Blessing of Torah.
Hebrew:
Baruch atah YHVH eloheinu melech
ha-olam, asher kideshanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu la'asok b'divrei Torah.
V'ha'arev na YHVH eloheinu et divrei toratecha befinu uvfi amecha beit Yisrael.
V'niyeh anachnu v'tze'etze'einu v'tze'etza'ei amecha beit Yisrael kullanu yodei
sh'mecha v'lomdei toratecha lishmah. Baruch atah YHVH hamelamed Torah le'amo
Yisrael. Baruch atah YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher bachar banu mikol
ha'amim venatan lanu et torato. Baruch atah YHVH, notein haTorah.
English
translation: 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 Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the
House of Israel, 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 Israel. 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.
It
would serve us well to remind ourselves that YHVH and YHVH alone determines the
method and manner by which redemption is given to His Creation.
Religion
and religious men have defiantly devised other ways by which men can be saved.
This
remains one of the greatest follies of the human race.
Lev 16:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh after the death of the two sons of Aharon, as they drew near before יהוה, and died.
Drawing near to YHVH is a very serious issue. Today many
have difficulty in imagining that such a severe sentence of death would still
be appropriate for wanting to draw near to YHVH. After all we now have Yahshua
that will ward off any such danger. However what if we are mistaken?
Exo 33:20 But He said, “You are unable to see My face,
for no man does see Me and live.”
Only one person has
ever seen YHVH and continues to live to this day. In fact this person has been
in the physical presence of YHVH for the past 2000 years and still lives and
awaits instructions from YHVH to return to earth, to his people - Yisrael.
This person is Yahshua
Ha Mashiach.
Joh 5:37 “And the Father who sent Me, He bore witness
of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.1
Footnote: 1See 1:18.
Joh 5:38 “And you do not have His Word(Torah) staying
in you, because you do not believe Him whom He sent.
Joh 5:39 “You search the Scriptures, because you think
you possess everlasting life in them. And these are the ones that bear witness
of Me.
Joh 5:40 “But you do not desire to come to Me in order
to possess life.
Coming to Yahshua is the only way we will ever
get to see the Father. We will discover that the millennium is a time for us to
once again be given the opportunity to embrace all of YHVH’s Torah SO THAT WE
MAY TRULY COME TO KNOW THE MESSIAH.
Praise YHVH we have
been given an opportunity NOW to know Yahshua through the Torah.
Almost every single
person who has claimed to know the Messiah DOES NOT REALLY KNOW HIM AS HE CAN
AND WILL BE KNOWN.
Yes many have MET him but do not KNOW him according to the fullness of
the Torah.
Many will argue that
they do know Yahshua. The real issue is does Yahshua really know you. Yahshua
can only be fully known through the fullness of the Torah.
Mat 7:22 “Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master,
Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name,
and done many mighty works in Your Name?’
Mat 7:23 “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never
knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’ (Torahlessness)1
Footnote: 1 See v. 15.
Mat 7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of
Mine, and does them, shall be like a wise man who built his house on the rock,
Mat 7:25 and the rain came down, and the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was
founded on the rock.
Mat 7:26 “And everyone who hears these words of Mine,
and does not do them,1 shall be like a foolish man who built his
house on the sand, Footnote: 1John 3:36.
Mat 7:27 and the rain came down, and the floods came,
and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its
fall.”
Mat 7:13 “Enter in through the narrow gate! Because
the gate is wide – and the way is broad – that leads to destruction, and there
are many who enter in through it.
Mat 7:14 “Because the gate is narrow and the way is
hard pressed1 which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Footnote: 1Or the way is afflicted.
Mat 7:15 “But beware of the false prophets,1
who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves.
Footnote: 1See v. 23
YHVH ordained the
Torah to be the primary source of knowing the TRUE MESSIAH.
