SHALOM!!! WELCOME!!! Today, 25 Tishri 5773 (10 October 2012) we begin the SEVENTH ANNUAL KNOW YOUR BIBLE STUDY CYCLE, and with G-d's help we will each weekday throughout the coming year study 2 chapters of the Nevi'im (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Holy Writings), thereby completing the entire NaCh in one year, concluding on Simchat Torah, 22 Tishri 5774 (26 September 2013). (Please note that our study cycle does not include Psalms.)
It is fitting to begin the BIBLE-IN-A-YEAR study cycle now since we are fresh from Simchat Torah, when we concluded the annual reading of the Five Books of Moses and immediately started over with Bereishis (Genesis 1). Likewise on Simchas Torah we read Joshua 1 as the Haftara – the supplementary reading from the prophets – thereby taking the first step in studying the NaCh (Nevi'im, "The Prophets" and Ketuvim, "The Writings). Today we embark on our regular daily study of 2 chapters of NaCh with Joshua Chapters 1-2.
The practice of studying 2 chapters of NaCh daily starting immediately after Simchat Torah and finishing the following Simchat Torah is recommended in "Yesod VeShoresh HaAvodah" ("Foundation and Root of Service") by Rabbi Alexander Ziskind of Horodna (d. 1794), a guide to devotion endorsed by all streams of Torah Jewry (see Gate 6 Chapter 2, The Order of Study).
Just as we are today commencing this study cycle, so may we pursue it daily until we complete it with God's help. "Let no error befall us and let us not stumble in any matter of law. Let us not call that which is impure pure or that which is pure impure, nor that which is permitted forbidden, nor that which is forbidden permitted. Let none of us stumble: may we only rejoice in one another. For HaShem will give wisdom: from His mouth are knowledge and understanding. Open our eyes and let us behold wonders from Your Torah!"
JOSHUA CHAPTER 1
"MOSES MY SERVANT IS DEAD"
The Book of Joshua is the direct continuation from the end of Deuteronomy which narrates the death of Moses. Prior to his death, Moses had already said to Israel: "For I know that after my death you will surely go to ruin and depart from the path that I have commanded you, and evil will befall you at the end of days because you have done evil in the eyes of HaShem to anger Him with the work of your hands" (Deut. 31:29).
The entire NaCh will narrate the story and draw out the moral of this departure from the path with its terrible consequences, tracing the history of Israel in their time of glory (the conquest of the land and the building of Solomon's Temple) and their time of decline (destruction of the Temple and exile).
Our rabbis taught that "the face of Moses was like the face of the sun, while the face of Joshua was like the face of the moon" (Bava Basra 75a). Now that the sun had gone down with the death of Moses, it was time for the moon to shine. As long as the moon is aligned with the sun, the entire face of the moon is lit up and perfectly reflects the light of the sun. As long as Joshua reflected Moses' Torah, the people succeeded. Joshua was from the tribe of Ephraim (son of Joseph, son of Rachel, Jacob's beloved). The task of Ephraim is to actualize the keeping of the Torah in this real, material world (and thus Rachel signifies the Shechinah, the Indwelling Presence in this world). Keeping the Torah to perfection in this world had to be accomplished in God's chosen land, the Land of Israel, and thus Joshua's task was to lead the people in and conquer the land. But when the moon is not aligned with the sun, its face becomes successively darkened. Thus it was Ephraim under the leadership of Jeraboam – Yeravam ben Nevat – who led the people away from the path, which brought about the exile, as we will see later. The people of Israel today must study and ponder the story of the NaCh and its moral in order to gain possession of the Land of Israel forever and shine its light to the whole world.
Joshua ch. 1 vv. 3-4 reiterates the boundaries of the Promised Land as already laid down in Numbers 34, 1-15. Here in verse 4 we simply have a brief depiction of the "breadth" of the land (from the Wilderness of Zin up to the Euphrates), and it's "length" (from those two points until the Great Sea, the Mediterranean). From verse 3 we learn that AFTER Israel have conquered the entire Promised Land, then "any place where the sole of your foot steps I will give to you", thereby incorporating other territories (see Rashi on vv.3-4).
