25 B’re’shiyt ~ Parashah 43 Masa’ei - Stages July 26, 2014
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Sh’ma
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26 July 2014 ~ 28 Tammuz 5774
25th B’re’shiyt teaching by Brad Scott... B’re’shiyt 1:6 continued....
Torah Parashah Masa’ei - Stages
B’midbar 33:1 - 36:13 cjb p 191
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Let’s start with the B’re’shiyt teaching:
We are still in B’re’shiyt 1:6, page 27 of your study guide.
B’re’shiyt 1:6
“Vay’yo’mer Elohiym yi’hiy raqiya’ b’tok’ ham-mayim viyhiy mav’diyl beyn mayim lamayim.”
“And said Elohiym let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Last Shabbat we discussed:
RAQI’A = to pound or beat - to squash or flatten - firmament
and
B’TOK - center, midst, equidistant from the lie as from the truth; mixed.
And as you look in your study guide that is all the new words in the verse....
and this is going to seem confusing at first... but what we are learning is that words can be spelled slightly different - like with a veit or a beit, or a ha or a va etc.....
So let’s review the rest of the words in the verse:
Ham-mayim
ham = of the
mayim = waters
viyhiy = and let it
mav’diyl = to divide
first in 1:4 as vay-yav’del = and divided
beyn = between
mayim = waters
lamayim =
la = (from) the
mayim = waters.
Remember - the bottom of page 27 in study guide:
Brad writes... “An explanse pounded or stretched out thin as in the pounding of dought. The expanse would be the extremely thin atmosphere left firmly between the waters. So the expanse contains water vapors which man and other creatures will need to live.
Remember also that this is the second day and YHWH does not call day two tov / good.
Why?
It was not a completed work until the waters “baptized” / washed the land - the land came up out of the water - mikvah!
Brad says on study guide p 28 “ Rashi - Elohiym dos not declare the day good for the task of the waters is not complete until the THIRD DAY!!! (the creation is still under the mayim /water.
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That’s the end of verse 1:6.
page 27 in your study guide:
Let’s start ...
B’re’shiyt 1:7
We stated that in the beginning YHWH created things with his Word - created the invisible - to visible ... and then something dramatic and drastic happened - and it to fell into ruin and chaos... and then Yah started restoring creation... brining a light - which separates good from evil....
Then we have a separation of the waters...
AND then we come to the first use of an interpretive term called
davar hilmad me’anino.
So.... let’s start with reading:
Mizmor 119:49-56 cjb p 914
Now let’s go back to p 29 in your study guide and start with:
B’re’shiyt 1:7
“Vay-ya’as Elohiym ‘et - haraqiya’ vay-yav’del beyn ham-mayim ‘sher mit-tachat laraqiya’ eveyn ham-mayim ‘asher me’al laraqiya’ vay’hiy ken.”
“And Elohiym - (ET) made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.”
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The first word :
VAY-YA’AS - an action....
This is preceded this by.... Vay-yo’mer = “and said” God, in 1:3,
and
Vay-yar’ = “and saw” in 1:4
Vay-yiq’ra’ = “and called” in verse 1:5
are you seeing the similarities in these words!??!!
ASAH = the root of VAYYA’AS
God begins with the creation and no - “baras” being done to anything for 20 verses (something out of nothing)... until the beast of field... life....
So here in verse 1:7 ... we have God’s axn’s following his words.
ASAH over 2600 times in OT and it is mostly about man’s “doing”
asah = to make, to do, prepare, perform, fulfill, appoint, rearrange
YHWH is the only one that baras... but man and YHWH - Vayya’as.
Here we have - this whole idea about...
....the word matching the deed
- Yah speaks and his word comes forth - and the action happens.... and something comes forth...
what we have occurring here.. is a
davar hilmad me’aniono = providing more detail and expanding 1:6 into 1:7. = the second part expands more than the first.
It is an interpretive method - like PARDES....
this is an example that Yahshua and the Tehillim /Psalms do it, and it is when the 2nd part gives more detail.
“lead us not into temptation” ...
but deliver us from evil
the meaning of “lead us not into temptation “ is expanded in - “deliver us from evil.”
