10 Oct 2015
~ 27 Tishrei 5776
Torah Parashah - B’re’shiyt
B’re’shiyt 1:1- 6:8 RSTNE p 9
Guardian Angel #11 - “Consequences”
I was in a Messianic synagogue several times and
they carried around the Torah - Rabbi led a whole procession of people
dancing... around the place. There was such joy and celebration of the
Torah! Rabbi would come up and offer the
Torah to each person and they would kiss their hand and touch the case of the
Torah scroll. At first I thought they
were worshiping this thing... and then YHWH showed me - that they were so
thankful for the Torah. They had such a
love for Torah!
How precious precious precious is the Word of
YHWH!!
We need to honor His Word more than we do.
Just so you know... you can remember to never set your bible on
the floor and never cover it with something else in a stack. It is always the top. - Silly rabbinical things - but there needs
to be a way to handle the bible... with respect!
Another key is - that your bible should never ever
ever be dusty!! :)
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So today we get to start the Torah Study
over!
What a joy - because every year we learn so much
more!!
May we all be filled with more emet this year than
we understood last year!
Amein!
Baruch hashem YHWH!
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So i thought it would be good to review the very
beginning again... i am going back over some of what we covered about
B’re’shiyt... So we get more this time
:)
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Let’s remind ourselves again:
The way to study Torah is the acronym: Pardes:
p’shat = simple story; literal - branches/trunk
remez = prophetic - fruit/leaves
drash = to search - roots
sod = hidden
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If you have your Study Guide for B’re’shiyt - by
Brad Scott - feel free to open it to page 3 which is the third page after the
green sheet.
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Before we get to that i want to remind you of a
couple of things:
Yesha’Yahu
/ Isaiah 46:10 RSTNE p 329
CJB “At the beginning I announce the
end, proclaim in advance things not yet done; and i say that my plans will
hold, I will do everything i please to do.”
RSTNE “Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.”
Christianity
translates this to mean... “God knows
the end in the beginning.”
but... CJB
says this so well:
“At the
beginning I announce the end”.... proclaim in advance
==Those
Hebrew words that are translated into “Declaring the end from the
beginning” are = “maggiyd mere ‘shiyth”.
and “maggiyd mere ‘shiyth” = really
means....is...
== “Declaring
out of the beginning ... the end” ...
or spoken
easier == “YHWH declares the end
... IN the beginning.”
Do we get
this.??... that YHWH is telling us...
prophecy about what is going to happen - even in the end - right from the
beginning.!!
Way cool!!
:)
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Yochanan
/ John 1:1-3 RSTNE p 754
1“B're'shiyt was the miltha (Word) the
Living Torah, and the Living Torah was with YHWH, and the Living Torah was
YHWH.
2The same was in the beginning with
YHWH.
3All things were made by Him; and
without Him was not anything made that was made.”
Do you see
how this is in the Beginning... B’resheet 1:1 ???
Look at
page 3 in your study guide:
“B’resheet
bara Elohiym et (Aleph-Tav) hashamayim
va-et har Eretz.”
“In the
beginning YHWH - Aleph Tov created the heavens and the earth.”
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Let me
remind you that
... in Mattityahu /Matthew 13:3-9 cjb p 1239 “The parable of the sower”
... the
“zera” / “seed” is the WORD of YHWH.
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Qorintyah
Bet/ 2 Corinthians 4:18 Rstne p 867
“And all things that are of YHWH, who
has restored us to Himself by Yahushua haMoshiach, and has given to us the
service of restoration and renewal”
perhaps an
easier rendering is from The Complete Jewish Bible:
CJB p 1444
“We concentrate not on what is seen but on what is not seen, since things seen
are temporary, but things not seen are eternal.”
-The
unseen things are much more important than the seen...
Remember
- YHWH gave us the seen - so we could understand the unseen! :)
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“B’resheet
bara Elohiym et (Aleph-Tav) ha shamayim
va-et har Eretz.”
“In the
beginning YHWH - Aleph Tov created the heavens and the earth.”
Now if you
notice - or remember - the ET in the christian bibles - was never translated !!
Which is written “et” in transliteration b/c
that is how it SOUNDS.... but in Hebrew
... it is an aleph and a taf!!
hmm... aleph and taf....
wonder what this means....
