Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 17.
Date: Jun 16th, 2009 8:31:30 pm - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 17.
By. Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Script:
Num 29. 35-39 ( mentions the 8th day- synaptic to Shemini Atzeret)
Num 6.6-27/ Nehemiah 8. 1-18/ Ezekiel 43.1-29
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The word Halakha comes from the Hebrew word- To Walk, This Path, This Direction, It is a term that applies to YHVH'S rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. The Halakha this week is Shemini Atzeret â€" On Tishri 22, The day after the seventh day of Sukkot, is the holiday Shemini Atzeret. In Israel, Shemini Atzeret is also called by some the holiday- Simchat Torah.
Outside of Israel, where extra days of holidays are held only the second day of Shemini Atzeret is Simchat Torah. Shemini Atzeret is Tishri 22 and 23rd, while Simchat Torah is Tishri 23rd .
These two holidays are commonly thought of as part of Sukkot, but that is technically incorrect, Shemini Atzeret is a holiday on its own, and does not involved some of the special observances of Sukkot. We do not take up the lulav and etrog on these days and our dwelling in the Sukkah is limited and performed without reciting a blessing. Shemini Atzeret literally means
“ The assembly of the eighth ( day)” Rabbinic Literature explains the holiday as a day where our creator is like a host, who invites us as visitors for a limited time. The seven days of Sukkot that end with Hoshana Rabba are then immediately followed by Shemini Atzeret. Referred to in Torah as the eighth day of assembly
Hoshana Rabba- The Great Hoshana
The name of the seventh and last day of the sukkot festival, In Temple times the day was distinguished by the fact that seven circuits ( Hakkafot) were made around the altar with the lulav, and the willow branches, which on this day were specially cut at Moza near Jerusalem, were stood around the side of the altar with their leaves overlapping the top.
The Sages interpreted this to mean that YHVH asks all who made pilgrimage to sukkot to wait, to tarry( Atzeret) which from the Hebrew root means: To Hold Back, with him- one additional day.
As stated in Israel, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are both celebrated on Tishri 22, but in the Galut- Shemini Atzeret is observed on Tishri 22 and Simchat Torah on Tishri 23. In the Galut, Shemini Atzeret is considered a full holiday ( Yom Tov ) but none of the particular mitzvot regarding Sukkot are observed, though some Jews still eat in their Sukkah, while others do not, as described in the Talmud ( Sukkah 46 b, 47 a)
However since it is a separate holiday, the usual rites of the rituals such as
Candle Lighting Saying Kiddush Refraining from work, attending special synagogue services etc. are practiced. The greatest part of Shemini Atzeret is Tefillat Geshem
Tefillat Geshem
Shemini Atzeret is perhaps best known for the tefillat geshem or “ The Prayer for Rain” recited during the Musaf service
( An additional tefillah service recited right after the morning service.)
The Tefillah Geshem Matar ( Prayer for Rain) is inserted in the second section of the Amidah ( Or Shmoneh Esrei ) where the phrase:
Mashiv HaRuach U'Morid HaGeshem - is said which means: Who makes the wind blow and makes the rain descend is added to the blessing, This addition to Amidah is recited until Pesach.
Why a Tefillah Geshem ?
In Israel, crops planted in the spring( Aviv) depend on the rain fall that occurs in the fall ( Tsav) Moreover according to Jewish tradition all the world is judged at this time regarding the amount of rain fall to be given for the coming year. Therefore beginning with Shemini Atzeret â€" an additional Tefillah, Davening for rain are made part of the Beit Khesset service through the addition to Amidah.
The Spiritual Significance of Shemini Atzeret
The word atzeret comes from atzar- meaning to store or collect, since sukkot marks the end of the fall festivals. It is suggested that Shemini Atzeret is meant as a time to reflect on the previous months of observance and to store the memories of Torah in our hearts. Shemini Atzeret suggests the image of remaining or abiding ( Atzeret) of an extra day with YHVH, beyond the seven days of fullness represented by the seven days of Sukkot, since sukkot represents “ The Olam Habah” and the Millennial reign of Ariel Yeshua Ha'Mashiach Ha'Melech- The soon coming kingdom, Shemini Atzeret represents the eternal state of perfection, the day of the New Heavens and New Earth
( Is 65:17, Rev 21:1)
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- part 16.
Date: Jun 13th, 2009 11:42:50 pm - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed
Pt 16
Script:
Theme: Minhat Bekhor
Ex 23.1-33/ Ex 34.19-35/ Lev 23.1-25/ Num 15.1-41 Deut 26. 1-19/ Deut 18.1-22/ Hebrew 9.1-28
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Exodus 23.16
Next,the festival of harvest, the first fruits of your effort sowing in the field; and last, the festival of ingathering at the end of the year; when you gather in from the fields the results of your efforts.
Messianic Halakha comes to us from the Hebrew word to mean: This path, This walk, This way. It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the Halakha listings, we will cover the Halakha Importance of: Bikkurim- Perhaps i should have done this weeks ago but never the less it is next on my list, We try to always gain some points of reference from Talmud, not that Talmud is necessary for it isn't but In my mind it's purpose adds a greater depth oft and another way of looking at something, We treat it no different than would one treat a dictionary.
Bikkurim- The First Fruits, the portion of the fruits yearly harvest which would have been brought in the Beit Ha'Mikdash, The Hebrew term: Bikkurim and the related term '' First Fruit'' derive from the same root ward being- bekhor, meaning first born, the first fruits including the first grains to ripen each season were to be brought as an offering to YHVH.
Dvarim 26. gives detailed procedures for the offering of the first fruits, including the text of a liturgical recitation incumbent upon any who offered their fruits in the sanctuary. It is interesting that today there is a major segment of Churches who call themselves First Fruit Ministries, First Fruit Spirit of God, First Fruit this and that and i can guarantee you that they don't even no what First Fruit- Bikkurim is!
The manner of oblation prescribed in that passage represents a distinctive mode, Whereby the substances involved were not burnt on the Alter. But are merely displayed and assigned to the Cohanim- Lev 2:14- speaks of Minhat Bikkurim- A grain offering of first fruits prescribing that part that is to be burnt on the Altar. The Minhah Hadashah of Lev 23.16- The grain offering of fresh grain, poses a problem, since the rule was that no leavening dough could be brought up on the Altar, and the offering of fresh grain mentioned in that passage was to be baked from leavened dough. The offering of first fruits were both an individual obligation and apart of public celebrations, particularly the celebration of Shavout, also called Hag Ha'Bikkurim- The first fruits festival- Ex 23.16/ Lev 23/ Num 28. 26 A sheaf of the new barley ( omer) was offered on the 2nd day of the pesach festival- Lev 23. According to the Mishnah ( Bik 1:3,6,9)
In Second Temple times the pilgrimage to the Temple was for the purpose of offering the first fruits could be undertaken anytime between Shavout, in the late spring and Sukkot in the fall.
IN HALAKHAH
According to rabbinic commentary, The duty of bringing first fruits was confined to the seven distinct species growing in Eretz Israel
1.Wheat 2. Barley 3. Grapes. 4. Fig. 5. Pomegranates. 6. Olive Oil. 7.Dates
The fruits were given to the Cohanim after the donor recited confession ( Deut 26. 1-11) acknowledging Yah as the one who redeemed the Israelites from Egyptian bondage, and expressing gratitude to Yah who brought them out of bondage and to the promised land. The bikkurim were brought between Shavout- hence its designation as Hag Ha'Bikkurim â€" The First Fruits Festival & Sukkot, They could be brought as late as Hanukkah, but after Sukkot no declaration was made. The spring feast of Pesach & Yom Ha'Bikkurim occur in the month of Nisan. The period of time during the counting of the seven shabbats between Ha'Bikkurim and Shavout is exactly the time needed to raise the spring crops to maturity and full harvest. Israel left Egypt on the 14th of Nissan on the feast of pesach and under the blood of the lamb.( Lamb signified Yeshua, the final lamb- Did you know? the same Hebrew word for son being Ben- also has another meaning as being Lamb, which concludes the lamb is the son { how remarkable is that,}) In most contrast the words: Taleh, Kebes, Kibsah, kar, Seh, Amnos, Anion, Immar are the Hebrew words for Lamb, but Ben also means: Lamb/Son.
Then on the 15th of Nissan , Israel was yet observing Hag Ha'Matzot, this was the day after they left Egypt, and during this feast, Israel and those who sojourned with her( Gerim) were to clean out all chametz ( Leaven) from their midst. Then for a period of seven days, they wore to have no yeast found from the dwellings. The removal of yeast from there dwelling places can be clearly seen as the beginning of a new life outside of Egypt without the bondage of slavery to pharaoh. Leaven is seen as a symbol of sin, pride, haughtiness, being puffed up- 1 Cor 5.6- Israel left Egypt and the feast of Ha'Bikkurim passed ( remember they were not yet in the land as the future counting of the omer ended) Israel found themselves in the third month of their journey. The Bible states: that YHVH gave the Torah to Israel in the third month of their journey and Jewish tradition telle us, YHVH gave Torah to Israel in the 3rd month- on the exact day of Shavout- Ex 19.1-3.
In conclusion:
Once Israel entered the land, Shavout was then the festival of the first harvest. As stated above, In earlier times, the harvest of the barley and grains brought into the Temple after the counting of the omer according to the Bible, this is the day after Shabbat after Pesach ( The 1str day of the week- Yom Rishon- Sunday) on Ha'Bikkurim, when there was to be a wave offering consisting of sheaved grain from the field.
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 15.
Date: Jun 13th, 2009 11:40:13 pm - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 15
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Theme: Mattan Torah
Script:
Number( Bmidbar) 1: 1-4:20/ Hosea 2:1-22/ Dvarim 16.1-22
Shavout Scripture: Dvarim 14.22, 16.17/ Numbers 28.26-31- HafTorah: Habukkuk 3.1-19
Let us start this week by tying up Bmidbar being last week's Parashah with this week's Shavout and find out some very interesting things in relation to this feast, I pray you all had a wonderful Shavout as I have, as well as a wonderful Shabbat- two great Mo'edim in one day.
{ Baruch Hashem }
Bmidbar speaks of the counting of the census of the people as they wandered in Midbar-desert, Arabah- desert, wasteland. For the past six and a half weeks since Pesach, We Jews have counted what will be a culmination of the fiftieth day on which we celebrate Shavout, We see this counting in this weeks parashah. It is a longstanding custom to always read Parashah Bmidbar on the shabbat preceding Shavout. The Gemera ( Megillah 31 b) states that parashah Bechukotai ( The week before parashah ) should be read before Shavout- because Shavout is said to be- a day of judgment, on Shavout YHVH determines the success of the years fruit harvest.
Why is Shavout the day when Hashem determines the first fruit harvest?
It is explained that before Adam sinned by eating from the Tree of Knowledge, he was surrounded by abundant fruit trees that had been planted by YHVH'S own hands. After his sin, he was cursed that he would have to work the ground to earn his food, When Bnai Yisrael received Torah, they returned spiritually to the level that Adam had before his sin, and thus Shavout is a time to judge the first fruit.
What we read in parashah Bmidbar is ?
The tribes are counted, and afterwards, the tribe of Levi. Then the Leviim are commanded to camp around the Mishkan ( Tabernacle) ( 1:50) Afterwards the tribes are commanded to bind into four camps, each person by his flag with the signs of their fathers houses shall the Children of Yisrael encamp around the Tent of Meeting- They shall encamp ( 2:20)
The Tent of Meeting ,the place of the service of YHVH, The place of the dwelling of the shkinah and the bonding with it. And in its center, The Holy of Holies, The Ark of the covenant with the two tablets inside, and the Sefer Torah. It is known that each tribe was unique in some way, one like a Lion, Wolf, Snake and another like a Deer, Ox, Donkey.
Different strengths like the strength and measure of a body. So long as the Bnai Yisrael were in the desert and when they inherited the land. The Temple was the “ Tel Talpiyot”
( Shir Hashirim 4:4 ) The mountain that all mouths pointed to. ( Berachot 30a)
From all the corners of the world, Jews face toward the Temple in Tefillah, towards the spiritual center. The Torah discusses the encampment of the Jewish people in the desert.
The Sfas Emes ( Bashalach 5645) writes regarding the generation that sojourned in the desert. The manna is referred to in Torah as: “ Lechem Min Hashamayim- bread from heaven” ( Shemos 16.4.) Based on a Medrash, the sfas emes posits that the manna that the Jewish people ate in the desert was from Torah itself. This bread was in a sense a preparation akin to Adam who was placed in Gan Eden as a Test. Had Adam resisted the temptation of the Serpent and not eaten from the Tree of knowledge from the Tree of Life, Similarly upon the Exodus from Egypt, The Jewish people were worthy of the Tree of Life, and thus they were given manna which The Gemara ( Yoma 75b) describes as bread that the angels eat. The Gemara ( Shabbos 118b) states that had the Jewish people only observed the first Shabbat in the wilderness, no race or nation could have assailed them. This is derived from the fact that it is said ( Shemos 16:27)
Vayehi Bayom Hashevii Yatzu Min Ham Likot Vilo Matzau.
It happened on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, and they did not find.
Further is said in ( Ibid 17.
Vayavo Amalek Vayilachem Im Yisroel Bi'Refidim.
Amalek came and battled Israel in Rephidim.
Parashah Shavout:
Script:
Num 28.26-31- Exodus 19.1-25- Acts 2.1-47- Acts 20.1-38- 1 Cor 16.1-24
We have concluded the end of what is called: Sefirat Ha'Omer- Counting of the weeks, a 50 day count down that runs from Nisan 16 through Sivan 5th The first day of the count began on the second day of Pesach as we all know, and the last day occurs the day before Shavout. On the Gregorian calendar these dates run from April 10th until May 28th this year 09
This is a countdown period leading to the giving of Torah at Sinai and the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh to Yeshua's Talmidim. According to the sages, The Festival of Shavout marks the culmination of the experience of redemption, sometimes called: Atzaret Pesach- the conclusion of pesach. Since the great Exodus from Egypt was intended to lead to the revelation of Sinai, The goal of pesach is the giving of Torah to Bnai Yisrael. YHVH took the Jews out of Egypt so that they could be a treasured people, holy and separate from the pagan cultures around. All the Mo'edim are connected with this event including the fall festivals of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Some additional Shavout customs include decorating the home and Kehillah with greenery, eating dairy foods and sweets( as milk and honey) and staying up the entire night of Erev Shavout. For the Yehudim Meshichim shavout is the time of celebrating the birth of Kallat Mashiach â€" The bride of Mashiach ( Kehillah). Since the Ruach Ha'Kodesh was poured out to the believers at this time at the Temple on Shavout in Jerusalem during this festival. Like all other Jewish feast except Yom Kippur the festival of Shavout was appended with an extra day says the Rabbis called Tov Sheni- because of doubts as to the exact day of Rosh Chodesh- The precise start of the Hebrew month that determines the appointed times, because Shavout runs through Shabbat this week, the regular weekly Torah reading cycle is suspended. The first Pesach in Egypt took place 3500 years ago. Fifty days after the first pesach. 3500 years ago was the first Shavout in Jerusalem, exactly 1500 years later Yeshua Ha'Mashiach was born. Pesach 2000 years ago when Yeshua was 33 yrs old on the exact same day as the first pesach, the 14th of Nisan, Yeshua prophetically fulfilled Pesach as he was slaughtered at the exact same time that the sacrificial lamb was to be killed. Yeshua lay in the tomb for three days- Wednesday to Friday day and for a period of 40 days after the resurrection he appeared and gave further teaching and instructions to his Talmidim. Shavout 2000 yrs ago, It was on this Jewish holiday of Shavout exactly 50 days after Pesach when the Talmidim were all together in one place. (Acts 2.) “ There are no mere coincidences” First the Torah was given to Moshe at Mt Sinai on Shavout and then on the exact same day (Shavout) about 1500 years later the Torah was written on the peoples hearts as the Ruach HaKodesh filled all those who believed in Yeshua, As it says in:
Jeremiah 31:31-33
The time is coming,” declares YHVH,” when I will make a new brit with the bayit Yisrael and the bayit Yudah . It will not be like the brit I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to led them out of Egypt, because they broke my brit (Mitzvah) though I was a husband to them, declares YHVH. I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their YHVH and they will be MY people.
During the festival of Shavout 2000 yrs ago, the city of Jerusalem and the Temple area would have been crowded very much like we see with Jews from every country present for the feast.
Shavout is exactly 50 days after Melech Yeshua was resurrected. He was the first fruits of the Resurrection, on Shavout 2000 years ago 3000 were added to their number and the great harvest of souls was begun. Shavout is the anniversary of YHVH'S descent onto Mount Sinai, Therefore it is celebrated as the anniversary of the giving of Torah, For that reason Shavout is the festival of Mattan Torah- The giving of Torah. Ex 19 & 20, The story of the giving of Torah, The Ten Commandments and the Brit Sinai are the principal Torah readings in the Synagogue on Shavout.
As the Talmidim of the risen Moshiach gathered to celebrate Shavout in Jerusalem, they were gathering to celebrate the giving of Torah, The Midrash speaks of flames of fire which came to each individual at Sinai on the occasion of the giving of the Torah, The Bnai Yisrael not only heard YHVH'S voice, but actually saw the sound waves as they emerged from YHVH'S mouth. They visualized them as a fiery substance, Each Mitzvot that left YHVH'S mouth traveled around the entire camp and then came back to every Jew individually
( The Midrash says Shemot) The second miracle the Midrash preserves is the voice of YHVH speaking in every language known to man. In Rabbinical lore, there are 70 mother languages.
It says, And all the people witnessed the thundering- ( Ex 20.15 )
Note: that it does not say” The Thunder but the Thunderings” Wherefore R. Yochanan said that YHVH'S voice as it was uttered, split up into seventy voices in seventy languages, so that all the nations should understand
( Shemot Midrash Rabbah 5:9)
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 14.
Date: Jun 13th, 2009 11:34:34 pm - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 14.
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Theme: Yeshua The Lamb without defect
Script:
Number 28. 16-25/ Deuteronomy 16.1-22/ Matthews 26.1-75/ Luke 2. 36-52/ Luke 22.1-71
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The Orthodox Jewish Bible reading Bmidbar 28. 16.
And in the fourteenth day of the chodesh harishon ( first month Nisan) is the Pesach to Hashem. 17. And in the fifteen day of this month is a Chag ( Chag HaMatzot) Shivat Yamim shall shall matzot be eaten. 18. In the yom harishon shall be a mikra kodesh ( holy convocation), ye shall do no manner of melekhet avodah therein.
Messianic Halakha comes to us from the Hebrew word to mean: This path, This walk, This way, It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. Again Mitzvah stands for Law, Instruction & Oracle while Halakha means Application, many confuse the two as being the same and they aren't,
In this lesson we will cover the Halakha Importance of Pesach- The next six halakha lessons starting with last weeks Rosh Chodesh outline the biblical feast, From the book titled: The Feast of the Lord, By Rabbi Modecai Silver, Rabbi of Etz Chayim Fellowship NM. It reads on page 6. In the middle
As you notice the first and the seventh day of unleavened bread are Shabbats, Passover is not A Shabbat and Passover is a one day Mo'ed- Appointed Time. This day is usually what is considered to be preparation day, as it is on passover that the lambs are brought to the Temple and sacrificed in order to be used for the passover seder. The slaying of the passover lamb by the High Priest took place at 3:00 PM. This was precisely when Yeshua died and uttered the words,
“ It is finished,” Which Jewish tradition tells us are the same words that the High Priest said after he had slain the lamb. The other interesting point that I would like to bring up is that while the lamb was being slain in the Temple, Yeshua was being slain outside the camp, as he has become the embodiment of sin and was suffering a criminals death by crucifixion. Yeshua becoming sin for our sake shed his blood and offered up his body on the altar, So that we could become children of the living God- The Nation of Israel reborn anew through our High Priest Yeshua ( Cohen HaGadol) End of Book Quote.
Pesach begins on the 15th day of the month- Nisan, equivalent to March and April. In the story of the Exodus, The Torah tells us that YHVH inflicted ten plagues upon the Egyptians before this African people who would release the African Hebrew Slaves. It is the first of three major festivals, the other two are Shavu'ot and Sukkot based on Lev 23. Agriculturally It represents the beginning of the harvest season in Israel, probably the most significant observance related to Pesach involves the removal of Chametz ( Leaven)
This commemorates the fact that the Jews leaving Egypt were in a hurry and did not have time to let the bread rise, It is also a symbolic way of removing the puffiness of arrogance, pride, haughtiness from the souls of mankind.
There is so much about Pesach that we already no, so from Halakhoth aspect I want to point out some more values of Pesach from Talmud and Traditional thought.
HaHodesh Hazzeh Lakhem Hodashem
This month shall be unto you, the first of the months
Shemot 12.2
Hodesh HaAbib, The month of Nisan is the first month of the year in the counting of the months. There is no confession, There is no fasting one who has an anniversary of the passing of his father, mother consult Hakham as to whether the fast should be held in Nisan for you or not. Birkath HaIlanoth, The blessing of the trees should be recited this month, It is preferable to say it with a Minyan(quorum of ten males) so that the recitation: Birkath Ha'Ilanoth is said. It is also a festival in which there are a plethora of Minhaghim ( Customs) and Halakhoth ( Laws) which add to the occasion.
On the eve of the fourteenth day, the head of the household make the Bediqath Hames( Search for Leaven) by the light of the candle with only one wick, He takes with him a knife with which he thoroughly checks all cracks and crevices behind the wife to make certain she did her job in cleaning all the house before Pesach, If he finds any it must be cleaned, He makes sure all Leaven/ Hametz is put out, and a bowl in which a piece of bread is placed, A little salt should be added, one reason for this being that salt is known to be a deterrent to Ha'Satan who is said to be jealous of this Minhag.
The Halakha of this among the Ashkenazim is to use a feather and a wooden spoon during Bediqah. No Matzah may be eaten either, from the eve of the fourteenth until the seder at night Matzah- Massah Shemura is not to be eaten from Rosh Chodesh. It is worth noting that most Sephardim recite-
Berakha of Hammosi on Matzah which is Kasher Lepesah, only on Pesah itself. The rest of the year, Since this Matzah is considered to be “Lechem Oni “( Bread of Affliction), The Berakha of Mezonoth should be recited over it. Ideally however when eating- Kasher LePesah Massah during the rest of the year. The Berakha of Hammosi should be recited on bread and then the Massah should be eaten after it with no additional blessing, This way all opinions are satisfied. Matzah, Massah which is not Kasher LePesah however is deemed to be Hammes and Hammosi is recited. When Shabbat immediately follows a feast or holiday, an Erub Tabshilia must be made in order to permit us to prepare food on Friday- day for Shabbat. Before Minha, on Ereb Pesah 58 grams ( 20 0z) of Matzah must be set aside together with 29 grams ( 1 oz) of cooked food- usually by some a hard boiled egg, which we won't use because of it's pagan influence with Eastar, Easter. A blessing ( Berakha) and a formula permitting us to cook on Friday- Day for Shabbat must be recited, They can be found in most Holiday Siddurs, In the Tefillah Yesharim Shalosh Reghalim Books- They can be found on page 7.
Lastly Yeshua is such, that as the final lamb that his sacrifice covered more than the prior lamb, This lamb even covered the sins of the Goyims, the whole world. This Lamb died and a clear depiction of him being the final lamb is his blood shed the same way and direction the lambs blood drained down the altar, another thing is the lamb gave his life up as Yeshua gave his up, no one took the lambs life, he laid down his life freely as the perfect sacrifice and propitiation of sin as did the first stand till Yeshua came so Yeshua came and the offering of sacrifices ceased immediately after Yeshua died. You see no more offering of any lamb after Yeshua, This is not a coincidence- had another lamb died after Yeshua it would have had no effect, Yeshua has come and fulfilled all within himself and he is the only lamb who gave his body up and yet live today
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed-pt 13.
Date: May 16th, 2009 10:08:13 pm - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed -Part 13.
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Theme: Molad Keseh
{ The Halakha on Rosh Chodesh }
Message for 05/16/09
Tehillim 104. 19. He ( YHVH) the moon to mark the seasons
Script:
Genesis 1:14-16/ Exodus 12.1-14/ Numbers 10.1-36/ Colossians 2:8-23/ Isaiah 66.1-24/ Ezekiel 46.1-24
I want to begin this week's lesson first by mentioning momentarily that this ideal of moon worship is a distortion to why YHVH made the moon, Such is the case in Islam, It worships the moon god and a little ugly idol called Allah- which is about 10 inches high, I will cover than later.
It takes 29.5 days for the moon to orbit the earth, during each lunar orbit the moon's appearance changes from visible illumination ( called a new moon) through partially illuminated a waxing crescent( what Islam has as there icon) to an fully illuminated new or appearing new moon then back through partially illuminated waning crescent, The first time that the waxing crescent of the moon is visible marks the beginning of YHVH'S Jewish new month- called: Rosh Chodesh- Rosh Head, of the month, Twelve chodashim makes a shanah- Year, however since 12 times 29.5 equals 354 days, but a solar year is 365 days an extra month called ” Adar Sheni " is added to the Hebrew Calendar every two or three years in order to keep the solar seasons aligned with the lunar calendar.
Rosh Chodesh Transliterated Tefillah for the new or renewed month.
Yehi Ratson Milefanekha, Adonai Eloheinu Veilohei Avoteinu Shetechadesh Aleinu Et Ha'Chodesh Nazeh Letovah Velivrakhah Vetiten Lanu Chayim Arukhim Chayim Shel Shalom, Chayim Shel Tovah, Chayim Shel Berakhah Chayim She Parnasah, Chayim She Chillutz Atzamot, Chayim Sheyeish Bahem Yirat Shamayim Veyirat Cheit, Chayim She'ein Bahem Bosnah Ukhlimah,Chayim Sheoseh Vekhavod, Chayim Shetenhei Vanu Ahavat Torah. Veyirat Shamayim, Chayim Sheyemalei Adonai, Mishalot Libeinu Letovah Amen. Selah
May it be thy will lord our YHVH and the YHVH of our fathers, that you begin for us this month, for good and for blessing. May you give to us long life, a life of peace, a life of goodness, a life of blessings, a life of sustenance, a life of physical health , a life in which there is fear of shamayim ( Heaven) and fear of sin, a life of wealth and honor, a life there will be in us the love of Torah and fear of YHVH, a life in which Hashem fulfills the requests of our hearts for good. Amen, Selah ( Selah means to pause and reflect)
Bereshis 1: 14-16( The Orthodox Jewish Bible )
14.And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the raki'a of the heaven to divide the day( Yom) from the night; and let them be for otot ( signs) and for mo'adim (seasons) and for yamim ( days) and shanim (years) 15. And let them be for lights in the raki'a of the heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so. 16. And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lessor light to rule the night (Erev); He made the kokhavim (Stars) also.
So here is the very first time we see that creation wasn't just based on Yah wanting to create for the beauty of creation but to mark mo'edim, so the moon isn't any different it was created to mark the new moon- or new month, It was an impressive time schedule for Bnai Yisrael to remember times and dates to mark, determine when they were to keep not only certain feast but also to remember the feast of honoring a new moon- new month but YHVH did not give these elements of heaven to be worshiped.
Let's examine this ideal:
I believe that It was never the intent for the offspring of Isma'el to worship these various other pagan gods such as the worship of the moon, but it was YHVH'S intent for his descendants to stay with Judaism and the G-d of Israel, when Isma'el grew up in the camp of Avraham which G-d do you think he worshiped ? Islam was not- He observed Judaism and remained a worshiper of Yah, He wasn't in the camp observing Allah while Avraham observed YHVH, This moon became not a source of time recognition but an actual idol god for Islam. Just as Rome stole concepts from Judaism even from the scrolls in the Temple, even records reveal that Muhammad did also, Then the Koran is a compilations of the 360 gods of Kabah and mixtures of Judaism mixed together which is why they honor the moon in the first place, but that honor became an object of worship. The moon was never meant to be worshiped but was given as i say it again to mark the seasons, perhaps the Jews had a Jewish calendar like we have and when feast times came all they had to do was check the calendar, no YHVH provided an even better way of remembering certain feast based on different times of the year the moon, wheat, barley, sun, stars Etc.
Muhammad grew up worshiping many pagan gods in the kabah including the moon- which was called Hubal & Allah, Hubal was the lord of the kaban, being the highest ranking god of the 360 gods worshiped in the kabah. The Muslims will agree that there isn't any archaeological evidence for the crescent moon symbol being used in Islam, Moon worship was more prevalent in Arabia more than any other place in the world. Moon worship has also been observed in Egypt- Babylon- India- China- Certain African & Native American groups, The Chinese term: Shintoism is for the Japanese Kami No Michi ( Way of the god's) There was even a Chinese moon dance to it's worship, Among the baganda of central Africa it was customary for a mother to bathe her new born child by the light of the full moon. The moon was frequently equated with wisdom. The Maya civilization worshiped the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the constellations and gave human sacrifices to the moon and this planets.
Ancient Babylonians devoted one day to each of the seven celestial bodies, This practice eventually became common amongst the Mediterranean civilization and is the basis of the modern day seven day week, not to mention Rome worshiped the moon also amongst other pagan ideological gods, goddesses, The Greeks and even the Mexico Ancient civilization worshiped the Moon.
Where did these civilizations get the ideal of worshiping the Moon from?
The scripture is very clear why we honor a new month with the feast of Rosh Chodesh, many articles that i have read excuse Jews of pagan worship, saying we worship the moon and have feast to the moon, no one seems to correct this misconstrue.
The Scripture says in:
{ Reading from the New Century Version so it can be very clear, with a few word changes }
Exodus 12. 1-5
YHVH spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt; 2. This Month( Rosh Chodesh) will be the beginning of months, the first month of the year for you, 3. Tell the whole community of Israel that on this tenth day of the month each man must get one lamb for the people in his house. 4. If there are not enough people in his house to eat a whole lamb, he must share it with his closest neighbor, considering the number of poeple. There must be enough lamb for everyone to eat. 5. The lamb must be a one year old male that has nothing wrong with it. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat ( The sacrifice for a latter Yeshua to come)
A. Pesach feast marked by the moon
Numbers 10. 1- 10
YHVH said to Moshe, 2. Make two trumpets of hammered silver ( not a Shofar, actual Trumpet), and use them to call the people together and to march out of camp. 3. When both trumpets are blown, the people should gather before you at the entrance to the Meeting Tent. 4. If you blow only one trumpet, the leaders, the heads of the family groups of Israel, should meet before you. 5. when you loudly blow the trumpets, the tribes camping on the east should move. 7. When you want to gather the people, blow the trumpets, but don't blow them as loudly. 8. Aharon's sons, the cohanim, should blow the trumpets. This is a law for you and your descendants from now on. 9. When you are fighting an enemy who attacks you in your own land ( Jerusalem), blow the trumpets loudly. YHVH your El will take notice of you and will save you from your enemies. 10. Also blow your trumpets at happy times and during your feast and at New Moon Festivals. Blow then over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, because they will help you remember your YHVH. I am YHVH your El.
B. War and Feast marked by the moon
Colossians 2: 11-23
Also in Yeshua you had a different kind of Brit Milah( Circumcision) a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Yeshua's circumcision, that is, his death( Yeshua's death was a brit milah)that you were made free from the power of your sinful self. 12. When you were put in the Mikvah. You were buried with Yeshua, and you were raised up with him through your faith in YHVH'S power that was shown when he( YHVH) raised Yeshua from the dead. 13. When you were spiritual dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, YHVH made you alive with Yeshua. And he forgave all our sins. 14. He canceled the debt, which listed all the rules we failed to follow. He took away that record ( of our sins) with its rules and nailed it to the cross. 15 YHVH stripped the spiritual rulers and power of their authority. With the cross ( Tree,Stake) he won the victory and showed the world that they were powerless. 16. So do not let anyone make rules for you about eating and drinking or about a religious feast, a New Moon Festival, or a Shabbat day. { what you will find out when this is saying, It is actually talking about days and feast to pagan gods and worship days for idol gods- a Christian would take this and run with it} 17. These things were like a shadow of what was to come. But what is true and real has come and is found in Yeshua 18. Do not let anyone disqualify you by making you humiliate yourself and worship angels. Such people enter into visions, which fill them with foolish pride because of their human way of thinking. 19. They do not hold tightly to Yeshua, the head. It is from him that all the parts of the body are cared for and held together. So it grows in the way YHVH wants it to grow. 20. since you died with Yeshua and were made free from the ruling spirits of the world. Why do you act as if you still belong to this world by following rules like these: 21 Don't eat this, Don't taste that, Don't even touch that thing?( talking about added doctrines of men)22. These rules refer to earlthhly things that are gone as soon as they are used. They are only man made mitzvahs and teachings. 23. They seem to be wise, but they are only part of a man made religion. They make people pretend not to be proud and make them punish their bodies, but they do not really control the evil desires of the sinful self.
It reminds me of this erroneous notion of not eating meat and cheese together, That is a man made rule, The Text says not to eat goat boiled in his mothers milk- Exodus 23. 19
Deuteronomy 14. 21. do not cook a baby goat in its mother's milk.
Then Genesis 18 verse 8. Avraham gave the three men ( two angels and YHVH/Yeshua) the calf that had been cooked and milk curds( Cheese) and Milk. While they ate, he stood under the tree near them.