The condition upon which Israel is able to conquer and retain the Land is made completely clear here at the beginning of the Prophets: "Be strong and very firm to guard and practice according to all the Torah that Moses my servant commanded you…" (v. 7). "And the book of this Torah shall not depart from your mouth…" (v. 8). Everything depends on KEEPING THE TORAH, and this depends upon CONSTANT STUDY OF THE TORAH BY DAY AND BY NIGHT. For then HaShem your God will be with you.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE ENTRY INTO THE LAND
Rashi proves from the text that it was on 7 Nissan that Joshua gave orders to prepare the people to cross the Jordan "in another three days". 7 Nissan was the conclusion of the 30 day period of mourning for Moses, who died on 7 Adar (just as he had been born on that day, 3 months exactly before 7 Sivan, the day he was cast into the river and the date of the giving of the Torah 80 years later.) 10 Nissan would be an appropriate day for the supernatural miracle of the parting of the Jordan, as it was the anniversary of the day when the Children of Israel took the Paschal Lamb in Egypt just prior to the Exodus. Taking the lamb for sacrifice indicates submitting the power of nature, symbolized in the constellation of Aries, the "Ram", to the higher power of God. God controls nature and can bend it at will. God has the power to give a tiny nation dominion. If the people of Israel would keep to God's covenant they would always be above nature.
Joshua reminds the tribes of Reuven, Gad and the half of Menashe who had taken their territories east of the Jordan of their commitment to help their brothers conquer the land of Canaan. Today this can be taken as a message to the Jews living in the Diaspora of their responsibility to identify with and help their brothers and sisters living in Israel in their struggle to settle the land in the proper way.
JOSHUA CHAPTER 2
Rashi proves from the text that Joshua sent the two spies to Jericho two days before he commanded the people to prepare to cross the Jordan. According to tradition the spies were Caleb (Joshua's only faithful companion among the 12 Spies sent by Moses) and Pinchas. Thus Joshua (Ephraim) works together with Caleb (the royal tribe of Judah) and Pinchas (the Priest). Why were they sent to Jericho specifically? Because Jericho "was as hard as all the rest of the country put together because it was on the border" (Rashi v. 1) – it was the "lock" of the land of Israel (which was why in the days of Oslo the slogan was "Jericho first").
RAHAV– A GREAT HEROINE
Rahav is celebrated as one of the outstanding converts of all time (together with Hagar, Osnath, Tzipora, Shifra, Puah, Pharaoh's daughter Batya, Ruth and Yael). This is because Rahav acknowledged that "Hashem your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below" – she alone among the Canaanites was willing to join Israel instead of fighting them, because she recognized the divine hand in their Exodus from Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea and their complete victory over the kings of the Emorites (vv.9-11). Her above-quoted declaration of faith is incorporated in the first paragraph of the Oleinu prayer recited at the end of each of the 3 daily prayer services.
Why did Rahab alone draw the right concluson? Was it because she was lowly and therefore humble? According to Targum Yonasan, Rahab was an innkeeper, but the Midrash Mechilta is less delicate. "She was 10 when the Children of Israel went out of Egypt and practiced prostitution for all of the forty years that they were in the wilderness… There was not a minister or dignitary that had not been with Rahab." That was how she knew so intimately that "no more spirit stands up in any man in face of you".
