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The Identity of
the Bride up to the Torah
We just prepared a new book, based on our
Yeshiva study Chayyeh Sarah. You will discover what the Torah and
Jewish sources teach about the Bride. Following is an excerpt that
also comments the story of the cave of Machpelah, marriage in the
Torah, and other themes developed in this particular portion of the
Bible:
Choosing Rivka
Genesis 24:12-14 Then he said, "O
Lord God of my master Avraham, please give me success this day, and
show kindness to my master Avraham. Behold, here I stand by the
well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming
out to draw water. Now let it be that the young woman to whom I
say, 'Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,' and she says,
'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink'-let her be the
one You have appointed for Your servant Yitzchak. And by this I
will know that You have shown kindness to my master."
Q: What qualities is Avraham's servant looking
for?
Rivka is acting this way:
Genesis 24:18 -20
So she said, "Drink, my lord." Then she quickly let her pitcher
down to her hand, and gave him a drink. And when she had finished
giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels
also, until they have finished drinking." Then she quickly emptied
her pitcher into the trough, ran back to the well to draw
water,
and drew for all his
camels.
Rivka has a heart like Avraham, the
same family characteristic as him: hospitality, a heart turned
towards others, and eagerness to serve his neighbor!
During the last lesson, we have seen that G-d
was seeking to form a nation established on justice, charity and
love of one's neighbor, for practicing hospitality and love meant
knowing Him.
One of the main characteristics of the Bride is her heart:
she loves serving and understands the needs before they are
mentioned:
Genesis 24:17; 19-20 And the servant
ran to meet her and said, "Please let me drink a little water from
your pitcher." And when she had finished giving him a drink, she
said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have
finished drinking." Then she quickly emptied her pitcher into the
trough, ran back to the well to draw water, and drew for all his
camels.
"The world is based upon three things: Torah, worship, and the
practice of loving acts." Pirkei Avot1:2
She fulfills the commandments (the
ten camels) of the L-rd for the purpose of the Torah is to love
one's neighbor as oneself:
Matthew 22:37-40 Yeshua said to him,
'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great
commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Torah
and the Prophets.
Genesis 24:58 Then they called Rivka
and said to her, "Will you go with this man im haish hazeh
עִם-הָאִישׁ
הַזֶּה?" And she said, "I will
go."
: The last letters of the words "with this man im haish
hazeh עִם-
הָאִישׁ
הַזֶּה" spell the word "Moshe
מֹשֶׁה" who gave the Torah to
the Jewish people.
All this can be achieved only through
the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit who works in a truly
circumcised and surrendering heart.
Rivka, symbol of Israel and of the
House of Judah, gives water to the ten camels representing the
scattered Ten tribes who must come back to drink from the sources
of the Torah.
Eliezer was successful in his mission. Through Rivka, G-d provided
a wife for Yitzchak corresponding to the vision of Avraham; as his
physical and spiritual relative, she too longs for this
vision.
Like Avraham, she would leave her country and her family to follow
her mission.
The Presents
Genesis 24:22 So it was, when the
camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden nose ring
weighing half a shekel beka
בֶּקַע, and two bracelets for
her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold.
The presents offered by the servant to Rivka
project this vision before her eyes and urge her to leave
immediately to join her promised husband. The presents were not
very valuable for a man as rich as Avraham but they had a great
prophetic meaning:
The half shekel represented the half
shekel each Jew would later give for the census:
Exodus 38:26 a bekah the head beka
lagulgolet בֶּקַע
לַגֻּלְגֹּלֶת
-- half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for
every one that passed the numbering from twenty years old and
upward, [of] the six hundred and three thousand five hundred and
fifty. (DBY)..."
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The Identity of the Bride up to the
Torah
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We
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He speaks; who will listen to His voice?
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The
Renewed Covenant by the light of the
Torah
סכת
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Newsletter
Kislev 12 5771- November 19 2010
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Shabbat
shalom!
"If you hold back your foot on
Shabbat from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you
call Shabbat a delight, ADONAI' s holy day, worth honoring; then
honor it by not doing your usual things or pursuing your interests
or speaking about them. Isaiah 58:14 If you do, you will find
delight in ADONAI-- I will make you ride on the heights of the land
and feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Yaakov, for the
mouth of ADONAI has spoken." Isaiah
58:13-14
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help to those who want to initiate Torah study groups.
Take the opportunity to study Torah starting with the highly
prophetic Book of Genesis. Torah is the key for the end times;
everything has been written in it. We just need to dive into it and
receive tremendous revelations on Yeshua and His plan for our
lives.
From the beginning of the messianic calling of the
first Patriarch, the Torah teaches us that faith is the key to
salvation. Grace also has been present since the beginning.
The foundations are laid from the first Book of the Bible,
to help us understand the perfect plan of salvation that G-d has
for mankind. If one doesn't study the foundations of this plan a
great part of the Revelation is lost, notably, the Revelation of
Messiah Yeshua.