So then YHVH/Yeshua ate Meat, Cheese and Milk together, The man made law said you can't have meat, cheese and milk together, that's a man made law and if YHVH ate meat and cheese together so can we, The law is not to eat goat boiled in his own mothers milk, that is the law and stipulation alone, But man made laws of the Rabbis, even some Talmud,added stuff to the text.
OK after saying all that let's get started in the Halakha:
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Messianic Halakha comes to us from the Hebrew word to mean: This path, This walk, This way. It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the Halakha listings, we will cover the Halakha importance of Rosh Chodesh With the restoration of Yisrael, The feast of the new moon was and is a command of YHVH, to observe the renewed moon, The first arises as to how are we to calculate and observe this command of Torah. The purpose of the new moon is to distinguish times of feast observance, we see no where in the scripture where Yah said to worship the moon we see him using the moon as a clock to time festive events.
In greater detail B'resheet 1: 14-15 explains the purpose of the moon exhaustively from the point of creation, when YHVH actually put them in the firmaments he states why he created and put them there in th first place.
And YHVH said,” Let the lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to( purpose) separate ( Badal- to divide sever) the day from the night, and let them be for signs (ot- a signal, flag, beacon, monument, evidence) and appointed times ( Mo'edim. Mo'ed, Mo'adah- appointments, fixed times, seasons, festivals) and for days ( Yom- denotes heat of the day, sunrise to sunset) and years ( Shaneh- Shanah- Year, Age) and let them be for lights ( Ma'or- Me'orah- brightness, cheerfulness, luminary) In the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. “And it came to be so.” And YHVH made two great lights: The greater to rule( Purpose why) the day( Yom) and the lessor ( qatan- small, least, diminutive, younger) light to rule ( Memshalah-to have dominion, power over) The night ( Erev) and the stars.
Every single thing Yah made, was made for a purpose, function and reason, the moon and the stars at night don't shine for nothing, the day sun and clouds, blue skies to light up the world for nothing- why are they here? To create time, structure time, to rotate years, months, moments and weeks, Time is
A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. b. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration:
A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time. America Heritage Dictionary
In the book of beginnings we can see in the scripture that YHVH made the moon( Yareach- Yerach) with the purpose of creation. The moon was to divide,To be a sign, an appointed time of meeting ( Vayikra 23.) For rest of YHVH'S Mo'edim) To number time, through days and years, to rule over the night and stars, This lessor light, in comparison to the sun, The greater light for as mentioned Tehillim 104. verse 19 states. “ He made the moon for the appointed times( feast,” Mo'edim)
In this Tehillim we understand that the moon was created to set the time and timing of the yearly, monthly and weekly Mo'edim- Vayikra 23.- All the feast related there timing based on the new moon- all ways when the Torah of Moshe was written- Tehillim 104 was not yet written. How did then the ancient Yisraelites know this?
The answer is that the Hebrew word for month ( Chodesh) itself indicates a connection to the moon. The word is used interchangeable with the word( Yerah) Moon in scripture, we also see that the answer was very clearly printed in here, that as YHVH gave Torah to Moshe that was apart of YHVH'S teaching to Moshe first, Aharon second and to the people thirdly, Obeying what he said as a marker kept them aligned in the right month of observing all the feast days as Lev 23 and other text states. Also in the month (Yerah) of Ziv, which is the second month( Chodesh) M'Lakhim Alef 6:1.- When we read text like this and it says month, this month- is indicating under a closer interpretation it should say- In the feast of Rosh Chodesh in this month.
The New Moon is” First Cresent”
The Hebrew word Chodesh comes from the root words 1. Chet 2. Dalet 3. Shin which is said to mean- new, renewed, to make anew, renew. The crescent moon is called Chodesh because it is the first time the moon is seen anew, not an object of worship. It is seen anew after being concealed for several days at the end of the lunar cycle. At the end of the cycle the moon is closer to the sun and reaches conjunction when it passes between the earth and the sun. At this point the moon is not visible because of the glare of the sun, The moon then moves past the sun and continues toward the opposite side of the earth. As it moves away from the sun, a small percentage of its surface becomes visible shortly after sunset on evening after being invisible for 1.5-3.5 days. The moon is then said to be seen anew and becomes what our ancient fathers called a new moon, really we already agree that there isn't any such thing as a new moon, the moon doesn't destroy itself and reborn a new one as a seed bares its kind continually over after it dies, no a replenishing of time exist anew at the beginning of the month. The moon seems to be born again into a thin crescent known in Hebrew as a Molad- The word connotes birth, rebirth. It denotes a construction of a renewal of time, a reborn moment of creos, a newness of another month, a counting of perfect time, It is amazing that YHVH by and through creation could cause nature to work around feast in assuring his people were at the right moments in time to participate in the feast. Thou i am sure glad we have a calendar we can look at and we don't have to watch for the planets and fermentations to direct our paths as was before, thou some people still do encircle the moon and watch for its change monthly and watch for the celestial bodies to reveal the correct time,
We see in Tehillim 81.3 another picture of this
Blow the Shofar at the time of the Chodesh ( New, renewed moon) at the Keseh ( Full moon) on the day of our chag( feast)
So we know that ancient Yisrael observed the new moon, it was how they set YHVH'S year of feast observance, one time counts off another time leading to one feast after another, based by this divine time structure of the planetesimal precedence . I think it is marvelous and really amazing to this in this fashion and measure of why apparently these feast of Lev 23/ Num 18/ Acts 2 Etc. are you very vital and important to YHVH and the mandate for us to keep them, who else would create whole planet just to be a clock for our benefit. We read in 1 Sam 20 & 2 Kings 4: 22-23 that the new moon was a festival time of family and friends to meet and feast. It was and is a time of fellowship, it appears in Amos 8.5- that it was possibly observed as a Shabbat. One commentary assumes
In the Torah Revival of Ezra- the new moon was restored- Ezra 3:5, In Hosea 2.11- YHVH says that there would come a time that the House of Yisrael would cease to observe the new moon and shabbat, He would cause all her rejoicing, festivals, new moons, feast days and shabbat to cease!This was her punishment for leaving Torah and committing fornication with idol gods! Remember Yisrael (The Northern Tribes) set up false feast days ( 2 Kings 17.)
This happened when Ephraim became scattered with the doings of the Goyims, assimilating herself in the religious pagan deities and feast days of the pagans. The Church doesn't even observe the new moon or biblical YHVH appointed feast days. When ever we forget our allegiance to Torah, We forget our identity as Yisrael .
So then these places as labeled before honor the moon- which was given as a clock to Bnai Yisrael, the other surrounding nations picked it up and made it into a god, Jews do no worship the moon, Jews use the moon as a clock as it was given for, to distinguish times and time, Seasons and Season, weeks and Week, and nothing more, There is not a Jew who bows down to the moon and call it G-d's name. No it is but a word spoken, the moon, starts, luminaries originated from a word spoken, the word of YHVH speaking there realities into existence, was it blind ambition no it was the structuring of an eternal clock, yes eternal for the day is coming when the calendar's we use will be put away and we will observe these mo'edims forever, but the planets as the moon will be destroyed, the elements of the first creation won't be necessary for this coming last creation, the creation of The Messianic Kingdom, no need for the sun- for the ohr of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach will be what's shines, no need for a moon to be our clock, for we will know within ourselves when it is time to feast in Jerusalem where the kingdom will be, We won't need a barley, wheat to count the numbers, for we will know in Jerusalem the time. Yeshua will shout the call of the feast through the Shofar and we will be ready where ever we are there to prepare ourselves for feast, his teachings and eternal Judaic life with peace and no sorrow Amen.
Based in closing on Revelations 21 & 22
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed Part 12.
Date: May 4th, 2009 1:36:08 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
Why Messianic Halakha is needed
Part 12.
Mitzvot- Law/ Halakha- Teaching, Application
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Theme: Erev Avodah
Scriptures:
Tehillim 55.1-23/ Tehillim 145.1-21/ Tehillim 42. 1-11/
2 Timothy 1.1-18/B'resheet 1:5- with- B'resheet 1.14/
MCM Translation
Tehillim 55. 1-5
Listen, YHVH , to my tefillah! Don't hide yourself from my davening!pay attention to me, and answer me!
I am stressed and fearful as i make complaint, I shudder at how the enemy shouts, at how the wicked oppress; for they continue reaping trouble on me and angrily tormenting me, fear and trembling overwhelm me, horror covers me.
The Orthodox Jewish Bible
Tehillim 55.1-5
(For the one directing. With Neginos. Maskil of Dovid)
Give ear to my tefillah, O Elohim; and veil not Thyself from my techinnah(supplication.)
3.Attend unto me, and hear me; I wander restlessly in my si'ach (anxiety) and aloud I groan
4.Because of the voice of the oyev ( enemy), because of the oppression of the rasha ( evildoer);for they cast aven( iniquity) upon me, and in af (wrath,anger) cherish their malice against me.
5.My lev writhes within me;and the terrors of mavet are fallen upon me.
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Messianic Halakha comes to us from the Hebrew word to mean: To walk, This path,
This way. It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this less we will cover of the Halakha listings. We will cover the Halakha importance of Ma'ariv.
The Ma'ariv is the daily night tefillah,The last of three recited daily. The Hebrew word Ma'ariv is derived from the word Erev which means's evening. Ma'ariv is commemorative of the daily burnings of sacrificial left overs incinerated every night in the Beit Ha'Mikdash. Ya'akov who spent time in the night time to contemplate with YHVH, founded this tefillah and taught his descendants to do likewise. The adaptation of the tefillah Ma'ariv is relatively short, requiring ten to fifteen minutes to recite. It consist of the trhee paragraphs of Sh'ma, the Amidah, and Tefillot. Originally only Shacharit and Minchah were mandatory prayers, and Ma'ariv was optional. This is because the main Kipporim was offered by day. Eventually however it became accepted as prayer for every Jew that he must recite tefillah's three times a day, several changes took place after Temple service, adaptations of those Temple services wore created into tefillah's and individual services instead of priestly services until the Temple is built again. The Ma'ariv Aravim is a blessing often recited before the declaration of the Sh'ma during the evening Ma'ariv service, This blessing corresponds to The Yotzer Ha'Me'orot- how YHVH created the world, it's lights and array. The blessing recited before the Shacharit Sh'ma delclaration. An abbreviated version of this Ma'ariv is:
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Transliterated Tefillah Ma'ariv
Barukh Attah Adonai Elohim Melekh Ha-olam, Asher Bidvaro Ma'ariv Aravim, El Chai V'Kaiyam , Tamid Yimlokh Aleinu, L'olam Vaed. Barukh Attah Adonai, Ha'Ma'ariv Aravim
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English Tefillah Ma'ariv explanation
Blessed are you YHVH, our El, King of the universe who by his word. Brings on evenings, YHVH living and enduring, Always may he reign over us forever and ever. Blessed are, YHVH who brings on Evenings.
The afternoon service starts with Tehillim 145, Which is otherwise referred to as Ashrei. The service then continues with the Silent Tefillah which is termed as The Sh'mohneh Esrei or Amidah meaning the 18 which is really 19 Benedictions.
The Silent prayer Amidah comes from the root word Amid meaning standing, leading up to Ma'ariv, such prayers in the Ma'ariv or preliminary verses called: Sheer Hahmah Ah'loht. The evening tefillah formally starts with V'hoo Rahchoom and the Bahr'choo which is a public bowing to YHVH. The Sh'ma tefillah is then said and two blessings called :
Hahmah ah'reev ah'rahveem & Ah Hah'vant Oh'lahm and the three paragraphs associated with the closing benedictions Eh'meht (for redemption) and
Hahsh Keevehnoo ( for protection) This is then followed by the silent prayer which is the same tefillah said at the afternoon service excluding the Kahdooshah prayer, which is not said at night. The siddur contains additional tefillah's for the conclusion of Shabbat, counting the Omer ( said between Pesach and Shavuot ( right now!) Tehillim 27 is said from Elul to the 7th day of Succoth,Tehillim 49 said during Shivah period- which are the first 7 days in a house of mourning, Havdallah- separation prayer for the conclusion of Shabbat. The evening prayer service then concludes with Aleinu and The Mourners Kaddish if needed to say.
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 11.
Date: Apr 26th, 2009 2:45:40 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
Why Messianic Halakha is needed
Part 11
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Theme: Dorema Eshkar
{ Term Definitions included at the end}
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Script:
Minchah in the scripture-
Tehillim 141.1-10/ Tehillim 55. 1-23/ Dani'el 9.1-27/ Matthew 14.1-36
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Tehillim 141. 1-2 A Psalm of Dovid
YHVH, I have called you; come to me quickly ! Listen to my plea( Teshuvah) when I call to you.
Let me Tefillah be like incense set before you, my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice( Korban, Minchah)
Mattityahu 14. 22-25 -Tefillah of Yeshua after Minchah
Immediately he had his talmidim get in the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the crowds away 23. After he had sent the crowds away, he went up into the hills by himself to daven (pray). Night came on. And he was there alone 24. But by this time, the boat was several miles from shore, battling a rough sea and a head wind. Around four o'clock in the morning ( Yeshua prayed, Davened for about eight hours at that hill, I wonder what was he praying about and for whom, maybe he was praying for his Talmidim's faith, don't really know )
He came toward them, walking on the lake!
< Read the rest, It is a wonderful story, Imagine waves as high as hills, rushing and gashing against the boat, turning the boat from side to side and all the talmidim are covered in water drenched completely and Yeshua in the midst of all this is walking through a typhoon on the sea as if it were dry land. >
Let me tell you a story:
I received a little news letter in the mail yesterday from
Dr. Kevin Meador of The Prayer Closet Ministries Inc.
Titled: Returning to God's Word
The first Paragraph reads
A little girl and her mother were cleaning house one morning.
As the daughter was dusting the coffee table. She noticed a Bible.
She dusted the bible and asked her mother.
“ Isn't this God's book?
The mother was elated that her daughter recognized that the Bible was God's book.
She replied”Why yes dear, that is God's book”
The daughter then said ,
“Well why don't we send it back to him, because we never use it”
This Story illustrates the unfortunate neglect of the Bible by so called believers. ______________________________________
Let get started on this week's Halakha Lesson.
Messianic Halakha comes to us from the Hebrew word to mean: To walk, This path, This way, It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the Messianic Halakha listings. We will cover the Halakha importance of Minchah- spelled with a Mem, Nun, Het & Hay- The Hebrew word Minchah means Gift or Giving. It is used for any gift or present, not just a sacrificial offering of Tefillah.
The Minchah offering allowed people to renew their commitment to give themselves to YHVH. In ancient Israel
the Minchah is the most ancient of offerings, Cain and Abel would have given a Minchah to YHVH, which later becomes a Tefillah for the evening, In Shemot 29. The Morning (Shachar, Boker) and evening( Erev) sacrifices are instituted as Minchah and Olah using wording that suggest these concepts would be already familiar to Moshe. It involved giving a small gift (Mattan) in the contrast to the animal which would become the Olah (Burnt Offering) The Minchah required two quarts of fine flour, flavored with oil and frankincense, being given to YHVH. The Cohanim would have added a handful at that time to the Altar. During the first century, the olah was still being used in more of less the same way, until the second temple was destroyed.
A Rabbi Mordecai Kornfield writes:
The Shacharis Tefillah is called Shacharis because it is the morning (Shachar) prayer and it corresponds to the morning Tamid offering . The night time tefillah is called either Arvis or Ma'ariv and is called such because it is said at night (Erev)
Why though is the afternoon tefillah called Minchah?
The Vilna Ga'on in Shenos Eliyahu adds that we find a person is allowed to recite Minchah until the very end of the day. If the afternoon tefillah was instituted to correspond to the afternoon Korban Tamid as the Gemera (26 b) states that the Korbans slaughtering was never done later than 8 ½ hours into the day, So why should we be able to daven after the time of the slaughtering of the Tamid?
The Minchah tefillah was instituted to correspond not to the offering of the Tamid, but to the Minchah offering that was brought with the Korban Tamid (During which Eliyahu's Tefillah were answered ) Which could be brought until the very end of the day (Sunset according to the Rabanah, Plag Ha'Minchah according to Rabbi Yehudah, He explains that the reason the time for the afternoon tefillah was determined by the Minchah offering (and the morning prayer was not) is because the Korban along with all of it's associated offering's make up one single group called the Korban Tamid. In the morning , the time of tefillah is determined by the first part of the Korban, which is the Minchah offering. Rambam (Perush Ha'Mishnayos) says that the later afternoon is called Minchah in Hebrew, in fact the Hebrew word for gift is Minchah- any Hebrew dictionary will prove that. And therefore the afternoon tefillah is called as such.
The Avudraham adds that the Torah refers to the late afternoon as Ruach Ha'Yom ( Bereishis 3. which the Targum translates as “ Li Menach Yoma” which means the time the sun can be seen to be setting, hence the prayer said at that time is called Minchah
Aspects of Halakha for Minchah
The Gemara teaches the one who misses shacharis should recite two Shemoneh Esrei at Minchah similarly one who missed Minchah or Ma'ariv should say the following tefillah twice. What is the Halakha- spelt also Halacha and Halachah if a person forgot to say Ya'aleh V'Yavo during Minchah on Rosh Chodesh and he did not remember until night time after Rosh Chodesh ? Should he say Ma'ariv that night twice in order to make up for the Shemoneh Esrei that he lost. ( By not saying Ya'aleh V'Yavo ) during Minchah or should he not recite an extra Shemoneh Esrei because he already said them at Minchah, and he will not gain Ya'aleh V'Yavo because he does not recite it the night after Rosh Chodesh!
Answers: Tosfos (DH Ta;ah) cites two opinions in the Rishonim
(A.) Rabeinu Yehudah says that he not recite another Shemoneh Esrei at night to make up for omitting Ya'aleh V'Yavo in Minchah of the previous day, because he gains nothing by doing so
(B.) The RIF argues that he should recite a second Shemoneh Esrei at Ma'ariv even though he does not recite Ya'aleh V'Yavo in it.
It appears that the two opinions argue about the reason why a person must repeat Shemoneh Esrei altogether when he misses Ya'aleh V'Yavo on Rosh Chodesh, must he repeat Shemoneh Esrei because it lacked Ya'aleh V'Yavo and he must compensate for that. Or must he repeat it because his entire Shemoney Esrei is considered lacking, and therefore he must compensate for the entire Shemoneh Esrei?
Rabeinu Yehudah maintains that his entire Shemoneh Esrei is valid, but lacking Ya'aleh V'Yavo and therefore he must recite a second Shemoneh Esrei to make up for the missing Ya'aleh V'Yavo
consequently, If the recitation of another Shemoneh Esrei will not give him the Ya'aleh V'Yavo which he missed, there is no reason for him to repeat the Shemoneh Esrei.
The RIF , on the other hand, maintains that his entire Shemoneh Esrei is not a valid Tefillah, If he omitted Ya'aleh V'Yavo and therefore he must repeat it, even if he will not gain Ya'aleh V'Yavo by repeating it.
Halakha: The Rosh (4.2)
Says that the answer to this question remains in doubt. Therefore he concludes that one should recite a second Shemoneh Esrei at Ma'ariv but he should intend it as a Tefillah Nedavah
Since he is saying a Tefillah Nedavah due to a doubt as to whether he is actually obligated to recite another Shemoneh Esrei, he does not have to add a new request in his Tefillah, which one is normally required to do when reciting a Tefilas Nedavah. The Mishnah Berurah (OC 108:36) adds that if the night after Rosh Chodesh is a Shabbat or Yom Tov, one should not repeat Shemoneh Esrei, since a Tefilas Nedavah is not said on those days.
~ WORDS IN THE MINCHAH HALAKHA ~
Tamid: means Always, It outlines the procedures of Tamid (Daily Sacrifices- done from the Temple to todays actual prayer siddur
The Vilna Ga'on: Who is known as Rabbi Elijah Ben Shlomo Zalman, known as Vilna Ga'on, He was in the early 13th, 14th century a famous Talmudist, Halachist (which is a person effectual teacher of Halakha precepts) He was formost a leader of non hasidic world Jewry
Shenos Eliyahu : Berechot- portion of Eliyahu
Plag Ha'Minchah: Halachic hours before sunset
Korban Tamid: Sacrifices for the daily sacrificial services, The Korban Tamid teaches us that what we see as mundane, Hashem sees as the root of Kedusha- Embracing Mitzvah (Yah's Commandments)
Perush Ha'Mishnayos: Rambam Perush- Meraked (Sifting) It deals with sifting of the flour to separate the coarse brain as done in Temple sacrifices which became evident in Tefillah usage.
The Avudraham: This person real name was Rabbi David Avudraham, A Rabbi from Spain
( 13th- 14th century Spain) who was instrumental with Halakha
Ruach Ha'Yom: It is the spirit of the morning tefillahs, The divine spirit as explained by Korban He'eida in Tractate Sh'kalim- which you can further reseach.
Li Menach Yoma: Li first and foremost means my, to me, I am. It is the time when the sun is setting.
Ya'aleh V'Yavo: Means Arise and Come, it signals the new month which is called: Rosh- Head Chodesh, and it's tefillah added to Amidah.
Tosfos ( DH Ta'ah): It explains the removal of properties. Husband, wifes, something depleted, unjustly done.
Rishonim: Hebrew for Rishon,The former ones, were the leading Rabbis and Poskim- who lived during the 11th to the 15th century. Poskim means: A legal scholar who decides Halakha in case of civil and legislative laws for the Jew, Halakha is used to govern the laws of the land in Israel. We wish that were the case for America as well
The RIF: The scholar of 1013-1103. RIF stands for Rabbi Yitzchak of the city Kala in Algeria. He was well learned in Torah in the Yeshiva of Kairuwan and Halachic law
Tefilas Nedavah: It is a free will tefillah (prayer), It is compared to a Korban Nedavah. A free will sacrifice offered once in the Temple.
Yom Tov: Yom means day, Tov means Good- then Yom Tov expresses the good morning berochot, It refers also to the following biblical holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, The first two days of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, The first two and last two days of Pesach and both days of Shavuot.
The primary obligation of Yom Tov is expressed in Torah- And you shall rejoice in your festival and you shall only be happy. This biblical obligation to rejoice is exclusively to Yom Tov â€" on Shabbats we are only required to honor the day and engage in pleasing activities, The basic guidelines are: We are to enjoy two meals on everyday of Yom Tov one at night and another during the day, It is a Mitzvah to eat meat and rink Etc.
Conclusion:
Traditions in Halakha do not compromise scripture as long as they line up with scripture, so they are important for us to learn, see you next week- Shavua Tov
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Lawlessness-Reliving the days of Noah
Date: Apr 21st, 2009 8:17:21 am - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
LAWLESSNESS
Reliving the days of Noah
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
This weeks Halakha Lesson will be emailed by Sunday or Monday
Scripture: SPECIAL REPORT
1 Peter 1.3-25-Be Holy-lined up with Lev 19.1-2/ James 1.1-27/ Hebrews 4.1-16/
Deut 30. 1-20/ Hosea 14.1-9
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This is a lawless age, on Friday April 17th The Capital Resource Institute encouraged families to keep students from school as a day of silence, a campaign for Gay, Lesbian rights through
The Straight Education Network(GLSEN) Which is often used to make homosexual behavior appear normal on
school campuses .
Obama had an Easter Egg hunt at The White House with invitations to gays, a little girl came up to the microphone and stated how glad she was because she has two mommies.
Last week a teacher took a bunch of students to a gay show to learn about the rights of Homosexuality.
The stats say that 80% of parents are taking there children out of the public schools and educating them at home, or enrolling them at the area synagogue schools, I am in full agreement that it is time to take your children out of the public schools, one public school advisor stated that they had the right to teach the children whatever curriculum that they had in place, once the children are brought in the public school setting they have a right to educate them how they want to, and there correct, meaning this if you don't get your kids out of there then you in agreement for them to be taught whatever!
If you let your children go to The Public School System of Sodomites then Yea there going to brainwash them into the acceptance of every immoral satanic thing possible, It is time to do one of two things, If you are in the north take your children out of this deprived school system and educate them yourselves, another percentage of people are moving completely to more bible belt areas in the south, where scriptures are still being used as curriculum, I am in full agreement with that also, I know some people who are getting the heck up out of the north to move in areas in the south for a better life and to raise there children in some of the areas that are less likely to have Homosexuality and Lesbianism as the core class assignments. I am in full agreement that it is time to get the kids out of the school systems,
(1.) Not only is an arise of Gay Teaching going on. (2.) 77% or so of the teachers and educational faculty are messing around with the children (3.) The School Systems are cutting out music, gym, performing arts, crafts and technical life skills and programs like wecept which taught children skills to get employment or wood working or metal shop, They want to get rid of those programs for gay friendly programs even if they cost more, We are living the days of Noah, It is one thing for a person to be whatever they want to be, but to push that on people who don't believe in it is unacceptable,
The fact is legalities to back up personal agendas is not going to change the minds of people who really believe in God, and God has said such a lifestyle is an ABOMINATION- Leviticus 18.22/ Leviticus 20.13/ Romans 1.27
And we who are believers of the word of God believe just that, we don't go around knocking off people's heads and telling them there going to Hell for living that way even thou that is true, so we won't accept this government
progressively pushing this agenda to be accepted by all of us, because it won't be.
What i have discovered is that this isn't new this is the very sins that caused YHVH to destroy the whole wide world by water and i want to prove that to you by the Hebrew word used there in Genesis 6. We wore taught that YHVH destroyed the world because of SIN, but they did not tell you what sin it was? It was the sin of Homosexuality and Lesbianism that caused YHVH to destroy the whole world, people have become so accepted of this that even the Religious Authorities says nothing, some even agree with this, Again we don't plan on bothering people who live opposite of the scriptures plus we can't judge those that are without only those within, so if they live this way they will answer for it to God, but as long as you don't legislate it using our public funds, I am not planning on bothering people, thou we will stand up against it when government is trying to legislate it and take our income to support what obviously we don't agree on and neither does GOD.
Lawlessness means:
Not regulated by the authority of any laws, not in conformity with law(Torah) unruly and unwilling to be under subject or under any kind of authority.
Persons become an authority or a law to themselves, they disregard the law of YHVH and became a lawlessness to themselves by disregarding Yah's law completely -
Proverbs 14.12
There is a way which seems right unto a man(or woman) but the end thereof are the ways of death.
So a person is right in there own eyes, But i believe all persons wore given an inward knowing of right and wrong and each person has within them the inept longing to serve and worship something, each one has some of God within them, They then disregard his corrections, they dis avoid his rulings and serve there own selves, but in order to do that you would have to be able to be sered in conscience and a person can do that by not taking heed to YHVH warnings, so then when he sends them to Hell who can be blamed YHVH or the person, the person- warning won't do away with your own will,
If your will supersedes Yah's warning then we deserve everything that comes with that decision.
The Greek word for Lawless is Anomos or Anomia- pronounced anam-os/ anam- mia meaning without law, The opposite of Anomos would then be Nomos- having law.
Anomos then means someone that is Anti-Torah, Anti- Law, Anti- Instructions
The closet Hebrew words for Lawlessness would be
A. Shachat â€" Immorality
B. Chamas- Violent or Lawlessness( We will see this word again soon)
Lawless, Lawlessness are terms that describe people not restrained or controlled by Law or Torah, especially YHVH'S Law- Torah, Tanakh, Brit Chadasha (Bible) The Scriptures speaks of what lawlessness is:
C. Open Rebellion against God is lawlessness- 1 John 3.4
D. Those responsible for Yeshua's death including the Jews apart of his death >
are characterized as Lawless- Acts 2.23
E. Goyims in their Idolatry are Lawless -
1 Peter 4.3
F.The end time rebellious Anti-Messiah is called The man of lawlessness- 2 Thess 2.3
G. The lawless one is already at work, but is presently restrained- 2 Thess 2.6-7
H. The lawless one will be revealed before the return of Yeshua,
Yeshua will destroy the Anti- Messiah with his own breath- 2 Thess 2.8
Most people will serve the beast and his image because they don't know the scriptures!
some already think Obama is there Messiah!
Another form of lawlessness is termed as Antinomianism which is one who oppose the moral law. Antinomianism is the polar opposite of legalism. The notion that obedience to a code of religious law is necessary for salvation is far to much for some who want to be a law to themselves. Who could disprove the scriptures and dismiss the God who wrote them, All mankind knows God is real and all mankind knows that his word is true, but when it comes to doing what he said to do, they differ on and veritable opinions arise as they serve themselves and forfeit there place in eternity.
Some evidence of Antinomianism is mentioned in scripture throughout the Hebrew text, different covenants (Laws, Oracles, Mandates) are described in two of the covenants titled as Mosaic and Davidic.
The Davidic adds an emphasis of YHVH'S unconditional commitment to
The Mosaics apparent emphasis of YHVH'S demands, both Moshe and David describe the same eternal covenant, a covenant further expounded by Elijah, Isaiah and the other prophets , who have to continue to remind followers repeatedly of YHVH'S demands.
It is stated in Daniel 7. that certain powers will try to change (not expound) the Torah, In speaking of the little horn in Daniel 7. Many Jewish Minds relate this chapter to Antiochus Epiphanes -somehow erasing the thought of a message refering to the ten nations and the Anti-Messiah they relate this to Antiochus Epiphanes who was an Anti-Messiah but not thee Anti-Messiah,
In our Jewish History there has been many accounts of Holocausts from the Jews of Africa, African American Slavery, Spanish Inquisitions, Jews of Germany, Etc.
Daniel 7. 25 states:
He shall speak words against the most high, shall wear out the holy ones of the most high, and shall attempt to change the sacred seasons and the Torah, and they shall be given into his power for a time, two times and a half a time.
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Some Jewish scholars base Daniel 7 with the events of The Maccabean Revolt 165 BCE against the Hellenization of the Jews by The Seleucid King Antiochus Epiphanes through this event we recognize as the feast called Hanukkah ?
The Apocrypha reads in
2 Macc 6.1
Not long after this the king (Antiochus) sent an Athenian Senator to force the Jews to abandon the customs of their ancestors and live no longer by the laws (Torah) of God.
1 Macc 1.14-15
So they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem according to gentile custom and removed the marks of circumcision and abandoned the holy covenant (Torah) They joined with the gentiles and sold themselves to do evil....
No wonder why the Jews want nothing to do with Gentiles!
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Anomia as being unrighteousness, unlawful is found referenced in these additional scriptures for your personal study in:
Matt 7.23/ Matt 13.41/ Matt 23.28/ Matt 24.12/ Rom 4.7/ Rom 6.19/ 2 Cor 6.14/
2 Thess 2.7/ Titus 2.14/ Heb 1.9/ 1 John 3.4
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Knowing to do right and being unwilling to do it is Anomia, Anomia is lawlessness
For just as the days of Noah were, in the same way will be the coming of the son of man- for as in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in Marriage, until the day when Noah entered the Ark and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away- likewise just as it was in the days of Lot- they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, Fire and Sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all! So will it be on the day when the son of man is revealed- Matt 24. 38-9/ Luke 17. 28-30
What were these days of Noah like?
What can we say about Dor Ha'Mabul- The generation of the flood? In a word Yeshua told us that this generation was asleep, blind, ignorant, unaware- For ten consecutive generations from the creation of Adam until the generation of Noah, The people became progressively more and more ignorant of Torah, spiritual reality and truth. Forgetting who God is, spiritual blindness everything leading to corruption and violence.
Of Noahs generation- It is written “ That the earth was corrupt before God and filled with violence (Gen 6.11)
Rashi understood that word corruption (Shachat) to mean Sexual Immorality
( Idolatry) and violence (Chamas) to mean robbery,
These people wore killing each other, Homosexuality and Lesbianism was taking place and robbery was in place, The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were worst even then Homosexuality and Lesbianism caused God to destroy those five cities and burn them and every single person involved in that abominations to be murdered by the hand of God himself, what would cause one to think God is not angry about this madness now, what is holding God from acting in my mind is prophecy and there fulfillment leading to the coming back of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach at that time he will destroy the world for good and those of us who kept the faith and obeyed Torah will be living in New Jerusalem.
The Condition of living without: Yirat Ha'Shamayim (Awe of Heaven)
when we are spiritually dead we are unconscious of the wonders of God.
Some of the sages think that Hashem's judgment came in stages.
The great flood was preceded by four successive generations of prophets that warned of the coming cataclysmic judgment: Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and finally Noah.
It is fascinating to understand that Adam himself was alive when Noahs grandfather Methuselah was born. So the original message of Teshuvah was an echo that came from eden itself.
YHVH gave mankind 120 years to repent from his sexual corruptions of Homosexuality and Lesbianism and murder and sedition or be faced with destruction (Gen 6.3) despite Noahs 120 years of warning, YHVH saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination ( Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Bestiality Etc.) of the thoughts of mans heart was only evil continually
(Gen 6.5)
Mankind refused to repent and turn to God.
Yes you can do whatever it is you as a people want to do, but your doing doesn't change the penalty of sinning against God, a people can sleep with there family members, sleep with your own sex, or with animals or steal, or murder- they doing won't change the penalty of the scriptures, you will face an angry God and will go to Hell if you don't repent and turn from your evil ways. God is loving enough to draw people who are in those life styles if they want to be drawn, But it will be the same condition from the days of Noah to our present day that will cast judgment again
The legal systems wants to now stop radio and TV ministries from saying what the word says, they want to silence the message and besorah of YHVH- Yeshua
Why?