Rahav was obviously a woman of profound understanding as she drew the right conclusion. More than that, she showed the trait that is the hallmark of Israel: CHESSED, kindness. She did not HAVE to save the two spies – she could quite easily have handed them over to the authorities. It was because she showed them pure CHESSED by saving them without expecting a reward that she felt able to ask them for pure CHESSED when the children of Israel would conquer Jericho: that they should save her life and that of her family. There was a great TIKKUN (repair) in her letting the spies out through her window in the city wall and later using the sign of the scarlet thread: her clients used to use a rope to climb in and out of her window unseen. According to the rabbis, Rahav prayed that the three elements of the wall, the window and the thread should atone for her neglect of the 3 commandments incumbent upon an Israelite woman: lighting the Shabbat lights, separating Challah and observing the laws of Niddah (family purity). The rabbis said that no less than eight prophets and priests were descended from Rahav, including Jeremiah and Hilkiah and the prophetess Hulda. In their later history, Israel were frequently compared to a whore. Rahav is the outstanding example of such a woman who repented with all her heart and attained the greatest heights.
* * * Joshua 2:1-24 is read as the Haftara of Parshas Shelach Lecha, Numbers 13:1-15:41 * * *
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It
is written in the Koran:
‘1. Surah Al-Fatihah:
‘1. Surah Al-Fatihah:
1. In the
Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
2. All the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
3. The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
4. The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
5. You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for each and everything).
6. Guide us to the Straight Way
7. The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).
This is the 'start' in the Koran......
2. All the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
3. The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
4. The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
5. You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for each and everything).
6. Guide us to the Straight Way
7. The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).
This is the 'start' in the Koran......
For more, what the Koran is teaching
about: ‘Muslims Hate
Jews, Christians all other faiths’ ‘Their Guide Book says to kill, behead and
burn all non-believers’ click:
Index of The Quran (Satanic Verses of violence to us)
Index of The Quran (Satanic Verses of violence to us)
For more information about the development of these
‘Chaldean’ in our days go to our News-Blog: http://thewatchmenfromisraelnews.blogspot.co.il/
Please read the Mitzvoth go to: Positive Commandments and the Negative Commandments), easy to read. It is very important to know them. I don’t ask you this to become a good Jew! But to learn who you really are. That you can find your real identity. In a good understanding of the rest of The Scriptures. And that you understand that Rabbi Shaul is talking to a real Israel,
1Co 10:1 I do not want you to be without da'as (knowledge), Achim (brothers) b(in) 'Moshiach, that Avoteinu (our fore Fathers, you Yehudah and Ephraim! Nobody else.) all were under the anan (cloud),
(‘Achim (brothers) b(in)Moshiach are Yehudah and Ephraim who were all under the anan (cloud). The seed (literal) of Abraham, Yitzhak and Ya’acob) read it for yourself :)
Exo 13:21 And Yahweh went before them (Yehudah and Ephraim -Israel) by day in an ammud anan (‘Pillar of a cloud), to guide them haderech (the Way); and by lailah (night) in an ammud eish (‘Pillar of fire), to give them ohr (light); so they could travel yomam valailah (day or night);
Exo 13:22 He
took not away the amud heanan (‘Pillar of a cloud) by day, nor the ammud haeish
(‘Pillar of fire) by night, from before HaAm (the people, Yehudah and Ephraim)
and passed through the sea.
Exo 14:22 And the Bnei Yisroel (Yehudah and Ephraim) then went into the middle of the yam (sea) upon the yabashah (dry land); and the mayim (waters) were a chomah (wall) unto them on their right, and on their left.
Exo 14:22 And the Bnei Yisroel (Yehudah and Ephraim) then went into the middle of the yam (sea) upon the yabashah (dry land); and the mayim (waters) were a chomah (wall) unto them on their right, and on their left.
Exo 14:23 And
the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the yam (sea),
even kol sus (all horses) Pharaoh, his chariots, and his parash (rider).
