Lechem
Ha-Chayim - 12 Dec 2015
12
Dec 2015 ~ 30 Kislev 5776
Torah
Parashah Miketz ~ At The End
B’re’shiyt
(Genesis) 41:1-44:17 p 39
Lechem
Ha-Chayim - The Bread of Life
Torah
Parashah:Miketz
B’re’shiyt
(Genesis) 41:1-44:17 p 39
1.
Yoseph is in prison and Pharaoh dreamed
his dream... and the chief butler remembers that Yoseph can interpret
dreams. So they get Yoseph out of
prison.
2.
Yoseph interprets Pharaoh’s dream.
3.
Yoseph is put in charge - second in
command of Mitzrayim... and he stores the grain.
4.
Famine comes to Kanaan, and Yaakov sends
all of Yoseph’s brothers except for Benyamin down to Mitzrayim to buy food.
5.
Yoseph doesn’t tell them who he is...and keeps
Shimeon in prison and tells them they have to bring their youngest brother -
Benyamin back.
6.
Brothers go home leaving Shimeon
behind... and they try to convince Yaakov to send Benyamin back - but he
doesn’t agree until they need more food ! (so it is a long while! ...
interesting fact - to leave one son in prison ...)
7.
The brothers bring Benyamin to Yoseph - and he
asks them in B’re’shiyt 42:27 “Is your abba well, the old man of who you
spoke? Is he yet alive?” (There is much to say about this - see
Taylor’s blog to find out more. “I am Yoseph” and the article about the food gifts Yaakov sent Yoseph on verse 42:11)
8.
He feeds them and sends them all on their way
- but he has planted his silver cup in Benyamin’s grain sack.
I’d
like to talk about something that really struck me in this parashah. I’ve been wondering about this for a long
time...
B’re’shiyt
42:3
p 40
“And
Yoseph’s ten brothers went down to buy CORN in Mitzrayim.”
{A
side note - The Chumash says.....Yoseph
had decreed that a person could only buy enough food for his own
household. This is why all ten had to
go. Rabbis say that Yoseph did this on
purpose so that all his brothers would have to come.}
But
back to my interest....
CORN
= Strong’s H1250
=
bet- resh- resh = bar = corn or grain; grain of any kind.
Corn
as we know it today - is the most nutritional waste of something to grow..
If
they were growing corn - it was not like the corn we have today.
But
it could be any grain... - like maybe
wheat to make bread...
Which
makes me think of something further ....
**
Lechem
Ha-Chayim - The Bread of Life
“B’re’shiyt
3:19
“By the sweat of your face shall you
eat lechem,until you return to the ground...”
B’re’shiyt
14:18
“And Malki-Tzedek melech of Salem
brought out lechem and wine: and he was the kohen of El-Elyon.”
B’re’shiyt
18:5 (Avraham to the ‘three men’ at Mamre)
“And I will get a morsel of lechem,
and so comfort Your levavot; after that You shall go Your way; for this is why
You have come to Your eved...”
B’re’shiyt
19:3 (about Lot entertaining the heavenly malachim)
“And he pressured them greatly; and
they turned in to stay with him, and entered into his bayit; and he made them a
feast, and did bake matzah, and they did eat.”
Mattityahu
4:4
“But he answered and said, It is
written, Man shall not live by lechem alone, but every word that proceeds out
of the mouth of YHWH.”
Mattityahu
6:11
“Give us today our daily lechem.”
Mattityahu
26:26
“And as they were eating Y’hoshua
took lechem, and made the bracha, and broke it, and gave it to the talmidim,
and he said, Take, eat; this is My body.”
Yochanan
6:31- 33 p 760
“Our ahvot did eat manna in the
desert; as it is written, He gave them manna from the shamayim to eat.
32 Then Y’hoshua said to them,
Amein, Amein, I say to you, Moshe gave you not the manna from the shamayim, but
My Abba gives you the emet lechem from the shamayim.
33
For the lechem of Eloah is He who comes down from the shamayim, and
gives chayim to the olam hazeh.”