So people can do what they want without barring any guilt or consciousness for sinning against God, If they silence the radio stations, stop all the TV ministries, If they bar bible sales and close down every congregation- That won't stop God's judgment on sin, Since mans arms are two short to reach God, He is the one source that is untouchable !!! Since the days of Noah to our present day. Mankind refuses to repent and obey the word of God, they stand in Anomia through serving other gods in other religions, by these detestable practices and there lawlessness of the hearts. You see if a person won't serve YHVH they will serve something, We wore created to serve and worship, the object of that serving and worship is a totally a different thing due to our own will, intent, behaviorism conduct and minds.
The practice of lawlessness which is what it is( no one is born gay, like no one is born choosing there color or ethnicity, It is a persons choice to live in rebellion, it is a persons choice to decide sin over God. People use those cop outs to dishevel there minds of the guilt there facing )
The practice of lawlessness has led to the acceptance and practice of sexual promiscuity even in our laws of the land, which mind you don't supersede the laws of YHVH.
This intern resulted in the loss of mankind's sanctity( Kedushah) indeed it is a mark of our age to be enamored with degrading passions with gender confusion and regularly practiced Idolatry (Fornication, Adultery, Homosexuality,Lesbianism and all other kinds of Chamas)
I am not saying sins of Homosexuality and Lesbianism alone, all sin will lead anyone to Hell, If repentance doesn't take place-
If we lie, steal, cheat, lust, hate, commit fornication, adultery, any acts of lasciviousness will lead to Hell.
Lawlessness from depraved minds, causes a condition of being unable to reason properly at all. A depraved mind is literally insane from spiritual perspectives, people who are devoid of conscience are unable to reason along the lines of Ethical truth at all. This promoted and provided a cultural collusion to suppress truth, to silence the truth tellers, To kill the prophets, lawlessness squelches the inward voice of right and wrong within the human heart. Our culture today is surely as
” The days of Noah” It is a culture of rife with violence, madness and depravity and sexual confusion and dumbfounded idolatry,
The land has became a god to itself , To see a land called America which was build upon biblical principals,and family ideals, To see a place that was called America that has switched gods for the pleasing of the people is a sad affair, and we are becoming all to urgent for Yeshua to return.
And some are becoming very urgent to leave there state to try to find places that still uphold scriptures, that have family ethics and biblical roots.
Who don't want there money stolen from them to pay for sex operations and trans gender depravities, Why don't we see any one trying to trans gender from a person to a dog, or a frog or a muppet- It is getting that bad, but yet some how they have borders where they don't want to bark or hop or be a frog, which means then it is a rebelled mind who dishonors the word of God for there own driven passions.
From the governmental decrees, Our tax dollars support =plan parenthood, gay right organizations, We have here in NY State a Gay and Lesbian School for children, which takes tax dollars support, We don't want to allow men who want to be woman to go in the rest rooms with little girls, We don't want to pay for men who want to get operations, and we don't want to pay for Lesbian women who want to raise children that way or adopt children that way, We don't want that coming out of our pockets when we don't support that type of thing, So it is not a wonder to me that since 2001 over a million people have left NY state, and another 2 .5 million from these other northern states
and places like Detroit, Illniois, and other places are moving to places throughout the south like South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee has increased it's numbers dramatically because they don't accept or do gay marriages there, but the government here in NY wants it and are voting now to get it.
I just foresee biblical believers trying to find places that uphold biblical mandates moving to places in the south and some making there Aliyah to Israel- which we no will never have gay marriages or homosexual rights in the old city ,
But we do no all these things are suppose to be , Yeshua said it- but it isn't the end yet- All these things must come and the wicked one will seem to be winning but low and belond Yeshua is coming- get ready!
A message like this one would be considered as Hate speak, When all your doing is transposing the very message of the Bible, Why is it that if someone who doesn't believe a thing another believes it is hate speak, or evil. It isn't that it is hate speak, It is that people don't want to be reminded of there sins and the penalty of Hell, They don't want to consider that the very word which is of God in the scriptures is true enough for God to act upon,
I implore people to be visible in the Tea parties, and to let your voice be heard, they had a tea party here in Monroe County a week ago which i couldn't go to because it was Pesach, but i would further proceed by stating it is time for the believer to open there mouths and proclaim the scriptures before He who will let, has let : silence isn't an answer!
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 10.
Date: Apr 6th, 2009 5:18:19 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 10.
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
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04/6/09
Theme: Daven Boqer Ohr
{ Notice }
Because of Pesach there won't be any more news letters until 04/25/09
and our Torah dedication service will be on 4/18/09 for our new Torah
“Have a wonderful Chag Ha'Matzot”
Script:
Please read this whole lesson, there is some really good information here about the prayers and about Yeshua
Script:
Tehillim 5.1-12/ Tehillim 88.1-18/ Shemot 14.1-45(No Shacharit mixed with sin)
Yesha'Yahu 50.4-11/ Tehillim 102.1-28
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Messianic Halakha comes to us from the Hebrew word to mean to walk, It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the Messianic Halakha importance of Shacharit, We have touched on the morning prayers in our past halakha lessons and today we want to dedicate this lesson specifically to Shacharit, There is some additional information to the essential purpose and reason for this Tefillah and i want to give you that additional information.
On the 25th when we resume the normality of our Kingdom Living Letters © news letters we will pick up on Minchah. It is to this purpose that when we end this series a few months a way that you our readers will have a complete list of Halakha as far as Messianic Judaism is concerned, I have sixteen more lessons to cover according to my notes, but it looks as if i may add some more to the list, I believe there are some additional Rabbinical Halakha lessons which i would like to add to the list. I think it would be undone without mentioning some of the latter Halakha studies which you should learn, mind you these lesson are mainly for New Jews and to reinforce what we already know, plus i have added to the Halakha my take on the lessons which you can dismiss or receive as fundamental resourceful information, Now the scriptures that have been listed with each lesson is given to prove that in the so called Old Testament(Tanakh) and in the so called New Testament( Brit Chadasha) that these Halakha lessons were the norm, and that even Yeshua himself observed Halakha and the scriptures proves that, Halakha was known to Rabbi Shaul and is a intertwining source in the text of the whole bible, as always if you have any questions concerning the lessons email us at mindchangingministries@minister.com
Lesson:
The Shacharit comes from the root word Shachar-meaning: Morning Light( Boqer Ohr)
The Shacharit is the mourning prayer, Halakha limits sections of this prayers recitation to the first three or four hours of the day while saying the Sh'ma and the Amidah, various prayers are said at this time upon arising. The Talis Koton (garment with Tzitzit) is put on or the Tallit is donned before and during the prayer service. The service starts with the morning blessing called: Birkot Ha'Shachar-including blessings for the Torah, the very next section is titled:
Pesukei D'Zimrah(Verse of Praise) containing portions of Tehillim passaged being Chapter(kothereth) 100 & 145-150
Tehillim 5.(as mentioned in the scripture listing above) verses 1-9 -says From The Orthodox Jewish Bible(The very best in my opinion!)
1.For the one directing. For the flutes. Mizmor Dovid)
2.Give ear to my words
Hashem, consider my meditation.
3.Pay heed unto the voice of my cry, Malki vElohai; for unto thee will I Daven(Shacharit, Tefillah, Prayers)
4.My Voice shalt thou hear in the boker(morning)
Hashem in the boker will I bring my prayer before thee as a spiritual sacrifice and wait for an answer.
5.For thou are not El that hath pleasure in resha, neither shall rah dwell with thee.
6.The holelim(arrogant) shall not stand in thy sight; thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
7.Thou shalt destroy them that speak kazav(falsehood) Hashem will abhor
the Ish damim u'mirmah(bloody and deceitful man)
8.But as for me, I will come into thy Bais in the multitude of thy chesed
and in thy fear will i bow down toward Thy Heikhal Kodesh
9.Lead me , Hashem, in Thy tzedakah because of mine enemies
make Thy derech straight before my face.
Shacharit covers such prayers as Yehi Chevod
which is made from the tapestry of biblical verses followed by Shemot chap 14,15 and then supported by the Barechu- The public call to Tefillah which introduces a series of corporate expanded blessings embracing the Sh'ma, Amidah or Shemoneh Esrei- a series of 19 blessings directly thereafter the prayer of Tachanun- supplications- which are omitted on days with festive character. The concluding Tefillah is Aleinu.
The Shacharit commemorates The Tamid Shel Shachar
The sacrifices once offered in the Holy Temple every morning!!!
Since we don't have a Temple just yet to offer our offerings and sacrifices, we offer our prayers instead(very important for you to remember)
The Shacharit comes to us today and was given to us from Avraham, who would regularly
offer Tefillah in the morning to YHVH ( Genesis 21.14) and he taught his descendants to do likewise, even “Yeshua and his Talmidim did Shacharit in the mornings” ( Mark 1.35 ) WOW
The Amidah is the central, critical section of Shacharit around which the other sections were built, In the times of the Temple- Beit Ha'Mikdash- when full Tefillah services were not required, Tefillah consisted of the Amidah alone...
The Shacharit adds Torah readings on Shabbat, Holidays- Monday and Thursday- an additional service called a Musaf is sometimes added.
There are 39 steps and 7 sections to the Shacharit service
A. Preliminaries
1.Modeh Ani- The blessings recited after arising
2.Yirat Adonai- Awakening to YHVH
3.Upon Bathing â€" Blessing recited upon bathing in the morning
4.Donning Tzitzit- The blessing recited upon putting on Tzitzit
5.Donning Tallit- The blessing recited upon putting on the prayer shawl
6.Donning Tefillin- The blessing recited upon puttin on Tefillin
7.Yetzer Hara- Prayer to overcome evil inclinations( also called Yetzer Ra)
B. Birkat HaShachar- Additional Morning Blessings
8.Mah Tovu- Verses recited upon entering the synagogue
9.Adon Olam- Master of the universe
10.Yigdal- May he be exalted
11.Birkat HaTorah- Blessings for Torah
12.Birchot Hashachar- Morning Blessing
13.The Akedah- Binding of Isaac(Yitzchak)
14.L'olam Yehei Adam- Always should a man revere YHVH
C. Warm up prayers-
The Pesukei D'zemira(Verse of Song) Sections of Tehillim
15.Kaddish- Sanctification- a prayer of praise recited by mourners.
16.Barukh She'amar- Blessed is he who spoke
17.Hodu- Give Thanks
18.Ashrei- Praiseworthy
19.Yishtabach- closing benediction
D. The Sh'ma and it's blessings
20.The Barekhu- call to Tefillah
21.Birkat Yotzer- Blessings for the creator
22.The Keriat Sh'ma
23.Birkat Geulah- Blessing of Redemption
E. The Amidah
24.Shemoneh Esrei- Amidah < Amid-standing prayer is recited on Shabbat and Holidays- Yom Tov>
25.Tachanun-Supplications-recited right after Amidah
26.Hallel- praise-selections from Tehillim(Psalms) said on Rosh Chodesh and Holidays
F. The Torah Service < The Torah reading( Keriat HaTorah) and aliyot (Mondays, Thursdays and Shabbat)is normally next in the Shacharit Seder:
27.Birkat HaTorah- The Blessing of the Torah
28.Opening of the Aron Kodesh(The place where the Holy Torah is kept)
29.Torah Processional(As done on Simchat Torah-walking and letting the people see)
30.Torah Blessings and Readings Raising of the Torah Scroll
( Hagbahah- literally means Torah lifting, The Honor of rising the Sefer Torah( Torah Scroll for the congregation to see.
31.Reading of the Torah Scroll-As done for Simchat Torah
32.HafTorah Blessings
33.Brit Chadasha Blessings(Only done in Messianic Judaism!!)
34.Return of Torah to Ark
G. Conclusion
35.Ashrei- Prayer taken from Tehillim 145
36.Uva L'Tzion- recited except on Shabbat and Yom Tov
37.Ein Keloheihu
38.Half Kaddish- Sanctification
39.Tefillah for leaving the Shul, Synagogue, Beit Tefillah Etc.
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The Shacharit( Morning Service)interprets the form and content of the Shabbat Synagogue service. While conceived as a concert setting of the text, the harmonic melodic structure also contains references to the traditional Ashkenazic Prayer modes of the service
Baruch She'amar- Blessed is the one who spoke and the universe came into being, opens with an timpani roll expressing the creative force of the word, Torah. The call to public worship (Barechu) chanted with awe and reverence, uses an ascending major third and descending minor third, as in the traditional call and response, The Chazzan sings all the prayers and the Rabbi recited them with passion, vigor, humility and drawing to each word of the prayers to assure proper recitation and proper thoughts and mind set with the prayers as they are Kodesh and point us to YHVH and Yeshua Ha'Mashiach, Keep in mind that these prayers are at least 3400 years old and Yeshua knew them and observed them as the scripture i showed you proved that, many assume that these prayers are all man made and imputed with man made traditions.
I want to correct that falsity, these prayers as the fiber of Judaism was a common normality for Jews at that time as today, mentioning these prayers would not have been anything uncommon or new or oblivious as apart of the core fabrics of Judaism, so it isn't surprising that Yeshua observed these and as a Jew spoke them as they are today in Hebrew, I have come to realize that since these Tefillah were a mode of life and apart of the scriptures as much as they are alive today, Yeshua and his Talmidim knew them well, well enough to recite them at the Temple for most of the times they went, for people who say the Old Law(Torah, Tanakh) has been done away with, can't see that the so called New Testament is nothing more but a continuity of all that ever was, Judaism doesn't have this mind set of Christianity were the doctrine and dogmas change depending on the mood, These core prayers are the same as they ever were, and they wore no new thing to Yeshua and they neither should be for us, Another thing i realize now is that until we learn Hebrew we will never realize our bibles and never able to connect the dotes of the times of Yeshua to this present age, “ He is here in Spirit, In the Liturgy, In the songs, In the Tallit, In Messianic Judaism and Judaism alike- He is here and when i hear the prayers it is easy to see him reciting them himself, It is easy to hear him calling out Tefillah, Davening, Baruchs and Sh'ma- because he did!! some how people really seem to see the Torah/ Tanakh and the New Testament as if they are not together- There really isn't any chapters in the Bible, men added that- from Genesis to Revelation it is all one-Echad not separated by any means, nor was it meant to be- It is complete as one, until we see that- we will forever separate the Law from grace, or Mercy from Torah-
When Yeshua never came to separate the Law or Torah, Matthew 5. When it states in verse 17. Don't think that I have come to abolish( chalaph- hasten away,chathath- break down,machah-erase) the Torah or the Prophets(Tanakh) I have come not to abolish( Destroy, break down, erase) but to complete(tamiym-entire completion,pleroo-to fill) 18. Yes indeed! I tell you that until Shomayim and HaEretz pass away(Heaven and Earth) not so much as a Yud or stroke will pass from the Torah not until everything that must happen has happened.
So then he is speaking as the Moshiach in the Brit Chadasha that he hasn't come to create a new religion that changes the very word of God, He hasn't come as a False Messiah that changes the word, He kept the word and never taught a contrary message to disobey Torah, The Torah will remain in place forever and will at the Yemei Ha'Mashiach Acharit Ha'Yamin be completed in him, Him stating that it won't pass until everything that must happen has happened, until the prophecies materialize and he returns as Ariel, It won't change, when he comes it won't change, his position changes from a meek and lowly shepherd to the lion of the Tribe of Judah, The Torah at that time will encompass those revelations as applying to himself, what will change is men won't be able to serve Judaism absent of Yeshua, what will change is that he will be Melech over Israel and men won't look for another Moshiach, What must happen is what Revelations states must happen, He has already been denied by men, who seek his father with out seeking him- That has already happened, What will happen is that the son of man must return, and every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that”YES”this is Yeshua Ha'Mashiach- Moshiach of Israel and the world!! until that confession comes, until he returns and fulfills all things, Torah doesn't change, The Torah won't change- Heaven and earth shall pass away but the word shall stand, so when does it change, it doesn't change- It fulfills its place in Moshiach , that can't happen right now- because men won't allow it to happen, men won't believe the records that he is Yeshua the only Messiah, men won't serve him- They want Judaism absent of the real Messiah, but a day is coming when they shall recognize and bow themselves before him, when he comes that shall be a day of true Tefillah, not such as ever been seen before or heard out of the mouths of men!!!!!
Translation of Shacharit Text in Transliteration
Baruch Shemar V'Haya Ha'olam
Blessed is the one who spoke, and the universe came into being
Baruch Hu
Blessed is the one
Kol Haneshama T'halel Kay(Yah) Halleluyah
All who breathe praise YHVH- Halleluyah
Barechu Et Adoshem Hamevorach
Blessed is the eternal one who is blessed forever and ever
Or Chadash Al T'Zion Tair
Shine a new light on Zion
V'nizke Kulanu M'Heira l'oro
And may we all soon be privileged to enjoy it's brightness
Baruch Ata Adoshem Yotzer Hame'orot
Blessed are you, eternal one former of the luminaries
Sh'ma Yisrael Adoshem Elokeinu Adonay Eloheinu Adoshem Echad
Hear , Israel: The eternal is our YHVH, the eternal one
Adoshem Elokeichem Emet
Eternal YHVH of Truth
“ Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh”
Holy, Holy Holy
Thereafter reading this Shacharit, The Aramaic Kiddush is read!!!!
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed-Part 9.
Date: Mar 31st, 2009 1:31:27 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
Why Messianic Halakha is needed
part 9.
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
03/28/09- Sundown
{ Theme: Moedim Ha'Elohim }
“The end of this lesson will include Parashah Vayikra ”
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Scripture:
B'resheet 1.1-19/ B'resheet 18.1-19(connects with B'resheet 21.) Vayikra 16.1-34/
Vayikra 23.1-44/ Tehillim 104.19-35
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The mention of the feast happened well before any Jew was ever in place, did you know the feast
(Moedim) are apart of the celestial creative process.
B'reshhet 1. verse 14 states: YHVH said, Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs(rsham-record)seasons(zman-appointed times)days(hemera-periods of time)and years(yowm-day,time,periods)
Also we see in Tehillim 104. verse 19-24 it states:
You(YHVH) made the moon to mark the seasons. And the sun knows when to set.
You bring darkness and it is night, the time when all forest animals prowl.
The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from YHVH.
The sun rises, they slink away and lie down to rest in their dens;
while people go out to their work laboring on till evening.
What variety(assortment,kind)there is in your works, YHVH(Says Dovid)
How many of them there are! In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your “creations”
We see in B'resheet chapter 1. It states, In the beginning YHVH created the heaven and the earth. The earth was unformed and void.
Which backs up Tehillim 104, There has been more than one creation, for the earth was already a created space and fermentation but nothing was in it, I don't know how long the first creation or several creations wore in place before YHVH decided to fill this Exnihilio(Greek meaning -out of nothing,something was created) with life, but water was already in place also, verse 2 states The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of YHVH hovered over the surface of water. This water was in place before the seas, which means then logically at some creation, creative point YHVH created water in a pre-existent plan for a earth to come and all the events prove that, so what makes one disbelieve that creation was another creation when we read it in Genesis1.If you keep reading the scripture it talks about how YHVH filled this prior created form with water in it's dome. And then granted seed and so forth. This was not the first creation ill regardless of our limited minds. And the elements that filled this form filled it to set in creation- moedim( Appointed Feast, Times) So then the planets wore created to point to moedim, the sun and the moon were not created to be an object of worship, they wore created to be the Judaic spiritual calender pointing to moedim, let us dig in this concept which Leviticus 23 declares so well.
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Messianic Halakha comes from the Hebrew word to mean, to walk. It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the messianic halakha listings we will cover the halakha importance of Moedim The Moedim Ha'Elohim (YHVH'S Appointed days) We have covered 1. Overview 2. Milah 3. Mikvah 4. Tefillah 5. Sh'ma 6. Tefillin 7. Amidah 8. Avinu and the ninth apparently is MOEDIM,
Moedim describes my appointed times, meaning they belong to YHVH not to us Jews. They are not Jewish feast- they are YHVH'S feast, The festivals which YHVH revealed in Torah are connected in creation itself, they wore established like B'reshith 2. when YHVH rested after six days of creation he rested, thus instituting Shabbat out of creation or the creative process itself- well before any Jews came to be, That is to say YHVH designed the universe itself (The sun and moon and the whole planetary system) in order to point to and regulate the festivals, I taught one Shabbat, that these Jews like Moshe, Avraham did not have a wonderful Jewish calendar like we have to help us remember the feast, they were given an eternal calendar, the changing seasons and illuminating times to show them thee appointed feast, moedim. Thus the Moedims are first and foremost apart of the creative order, not merely apart of the Brit made with Israel at Sinai, secondly the Torah of Yah explicitly states that the Moedim are to remain throughout all the generations continuously forever of Israel.
Shabbat- Ex 31.16- Pesach-HagHaMatzot-
Ex 12.14,17,42- Shavout- Lev 23.41/ Rosch Hashanah- Yom HaKippurim- Lev 23.31- Sukkot- Lev 23.41 Etc.
Therefore rather for an Israelite or for one attached(ger) to Israel through faith, there is to be one Torah for all- Num 15.16,29- Lev 16.29 -The implication is if Israel is commanded to do and keep the Moedim of YHVH throughout her generations, then the Gerim who are attached coverts to Israel through the faith of Avraham, Yitzchak, Ya'akov and his Moshiach Yeshua and equally privileged to keep YHVH'S appointed times.
The scriptures are clear that the victory of YHVH in the end time is manifest by his people, both Israel(Born ) and Israel(Ger) and they shall worship together- consider the prophecy of Isaiah, quoted by Yeshua as he cleared the temple mount, he said For my bayith will be called a bayith of Tefillah for all people(nations, gerim) Isaiah 56.7- Matt 23.13 -For my house will be called a house of prayer for all people.
Rabbi Rick Chaimberlin in his Yom T'ruah article as seen on www.petahtikvah.com states
We are introduced to the so called “feast of Israel” in Lev 23. This is really a misnomer, because in scripture the Holy days are never called “The Feast of Israel” It might be more accurate to call them
“ The feast of YHVH” which would be more accurately translated “Appointed times of YHVH.”
We will stop our quote at that period.
The Moedim will reveal Yeshua Ha'Mashiachs return according to the records. If we study the ancient biblical calender and then look forward on that same calendar it brings us to an end. The prophet Yoel spoke of the black suns and the blood red moons(Rosh Chodesh)before the end, before Mashiach return, we don't no when this time will come, but we do it will fulfill a Moedim , a season of YHVH'S appointed time, since moedim is centered on the concept of time, timing- that timing is kind of expressed in the meanings stated now
1.Edayin Then-
2.Zmah- Time appointed
3.Iddah- set time, yearly
4.Shebeth- rest (shabbat)
What is Time?
Generally when time is discussed in philosophy or in science including the works of classical Jewish views, it is understood as movement, or change, the movement of the planets, the ticking of a clock- as long as these things occur, there is time, if they cease, time ceases. In other words time is no more than the occurrence of physical events. In this paradigm once we accept the creation of shamayim and he'eretz (Exnihilo) It is simple conclusion that time began then as well, since time is no more than the events of the cosmos. The facts that we cannot fathom an absence of time is irrelevant, after all neither can we fathom an absence of heaven and the earth. In other words of space and matter in this way, Maimonides and most of the classic Jewish philosophers determine contrary to Aristotle. That time is a creation with a beginning (Moedim Elohim)
Time is a parameter of existence, time is immeasurable just as any object is not known in its essence by its measurement, so too with time, knowledge of change, movements, events. These are all measurements of time, any event presumes the existence of a continuum of time, in which that event occurs, To say that before there was nothing and then there was, already implies the existence of time(creations) thus creation presumes time and not the other way around.
Is Time Eternal?
In the sefer HaIkarim by Rabbi Yosef Albo- He interprets Maimonides in his study called Moreh Nevuchim as implying that this essential continuum of time, may be eternal without beginning, Beginning means so you can understand that it isn't a starting point, but a continuous reference, When Torah say beginning it is a continuous process of something prior done, not a starting point and i think webster understood that.
Beginning: To commence to enter on-an early stage,starting,the time or place of starting
Which is different from originating at a point where we see Yah placing seed, tree, and fowl- at the point of creating then it is an originating reference, but creation and creating are not the same references, we see points of creations and referencing of creating, nothing can create of itself, it can make or duplicate for only Yah can create. The resolution of the essential aspect of time was created void at the initial point of creation, The implication of this view is profound. In general when the Jewish medieval philosophers wished to logically demonstrate that the universe began they point to its essentially temporal nature as most do. Never the less of most Jewish opinions about time, time has no beginning for when we discover it's beginning from the framework of our minds something else has already prior conceived, so then when we read Genesis 1. we see beginning which beginning we don't see unless we really read the scripture accurately and each word and each connotation, such as having water before water was created, or having this sphere of cosmogony without having a physical existence that we would identify with, so the question is then when we read Genesis 1. which creation are we in? From my studies from a Judaic point and some from other references believe creation could have been thousands of years, or one day (Which is wrong)some think it could have been millions of years or trillions of years, I think it was six days and then Shabbat but i also think that the very first seventeen words which are In the beginning God(YHVH)
Here is my question to you educated few- When is a beginning ? If you cracked that code then you are truly a genius, well from my research beginning is a time when you start recording what already took place or in reference to YHVH the creations he created, how many years- I don't know and no body else either! We do realize that the moedim were put in place through the creative process or through the creations process of creos and that time set forward the feast of YHVH and further more they prepare the way of Yeshua and will be observed continuously after Yeshua returns as Ariel(Lion of the tribe of Judah) in the Yemei Ha'mashiach Acharit Ha'Yamin -The Messianic Era and end of days.
*Parashah Vayikra*
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Torah: Vayikra 1.1-5
HafTorah: Yesha'yahu 43.21-44
Tehillim 104.19-24
{Theme: The Korban was a type of yeshua-till he came}
The word Vayikra means: He called, vayikra is also called: Torat Kohanim- The laws of the priest(Cohanim)
It largely deals with the Korbanos (Offering)that are brought in the Miskhan (Tent of Meetings, Tabernacle)
The first group of offering is called: Olah- burnt offering, The animal is brought to the entrance of the Miskhan, the one who brought the offering set his hands on the animal, It is slaughtered and the Kohen sprinkles( Kippurim) it's blood on the Altar. The animal is skinned and cut in pieces. The pieces are arranged, washed and burned on the Altar and the remainder is eaten by the Kohanim.
THE PROHIBITION: is the offering can't have any Chametz and honey in it- Leviticus 2.11
We know Chametz stands for sin, so sin can't be mingeld with Tshuvah.
What about Honey? One commentator stated that this debash symbolizes Humanism,
I think another thought is the honey was prior reserved as a promise, YHVH wasn't mixing a promise with Tshuvah, at least the ideal of honey in
Exodus 33.3/ Exodus 3.8- plus there is about another twenty or more scriptures which i will give you later. A land flowing with Milk(gala) and Honey(dbash,meli)
The third point, also a striking feature of honey's legacy in Jewish culture is that as a testament to the high value put on this particular food, The interpreters of the Jewish dietary laws have apparently made this reflection at this time, that anything taken from an unclean animal is forbidden, The classic teaching found in the rabbinical literature is that bees do not produce honey, but simply transport the nectar of flowers and store it as honey in their hives, not to mention the ancient semites attributed honey to the idol god Astarte, the pagan goddess of sexuality, fertility Etc.
The Peace offering-part of which is burnt on the Altar and part of which is eaten which comes from either Sheep, Cattle, Goat, Pigeon, Dove there are three kinds of peace offerings
1.The Thanks offering (Shelamim)
2.The votive offering
3.The free will offering
The thanksgiving offering: is a response to acts of divine benevolence
The Votive offering: is an offering prompted by fulfilling Mitzvot, granting petitions
The Free will offering: is an offering prompted by voluntary contributions
Vayikra deals with Korbanos- but there is a large section on Averah- Sin, Transgression- Yetzer Ra, Yetzer Tov- Purity and Impurity, or Impureness and pureness, The korban is not just mentioned in Torah- We see Korban in Matthew 5.23 Also. This Korban was and is a sacrifice, offering and a gift- The Hebrew word for korban comes from the root word Korav- meaning to come close, to come close again to YHVH.
The offering was meant to bring Bnai Yisrael back to YHVH from sin. There are five types of Korbanot in Torah regarding each type of sacrifice.
1.Olah- Burnt Offering
2.Minchah- Meal Offering
3.Shelamin -Peace Offering
4.Chatat- Sin Offering
5.Asham- Guilt Offering
We see this Korban for the second time in a New Testament- Brit Chadashah reference in Romans 12.1
of this Brit Ha'Mikdash- Temple within us, which is called Korban Chai- Living sacrifice, We are to continue offering up Korban even presently, Korban of self continuously before YHVH, The perfect lamb has come, and his coming hasn't done away with sin, if you don't let him remove me through Teshuvah, Tefillah, Davening, If you don't daven how can it be removed, If his coming has taken away sin, then it would be no sin, no the korban is inside, you must desire to offer this offering up of Teshuvah (repentance) and allow his Ruach Hokodesh to remove sin from your life, but if you are not willing even the Paschal Lamb Yeshua won't take your sins away, you must want him, and you must confess to him and offer up your own Korban, there isn't a need for the Kohanim to daven for you, of to burn the Olah for you, you have direct access to Yeshua yourself and he can move your sins through your own sacrificing of yourself for him, to him, for his glory, Yes he died for sin, but everyone wont accept him- some will die with sin, because they did not want this Korban which he fulfilled: The Paschal lamb is a Korban also of what's called: The Pesach sacrifice- The Korban was a type of Yeshua to come, of the 613 Mitzvot- 100 of them is on Korbanot excluding those Mitzvots that cover actual Temple sacrifices. The additional references of this Debash and Gala- Milk and Honey can be seen in
Exodus 13.5/ Leviticus 20.24/ Numbers 13.27/ Numbers 14.8/ Numbers 16.13-14/ Deuteronomy 6.3/ Deuteronomy 11.9/ Deuteronomy 26.9/ Deuteronomy 26.15/ Deuteronomy 15/ Deuteronomy 27.3/ Deuteronomy 31.20/ Joshua 5.6/ Song of Solomon 4.11/ Song of Solomon 5.1/ Jeremiah 11.5/ Isaiah 7.22/ Jeremiah 32.22/ Ezekiel 20.6/ Ezekiel 20.15
If you would like the Hebrew prayer for the Rosh Chodesh- email me and i will forward it to you, the version that i have.
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed-part 8
Date: Mar 22nd, 2009 3:08:40 am - Subscribe
Mood: Blessed
Why Messianic Halakha is needed Part 8.
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
3-21-09
Theme: Yeshua Aveinu
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Script:
Zechariah 12.1-14/ Zechariah 13.1-9/ Luke 1.26-79/
John 8.1-59/ James 2. 1-26/ Romans 2.1-29/
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Zechariah 12. 8-14( MCM Translation)
When that day comes, YHVH will defend those living in Yerushalayim.
On that day, even someone who stumbles will be like Dovid
and the house of Dovid will be like YHVH, like the angel(malak)
of YHVH before them.
VS 9. “when that prophecy reveals itself,
I will seek to destroy all nations attacking Yerushalayim;
VS 10.and i will pour out on the bayit of Dovid and on those living in Yerushalayim
A ruach of grace and power and they will look to me(Yeshua Ben YHVH) whom they pierced. “
They will mourn for him(The Prophecied Yeshua) as one mourns for an only son( Only Begotten Son)
( Prophecy of Yeshua's Death& Resurrection) they will be in bitterness on his behalf like the bitterness for a firstborn son(Yeshua)
Vs 11. When that day comes, there will be great mourning like that for Hadad- Rimmon in the Megiddo valley(Armageddon at the last conflict)
Vs 12. Then the land will mourn, each family by itself, the family of the bayit of Dovid by itself and their wives by themselves. The family of the house of Natan(Nathan) by itself and their wives by themselves
Vs 13.The family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves;
the family of the Shim'i(Shimei), and their wives apart by themselves
Vs 14.All the remaining families, each by itself and their wives by themselves
The Kingdomship of Jerusalem rest in the hands of Yeshua and his final sacrifice, of course people seem to have there own interpretation of the scripture or excluding Yeshua out of the picture completely, I know no other whom they pierced, that is mourned for as a son, it is clearly a messianic picture of Yeshua to come and his sacrifice and him coming through the linage of David to restore Israel to himself as the only Moshiach and it centers the Torah story around the Brit Chadasha apparently, I think it will help us uncover our lesson for the day in reference to Halakha and what's important about observing Halakha- Yeshua observed Halakha further more he taught these same precepts with a Messianic revisions.
Messianic Halakha comes from the Hebrew word to mean: To walk, it is a term for rules and rulings that govern jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the 25- Messianic Halakha listings, we will cover the Halakha importance of Aveinu which is also spelled Avinu- which means in Hebrew = Our Father
as in Aveinu Avraham, Avraham our father, Yeshua begin his Tefillah in Matthew 6.9 with the opening words Avinu Shebashamayim -Our father who is in heaven, not our father in Ha'eretz. So then i believe personally Yeshua made revisions to the ancient davenings that seemed to worship men and Yeshua took the focus off of Avos and on Abba, so then we account Avinu but the focus is on Yah, so then Yeshua says and we will cover this more in a moment, Avinu Shebashamayim. Our father who is in heaven, recognition immediately went to the father and Yeshua himself took no glory for himself or to himself, but to the father only and the father glorified the son.