Receiving Him in our heart as Savior and Master is one
thing, one first necessary step for our salvation, but our path
doesn't stop there. After Pesach (salvation by grace), we must head
to the Festival celebrated in honor of HaShem, "three days walk"
after the reception of the Torah: Shavuot. Avraham saw the L-rd,
and the story of his life and of his descendents reveals His
Presence, even from the beginning.
The same way we have received the Savior in our hearts, it
is now about receiving His Torah engraved in our hearts, even as
proclaimed by the prophets in Jeremiah 31:31. True new birth takes
place by the action of the Ruach HaKodesh, who circumcises our
hearts to be able to walk according to the criteria of holiness of
Elohim.
But in order to be able to walk in these commandements, under
Yeshua's yoke, we need to know the Word. When did G-d speak, before
the eyes and to the ears of all, with the sound of thunder, setting
ablaze an entire mountain? The answer is obvious: the Creator of
the universe came to reveal His heart at Mount Sinai, a place that
didn't belong to anyone, and that was open freely to all those who
wanted to drink the waters of life.
Yeshua manifested Himself on that day at Mount Sinai, but
only Moshe could see Him. Moshe's skin shone so intensely that he
covered it with a veil. He
shone from the initial Light of Creation: the Light of Messiah. He
is the PURPOSE of the Torah; He fills us with His love and calls us
to follow Him, to prepare a heavenly Bride.
He left us these words: John
5:45-47 But
don't think that it is I who will be your accuser before the
Father. Do you know who will accuse you? Moshe, the very one you
have counted on! For if you really believed
Moshe, you would believe me; because it was about me that he
wrote. But if
you don't believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what
I say?
Indeed, if we don't believe the Torah of Moshe, how will we believe
the words of Yeshua? They are the same, only revealed to our
understanding, because the veil was lifted.
By studying the Torah, our intimate knowledge and
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Shalom,
This week, the Parasha tells us of the definitive
establishment of the Twelve Tribes in Eretz Israel and of the
separation of the two brothers Esav and Yaakov. Esav, who
represents the Catholic Roman doctrine will "leave" Israel and go
to Seir.
Descendants of Edom will be kings and chiefs even before the sons
of Israel.
The eight Edomite kings mentioned will be followed by eight
Israelite kings, from Saul to Yoram.
Amalek, sworn enemy of Israel is born: he is the fruit of an
incestuous union between Eliphaz and his daughter Timna who was
also his concubine. He will do what is possible to later prevent
the Bnei Israel to enter the Promised Land after their coming out
of Egypt. He will continue during history to oppose the calling of
the Chosen people and still today, we can hear in the mouth of the
pope, the representant of Rome, that there is no more chosen
people. If there is no more chosen people, there is no more right
to the Land of Israel neither for the Jewish people. And this is
total contradiction with the Word of G-d.
The
Midrash concludes the Parasha with a parable that Yeshua
resumed:
"The wheat, the straw and the stubble engaged in a controversy.
The wheat said: 'For my sake has the field been sown'; and the
stubble maintained: 'For my sake was the field sown.' Said the
wheat to them: 'When the hour comes you will see.' When harvest
time came, the farmer took the stubble and burnt it, scattered the
straw, and piled up the wheat into a stack, and everybody kissed
it. In like manner Israel and the nations have a controversy, each
asserting: 'For our sake was the world created.' Says Israel: 'The
hour will come in the messianic future and you will see how Thou
shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away; but as for
Israel -And thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, thou shalt glory in the
Holy One of Israel'."
Isaiah 41:15-16 Behold, I will make
you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth; You shall thresh
the mountains and beat them small, And make the hills like chaff.
You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the
whirlwind shall scatter them; You shall rejoice in the Lord, And
glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Read Matthew 13:24-43
Our Savior has confirmed that the Kingdom of G-d will be for those
who are part of the "wheat."
Matthew 13:41-43 The Son of Man will
send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all
things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness anomia
anomia transgression of the Torah, and will cast them into the
furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then
the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
May we be part of it! Study Torah at the Distance Messianic Yeshiva
and discover how to become this wheat.
 We entered the month of Kislev, the month of the
Light. We encourage you to get a copy of our last study on
Chanukka; a challenge for the Greek mindset! You will be
transformed by this teaching!
Excerpts of the Book:
Meaning and celebration of the Feast
of Chanukah, The victory over darkness!
Chanukah
means "dedication". The word also means to educate, to
initiate.
Although this feast is not a Biblical one, its significance is very
important and represents the spiritual warfare between the Light of
the Torah and the darkness of a world without it.
The story of Chanukah commemorates the victory of the Hasmoneans
over the Greeks and the Jewish independence in Israel which started
with the purification of the Temple and the restoration of G-d's
worship.
