Torah Portion – Week 47 21-22
Welcome brothers and sisters to week 47 – “RE’eh” which is “to see”. Deut 11:26-16:17
Ch.11
11:28 – We have the option to choose good or evil. Life or death. (otherwise he could have hardwired us like the animals to obey)
- He wants the heart.
- Mount ebal and gerazim https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mount+eval+and+mount+geri&atb=v158-1&iax=images&ia=images
11:32 –Also keep these statues in a foreign land:
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+esdras+13%3A39-47&version=RSV
- “And as I scattered them among the nations, and they were remembering my fear in a distant land, so shall they prolong the years of their life with their children and shall return”
Zechariah 10:9 Aramaic Targums - Book of Tobit
Ch.12
12:3 – We should be doing the same in our walk – tear down the Idols! (so much Idolatry in our world)
12:4-6– Jerusalem. This lets us know we can’t celebrate the feasts perfectly, but we are still to memorialize them. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+3%3A16%2C+2+cor+6%3A16%2C+john+14%3A23%2C+matt+18%3A20%2C+rev+14%3A1%2C+&version=KJV
12:7 – The commandment is to rejoice!!!!
12:8 – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=judges+21%3A25&version=KJV
12:9 – rest https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=heb+4%3A9-11&version=KJV
12:14 – Together we are the temple https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+pet+2%3A5&version=KJV
- Saying we can only celebrate the feasts in Jerusalem would also be saying we can only pray there (our spiritual sacrifices) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=heb+13%3A14-15%2C+1+peter+2%3A5%2C+john+4%3A21-24&version=KJV
12:30 – How does the world celebrate Yahuah and Yahusha?
Ch.13
13:3 – Jer 23 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jer+23%3A25-33%2C+16-17&version=KJV
13:4 – This is how we serve him https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mal+3%3A16-18&version=KJV
Talk about Eze 13 prophecy video- False prophets and teachers ( we need to be wary of Youtube prophets and dreamers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_R-YBVE4U
13:9-11 – Why aren’t we killing them now? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+9%3A54-56&version=KJV
Ch.14
14:1 – cut themselves https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+kings+18%3A20-40&version=RSV
14:3: Food laws again – important. Isaiah 66:15-17 https://parableofthevineyard.com/cepher/isaiah/
14:24-26 – A good set of instructions for us. Also, wine/liquor is not a sin – drunkenness where there is excess is. Testament of Judah ch. 3 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe279.htm
14:29 – Tithing is still for today!
Targums paragraph 2
Ch.15
15:1-3, this is certainly something we can keep in our day!
15:7-11 – poor https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+4%3A1-10%2C+sirach+7%3A31-36%2C+sirach+29%3A1-13&version=RSV
“servant” was more of indentured servitude (how this country was built)
Earing a sign of servitude… not a bad thing, we are servants to Yahusha!
Ch.16
16:8 – Joshua 5 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=josh+5%3A10&version=KJV
In general, as we go through the Torah, we are learning as we go, these “scary 613 laws” that most don’t want to even investigate. Blessed are you for looking into the perfect law of liberty!
Targums 1st paragraph
Intercalations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_%28timekeeping%29