Yochanan
6:35
“And Y’hoshua said to them, I am the
lechem of chayim - he that comes to Me shall never hunger; and he that believes
onMe shall never thirst.”
Yochanan
6:41
“The Yahudim then murmured at Him,
because he said, I am he lechem who came down from the shamayim.”
Yochanan
6:48
“”I am that lechem of chayim.”
Yochanan
6:51
“I am the living lechem who came
down from the shamayim; if any man eats of this lechem, he shall live
le-olam-va-ed: and the lechem that I
give is My flesh, which I will give for
the chayim of the olam hazeh”
Yochanan
6:58
“This is that lechem that came down
from the shamayim: not as your ahvot did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this lechem shall live
le-olam-va-ed.”
Qorintyah
Alef (1 Corinthians) 5:8
“So then let us keep the moed, not
with old chametz, neither with the chametz of malice and wickedness; but with
the unleavened matzah of sincerity and emet.”
Now
let’s switch gears a bit... and look at something else in the Torah:
Vayikra 19:19 cjb p
132
“Observe
my regulations. Don’t let your livestock
mate with those of another kind, don’t sow your field with two different kinds
of grain, and don’t wear a garment of cloth made with two different kinds of
thread.”
D’varim
(Deuteronomy) 22:9-12 RSTNE p 154
“You shall now sow your vineyard
with different zera; lest the fruit of your zera that you have sown, and the
fruit of your vineyard be defiled and forfeited.”
“You
are not to sow two kinds of seed between your rows of vines.”
and
“You
are not to wear clothing woven with two kinds of thread, wool and linen
together.”
This
is where we get the - “don’t mix seed”
Remember
YHWH hates MIXED...
We
had this in the B’re’shiyt teaching....
B’re’shiyt
1:6
= b’tok = to make equidistant, to deceive , same, middle, mixed.
The
mixing of seed.....
The
Hebrew word for seed is Zerah =
Strongs
# H2232. Zerah
= seed, sperm === DNA!
So
we see clearly that the mixing of seed is prohibited according to Torah:
Vayikra 19:19 cjb p
132
“Observe
my regulations. Don’t let your livestock
mate with those of another kind, don’t sow your field with two different kinds
of grain, and don’t wear a garment of cloth made with two different kinds of
thread.”
D’varim
(Deuteronomy) 22:9-12 RSTNE p 154
“You shall now sow your vineyard
with different zera; lest the fruit of your zera that you have sown, and the
fruit of your vineyard be defiled and forfeited.”
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*****
Okay
so Bread is a GREAT thing in Torah...
But
have you any idea of what WHEAT is like today - in our world??!!!
So I started studying:
What in the world of man - happened to
wheat ??!!
I
didn’t know very much... and I started reading - and I want to share it with
you.... it is very important to understand
--largely
because understanding the Word - helps us JUDGE - based on Torah what is
okay...
This
is a great example of Torah judgement used effectively.
Let’s
talk about wheat...
1955
- hybridization of modern wheat happened and everything changed.
Let’s
go back to the beginning...
EINKORN
WHEAT
-
Triticum monococcum
-
Has the simplest genetic code of all
wheat varieties
-
1 genome and 14 chromosomes
“A genome is an organism's complete set of
genetic instructions. Each genome contains all of the information needed to build that organism
and allow it to grow and develop.”
“Chromosomes are bundles of tightly
coiled DNA located within the nucleus”
A chromosome is a package containing a
chunk of a genome—that is, it contains some of an organism's
genes.
-
Einkorn grows to be about 4.5 - 5 FEET
tall with hair like tassels.
-
Einkorn is a German word for “one
korn” or grain....
-
See the resemblance to our Torah
Parashah?
-
Many researchers believe that ancient
einkorn is the most nutritious grain that has ever been grown in the world and
credit it as the foundation of modern civilization, which could not exist
without it.”
-
said D. Gary Young in his books “Ancient
Einkorn - Today’s Staff of Life.” 2014
Doctor
Young goes on to say that many think that the “corn” in the story of Yoseph was
kamut ( a type of grain) but, he says, “that isn’t possible because kamut is a
hybrid and probably didn’t exist until about 2,000 years ago.”
