Daily Zohar # 1124 – The heart of the matter

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Boker Tov Israel let we together Pray Tehilim 115

‘Jas 1:1 Ya'akov, eved (servant) of Yahweh (that’s you Yehudah and Ephraim!) and of Rebbe, Melech HaMashiach Adoneinu (our Master) Yehoshua; To the Shneym Asar HaShevatim (Twelve Tribes) in the Galuth (diasporah), Shalom!’

Psa 115:1  Not unto us, Yahweh, not unto us, but unto Your Shem (Name) give kavod (Glory), for the sake of Your chesed (kindness), and for Your emes (truth).

AZAMRA Bible: Hosea 7-8

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BS"D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Hosea 7-8
Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov

HOSEA CHAPTER 7

As in the case of the two previous chapters, Hosea chapters 7-8 make up a single prophetic discourse made up of two parts: a Parshah Pethuhah ("open section") = Ch 7 vv 1-12, followed by a Parshah Sethumah ("closed section") = Ch 7 vv 13-16 with Ch 8 vv 1-14. The break between ch 7 v 16 and ch 8 v 1 is thus "artificial" and interrupts the continuity of the prophecy.

The first part of the prophecy, Ch 7 vv 1-12, analyses the wickedness of the people, which is bound up with the wickedness of their kings and rulers, comparing their plotting of evil to a baker leaving his dough to rise (vv 4 and 6). Underlying the reproof is the idea that this is blatant ingratitude for God's redemption of Israel from Egypt, when their dough did not have time to rise before they hurriedly left (see Targum Yonasan on v 4). As a result Ephraim will be a crude cake baked on the coals and eaten up immediately – consumed by the nations of their exile: no matter where they turn they will be trapped in God's "net".

The second part of the prophecy, from 7:13 to 8:14, amplifies on the sins that are leading Israel into exile with Judah to follow. The essential rebellion is against God's Covenant – His Torah (8:1). The people's choice to be governed by a temporal king led them to make themselves gods of silver and gold, the calves of Jerabo'am, an intermediary intended to "manipulate" God. Yet they will find that all their projects and endeavors will be frustrated – they will sow to the wind and produce no flour for real bread (8:7). Their turning to the nations for help will merely hasten their exile (8:10), and because they have become strangers to God's Torah (8:12), they will return to Egypt, the place of their original exile (8:13).

Daily Zohar # 1123 – The Third Holy Temple – part 2

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Boker Tov Israel let we together Pray Tehilim 114

Boker Tov Israel let we together Pray Tehilim 114,

‘Jas 1:1 Ya'akov, eved (servant) of Yahweh (that’s you Yehudah and Ephraim!) and of Rebbe, Melech HaMashiach Adoneinu (our Master) Yehoshua; To the Shneym Asar HaShevatim (Twelve Tribes) in the Galuth (diasporah), Shalom!’

Psa 114:1  When Yisrael went out of Mitzrayim, Bais Ya’akov from a people of foreign tongue,

Psa 114:2  Yehudah became His kodesh (sanctuary), and Yisrael His dominion.

AZAMRA Diary: 27 January-2 February

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AZAMRA INSTITUTE POB 50037 Jerusalem 91500 Israel www.azamra.org NEWS & DIARY Edited by Rabbi Avraham ben Yaakov Greenbaum Author of "Rabbi Nachman's Advice", "Secrets of the Future Temple" and other works on Kabbalah, Chassidut, spiritual growth, preventive healthcare, healing and environmental responsibility 16 Shevat 5773 / 27 January 2013

AZAMRA Parshah: YISRO

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UNIVERSAL TORAH: YISRO

By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum

Torah Reading: YISRO Exodus 18:1-20:23
Isaiah 6:1-7:6, 9:5-6 (Sephardi ritual: 6:1-13).

WE ARE ALL CONVERTS

It is fitting that the parshah which tells of the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai is named after Yisro (Jethro), Moses' father-in-law -- a convert. Indeed, all those who witnessed the Giving of the Torah were "converts". Thus (as noted in the commentary on Parshas SHEMOS) the Covenant at Sinai was accompanied by the three components of conversion: circumcision (Rashi on Ex.12:6), ritual immersion in the waters of the Mikveh (Ex. 19:10) and burned offerings (Ex. 24:5). For before G-d, we are all converts -- GERIM, "dwellers" in a land and on an earth that is not ours but G-d's. We are all here only by the grace of G-d, utterly dependent upon His kindness and compassion.

Thus no one can claim that the Torah belongs to him by right through ancestral or other merit. There is no room for pride, arrogance or the exploitation of the Torah for worldly advantage. The Torah is not the property of an exclusive caste. It "belongs" only to one who keeps it. The Torah was given in the Wilderness, no man's land, on the lowest of all mountains -- Sinai, the eternal symbol of humility. For only through humility can we "receive" and accept the Torah, which belongs to G-d alone. Receiving the Torah means having the humility to accept it as it is, the way it has come down to us, without trying to "modify" it according to our own ideas and wishes.

And when we are willing to accept and follow the Torah as it actually is -- fulfilling NA'ASEH VE-NISHMAH, "we will (first) DO it and (then) HEAR (and understand) it" (Ex. 24:7) -- then we can come to understand how the Torah lifts us out of our slavery to this-worldliness, with its many false gods. Then we can hear the voice of redemption that calls to us every day: "I am HASHEM your G-d who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves" (Ex. 20:2).

Slavery to the idols of the mundane world is ignominious. Yet the Torah accords the greatest honor to those who have the courage to leave this servitude behind and "go out into the wilderness" in search of G-d -- like Jethro. According to tradition, Jethro had investigated every conceivable way of interpreting and living in this world, every world-view and "lifestyle". Only when Jethro came to HaShem and His Torah did he know he had found the truth. "Now I KNOW that HaShem is great above all the gods" (Ex. 18:11). The Zohar comments: "When Jethro came and said, 'Now I know that HaShem is great.' then the Supreme Name was glorified and exalted" (Zohar, Yisro 69). In other words, the revelation of G-d's light and power is greatest precisely when it comes out of darkness and concealment. Only when we have seen evil and know its power can we understand the greatness of G-d's saving hand. Only one who was a slave truly understands what it means to have been freed. This is "the superiority of the light that comes out of darkness" (Ecclesiastes 2:13).