Heb 10:7 “Then I said, ‘See, I come – in the roll of
the book (Scroll or Torah) it has been written concerning Me – to do Your
desire, O Elohim.’ ”
Psa 40:7 Then I said, “See, I have come; In the scroll
of the Book it is prescribed for me.
Psa 40:8 I have delighted to do Your pleasure, O my
Elohim, And Your Torah is within my heart1.” Footnote: 1Ps.
37:31, Ps. 119:11, Isa. 51:7, Heb. 10:7-9.
Studying and obeying the Torah is the ONLY way we can truly get to know
the Messiah.
This Torah portion which deals with the instructions of Yom ha Kippurim
has the most important information regarding the identity of the true Messiah.
Now and during the millennium this appointment will be kept and we will
discover depths of our Messiah that we never knew as we were meant to know.
There are three references in this Torah portion to the fact that this
instruction is an everlasting instruction (while the present heaven and earth
are still in existence).
Yom Ha Kippurim is about getting to know Yahshua so intimately that
eventually we will become like him in all ways that will result in our being
prepared to enter into the physical presence of YHVH for ever and ever.
Once again we are reminded that when the true Messiah is lifted up, he
will draw all “men” to the real truth.
John 12:32 And I, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
“Note that the word “men” is not in the original Greek text; it is a translator’s addition. So He draws all of something, but what? It cannot be all “men” (humans) who ever were or will be, because at the time He says this, there are already untold millions that have passed into eternity, and many unto condemnation.
“Note that the word “men” is not in the original Greek text; it is a translator’s addition. So He draws all of something, but what? It cannot be all “men” (humans) who ever were or will be, because at the time He says this, there are already untold millions that have passed into eternity, and many unto condemnation.
The
plan of YHVH is grander than just people going to church and worshipping Him.
He means to reconcile the whole created order to Himself. Since Yahshua says He
will draw “all,” He may be referring to “all things.” Thus, He may be saying
that His death, and the power it has to eradicate sin, will be the fulcrum YHVH
will use to undo all the effects of evil everywhere in the universe:” End
quote.
Col 1:19 Because in Him all the completeness was well
pleased to dwell,
Col 1:20 and through Him to completely restore to
favour all unto Himself, whether on earth or in the heavens, having made peace
through the blood of His stake.
His redemption is much bigger than we have ever anticipated – and this
reality is brought to our attention every time we keep the appointment of Yom
Kippur.
Joh 12:44 Then יהושע cried out and
said, “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.
Joh 12:45 “And he
who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.
Joh 12:46 “I have
come as a light into the world, so that no one who believes in Me should stay
in darkness.
Joh 12:47 “And if
anyone hears My Words but does not watch over them, I do not judge him. For I
did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Joh 12:48 “He who
rejects Me, and does not receive My Words, has one who judges him: the Word
that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day.1 Footnote: 1See
3:18-19, 7:16.
Joh 12:49 “Because
I spoke not from Myself, but the Father who sent Me has given Me a command,1
what I should say and what I should speak. Footnote: 1See 7:16.
Joh 12:50 “And I
know that His command(Gk means “direction” – Torah means to point in the right
direction) is everlasting life.1 Therefore, whatever I speak, as the
Father has said to Me, so I speak.” Footnote: 1See Mt. 19:17
Lev 16:2 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Speak to Aharon your
brother not to come in at all times to the Set-apart Place inside the veil,
before the lid of atonement which is on the ark, lest he die, because I appear
in the cloud above the lid of atonement.
Lev 16:3 “With this
Aharon should come into the Set-apart Place: with the blood of a young bull as
a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.
Lev 16:4 “He
should put on the set-apart linen long shirt, with linen trousers on his flesh,
and gird himself with a linen girdle, and be dressed with the linen turban –
they are set-apart garments. And he shall bathe his body in water, and shall
put them on.
Lev 16:5 “And from
the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl he takes two male goats as a sin
offering, and one ram as a burnt offering.
Lev 16:6 “And
Aharon shall bring the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make
atonement for himself and for his house.