Hitgalut / Revelation 1:8 RSTNE
p 911
“I
am the Aleph and the Taf, the Beginning and the End, says the Master YHWH, who
is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty-El Shaddai.” (YHWH -Yahushua our Mashiach)
Hitgalut / Revelation 22:13 RSTNE p 927
“I
am Aleph and Taf, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
Traditional English Bibles use the Greek letters -
Alpha and Omega.
So let’s go to the page before the green page...
in our study guides and look at what that means...
Aleph = ox = strong, power, leader, yoke, thousand
Taf = crossed sticks = mark, sign, seal, own,
covenant
So....
Aleph Taf is = the
power and strength of the leader of the Covenant....
who is that??
=
Yahushua our Messiah!! :)
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Let’s talk about the Menorah ....
B’re’shiyt 1:1 is the picture of a
Menorah.
There are
three words on one side - B’re’shiyt barah
Elohiym
and there
are three words on the other side -
hashamayim v’et ha’aretz
---and in
the middle - at the place of the servant candle...
are you
seeing this??....
The ET =
Aleph Taf = Yahushua the Messiah !!!
-
Traditionally - which candle
do we light first and then light the others with? = the Shamash - the one that
represents Mashiach!
And so
later, in the B’rit Chadashah, when we get to
Luke
4:16-19 RSTNE p 729
Yahushua reading Yesha’Yahu / Isaiah in
the Temple and there he is... the Servant / the Messiah - standing on the bemah
(the raised platform) ... with 3 rabbis on his right and 3 rabbis on his
left...
literally
showing us the Menorah - the picture/ symbol of YHWH Himself.
Baruch
HaShem YHWH!!
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And so now we come to the first word in YHWH’s Word...!!
Page 3 in your Study Guide from
Bradley Scott (used with permission)
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“B’resheet
bara Elohiym et (Aleph-Tav) ha shamayim
va-et har Eretz.”
“In the
beginning YHWH - Aleph Taf created the heavens and the earth.”
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Before we go on - i want to remind you
--- to draw the picture that every little kid in our culture anyways...
draws ...
= a house on a piece of land and a
family.
The word b’re’shiyt
means - the head of... the beginning of...
and...to start something into motion...
It is also a title
as it is used here in B’re’shiyt 1:1
= an identification
of the source of all goodness... outside the bounds of time... before the works
of old.
B’re’shiyt = the Hebrew letters are - resh,
aleph, shin, yod, tov
B’re’shiyt means = is defined as =
“in the beginning” or “in the head of”
BUT really - Re’shiyt means “beginning” or “head of”
If we take off the Bet in the
beginning and the yod and the tov (which gives its feminine singular meaning at
the end
we have the root of b’re’shiyt which
is
a
resh- aleph - shin = to cause something
to enter into motion; to produce action.
Remember - we know now that -
In the Hebrew language....all words are made up of roots, mostly three
letter consonant roots = raw word that begins all Hebrew words.
= the Hebrew 3 letter root = will always reflect
the action.
Brad likened the Word to the Mississippi River -
saying it wasn’t clean -
But, at the source it is clean.....
This is why it is important to take the words back
to Hebrew and back to their source - their root -
so we have
“clean” and clarity of what YHWH really meant... not
what we “think” it means to us now!!!!!!!!!!
The root is always about action a verb of the word.
The root is known as the “parent root”.
so let’s look at the root of B’resheet - which is
Rosh.
ROSH is....
---translated as :
beginning, first, first fruits,
chief, head, sum
It is also suggested that this -
B’re’shiyt is a title and expression of the Messiah himself -- a word that refers to “He that begins all
things.”
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But let’s look at:
Gilyahna (Rev) 3:14 p 913 in RSTNE
“And
to the teaching overseer of the congregation of the Laodikeia write; These
things says The Amein, the only Faithful and Emet witness, the first cause of
all the creation of YHWH.
in CJB =
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Laodikeia, write “here is the
message from the Amein, the faithful and true witness, the Ruler of God’s
creation:”
==the
faithful and true witness of the
beginning....
If we don’t understand this verse.... one can draw
conclusion that Messiah is part of creation.
BUT - NO
- He is not part of creation. He CREATED.
B’re’shiyt = This
is a title... He exists... there is no explanation for how
YHWH came into being...
Most religions explain where there god came from.
BUT not the Bible.. .YHWH exists.
He just is and we don’t know how He got
there.... We just know HE is there.
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Rosh has
prefix in the word B’re’shiyt
it is a bet
bet = inside , a family inside the house...
in the beginning... being inside the house...
