Torah Portion – Week 36 (updated 2022)
Numbers 8:1 through 12:16
Welcome brothers and sisters to week 36, Beha’alotcha, When you set up.
This portion tells of the Menorah in the Tabernacle, the consecration of the Levites, the Second Passover, how a cloud and fire led the Israelites, the silver trumpets, how the Israelites set out on their journeys, the complaints of the Israelites, and how Miriam and Aaron questioned Moses.
Numbers 8:1-4 Menorah – Just like we see in Revelation https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=+rev+1%3A20%2C+lev+24%3A1-2%2C+Matt+5%3A14-16%2C+pro+6%3A23%2C+is+8%3A20%2C+is+2%3A1-5%2Cis+5%3A20%2C+ps+19%3A7-11%2C+john+3%3A16-21%2C+eph+5%3A1-15%2C+2+pet+1%3A19%2C+1+john+1%3A1-9%2C+matt+5%3A14-16&version=KJV
- Our mission https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=is+49%3A1-9%2C+acts+13%3A40-48%2C+acts+26%3A16-18%2C+matt+28%3A16-20&version=KJV
- Philadelphia https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev+3%3A7-12%2C+matt+5%3A17-20%2C+matt+15%3A1%2C7-9&version=KJV
- One piece of gold – One man https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exo+37%3A22%2C+neh+8%3A1-3&version=KJV
8:End – Priests – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev+5%3A9-10%2C+exo+19%3A5-6%2C+is+61%3A1-6%2C+&version=KJV
Numbers 9: Passover mentioned directly after the sacrifice and atonement for the firstborn.
-Passover is the only feast with 2 opportunities – 1 of 3 pilgrimage feasts
-Journey and rest at the commandment of YHWH. Do we act when he speaks?
9:8 – While most counsel is already written for us, do we go to Yahuah for all other matters that he may show us the truth?
– Read Targums paragraph 3
9:15-23 – Interesting connection with the future tense of N. Jerusalem in Isaiah 4 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=is+4%2C+&version=KJV
- Jude and Yahusha https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jude+1%3A5&version=KJV
- https://biblehub.com/interlinear/jude/1-5.htm
- Read last paragraph of 9 in the Targums
- He can still answer us today
Numbers 10:
10:2 – Calling of the assembly https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joel+2%3A15-16%2C+is+27%3A13%2C+1+thes+4&version=KJV
10:9 – We are at war every day
2nd Paragraph of the Targums!!!!
Celebrate the New Moons!
Last paragraph of targums!
Numbers 11:
11:1-13 Will we complain if we are gathered and no longer have access to all this excess? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+10%3A1-13&version=KJV
11:30 – Spirit given https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=eze+36%3A26-27%2C+joel+2%3A28-29%2C+sirach+4%3A11-19%2C+&version=RSV
11:35 – Qivrot Hat-Ta’avah = “Graves of Craving”
Targums: The wicked ate of the flesh, yet offered no thanksgiving to Him who had given it to them: but while the flesh was between their teeth, and not consumed, the anger of the Lord waxed strong against the evil people, and the Lord slew the people with a very great mortality. And he called the name of that place, The Graves of the Desirers of Flesh; for there they buried the people who had desired flesh. And from the Graves of the Desirers the people journeyed to Hatseroth, and they were in Hatseroth
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ascension.html
Numbers 12
Read Targums first paragraph
Slander https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slander
Gossip https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gossip
Think of the privacy of Matt 18 process
