Torah Portion Week 37 – Numbers 13 – 15 – Study Notes 2024 – 2025

Torah Portion – Week 37 24/25

Welcome brothers and sisters to week 37, Shelach, SEND YOU

This portion tells the story of the twelve spies sent to assess the promised land, commandments about offerings, the story of the violation of the Sabbath, and the commandment of the tzitzit.

Numbers 13: 

13:16 – It is interesting that Caleb, the Kenizite (Edomite) was named as the leader of Judah.  He was grafted in – Verses

13:29 – What’s keeping us today? (Giants are a metaphor for many situations in life) – Verses

13:31 – No fear!  – Verses

13:33 – Giants: Gen 6 – Verses

• Enoch 6

Numbers 14: 

14:4 – Complaining (have we ever thought to look at things from his perspective?)  – Verses

• Do we whine and complain when things go wrong, or are tough?
• More verses

14:9 – Why fear the NWO, beast system etc… If Yahuah delights in us…

14:11 – Believing –  Verses

14:12 – Yah chose Moses for a reason; humbleness.

14:22 – Life is a test… Verses

14:28-29 – They spoke the evil upon themselves

14:35 – Think about our time now; what is all that different than the Israelites in the wilderness?  Are we not being tested?  Will we enter into N.Jerusalem with filthy hands? – Verses

14:42 – You’re Too late principle (He could have welcomed their late obedience if he wanted to)

• Jasher 6:11-23 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/6.htm
• Enoch 63 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe066.htm
• Same with the angels & no forgiveness
• Luke 12:48

14:45 “Hormah” meaning “broken rock”, “banned”, or “devoted to destruction”

• Later, as they have victory here – Verse

Numbers 15:

15:16 – No racism! – Verses

15:29 – Yah has always wanted all races of man to serve him

• 2 esdras 7

15:36

• Gathering sticks for work, not food?
• Prepare (take Shabbat seriously)
• Don’t go too far – Verses

And there arose a man of the house of Joseph, and said with himself:[2] I will go and pull up wood on the Sabbath day; and witnesses saw it, and told Mosheh; and Mosheh sought instructtion from the presence of the Lord, that he might teach me judgment, and make known the discipline of all the house of Israel. And the witnesses of the man who pulled up and collected wood came, and, after they had monished him, and he had wounded the witnesses who had found him pulling up wood, [JERUSALEM. Steal­ing wood,]

TzitZit:

Woman grabs Yahusha’s tzitzit                                                                                                         

• Yahusha wore them! – Verses
• I want to be like him 

• Walk as he walked – Verses

• Korah’s rebellion was sparked by tzit zit http://targum.info/pj/pjnum16-18.htm

• Wearing of the tzitzit is a small request, can we follow it?