Avinus purpose is to honor YHVH, not Avraham, to honor Yeshua Ha'Mashiach not mortal men as many Rabbis assume, Avinu fulfills mitzvot by serving to obey Yah: Avinu Malkeinu -our father, not fathers - but our father, our king, We gain the two first words Alef, Vet- the word Av of Avinu it's first two words means Father, This lesson will point us to Avinu YHVH, Avinu Yeshua and not to any Aveinu Eliyl Adam which means Father Idol man, I will show you a reference momentarily how the rabbis use Aveinu to not only exonerate Moshe, Avraham, but also the dead!!! past Rabbis- whom they lift up past and above Yeshua.
The Amidah points us to Moshiach Ben Yosef Shel Netzaret , when his Talmidim asked him to teach them how to pray, they wanted to know what was Yeshua's prayer at the conclusion of
Amidah, Shimonei Esrei (18 Benediction) The prayer Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King) is recited after the Amidah (The main prayer, said while standing ) and before the Torah service, It is recited throughout the ten days of Teshuvah from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur as well as on fast days, so then Avinu Malkeinu is recited during- Shacharit(morning prayers) Mincha(noon prayers) Maariv (evening prayers) and Ne'ila except when Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat, Ne'ila is the concluding service which is held only on Yom Kippur, which is a time when final prayers of Teshuvah are recited at the close of Yom Kippur, Ne'ila consist of Ashrei (which is postponed from Mincha when it is normally recited)
Amidah, Selichot and Avinu Malkeinu, The Shofar is blown at the end of Ne'ila.
This Avinu Malkeinu is also called U'vini Mal'kieni: So then we are literally literally saying much more than just our father, our king- we are saying our father, our king- open the gates, the entrance of heaven to our prayers.
Avinu Malkeinu is inside the T'filat Ha'Talmidim but within itself the avinu malkeinu which is said as a song in Jerusalem, the lyrics are:
Avinu Malkenu, Sh'ma Kolenu
Avinu Malkenu, Chatanu L'faneicha
Avinu Malkenu, Chamol Aleinu V'al Olaleinu V'tapenu
Avinu Malkenu, Kalehdever V'Cherev V'raav Mealeynu
Avinu Malkenu, Kaleh Chal Tzar Umas'tin Mealeinu
Avinu Malkenu, Avinu Malkenu, Kat' venu B'sefer Chayim Tovim
Avinu Malkenu, Chadesh Aleinu, Chadesh Aleinu, Shauah Tovah
Sh'ma Kolenu, Sh'ma Kolenu, Sh'ma Kolenu: Avinu
Avinu Malkenu, Avinu Malkenu, Chadesh Alienu, Shanah Tova
Avinu Malkenu, Sh'ma Kolenu, Sh'ma Kolenu, Sh'ma Kolenu, Sh'ma Kolenu
which means:
Our father, Our King! Hear our voice.
Our father, Our King! We have sinned before you.
Our Father, Our King! Have compassion for us and for our children and our infants.
Our Father, Our King! Of pestilence, and sword, and famine rid us.
Our Father, Our King! Inscribe us in the book of good life.
Our Father, Our King! Anew for us, Anew for us a good year.
Hear our voice, Hear our voice, Hear our voice
Our Father, Our King! Our Father, Our King: Anew for us as good year
Our Father, Our King! Hear our voice, Hear our voice, Hear our voice:
{ If you find the music arrangement let me know, I could not find it}
See how the words express Tefillah, Teshuvah& Davening!
Avraham Avinu- Emulating the Avos(sages)
~ Yes or No ~
The Chazel-Which is an acronym for the Hebrew word being and meaning:
Cha'Chameninu Zichronam Livracha- literally “our sages of blessed memory”
Chazel teaches “ one is obligated to say' when will my deeds( daber,ma'aseh-word, matter,action, labor) reach the deeds of my forefathers- Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov!
We are obligated to strive for greatness and not be complacent(Sounds good huh!not good enough) in this endeavor. Therefore we aspire to emulate the superlative examples set forth by the Avos(Says the Rabbis) at least that's the basis of Aveinu according to the Rabbis, to emulate the Avos, the Avos is not just honoring Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov it is also emulating prior Rabbis, some do so to the point of wearing a Tefillin in front of there prior Rabbi's picture(Idol Worship) honor and worship do not mean the same thing, understand please! To honor prior rabbis and deny Yeshua is just plain stupid, Yeshua came before the forefathers of Judaism, in fact himself and YHVH are the forefathers of Judaism, If Yah did not go to Avraham, then Avraham would have stayed among the Idol worshippers,
Who brought us the Torah 1. Moshe 2. YHVH? [ I'm waiting for your answer]
One might ask, why don't we try to model ourselves after the great leaders of our times or of the past generation? For example The Chafetz Chaim? The answer given is that it is not enough to try to emulate great people, our yearning should be to reach the level of the greatest of the great. That is for us to emulate Yeshua
Your Rabbis lift up Rishonim- like Rashi, Tanaim, Amara'im and such explanations of past rabbis such as Rabbi Judah Ben Solomon Al-Harizi, Rabbi David Kimchi-Radak,Rabbi Judah HaChassid, Rambam( Maimonides) Rabbi Abraham Ben David Etc. but wore these great men even greater than Moshe, Torah says: There will never be another prophet like Moshe(or to reach Moshe's stature) Moshe was the greatest Navi there ever was- is that true? I think not and i think yes, let me explain, that was based on Exodus 34.10 but in Ibrim- Hebrews 3.1-6 states in verse 2. through 6.
2.He(Moshe) was faithful to YHVH, who appointed him, just as Moshe was faithful in all YHVH'S Bayit(House)
3. But Yeshua deserves more honor than Moshe. Just as the builder of the house deserves more honour than the house.
4.For every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is YHVH.
5.Also, Moshe was faithful in all YHVH'S house, as a servant giving witness to hings's YHVH would divulge later.
6.But the Moshiach, as Ben(Son) was faithful over YHVH'S house. And we are that house of his(Yeshua) provided we hold firmly to the courage and confidence inspired by what we hope for. ______________________________________
So then in Dvarim 34 - to- Hebrew 3.- Moshe was the greatest prophet up to Yeshua, till Yeshua came! No man has ever become over Yeshua nor equal to him, He is the only Moshiach.
So then Moshe until Yeshua became the source of Avot, since Yeshua has come, man obeys Torah, Tanakh and Brit Chadasha through obedience to YHVH through Yeshua, but Yeshua is he who we emulate.
We are not discrediting moshe as a great servant under Yeshua, of the thirteen principals of faith by Rambam, Moshe is called: The Servant of Hashem, Moshe was greater than all prior Avos till Yeshua- But he was also more advances in character development over all the Rabbis of his day, according to tradition Avraham surpassed the most of the trait of Anava- humility. The Gemara states that while Avraham regarded himself as “Afar V'eifer” dirt and ashes, but Moshe and Aharon said “V'nachnu ma” what are we? Even thou Avraham was extremely humble, nevertheless he considered himself to be dirt and ashes - which is still tangible, Moshe and Aharon went even further, they did not consider themselves to be anything at all, The Torah testifies to the fact by exclamating “ And the man Moshe was very humble, more than any man on the face of the earth.
Why then are we not obligated to use Moshe Rabbeinu as our sole role model?
This same Rabbinical Theological Talmudic thought can be seen in the story of Yeshua's teaching where we find in the Brit Chadasha in Matthew 18.1 about this concept of Avos, of honoring men, or the variance of Idolizing men to the decree of making them into humanistic gods- Yeshua responds with this whole whose the greatest situation by stating- The greatest is a Na'ar (Servant) who comes as a Yeladim (Child, Little Children) the Talmidim was obviously looking for glory for themselves like the many Rabbis of today, But one more example of Yeshua showing that not only should he be honored above Moshe, but also over Avraham- Yochanan(John) chapter 8. verse 58 which states:
Yeshua said to them, yes indeed!Before Avraham came into being, I(Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh- same as in Exodus 3.14 Yud, Heh, Vav, Heh- Yeshua is saying this very phrase by stating himself in YHVH as Ben Yachid. Yeshua says I AM the same Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh reference, did you no that? Which now expresses that Echad- plurality of himself and his abba being echad(One) and he stands in the stead of Abba, and Abba reveals Yeshua.
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We pray this Halakha 8. has been influential in some way or another to you, We are working to complete this series and provide other on working series like this on the factum of Torah and helping us to understand Torah better, as best as humanly possible, We hope you take the time to really study these verses and content of these Halakha studies we provide to you every week and to really develop your study life and study habits, We further hope you will after you have studied them would consider sharing them with persons close to your heart, and persons who want to study the Judaic scriptures and thoughts and intent to better incorporate within the Ahavah Torah- Ahavah YHVH- Ahavah Yeshua, I do not hold the answers, i hold some keys, I do not know the whole mind of Yah, but i do no what he allows to be revealed. There are many other great messianic resources out here with wonderful teachings and Halakhic expressions of multiple messages, so i pray you take advantage of what's out here and I'll see you next week,
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed-part 7
Date: Mar 19th, 2009 3:39:35 am - Subscribe
Mood: Blessed
Why Messianic Halakha is needed
part 7
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
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Dvar Tefilot-Words about prayers
Script:
Dvarim 12.1-31/ Dvarim 13. 1-18/ Micah or Michoh 5.2-15/
Yeshayah 5.2-15/ Yeshayah 65.1-25
Mitzvot is Law/Torah & Halakha is Teaching, Application, Halakha comes from the Hebrew word to mean- To walk, This way, This path, It is a term for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the 25 Messianic Halakha listings we will cover the Halakha importance of Amidah so then we have covered thus far 1. Overview 2. Milah 3. Mikvah 4. Tefillah 5. Sh'ma 6. Tefillin and the 7th Amidah for today-
Looking at Dvarim(Deuteronomy) chapter 12. 1-9
These are the chukkim( Laws) and mishpatim (Rules) over which ye shall be shomer to do in ha'aretz; which Hashem Elohei Avoitecha giveth thee to possess it, kol hayamim that ye live upon ha'adamah 2. You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the Goyim which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree.
OK it is interesting that Yah clearly spoke of his promises he would give to Bnai Yisrael if they would obey his Torah, his regulations and guard them in there hearts or conceal them in there being and they would posses the promise but when you go among these nations don't pick up there idolatry- We continue to see in scriptures about these groves, trees, bushes -do you no why? Because these pagans used the trees as apart of there sacrificial offerings to there gods- Jeremiah 10 is a huge chapter on that ordeal such as it states not to be apart of these pagans Christmas(Christ- Mass) observances- well the history reveals the pagans used the groves or nature itself as an ordeal of worship and veneration not to mention, there were certain trees they worshiped as gods and other trees they would sacrifice and hang there babies on and murder them to honor those gods, so YHVH warns them to stay away from the trees, the groves, the bushes- because the trees were stained with the blood of innocent babies and stained with animals blood as object of there sacrificial worship to these gods.
Vs 3. And ye shall overthrow their mizbechot,(Altars) and break their matzeivot( Pillars) and burn their Asherim(Sacred Poles-note these poles like the Indian totem poles have the faces of there gods on them) with eish and you shall hew down peselim of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4. You shall not do so unto Hashem Eloheichem 5.But unto the place which Hashem eloheichem shall choose out of all your shevatim to put Shmo there(His name there) even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither shalt come 6. And thither ye shall bring your olot, and your zevahhim and your ma'aseros (tithes) and terumot (heave offerings) of your hand and your nedarim (vows) and your nedavot (free will offerings) and the bekhorot (firslings) of your herds and of your flocks 7. And there ye shall eat before Hashem Eloheichem and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein Hashem Eloheicha hath blessed thee. 8.Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here today. Ish kokmhayashar be'einav (every man what soever is right in his own eyes) 9.For ye are not as yet come to the menuchah (resting place) and to the nachalah giveth you.
Let's began our lesson for today:
The Amidah- Tefilat Ha'Amidah-
The standing prayer is also called the shmona esrei -the eighteen blessings- Amida means standing, it is said while standing, the prayer is about 2400 years old, it is considered one of the most important prayers on account of it's antiquity. This prayer contain 1. Praise-barak 2.Confession-yadah 3. Petition-bauw 4.Thanks or Gratitude-towdah,yadah,charis personalizing the Amida is critical in importance, the sages of old wrestled with the problem of Keva( Fixedness in worship) The Mishnah says- Do not make the Amidah a keva (Appointed Routine) The Amidah blesses YHVH for his place in Judaism, The Amidah is the central prayer of all four services.
1.Shacharit( Mourning Prayers) 2. Mincha (Afternoon) 3. Maariv (Evening Prayer) 4. Mussaf (Additional on Shabbat) The Amidah should be prayed three times a day, which was established by Ezra and codified in the Talmud (Bereakhot 26. b) is fulfilled by reciting Amidah. Every Jew recited the same Amidah, yet everyone needs different things from YHVH, So we do recite the Amidah for various reasons some for health, wealth, freedom, peace, the various areas of ones personal needs through there daven tefillah according to ones own personal prayer, not to mention:
When you daven ha'tefillah we can recite the prayers and that's good but i like to mention it is still ok to have your own prayers to YHVH, which aren't already prescribed- I recommend reciting the prayers and thereafter going before YHVH with your own individual or corporate or interceding prayers for the needs of your family and loved ones to come into the knowledge of Yeshua or the tefillah which comes in your heart, Like i teach give room for The Ruach Hokodesh- we can be so stringent in our traditions that the Holy Spirit doesn't have room to do something different- perhaps YHVH wants to give you new prayers and new songs(Always give room for the holy spirit to come through) Please note The Shabbat Amidah is different, This Ha'Tefillah or prayer of Judaism is recited while standing and facing the Aron Kodesh
( The ark that houses the Torah scroll) next to the Sh'ma the Amidah is the most widely recited Hebrew in the world. Shemoneh Esrei literally means eighteen, originally the eighteen blessings were divided into three general types and they still should be
1.Praise- Three Blessings- Avot- Gevurot- Kedushat Hashem
2.Petitions(Which includes confession)- Thirteen Blessings
Da'at, Teshuvah, Selichah, Ge'ulah, Refu'ah, Birkat Hashanim,Kibbutz Galuyot, Birkat HaDin
Birkat HaMinim, Tsaddikim, Binyah Yerushalayim, Malkhut Bet Dovid & Kabbalat Tefillah.
3.Thanks-Three Blessings -Avodah- Hoda'ah- Sim Shalom
{ We will cover these in greater details soon}
Notice that this adds up to nineteen ,not eighteen. The reason for this was that an additional blessings was later added, but the name Shemoneh Esrei was retained. For this reason it is more straightforward to refer to the shemoneh esrei as the Amidah(Standing-Amad) or the Tefillah(The prayers) after reciting all of these berachot, there is a concluding prayer said for the entire ceremony, There are two versions basically of Amidah
The week day version- which includes all 19 blessings of praise, petition, thanksgiving to Hashem 2. The Shabbat and Holiday version which are abbreviated to just seven blessings . Most Jews when reciting the Amidah after facing toward the Aron Kodesh take three steps backward and then three steps forward before quietly reciting Amidah. Whenever there is a Minyah (group of ten) present, the Amidah can be repeated aloud (By the cantor) in the synagogue and the congregation responds only Amen after each blessing has been recited.
The blessings are categorized in three sections
Part 1. blessings of praise
1.Blessing one- Avot(Fathers)
2.Blessing two- Gevurot(Hashems might)
3.Blessing three-Kedushat Hashem( Holiness of YHVH'S name)
Part 2. blessing of petition
1.Blessing four-Da'at(Knowledge)
2.Blessing five- Teshuvah(Repentance)
3.Blessing six -Selichah(Forgiveness)
4. Blessing seven- Geulah(Redemption)
5.Blessing eight- Refuah(Healing)
6.Blessing nine- Birkat Hashanim (Prosperity)
7.Blessing ten-Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of Exiles)
8.Blessing eleven- Birkat HaDin(Restoration of Justice)
9.Blessing twelve- Birkat HaMinim (Against Heretics )
My Rabbi said these Jews who do this prayer do it against us Messianic- calling us heretics, However in my opinion the prayer should be against those who are false prophets calling people to make men into Moshiachs)
10. Blessing thirteen- Tsaddikim( Righteous ones)
11. Blessing fourteen-Binyan Yerushalayim ( Rebuilding of Jerusalem)
12. Blessing fifteen-Malkhut Beit David ( Kingdom of David)
13. Blessing Sixteen- Kabbalat Tefillah (Acceptance of prayer)
Part 3. Blessings of Thanks or Gratitude
14. Blessing seventeen- Avodah (Worship)
15. Blessing eighteen- Hoda'ah (Gratitudes)
16. Blessing nineteen- Sim Shalom (Grant Peace)
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The Shemoneh Esreh is the name by which the Ashkenazim refer to this prayer, The Sefaradim call it Amidah- Yeshua taught his talmidim the tefillah titled as T'filat HaTalmidim which apparently is an abbreviated version of Amidah, however it would have been well known to Yeshua as it was known to the Jews some two hundred years before Yeshua.
A Rabbi Eliezer- taught this same abbreviation that Yeshua taught stating:
May your will be done in Heaven above, grant peace of mind to those who fear you on earth below and do what seems best to you, Blessed are , O Lord. Who answers prayer “note the phrases” Your will be done in heaven above and on earth below as in the lord's prayer which is really called: T'filat Ha'Talmidim- Also note the parallel between grant peace of mind in the prayer Eliezer taught and deliver us from evil in the prayer yeshua taught, You would be surprised to know that many Jews who aren't Messianic outwardly know the teachings of Yeshua and many have secretly read the Brit Chadasha and have accepted him in there hearts but no one knows it and they live the orthodox life, but in the chambers of there own homes they acknowledge Yeshua Ben Yosef as Yeshua Ben YHVH as Yeshua Ha'Mashiach- conclusively as the only Mashiach, There has been accounts of Jews who accepted Yeshua and know one knew about it until they died, so let us not underestimate the Jews who say they don't follow him who secretly do- especially in Israel, who are afraid of being unaccepted or ridiculed or even disowned- Sha'lu Shalom Yerushalayim especially for our Secret Society of Messianic Jews.
The Amidah is recited by the Jew more than one thousand times a year, does a good praying Jew always receive guaranteed positive response to there prayers? Absolutely not!
The story is told of the unsuccessful merchant who after repeated prayers, approached Rabbi Elimelech and demanded to know why Hashem did not and does not answer his prayers. The Rabbi replied! Hashem has answered your prayer. The answer is NO
we framework in our minds how Hashem is going to answer our prayers, instead of giving him room to teach us we make his mind up for him and when he doesn't respond to our condition then he isn't answering our prayers, we all do it!! he wont have an answer opposite of his word. His answer doesn't reflect flesh, it reflects faith and his permissive will, I like that little story so much because it causes us to look at our selves and make sure we fit the requirements of Tefillah and those requirements you can find in lesson 4. we covered that before, basically you have to acknowledge his will over yours, you have to make certain that you are clean before him and that you are coming before him correctly in reverence and holiness.
There is a legal code which in our Judicial system uses Amidah believe it or not !
Amidah again means to stand, or standing and in our judicial system the word standing means law, In the common law and under many statues standing or Locus Standi(Latin) is the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party's participation in that case. In the united states for an example. A person cannot bring a suit challenging the constitutionality of a law unless the plaintiff can demonstrate that the plaintiff is or will imminently be harmed by the law. Otherwise the court will rule that the plaintiff lacks standing to bring the suit, and will dismiss the case without considering the merits of the claim of unconstitutionality. Interesting enough is that the laws of the world's system and i mean the whole world was created by YHVH for a small group he called Bnai Yisrael of the Jew and these Judaic system laws or Torah of Mitzvah which in this case is Amidah can be seen in these laws of the land, but how they react and legislate these laws has left it's place in Torah. For liberalism and humanistic rights.
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I would like to implore you to find a great Messianic Congregation in your area, our website has a good listing in our directory at Http://sites.kindweb.com/mcmcongregation page 4. and
Rabbi Rick Chaimberlin has a great directory listing also at www.petahtikvah.com
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed Pt 6.
Date: Mar 1st, 2009 2:04:19 am - Subscribe
Mood: zealous
Why Messianic Halakha is needed -Part 6.
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
{ Remembrance of YHVH}
2/28/09
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Script:
Shemot- Exodus 13.1-22/ Devarim- Deut 6.1-25/ Mattithyahu- Matt 23.1-39- Tzit- Tzitot/
Misle- Prov 1.1-33/ Misle- Prov 3.1-35/ Misle 6.16-35/
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Shemot 13. verse 9-10 relates our subject matter being: Tefillin
More over, it will serve you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder between your eyes, so that Hashem's Torah may be on your lips, because with a strong hand Hashem brought you out of Egypt. 10. Therefore you are to observe this regulation at it's proper time, year after year
The text that i really want to deal with today is a major scripture misunderstanding for Messianic believers and that is Matthew 23. 1-39, I want to cover some of those verses-
I looked at those verses from five of the messianic bibles that i have the word- comma â€" is the point of clarification let us read it from two main translations that i love, being The Complete Jewish Bible- The Orthodox Jewish Bible- the comma is there in every single translation that i am aware of- and the comma makes the difference in the explanation of the text even if there isn't a coomman seen it states But You-which indacates who he is talking to,
Matthew 23. verse 1. Then Yeshua addressed the crowd and his talmidim
( who is he addressing- the crowd being the Scribes, Sadducee's and Pharisees ) so then this tells us who the message was addressed to verse 2. The Torah teachers and the Prushim( Pharisees) he said sit in the seat of Moshe(or your wanting to sit in the seat of Moshe-wanting Moshe's glory) verse 3.
So whatsoever they tell you, take care to do it. But don't do what they do(what are they doing?) because they talk but don't act(There religious but not righteous) verse 4. They tie heavy loads (Man made works) onto people's shoulders (Talmud, Mishna, Gemera Etc.) but won't lift a finger to help carry them ( They won't help train the people so they understand) verse 5. Everything they do is done to be seen by others
( Religiosity) for they make their tefillin broad(Bigger, Noticeable )and their tzitziyot long( so every one can see them as somebody great and Religious) verse 6. they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seat in the synagogues ( They want to be in front of everyone so they can get glory and become worshiped as some great Rabbis) verse 7. and they love being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces and being called Rabbi( people idolize them, they have become gods) verse 8. But you are not to let yourselves be called Rabbi because you have one Rabbi, and you are all each other's brothers.
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This is where the big hang up is all about with some congregation- reading verse 4-8 in The Orthodox Jewish Bible
verse 4. And they tie up heavy extra biblical loads. Hard to bear, and they place them upon the shoulders of men, but they, with so much as a finger , are not willing to lift the oppressive burdens. Verse 5. And all their maasim hamitzvot (works of the commandments) they do in order to be seen by Bnai Adam, for they broaden their tefillin and lengthen their tzitziyot verse 6. and they love the places of honor at the seudot (banquet dinners), and the shuls, verse 7. And the[ obsequious] Birkat Shalom greetings in the market places, and to be called by Bnai Adam, Rebbe. Verse 8.But you are not to have pretentious titles like Rebbe,(comma) for One is your Rebbe, [ Rebbe Melech Ha'Mashiach], and all of you are Achim b. Moshiach..
Now does this mean that no one can be called a Rabbi or not? Some have taken this to mean just that, that the messianic congregation particularly can't have a Rabbi based on what Yeshua said there in Matthew 23. or is there something that some of you seem to be missing- You will notice that in most of your bibles after he said BUT YOU we saw a comma -which indicates who he was talking to- was he talking to everybody or somebody- I believe he was talking to somebody and he said who he was talking to mainly the Sadducee and the pharisees do you remember the crowd and then the talmidim or not? The comma after him saying that reflects something unmistakable what is it? He is talking to a specific group because of what they were doing , If it was intended that Rabbi which means Teacher not to be indicated then after Yeshua there would be no more biblical reference to that term or terms with it's same expressed meaning.
A comma is
1.a mark of punctuation (,) used to indicate a slight separation of sentence elements, as in setting off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements, items in a series, It identifies a certain idiom
If there is no Rabbi, who then is the Teacher -The scripture say how can you hear without a preacher [teacher,rabbi]
Romans 10.14- How therefore shall they call on him In whom they have not believed(Yeshua) And how shall they believe in him(Yeshua) of whom they have not heard?(How can they possibly hear or understand without a teacher- Impossible!) And how shall they hear(Shema- understand) without someone doing the hatafah (preaching) verse 15. And how shall they do the hatafah unless they have been sent(not called by themselves to start teaching people, not some cell group teaching-no a direct called Rabbi of YHVH) As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who preach Besuras HaGeulah â€" Yeshayah 52.7
So a bunch of people getting together trying to study Torah, is like a cow thinking it's a chicken, There direction will be limited, because it is clear throughout the scriptures that YHVH has called a man to lead the people- not just anybody, a person well trained, committed, who has a deep relationship with YHVH, a person who has been in the walk for many years, trained by other leaders and credentialed to approve that persons calling. Here is more Brit Chadasha scriptures to prove this-
1 Tim 2.verse 7. And for this edut(appointment, calling) I was given the smichah(ordination) of Hashem as a karoz(herald) a maggid(darshan-Preacher-Rabbi) For Mashiach, a shliach( Moshiachs emissary) I speak Emes, I do not sheker and a [rabbinic] moreh (teacher) For the nations in emunah and Emes
do you mean that Rabbi Shaul and Timothy were Rabbis -Yes- 1 Timothy chapter 1. the first verse states that he was a Rabbi or in other translations an apostle, If what Yeshua stated in Matthew 23, pertained to everybody then to this day Rabbi Shaul would not be called Rabbi, What people fail to realize is that Yeshua was talking about people who call themselves Rabbi to become another Moshiach, who receive the worship of men, who take a title and positions to be glorified and exonerated and lifted up and made into an human Idol like Chabads false messiah Sneerson, More proof
1 Corinthians 12. 28-29- And Hashem placed in the Messianic Congregation first Apostles(Rishon) second prophets(shlichim) third teachers(neviim, rabbi) then works of power, then gifts of healing, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues(Hebrew first)
The Orthodox Jewish Bible- Then those of cholel nifla'aot(accomplishing miracles) then matanot harippuy (gifts of healing) then matanot of helps, then manhigut ruchanit 9spiritual leadership,administration,kinds of leshonot. 29. Surely not all are shlichim surely not all all are nevi'im? Surely not all are rabbinical morim? Surely not all are those cholel nifa'ot (accomplishing miralces)
So then how is it, that you can dismiss all these factual leadership positions in the congregation, but the first listing was a Rabbi whom some call Apostle.
In conclusion of dealing with Matthew 23. Some of you just misunderstood the text, when there is a man who replaces Yeshua, then don't call him a Rabbi- simply as that! It does not mean that someone can't be called a Rabbi- Teacher, We have been taught by people with either limited understanding or one who did not research the whole sum of the text to see what and to whom Yeshua was talking to
Now with the lesson:
Messianic Jewish Halakha seeks to maintain as much commonality with our people through Halakha which comes from the Hebrew word to mean- to walk, It is a term used for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. It is a term used to convey who we as Jews are following. In this lesson we will cover of the twenty five Messianic Halakha listings we will cover the Halakha importance of Tefillin. So then at this sixth session we have covered 1. Overview 2.Milah 3. Mikvah 4. Tefillah 5. Shema and the 6th for today being Tefillin. Keep in mind the word we have been using in some of the lesson being Halakha Shel Ha'Derech meaning the walk of the or this way, specifically how we are to walk according to Torah, Tanakh and Brit Chadasha after the inward man to please Yeshua. Not to mention that the word Mitzvot stands for Law/ Torah/ Instruction and Halakha for Teaching/ Application. Listed under book two, under the five direct laws termed as Tefillin, Mezuza and Sefer Torah it states a direct commandment from YHVH not to be worn based on traditional religious observances or Jewish thought but to be worn because YHVH said so, so then it isn't a suggestion, It reads
1.To wear tefillin on the head- Dvarim 6.8
2.To bind(acar-fasten/chabash- to wrap firmly/anad-to lace) tefillin on the arm- Dvarim 6.8
3.To put a Mezuzah on each door- Dvarim 6.9
4.Each male must write a Sefer Torah- Dvarim 31.19
5.The king must have a separate Sefer Torah for himself- Dvarim 17.18
Tefillin is also called from a Greek tongue phylacteries, are a pair of black leather boxes containing scroll of parchment inscribed with biblical verses I'll discuss later. The Rabbbinic sage Eliezer related that when the Israelites came before Hashem and complained to him, we are eager to occupy ourselves night and day with the study of Torah, but alas! We cannot find the leisure time for it. Hashem replied to them perform the mitzvah concerning tefillin and i will consider that as if you had been studying the Torah night and day, There was even an ancient Jewish saying- Hashem too, wears tefillin. Hashem keeps his own word at his mind and in his heart, The obligation suggested for every male Jew to wear tefillin and was stated in the commandment? Mitzvah: And it shall be a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between they eyes that the Torah of Adonai may be in thy mouth- Shemot 13.9 The observing Jew for countless generations in performing the daily rite of putting on tefillin every time he recited his morning prayers and was helped to remain permanently conscious of his duties and his Jewish group identity. The tefillin were for him a symbol of his personal dedication to Hashem and to the Torah, In the optimistic words of the 12th century rabbi-philosopher Maimonides: the sanctity of the tefillin is very great. As long as they are on the head and on the arm of a man. He is modest and Hashem fearing and will not be distracted by merry making or idle talk, He will have no evil thoughts, but will devote all his thinking to truth and righteousness. Tefillin are two individual boxes or cubes whose dimensions usually are two or three inches square, Inside each are deposited passages in Hebrew of the Torah-
Ex 13.1-10/ Ex 11.16/ Deut 6.4-7/ Deut 11/13-21
The Tefillin themselves are made of black leather, one is designed for the head, the other for the left hand, they are held in place by means of leather loops, knots and long straps, on the hand the shin is shows. The spiritual significance is they carry ad advanced level of thinking- The tefillin the word itself is singular and plural word on the head strapped around the fore arm, so that suggestively it may rest next to the brain, the one on the left arm rest in a position closest to the heart. This arrangement for the wearing of the frontlets, the Talmud teaches that it signifies that the Jew when he worshiped Hashem did so with all his heart and with all his thoughts. The wearing of tefillin is obligatory for all orthodox male Jews from the time they become Bar Mitzvah at thirteen, they put them on before commencing the recitation of the morning prayers each day except on Shabbat/Shaboos and festivals, by themselves the holy days constitute signs, symbols and religious identity already, consequently the wearing of tefillin on them is considered superfluous. Talmudic laws which are based on oral tradition as well on later practices and rabbinic views with regard to tefillin are very numerous . The 16th century ritual code, The Shulcan Aruch, list 160 laws that relate to every aspect of the physical make up tefillin, the ritual procedures and the order of putting them on and taking them off. They provide for all the exigencies than might possibly govern under any condition the wearing of tefillin,What this means is that a competent and Hashem fearing scribe(Sofer) is to write the four biblical excerpts which are encased in the cubes, the sofer who prepares the parchment text has to submit to a calligraphic as a well as religious discipline, that is as rigorous as that prescribed for copying a Torah scroll, in addition the tefillin and the straps which hold them in place can be made only from the skin of an animal considered ritually clean , The sewing on each tefillin is limited to twelve stitches and must be done with thread made of the dried veins of a clean animal. The edges of the case are not to be scuffed nor can the outside layers of leather show any signs of peeling or separation, there are rigid rules for the worshiper, tradition requires that he does so while standing as a mark of reverence. The tefillin on the head comes first, to me it resembles how Yeshua is the head of the body- the exact period when the wearing of tefillin originated is not known, although the Jewish historian Josephus writing in the first century referred to the rite as one that was already ancient in his time. Tefillin means to remember , remember YHVH'S Torah, his promises and the brit between us and him. The tefillin is four compartments, the parchment is cited as Tefilin Shel Yad in the hand and Tefillin Shel Rosh on the head, These compartments are called: Batim and the biblical passages inserted are mentioned as
Kadesh(sanctify to me) Exodus 13.1-10
V'haya Ki Y'Viacha( And when he brings you) Exodus 13.11-16
Shema(Hear O Israel ) Deut 6.4-9
V'haya Im Shamo'a( And if you hearken) Deut 11.13-21
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On the tefillin represent two types of shin- the three headed shin symbolizing the patriarchs Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov
The four headed shin symbolizes the four matriarchs Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah the merits of the patriarchs is on the right and the merit of the matriarchs on the left, The numerical value of the shin is 300 twice 300= 600 the two shins together form the word- Shesh- which means six(= 6, thus giving us 606. when we add the seven heads of the two shins, we reach the number 613 -the number of Mitzvot in Torah. When we lay tefillin we thus remember that we desire to fulfill all 613 Mitzvahs. Tefillin symbolizes the eternal bond between Israel and our abba in shomayim,
Also
Tefillin when it is referred to phylacteries this stems from the ancient Greek â€" Phylakterion- which means safeguard, apparently the Greeks misunderstood the tefillin to be some sort of amulet or charm, actually tefillin serves not as a superstition but as a bona fide connection to Hashem, The very word Mitzvah meand to bind, as such every mitzvah is an act of ahavah that binds us to Hashem. But tefillin is the paradigm Mitzvah, in that we literally bind ourselves to the will of Hashem, tefillin represents a total dedication and union with YHVH,Tefillin has a tremendous power to connect spiritually; remarkably The Chinese Journal of Medicine claims that the contact points of tefillin are exactly those points at which acupuncture needles are inserted in order to increase spirituality and to purify thought. Throughout Jewish history and more recently in the Holocaust, many Jews risked their lives for the sake of tefillin- Rabbi Joshua Aronsohn in the Holocaust and Halakha describes how tefillin were put on in Auschwitz stated: When we arose in the darkness of the night, we had just managed to wash, the block leaders and their helpers were hurrying us along to the forced labor details. There were long queues of prisoners waiting in line, not for bread or coffee, but to fulfill the Mitzvah of Tefillin. We appointed a special guard whose job it was to make sure that no one kept the tefillin on for longer than it took him to say the one verse SHEMA YISRAEL-so that more would be able to fulfill mitzvah.