Exo 14:24 So it
came to pass, that when came the watch of the boker (morning), Yahweh looked
down on the machaneh Mitzrayim (camp of Egypt) through the ammud eish (pillar
of fire) and of the anan (cloud), and caused confusion over the machaneh Mitzrayim
(camp of Egypt),
Exo 14:25 And
turned awry their chariot wheels, that they drove them with difficulty; so that
the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the presence of Yisroel (really when
Yehudah and Ephraim where together, not like today); because Yahweh fighting
for them against the Egyptians,
So let we further listen what Rabbi Shaul has really to say:)
So let we further listen what Rabbi Shaul has really to say:)
1Co 10:2 And all into Moshe Rabbenu were given tevilah
(a ‘mikwah’ immersed) in the anan (cloud) and in the sea,
1Co 10:3 And all of the same spiritual okhel (food)
ate [SHEMOT 16:4,35; DEVARIM 8:3; TEHILLIM 78:24-29],
1Co 10:4 And all
of the same spiritual drink drank, for they were drinking from a spiritual TZUR
(Rock) following them [SHEMOT 17:6; BAMIDBAR 20:11; TEHILLIM 78:15; 105:41],
and that TZUR was Moshiach (Yeshuah – Yeshuah Yahweh).
And now one of our neviim:
Hab 1:1 The message which the prophet Ḥaḇaqquq saw.
And now one of our neviim:
Hab 1:1 The message which the prophet Ḥaḇaqquq saw.
Hab 1:2 O יהוה, till when shall I cry, and You not hear?
I cry to You, “Violence!” and You do not save.
Hab 1:3 Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me
to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife,
and contention arises.
Hab 1:4 Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling
never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling
comes out twisted.
Hab 1:5 “Look among the nations and see, and be
amazed, be amazed! For a work is being wrought in your days which you would not
believe if it were told.
Hab 1:6 “See, I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter
and hasty nation, who is going through the breadth of the earth, to possess
dwelling places that are not theirs.
Hab 1:7 “They are frightening and fearsome, their
right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves.
Hab 1:8 “Their horses shall be swifter than leopards,
and more fierce than evening wolves. And their horsemen shall charge ahead, and
their horsemen come from afar. They fly as the eagle, rushing to eat.
Hab 1:9 “All of them come for violence, the direction
of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand.
Hab 1:10 “And they scoff at sovereigns, and princes
are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they pile up
earth and seize it.
Hab 1:11 “Then shall he pass on as a wind, and
transgress and be guilty, and ascribe this power to his mighty one.”
Hab 1:12 Are You not from everlasting, O יהוה my
Elohim, my Set-apart One? You do not die! O יהוה, You have appointed them for right-ruling,
O Rock, You have established them for reproof.
Hab 2:3 For the chazon (vision) is yet for a mo’ed (an appointed time); it speaks of HaKetz (the End), and does not lie; though it tarry, wait for him
Moshiach— see: Sanhedrin 97b, It has been taught; R. Nathan said: This verse pierces and descends to the very abyss:11 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though he tarry, wait for him; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.1211 For the Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though he tarry, wait for him (Moshiach); because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
12]; because he (Moshiach) will surely come, and will not tarry.
(11) Just as the bottom of an abyss cannot be reached, so is it impossible to grasp the full purport of this verse (Rashi).
(12) Hab. II, 3.
Believe…..
Hab 2:4
Hinei (behold), his nashamah (soul) which is puffed up is not upright in him;
but the tzaddik (righteous) shall live by his emunah (believe).
Through Moshiach, Yeshuah from Yahweh who give you emunah (believe)…..
Gen 15:6 And he believed in Yahweh; and He credited emunah (faith)] to him as tzedakah (righteousness).
Please read the whole book of HaNavi Habakuk?
The Koran teaches us that you have to die…….
Through Moshiach, Yeshuah from Yahweh who give you emunah (believe)…..
Gen 15:6 And he believed in Yahweh; and He credited emunah (faith)] to him as tzedakah (righteousness).
Please read the whole book of HaNavi Habakuk?
The Koran teaches us that you have to die…….
But, please Yudah (Jews) and Ephraim (most Christians) Listen to His Voice:
Hab 1:12 Art thou not
mikedem
(‘everlasting’
also said of Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s eternal divine nature: Dan 7:14 And there was given Him (Moshiach) dominion,
and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should pey-lammed-chet.