On the 25th of the month of Kislev, Judah Maccabee, the leader of
the revolt, rededicated the Beth Hamikdash (Temple) and lit the
golden menorah. But only one pure olive jug was found and the
menorah was to burn non stop day and night. Acting out of faith,
the Hasmoneans lit the menorah and the oil lasted miraculously for
eight days, the time needed to prepare some new pure oil. The
feast of Chanukah was established in order to celebrate this
miracle and the victory of the Torah over the darkness of the Greek
thinking.
A few points are necessary to understand here:
Judaism assimilates Greece to one of the four exiles the Jewish
people went through, the three others being: Babylon, Persia, and
Rome. Those four exiles are linked to the first words of Bereshit
(Genesis):
The earth was unformed and
void darkness וחשwas on the face
of the deep תהום, and
the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. Genesis
1:2
Greece is linked with darkness. Darkness because of the attempt of
the Greeks to destroy the soul of Judaism by "converting" the Jews
to Hellenism, forbidding the reading and teaching of the Torah, the
practice of circumcision, Shabbat and new months celebration and
forcing the new Jewish brides to sleep with a Greek officer before
the wedding day defiling the holiness of marriage and
family.
The Greeks, under the rule of the terrible Antiochus IV, who was
called Epiphanies ("the Splendid One", and also "divine
manifestation"), defiled the Temple, offering pork to sacrifice on
the altar and defiling all the olive oil jugs for the lighting of
the golden menorah.
The menorah was the symbol of G-d's light in the Temple, shining
day and night and the purpose was clear:
To prevent G-d's light to shine and testify of the Truth.
The corrupted Greek world was still at that time the super power,
and its goal was to Hellenize the rest of the world through the
Greek culture, language and customs. A lot of those customs were
deeply pagan and impure with no place for holiness.
It is interesting to note that G-d had given the gift of art, and
aesthetics to the descendants of Yefet through Noach 's
mouth:
May God enlarge Yefet; he will live in the tents of Shem, but
Kena'an will be their servant. Genesis 9:27
Yefet, in Hebrew means "beauty". One of his descendants was Yavan
(Genesis 10:2), which means Greece in Hebrew. According to the
Talmud, this verse means that the gift of beauty and arts that was
given to Yefet must dwell in the tent of Shem, which symbolizes the
spiritual values. No beauty if it is not to glorify the
Creator.
Athens was the capital of modernism; everything was made for the
sake of humanism, personal achievement, beauty of the body,
pleasure of the eyes and the flesh that finally lead to
corruption.
Jerusalem was the spiritual centre of the world, and represented
G-d's wisdom, the Temple was testifying the presence of G-d, the
shekhina on earth.
The Greeks did not want to physically destroy the Jews, like Haman
or Hitler wanted to do, but to capture their mind and change their
worldview.
The Jews then didn't have any choice: resist or die. The ones who
compromised lost their identities and became corrupted.
Today our western world has inherited much from Greek thinking and
Shaul (Paul) was already warning us to be careful:
In other words, do not let yourselves
be conformed to the standards of the 'olam hazeh (this world)
Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of
your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree
that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed. Romans
12:2
In the Renewed Covenant (NT) we see a mention of this
commemoration:
Then came Hanukkah in Yerushalayim. It
was winter, and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area,
in Shlomo's Colonnade. John: 10:22-23
No wonder why He was there for the Feast of the Lights, which this
celebration is also called. The menorah speaks of the wonderful
light He brought to the world and to our lives:
Yeshua spoke to them again: "I am the
light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness
but will have the light which gives life." John 8:12
This message is very relevant for the Body of Messiah today. As
the olive tree that cannot be easily hybridized and its olive oil
mixed up, we need to watch the purity of our source of inspiration
and ligth the Menorah of G-d's Word with pure oil, sanctified with
His Spirit. We must never forget that even as Yitzchak never left
the Holy Land having been consecrated as an holocaust for G-d, we
also will never fully receive the revelation of Yeshua without
understanding the role of Yisra-El in the plan of Redemption
through Torah which speaks of Him:
For if you really believed Moshe, you
would believe me; because it was about me that he wrote. But if you
don't believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I
say?"John 5:46
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Torah Weekly
Portion: Va-Yetzeh
The birth of
the Twelve Tribes and the prophetic encounter of Yaakov with
Yeshua...
 Messianic
commentaries of the Parashot from the Book of Bereshit: a trip
through Torah to discover the Messiah... The first volume of this
series describes the beginnings of mankind and of the people of
Israel. The salvation plan is revealed through the lives of the
Patriarchs....Those commentaries will help you grasp very essence
of the Weekly Torah portion read each week at the synagogue, by the
light of the Ruach Hakodesh:
For if you
really believed Moshe, you would believe me; because it was about
me that he wrote. But if you don't believe what he wrote, how are
you going to believe what I say?" John 5:46-47
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