Can we do תפילות prayers for:
Ardelle and Cal?
So that 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 חברים (chaverim - friends),
Following is a quote I enjoyed from the commentary of Israeli friends Ephraim and Rimona Frank on the current Torah reading:
Having been nomads in the wilderness, the Israelites have not yet experienced the “rest and the inheritance”
promised them by YHVH (12:9). It is precisely in order to obtain those
two promises that they are to “not do according to all that [you] are
doing here today, each doing all that is right in his own eyes.” “And
you shall cross over the Jordan, and shall live in the land which YHVH your Elohim is causing you to inherit. And He shall give you rest from all your enemies all around; and you shall live securely” (12: 8, 10, italics added). “Rest” is “menu’cha” (root n.o.ch – noon, vav, chet), and “inheritance” is “nachala”
(root n.ch.l – noon, chet, lamed), with the first two consonants of the
latter - forming the word for “rest,” thusly making these two
(inheritance and rest) an indivisible unit. In Yishayahu (Isaiah) 30:15
we read: “For so says the Lord YHVH the Holy One of Israel, ‘in
returning and rest – nachat
- you shall be saved [but you would not].” From Hebrews 4:1,2 we learn
that “the word [of the promise to enter the rest and receive the
inheritance] did not profit those hearing it, not having been mixed with
faith in the ones who heard.” (end of quote)
If you like to study from the Hebrew language perspective, I recommend their commentary blog - http://
I'd like to look further at a verse in our reading -
NJB Devarim12:8 'You must not behave as we are behaving here today, each of you doing what he himself sees fit,
Other verses give further warnings as to the danger of letting our own minds determine the "straight" path -
Proverbs 14:12 There are ways that some think straight, but they lead in the end to death.
Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel, and everyone did as he saw fit.
To give an example of this, the following is an article speaking of
the changes made by hundreds of churches across Britain. As you will
see, they think these changes to the Ten commandments are an improvement
to the very Word -
Let's follow the advice of the Scriptures -
NJB 2 Timothy 2:15 Make every effort to present yourself before God
as a proven worker who has no need to be ashamed, but who keeps the
message of truth on a straight path.
Shabbat Shalom,
Ardelle
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