[1] (worship as deity) (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach).
His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His
(Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.] see Michah
5:1[2];)
Yahweh Elohai (my
Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast appointed
them (these Chaldean) for mishpat (ordinance); O Tzur (Rock), Thou hast
ordained them (these Chaldean) for reproof.
Maran
Rabbeinu Yeshuah and Rabbeinu Shaul are teaching that you, Yehudah and Ephraim
all Israel, come together to the same point as where you were when you said:
Deu 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that Yahweh Eloheinu (our Elohim) shall say; and speak thou unto us all that Yahweh Eloheinu shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
But don’t ‘make’ from one of them Rabbeinu Yeshuah, Rabbeinu Shaul or Rabbeinu Mosheh another ‘mighty one’ but accept them in your live for what they really are….
Deu 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that Yahweh Eloheinu (our Elohim) shall say; and speak thou unto us all that Yahweh Eloheinu shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
But don’t ‘make’ from one of them Rabbeinu Yeshuah, Rabbeinu Shaul or Rabbeinu Mosheh another ‘mighty one’ but accept them in your live for what they really are….
Please take it serious what Abba Yahweh is telling us in:
Deu 18:15 Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohim) will raise up unto thee a Navi (prophet) from among thee, of thy achim (bretheren), kamoni (like me.....
Exo
32:30 The next day Moshe said to the people,
"You have committed a terrible sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh; maybe I
will be able to atone for your sin."); unto him ye must listen;
Deu 18:16
According to all that thou desired of Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohimin) Chorev
(to be burnt dried up, ruined, wasted) in the Yom HaKahal (day of the
congregation), saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh Elohav (your
Elohim), neither let me see this eish hagedolah (‘great fire’) any more, that I
die not.
Deu 18:17 And
Yahweh said unto me, They have well-spoken that which they have spoken.
Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Navi
(prophet) from among their achim (brethren), like unto thee, and will put My
words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Joh
10:18
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have samchut
(authority) to lay it down, and I have samchut to receive it again. This
mitzvah I received from HaAv (the Father).
Deu 18:19 And it
shall come to pass, that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall
speak Bishmi (in My Name), I will require it of him.
Joh 8:28 Therefore, Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you perform the hagbah (lifting
up) of the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as (knowledge) that Ani Hu
[YESHAYAH 41:4; SHEMOT 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv (the
Father) of me taught me, these things I speak.
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiah Yeshuah – is Yeshuah Yahweh. Like it is said in:
Gen_49:18 I have waited for Thy Yeshuah (Salvation), Yahweh.
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiah Yeshuah – is Yeshuah Yahweh. Like it is said in:
Gen_49:18 I have waited for Thy Yeshuah (Salvation), Yahweh.
Exo_15:2 Yahweh
is my oz and zimrah (song of praise), and He is become to me Yeshuah (salvation); He
is Eli (my Elohim), and I will praise Him; Elohei Avi (the Elohim of my
Father), and I will exalt Him.
And not a half-god, or another mighty-one who came between HaShem and us! (Not, ‘It Suph’!) I believe many of us (Jews and Ephraimites!) have to learn that!
And not a half-god, or another mighty-one who came between HaShem and us! (Not, ‘It Suph’!) I believe many of us (Jews and Ephraimites!) have to learn that!
[1] Dictionary of the Talmud. M. Jastrow p. 1178 פלח
Please let us come together in Prayer
(by singing/praying The Song of Moshe and The Song of The Lamb) and Teshuvah in
the Love of Yeshuath YHWH. Yehudah, Ephraim and all 'the called out ones',
Until comes in fulfillment,
Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David (The whole House of Israel, Jews and Ephraim), and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourned for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehudah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah not trouble Ephrayim.
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Until comes in fulfillment,
Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David (The whole House of Israel, Jews and Ephraim), and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourned for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehudah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah not trouble Ephrayim.
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