Sh’mot 15:21 cjb p 76... = great example of this....
“....and they went 3 days and found no water...”
now let’s go on to...
15:24-26 = example of davar hilmad me’aniono..
there was a tree at that time , allegedly... that was very sweet and this tree - sweetened waters.
(We do know of a very famous tree that heals... the tree of life - and it is life if you hold it... it is the Words of YHWH....)
Yah is going to use an example.... that if you listen to what i say - none of these things will come upon you... the 2nd part is going to explain in detail what Yah means....
Pay careful attention and carefully read the text around the hard stuff... this is how the Word is designed.. so you can learn it..
vs 26
if you diligently harken to the voice and do and give ear/ hear... and keep all statutes then i will put none of these diseases upon you...
technically there is a very interesting twist and paradox with respect to tree in waters and making it pure and even the meaning of the word yeal… fafa
the word rafa...
the hebrew word for heal is the same word for disease….!!
Sh’mot 7:6 - “so did they”
Sh’mot 12:48 “we will keep”
Vayyiqra 22:7 “to do”
D’varim 23:23 “to perform”
Ester 5:4 “prepared”
Mishlei /Proverbs 22:2 “maker”
The whole idea is that God is going to set the pattern for man, and His Word and deeds.
“When the Word and deed become one - then we have a biblical truth.”
Remember : a biblical truth is not the same as fact!
Sometimes people confuse facts with Biblical truth.
Just b/c something is true, does not make it biblically true
For example - some people in the world eat their babies...
--- it is true they do that - but that does not mean it is Biblical truth.
Biblical truth is what YHWH declares to be true.
Biblical truth is eternal truth.
It was true when He said it.
It’s true the day after He said it
and it is true today
and it will continue to be true even when we dwell with Him in eternity.
His truth stands forever
but that doesn’t mean that facts are truth - do not confuse the two!
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Now let’s move to the Torah Parashah:
Torah Parashah Masa’ei - Stages
B’midbar 33:1 - 36:13 cjb p 191
This wraps up B’midbar... and is a retelling of what YHWH did for and with His people.
Remember - last week’s and this week’s and next week’s are basically reviews of what YHWH did for His people Isra’el.
Last week i shared a bit about Gilead.... where the two tribes stayed... and the connection of the words used in the stories of Joseph’s life and the words used in the stories of Ya’Akov’s life are in many times the same words.... and how the place where Ya’Akov was “caught” by Lavaon... and where Ya’Akov cursed Rachel.... and these last two parashahs... are about the retaking of Gilead....and the mending of relationships between family members...
It will be very complicated if i try to explain it without pictures... but Rabbi Fohrman does a fantastic job at http://www.aish.com/tp/i/10minuteparsha/Why-Is-The-End-of-Bamidbar-So-Anticlimactic-II.html
So go there and click on the first one before you watch this weeks. It will be much easier! :)
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Ya’Akov /James 4:1-12 cjb p 1512
Ya’akov 4:11-12 cjb p 1513
“Brothers, stop speaking against each other! Whoever speaks against a brother or judges a brother is speaking against Torah and judging Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of what Torah says, but a judge. 12 There is but one Giver of Torah; he is also the Judge, with the power to deliver and to destroy. Who do you think you are, judging your fellow human being?”
The commentary from The Aramaic English New Testament regarding
4:11 says...
“if you add your own judgements to those already established in the Torah of YHWH, then you have judged Torah as insufficient, and are not allowing it to be your judge”
and for 4:12 ...
“The Torah Giver who gives One Torah. The halakh (way to observe Torah) is revealed by the RUach haKodesh, and demonstrated in Mashiyach. The concept of “two torahs” - one oral and one written - is the basis of authority on which the Rabbinate operates. “The Rabbis” wrote their own “oral Torah” and give themselves the authority to interpret it; unfortunately, their oral Torah often speaks against both the Written Torah and the haMashiyach. On the other hand, christian theologians have made up their own “new Testament” based on their own non- Torah culture value systems which makes void Torah and diminishes the true goal of Mashiyach.”
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i want to talk about something i said last week....