The tefillin is the epitome of closeness to Hashem, the true strength of the Jewish people. In referring to tefillin the Torah says:
The peoples of the earth will see that Hashem's name is called upon you, and they shall be awed by you- Dvarim 28.10
There are five main parts of tefillin they are
1.Parshiot- The parchments
2.Bayit- The box containing the parchments
3.Titurah- The wider base of the bayit
4.Ma'abarta-The opening of the base which the strap goes through
5.Ritzv'ah- The strap( plural- ritzv'ot)
In conclusion there are 1594 letters in each of the tefillin, if one letter is extra or missing it renders the tefillin as invalid.
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Al' Ahavat HaTorah Ve Geulat Nefesh Hador
On the love of Torah and redemption of the souls of our generation
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2/28/09 For our readers, mispochah and new E-Training members
Shalom readers i have received a few emails stated that either they missed one of the Halakha lessons and where to find them or if it could be resent to them, I want to convey that if you missed an email
E-Training News Letter don't worry about it, it's no problem after i complete the news letters i send a copy in my news letter blog at www.aeonity.com/kingdom there you can always see the latest news letters plus all the back file news letters is in there also, and of course you can print them all out and read them when time avails , I want to thank each and every one of you that allows me to bombard your emails with the weekly lesson which i teach on Shabbat and the series we are covering which i get to share with you,
I get no greater joy than to receive emails from people like you mentioning to me about the news letters or something in regard to Messianic Judaism, for me coming from my background i am delighted and really enjoy studying and typing these lessons, It is also a stress reliever for me,plus it isn't my word or our ideals it is YHVH'S word and he gives us understanding where we lack and to be quite frank- opening the bible i see and learn new things all the time that i did not know, perhaps you could be helpful to us -
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 5
Date: Feb 23rd, 2009 2:54:16 pm - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed
Part 5
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
{ To hear Hashem and Obey}
Scriptures:
Deut 6. 1-7(Shema)/ Mark 12.18-44(Shema)/
Isa 48.1-22/Deut 4.1-49/ John 6.1-71/Deut 9.1-29
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Messianic Halakha comes from the word again to mean.
To walk, It is a term used for rules and rulings that govern Jewish life, In this lesson we will cover of the 25 Messianic Halakha listings, We will cover the Halakha importance of Shema- so then this is the fifth session covered thus far, We have covered 1. Overview 2. Milah 3. Mikvah 4. Tefillah and the fifth today being Shema
One of the first things i learned this week is that Yeshua himself quoted the shema as Moshe did in Dvarim 6. and I'll show you that in a second, There are three words i want to display in regard to shema and so an excellent example of Shema is pronounced Shmah- that has a primary meaning of Hear or Listen. It describes hearing and also it outcomes Understanding, Listening, The three terms of Shema then are to hear, listen and understand and so from a Hebraic standpoint it adds even a fuller meaning when expressing those three terms in depth
1.Hear- Azan- Listen/ Hashmauwth- Communicate/ Anah- Respond, Answer/ Akouo- To obey
2.Listen-Shama- To hear intelligently
3.Understand- Biyn- To discern/ Yada- To know/ Gnorizo- To reveal
Epistamai- To comprehend
So then in Dvarim 6.1-9
(The Complete Jewish Bible/ with MCM definition)
Now this is the mitzvah, the laws and rulings which Adonai your God ordered me to teach you for you to obey(Akouo) In the land you are crossing over to possess, 2. so that you will fear(yare-revere)Adonai your God and observe(natsar-to guard,protect,maintain)all his regulations(chukkim) and mitzvot that I am giving you-you, your child and grandchild- as long as you live(Continuous)and so that you have long life. 3. Therefore listen(Shama)Israel, and take care to obey, so that things will go well with you , and so that you will increase greatly, as Adonai, the God(YHVH)of your ancestors, promised you by giving you a land flowing with milk and honey(Provision,productive land)4. Shema, Yisra'el(belonging to YHVH) Adonai Eloheinu. Adonai echad [ hear(Anah-respond,answer) Isra'el Adonai our God, Adonai is one(plurality)5. And you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart(Leb- With all that beats within you) all of your being(hayah- existence/ esmen-We are)and all your resources or might(Gbuwrah- Valor, Force, Power, Strength)
Mark 12.18-31(Please read the whole chapter when you can)
Then some Tz'dukim(Sadducees) came to him . They are the ones who say there is no such thing as resurection(Remember that difference they had with the Prushim) so they put to him a sh'eilah( question, saying, test)19.Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man's brother died and leaves a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line- Deut 25.5- 20. There were seven brothers. The first one took a wife and when he died, he left no children 21. The the second one took her and he died without leaving children, and the third likewise, 22. and none of the seven left children. Last of all, the woman also died 23(Yeshua responds to the test- In the Resurrection(Which the Tz'dukkim don't believe) whose wife will she be?(question opposed back at them) For all seven had her as wife 24. Yeshua said to them “Isn't this the reason that you go astray? Because you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God? 25. For when people rise from the dead, neither men nor woman marry(No marriage in the Kingdom) they are like angels in heaven. 26. And as for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moshe( Exodus 3.6) in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya'akov 27. He is God not of the dead, but of the living! You are going far astray 28.One of the Torah teachers(scribes) came up and heard them engaged in this discussion. Seeing that Yeshua answered them well, he asked him” Which is the most important mitzvah of them all? 29. Yeshua answered,” The most important is (Dvarim 6.1-9- For all those who say the Old Brit isn't in the New Brit- here's proof)
Yeshua chants it himself: Sh'ma Yisra'el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad[ hear, O Isra'el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one], 30. and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding(Biyn) and with all your strength 31. The second is this:
you are to love your neighbor as yourself( Leviticus 19. 18-Torah)
So then Yeshua knew the law(Torah of not Moshe but of YHVH) and look at all the Torah portions he was teaching in these verses and yes he quoted the Shema.
For all these religious Jews who say Yeshua can't be the Moshiach because he didn't proclaim all the Torah, Here's proof, most religious Jews haven't read the New Testament to see for themselves.
Let's look at this lesson:
Keep in mind the word used in session one: Halakha Shel Ha'Derech- The walk of the or this way, Specifically how we are to walk according to Torah, and walking according to Torah is yet walking with Yeshua- We do so after the inward man to please Yeshua, not just to fulfill the requirements, We hold a dear and special relationship because we serve thee only living and true Moshiach- Yeshua that same Moshiach which all of Israel will later realize as the true Moshiach, Shema Yisrael or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema Hebrew for Hear-Anah- To answer, To respond
Which are the first two words of the section of Torah which is the centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services. This Shema is another Tefillah which is expresed as Shema-Hear/ Yisrael- O Israel/ Adonai-The Lord/ Eloheynu-
Our Hashem is/ Adonai Echad- One Lord( Encompassing Abba, Ruach and Yeshua)
The Shema is the central prayer in the Jewish Siddur- Prayer Book- and is often the first section of scripture that a Jewish child learns- Deut 6.4. during it's recitation in the synagogue- Orthodox Jews pronounce each word very carefully and cover their eyes with their right hand. Many Jews recite the shema at least twice daily- once in the morning, evening and at bed time. The Shema is actually more than just six words, The undertone response of Barukh Shem Kevod Malkhuto Le'Olam Va'Ed- after a pause- Deut 6.5-9/Mark 12. is recited which stresses the Mitzvot to love(obey) your Hashem YHVH with all your heart, Leb, Nephesh, Kardia and Nshamah(Soul) and Might or Resources- Gbuwrah- Valor, Force, Power, Strength
The statement declares this plurality we keep seeing about YHVH and his son Yeshua, That plurality causes it to be impossible not to see Yeshua in the divinity of YHVH the word Echad in Hebrew implies a unity in diversity. The word for one and only one- unique is rendered as Yachid- For example in Exodus 26.6 which describes the various parts of the Tabernacle( Miskan) are to be constructed so that it shall be one( Echad) Tabernacle. The Shema requires concentration and consciousness, As i talked about how we should not be reciting prayers and following such religious duties out of traditional normality to the point that we forget each word and why we are saying it, We can be so used to doing things that we forget it's Kodesh- It's Holy and it actually loses it's Holiness and becomes formality, not based on relationship when that happens we are no different that the Tz'dukkim and Prushims, The Sadducee and Pharisees- Who wore long Tzitzit and religious uniforms and bright galore clothings to be seen. The fervent declaration of the unity or oneness of Hashem YHVH, over the course of the centuries, from the days of the sages on, as soon as a child began to speak he was taught to repeat daily with the utmost awe and reverence, the ringing Hebrew words of Shema until he knew them by heart. He continued to repeat them twice a day in his prayers through out all the days of his life. And the shema was his last conscious utterance as he lay dying, later this declaration was elaborated and became a fundamental part of the daily prayer liturgy service, both morning and night, however in the time of danger or at the point of death, the recitation of the first verse cited or even only it's first two Hebrew words- Shema Yisrael- have been considered sufficient by the Rabbis of Israel, Since in Jewish belief, the intention is what matters most. A illustration of this devotion to the shema is recorded in the Talmud concerning the death of Rabbi Akiva- who we as Messianic Jews don't really like, because he ended up serving Idolotry and worshiping a man whom he called Moshiach causing the first Century Yehudim B'Moshiachs to run to Pella, He caused lots of problems for the first century Messianic Believers- anyway- it shows a good account of Shema, So Rabbi Akiva who was the inspiration of the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans when the rebellion had been crushed in 135 C.E. In a sea of blood, The romans put the sage to the torture. When his torments had become unbearable to shomayim and with all his remaining Strength cried out the shema- Hear O Israel. The Lord our Hashem, The Lord is Echad(One) And when he reached the word one(Echad) he stubbornly hung on to it lovingly continued to murmur it, refusing to let it go and died on it. Countless of Martyrs since then have repeated the Shema with traidtional fervor as they died at the enemies of Israel and the Jewish people. Yet curiously the Shema does not evoke any grim or desperate feelings in the believing Jew, But only the chedvah- Joy of dedication, This is triumphantly expressed in one of the morning prayers called: The Ashrei
which states Happy are we! How goodly is our portion, how pleasant our lot and how beautiful our heritage! Happy are we who, early and late, morning and evening twice every day, declare Shema, In another prayer section called: The Musaf Amidah of Shabbat and holidays, when the Toray is taken out of the Ark on Shabbat and holidays. The commandment of saying Shema is fulfilled by reciting it in the Shacharit and Ma'ariv services. The Shema should be said more audibly than the Amidah since the Shema reaffirms the basic tenets of the Jewish faith, The Shema may be said while standing or sitting, The Jews of Israel use to stand and we still do to show the Shemas importance and Holiness and to demonstrate that saying Shema is an act of testifying in Hashem who he is and of course we have already proven that Yeshua himself said it for the same reasons suggested in this lesson. If a congregation doesnot recite the Shema, It is not Messianic period. Shema is the pillar of Judaism, including Messianic Judaism and must be recited by the leaders and the congregation- The Tefillah Shema Yisrael can be likened to a declaration of dependence to the creator of the universe. Talmud describes it as the vehicle with which to accept the Yoke of Shomayim, Rabbi Avigdor Miller pointed out that the word Shema- To hear is the word that was used at the moment of the original acceptance of Hashem and his Torah at Sinai when the Jewish people cried out
” Na'aseh Venishmah”- We will do and we will hear- As the Jewish forefathers declared 3300 years ago so do the Jews declare today “ Shema Yisrael”
Our sages teach us that the original recitation of the phrase:
Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokaynu Hashem Ehad dates back to our forefather Ya'akov. We are taught that at the close of Ya'akovs(Jacob) life he called all of his children to his bedside to say farewell and to reveal the destiny of the Jewish people, When he was unsuccessful sharing his visions and insights regarding the future of the Jewish people he grew despondent and concerned that perhaps his children were not true to Hashem YHVH of Israel. As that anxiety filled Ya'akov- Ya'akovs chidren recited the Shema in unison saying: Shema Yisrael Echad- This provided comfort and fulfillments to him at the closing moments of his life, that commentary is based in it's view on Genesis 49.29-33- But it is also backed up in the Brit Chadasha in Hebrew 11.21- Which states by trusting, Ya'akov when he was dying, blessed each of Yosefs sons, leaning on his walking stick as he bowed in prayer.
Perhaps that prayer in those last minutes was the shema, thereafter verse 21. after he prayed, The scriptures doesn't say what he prayed- We assume we said the Shema, But what we know for a fact is that he states a few Torah events throughout the ending of the chapter, he quotes â€" Gen 47. 31/ Exodus 2.2./ Daniel 6.23/
Habukkuk 2.4
In conclusion:
The definition of religiosity is. A weak superficial religious sentiment.So then something that is superficial is something being on a surface,shallow, not thorough or within,You know wearing Kippa, Tzitzit, Tillit,Tefillin Etc. isn't done to look religious,
It should be done to show your obedience to Torah and your willful desire to obey YHVH out of Love, Our Love should declare our obedience, not religious wear, because Torah said to do so as far as Tzitzit, Tillit and Tefillin are concerned, Let us not become so religious, superficial that we forget why we do what we do and wear what we wear, not to be seen or to look holy, not to present a image that appears as Idolatry, but to show our allegiance under Torah. our desire to obey his word and to live for Yeshua.
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed, Part 4.
Date: Feb 17th, 2009 2:08:52 am - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed` Pt 4.
2/14/09- Mitzvot is Law/ Halakha is Teaching, Application
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
E-Training Program
The Prayer(Tefillah,Daven) Life
Come and enter in the Holies of Holy ( Kodesh, Hagios)
{ Actually read it all }
Ahavat Limud- Ahavat Torah
Script(Tefillah) The Complete Jewish Bible/ The Orthodox Jewish Bible
Divrei Hayamim Bet- 2 Chron 6.1-42/ Nechemyah- Nehemiah 1.1-11/
Nehemiah 2.1-20/Mishlei- Prov 15.20-33/ Prov 28 verse 9/ Dani'El 9.1-27
Brit Chadasha Text mentioning Tefillah
Rom 12.12/ Rom 15.30/ 1 Cor 7.5/ Eph 6.18/ Phil 1.4/ Colos 4.2/
1 Thess 1.2/ 1 Tim 2.1/ 2 Tim 1.3 / Ya'akov- James 5.15-16/ 1 Kefa-Peter 3.12/
1 Kefa-Peter 4.7/ Hisgalus- Revelations 5.8/ Revelations 8.3-4
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of course when even you see the word prayer in the text, It indicates it's Tefillah, more over in my mind, not all prayer is Tefillah- when you see the hearts anguish sobbing with all life before YHVH that is the true sign of Tefillah.
This is very good lesson this week, as we have reached our fourth part of our Messianic Halakha and there is a lot to say in this lesson, so let's begin:
Mishle- Proverbs 28.9- He who turns away his ear(Heart, Soul ) from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer (Tefillah) is an Abomination
What is an Abomination ? hate,loathe, dislike
If our Tefillah is not lined up with the will of YHVH he will not hear you, People are asking you to pray for them, and you know they are living a lie, living in sin and not even seeking Yah, my response is i won't pray for you- But i am praying that you come to repentance and accept salvation, We dealt today in the teaching of this Halakha that if the person is not listening and willing to adhere to Torah, there prayer is an Abomination,Abomination means hate- Which means YHVH detest there praying to him with sin still misdealt with, We will see that Tefillah shows a person has judged them selves to be ready for Tefillah, They have prepared them selves for Tefillah by judging and making certain that they have washed them selves from sin, There are conditions to Tefillah, the first is recognizing YHVH with fear and reverence and the second is Halel- Praise him and exonerate his holy name then make your request known, I wish i could extract all of the juices of the word as preached before being entered in this news letter- however this is the best amount of that source. opposite of Christian dogma, you can just beg G-d for whatever and he will give it to you, name it claim it, grab it blab it. Without any conditions of self being prepared to go before YHVH, We can't go before him any kind of way- our hearts must be in order to come before him, He is Holy, Creator, King of Kings and we must judge within ourselves am i prepared to go before his throne room and seek him, another example of that is Nechemyah 1. 1- 11(MCM Commentary)
Which indicates how Nehemiah saw the destruction of Jerusalem's Temple- What conditions was his Tefillah
1. Tears 2. Mourning several days 3. Fasting 4. Tefillah 5. Teshuvah- Repentance for sins Nehemiah didn't even do but yet he asked for forgiveness for the sins we(Israel) committed, He places himself in Israel's condition- All Jew is one Jew- If you hurt we all hurt, If your bleeding we all bleed, The Jew has one heart in different vessels and that is what Nehemiah was seeking in his Tefillah. All these things preceded any request and supplication, then came Tefillah verse7. He recognizes all that Israel did against Torah, Mitzvot and so we see before chapter two every gets read, chapter one is all Tefillah a complete chapter of eleven verses full of Tefillah regarding the state of the Temple and Israel and the people, That chapter is filled with all kinds of conditions such as verse 9. If(Conditional) you shall turn back to me and guard my mitzvots and do them, though you were cast out to the end of shomayim. I(YHVH) will gather them from there and bring them to the place which I(YHVH) have chosen, to make my name dwell there.
The word Halakha comes from again, The Hebrew word to mean> To walk, It is a term used for Rules and Rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover of the twenty five Messianic Halakha listings, We will cover the Halakha importance of Tefillah â€" so then we have at this fourth session covered 1. Overview 2.Milah 3.Mikvah and today is #4. Tefillah all back lessons and about another 27 lessons can be obtained by going to www.aeonity.com/kingdom
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Please keep in mind the word used in the very first lesson just about a month ago was Halakha Shel Ha'Derech- The walk of the, or this way. Specifically how we are to walk according to Torah first, Tanakh, Brit Chadasha after the inward man to please Yeshua.
Tefillah is the Hebrew word for prayer , It incorporates the Jewish Amidah prayer- The Sephardim, The prayer book and is one of the many terms especially most common in the Bible for prayers in general. The Hebrew root means' to think, entreat, judge, intercede and the reflective means: To judge oneself and then to prayer. Prayer in the bible is individual and corporate with the psalms containing both as well as being embedded in both Temple and sanctuary ritual. The destruction of the second Temple( Beit Ha'Mikdash ) accelerated the development of regular liturgical prayers as a counterpart to the vanished Temple and sanctuary ritual worship and sacrifices ,Which was known as Avodah She Balev- The service/ worship of the heart B. Ta'ah.29- with a strong emphasis on brakah(blessings) and benedictions.
Jewish prayer eventually around the 8th and 9th century B.C.E. Led to the compilation of prayer books such as siddurs, feast day prayer books Etc.
What does Tefillah do?
The Torah in Brieshis 2.5 and Rashi Ibid- which is Genesis 2.5 under commentary states a wonderful expression and story of the true meaning of Tefillah, It states that the grass was ready to come out from the ground on the third day, but there was no rain because there as no man to realize the necessity of Rain. On the sixth day Adam/ Adamah was created and he realized the value of Rain only after he prayed for the rain, did it come down and make the plants grow.
This teaches us that even if something is ready in Shomayim for a person, if he/she doesn't see the importance of it which would make him/her realize his obligation to pray for it then he/she may not get it. Which is why Tefillah is derived from the root Pe(Pay) Lamed from my Hebrew guide sheet and the word L'HitPallel meaning to judge oneself. Tefillah is some thing that is necessary for a person to obtain what we need, surely Hashem knows our inward needs without our request or supplications, But it is his will to be sought after and cried to with a sincere and contrite heart- For then can he see where the heart is and the inward desire of the person who prays( Tefillah,Daven)
Without Tefillah everything is frozen, dormant in place even though it is all finished and ready for the person. This is the first point of Tefillah, or a negative aspect of Tefillah to some, Even if a person deserves something and it is all ready for them, they will not get it if they don't ask, pray for it. There is also another aspect of Tefillah, it is a certain power that enables one to even obtain things that one doesn't deserve things that he would never think about getting can be acquired through Tefillah- for example; Solomo prayed for Chokmah and received the extra benefit of wealth associated with the Tefillah to lead YHVH'S people 1 Kings 3. Although Hashem YHVH had sworn to Moshe that he wouldn't enter Eretz Yisrael, never the less Moshe Rabbainu kept Tefillah before Hashem, The Midrash Rabbo- Dvarim 11.6 -relates that while Moshe was praying- YHVH told the malak,aggelos(Messenger Angel)to close the gates of Tefillah, So that Moshe's prayer couldn't enter. Had the Tefillah entered the gates, it could have reversed the decree despite Hashem's oath. Never the less we see YHVH answered Moshe's Tefillah because he entered the promise land(Canaan- Israel at the transfiguration) who was there 1. Yeshua Ha'Mashiach 2. Rabbi Moshe 3. Rabbi Eliyahu- Luke 9.18-36
Which further illustrates that no prayer- Tefillah- goes unanswered, how YHVH answers is another story, his will precedes your wants and he won't change his will which is his word because of a prayer, Tefillah- All prayer is not a genuine Tefillah
I've heard of stories where persons prayed for another man's wife and another woman's husband, Well that is the kind of stuff which comes in Christianity not Messianic Judaism but using such an analogy would that prayer get answered- which goes against the word, Torah- it will not, Some people are praying saying Yah's name in it but the prayer isn't for him at all, There greed and there desires is the prayer labeled with Yah's name when the contributor is Ha'Satan while that Tefillah is reserved for HaSatan for His glory and YHVH doesn't hear it at all, Tefillah must be centered around the word and will of YHVH- not according to our begging selves. A Rabbi Chazkel points out how we are submerged in a society that constantly preaches Kochi V'otzem Yadi everything we attain is through our might and our great intelligence and not through Hashem. Men have idolized themselves, but when a catastrophe befalls them, that;s when they draw a Tefillah out of themselves to beg Hashem's mercy- but otherwise he wasn't important enough for them to serve and worship and live for all along. True Tefillah fulfills the first six Mitzvots
1.To know that there is a(Thee) Yah- Ex 20.2
2.Not to entertain thoughts of other El's- gods besides him- Ex 20.3
3.To know that he is Echad(Abba, Yeshua, Ruach) Deut 6.4
4.To love him- Deut 6.5
5.To Fear( Yare- Reverence) him- Deut 10.20
6.To Sanctify (hagiazo,qadash- make clean,purify) his name- Lev 22.32
Tefillah certainly fulfills other Mitzvots also, One may think that the power of Tefillah is only for the privileged few, who can reach such a high level and get close to Hashem through Tefillah. This is not so. Once our Avos instituted the three Tefillos- Avraham Avinu established the prayer of Shacharis (morning tefillah) Yitzchak Avinu Mincha and Ya'akov Avinu Ma'ariv they make the arrangements whereby even simple people in Klaf Yisroel can get closer to Hashem through Tefillah(Meimrei Shlomo Ibid.)
Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin in Nefesh Hachaim, describes how Hashem created the world with an intricate system of spiritual powers, through which Hashem's bounty and influence is brought in to the physical world. This system is activated by Torah learning, Mitzvos and Tefillah. Hashem put us into this physical world so that we could earn the ultimate spiritual rewards which he desires to bestow upon us, an intimate relationship with him. We do not simply earn this reward. Rather we create that relationship through our actions in this world. By being willing to learn Torah, doing Mitzvos and davening- which is to daven, to pray â€" Daven which is widely accepted to refer to the act of praying, while Tefillah is the rendering of those prayers, as in to daven shacharit -To pray the morning prayer. According to Halakha (Jewish Law/Torah) Jewish men are required to pray three times a day, daily and four times daily on Shabbat/Shaboos Yehudin woman are required to pray at least daily, with no specific time requirement. Daven is said to related to Aramaic from the word meaning' Our Fathers- this refers again to the tradition that Avraham instituted the practice of morning prayer and Yitzchak afternoon prayer and Ya'akov the evening prayer, which proves that interesting point that all the great servants of YHVH knew the importance of seeking the face of YHVH through Tefillah, Daven and how in good times to rejoice and give him thanks for the victory and in the bad times, to praise him for the victory he will bring, and for the sins of Israel- to repent of there behalf and seek YHVH to restore them to his Ahavah. End..
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed-pt 3
Date: Feb 8th, 2009 4:45:06 am - Subscribe
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed Pt 3.
The Mikvah in Yeshua - 2/7/09
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Mitzvot is Law,Commandment- Halakha is Teaching, Application
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
MCM Translation & Commentary
Script:
Lev 11.36/ Zech 13.1-9/ Rom 6.1-23/ Acts 2.1-47/ Acts 8. 1-40/ Acts 19.1-19/ Messianic Hebrews 6.1-20
Looking at Leviticus one of the first instances of this term Mikvah is being used in several ways i want to show you. I want to prove that these Messianic Jews in the Brit Chadasha knew no such term as Baptism, which comes from some Greek words, we will look at that later Lev 11- which is the same chapter where we get Kashrut and Kosher from, We see in verse 36, this pool mentioned as remaining clean-Kadshim, consecrated, Holy. It states: although a spring or cistern for collecting water remains clean. end of quote
So then we see a Mikvah is a Spring, Fountain, Pool, Cistern. Zechariah 13.1-9 paints that picture to be Yeshua-
It states 13.1 When the day comes , a spring(Mikvah) will be open up for the Beit Dovid (House of David) and the Jews /Gerims living in Yerushalayim to cleanse them from sin and impurity( Tomeh- Ritually Unclean) 2.when that day comes says YHVH Tzva'ot , I will cut off the very names of the idols from the land(False Moshiachs also) so that no one even remembers them anymore. I (Yeshua) will also expel the false prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land. 3. so that if anyone continues to prophecy, his own father and mother who brought him into the world will stab him to death 4. When that day comes, each one of the prophets will be shamed by his vision when he prophesies. He will stop wearing a hair cloak(Kippa) to deceive people( Look Religious) 5. and instead he will say, I'm no prophet , I just work the soil; since my youth I've only wanted to be an ordinary man 6. If someone asks him, Then what are these gashes between your shoulders? He will answer I got hurt at my friends house 7. Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me says YHVH Tzva'ot strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the young ones, in time, throughout the land says YHVH (Yeshua included) read the rest of that chapter yourself, it gives a clear distinction of this mikvah to come being Yeshua, that a spring, a cistern, a mikvah is being opened in the future for the house of Dovid, the only way for those sins to be erased is through Yeshua, which is another indicator that it is talking about him.
The word Halacha again comes from the word to mean walk, it is a term that applies to rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we will cover part three of the twenty five Halakha listings that we are teaching, Last week we taught on Milah, the week before that- we did an over view of this series and what Halakha is and today is part three being Mikvah- The word Mikvah is pronounced either Mikvah, Mikva'ot or Mikves and it is a ritual bath initially from the old covenant stand point. It is designed for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism, The word Mikvah literally means: a collection, collection of Mayim(Water) Halakha requires that women immerse in the Mikvah to enter a state of spiritual purity, for a kosher immersion, Halakha prescribes the guidelines and preparations. A Mitzvah is a commandment and Mikvah is apart of the commands all through the New Covenant as well, Let me prove it to you, The Mikvah offers the individual, the community and the nation of Israel, the remarkable gift of purity and Holiness, The qualification is the Mikvah must contain a minimum of two hundred gallons of water or rainwater that was gathered and siphoned into a pool in accordance with a highly specific set of regulations, In most cases Mikvahs are comprised of sometimes two or three adjoining pools. Halakha stipulates that one must be scrupulously clean already before Immersion, unlike Baptism which is but Romes carbon copy of what had been in place since Judaism being Mikvah, With baptism you can be a sinner one minute and baptized the next, or as my old Pastor would say go down a dry devil and come up a wet devil, not so with the Mikvah, You have to already be cleansed and prepared in your heart for Mikvah.
According to the book of Jewish Knowledge, by Nathan Ausubel he states: The Jewish woman was traditionally required to go to the Mikvah for purposes or religious purification following her menstrual cumstances. Today in the inevitably relaxed climate of Jewish Religious observance, only the most strictest traditionalistic orthodox women attend the Mikvah . Indispensable to religious life at the synagogue, the house of study Beit Ha'Midrash- The Talmud, Torah relates in fact that every Jewish community was obliged by rabbinical law to maintain a Mikvah. And we can see that even Yeshua went to Mikvah before he could perform any miracles, because he fulfilled every section and line of Torah, He would have had to receive Mikvah because he is Cohen Hagadol- The high priest, no priest of the Temple in Jerusalem could have entered the Temple without receiving several Mikvahs,
Let's reveal further, The Mikvah remains an unchangeable Jewish process of cleansing that Yeshua himself experienced and also every single messianic believer of the first century received mikvah also, let's see a little of that in the text.
Romans 6. 1-23 -Let's read verses 3-4Don't you recognize that those of you who have been Immersed(Mikvah) into(Bonded, in the body) the Mashiach- Messiah Yeshua have been( result of mikvah)immersed into his death. 4. Through Mikvah into his death we were buried with him( Put on Yeshua, New man, new life, died of old self) so that just as, through the glory of the Father, the Messiah was raised from the dead, like wise we too might live a new life.
Romans 8.1-40/ Philip preceded Rabbi Shaul: and here we see a mikvah taking place, You will have to read it, but we see a Ethiopian Jew (Beta Yisrael) reading the scroll of Isaiah in Hebrew without understanding, YHVH sends by way of an Angel to tell Philip to go where this Ethiopia Leader was and Philip asked him a question, We will see that in a second, we saw in verse 12. that there was a great number of Men and Women being seen going in Mikvah and who had received Yeshua as Jews already, We see this Witch craft worker named Shim'on receiving Mikvah then we see this African brother in Yerushalyim apparently after the feast of Shavuot, He was obviously going home and stopped on the road to read Isaish 53. about Yeshua Ha'Mashiach unknowingly, so then he is already Jewish who becomes Messianic, There was water and he received Immersion into Yeshua, Mikvah of faith to obey Yeshua, to fulfill the text and to follow this Yeshua, I believe this Ethiopian went back home to Ethiopia and witnessed there to his family after verse 39 the scripture said the Ethiopian went on his way and Philip was snatched away from the Ethiopian and appeared at Ashdod, This Ethiopian i believe, in my opinion he spreaded the message of Yeshua in Ethiopia amongst his family and friends, which may attest why there are some Messianic in Ethiopia and have been for a very long time.
Acts 19.1-19/ Hebrews 6.1-20 further prove that these messianic first century believers obeyed Torah through observing Mikvah and not Baptism, The Besorah that they all received was Torah and Tanakh, not Brit Chadasha It is also in my opinion that the Old Brit and the New Brit is one Brit, Rome gave us these divisions, chapters and sections, I believe the whole bible is Torah, The what is called New Brit is stories all about Old Brit, So then the bible is one Brit and should be called One Covenant without chapters and divisions in my opinion, Genesis to Revelation one book. Not 66 Books, one book, anyway The Mikvah was that same water of separation in the Old Brit, where the mind of faith for circumcision was confessed, This faith and circumcision placed the convert under the promises of Avraham. The convert had no choice but to go through these waters of sanctification, therefore the Mikvah is not of works, It is washing the old man off to be of the nation of Israel and with us for the purpose of following the true Jewish Messiah- Yeshua Ha'Mashiach Melech, The Mikvah of faith separates those who are in the Messiah verses those who aren't. And the Baptism in Church is not applied, it was a counterfeit work with the receiving of Romes beliefs, principals, idol 165 gods and i will disclose shortly that baptism doesn't fit the specifications of Mikvah which further proves that all who received it away from the Jewish mikvah did it to no avail, Yes Yeshua winked at our ignorance but now that you are assured and has come in the truth, what hinders you from receiving the true Mikvah as the Ethiopian stated, here is some water, what hinders us? Do it Torah way or your way, your way don't work, wouldn't you rather receive the mikvah of the messiah and no that you are entering this water to be buried with Yeshua and to come out of it a new person in the messiah, verses being Baptized to receive Christianity or better yet to receive the gods of paganism, to worship them through ignorant religious works of non profit, I am in no way stating that a person who received baptism of romanism is lost from salvation, Yeshua sees there hearts, but once you learn the truth why not walk(Halakha) in it, and receive the true Mikvah and not the counterfeit mixed seed religion called Christianity and it's quick water rise salvation, That Baptism is pagan and guess where Rome picked up most of it's beliefs that it used to create it's invention called: Christianity they took it from Judaism. Rome conquered Jerusalem you know! So then Baptism is Romes Carbon Copy of Mikvah, The original Jewish Pool.
