unexplainable without question, the long -standing tradition of the sages is summed up in the term “pilpul” which roughly translated means discussion or debate.  As seekers after the truth we struggle with the issues of life and the teachings of the Torah, attempting to know their true strength, and in a sense, to know whether they can be overcome by argument. This is because we define the faith as a revelation of the knowledge of YHVH and His Messiah and not some blind uninformed “leap of faith” into the dark. Faith, from a Hebraic perspective, is the revelation of YHVH and acting on this revelation given by the Ruach(Spirit) of YHVH. Far from the Greek concept of faith as mental agreement alone. True Hebraic faith never negates personal responsibility. The idea that one can pray, believe, and then remain inactive to see what YHVH will do is foreign to Scriptural faith.
“Yabboq” (S2999) means a place where you are emptied – comes from a root word which means to be “undone” This same root word is used in the following two scriptures:

Nah 2:2  For יהוה shall turn back the splendour of Yaʽaqoḇ like the splendour of Yisra’ĕl, for the emptiers have emptied them out and ruined their vine branches.

Isa 24:3  the earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for יהוה has spoken this word.
Isa 24:4  The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people of the earth shall languish.
Isa 24:5  For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot1, changed2 the law, broken the everlasting covenant3. Footnotes: 1Torot - plural of Torah, teaching. 2Jer. 23:36. 3This is the only reason, according to all Scriptures, why the earth shall be burned in the day of judgment – see also 13:9, 13:11, 26:21, 66:24, Mic. 5:15, Zeph. 1:2-18.
Isa 24:6  Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.


Gen 32:25  And when He saw that He did not overcome him, He touched the socket of his hip. And the socket of Yaʽaqoḇ’s hip was dislocated as He wrestled with him.
Gen 32:26  And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I am not letting You go until You have blessed me!”
Gen 32:27  So He asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Yaʽaqoḇ.”
Gen 32:28  And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽaqoḇ, but Yisra’ĕl1, because you have striven with Elohim and with men, and have overcome.” Footnote: 1Yisra’ĕl means “to strive with Ěl, to overcome with Ěl, (then) to rule with Ěl”