Parashat 47 Portion 136 Dev 12:20-15:6 Yesh 54:2-8 Col 3:5-11

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.)

Once again this week’s Portion calls us to observe ‘’re eh’’ the life of Yisrael as they guard and obey all the words of the Torah and its blessed impact on them and their children forever – see vs 28.

      This week’s Torah portion:

       Deu 12:20  “When(not if) יהוה your Elohim enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you eat as much meat as your being desires.

       Yisrael will not only return to the land but after they have returned to the land the borders will be enlarged.

Deu 12:21  “When (not if)the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock which יהוה has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being desires.

Deu 12:22  “Only, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you are to eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike eat of it. (Refers to a person’s state of cleanness or uncleanness regarding the Temple altar)

Deu 12:23  “Only, be firm not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat.

Deu 12:24  “Do not eat it, you pour it on the earth like water.

Deu 12:25  “Do not eat it, that it might be well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.

Deu 12:26  “Only, the set-apart gifts which you have, and your vowed offerings, you are to take up and go to the place which יהוה chooses. (Yerushalayim)

Deu 12:27  “And you shall make your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of יהוה your Elohim. And the blood of your offerings is poured out on the altar of יהוה your Elohim, and you eat the meat.

Deu 12:28  “Guard, and obey all these words which I command you, that it might be well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim.

Deu 12:29  “When יהוה your Elohim does cut off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

Deu 12:30  guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones? And let me do so too.’¹ Footnote: ¹See also 18:9, Lev. 18:3, Jer.10:2, Ezek. 11:12 & 20:32, Eph. 4:17, and 1 Peter 4:3

1Pe 4:3  For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the nations, having walked in indecencies, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties, and abominable idolatries,... 

Deu 12:31  “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, for every abomination which יהוה hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones. (abortion)

Deu 12:32  “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.¹ Footnote: ¹See also 4:2, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19.

Deu 13:1  “When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder,

Deu 13:2  and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones – which you have not known – and serve them,’

Deu 13:3  do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for יהוה your Elohim is trying you to know whether you love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.

Deu 13:4  “Walk after יהוה your Elohim and fear Him, and guard His commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him.

ה  אַחֲרֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם תֵּלֵכוּ, וְאֹתוֹ תִירָאוּ; וְאֶת-מִצְו‍ֹתָיו תִּשְׁמֹרוּ וּבְקֹלוֹ תִשְׁמָעוּ, וְאֹתוֹ תעֲבֹדוּ וּבוֹ תִדְבָּקוּן.

In the above passuk (verse) are embedded six commands – six imperfect Hebrew verbs that Yahshua came to make perfect – six verbs that teach us who we are and how we were called to live.

You shall follow (halach) YHVH and fear (yara) Him, and you shall keep/guard (shamar) His commandments, listen (shemah) His Voice, serve (avad) Him, and cling (davak) to Him.

Parashat 47 Portion 135 Dev 11:26-12:19 Yesh 54:11-55:6 1Tim 6:13-16

Blessing for the Torah:

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.)

    To understand scripture we need to recognize that it was primarily written to a “called out people” – a Messianic people. This week’s Torah portion –“ Re eh” – See! is calling YHVH’s chosen ones to observe – See! -  all matters in the light of obedience or disobedience to YHVH’s Torah – His covenant with Yisrael. For this we need the discernment and understanding that only His Ruach Ha Kodesh can give to us and desires to give to us.

    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. 

 Only in Messiah can we fully understand and appreciate the depth of wisdom of the Torah and how it relates to all of life.

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. (This includes ALL religious institutions) They have become a prey, with no one to deliver – for plunder, and no one to say, “Restore!” (Heb – “ha shav” to cause to return)  Yer/Jer 6:16-19

Isa 42:23  Who among you gives ear to this, pays attention and hears for the time to come (hereafter)? 

Isa 42:24  Who gave Ya‛aqoḇ for plunder, and Yisra’ěl to the robbers? Was it not יהוה, He against whom we sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah! 

Isa 42:25  So He has poured on him His burning displeasure and the strength of battle, and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not understand. And it burned against him, yet he did not take it to heart! 

This a timely Torah portion in respect to current events and especially those pertaining to the opening of the American Embassy in Yerushalayim this past week.

The role players involved in this dramatic end time unfolding event are for the most part unaware of the significant importance of how this relates to end time events, the restoration of Torah and the return of Messiah – see Is 42:23.

Many may claim they know, but do we really know as we ought to know? – see Is 42.

Rom 8:7  Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself to the Torah of Elohim, neither indeed is it able, Rom 7: 8 and those who are in the flesh are unable to please Elohim.  (Proverbs 3.)

Greek – The mind or opinion of human nature expresses hatred towards Elohim and by its very nature cannot submit itself to the Torah of Elohim or in indeed able to do so.

Man was not meant to live by his/her own opinions (Gan Eden) but was meant to live as Yahshua lived -

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. 

Torah Portion: Re eh – See!

Deu 11:26  ‘See, I am setting (giving) before you today a blessing and a curse: (giving both)

Deu 11:27  the blessing, when you obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I command you today;

Parashat 46 Portion 134 Dev/Deut 10:1-11:25 2 Kings 13:22-25 1 Thess 1:8-9

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.)

And so, we see that the underlying theme of “sefer devarim” (Deuteronomy) is “teshuvah” “repentance”

And so, the sages have rightly stated that this parashah is about what is required to usher in the Messianic era.

    Parashah Eikev begins with “if you will listen…” paradoxically, then, it is hearing, rather than the more riveting experience of seeing, that enables us to prepare ourselves wholeheartedly for the return of Messiah.

    2Co 5:7  for we walk by belief, not by sight.

    Rom 10:17  So then belief comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Elohim. 

    Heb 6:12  ….. imitate those who through belief and patience inherit the promises. 

The next parashah “Re eh” or “seeing” … “Deu 11:26  ‘See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:…….” follows our current parashah which focuses on hearing and obeying.

There will be an end time remnant whose hearts and lives will be prepared to meet the Messiah, because they have listened, obeyed and done the word of YHVH.

This week’s Parashah begins:

Deu 10:1  “At that time יהוה said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain. And you shall make yourself an ark of wood,

Deu 10:2  then I write on the tablets the Words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. And you shall put them in the ark.’  - See Stones Chumash p 989. Num 10:33 Stones p 787.

The Torah was always meant to have a resting place. The “Aaron” was the wooden box in which the tablets of the Torah were kept. Today each synagogue has an ‘Aaron Kodesh’ a resting place for the Torah scroll.     The wooden box reminds us of a fragile storage space, we can compare this to human beings or human clay vessels.

http://text.rcarabbis.org/parshat-ki-tissa-broken-tablets-embarrassment-or-inspiration-by-yaakov-bieler/

2Co 4:7  And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power might be of Elohim, and not of us –

The Torah found a perfect resting place in a perfect clay vessel called “Emmanuel” or “with us is El”- Mt1:23. Through Yashua’s presence and life, YHVH’s presence and life was made known.

The Torah in us, remaining in us, will bring us into the perfect presence of the Almighty.

This is why the Torah instructs us again and again to guard, do and hear this Torah and to teach it to our children all the days of our lives.

Deu 10:3  “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, with the two tablets in my hand.

Deu 10:4  “And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Words, which יהוה had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. Then יהוה gave them to me,