Can we do תפילות prayers for:
hannah nesher and her ministry?That also through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?
Shalom Chaverim (friends), (Please read this letter to the bottom for a special word)
This evening (Friday) at sunset begins not only Shabbat (the Sabbath) but also this week:
(The Day of Atonement)
The 10th day of Tishrei, the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar, is a most holy day known as Yom Ha-Kipurim (or Yom Kippur), "The Day of Atonement". It is a day dedicated to fasting and prayer - an everlasting statute.
In Hebrew, the expression "to afflict your souls" means "to fast" (Tzom).
- "And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourns among you... It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever." (Lev 16,29.31)
- "Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto YHWH... For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people... It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath." (Lev 23,27.29.32)
- "And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:" (Nu 29,7)
"...I afflicted (KJV: "humbled") my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." (Psalms 35,13)
The HEbrew word for 'soul' an also mean 'appetite', therefore to afflict our soul is to afflict our appetite. Disciples of Yeshua are expected to fast and pray. Some things will just not be removed without fasting and prayer. Therefore let us join together this day in fasting and prayer, believing for tremendous breakthroughs - the breaking of chains and strongholds that have kept us in bondage.
- "...I wept, and afflicted (KJV: "chastened") my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach." (Psalms 69,11)
Let us also remember that the fast that God has chosen includes tzedakah (charity) in order to be pleasing unto the Lord. Afflicting our souls but at the same time neglecting the poor and hungry is not a fast that will be accepted. Israel questioned God:
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? (Isaiah 58:3)
And God answered:
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of YHWH shall be your reward.
Then shall you call, and YHWH shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noon day:
And YHWH shall guide thee continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in." (Isa 58,6-12)
Our fasting must be accompanied by sincere t'shuvah (repentance):
I hope that the attached commentary on the Parashah for Yom Kippur will be a blessing, encouragement and inspiration to you; but I would like to leave you with one final thought before we head into Yom Kippur.
- Therefore also now, says YHWH, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto YHWH your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil. Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him?" (Joel 2,12-14)
I believe that the Lord would like us to seek Him this day to make peace first and foremost with ourselves - to make peace with our past and within our own hearts. Some of us keep punishing ourselves over and over again, pleading for forgiveness for the same sins that we committed years ago.
We need to remember that when the goat, the azazel, symbolically carried away the sins of Israel into the wilderness, it never returned!! Our sins have been cast away from us as far as the east is from the West. God doesn't even remember them any more, and yet we keep dredging them back up out of the miry pit to review the sorry list yet again.
This holding onto the past and refusal to let go may be blocking God from bringing the new thing into our lives as He so desires. We cannot reach out for the new while still clinging to the old.
It may be time to bring a chapter of our life to a close this Yom Kippur. God has all the days of our lives written in his book, but some of us have been reading and re-reading the same pages hundreds of times. Is it not, perhaps, time to move on to a new chapter that has already been written?
If we have been focused on what didn't work out - the marriage that was not restored, the business that didn't succeed, the loved one that was not healed....we must let it go and trust God for a new beginning.
"The Lord is good. A stronghold in the day of trouble. He knows those who trust in Him." (Nahum 1:7)
Shabbat Shalom,
Love Hannah & family
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