Friday, October 19, 2012

Perceptions - Parshas Noach

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	Perceptions
	by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
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Parshas Noach

Meaningful Speech

At that time, all the earth spoke one language, and was united in speech. (Bereishis 11:1)

We know the power of speech; we witness it everyday. Words have the power to build lasting relationships, and even to save people’s lives. Though it is true that a picture can be worth a thousand words, it is also true that the right words at the right moment can accomplish things that even a thousand pictures cannot. Apparently, it was their common language that allowed the Generation of the Dispersion to work together in order to embark upon the bold project of building a stone skyscraper that would reach Heaven.

We also see how biting and destructive words can be, destroying in a matter of seconds what can take years to build up. We have stung and been stung by words, which have the power to incite wars and cause people to kill one another. The right speaker with the right words can mobilize an entire country for either good or bad, and we have seen some of both. As the Torah relates, it was their power of speech that led the Generation of the Dispersion to rebel against God.

We should not be surprised that speech is so central to human history since it says:

God formed man from dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils a living soul, and the man became a living spirit. (Bereishis 2:7)

A LIVING SPIRIT: A speaking spirit. (Onkeles)

Hence, the aspect of man that reveals that he possesses a soul is his ability to speak. However, what reveals the extent to which his soul impacts his body is how he speaks, as the Holy Zohar explains:

From a man’s mouth you can tell what he is. (Zohar, Bamidbar 193)

How many times do we meet people who appear to be respectable and mature, even dressing the part, only to hear them spew foul language, dramatically changing our opinion of them? Many people use such base speech to try and impress other people, seemingly unaware that it has the opposite effect. But then again, if they do talk that way, they probably lack sufficient spiritual sensitivity to be able to measure the impact of their way of speaking on others.

If you ask someone who grew up secular, and for whom such language was standard fare in everyday conversations, and who later became Torah observant, they will tell you how shocked they are every time they happen to hear someone speak that way. “Every time someone swears around me, my body cringes,” a ba’al teshuvah once told me. “Even though I am still quite familiar with the words from my past,” he said, “I have grown super-sensitive to their vulgarity after years of learning Torah.”

It wasn’t just his lack of exposure to such words over the years that made him so sensitive to coarse language. Rather, the more he learned Torah, the more refined his speech became because he became a more refined person. Between the laws that actually govern how a Jew must speak and all the Torah he learned that allowed his soul to increase its say in how his body acted, he, and others like him, became more of a Tzelem Elokim, a person who was not only made in the image of God, but acts it as well.

Over the last couple of years, when reading comments posted by readers after specific articles, I have been amazed at how quickly and easily commentators have resorted to foul language to make their points. I guess they feel that just as a picture is worth a thousand words, a swear word can be worth a thousand emotions, and that they do not realize how much they discredit themselves when writing that way.

It means something. Obviously you cannot judge an entire society by a few foul-mouthed individuals, but we’re not talking about a few foul-mouthed individuals. And, we’re not talking only about foul language, but about a societal attitude of “talk is cheap,” and about millions of people who say things without enough regard for what their words mean, or of how really accurate they are.

This is not true only of the everyday man in the street, but of people in positions of great responsibility, including and especially, world leaders. If we are shocked by their understanding of world dynamics and their confusion about who are the real good guys and the real bad guys, we’d probably be even more shocked by their world view that results in their confusing and often surprising statements.

In short, a good portion of the world seems to be out to lunch. Listen to what they are saying. Read what they are writing. Pay attention to what they are paying attention to, and what is the center of their focus. Try to engage them in a meaningful conversation and see how long it lasts, if it even gets started. But, talk about the latest technology and eyes light up, speech becomes animated, and strangers can become the best of friends just by sharing information about the latest smart phone or something similar.

No wonder no one is concerned, or concerned enough, about Iran and its threat to Israel, the Middle-East, and the world for that matter. No wonder few people take the time to actually research for themselves the history behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their peoples, and their leaders, to see who is lying and who is actually telling the truth. It’s just not where the mind of the average person is, or wants to go.

Like in the time of the Tower of Bavel, this does not bode well for mankind, and certainly not for the Jewish people. To whom can we plead our case? To whom shall we present the facts of history and our right to our land? Who will listen, and who will be objective enough to properly evaluate the facts? Judging by the way people talk today, and what that represents intellectually, not too many people.

And, when God has had enough of our abuse of language, after having used it for generations to misinform people and to lead them astray after false ideas and worthless goals, He will lower the boom once again, shaking up mankind until people come to their senses. And when they do, all of a sudden, talk will no longer be cheap, but valued and intelligent.

This is why Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, begins with the Kol Nidrei Service, which is completely about taking vows, fulfilling them, or canceling them when necessary. We’re so used to the service now, and are so moved by the tune, that we forget to ask the all-important question of: Why do we begin the Day of Atonement of with a prayer about speech?

For that matter, how many people ask about the name of Pesach, which happens to mean “the mouth that spoke,” and why it is that we spend the entire night speaking the Haggadah, even if we know it by heart and happen to be alone for the Seder? Or, why the most important symbol of our eternal with God—circumcision—is called Bris Milah, literally, the “Covenant of the Word.”

It is more than interesting that modern Israeli society is choosing to adapt its language to that of the rest of the world. First it began with English words for which there was no direct Hebrew translation, and which, therefore, were spoken in Hebrew as in English, but with a Hebrew accent. Today, however, even English words for which there are Hebrew words are being Hebraized, while the actual Hebrew words for the same idea are being forgotten.

This represents more than verbal laziness. It represents the drive of secular Israeli society to merge with the Western world, something that began long ago in terms of lifestyle. Merging modern Hebrew with modern English is just the natural outcome of this, and of a disturbing trend of severing Jews from their past and the way of the ancestors. The last thing to go when people assimilate is their language, and once that goes, so too will the Jewish people.

Not physically, at least not completely. And, it is not only about keeping Hebrew Hebrew, but it is also about talking like a Jew. That is not a matter of accent, but a matter of content and intention, of talking like a Tzelem-Elokim. Because, just as the way we think influences the way we talk, the way we talk also influences the way we think. Talking Godly forces us to think Godly which will make us act Godly.

This is important for another reason. Kabbalah teaches us that every time we speak, we create an angel. If we speak in a holy manner, or at least in a respectable manner, then we create an advocate. When a person speaks improperly, then he creates a prosecuting angel, and once they’re out, they can’t be reigned back in again, as we will see on our final day of judgment, when they all jump on their respective sides of the scale. If we don’t weigh our words carefully, they will carefully weigh them later on when there is no longer any time to make amends, except in Gihenom.

This is Bris Milah. We have made a covenant with God to not only speak, but to speak meaningfully, as the Talmud states:

Rebi Elazar said: Every man was created to toil, as it says, “Because man was made to toil” (Iyov 5:7). However, I do not know if that means to toil through speech, or in actual labor, but once it says, “A toiling soul toils for him, for his mouth compels him” (Mishlei 16:26), I know that a person was created to toil with his mouth. Nevertheless, I do not know if this means to toil in Torah or just in regular conversation, until it says, “This Torah should not leave your mouth” (Yehoshua 1:8): I know that man was created to toil in Torah [through speech]. (Sanhedrin 99b)

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Please Say Yes to Abba Yahweh and His Laws.

It is written in the Koran:
‘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......

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)

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 14:23 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:)

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.

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…….

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….

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.

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!

[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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