The greatest deception in christianity isn’t even that they have the Messiah’s name wrong and they keep pagan holidays....
The greatest deception in christianity is their philosophy of
“Do not judge.”
and really... if you look at Ya’Akov 4:11 - you can get that out of the English right there....
but let’s look at the Torah about this:
Mishlei /Proverbs 31:9 cjb p 991
“Speak up, judge righteous, defend the cause of the poor and needy.”
Yechezk’el /Ezekiel 44:23-24 cjb p 701
“ They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and enable them to distinguish between clean and unclean. 24 They are to be judges in controversies, and they are to render decisions in keeping with my rulings./ At all my designated festivals they are to keep my laws and regulations, and they are to keep my shabbats holy.”
Read... Mattityahu 7:1-5 cjb p 1231
Now doesn’t this look like you might just get the answer - “don’t judge” in this? yes it does... but let’s dig deeper...
Mattityahu 7:1-5 in the Aramaic English NT
“ You should not judge that you be not judged. 2 For by the judgement that you judge, you will be judged. And by the measure that you measure, it will be measured to you. 3 And why do you see the twig that is in the eye of your brother, and you not observe the beam that is in your eye? 4 Or how do you say to your brother, Allow me to remove the twig from your eye, and behold a bean is in your eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the beam from your eye, and then decide for yourself to remove the twig from the eye of your brother.”
The commentary says...
“‘You should not judge by your own judgment, but by YHWH’s righteous judgement. D’varim /Deuteronomy 1:17; Mizmor /Psalms 37:30-31; Yahshua teaches that justice (judgment) is one of the more important matters of Torah, Mattityahu 23:23, but if you judge by your own standards then YHWH will use your own standards to judge you.”
“and also
Sh’mot /Exodus 21:24
Vayikra /Leviticus 24:20
D’varim /Deuteronomy 19:21”
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So let’s look at these:
D’varim 1:17 cjb p 196
“You are not to show favoritism when judging, but give equal attention to the small and to the great. No matter how a person presents himself, don’t be afraid of him because the decision is YHWH’s.”
Mizmor 37:30-31 cjb p 826
“The mouth of the righteous articulates wisdom, his tongue speaks justice. 31 The Torah of his God is in his heart; his footsteps do not falter.”
Mattityahu 23:23 cjb p 1253 (weightier matters)
Sh’mot /Exodus 21:24 cjb p 84 (eye for eye)
This is not about hacking out someone’s eye if they injure another’s... This is about paying someone what that injured party needs if we injured them.
Vayikra /Leviticus 24:20 cjb p138 ( is also - eye for eye)
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Luke 6:37 cjb p 1298
“Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned.” Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
Acts 4:19 cjb p 1365
“But Kefa and Yochanan answered, ‘You must judge whether it is right in the sight of YHWH to listen to you rather than YHWH.”
Romans 14: 10-13 cjb p 1481
What if “judging” is about condemning...
but if we judge according to Torah... we are deciding if an activity or way of thinking lines up with the Word or not.... Not about condeming someone...
I Corinthians 10:15-33 cjb p 1432
I Corinthians 11:13 cjb p 1433
I Corinthians 14: 29 cjb p 1436
2 Corinthians 5:14 cjb p 1444 “convinced” = “Judge”
Colossians 2: 16 cjb p 1472 - the “anyone” in this verse is Torahless, pagan man.
Mattityahu 25: 1-30 cjb p 1256
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Remember how we talked about mixed... and how daylight gradually, little by little turns from light to dark....
and this is about little by little we get into sin.
But night turns little by little to day.... gradually we are learning to keep Torah - to come into the light.
Mizmor 119: 105 cjb p 916
“You word is a lamp for my foot and light on my path.”
Mishlei 4:18 cjb p 946
“But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn shining ever brighter until full daylight.”
Remember the day is the light that keeps darkness/ evil at bay.... if we didn’t need to see others... we wouldn’t have needed eyes....
So... “do not judge” is really about not condemning someone....
BUT we are called to base everything on Torah...
Yochanan 8:30-32 cjb p 1341 (set you free)
If we can’t judge for ourselves if something lines up with Torah - how can we ever be free?
AMEIN!!
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