It
is said that the Queen of Sheba brought einkorn back after visiting
King Shlomo (Solomon) - and
planted it in Yemen.
It’s
been found in China and India, and in Central Mexico, in the Andes and in
Nicaragua.
Large
fields of it still grow in Europe today,
especially in Italy.
The
Hebrew word for einkorn - ancient wheat is chittah... and it is interesting
that our parashah just calls it BAR - or grain/corn.
**
Let’s
shift gears and talk about MODERN WHEAT a bit...
Celiac
Disease - awful reactions to gluten.
-It even causes infertility.
Gluten
absorbs twice its weight in water - so it is in a lot of processed foods! -
even spaghetti sauce!
Gluten
intolerance can cause:
arthritis,
enteritis, schizophrenia, celiac disease, irritable bowl syndrome, gastritis,
Crohn’s disease, dementia, fibromyalgia, autism, TDD (temper dys-regulation
disorder), ANS (autonomic nervous system disorders, bipolar, manic depression
etc....
In
the last few years, animals are getting sick too.
Studies
“lead us to believe that wheat gluten and genetically modified food are unfit
for both animal and human consumption and may cause severe damage to the
digestive system.” - Dr Young
The
WHO’s website reports that worldwide obesity has nearly doubled since 1980!!!
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As
we discussed earlier, the Bible says
“Give
us this day our daily bread.”
Mark
Hyman MD - said “The modern hybrid wheat
that we buy today and find in our breads, cereals, pastries, bagels, and all
the various wheat products we eat, is not the wheat that gave our ancestors
HEALTH. It could be branded the “Staff
of Death and Disease.”
How
did this happen?
IN
the mid- 1900s, biologist Dr. Norman Borlaug worked on a wheat-cross breeding
project in Mexico.
His plan was to create a wheat
variety that would increase production yields and be resistant to a wheat
fungus called rust, which was causing production losses.
He crossbred traditional wheat with
a Japanese dwarf wheat that had a shorter, sturdier stalk to hold heavier
wheat.
The average farmer’s yield is 10
times greater than what they had before!!
Dr.
Norman Borlaug was awarded:
Nobel Peace Prize
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Congressional Medial of Honor.
Dr.
Norman is only one of seven persons ever to receive all three honors!!
BUT
there was a flaw that Dr. Borlaug did....
There
was NO animal or safety testing done on this new, hybridized dwarf wheat!!
Incase
you don’t know yet - the wheat today is not the same as the wheat in ancient
times.
Hybridization
can take place naturally when one species is growing beside another and they
pollinate each other! This is natural.
Gene
splicing.... is completely manipulated
by scientists in laboratories.
Modern
wheat cultivators belong to two biological species:
1.“Bread
wheat” = triticum aestivum = 42 chromosomes
2.
Hard “Durum wheat = triticum turgidum =
28 chromosomes.
(used in making pasta and low-rising
bread)
Remember Einkorn - triticum monococcum has just 14 chromosomes.
Researchers
are investigating Einkorn as possibly being safe for those with Celiac Disease.
The
wheat that we have in most stores today is dwarf
wheat - triticum aestivum - and it has three genomes and 42 chromosomes.
The
reality is - those extra chromosomes (above the 14 in Einkorn) “create new
proteins that man was never meant to consume.
They are foreign to the body of both man and animals and cause confusion
in the digestive system.” (Young)
“There
are 3 major reasons that wheat, along with gluten and sugar in all
their forms, is a major contributor to obesity, diabetes, heart disease,
cancer, dementia, depression and many other modern ills.” (Young)
1.
It contains a SUPER STARCH = “amylopectin A” - that is super
fattening.
2.
It contains a form of SUPER GLUTEN that
is super-inflammatory.
3.
It contains forms of a SUPER DRUG that
is super-addictive and makes you crave and eat more!!!!
Dr
Mark Hyman says....