In the oldest Tanakh’s known - and up
to this day if you read B’resheet 1:1 in Hebrew...
the Bet is enlarged in the text.
and it faces the opening of the house...
meaning ....this letter is facing all
the rest of scripture all the rest of the Words...
So ponder this ----
---- all
the Torah - the Word starts with a house...
- and
all the things of YHWH will be in the house, and everything not of house will
be outside of house...
Yah gave us a picture to show us in the natural -
the seen - the things that are in the spirit - the unseen!
Its a “no
brainer” but think about this...
---all
the things of YHWH will be in the house, and everything not of house will be
outside of house...
So Godly things are in the house and all things
ungodly will be outside the house.
So He begins with the house...
the very first letter of the entire Torah -
... to
take by the and and lead to the house - to have a family...
Do you see HIS plan??!!! :)
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The entire Torah starts
with a bet - which represents the house of
YHWH ... which he longs to take us all back to and be a family.
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p 4 in Study Guide
BARA - created, to open up to make visible - as a seed
does!
We know that this word
means completed - and it was completed by the form of it in Hebrew - by ONE being.
Elohiym - El - God, gods, deity, rulers, judges
ET - Aleph and Taf - Yahushuah!
HaShamayim = first heaven, then earth, unseen spiritual begets
unseen spiritual, physical begets physical
V’et - ties together heaven adn earth
ha’aretz = solidify basic needs, the earth, to be firm, mass,
....
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Remember when we talked
about
B’re’shiyt
1:2
“Va’haretz
hay’tah tohu vavohu v’choshek al-pney t’hom.”
“And the earth was without
form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
So if creation was a
completed work - it was DONE .... and then something happened...
hasatan fell b/c now here
in 1:2 The earth is a disaster!
hay’tay - come to pass
tohu - confusion and chaos
vavohu - astonishingly confused. empty.
t’hom - agitate, depths, to destroy, and great noise.
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Look at part 2 of 1:2
page 15
V’reucha Elohiym
m’rachephet al’peney ham-mayim.
“And the Spirit of Elohiym
moved upon the face of the waters.”
So interesting - there was
a flood.... and we will see in the chapters ahead that YHWH had the land come
up out of the water = mikvah! = Baptism!
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B’re’shiyt
1:3 “Vay-yo’mer Elohiym y’hiy ‘or vay’hiy ‘or.”
And Elohiym said Let there
be light and there was light.
And it continues.
I invite you to read back
over the Study Guide from Brad Scott that you have as you read along in this
part of the Torah!
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Let’s go to
Skip Moen’s Guardian Angel - Hebrew
understanding of the words in B’re’shiyt about women....
Review last week:
We talked about the Prime
Directive - B’re’shiyt
1:28
The Hebrew word for “rule” = “radah” = and is more accurately translated as
“exercise dominion”
The pictograph of RADAH = “what comes from the
person in the door”
or -
“what comes from the pathway of the person”
RADAH is a verb of TRANSFERRED authority!
(driver’s license)
So when men and women exercise RADAH, they act as
YHWH’s regents. They
act on His behalf and, consequently, become paths that lead to His order!!
Acting on His behalf and
consequently, becoming paths that lead to HIs order!! = that is what He calls us
to!!
Moen says... after man sinned:
“The method
for fulfilling YHWH’s plan changes,
but the PURPOSE
of Man does not change.
B’re’shiyt 3:17 says... “in sorrow shall you eat from it all
the days of your chayim (life).”
The serpent was cursed and the land was cursed but
Man was not cursed.
Instead of a curse - the lives of Man will now
experience “sorrow”.
“Sorrow” -
Strong’s H6093 = pain, labor, hardship, toil.
The root for “sorrow” is = “atsav”
Biblical synonyms include = sad, to grieve, to become
tired and weary, to become irritated, to writhe, to be bitter, to feel disgust,
anguish, trouble, toil, turmoil.
It’s not pretty.
Generally it is = emotional pain and distress.
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So let’s go on and talk
about this pain and distress of ATSAV.
B’re’shiyt
3:16 RSTNE p 11
“Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow
and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring out children; and your desire
shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
We could go read about
several women who were struggling deeply over NOT having children... Sarah,
Hannah, Elizabeth... To see the crisis
it was not not have children - we know that having children was very
important.
And as we read Torah we
find that - Besides in the prime directive - having children is very important!
So does B’re’shiyt 3:16
mean - now it is going to be more painful??
