Torah Portion Week 18 – Mishpatim “Laws” 26-27
Exo 21:1 – 24:18
Judgements = Right rulings Strongs:
- Guidebook for judges – Deut 1:16-17
- Matt 7
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21:1-3 – Very similar to creation account 6 on, 1 off
Sabbath day of the week and Sabbath year of rest – Lev 25
- Contract employee or indentured servitude
- Also for thievery Exo 22:3
21:5-6 – Aul picture (Picture of eternal loyalty to YHWH?)
21:10 – Treatment of women (do not have to stay in abusive relationship)
21:12 – Death penalty derived from here
21:13 – Contrasting w/accidental manslaughter – Motive matters
21:15 – Disobedient children is a massive problem today. Guardrails like this should/would keep a tighter knit household and community
21:16 – The traffickers will reap what was sown
21:17 – Honoring parents = being holy – Lev 19
21:19 – Aka lawsuit – 1 Cor 6
21:20 – Targums says death
- Reflect on slave trade and how harshly they were treated
21:22 – Fighting not a sin? – verses
21:25 – Eye for an eye… (Isaiah 42, Matt 5, Deut 4)
- Book of the Natsarim 16:48-49 (156)
- Remember, he is the Lawgiver – Is 42:2-4
- the passage is not saying justice is abolished. It is saying that the underlying requirement of equivalence remains, but bodily mutilation is not the proper way to achieve that equivalence.
- injury occurred → the offender owes the injured person something corresponding to the loss → that correspondence should be measured by actual loss rather than mechanically reproducing the wound.
- So if someone destroys another man’s eye, justice requires him to make good the loss. Taking his eye does not restore anything to the injured man. The Natsarim text therefore proposes silver or labor—something actually transferred to the victim—as the appropriate recompense.
- And its one-eyed-man illustration is making a legitimate legal point: identical physical treatment can actually create unequal punishment. Blinding the remaining eye of a one-eyed offender is substantially different from removing one of the two eyes of another man.
21:26 – Example of protection for servants (slaves)
21:28 – Apply only to oxen?
21:29 – Negligence – Another example – Exo 22:6
- Could also sound like, “hey, I noticed one of your steps has a rotten board, you should get that replaced soon”
21:30 – restitution (monetarily, labor..) for repayment
21:35-36 – Foreknowledge changes the judicial outcome
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22:2 – breaking up = breaking in
22:3 – Daytime vs Nightime
At night, you cannot readily know:
- who he is,
- how many there are,
- whether he is armed,
- whether he intends merely theft,
- whether he will attack if confronted,
- what exactly he is doing.
In that confused situation, if the homeowner strikes him and he dies, Torah doesn’t hold the homeowner bloodguilty.
Property itself is not worth a man’s life. In the confusion of a forcible nighttime intrusion, a defender is not held bloodguilty when the intruder dies. But where circumstances permit the thief to be dealt with as a thief rather than an apparent mortal threat, killing him is bloodguilt—the proper judgment is restitution.
22:14 – Just like in today’s world, if we break something of our neighbors in our possession, then we make it right.
22:15 – Example: riding in the car together and it breaks down (owner knows you didn’t do anything to cause the issue)
22:16-17 – Entice Strongs – Entice definition
- Compare with Deut 22:28-29 – Bible Hub w/ newer versions – “Lay hold”
22:18 – Torah mockers will use this (we are in dispersion/Egypt/daughter of Babylon with governing rules – did Daniel go around and kill witches and such?)
22:19 – Some teachers say that since the Sabbath wasn’t directly commanded by Paul or the apostles, then it isn’t valid. Consider this command wasn’t mentioned in the NT either.
22:22-24 – 2 Esdras 2:20-23 &
22:25 – Sirach 29 & Lending
22:28 – Sirach 21:27 &
22:30 – “in his mother’s milk”
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23:1 – False witness – Deut 19:16-19
23:2 – Riots, following the crowds…
23:3 – Rich or poor among us are equal (no favoritism to the poor)
23:4-5 – Caring for your enemy – Pro 25, Matt 5 & 2 Kings 6
23:7 – We need to act in his name – Exo 34
23:8 (and verse 6) –
23:9 – We are still sojourners today – Lev 19, Heb 11…
23:10–11– Justice (fair treatment) for the land also
Can this still apply today? Why not (Lev 25 does state it’s for being in the land of promise, not captivity) – Lev 26, 2 Chronicles 36, Eze 20:19-21 – Read “Dust bowl” info below
23:13 – Make mention Strongs – Matt 12:27, Acts 7:43,
23:14 – Fair treatment towards YHWH
3 Main harvests (including end times) – Video
23:19 – Some say this type of meat is most palatable boiled in milk.
- This practice would be cruel
- There does exist some pagan rituals, found in African tribes and Arab customs
- Another perspective 3 witnesses
23:20-23 – Yahusha –The Angel of YHWH Video – Rev 10
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The marriage
24:3 – “I do”
24:7 – I do! (like vows made during marriage)
24:8 – The covenant (marriage) – Matthew & Hebrews
24:10 – No man has seen the Father
24:11 – Vows, witnesses, meal and blood
What, or who is “The Glory of YHWH”? Verses
Quote from Quora
The Dust bowl of the 1930’s came about because the land was continuously farmed, and the nutrients of the land were depleted to a point that it could no longer support vegetation.
All things need to have their nutrients renewed periodically This is true of the land as well as mankind. Since the Dust bowl farmers routinely allow a portion of their land to go fallow, usually on a field rotational basis. Many even grow crops that leave a residue to be worked back into the ground, such as soy beans and corn.
God in his infinite wisdom knew that anything material would, through the process of aging, deteriorate, and that occasional renewing by the input of new nutrients would be necessary. The renewing of nutrients slows the process of deterioration, whether it is in man or plants or animals or even the land. And that is the reason for God declaring the Sabbath year.
That is also the reason why fertilization is such a necessary component of growing plants whether in your flower garden or on a large farm.
That is incidentally the reason for his declaring a Sabbath day for man.
Remember `את` eth-the day of the Shabbath, to keep it holy.
Exodus 20:8
KJV Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
God knew that unless man’s awareness of him and his laws was renewed on a frequent basis it would eventually fade from his memory, as we see the World today.
When God put man into the garden of Eden he charged him with caring for it:
And YAHUAH ELOHIYM took `את` eth-the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to guard it.
Genesis 2:15
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
This alone tells me that nature and the land needs our attention, but even further when God ejected man from the garden of Eden he told Adam that his punishment would be:
And unto A’dam he said, Because you have hearkened unto the voice of your woman, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed *is* the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat *of* it all the days of your life;
Genesis 3:17
through 19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Also:
Therefore YAHUAH ELOHIYM sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till `את` eth-ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Since man is essentially dust and needs to replenish himself through eating why would the land be any different?