Lev 16:7 “And he
shall take the two goats and let them stand before יהוה at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 16:8 “And
Aharon shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for יהוה and the other lot for Azazel.
Lev 16:9 “And
Aharon shall bring the goat on which the lot for יהוה fell, and
shall prepare it as a sin offering.
Lev 16:10 “But the
goat on which the lot for Azazel fell is caused to stand alive before יהוה, to make atonement upon it, to send it
into the wilderness to Azazel.
Lev 16:11 “And
Aharon shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make
atonement for himself and for his house, and shall slaughter the bull as the
sin offering which is for himself,
Lev 16:12 and
shall take a fire holder filled with burning coals of fire from the altar
before יהוה, with his hands filled with sweet incense
beaten fine, and shall bring it inside the veil.
Lev 16:13 “And he
shall put the incense on the fire before יהוה, and the cloud
of incense shall cover the lid of atonement which is on the Witness, lest he die.
Lev 16:14 “And he
shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the
lid of atonement on the east side, also in front of the lid of atonement he
sprinkles some of the blood with his finger seven times.
Lev 16:15 “And he shall
slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and shall
bring its blood inside the veil, and shall do with that blood as he did with
the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the lid of atonement and in front of
the lid of atonement.
Lev 16:16 “And he
shall make atonement for the Set-apart Place, because of the uncleanness of the
children of Yisra’ĕl, and because of their transgressions in all their sins.
And so he does for the Tent of Meeting which is dwelling with them in the midst
of their uncleanness.
Lev 16:17 “And no
man should be in the Tent of Meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the
Set-apart Place, until he comes out. And he shall make atonement for himself,
and for his household, and for all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl.
Lev 16:18 “And he
shall go out to the altar that is before יהוה, and make
atonement for it. And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of
the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
Lev 16:19 “And he
shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and set it apart from the
uncleanness of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Lev 16:20 “And
when he has finished atoning for the Set-apart Place, and the Tent of Meeting,
and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.
Lev 16:21 “Then
Aharon shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and shall confess
over it all the crookednesses of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and all their
transgressions in all their sins, and shall put them on the head of the goat,
and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man.
Lev 16:22 “And the
goat shall bear on itself all their crookednesses, to a land cut off. Thus he
shall send the goat away into the wilderness.
Lev 16:23 “Aharon
shall then come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments
which he put on when he went into the Set-apart Place, and shall leave them
there.
Lev 16:24 “And he
shall bathe his body in water in the set-apart place, and shall put on his
garments, and shall come out and prepare his burnt offering and the burnt
offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people,
Lev 16:25 and burn
the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Lev 16:26 “And he
who sent away the goat to Azazel washes his garments, and shall bathe his body
in water, and afterward he comes into the camp.
Lev 16:27 “And the
bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was
brought in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, is brought outside the
camp. And they shall burn their skins, and their flesh, and their dung with
fire.
Lev 16:28 “And he
who burns them washes his garments, and shall bathe his body in water, and
afterward he comes into the camp.
Lev 16:29 “And
this shall be for you a law forever: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of
the month, you afflict your beings, and do no work, the native or the stranger
who sojourns among you.
Lev 16:30 “For on
that day he makes atonement for you, to cleanse you, to be clean from all your
sins before יהוה.
Lev 16:31 “It is a
Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall afflict your beings – a law forever.
Lev 16:32 “And the
priest, who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place,
shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, the set-apart
garments,
Lev 16:33 and he
shall make atonement for the Most Set-apart Place, and make atonement for the
Tent of Meeting and for the altar, and make atonement for the priests and for
all the people of the assembly.
Lev 16:34 “And
this shall be for you a law forever, to make atonement for the children of
Yisra’ĕl, for all their sins, once a year.” And he did as יהוה commanded
Mosheh.
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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 – Ameyn
Please
note these notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are
in no way a final authority on any subject.
