Torah Portion – Week 49 (2021)

Deut 21:10 – 25:19

Welcome brothers and sisters to week 49– Key Tetze– “When you go” – Covering many of the ‘hard to answer’ questions in Torah.

Why we are doing this- Psalms 119:18

“Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”

—–IM A STUDENT OF TORAH—–

Ch. 21

21:11 – “Desire” https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=H2836&t=KJV

Compare with ‘lust’ type of desire https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=H8378&t=KJV

21:15 – Is it inevitable to have two wives and one be hated and the other loved? https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-29-31/

21:21 – If this rebellious, stubborn drunkard were to procreate, what would his offspring be like? “cut off the evil from you”.  Like a dead branch on a tree or plant.

• Remember https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=pro+23%3A13-14%2C+13%3A24%2C+22%3A15%2C+29%3A15%2C+jer+30%3A11-15%2C+deut+8%3A5&version=KJV

• Sirach https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=sirach+30%3A2-13&version=RSV

21:23 – Curse https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%203:13&version=KJV

Ch. 22

22:4 – In addition to helping in this way, have you thought of other ways you can be a light to your neighbors, near and far?

22:5 – If crossdressing is an abomination, what is transgenderism?

22:8 – Parapet/battlement https://duckduckgo.com/?q=parapet&t=ffab&atb=v158-1&iax=images&ia=images

• Certainly, we can take from this to other areas of life, caring for others, always seeking to protect your neighbor (friend, family etc)

22:9 – Consider https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=lev+19%3A19%2C+is+5%3A1-4%2C+john+15%3A1-8%2C+matt+13%3A24-30&version=KJV

22:10 – While they both be beasts of burden, they tread differently and at different speeds. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Co+6%3A14&version=KJV

22:11 – Frequencies of fabrics https://www.lifegivinglinen.com/linen-study.html

22:12 – Tzitzit command: https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=numbers+15%3A37-41%2C+matt+9%3A20&version=KJV

22:22-24 – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+8%3A1-11&version=KJV

22:28-29 – Fornication = you must marry and cannot get divorced.        

Targums: 2^nd paragraph, 4^th, 5^th,

Ch. 23

23:4 – A new way through Yahusha https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=is+56%3A1-8&version=KJV

23:7 – Don’t hate, but love https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+5%3A43-48&version=KJV

(how do you love? By the work of the Torah)

23:11 – Why at evening?  The next day?

23:15-16 – Take in the refugee

23:19 – Usury is part of the Ezekiel decree https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=eze+18%3A5-9&version=KJV

23:25 – Yahusha and his disciples did not break Torah (there’s also no command not to heal on the sabbath) https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+12%3A1-2&version=KJV

Ch. 24

24:1-4

Divorce – MTOI Video https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=mtoi+divorce

24:6 – both pieces, nether (lower) and upper millstone was needed to be able to mill – literally part of their ability to have food/income. Don’t be like a loan-shark/gangster (breaking kneecaps and taking millstones)

24:9 – Talking about Moses behind his back (this should put us all in fear of Yahuah)

24:12-13 https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=amos+2%3A6-8%2C+job+22%3A6%2C+pro+22%3A27%2C&version=KJV

PITY, PITY, PITY THE POOR AND BE GENEROUS. DON’T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM. https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+ESDRAS+2%3A20-23&version=RSV

Ch. 25

25:4 – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+9%3A9-11%2C+matt+10%3A10&version=KJV

25:9 – Shoe loosed from his foot. Origin: Testament of Zebulon 1:7-23 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe283.htm