When new converts came to Rabbi Shaul they did not receive Baptism, Rabbi Shaul knew no such roman Greek term as Baptism- The Terms for Baptism which come from Greek are: baptisma-baptismos-baptizo-baptistes
The word baptize derives from the Greek word βάπτειν (the infinitive; also listed as the 1st person singular present active indicative βαπτίζω), which loosely means "to dip, bathe, or wash". To some groups it is a matter of religious conviction to assert that baptism is literally equivalent to, to plunge something entirely into the water, so that the water closes over it. To other groups, baptism is a symbolic term meaning "identification with" (e.g. Jesus) having no connection with earthly ritual. The truth is it's Mikvah, ritual and spiritual
Form of Baptism: Among those Christian espousing the practice of baptism, the ritual is performed as:
Aspersion- sprinkling water over the head (not Torah)
Affusion -Pouring water over the head (not Torah)
Immersion - lowering the entire body into a pool of water( much closer to Torah)
Isn't it interesting that even the cultist groups Immerse members in there cult, like
The Church of Joseph Smith (Mormons) Denominations alike, Catholicism Etc.
Rabbi Shaul knew what a Mikvah was, there all around Jerusalem he was a Pharisaic Jew.
He would have entered a Mikvah to go to the Temple for Festival Times. The First Century Messianic Congregations would have entered this Mikvah also, The same Jewish ritual means for cleansing. The Torah speaks of numerous things that makes a person (Tomeh) Ritually unclean, and a number of processes of purification. The one act requires in all purification processes was Immersion in the Mikvah, A man from the tribe of Levi, a son of Aharon could not assume his office as priest(Cohanim) until he had gone through a Mikvah. Before a person could be (Tahor) ritually clean- To enter the grounds of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem , he must be immersed in Mikvah. The severest judgmental punishment was imposed on a person for entering the Temple area in the state of Tomeh- ritual impure, a women in her monthly cycle would have to ware special clothing so that all would no that she was in the state of Niddah- ritual unclean due to her cycle, she would not be Tahor- ritually clean until after entering the Mikvah be it river, man made ground built Mikvah near the Temple or elsewhere. Immersion in a Mikvah is an integral part of Conversion to Judaism, without conversion with Mikvah, The conversion isn't valid.
The Mikvah is as the Messiah purifying his people from there sins.
Apart of that hypothesis explains a Mikvah at the tree that took place, While Yeshua Ha'Mashiach still hung on that Roman tree, The Soldiers pierced him in his side, Immediately there came out Blood- Haima and water Mayim/Hudor â€" John 19.34 which would express that blood being the Kipporah- Atonement for the sins, and the water being the Mikvah washing those sins away. Propitiating those sins through the Mikvah of Yeshua's final sacrifice. The opening of the cleansing fountain or Mikvah for Israel in Zech 13.1 is Yeshua as that fountain, eternal Mikvah,
Here is a concise listing of Mikvah specifications which would further dispel Baptism as being the same as Mikvah
1. No other liquid but water may be used, no coloring, dyes Etc.
2The Mikvah must be built into the ground, or be apart of a building attached to the ground, It cannot consist of any vessel that can be disconnected and carried away, such as a Tub, Vat, or Barrel Etc.
3.The water of a Mikvah cannot be running or flowing, The only exception to the rule is a natural spring of water, or river whose water is derived mainly from springs.
4.The water of the Mikvah must be brought together by natural means, not drawn
5.The water cannot be channeled to the Mikvah through anything that can become Tomeh- unclean
6.The Mikvah must contain no less than 40 Sa'ah of water,(Minimum) that is approximately 150 to 200 gallons or more.
The Baptisteries in the local church, do not fit the criteria of a clean ritual bath
Of the Mikvah there are three types of Immersion
1.Immersion of whole body
2.Immersion of the hands
3.Hands and feet
The clearest differences of Baptism verse Mikvah is also the preacher goes in the water with you and dunk you under three times in the name of the father, son and whom they call the holy ghost, Rabbi allows the person to dunk themselves, it's there profession of faith, plus Mikvah is a Jewish identify not Romes,
Mikvah is not a once in a lifetime event, but an action to be experienced over and over again. The power of immersion cleanses the spiritually unclean and brings about healing and restoration. The main purpose of immersion into water is not physical cleanliness, though that does play a part in Scriptural t'vilah. The most important reason we have been called to t'vilah is to reinforce the Bible's message of separation. As believers, we have been called out of darkness into the Light of YHVH Yeshua.
The earth was immersed in the beginning. As part of creation, the Almighty immersed the world in water. "YHVH said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the waters under the heaven gathered to their gatherings and the dry land appeared. And YHVH called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the water He called Seas: and YHVH saw that it was good. And YHVH said, Let the earth bring out grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought out grass and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind: and Elohim saw that it was good." Genesis 1: 8-12
Believe it or not, there is a Mikvah in these verses! The Hebrew word for "gathering the waters" or "gathered to their gatherings" (Genesis 1:9) is actually "mikvah." The place where the waters gathered was a mikvah, or a "gathering of moving waters that renders a ritually unclean person clean." New life sprung forth after the waters were gathered into a mikvah. The Torah says that "the Ruach (Spirit) of YHVH moved upon the face of the waters." The Rabbis teach that when YHVH hovered over the waters, He impregnated the waters and the creation was birthed from this action of hovering. "Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen." Job 38 shows the basis for this imagery
Immersion is also an act of repentance, following rebellion against YHVH. In the beginning Adam and Chavah allowed sin to corrupt them and were therefore rendered ritually unclean. They were cast from YHVH'S Presence. The Rabbis teach that after Adam was banished, he sat in a river that flowed from the Garden. This was his immersion after sin that showed his desire to return to the Creator. As Adam sat in the moving waters that flowed from the Garden he could remember his former state and he no doubt mourned the loss of closeness with the Creator.
The Hebrews And Mikvah
The role of mikvah continues with the story of the Peseach First, Israel was enslaved in bondage to Pharaoh. They cried out to YHVH in prayer and the He heard them. He delivered the Israelites, setting them free from slavery through ten horrible plagues. As the people fled the evil ruler, they came to a dead end. Pharaoh was pursuing them from behind and before them was the massive Yam Suf. What would happen? The Torah says that the immense waters of the Yam Suf parted and our ancestors walked across the deep on dry land. With the walls of water on either side of them, the Israelites experienced mikvah, "Our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea." I Corinthians 10: 1-2
The same waters that receded for the Israelites, though, flooded Pharaoh and his army as they tried to cross the Yam Suf. The Hebrew word "t'vilah" appears in Exodus, when Pharaoh's army was overtaken by the sea waters. "YHVH is a man of war, YHVH is His Name. Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Yam Suf ." Exodus 15
The word translated drowned is actually "mikvah." Pharaoh and his army were immersed and killed by the waters.
T'vilah is symbolic of the womb, of new life and of bringing death. Shortly after the 'Yam Suf ' mikvah, the Israelites received the Torah from YHVH at Mount Sinai and experienced yet another t'vilah.
"YHVH said to Moshe, Go to the people and set them apart today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready by the third day: for on the third day YHVH will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai. And Moshe went down from the mount to the people, and set-apart the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Approach not your wives in intimacy." Exodus 19:10,11,14.
For Israel to continue in intimacy with YHVH they had to wash themselves, separate themselves and prepare for the Set Apart One. Notice that they had already been immersed in the Yam Suf, yet, they had to experience t'vilah again. This time, immersion's purpose was to cleanse the nation to experience YHVH.
I like to show you a few other New Brit scriptures in my conclusion
Look at what Yeshua himself taught after the resurrection
Go yourselves all over and teach all nations (all Jews and Goys) immersing(Mikvah) them in the name of the father-Abba, and of the son-Yeshua and of the Holy Spirit -Ruach Hokodesh Matt 18.19
Mark 16.33- He that believeth and received Mikvah shall be saved(without it, it seems to say-not saved otherwise) but he that doesn't believe is katakrino(judged already) damned
Eph 4. 5
Echad Hashem, Echad Emuwn, Echad Mikvah
one G-d, one way to salvation, one way of cleansing of sin
One Hashem, One Faith, One Mikvah
One Lord, One Faith, One Immersion
"You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them." Leviticus 15: 31
"That ye may put difference between holy and unholy and between unclean and clean." Leviticus 10:10
"Think not that I(Yeshua) am come to destroy the Torah (law), or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.(Strengthen to the full) Matthew 5
"Repent for the kingdom of Shomayim is near. Let us draw near with a leb tahor, in full assurance of 'emunah' (trusting faithfulness), having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed(Mikvah) with pure water." Hebrews 10:22
"Having been buried with him in Mikvah and raised with him through your faith in the power of YHVH, who raised him from the dead. When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, YHVH made you alive with the Master(Yeshua) He forgave us all our sins." Colossians 2:12-13
"Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the Name of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach and by the Spirit of our YHVH." I Corinthians 6:11
"And now, why are you waiting? Arise and be Mikvah and wash away your sins, calling on the Name of Yeshua." Acts 22:16
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed-pt 2
Date: Feb 6th, 2009 7:37:45 pm - Subscribe
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1/31/09 Shabbat message/ News Letter
Why Messianic Halakha is needed part 2
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
*{Covenant Relationship} *
Scripture:
Gen 17.1-14/ Ex 12.25-50/ Deut 10. 1-21/ Romans 2.27-29/ John 7.1-39/ Act's 7.1-8/
Romans 4.9-25
AVRAHAM WAS THE FIRST GER
THE CONVERTED JEW
Gen 17. says from the The Complete Jewish Bible/ The Orthodox Jewish Bible in verse
1.When Avram was 99 years old YHVH appeared to Avram and said to him I am El Shaddai YHVH walk in my presence[ Halakha ] and be pure hearted. 2. I will make my covenant between me and you,and I will increase your numbers greatly 3. Avram fell on his face, and YHVH continued speaking with him. VS 9. YHVH said to Avraham ( not Avram any longer why?) as for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation 10.Here is my covenant, which you are to keep,between me and you, along with your descendants (Jews and Gentiles to come-Rabbi Shaul proves that later) after you: every male among you is to be circumcised 11. You are to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; this will be the sign of the covenant between me and you
vs 14. Any uncircumcised male who will not let himself be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin -that person will be cut off(destroyed- not connected with the G-d of Israel) from his people, because he has broken my covenant.
From The Orthodox Jewish Bible Vs 8- which proves Avraham was a converted Jew.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy zera after thee, the Eretz wherein thou art now a ger, kol Eretz Kena'an, for an Achuzzah (possession) olam (everlasting) and I will be their Elohim YHVH ___________________________________________________________________________
Avraham came from Ur with his family around 2,100 BCE- He grew up observing various idol gods and worshiping at Ziggurats , such Islam gods as Allah, The moon god piece of rock- which means he grew up directly in between Iran and Iraq, Which proves he was not a Jew, He was appointed as a gentile to lead YHVH'S People- Rabbi Shaul proves that
Romans 4. 9- 25 verse 9.
Now is this blessing for the circumcised only? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say that Avraham's trust was credited to his account as righteousness 10.but what state was he in when it was so credited -circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision ! 11.In fact, he received circumcision as a sign(covenant, Judaism) as a seal [sphragizo-stamp with a signet- YHVH imprint] of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him. 12. and at the same time be the father of every circumcised person who not only has had a Brit milah, but also follows in the footsteps of the trust which Avraham avinu had when he was still uncircumcised 13. For the promise to Avraham and his seed that he would inherit the world did not come through legalism ( Jewish Legalism ) but through the righteousness that trust produces 14. For if the heirs ( Jews and Gentiles) are produces by legalism( Jewish man made laws) , then trust is pointless and the promise is worthless.
YHVH called a gentile to head the Jewish nation, he converted him and Avram- which means exalted father became Avraham which means: Father of many- This Avraham would have been the first convert, no rabbi was there to draw him to a mohel, or to bring him to the mitzvot.
YHVH himself drew him from paganism and made him the father of all nations of Jews every where, from the shores of African to the largest structures of Russia, a gentile was used and after all those years of being used by YHVH, he converted to Judaism because YHVH told him that this signature or seal needed to be fulfilled, Look at what Yeshua said in
John 7.1-39[ read the whole chapter] for us we want to deal with verses 14- 24
Not until the festival(Sukkot) was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach( teaching Torah) 15. The Yudeans were surprised: How does this man know so much without having studied(at a Yeshiva) they asked 16. So Yeshua gave them an answer. My teaching is not my own, it comes from the one who sent me. 17 If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from YHVH or I speak on my own. 18.A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest,there is nothing false about him 19. Didn't Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me? 20. you have a demon! The crowd answered. Who's out to kill you? 21.Yeshua answered them “ I did one thing; and because of this, all of you are amazed 22. Moshe gave you b'rit milah- not that it came from Moshe but from the patriarchs [ Avraham, Yitzchak, Ya'akov] - and you do a boy's Brit milah on Shabbat 23. If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man's whole body well on Shabbat ? 24. Stop judging by surface appearances, and judge the right way!
The word Halacha comes from again. The Hebrew word to mean- To walk, it is a term used for the rules and ruling's that govern Jewish life. In this lesson we are covering the first section of the twenty five listing of the sets of Halakha at least based on the listing of Messianic Halakha, I concluded last week that outside of Messianic Judaism other branches of Judaism have over 221 listing's of Halakha- which are mainly man made sections of the sects of rabbinical and orthodox. As we see according to this lesson the importance of Brit Milah and how it signifies the seal, the covenant of YHVH as belong to him, It should not be done for purposed of Jewish Ethics and Jewish belief systems, It should be observed because YHVH stated his reasons for it being done, it reveals a sign between his covenant people verses his curses people. The scriptures listed reveal a covenant relationship, between YHVH and his people. A contract, between what is of YHVH verses those who don't belong to him at all.
Brit Milah means literally means: covenant of circumcision, We seem to forget that there are other covenants that YHVH made between himself and his people- The Moedim's are covenant's, The Brit Melach- Salt offering is a covenant, This covenant is equally important, This covenant is a perpetual covenant for every generation to continue, If they are apart of The G-d of Israel. The covenant between YHVH and Israel is through circumcision performed by a Mohel (circumciser) on the eighth day of the boy's life, The Jewish biblical law/ Torah demands that every male be circumcised according to Genesis 17.1-14- circumcision was enjoined when YHVH said: Walk before me and be perfect- What YHVH was saying was walk be before me and be Gamar , Become complete, whole- How can you become complete and whole, by obeying the commands of scriptures, his people would become gamar,or Avram became gamar by obeying, further it sealed his linage with us Jewish people forever , and it sealed every gentile forever who wants to serve The G-d of Israel, they are giving the acceptance through circumcision and through obedience of Torah, Gen 17. YHVH told Avraham to walk before me, walk now this way- His being a gentile wasn't enough- circumcision is not a gentile oracle, and medical circumcision is not spiritual or biblical circumcision. YHVH said walk before me and be or become perfect, This seal was a covenant, a perpetual signature of YHVH on his people forever, completed the order of scripture, fulfilling his connection with Torah, and all else who comes to accept this YHVH must circumcised every single male child born after eight day's, and every- Ger- who comes as an adult must be circumcised, receiving this Brit- covenant on them as belonging to Israel. If the male is not willing to do so, look at what YHVH and not Avraham has said about that man Gen 17. 14 Any uncircumcised male who will not let himself be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin- that person will be cut off from his people, because(reason) he has broken( disobeyed) my covenant( briyth) We will talk about that more in a second, Avram was 99 year's old he had been used by YHVH to do many wonderful thing's, but he was still incomplete, because he represented YHVH but not Israel yet, Milah completed him and sealed him with the covenant, That fulfillment changed him in my opinion from Avram to Avraham- for 3500 years since the time of our forefather Avraham The Jewish people including Yeshua have observed circumcision as the foundational sign of the covenant, even proving who truly belongs to Yeshua and who doesn't, even proving those brothers who are apart of Torah and are not, circumcision doesn't prove salvation, but it does prove obedience, It does prove who really belongs to Yeshua and who really doesn't- seeing other the person will be cut off, The Torah isn't erased and done away, Yeshua stated he did not come to do away with the Torah- Matt 5. so the statements in Genesis 17 still stand, A covenant is a Briyth, a mutual agreement, Diatheke- an eternal contract. Brit Milah is the ultimate affirmation of Jewish Identity , no matter how close a bible believing brother is, without biblical, not medical circumcision, He is not identified with the G-d of the Jewish people and is in danger, for breaking that eternal perpetual covenant.
We have several things to cover in this chapter. The first is that YHVH states that He is going to make this covenant with Avraham, and through this covenant make Avraham a father of many nations, so that the nations (plural) may be blessed through him. And why is this word nation presented in the plural? Because YHVH, through this covenant, is not just going to bless Israel only, but all the nations outside of Israel as well.
You see, this isn’t just a covenant with the Jews, it’s not just a covenant with Judah, or Ephraim, or the 12 tribes, or one of the tribes. It is a covenant for all 12 tribes of the nation of Israel, and for the people of the nations outside of Israel who desire to be grafted in to Israel (Romans 11).
This covenant applies to people like me, and others like Ruth, Like The Samaritan women, like all gentiles since Avraham, like all the mixed people with Moshe in Exodus 12. and all of us till the time of Yeshua's return who have accepted the messiah of the Jews, The Torah of the Jews, This same Yeshua who was and still is a Jew, who taught in the Temple, observed all feast, and kept the Torah himself, who wore Tzitzit, Tefillin, Tillit, and fulfilled the whole body of scriptures not simply for Born Jews, or Gerim but also for the gentiles out here who don't know the Jewish messiah, who may know the mixed seed doctrine of a Christianized messiah, The Roman dogma like i myself once followed, But don;t know the truth about this Yeshua is never knew a term like Jesus, who never was a Christian or even observed easter and Halloween, Who was circumcised on the eight day and who kept observing his entire 33.1/2 years the whole Torah, Tanakh and died to birth Brit Chadasha for all men.
Why is covenant relationship's with our Moshiach and creator YHVH so important, thou they are Echad, why is it important. We are apart of that covenant that was given to Avraham, where it mentions descendants, that's us-When we have a covenant relationship with Yeshua- we are in mutual agreement to obey his commands, To love his rules and rulings, To love Law, Order, Instructions, He said his Torah, that is was not grevious, We are to love his commandments. Love him for loving us enough to allow us to learn them, and appreciate him enough for not condemning us when we were not obeying them out of our own ignorances
Next Week's lesson part 3.
Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Lesson number 3. Mikveh
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Why Messianic Halakha is needed pt 1.
Date: Jan 27th, 2009 6:45:18 pm - Subscribe
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New Series Part 1.
Our new Journey in Halakha over the next few weeks
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The overview
Title:
Why Messianic Halakha is needed
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
The Beginning Shabbat's message of 1/24/09
Script: Lev 26. 1-46/ Deut 5.1-33/ Deut 8.1-20/ Acts 21.1-40/ Acts 24.1-27
Mitzvot is Law/ Halakha is Teaching, application
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Looking at Vayikra 26. I want to show you some concepts of what i believe to express Halakha by it's definition and explanation
Vayikra 26. verse one shows mitzvot,
You are not to make yourselves any idols, erect a carved statue or a standing stone, or place any carved stone anywhere in your land in order to bow down to it. I am El your YHVH 2. Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am YHVH
vs 3 is Halacha. If(Conditional) you live by my regulations,observe my mitzvot and obey them; then i will provide the rain you need in its season, the land will yield its produce, and the trees in the field will yield their fruit
( abundance,overflowing) vs5. Your threshing time will extend until the grape harvest, and your grape harvesting will extend until the time for sowing seed. You will eat as much food as you want and live securely in your land(Jerusalem)
Amazingly obedience to observe two factors would cause these tremendous results, Mitzvot and Halakha seeing then the text starts out with mitzvot by stating the commandments,I am going to prove soon enough that commandments are demands and not suggestions ill regardless of what others may believe, YHVH is in regard to his mitzvot stating you are not to make. Not means: In no manner or degree
vs 14. But if you will not listen to me and obey all these mitzvot. 15.if you loathe(dislike,hateful,abhor,disgust) my regulations and reject my rulings(standards,laws,guide) in order not to obey all my mitzvot but cancel my covenant vs16. Then i,for my part, will do this to you: I(YHVH himself) will bring terror upon you( doesn't sound to me like a request or he's asking for permission)wasting disease and chronic fever to dim your sight (Blindness) and sap your strength. You will sow your seed for nothing(ground cursed) because your enemies will eat your crops.
I(YHVH) will set my face against you-your enemies will defeat you,those who hate you will hound you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. Vs 18. If these things don't make you listen to me( Make means: to cause something,to become,constitute,to invert)then i will discipline you seven times over for your sins, vs19. I(YHVH) will break your pride(arrogance,hard hearts)you have in your own power. I will make your sky like Iron(unable of rain) and your soil like bronze(unable to produce)
Deut 5.1- Then Moshe called to all Yisrael and said to them. Listen, Israel to the laws and rulings(for the second time) which I am announcing in your hearing today,so that you will learn them and take care to obey them 2. Elohim our YHVH made a covenant- Brit not with our fathers, but with us-with us,who are all of us here alive today. YHVH spoke with you face to face(not just to Moshe) from the fire on the mountain. 5. At that time I stood between YHVH and you in order to tell you what YHVH was saying: because, on account of the fire, you were afraid and wouldn't go up onto the mountain. He(YHVH) said I am Elohim your YHVH, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Where you lived as slaves-soma
Deut 8.1 All (not some,not a few, not if you feel like it or not)the mitzvot I am giving you today you are to take care to obey, so that you will live(other wise you won't live) increase your numbers(other wise you wont increase) enter and take possession of the land YHVH swore about to your ancestors 2. You are to remember everything of the way (this is a clear halakha phrase seeing Halakha means: To walk, This way, This path, so of the way refers to a way of living after Torah, we will see that later again, of the way, the way of salvation, the way of Halakha, of Judaism, path, obedience) In which YHVH led you these forty years in the desert, humbling and testing(trying you) you in order to know what was in your heart( does YHVH test us, yes he does!) where you would obey his mitzvot or not. 3. He humbled you, allowing you to become hungry, and then fed you(are you reading this,It applies to you also) with manna-(man/whatness? Edible gum like food says strong Hebrew dictionary) Which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you(order, demand) understand that a person does not live by food alone but on everything that comes from the mouth of YHVH, {Yeshua said this exact statement when he himself was tested- Matt 4.4} vs4. During these forty years the clothing you were wearing didn't grow old, and your feet didn't swell up 5.Think deeply about it: YHVH was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his child.
I want to express through this basic over view for this week, Mitzvot as Law and Halakha as teaching and application to the word or law and instructions of Torah based through the 613 categories and applicable on how to live a daily life applying the word, Torah to our deeds and mannerism and lifestyle on a daily basis. The entire body-etsem,gev- substance of Jewish law is Halakhah and forwarding i will plainly state there is no Halakha without Yeshua. We will address that later, The root word Halakh means: to go, or walk- Halakha then is the way a yahadut is directed to behave in every aspect of life, encompassing a civil, criminal, and religious law, Halakha is a synonym for the oral law (Torah Shebal Peh) Halakha includes three subdivisions 1. Gezierah-
A gezeirah is a law instituted by the rabbis to prevent people from accidentally violating a Torah mitzvot. We commonly speak of a gezeirah as a "fence" around the Torah. For example, the Torah commands us not to work on Shabbat, but a gezeirah commands us not to even handle an implement that you would use to perform prohibited work. Like a pencil
2. Takkanah-
A takkanah is a rule unrelated to biblical laws that was created by the rabbis for the public welfare. For example, the practice of public Torah readings every Monday and Thursday is a takkanah instituted by Ezra. The "mitzvah" to light candles on Chanukkah, a post-biblical holiday, is also a takkanah. The word is derived from the Hebrew root Tav-Qof-Nun, meaning to fix, to remedy or to repair. It is the same root as in "tikkun olam," repairing the world, or making the world a better place, an important concept in all branches of Judaism
3. Minhag-
A minhag is a custom that evolved for worthy religious reasons and has continued long enough to become a binding religious practice. For example, the second, extra day of holidays was originally instituted as a gezeirah, so that people outside of Israel, not certain of the day of a holiday, would not accidentally violate the holiday's mitzvot. After the mathematical calendar was instituted and there was no doubt about the days, the added second day was not necessary. The rabbis considered ending the practice at that time, but decided to continue it as a minhag. The word "minhag" is also used in a looser sense, to indicate a community or an individual's customary way of doing some religious thing. For example, it may be the minhag in one synagogue to stand while reciting a certain prayer, while in another synagogue it is the minhag to sit during that prayer. Traditions are fine as long as they don't change or go over scriptures, traditions or men are different from traditions of scriptures.
Messianic Jewish Halacha Halakha. Halakh seek's to maintain as much commonality with our people, while making the reflection of our Messianic belief in Yeshua, There are about 221 or more sections to Halakha, This is a basic coverage in this lesson, As churches offer denominational dogmatic new membership classes, I believe the messianic congregations need to offer Halakha to prospective goyims, preparing them for the new venture into Judaism, causing them to be foundational through structure teaching of the Halakkha at least under the bases of the listing of Halakha that i shall refer us to. The word Halacha comes from the Hebrew word meaning: To walk, It is a term used as we saw in the scriptures for the rules and rulings that govern Jewish life. These are YHVH rules and rulings, He has appointed how we are to live, how the word is to be applied in our lives, in our conduct, in our salvation. The term Halakha is an ancient term, That is already reflected in Rabbi Shaul's letters. Rabbi Shaul's letters reference the word walk as a disciplined life, a life of examination, conduct changes and a way of evaluation your self not by yourself but by the word, only the word can reveal what is inside of us, If we examine ourselves through ourselves we will see nothing wrong, but the word reveals the hidden things, the core sins, secret sins-
Tehillim- Psalms 90. 7-8 For we are destroyed by your anger, overwhelmed by your wrath. You have placed our faults before you, our secret sins in the full light of your presence.
some sins are so creviced in our being so deep down in the our flesh/members that we can't see how destructively and deceivingly it is killing us, I believe Halakha expresses how to apply the word to live this life without being a slave to sin. How to apply Torah without dismissing it completely as many messianic congregations seem to be doing, those who aren't Pro-Torah. Halakha provides a frame work for understanding Torah over gradual steps, Halakha expresses Law and instructions which consequently is the same word meaning Torah. It is the collective body of Jewish law, including the biblical 613 Mitzvot and later Minhag Talmudic and Rabbinic laws. Halakha guides not only spiritual practices and beliefs but it points to numerous other aspects of everyday life. Halakha is often translated as Jewish law, although a moral literal translations i believe should be: The path, or the way of walking upright. The name Halakha is derived from the Hebrew word Halakh which means again to walk or to go, thus a literal translation reflects the way to go, How to live a life of observance, Which is necessary to teach new goyims or Jews who are not walking Pro-Torah and to teach ger how they need to walk,how to structure there lives around Torah and let him walk in there daily lives. Not to meet religious theocratic religiosity, but to please YHVH/ Yeshua, To walk circumspectly in obeisance to the Law, not out of constraint but out of desire driven desire to want to please Yeshua and live for him and to be willing to submit to Halakha,
It should not be obligational it should be mandatory for all new believers rather ger or goyim and every rabbi should be instating it every time a new goyim comes across the congregations to build a proper foundation that would dismiss a lot of ongoing problems that could be fixed by teaching people the obligations and responsibilities with the excepting of Torah, rather in several broken up sections or a weekly ongoing classes or apart of the regular shabbat teachings, It is a necessary in my opinion
If you(the persons) do not met the conditions perhaps you are not ready for this venture in accepting Judaism. To understand the Judaism of Yeshua, He learned Halakha other wise he would not have been able to teach in the Temple. We are not talking about teaching new goyims a bunch of man made laws, man made traditions like Acts 15. was talking about ,but teaching the one hundred percent facts of the responsibilities of Judaism and the foundational levels of understanding and being taught the basics of Judaism. The congregational new membership shul. We yield self to walk upright in a certain way, what's the way? Halakha Shel Ha'Derech: The walk of the or this way, The walk of dedication, consistency, study, Torah, habit changes, conduct changes, perpetual growth and not slumbering in your walk, It addresses specific behavior standards (YHVH does have standards and conditions) and instructions concerning the application of Torah, It isn't enough to no all 613 Mitzvot and don't apply them to our lives, where YHVH says not to sin, means not to sin- I've known people who could quote scriptures but couldn't live them, novices, harlots, preaching heresies and waiting for Hell. Halakha is suppose to arouse study, peer review and discussion which is what the shul does, which is commonly seen more in the Rabbinic and Orthodox sect that in Messianic realm and we are the ones who hold the truth. Halakha is for the Messianic believer objectively learning how to walk with YHVH and Yeshua- John 14.6 claims that Yeshua alone is who we must go through in order to have access to the Father YHVH. Without Yeshua there is no Halakha !!!
Messianic Halakha teaches in order of the way, thee way- Yeshua Ha'Mashiach, Torah observance, Maturity of the faith, and the following steps of Jewish order, that Jewish order is basically twenty five sections, The basic order which I'll explain some a little later is 1. conversion 2. Milah 3. Behavior 4. Tefillah 5. Shema 6. Amidah 7. Aveinu 8. Fasting- moedim 9. Shacharit 10.Minchah 11.Maariv 12.Shabbat 13. Rosh Chodesh 14. Pesach 15.Bikurim 16.Shavout 17.Rosh Hashanah 18. Yom Kippur 19. Sukkot 20. Shemini Atzeret 21. Shmita 22. Sabbatical Year- of rest and release 23. Yovel- year of Jubilee 24. Kashrut- Food Laws 25. Avodah -Instructions concerning offering's and services/ home. Synagogue or congregation and the Temple when it's rebuilt. At least this is the list of 25 Halakha areas we are going to be teaching and directing the contrast between Halakaha and how we walk in this order by following Yeshua. Your going to want to keep all of them in order, so once we complete this series, it can be used onward to format group teachings for goyims as they come, because they will, Yeshua promised that right along with Israel there coming hungry for Torah. Just like Yeshua -Rabbi Shaul himself could not have taught from the beema in the synagogues from Jerusalem and onward had he himself not been taught Halakha in accordance with Torah and Neviim, likewise Yeshua stayed in the Temple and learned Halakha also and taught the way of living in accordance and not opposite of Torah obedience. There needs to be a major approach taken to prepare Jews and Goyims with a basic knowledge of Halakha and Torah observant, face it many won't have the where all to study and learn on there own, some will be to lazy, many and will need to have a formula to get them to under the basics of Judaism. Halakha to me is important as a new member's guide to Judaism, The Judaism of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach,
I remember from my own former back ground how the churches would take these gentiles in who didn't know anything, who came straight from the street and set them down for several week's brainwashing them with neo- paganistic denominational belief systems and reversed it as Christian doctrine, The fact is what these people were learning was the set aside doctrines and formulas of there denominations, thus baptist go out on the street to convert baptist, Lutherans accept people in there denomination to be Lutheran, Mormons knock on every bodies freaking doors to compel them to be Mormons, not to actually follow Jesus/Yeshua no it's designed with a counterfeit package with the presentations to sound like it's a cry for salvation, It isn't, its a cry for denominational game faced fictitious foolery with slogans and bible related icons to damage poor inncocent souls, The great news is Yeshua likes those people and will draw some, My point is this, who ever told you Messianics should not be into Evangelism didn't read the bible. As the denominational groups hit the streets with a deviant doctrine even the more should we with first century truths compel men to actually for a change come to Yeshua- I have seen countless so called christians knock on my door with there denomination gander of a christ, but i have yet to see a Messianic come to the door talking about Yeshua, you name it we have had Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, the punk rocking christians churches and a host of others knocking on our doors, with a message of peace, pimping, crazy beliefs and all, But i long to see the day when i Messianic comes with the same among of zeal with the gospel of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach, I have heard about it in larger cities, where messianic congregations are having street walks and summer conferences on the streets, downtown feast days for the goyims to see, but certainly not in our city, Halakha in my conclusion before completing the list is this- if we don't draw them who will, Rabbi Shaul did his job, now it is time for us to.
1.Milah is -circumcision
2.Milveh is- Immersion, Tank Etc.
3. Tefillah is- Instructions concerning prayer and fasting
4.Shema(Hear) O Yisrael, The Lord is YHVH- Deut 6.9
5.Tefillin- Prayer box, between the eyes and one on the arm near the heart.
6.Amidah is- Minimum prayer in accordance as some say with Didaches teachings, that the Lord's prayer must be prayed three times a day
7.Aveinu is-Our Father, daily prayer rendered among all Jews
8.Shacharit is- The Morning Prayer
9.Minchah is- Afternoon Prayer
10.Maariv is- Evening Prayers- as seen in Siddur
11.Roch Chodesh- New Moons
12.Pesach is- Passover, Yeshua is the final lamb
13.Bikkurim is- Counting of the Omer, First Fruits
Bikkurim (Hebrew: ×'יכורים‎ "First-fruits") is the eleventh tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. All versions of the Mishnah contain the first three chapters, and some versions contain a fourth.
The three chapters found in all versions primarily discuss the commandment to bring the first fruits found in Deuteronomy chapter 26, verses 1-11 and to make a declaration upon bringing it. As is common in the Mishnah, related matters are also discussed.
The first chapter discusses who has the responsibility to bring the first fruits and make the declaration, who needs to bring the first fruits but not make the declaration, and who can not bring the first fruits. Among those who bring the first fruits but don't make the declaration are converts, so other halakah regarding differences between the obligations of converts and those born Jewish are also discussed here. This difference for converts was disagreed with by Rabbi Judah haNasi and later Maimonides, and it is their position that has become the practice of the Jewish community.