If the correct translation
of B’re’shiyt 3:16 is about birthing....then in the moment of her glory -
woman will discover a reminder of her disobedience. At the precise moment of fulfillment, she
will experience atsav - sorrow.
What if this
verse (3:16) is NOT about childbirth
?? !
Meyers says “The Hebrew
text could read, “I will intensify your pain and your child rearing,” NOT “your pain and your giving birth.”
This is very important!
“Meyers says this verse
cannot be translated int he classical way about childbirth. he contends the critical word always refers
to mental and emotion suffering and about child REARING, not child bearing.”
This makes sense from a
Hebrew perspective as well. Hebrew
justice is about measure for measure -
Disobedience destroys
relationship.
The appropriate punishment is not a moment of pain but rather a life of relationship struggle.
Every parent understands
this child rearing atsav - the place of concern and worry and dealing with
disobedience, and watching them make mistakes that hurt.... it is sorrowful!!! ATSAV!
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Moen says - “The Hebrew
idea of justice - measure for measure - is built on the concept that the degree
of sinfulness must be covered in the degree of punishment”
“Adam came from the ground
- the ground will now resist him. He
will struggle with the very substance that was intended to be a responsive
participant in his work.” = IT IS NOW BACKWARDS!
“The same idea is applied
to Chavah. She is the ultimate
relationship manager. She is designed to
facilitate the relationship between her man and YHWH. ...
Now she will discover that the “ground” of her being, Adam
and the work of relationships, is laced with ATSAV/ sorrow.”
“This means that
relationships with her children are also affected!!”
But - “inspite of the
introduction of ATSAV - Chavah’s divinely initiated purpose continues.... She
is to “multiply and fill”
But now she will experience
ATSAV - SORROW int he “ground” of her
labor = relationships with her husband and children!!!
The world has become a
place of ATSAV.... emotional sorrow and struggle!!
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So now let’s consider one
more thing about
B’re’shiyt 3:16
Moen says - “The problem
with this translation is the vowels.
Hebrew has no vowels, so
ANY translation will have to add vowels to the consonants in order to decide not
only what the words mean but also what the words actually ARE in the text”
“There are 2 biblical
possibilities for syllable and vowel construction inthe consonants that make up
the phrase translated “greatly increase” or “greatly multiply”....
Translators
usually assume that the consonant
construction is
Resh - Bet -
Hey with the vowels meaning
“to be many” or better translated - “to
be many many” - or “greatly
multiply”.
BUT a small
shift in the pointing (vowels) in the second word - and it changes the meaning
entirely.
Now it is not Resh - Bet - Hey
Now it is
Aleph - Resh - Bet
and this word is ARAB.
and it means “to lie in
wait, to ambush”.
“if this second word is
ARAB and not the repetition of RABAH, then the meaning would be ...
“has caused to increase the lying-in-wait your sorrow”
Rearrage that to an
English sentence structure
and you get...
YHWH says - “The one who ambushed you has multiplied your sorrow.” !!!!!
A translator named
Bushnell offered this understanding - nearly 100 years ago!
but Christianity couldn’t
imagine that “God” would not punish Chavah!
What is more
YHWH is stating a fact.
“Disobedience will bring
a mess and that mess will extend to relationship with both children and
husband.”
Chavah “was designed as
the relationship guide. Her ATSAV will
be found in the same arena!”
Who is responsible for all
of this?
-
Not Chavah alone -
The serpent did the deceiving. Chavah
listened but the serpent spoke.
If you think about this -
this makes sense why YHWH said he will put enity between Chavah and the
serpent....
What He is saying is this
- i am going to maek it very difficult for you to ever be deceived again by
this creature. I am going to make him
something other than a walking, talking resplendent, almost human-like
beast. Now he will be revolting. You will never listen to him again”....
YHWH is actually helping
the woman to not be deceived by the serpent ever again!
On many levels, Hebrew
stories are consistent in thier portrayal wiht the character of YHWH.
Moen says “B’re’shiyt
presents YHWH as honorable, orderly, loving, compassionate, forgiving and
sovereign.”
In 3:16 - “perhaps the
most critical passage for understanding the nature of sinful human beings, do
we suddenly discover a God who demonstrates wrath without the possiblity of
restitution? IF we believe that God “curses”
men and women, that’s what we’re saying.”
“BUT if Bushnell is right,
the focus of this verse is on the damage caused by the naked snake, not on the
edict of a less-than compassionate Creator.”
AMEIN