“This
is why there are now 30 percent more obese people than undernourished people in
the world, and why chronic lifestyle and dietary-driving disease kills more
than twice as many people globally as infectious disease. These non-communicable, chronic diseases will
cost our global economy $47 trillion over the next 20 years.”
~
Dr.
Davis wrote a book called “Wheat Belly”.
CBS
This Morning - interviewed him - you can find the interview on the web....In it he said....
“There’s
a new protein in this thing (the 42 chromosome modern wheat) called
gliadin.
Gliadin
is NOT gluten.”
So
gliadin is not a problem related to Celiac Disease....
It
is a problem for EVERYONE.
“Gliadin
binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates
appetite such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days a year.”
Gliadin
continually makes us hungry for more carbohydrates!!
It
is ADDICTIVE.
But
I’m not done....
The
WORST PROBLEM OF MODERN WHEAT = the
damage it does to the digestive tract!!
(We’ll
get to this.)
Let’s
talk about gluten a bit....
GLUTEN:
The
42 chromosome wheat contains AGGLUTININ - a man made wheat protein...
Agglutinin
not only is a “direct intestinal toxin in animals, but
it disrupts normal gastric function.” - according to researchers at the
University of Maryland.
Einkorn
is the only wheat /grain - in this list
:
barley, bulgur wheat, durum wheat,
farro, graham, kamut, rye, semolina, spelt, triticale, and einkorn,...
“that
has not been hybridized or genetically modified today.”
Dr
Young says that many people today say that man was not meant to process
grains... but he doesn’t agree with this - and neither do I...
Why
else would Torah be so clear - about the Lechem ha-Chayim ??!!
What
is really going on here - goes back to :
Vayikra 19:19 cjb p
132
“Observe
my regulations. Don’t let your livestock
mate with those of another kind, don’t sow your field with two different kinds
of grain, and don’t wear a garment of cloth made with two different kinds of
thread.”
D’varim
(Deuteronomy) 22:9-12 RSTNE p 154
“You shall now sow your vineyard
with different zera; lest the fruit of your zera that you have sown, and the
fruit of your vineyard be defiled and forfeited.”
YHWH
was very clear in HIS Word - that man was not EVER supposed to mix seed!!!!!!!
When
we do it man’s way - it never turns out well!!
Something
else we need to know is this....
“There
are good glutens and there are bad glutens... and we need to know the
difference!!”
Young
says “The gluten that comes in our modern, hybridized wheat is incompatible
with the human body and is likely to contribute to autoimmune diseases,
inflammation, and a host of other unintended and undesirable effects.”
He
goes on to say that a “gluten free diet is a fad - and is very dangerous!”
The
bad gluten from the 42 chromosome modern wheat :
“When it enters the bloodstream, it
can trigger immune responses that damage the lining of the small intestine,
which then interfere with the absorption of nutrients and cause symptoms that
can lead to other problems such as osteoporosis, nerve damage, seizures,
infertility, etc.”
Fasano
says - the gliadin proteins -
(I’ve already said they cause
crazing and ongoing hunger for more of this bad wheat...)
“has been known to increase small
intestinal permeability, permitting entry of polypeptide antigens into the
bloodstream/lymph, which is suspected to be the first step in generating autoimmunity. Wheat germ agglutinin, a direct intestinal
toxin in animals, disrupts normal gastric function in the small intestinal and
colonic mucosa. Unique forms of
alpha-amylase inhibitors are suspected to be among the factors responsible for
the explosive increase in childhood allergies and asthma.”
The
changes in the wheat happened because man wanted a bigger yield.
The
stalk is shorter, and can hold larger seed heads.
The
structure changes make harvest and threshing time faster and more effective and
produce a much bigger yield.
But
people - know this - this bigger yield - does not yield FOOD - it is a mixed
zera (seed) - that YHWH commanded man NOT to create... and it is POISON!
So
the new proteins/ glutens that man (and animals) can’t digest...
