| | 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)..." |
The Identity of the Bride up to the Torah
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We are at the dawn of the 21st century, 2,000 years after the coming of our Master Yeshua and the world is on the road to ruin. While the Church should be strong after these centuries of practice, we witness the rise of a conquering religion, entering with power in all the civilized Christian countries to subjugate and submit men and women to an iron yoke. What are the reasons for this spiritual war and why does G-d allow Islam to conquer the Western world? What are the secret agreements concluded by our governments to give access to mass immigration for Muslims in Europe and in the United States? We will try to answer these questions in part, in this study based on the sacred texts of the Word of G-d and certain Jewish sources. |
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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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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.
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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!
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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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