The second chapter compares the Terumah, Maaser and Bikkurim tithes and offerings, and makes other legal comparisons. The third chapter describes more fully the process of bringing the first fruits to the temple at the festival of Shavuot.
The fourth chapter, which is only sometimes included, originates from the Tosefta Bikkurim. It compares the laws relating to men, women, and those of intermediate sex, including the tumtum (one with no genitalia) and the androgynos.
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Berakhot · Pe'ah · Demai · Kil'ayim · Shevi'it · Terumot · Ma'aserot · Ma'aser Sheni · Hallah · Orlah · Bikkurim
Shabbat · Eruvin · Pesahim · Shekalim · Yoma · Sukkah · Beitzah · Rosh Hashanah · Ta'anit · Megillah · Mo'ed Katan · Hagigah
Yevamot · Ketubot · Nedarim · Nazir · Sotah · Gittin · Kiddushin
Bava Kamma · Bava Metzia · Bava Batra · Sanhedrin · Makkot · Shevu'ot · Eduyot · Avodah Zarah · Avot · Horayot
Zevahim · Menahot · Hullin · Bekhorot · Arakhin · Temurah · Keritot · Me'ilah · Tamid · Middot · Kinnim
Keilim · Oholot · Nega'im · Parah · Tohorot · Mikva'ot · Niddah · Makhshirin · Zavim · Tevul Yom · Yadayim · Uktzim
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who's the servant of YHVH 1/09
Date: Jan 5th, 2009 5:13:59 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
Date:1/09
Who's the servant of YHVH
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
SCRIPT:
Matt 13. 3-52 / Matt 18.3-35/ Matt 21.18-46/ Matt 22.2-45/ Matt 25.14- 46
Definition of Servant:
Somebody who serves another, a person regarded as providing support or service for a cause, one that serves others public servant; especially
ne that performs duties about the person or master,
The Servant has committed there life to the master
The servant lost there life for whom they serve
The servant has no value for there own life but for the value of Yeshua. Whom they serve- Acts 9.
The servant has one thought- to serve, nothing else
The servant is unconcerned about the flesh, one mind the mind of the master.
There can be no believer who has no heart in becoming a servant to there master
To be a servant of Yah and for YHVH is a sacrifice- are you willing to remove yourself from your life to give it to him, give him your life- not your portions, but your life,
self sacrifice not self idolize
We must never forget that the call of Yeshua is to be a servant of and for his kingdom, as a servant of YHVH it details with how we live, seeing that my daily breath is but a life belonging to Hashem's service, commands, Torah, and righteous regulations he has prescribed for our daily living. Serving him should be a joy and a deep desire above all else in our lives, His Torah/Bible should dictate our lives, and our decisions should be based on such laws and responsibilities and commitment; to be any less is not serving him nor a servant for him- The servant recognizes they are servants to serve there master- only a master can have servants, in order to be a servant you must be serving a master and our master is Yeshua Ha'Mashiach the only Moshiach
The term the servant of the Lord (or “My servant” or “His servant” where the pronouns refer to YHVH) is applied to leaders and Hashem's people
To Moshe it is biblically mentioned over 30 times, to Dovid over 70 times, and to Yisrael as a nation numerous times. It assumes a special significance in Isaiah 40-55.
The idea is introduced almost incidentally Isaiah 41:1 pictures a great crisis, as a powerful army moves westward from Persia, conquering many nations and filling all with terror. In contrast, Hashem told Israel not to fear. “But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Avraham my friend.…
Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away” (Isaiah 41:8,Isaiah 41:9). Israel had to be preserved, because it was Hashems instrument to perform a task of worldwide importance.
Isaiah 42:1 gives a remarkable picture of the ideal Servant of Elohim and the great work that Hashem intends Him to accomplish. He is to “bring forth judgment to the Goyims” (Isaiah 42:1). He must “set judgment in the earth,” and the distant “isles shall wait for his Torah ” (Isaiah 42:4).
The tasks He is destined to accomplish are almost beyond belief. He is to bring Hashems justice to all the nations (Isaiah 42:1,Isaiah 42:4).
Almost more remarkable than the immensity of the task that the Servant must perform is the description of the way He is to do it. He will move forward with absolute confidence, but nothing indicates strenuous effort will be needed. He will have such an understanding of His overwhelming power that He can be absolutely gentle as He does His work Isaiah 42:2-4) even toward those whose efforts have failed. This first part of Isaiah 42:1 pictures the ideal Servantâ€"the goal for which Israel was to be preserved.
As an Israelite read this prediction, he would think: “How can Israel even think of performing this great task that Hashem's servant must do?” Soon El Himself called attention to the inability of the natural Israelite to fulfill the picture of the ideal Servant. In Isaiah 42:19 He says, “Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent?” Israel had a responsibility to fulfill this ideal, but to do so was far beyond its power. Still, Hashem says: “Ye are my witnesses, and my servant whom I have chosen” (Isaiah 43:10; compare Isaiah 44:1-2,Isaiah 44:21).
Israel had responsibility to do the work of the Servant. Yet not all Israel could be meant, for some were blasphemers and idolaters. Could part of Israel be the real servant? Or might it really point to one who must come out of Israelâ€"One who could represent Israel in accomplishing the task? Matthew 12:17-21 quotes Isaiah 42:1-4 as fulfilled in
Yeshua Ha'Mashiach.
Isaiah 49:1 presents the work of the servant in more detail. The servant tells the “isles” and the “people, from far;” that Hashem called Him before His birth, even mentioning His name: Israel (Isaiah 49:3). Isaiah 49:4 describes the goodly in Israel who know what Hashem wants but feel their own inadequacy and provides assurance that the work belongs to Hashem, and He will bring it to pass. Isaiah 49:5 and Isaiah 49:6 distinguish between the One who will fulfill the work of the Servant and the nation of Israel, to which this One belongs and which He represents. Not only is He to bring judgment to all the worldâ€"He is “to bring Jacob again to him” (Isaiah 49:5) and “to restore the preserved of Israel” (Isaiah 49:6). He is to be “a light to the Gentiles” and “my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6). In Isaiah 50:4-10, we hear of the sufferings to which He will voluntarily submit.
All this leads up to the triumphal picture in Isaiah 52:13-53:12, showing the sufferings of the Servant (Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2-5,Isaiah 53:7-8,Isaiah 53:10), their vicarious and redemptive nature (Isaiah 52:15; Isaiah 53:4-6,Isaiah 53:8,Isaiah 53:10-12; compare 1Peter 1:1-2). Isaiah 54:1 shows the outreach of the Servant's work, and Isaiah 55:1 gives the glorious call to receive the salvation won by the Servant's redemptive work, “without money and without price” (Isaiah 55:1).
After Isaiah 53:1, Isaiah never again used “servant” in the singular; rather he spoke of the blessings that the followers of the Servant will receive, calling them “the servants of Hashem” (Isaiah 54:17); “his servants” (Isaiah 56:6; Isaiah 65:15; Isaiah 66:1;Isaiah 14:1); and “my servants” (Isaiah 65:8-9,Isaiah 65:13-14).
The New Testament pictures Yeshua as the Suffering Servant fulfilling the glorious descriptions of Isaiah. In refusing to let disciples reveal His true identity, Yeshua was the pleasing Servant (Matthew 12:14-21). In the resurrection and ascension, Hashem glorified Yeshua the Servant (Acts 3:1;Acts 13:1; compare Acts 13:26 where the same Greek word for servant appears to translate “Son/daughter”). Gentile and Jewish leaders conspired to make Yeshua, “your holy servant” suffer as Hashem “had decided beforehand” (Acts 4:27-28 ). This led the early congregation to pray that as Hashems servants they would speak with boldness and perform miracles through the name of “your kadosh servant Yeshua” (Acts 4:29-30 ). Yeshua saw His mission as that of the Servant (Luke 4:18-19; compare Luke 22:37) and symbolized it for His disciples, calling on them to serve one another and the world (John 13:4-17).
A servant isn’t the one who confesses salvation; a servant is the one, who performs salvation, You have not become a servant through confession, participation, work related basis of labor â€"
The Servant has committed there life to the master, and there connected, which means fit jointly together: They are about there roles as servants and do not inspire for more in life than that of a servant to Hashem alone,
The servant is not concerned about this life, and it’s desires and fleshly wants, The servants mind is after the will and intent and motives of there master- Our master is Yeshua Hashem Adon â€"Yeshua who is God our Master â€"
(Adon) expresses it’s meaning to define- To rule, sovereign control, or sovereign controller, Lord, Master, Adoni â€"Our father of Adonai, Hashem,
Hashem thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand... (Devarim 3,24)
The Jewish idea of freedom is centered around being servants as best summarized by that very famous expression -- "Praise the servants of Hashem who are not servants of Pharaoh." 1That is, freedom is seen a means to an end, not an end in and of itself-True freedom means to be free of outside influences and pressures so that we can be free to pursue ultimate meaning-relationship with Hashem. That’s the true expression of being his servants 2 In the specific context of the Exodus story it means being free from an oppressive authority in order to stand at Mount Sinai and commit to a certain responsibility.
What happened at Mount Sinai?
To answer quite simply, the Jewish people -- every man, woman and child -- had an encounter with Hashem.
It was a totally unique event in all of human history. The Bible itself states in Deuteronomy 4:33 that this never happened any place else. You can check all history books; you'll never find a similar story of YHVH speaking to an entire people.
All other claims about revelation in human history are based on servants of Hashem down through Jewish heritage, The Torah/Bible speaks of countless accounts of men and women and families of the Jews who were great servants to Hashem-
Yehoshua - Joshua
Chapter 1
1 NOW IT came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of HaShem, that HaShem spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moshe's minister, saying:
2 'Moshe My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this yordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spoke unto Moshe.
4 From the Mitrayim-wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moshe, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
6 Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them.
7 Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moshe My servant commanded thee; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whither soever thou goest.
8 This book of the Torah shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for HaShem thy G-d is with thee whither soever thou goest.'
10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying:
11 'Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying: Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over this yordan, to go in to possess the land, which HaShem your El giveth you to possess it.'
12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying:
13 'Remember the word which Moshe the servant of HaShem commanded, you, saying: HaShem your El giveth you rest, and will give you this land.
14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moshe gave you beyond the yordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and shall help them;
15 until HaShem have given your brethren rest, as unto you, and they also have possessed the land which HaShem your El giveth them; then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moshe the servant of HaShem gave you beyond the yordan toward the sunrising.'
16 And they answered Joshua, saying: 'All that thou hast commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go.
17 According as we hearkened unto Moshe in all things, so will we hearken unto thee; only HaShem thy El be with thee, as He was with Moses.
18 Whosoever he be that shall rebel against thy commandment, and shall not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death; only be strong and of good courage.'
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Yorah Qadash Schachah- 1/09
Date: Jan 5th, 2009 4:47:11 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Torah Nation
Yiraw Qadash Schachah
The second lesson associated with
Ha'Yare Shum YHVH
Reverent Fear- Holiness and Worship
We have missed the mark of Worship as Worshipers
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
If you have not bowed then you did not worship- you praised “ Worship is bowing and Praising is standing upright”
Script: Job 1.4-22/ Exodus 4:1-31/ Psalms 95.1-10/
Judges 5.1-31-Dead bows/
Creation bows and worships Hashem-
Ps 144.1-15/ People in pride and Idolatry will have to bow themselves to Hashem-Is 2.6-22/
Even the dead bow in homage to there creator through bowing there bodies to the ground , Bowing at death shows whom homage Hashem is in creation
Yiraw:
Feminine noun, dreadful, fear, moral reverence
Qadash:
To make Holy, concentrate, dedicate, hallow, prepare, proclaim, purify, To wash self before worship
Shachah:
To depress that is prostrate, reflexively in homage to the royalty of Hashem, bow self down, crouch, fall down flat, humbly beseech- do make obeisance, do reverence, Make to stoop and worship ______________________________________
Shama: Hear, attention, obedience, declare, diligently, discerning, give ear, perceive, obedience, proclaim, show forth and to tell with understanding from the heart, To Witness
Shaba: Oath, declaration
Nashama-Soul
(1.) The Hebrew word for blessing, b'racha, comes from the root meaning "to bend the knee," and there are many references to bowing in the Bible -For example, in Psalm 138 we read: "I will give thanks...and bow( Face toward ground) down toward Thy holy temple."
Worship is out of the soul from what’s within
OT: The general word is 'abodah, from 'abad, to labor, to serve, and usually translated 'the service of Yah'. To describe the specific act of worship, the word commonly used is hishtahawah, from shaha, to bow, to prostrate oneself.
NT: Corresponding to 'abodah is latreia [noun], meaning originally servitude -- the state of a hired laborer or slave, and thence the service of YHVH -- divine worship. Corresponding to hishtahawah we have proskuneo [verb: present, active, indicative] -- to prostrate oneself, to adore, to worship...
1.The right way to worship is on bending knees in honor and sheer reverence to King Yeshua. Worship is not an emotional expectation. it is wanting to go before him not in any request of needs, wants, desires- It is clearly exhausting oneself in his presence. It is a physical act of bowing before YHVH
2.It is also an attitude of the heart, one of complete surrenderance to YHWH.
3.Worship is bowing. If we haven’t bowed we haven’t worshiped, We have just been praising.
4.Praising is no where equal to submissive and submission worship, Praising is rejoicing, lifting up Holy Hands to YHVH celebrating and celebrations of offerings of Brit Chadashah â€"Renewed covenant- renewing spirit, reclaiming self. New Testament
5.Praises are offerings of self that led to Worship, Praises are compassionate about en wrapping self in the indulgence of Yeshua inside the spirit through songs, music, instruments, dancing, flag waving ,hands waving, It is good to do all these things as lifting our hands and crying out, exalting and extolling and extending to Hashem, But it’s not worship-
6.Isaiah 45:23
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
7.If there is no bowing then your praising, Bowing is a surrendered life, Standing upright is acknowledging and exhorting and lifting up the name of Yeshua in praise not worshipÂ
Praise raises- worship lowers
As i mentioned in the prior message, in regard to how many of us won't bow on our faces not just knees, but our faces before Yahweh- you have the Muslims who fall face down on the ground worshiping a piece of rock- allah is a rock god idol found in mecca many years ago and The encyclopedia has it's ugly picture, but yet millions of them bow face down to a piece of rock who doesn't live,breath, exist which consequentially is the same pagan idol god where Avraham came from, which means allah is the same god Avraham's family worshiped of which Yahweh took him away from, this rock is one of many idol gods where Avraham's family came from in Sumeria, which once called Akkad and Chaldea and in later times became known as Mesopotamia( a greek name meaning two rivers) That area is today Iraq where these two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates flow which is the same area of Avrahams family and one of the gods of his family still being observed to this very day .
The point is this when you cant the prayers or when you are in service on Shabbat try falling face down sometimes and worship him, forget about what the Christians are doing, Muslim or whoever for certainly our YHVH is worthy to be worshiped as Moshe worshiped him on Mount Sinai, perhaps we are not experiencing the movement of Yahweh because we lack sheer worship,
 We are not talking about some ecclesiastical christian screaming, speaking in something(Real Tongues are a move of Yahweh) bucking, spitting, pirating and convulsions, We aren't talking about theatrics,performances and church goers Sunday entertainment at the expense of the real besorah. We are talking about going back to The first century Messianic Worship -when Cohanims were getting saved and the presence of the Holy Spirit entered among the people at feast time Shavuot- Acts 2. We are talking about not being ashame to fall on your face to your Yah and really getting into worship through liturgy and songs given from the holy spirit. Sometimes we are so stringent in traditions that there isn't room for the holy spirit, give room for Yeshua to run the service on Shabbat, you can have your prayers, liturgy and every thing constructed in the usual order, that's fine but it doesn't give room for Yeshua and the Ruach Hokedesh to come in-
What if?Â
Yeshua wanted to change the order of Shabbat's service would we let him or would our traditional order not allow him in, rather you realize it or not when these first century messianic believers came together the spirit of Yahweh and Yeshua came in and infilled the people and miracles and signs took place- how? Because worship was the central theme of Shabbat and so then it is a scriptural proof, that we can ourselves limit how Yeshua and the Holy Spirit come into the services, When i was a Christian we saw a little baby who was born with a club foot and we believed on whom i called Jesus at the time that he is the same yesterday, today and forever more- We laid our hands on that baby girl and spoke the bible and prayed for her healing and we all saw with our own eyes her foot turn around all by its self and she was healed- thereafter we began praising Yeshua for what he did, he came in a filled the room and every one dropped on there faces and worshiped and cried out to him, was this a fake move because i was once a Christian, am i making all this up out of my mind- No this actually happened and i have seen many signs and miracles in my life that were real, true and genuinely from Yeshua and not counterfeit. I have seen demons cry out of people, seen a women possessed crawl like a snake, I have seen also people with aids healed, people with diseases cured, Yeshua said by your faith you are made whole to the women with an issue of blood, which also means if one doesn't have that kind of faith they may not receive healings, if they don't believe Yeshua is still very much able to perform the same things in his physical day as today through spirit- now again we are not saying that wonders are the only manifestations that prove Yeshua's authority, we are saying that it should be seen in the messianic congregations of all places, which is direct from yeshua verses christianity which came directly from Rome, by the way have you heard that Hamas just legalized crucifixions for whom? Jews and Christians-Infidels in there minds, crucifixion which by the way was used before rome by the greeks, rome sought to intensify the sufferings process and they sure did it.
If Yeshua has done these signs and wonders in a Christian church he certainly would like to do even the more among his own people The Messianic Jews, and i believe we limit him from coming because we do not give him room to, which is my first season. The second reason is because we don't believe him and the third reason is because we never seen some of what he does, we read about them we haven't actually saw them.
I believe Yeshua wants to pout his spirit on the messianic congregations and i know he is among some, some rabbis are allowing him too, They aren't getting in the way and others are so stringent on there liturgy they don't stop what there doing and start worshiping ,
I mean completely stop what your doing and start ushering his presence in, lifting up holy hands and crying out to him from a sincere heart come in Yeshua, we need to feel your presence today, come in and have your way- come in I'm calling on you in the name of Yeshua- putting down the liturgy sometimes and just invoking his presence in YOU!
We kind of stopped doing that at MCM since we became Messianic mainly because we were learning ourselves about liturgy, prayers, order to service, Etc. let us keep our liturgy that's find but also put it away and allow Yeshua to come in through real, true worship, not asking for anything just plan worship- He said that he is looking for Worshipers in the last day who would serve him, He said he seeks such a one who will worship him in spirit and in Emet( Truth) and i wonder can traditions be so sternly observed that they remove the will of worship, not talking about praise [ worship] -which is intimacy, really seeking Yeshua really worshiping him and the father, rather with music or not- music does not enhance worship, contrite/broken spirits do. How about worshiping without looking for miracles, worshiping because our Yeshua is good and should be worshiped in echad with YHVH I know many of you haven't experienced many miracles and saw for yourself what Yeshua still does today- in fact he said greater works we would do in his name, then why aren't they being done in his messianic congregations, and perhaps they are in some places
For those of you who don't think we need to worship or invoke the presence of the holy spirit in the congregation, here are a few scriptures that you should read toward the end of this lesson
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If you get the chance check out some of my songs and music, you might like some of them, a few songs produced and written by Aminidav for Will Studio-Rochester, Mikey Mike's Studio-Rochester, Mark Gramling's Studio- Geneva NY and a few songs recorded at MCM, I think there are some upbeat messianic songs on there, The recordings go back as far as 2000 so there may be songs on there that sound more Christian like than others seeing that was the belief i held back then go to Http://www.wemix.com/aminidavi placed my music on wemix for a reason- most of the music on there is from some talented people who are lost and need saving, so next to the songs are little messages for these young people and you will notice that i have several responses next to the songs of people who liked the music and melody, ranges and rifts- use your gifts and talents for Yeshua, he'll get the glory of it just remember we use to use those same talents when we were apart of this world and it's desires. by 210 i hope to complete another collaboration of all messianic songs written by myself, have a great day in Melech Yeshua Ha'Mashiach
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Ha'Yare Shum YHVH
Date: Dec 30th, 2008 10:04:45 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
Shabbats message for 12/27/08 and now News Letter for the week of 12/29/08-to 1/09
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Ha- The
Yare-Reverence,Fear, Revere
Shum- The Name-like HaShem
The Revered name of YHVH
Exodus 3.1-22- Exodus 6. 2-19-
Exodus 19.1-25- Exodus 20.1-26
Exodus 3. verses 14
From The Orthodox Jewish Bible
And Elohim(YHVH) said unto Moshe EH- HEH- YEH- ASHAIR-EH HEH-YEH ( I AM WHO I AM) and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the Bnai Yisroel, EH-HEH-YEH ( I AM) hath sent me unto you.
Exodus 6.2-3- The Complete Jewish Bible with a slant of MCM translation
Yahweh spoke unto Moshe, He said to him. I am Adonai. I appeared to Avraham. Yitz'chak and Ya'akov as El Shaddai, although i did not make myself known to them by my name(YHVH) Yud-Heh- Vav- Heh
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Please read the other scriptures when you can, The name that HaShem told Moshe to call him was and still is Yahweh- We use terms because the great Rabbis told us too names or titles as HaShem-Meaning the name and Adonia- Lord Jehovah-no J in Hebrew. The truth of the matter is none of these are the names that he told Moshe and his people to call him, The Truth is the people, the Jews forget there language, they forgot there alphabet and they adapted the language and lifestyle of Egypt.
So then the purpose of this lesson is for you to call him by his name and his name isn't God or Lord thou we use those titles and most think there isn't anything wrong with them, like what i mentioned to you about calling him Baal- well he said his name is YHVH not God, not Lord and not all these other titles we gained from these other nations- Lord and God were titles of other deities and idols- Yahweh wasn't! it has always been the holiest name and the name YHVH said out of his own mouth to call him.
So hear at Mind Changing Ministries we do not say Lord, God that often-We do say HaShem connecting to ending YHVH and we do say Adonia-most of us do but is that his name. The Rabbis out of veneration and respect to his holiest name recognized we are unfit and unworthy to call him by his name But that's what the Rabbis said, YHVH said to call him YHVH the verses just proved that, some times Rabbis have good intentions
But we don't want to add interspections of traditions that go against the Bible. obeying the Rabbis is fine as long as it doesn't go against scripture.
The truth is we are not worthy to say Yeshua either or to call on YHVH by what ever titles we call him by, there isn't a title that we are worthy of calling anyway so then lets call him by his name that he named himself with and told his people to call him...
To reverence Yahweh from Torah thought and Hebrew perspective is to Yare- revere and Shachah- To prostrate, bow in complete homage- Prostrate is not rocking forward
it is completely on your knees or face-
The Rabbis saw the Christians bowing and so they stopped Why? we as Jews need to prostrate our selves before YHVH sometimes not just reading the prayers and bending- complete homage is prostrating yourself before him,
I don't care if the Muslims, Mormons or Methodist bow that should not stop us from prostrating ourselves before Yahweh some times in complete reverence to him and his holiness and his son Yeshua.
To prostrate is to bow in complete homage and respect to Yahweh's face on the ground as Moshe did when the bush burned and he heard Yahweh-really Yeshua speak, The fitting word is Aidos which means humility and modesty- complete humility is face down to the ground, I wanting to lay this ground work before i go into the lesson- If we examine ourselves we are all unworthy of having salvation, Yeshua dying for us, So then since we are already and Yahweh knows that- He still wanted his people to no his name and call him by his name- He didn't leave it up to us to make up names for him, how would you like somebody calling you by a name that isn't your's
I consider that when i use to call Yeshua Jesus and when i use to call the Ruach Hokodesh the Holy Ghost- those aren't the names- How does he feel when we call him by a name he did not tell us to call him by,even more a name associated with idol dieties now i do understand often the scriptures will not be referring to his name and will be talking about his character and attributes such as Elohim- which means all mighty G-d
when the scriptures are talking about his characteristics they are labellings them as mentioning of who he is and not what to call him by-
1. From Shemot 3. we obtain the direct name of YHVH a prefix in my mind of Yeshua as Echad in YHVH
The Complete Jewish Bible translates the term as EHYEH- ASHER- EHYEH= I am that I am, I am will be what I am will be-
The correct term is pronounced from The Orthodox Jewish Bible
EH-HEH-YEH-ASHAIR-EH-HEH-YEH= I am hath sent me or YUD HEH VAV HEH-
[YHVH OR YHWH]
We further see from the text SHEM YHVH EL OLAM- Yahweh the everlasting Yah of
KI EHYEH IMKAH- for the explanation
FOR I WILL BE WITH THEE.
From these scriptural explanations from YHVH we gain the implication in the Torah of the Tetragrammaton- thou the word itself is Greek and the tetragrammaton which came in place in Paleo- Hebrew in the 10th century CE it refers to Yahweh.
So then the name of Yahweh called the four letters had been replaced with five letters- HaShem- Yahweh is written with four letters as written in the Hebrew scriptures that's Masoretic where it appears over 6,800 times-
The hebrew letters Yodh- Hey- WaW/Vav- Hey- ×™Ö·×"ְוֶ×"
Interesting enough i was reading about the four letters and what i saw out of it was the Hey also means He- which completely destroys some of the Christian pro-feminist who think G-d could be a women, Even the word Yah is written with a Yodh and Hey-He the word of praise stated as Halle-(Yah-not Jah) has the Yodh and Hey in it, The Bible Encyclopedia mentions the name YHVH was lost because the people lost there language and that the name YHVH was replaced with the vowels for Adonay or Adonai ×™Ö·×"ְוֶ×"
So then in conclusion this same Tetregrammaton or four letters has been seen from the Mesorectic has also been found in the 2000 year old dead sea scrolls which further proves- Yahweh had every intent on his people calling him by his name, so then i leave before you that you can call him God or Lord or Ba'al or HaShem or Jehovah or all the other titles out here or you can call him by the name he said for his people to call him, Even the prayer books, the siddurs don't even mention YHVH in them they mention HaShem, I have an outdated Prayer Book and it says God in it.
We have voved to go back to the name he gave us to call him and to speak it in clear reverance= Psalms 111. verse 9 says Reverend is his name- it lines up with YHVH
Restoration of the sacred name concludes:
To conform with what may really be the more correctly interpreted instruction of Exod. 20:7 concerning the use of His Name:
"Do not make His Name worthless" "Lo tisah et Shem YHVH Eloheicha l'shav." By withholding the proclamation of His Name, we may well be guilty of "making His Name worthless. The Sacred Name appears in the Hebrew Scriptures as four Hebrew letters Yud, hey, vav, hey, which is closest represented by the letters YHVH. This format is known as the Tetragrammaton. According to Jewish tradition it is regarded as 'not to be uttered' in order never to profane it in any way. In Judaism it is therefore pronounced as 'Adonai', meaning 'Lord'. Notwithstanding this prohibition, the Sacred Name is acknowledged in its usage as part of the names of many Biblical characters,
Because of these prohibitions, translations of the original Hebrew scrolls have, throughout the ages, replaced the Tetragrammaton with 'the LORD' (in capital letters) and the Sacred Name, in so doing, became 'lost' for many centuries. The original Hebrew or Jewish Name of the professing Jewish Messiah, who was accepted as such by a certain section (some 3000 souls) of Israel, at and after His Appearance in Israel, some 2000 years ago. To them He was known as YAHU'SHUAH (abbreviated: Y'SHUAH, also pronounced YEHOSHUA or YESHUA). In time, over the first few centuries after Messiah, His Name was gradually changed to "Je-Zeus Khristos" Out of this, Christianity was born, which was a mixture of Judaism, and gradually, progressive influences of pagan customs and traditions, together with a growing tide of an anti-Semitic spirit. This was greatly due to the instigation of influential leaders like Constantine the Great, who was a Zeus worshiper, and who purportedly converted to Christianity. It was also a natural process as a result of the infiltration of followers of the sun god, Zeus, into the Christian ranks. Even the name of their pagan idol 'Zeus' was applied to their new-found Jewish Messiah - and Y'Shuah (the abbreviated transliteration of YAHU'SHUAH), became "Y'Zeus" or Je-Zeus - which became 'Jesus' in English (NOTE - the middle 's' is pronounced as a 'z'). In other languages, it took on various other forms.
We can thank Rome for merging paganism and Judaism together, Christianity was and still is the invention of rome, who used Judaism to create this religion and Judaism Torah to create there infiltrated bibles which took Judaism completely out the picture. Wanting the bible without applying to YHVH of the Bible.
I thank you for reading and thank Yahweh if it causes a transformation in your life
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The Booze Jew- Pt 1. 12/18/08
Date: Dec 19th, 2008 5:54:48 am - Subscribe
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I want to hear your fed back on this subject email me at mindchangingministries@minister.com
The Long awaited teaching is here
I will continue researching the subject and other subjects in Judaism that seems to stem out of paganism and write about them with biblical evidence to further prove wine and Judaism don't mix and other beliefs grafted in through our stay in the other nations don't mix either, I hold books on Judaism from every aspect of it's faith, our beliefs, and some estranged traditions passed on.
Judaism is the closest and clearest way to Yahweh, It is! but there are some man made systems in place also- shift between what's of Yahweh and what's of man and serve Yahweh without the inclusion of them even if leading people do observe them, I am not the voice for Judaism, not Messianic Judaism either,
I have not held the faith for long, But i do see what i do see!
Seeing messianic jews across the world, in fact i receive several news letters and notes every week mailed and emailed from over 15 messianic congregations and about another 18 that are not messianic-other branches of Judaism,
We have deemed we want the messiah- Yeshua Ha'Mashiach without having to pick up some of the man made beliefs, or adoptions of beliefs passed down from Israels stay among the nations like Egypt & Babylon- There are some things we won't honor like the name Ba'al and the month Tammuz- no one can tell me these two did not become apart of the slavery of staying and participating in the gods and goddesses of the people of the other nations.
all branches of Judaism sip the booze including Messianic who should no better
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I can't help but wonder why us Jews seem to put so much emphasis on drinking wine after shabbat, at meal time, at fellowship gatherings-Why are scriptures used to support drinking wine,Why do we need to drink it or be exposed to it right after Torah reading, Was Moshe a wine drinker, was Yeshua himself a wine drinker- and was the wine mentioned in scripture proofed with the amount of alcohol as of today. We do not believe you have to drink wine to proclaim your freedom as being Jewish and serving Hashem Yeshua. Why should a worldly device as wine be considered as Holy-We see wine as something promoting sin.
Imagine your off on your way to go somewhere and you see your Rabbi buying wine at the store, does that reflect a righteous image, Wine changes the condition of a persons cognition, thou Jews don't drink enough to get drunk- how do we proclaim the presence of The Ruach Hokodesh- Holy Spirit to come in with wine on the for thought of our minds.
Wine in our minds represent sin, transgression,Iniquity-
What does it have to do with salvation? Ive asked that question to my jewish brothers and received no answer.How does drinking wine and booze get me closer to Yeshua, how does it make me Pro-Torah, What i found out is that Judaism picked up Idol beliefs,practices and merged them into Judaism, the scripture indicate they even forget there own language being amongst these nations- Don't get me wrong Judaism is by far the closest way we can get to Hashem without the religion aspects of full fledge paganism but it does have it's errors also. Judaism states that God's original name was Baal- BA-All and that one of the Jewish months is named Tammuz= both names of pagan deities, I think Judaism has gained some pagan practices merged into there beliefs and wine is one of the pagan mergence.
perhaps im wrong, maybe im making it all up-
The scriptures speaks clear ive found wonderful evidence against wine
let's expose this nonsense once and for all:
Smiths Bible Dictionary states
The wine of antiquity were more like syrups many of them were not intoxicant, They were diluted with water-They contained even undiluted 4 or 5 percent of Alcohol from fermenting from the sun, not enough to be called Wine or proofed Wine as of today-
It was more like The carbonated Juice you can buy at the grocery store in a wine shaped bottle-The White Grape Juice Carbonated, I'm interested in what the Bible says only
Deuteronomy 29.2-29 says the jews drunk no wine all 40 years in the wilderness- It reads:
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know( Wine would cause one to forget G-d) that I am Adonai your Hashem(G-d)
Strong drink, wine is called oines which means unfermented- There is a range from unfermented to fermented- persons who want to get drunk allows the wine to ferment longer.
Proverbs 31.4-6
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princess strong drink lest they drink and forget-
(drink and forget what!) The Law/Torah and pervert(Corrupt)The judgment(order) of the afflicted. Give strong drink unto him that is ready to die!! and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts(Guilt Ridden,Sin infilled)
Romans 14.21-23
It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth(Causes sin) or is offended or is made weak( to sins) Hast thou faith have it to thyself before God(not following men)Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.(The cause of drinking booze, cause of sin)And he that doubteth is damned if he eat,because he eateth not of faith for whatsoever is not faith is sin.
Gen 9.18-27-The drunken state of Noah.
I have heard that wine must have been fermented for Noah to get drunk(True!)
The scripture indicates Noah had so much wine he got drunk-His drunkenness is the cause of the sin that took place-had he not been drunk he would not have had to be covered. which indicates Noah allowed the wine to ferment enough for the alcohol level to be raised- His lust for wine caused a great horrific sin to take place-Our rabbi indicates that Noah's son lay with Noah's wife which is why he saw his father nakedness,I think something else happened in conclusion to this answer.