Well,
that “creates inflammation in the gut and in the gut lining, which produces
toxins that permeate the mucosal wall, entering the bloodstream, and wreak
havoc int he brain receptors, creating other food intolerances that may not
even be related to gluten!”
“Genetically
modified and hybridized wheat grows on over 1 MILLION ACRES of land in
JUST the U.S. and has taken the once-rare celiac disease
statistic affecting 1 American in 10,000 to 1 in 133 today, due largely to the
hybridization that caused the enrichment of the gliadin/alpha9 gene, found in
modern hybridized wheat, which was virtually non-existent in the wheat before
1960!”
Gluten
intolerance has been shown to cause depression, anxiety, and hyperactivity!
Young
says “Autism and gluten intolerance may
be indirectly related. Children who
have symptoms of autism already have compromised digestive conditions that
inhibit the assimilation of amino acids and nutrients that are essential to
maintaining proper brain function, mood control and activity response.”
PROBLEMS
with eating GLUTEN FREE....
gluten
free products are loaded with sugar.
If
you just “skip the gluten free goodies and focus on fruits, vegetables, lean
protein, dairy and gluten free grains like amaranth and quinoa - this could be
healthy.”
BUT
A “wrong gluten - free diet can lead
to other problems over time...”
IE - a woman 20-40 years old on
gluten free diet...in 5 years could start to have other problems...
At age 50-60 she could have greater
symptoms of lower estrogen and a greater osteoporosis type symptoms!
IE - a young woman in her 20s - will
likely have low estrogen and problems conceiving and carrying to full term due
to folate deficiency. Folate is very
critical for a woman menstruating or pregnant!
Young
says...
“People
are eating more processed food than at any time in history; they are eating
more sugar than ever before; and they are eating foods with more additives,
colorings, food preservatives, and stabilizers.
They are eating more foods sprayed with chemicals and synthetic
fertilizers; and crops are now grown in ground that has been sprayed with
glyphosates in popular pesticides and other chemicals.”
NONE
of this was YHWH’s plan for man.
Essential
oils of lemon and orange are one of the most powerful ways to detoxify your
liver and increase glutathione.
(glutathione is a hormone that you
need to stay healthy - prevents aging, cancer, heart disease and treats autism
and Alzheimer’s etc...)
Watch
out for man-made wheat gluten... It is
not only in most “ready” foods like spaghetti sauce... But is also in most
processed foods (the stuff you buy in the middle isles of the grocery
store.) AND it is in lotions, shampoos,
and makeup - so the skin absorbs it!
Diseases
triggered by man made gluten:
allergies
Asperger’s
syndrome
Autism
Candida
Celiac
Disease
Diabetes
Fibromyalgia
Accelerated
aging in your tissues
Inflammation
- rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, celiac disease, Crohn’s
disease, Fibromyalgia, Grave’s disease, Psoriasis, Lupis, vasculitis
-
linked to Dementia and Alzheimer’s,
also
causes or is related to
Leaky
Gut Syndrome
Schizophrenia
This
is what man created - by mixing seed... something directly against Torah!
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Einkorn
is:
2 1/2
times richer in protein than modern wheat.
3
times higher in antioxidants
digests
easily
tastes
great
Does
NOT create fermentation and permeability int he mucosal lining of the gut
Is
very healing and soothing to the gut lining
Is
very nutritious
and
helps balance/stabilize blood glucose
***
So I don’t know what kind of grain Yoseph sent home with his brothers....
But I do know what it wasn’t. It wasn’t the 42 chromosomal mess we have in our
stores today.
Maybe
we want to JUDGE - according to Torah - and stop eating the poison that man
created when he mixed seed!!
(Jovial.com,
and Einkorn.com are resources to purchase Einkorn.)
The
great thing about this is - seeing so clearly how YHWH said don’t do something
and seeing the negative affects of disobedience ... and than JUDGING - deciding
what you are going to do about this!
And
hopefully then applying this to all further decisions - not just about eating -
but about obedience.
Lechem
Ha-Chayim is still Lechem Ha-Chayim...
don’t
choose a counterfeit - the counterfeit always brings death.
AMEIN.