Leviticus 10.8-11(To Leadership,Priest,Rabbis)
And Adonai spake unto Aharon(Aaron-the priest-cohanim)saying do not drink wine thou, nor thy sons with thee,When you go into the tabernacle of the congregation
Beit Hamikdash-Least you die,It shall be a statute(vow,commandment,oracle)forever.
forever means never ending- which means no leader should be drinking wine, especially in the congregation-Aaron sons are
The Cohanim, The Cohanim are the Priest- all leadership that comes thereafter come through the leadership set forth by Aaron- God-Hashem said not to drink it forever!!
VS 9 ending: Forever throughout your generation(His generation is still here)
VS10. And that ye may put difference between holy(righteous) and unholy(Unrighteous) and between unclean(disorderly) and clean(Order) And that ye may teach the children of Israel-all the statues which the lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moshe.
{Proof enough yet-Jewish brothers}
Proverbs 23.20-21
Be not among winebibers(Intoxicators) among riotous eaters of flesh. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Isaiah 5.11
Woe(Warning) unto them that rise early in the morning(Shabbat) that they may follow strong drink; that continue until until night till wine inflame them!
They drink at service, after service, at meal time, with friends, at every conversation, before shabbat, after shabbat, when shabbat is over- Sunday morning when they wake up-
I think we've got a lot of Alcoholic Rabbis out here.
Isaiah 5.22
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength(Wisdom, Leaders) to mingle strong drink.
1 Timothy 5.23-Wine as a medicine only!
Drink no longer water, but use a little(It said little) wine for thy stomachs same and thine own infirmities(Illnesses)
Wine given to Yeshua as a mockery!He wouldn't drink it
Mark 15.23
And they gave him to drink wine mingled with Myrrh(a fragrant gum, which comes from an Arabian Shrub) But he received it not.
What does the Wisdom -Chokma chapter say about wine again..
Proverbs 20.1
Wine is a mocker(makes a fool out of the person) strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Unfermented is wine-Hayine- Fermented is strong drink..
Isaiah 24.9
They shall drink with a song(There acting foolish)strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
If we Jews can drink wine but not enough to get drunk-Who gages between enough
Is it one cup, two cups,three cups or do you just gage it between the amount you lust for it, Trust me this news letter isn't going to stop any Jews we know from drinking wine nor non jews-because they lust for it and they all gage one cup or two or three is enough-
These scriptures all gage enough for my mind to be made up wine sucks, We never drunk wine anyway.
Isaiah 28.7-8[ warning to Jerusalem]
But they also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way(Out of the way of Salvation)The priest and the prophets have erred through strong drink- they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink, They err in vision(Because there drunk)They stumble in judgment(No Sobriety-Clear thinking) For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness
( IN GODS HOUSE-THE TEMPLE) so that there is no place clean.
Habakkuk 2.4-5
Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him, but the just(Righteous) shall live by faith(not by wine) Yea also, because he trangresseth by wine(BY WINE) He is a proud man neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as Hell, and is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathered unto himself all nations and heapeth unto him all people.
DONT FOLLOW PEOPLE,OR RABBIS FOLLOW THE LORD- IF THE RABBI IS FOLLOWING THE LORD THEN HEAR HIM.
Micah 6.15-16-
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap. thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine(SHALL NOT) VS 16. For the statues or Omri (mixture with foreign nations) are kept and all the works of the house of Ahab(married Jezebel) and ye walk in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people(So full of wine and sin that they can't do what God said to do)
If drinking wine drew me closer to Yeshua, I would drink my hearts full-but it doesn't-
I don't care what no one is saying the scripture speaks louder than men.
FURTHER PROOF FROM GOD'S WORD AGAINST WINE.
Deuteronomy 32.14-
Butter of Kine, and milk of sheep. with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats with the fat of kidneys of wheat and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape-
Drinking the pure blood of the grapes- is it's juice not wine- Juice becomes wine when the person allows it to ferment, but it can't ferment without following the steps to get it to change it's course, The grape in and of its self isn't wine- To prove my point here is a list of how they make there wine-booze
WINE MAKING INGREDIENTS
There is a core group of wine making ingredients that are usually called
for in most all fruit and concentrate wine recipes. Each of these
ingredients play a specific and distinctly different role in the wine
making process. Here is a brief description of what these ingredients do.
Yeast Nutrient:
This is not yeast, but rather, energy for the yeast.
It insures that your yeast will ferment and make alcohol in
sufficient quantities.
Yeast Energizer:
Used in place of Yeast Nutrient when fermenting fruits that severely lack the set of nutrients yeast expects. It has a more extensive array of nutrients.
Pectic Enzyme:
This is added to help break down the fruit during fermentation. By using it you will extract more flavor and body from the fruit. It will also help to insure that your wine will clear up successfully.
Acid Blend:
This is used to help control the sharpness of the wine. [ Many wines will not have enough acid on their own making the wine taste flat or flabby] By adding Acid Blend you can correct the deficiency.
Wine Tannin:
This is the zest of the fruit in powder form. It is added to increase the character of the wine and to aid in its clarification after fermentation. It also helps the wine to take better advantage of aging during storage.
Wine Yeast
Added stuff)
This is the stuff that actually does all the work. It is what turns the sugar in the juice into alcohol.
Campden Tablets:
These tablets are added before fermentation and again before bottling. They insure that your wine does not spoil and remains fresh tasting up to the point of consumption.
SEE MY POINT--PEOPLE WANT YOU TO THINK WINE IS OF THE GRAPE ALONE, IT ISN'T GRAPE JUICE WILL REMAIN GRAPE JUICE, WHEN THE GRAPES GO BAD- IT BEGANS TO FERMENT NOT ENOUGH TO BE WINE WITHOUT THESE OTHER LISTINGS IVE NOTED FOR YOU THERE IS NO WINE.
Titus 1.7
For a episkopos-overseer-Leader must be blameless, as the steward of God, not self willed,nor soon angry, not given to wine(PERIOD) The Writer of The Complete Jewish Bible fixed the verse, He says not to much wine, sounds like permission to drink it, It's a translation written by a man, thou it is good there are other messianic translations ive found to be better
not violent,not given to filthy lucre(greedy for money) But a lover of Hospitality, a lover of good men,sober minded,just, holy,temperate, holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound(clear, direct) doctrine both to exhort and to confute(Convince) the gainsayers(Opposer's,Religious) VS 10.
For there are many unruly and vain talkers(Won't follow order, won't admit the truth- after the will of the flesh) and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision(Some of the Jews)
Vs 11. Whose mouths must be stopped who subvert( corrupt, twist, create new religions) whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre sake-
USING THE BESORA-GOSPEL, TWISTING SCRIPTURES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SELF GAIN,SELF INTREST, GAINING THE TRUST OF MEN AND THEN TRICKING THEM INTO SCHEMES OF THE DEVIL-IN THE END THE CROOK GAINS YOUR MONEY, YOUR TRUST, YOUR FAITH AND THE ONLY PERSON HURTING IS YOU... DO NOT PUT YOUR TRUST IN MAN- ANYTHING MAN TOUCHES BECOMES CORRUPT IN AND OF ITSELF, BECAUSE IT IS TANTED WITH HUMANITY. TRUST TORAH, TRUST YESHUA, TRUST YOUR BIBLES- THAT'S ALL- YOULL NEVER BE LIED TO WHEN YOU TRUST YOUR BIBLES, YOU'LL NEVER BE TRICKED WHEN YOU TRUST THE GOD OF YOUR BIBLES, NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO USE SCRIPTURES AND TWIST THEM FOR THERE INTREST, WHEN YOU RESEARCH YOUR OWN BIBLES AND FIND THE ANSWERS NOT FROM CROOKED, LIARS BUT FROM GOD...
THE SCRIPTURE SAYS TO HONOR YOUR TEACHER-LEADER, THATS IT, NOT TO WORSHIP HIM
Matthew 9.17
neither do men put new wine into old bottles else the bottles break and the wine runneth out and the bottles die(Bottles don't die,He's talking about something else).but they put new wine into new bottles and both are preserved.
Here's another scripture men use to support wine drinking,If you think it's talking about booze then keep drinking- your life.
wine can only break bottles if there fermented, wine being put into new bottles to preserve it, I think Yeshua isn't talking about an acceptance to drink booze-while Yeshua was saying this an official came and kneeled down mentioning his daughter had died.
I think Yeshua used this story as a parable, to reference how we must be prepared for the bride, the prior verse being verse 15. Yeshua says: can wedding guest mourn while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom is taking away from them; then they will fast VS 16. No one patches an old coat with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch tairs away from the coat and leaves a worse hole- then he goes in to the wine section.
It would conclude before he ever gets to the wine part, That he is showing them his death to come and that the believer can't be torn, unprepared, Yeshua is talking about the new man- How his death will also cause his return, if he finds torn salvation among the believers then they are broken all together and will die.
You can picture the text as you like but you will have to conclude the whole chapter verses 1-38- Skin bottles don't die, they burst-The Complete Bible says ruined, The Scripture translation says ruined also. We then see him going to do miracles, The text seemed to show more than wine and i don't think than wine connotation had anything to do with booze, It was a parable of his people and what they look like, some will be ready and some wont.
Proverbs 21.17
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man, He that loveth wine(Lusteth for Wine) and oil shall not be rich
Lamentations 1.15
The lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me. He hath called an assembly(congregation) against me to crush my young men, The Lord hath trodden the virgins the daughters of Judah(Jewish daughters) as in the wine press.
Revelations 14.19-20
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God, And the wine press was trodden
( Interesting the wine press was destroyed) without the city, and blood came out of the wine press even unto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Furlongs means death count:
which was 660 feet deep in the earth, that amount of dead.
Holman New Testament Commentary with Mind Changing Ministries Commentary:
The vintage is described in more detail than the grain harvest although the description begins similarly. The angel swung his sickle on the earth. literally he threw his sickle on the earth" The result was that he gathered it's grapes, literally he gathered the vineyard of the earth-His people verses the drunkards.
The detail now expand to paint a picture of judgment and horror. They are based on several OT scripture passages that compare divine judgment to treading the grapes in a wine press, for example the Lord speaks in Isaiah 63.3
I have trodden the wine press alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing (See Joel 3:13)
Most ancient Jewish people of that time were acquainted with throwing grapes into a wine press. Near the vineyard awaited a rock hewn vat larger than a bathtub to receive grapes, They were trampled by foot and a hole led to a lower smaller basin where the juice drained to be collected for fermentation.
We must remember wine has other additives, I gave you there list earlier. so this fermentation without those ingredients was juice without proof or at the level of the alcohol of today.Thou it could become fermented to the level a drunkard wanted, It was possible by adding yeast, If a person wanted to become drunk it was possible by changing the course of the grape.
I am not saying wine in biblical times could not have become fermented with high quality of yeast added- sure if a drunkard wanted to be drunk he very easily increased the yeast amount, What i am saying is that does not make it Holy or for Jews today to be drinking, mans will verses Yahweh's will are totally opposite of each other.If you want to go out and sin, no one is stopping you from doing it, but it opposes Yahweh's will, wine does also
The great wine press of God's wrath is understood because of it's OT counterparts. The wrath of God in judgment has now fully arrived.
They were trampled in the wine press without any statement here of who is treading it, In the OT here we see Yahweh himself is treading it, He is treading down the wicked, The portrait of the return of Yeshua in chapter 19 further shows Yeshua dressed in a robe dipped in blood 19.13- a continuation of the wine press theme.
People use text like this to support there wine drinking or rather booze high proofed liquor drinking selves, when the text is showing the judgment about to come in the very near future to those who profess to be
Bnai Yeshua. children of Yeshua- The wine drinking messianic and the sinners shall be trodden down, Those who never accepted Yeshua shall receive the judgment which will include a many Jew, some of the Jews will accept him in the air at his return. Lets pray mercy for those who do not, who are looking for another moshiach.
Out side the city shows: The ancient wine vats which were not in towns but in the country.This is no particular city. Yeshua has showed us Judgment shall began in God's house first- In Jerusalem the Holy City- Judgment is coming to you first. then across the world.
Conclusion:
I have been planning for about five months or so to write a news letter about the wine and other sins seen in the Messianic movement, and in the various jewish branches that i am able to see and acknowledge, I have learned that you can give people truth but it is up to them to receive it or neglect it, We can't make people come to what is right, But it does not negate us from doing what we know to be right, There are others who are apart of congregations where they feel un-easied behind some conflicting realizations in the beliefs and they stand quiet. We know we get several persons who read our news letters or print them out,
I wish to talk to you, If you are seeing some things you disagree with by scripture i would like to hear about it- This is just for those observing Judaism, sorry this isn't related for church goers- email me today, If you have questions, I'm interested in hearing about those also email us today at
mindchangingministries@minister.com
It's about following Yeshua as close to scripture as we can humanly follow without the acceptance of things we full well know isn't scriptural- To follow Yeshua through the Judaism he set in place some two thousand and sum years ago which he observed.
until we reach that pursuit completely we will be undone and forever learning,growing and committing our lives to yeshua as we wait his return-
Mind Changing Ministries Bible Congregation which is Messianic shall work tirelessly toward that goal, We shall learn Judaism without having to apply man made concepts to it under a strict observance to Torah, Tanakh, Brit Chadasha, with a fully committed life to Yeshua Ha'Mashiach- We will obey our leaders as long as they can by proof show us scripture without man made ideals. When we were Christian we left all aspects of novices with denominational belief systems and man made neo-paganism as Christianity is and became Nondenominational,Through further proof of Christianity we left it as it is an invention of Rome and have accepted all messianic principal, We shall be as sergeants of the scripture picking apart all of it to make certain we are following all of it, discarding man things as they need to be discarded when they come to the forfront
Sincerely Rabbi Aminidav Ben Avraham Hinton
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When i first completed this news letter i sent it out to a couple of rabbi friends of mine, The responce was amazing, not really negative at all but more than you might imagine they wore in agreement with me in many areas of the lesson and it made them really think about the subject matter and they agreed Judiasm has it's share of man made beliefs and problems in it and some things that don't belong, so then let's continue researching and teaching untill we get to the core and simply follow Yeshua without man's added mess.
Torah a day keeps ignorance away
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The Torah before Creation- Torah is Pre-Existent
Date: Dec 6th, 2008 2:41:19 am - Subscribe
Mood: Blessed
112/5/08
By Hashem given to Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Bereshith- Gen 1.1-31
Yeshayahu-Isa 45.3-25
Tehillim-Ps 102.12-28
Hebrew 11.1-40
Tehillim-Ps 33.1-22
Yochanan- John 1.1-18
Colossians 1.1-29
There are 8 Hebraic terms applying to creation
1. Bara- To create, Fashion
2. Ktizo- To fabricate
3. Ktisis-Formation, Founder
4. Chay-Alive, Raw, Fresh, Life
5. Nephesh-Life, Breath,Soul, Wind
6. Sherets- Mass
7. Ktisma-Created Product
8. Oach- Creature
The bible's teaching on the creation of the universe is the central theme that runs from Bereshith(Genesis) to Hisgalus(Revelation)
It reveals how Hashem is eternal and transcendent. According to the fullness of Torah, There are three statements that would apply to the aspect of creation and our role in Hashem's plan.
1. Tikkun Olam- meaning to repair the world 2. Tikkun Atzmo- meaning to repair yourself 3. Talmud- Correct yourself and then correct others.
According to Torah thought, the existence of the Torah in humanity help fulfill the purpose of creation, The Torah says;
Moshe commanded us the Torah, an inheritance for the congregation of Yaakov- Deut 33.4
The Torah not only existed before the Jews came to Mt. Sinai- it preceded the universe itself, It even preceded the creation of time, for the entire world was created in accordance with the divine plan of Hashem through Yeshua, not separate of Yeshua- Hashem voice was his word and his word is Torah spoken before written- The plan has always been through Torah and Hashem is Torah.
The Talmud section- The Medrash Beraishis Rabba 1.2 says He looked at the Torah and created the world.
The medrash is a Hebrew term referring to the not exact, but comparative (homiletic) method of exegesis (hermeneutic) of Biblical texts, which is one of four methods compilation of homiletic teachings (Commentaries) on the Tanakh- Hebrew Bible/ OT in the form of Halakha.
Like any good architect who creates the blueprints before starting the work on a building, Hashem first created his blue print before creating the world- Talmud teaches that the forefathers of the Jewish people Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov- all followed with evening prayers- It's backed up with scriptures.
Biblical reference suggest that King Dovid and the prophet Daniel prayed three times a day. In Psalms, Dovid states: evening, morning and afternoon do i pray and cry, and he will hear my voice- Ps. 55.18. As in Dani'el:
His windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, He kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he done before- Daniel 6.11-
Early Jewish Commentators wrote that the forefathers even observed the jewish festivals, eating Matzah (Unleavened Bread) on Pesach and Building a Sukkah (Booth) on Sukkos- even before the Jewish people experienced the events now tied to these holidays, They detected and responded to the unique feast days during there seasons- Sukkos, The festival Booths is mandated by the Torah itself, in order that your generation know that i placed the Bnai Yisrael in Booths-
When i took them out of Egypt- I am Adonai your Hashem- Lev 23.43
The Talmud says that the booths were clouds of glory that surrounded Jewish People during the exodus-
A Sukkos before written in Torah was already being observed. When Hashem created the world the Torah was working in his voice. The Torah is his written voice verbalized in script, He spoke his will and that was Torah- Shebictav Torah Moshe..
The Torah was not given because of Moshe as most people think! The Torah was given from Yahweh for Moshe to give to the Jews. Most only honor Moshe as the founder and giver of the Torah, not true!- The Torah came from YHVH not Moshe-
Moshe bowed down before Hashem and was taught a Torah he himself did not know, commentators say he could have been up in the mountain for days, weeks, months- none the less he was learning the Torah- thou the Torah is the first five books of Moshe.
It is really The First Five books of YHVH given for Moshe to teach the people.
Moshe did not write the Torah opposite of being taught it first from YHVH himself, Moshe just like us can't teach something Hashem, Yeshua and Ha Ruach Hokodesh doesn't first reveal- Hashem needed to get Moshe away to the top of the mountain was not like the movies- where he is in front of the burning bush where he gets up and goes forth and does all the miracles and wonders, The Truth is YHVH was teaching him Torah so he could go and continually spread it from himself to Yoshua to the people- so after him it would continue to spread- for that was YHVH will. The Torah did not died when Moshe died!
I think Moshe was a great man, a leader in the vast heritage of Hashem and Torah-
But in all his splendor, glory, mighty works and spectacular feats- He is not YHVH!!
Let us give the credit to whom it is rightfully due YHVH
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Why Yehudim Meshichim- Pt 1. 11-29-08
Date: Nov 30th, 2008 4:37:42 am - Subscribe
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Yeshua: ahavah
Why Yehudim Meshichim PT 1. 11/29/08
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
There are three Hebraic terms in reference to people who follow the messiah
(1.)Ma'Amin B'Moshiach â€" Believer in the messiah
(2.) A loose translation- Mimetes Sham Orach- People of the Way
(3.)Yehudim Meshichim- Jews Messianic
There are two main chapters relating to the subject
Daniel 9.4-27/ Matthew 2.1-33/
I want to uncover an false Christian notion and teaching related to Daniel 9- looking at verse 4-5 and then 25, I have something to show you:
4 I prayed to Adonai my Hashem and made this confession: "Please, Adonai, great and fearsome Hashem, who keeps his covenant and extends grace to those who love him and observe his mitzvahs! 5 We have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled and turned away from your mitzvahs and rulings. 6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our leaders, our ancestors and to all the people of the land. 7 "To you, Adonai, belongs righteousness; but to us today belongs shame - to us, the men of Y'hudah, the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and all Israel, including those nearby and those far away, throughout all the countries where you have driven them; because they broke faith with you. 8 Yes, ADONAI, shame falls on us, our kings, our leaders and our ancestors; because we sinned against you
24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and for your holy city for putting an end to the transgression, for making an end of sin, for forgiving iniquity, for bringing in everlasting justice, for setting the seal on vision and prophet, and for anointing the Especially Holy Place. 25 Know, therefore, and discern that seven weeks [of years] will elapse between the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Yerushalayim until an anointed prince comes. It will remain built for sixty-two weeks [of years], with open spaces and moats; but these will be troubled times. 26 Then, after the sixty-two weeks, Mashiach will be cut off and have nothing. The people of a prince yet to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary, but his end will come with a flood, and desolations are decreed until the war is over. 27 He will make a strong covenant with leaders for one week [of years]. For half of the week he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the grain offering. On the wing of detestable things the desolater will come and continue until the already decreed destruction is poured out on the desolater."
We are seeing here in Daniels 9, two formats, one Yeshua is establishing Israel through himself and secondly he is establishing Messianic Judaism- I'll show you that in a second,Daniel is seeing all this unfold well before the time, even how Yeshua and Messianic Judaism encounters persecution and revealing, The text says in vs 25 to discern 70 weeks and 26, speaks of him who is to come, Mashiach Yeshua and how he will be cut off and have nothing, dishonored and crucified -The people of a prince will destroy the city and the holy place but his end will come with a flood (Noah) Daniel was informed that Hashem's program would be consummated in 70 sevens, since Daniel had been thinking possibly of Hashems program in terms of years or sevens (Hep tads) Daniel- seven days are in a week, every seventh year was a Shabbat rest year- Lev 25.1-7 â€" seven sevens brought them to the year of Yovel- Jubilee- Lev 25.8-12- seventy sevens then is the span of 490 years- at the end of the 490 years, Hashem will finish the transgression of Israel, The verb Kala means to bring something to an end, Israels sins of disobedience will be brought to an end at Yeshua's return, when she repents and turns to him as her messiah, Then she will be restored to the land and have shalom and blessings- This is one phase on the equation: In regard to the lesson I'm about to teach, I think the scripture also confirms Yeshua establishing his Messianic Movement as saw in the vision given to Dani'el- The false Christian teaching is Daniel 9 applies to the coming of the church age over Israel, The great Tribulation and rapture of the church- not so at all! It is related Yeshua as proof of his messiahship and ruler over Israel and apart of this messianic movement he started and Daniel sees it in advance, Daniel talked to and foresaw Yeshua
Let's began:
The response to Yeshua Ha'Mashiach among the Jewish community was numerically significance during two periods, The first occurred during the initial four to five hundred years of the common era, Yeshua as the messiah began that first response when the ruach hokodesh came upon the followers of Ha'Mashiach at Shavuot- Feast of Weeks, Pentecost -The Talmidim continued spreading the besora that Yeshua is and was thee final Moshiach, By the 1750's to 1800's â€" many with in the world had accepted the God of the Jews without following the order of the Jews- which would later be called Christianity-The 19th century a good number receiving Yeshua- The 20th century showed demonstrated in the Brit Chadashah The biblical evidence is- Three thousand came to Yeshua in Acts 2.41 Five Thousand men in Acts 4.4 Many Cohanim (Leviticus Priest) Acts 6. 7
Yeshua added to their number Acts 2.41 Many heard and believed in Yeshua Acts 4. again
The number of Talmidim in Yerushalayim increased rapidly Acts 6.7
After some 20yrs Ya'akov and the elders told Rabbi Sha'ul of the thousands who heard and believed Acts 4. again literally myriads or tens of thousands came to Yeshua as believing Jews- Acts 21.20 In Rabbi Shau'ls letter to the Galatians- Brit Chadasha Kehillah of Galatia -possibly written between 48-52- Shau'l spoke of the congregation of Yudea- Gal 1.22 When Rome subdued Jerusalem in year 70, The people of Judea suffered a great lost of the second temple, Nebuchadnezzar 2 of Babylon pillaged the first temple- in 586 BCE- he destroyed it, Yeshua spoke of that destruction of the temple in Luke 21.20-24
When the temple fell many Jews were murdered and the majority of the people ran to pella- east of the jordan river, after CE 70 many Jewish believers in Yeshua returned to Jerusalem and found both leaders and people in despair, How would they be able to worship Hashem without a Beit Ha'Mikdash â€" The leader and Rabbi Yahanon Ben Zakkai arose and sought permission from the roman officials if he could have a Kehillah Torah Study Center- Kehillah Torah Lahag Congregation for Jewish young people in the small community of Yavneh- Greek- Jamnia not far from modern Tel Aviv from 73 to 90- Yohanan Gamaliel 2 and other Jewish leaders met on numerous occasions to restructure a Judaism without Temple worship-So a spiritual vacuum existed in Judea between 70 and 100 and record remain that at that time 20 percent of the nation had accepted Yeshua by CE 100(WOW) -The council of Yavneh took steps to eliminate Jewish believers in the synagogues through the birkat haminim- a derogatory statement directed against them- The fact that this council singled out these believers suggest they may have wanted to create a barrier between themselves and the messianic believers â€"
The Messianic Believers of the first century were called Nazarenes-
Acts 2. 22-47/ Acts 4. 1-37/ Acts 5. 1-39 = The term messianic or messianism which means personal messiah- The anointed one â€" is said to have come from the 19th century polish national movement of Jews for yeshua even before this bit of history, We wore originally called Nazarites, not Christians following Yeshua L'Nazarite- Tertullus- Roman i believe? Referred to Rabbi Shau'l as the leader of these people- But Rabbi Shau'l defined these first century messianic believers first called Nazarites. As followers of the way- Ma'amin B'mashiach -It would really be the initial three point in this study of Hebraic terms- Mimetes- Imitators- Sham- There, The -Orach- Manner of Life, of way being
Mimetes Sham Orach- Acts 22.4/ Acts 24.14-
Ananus the high priest ordered Ya'akov-James brother of Yeshua executed in 62- Simon, son of cleopas- Yeshua's cousin- became the leader of the congregation that was messianic until 107 CE- The last of Yeshua's family to hold the office was Simon who reportedly was 120 years old- He was tortured and put to death-
The second revolt against Rome (132-135) proved even more disastrous than the first revolt (66-70) The Nazarenes-messianic wanted to fight, but another dilemma arose when Rabbi Akiva ( The Jewish well respected rabbi worshiped a man) Rabbi Akiva proclaimed the military leader- Simon Ben Kosiba- to be bar kochba- or son of the star-a conquering moshiach relating him to Numbers 24.17 which says
I see him, but not now, I behold him, But not soon- a star will step from Ya'akov- a scepter will arise from Israel to crush the corners of Mo'av( Central Jordan) and destroy all descendants of shet(Seth) The Nazarenes knew it applied to Yeshua and that Rabbi Akiva blasphemed- Once again The Nazarenes fled to pella and other places east, Africa etc. and the Jewish people felt they betrayed them and they never forgave them, Thus continually down the centuries messianic believers have been cast as Christians, not mentioning they all once served together in the same temple -all proclaiming the same liturgy, prayers, festivals.
What has inspired so many Jewish writers to write against Messianic Judaism- Since the world was in the first century 20 percent Nazarene -Messianic then he would conclude- because the first century Nazarene knew who the moshiach was and is today and have not lifted up men of great zeal over the only final Moshaich -Yeshua Ha'Mashiach
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What the word of Yahveh has gone through in the hands of man- The Version of The Catholic King James Version
Date: Nov 5th, 2008 11:21:39 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Leb Tohar
This will be one lesson that will be extremely shocking and breath taking- as all the translations of the english bibles since King James as well as King James are roman ascriptive for example: AMP- KJV- LB- NASB- NIV- NRSV- NWT- TEV- RSV- NKJV and others, I want to simply deal with
The Historical Truth about the author of the english bible- King James- I want to plainly express to you what ever the english version is, It is but an expression of pagan catholicism for each one but The Jewish Translations are not from Rome and are based on Torah and early Hebraic scroll passed down generation to generation, ever wondered how all these churches teach and have King James Bibles every where? ever wondered why it is the most respected translation of today amongst Christians ? I want you to know the truth and research for yourselves you may very well find all the churches of our day are using roman means as church is but a roman invention-
In 1557 while in exile in Geneva Switzerland a unknown clergyman named John Calvin of which the denominational cult calvanism comes through, John Calvin assisted with such Englishman who fled from the persecution of bloody mary, undertook to translate the bible- Why ?we already had one in Hebrew called Torah and the first full bible was printed in Hebrew- so why another? Because the queen of england wanted to create a bible after there pagan religion,
They took to translate the bible and complete it in english from hebrew. from the original language, from the Torah, from the Jews- From the original translation from Hebrew and Aramaic, The first translation was printed in 1560 containing thousands of catholic marginal notes, changes and treaties. however calvins bible went out of print in 1644. It was the bible by choice amongst these catholics and calvinist, for oliver Cromwell, John Milton, and the pilgrims that landed at Plymouth rock in 1620- William Shakespeare quoted calvin bible more than 5,000 times in his plays from 1560-1664- ccalvingsbible went through 200 printings, It was replaced by The King James Version- Why? because the state order wanted to create a new version a dictator version, a roman version, taking out anything that speaks Judaism and recalls Judaism for catholic terms, names, pagan festivals, They wanted to create a translation at that time that was complaint to the state order, So the words from the original translation from Hebrew and Aramaic was completely removed all together- some words in the Torah completely taken out and new words added to fit the brain wash- So the order of the state got King James to write the bible-
King James 1. of england who was said to be a devout believer in the divine rights of the king, a philosopher ingrained in him by his mother mary stuart(Bloody Mary) The man King James who they got to transcribe the bible, was a well educated man who was not even a believer who was filled with demons so that he preferred young boys sexually- The evidence reveals he rapped little boys, but you read his transcribed bible- He did not like women, his activities that has even been historically recorded in numerous books and public records, so much that it is beyond debate , King James also enjoyed killing animals for his bestiality practices that he would call hunting, once he killed a animal he would role around in it's blood- HE WAS A BIUG PAGAN- NOT SURPRISING ROME SELECTED HIS HUH? He rolled in the blood of animals performing sexual things with himself, While the animal was lying in the process oddeath, This is what he enjoyed- James was a sadist as well as a sodomite- Gay man-He enjoyed torturing people.
While being the king pf Scotland in 1591 he personally supervised the torturing of the poor wretches caught up in the king james witch hunt trials of Scotland, James would torture people and create new methods of how he could watch by and see people get tortured= Rather he ordered there body to be burned alive in front of him always. He would cut off body parts for his amusement and James would look at them in laughter-Eventually King James was ran out of england and succeeded by his son Charles 1st - knowing now that this man, rapped children, slept with men, was active in bestiality- Yet that wasn't enough for england to hire him to transcribe the sacred hebrew text to write it in there language fully knowing about the character of this King James... This King James who was replaced by his son was brutal and at least one of the Hitlers of our ancient times- his son wasn't any better By 1603 King James wasted no time in ordering new editions of his bible- The King James Version- His purpose was to deny the common people as he tried to fool them as a tool for population control, so he wrote the bible again without marginal notes, further changes and deepning of losing all jewishness it once held, This time James in his power declared all to read his edition, his bible, He put terror before all england, scotland and outside countries mandating his rulership, He put terror in them because of who he was and who he had been, he put fear in the hearts of the kings and the churches and precipated one religious war after another, James declared calvins bible seditious and made its possession a felony our death and because of this reason mostly all churches commonly use The King James Version- not Jewish Congregations or Synagogues- They would never be found using it, John Calvin who transcribed the translation he had was a better translation as it was closer to the hebrew -calvin was a brute murdered also- October 27, 1553 John Calvin killed Michael Servetus-a great spanish doctor and theologian for having a different oppion of the bible then he had.....
The greatest thing is as much as man has bothered with the scriptures, changed it, moved stuff out of it, some how Hashem still allows himself to be revealed through it as i was revealed through it, which drew me later to Messianic Judaism- man has tried to destroy it, burn it, kill people who had it, destroy Israel, Torah and any relative text in that regard and yet Hashem has allowed it stand-
Now having said all that -purchase The Complete Jewish Bible and see the difference or a different messianic translation
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The Church- Mystery Babylon- The Nimrod Spirit
Date: Nov 4th, 2008 8:58:27 pm - Subscribe
Mood: BLESSED
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton 1/4/08
The word revelation in Hebrew is Hisgalus this lesson is mostly in the book of Revelations- Book of Hisgalus however i have so much to say that i am going to have to trust you to read the scriptures for yourselves
SO THIS IS A JUDIAC, HISTORICAL LESSON FOR THE END TIME MESSIANIC BELIEVERS AND A WARNING TO THE CHURCH TO GO TO IT'S JUDIAC, HEBRAIC ROOTS TO YESHUA AND NOT TO THE ROMAN gods
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Scriptures: Rev abbrev- Revelation
HisgalusRev 12. 1-17/Hisgalus Rev 13.1-18/Hisgalus- Rev 17.1-18/Dani'el Daniel 4. 19-37/2 Thessalonika- 2 Thessalonians 2.1-12/ Hisgalus Rev 18. 1-24/ Hisgalus Rev 19. 1-21 **************************************
We began with the realization that Babel means confusion- The church is the Tower of Babel, or a type of babel- a place of confusion, mixing age old Judaism with age old Paganism, an comfortably living with the belief system of those 165 gods with the bible given not from King James but from Hashem notable designed for the Jew called Torah, I want to address how the church is nothing more but a replicated mess up of Judaism pieces and parts without leaving paganism and just follow The true Judaism of yeshua titled: Messianic Judaism-
To take from Judaisms Torah and create Christianity is nothing more but Hasatan at his best- Let's Learn:
The tower of babel- babylons temples wore to there god named as MARDUK, which was the mythical dragon and half man idol, and they served ETEMENAKI which represented the house of the foundation to heavens and earth ( Just like Idol worshipers to seek to duplicate gods through vain glory) and there third god named ESAGILA which means the house that raises its head, The wall of the tower of babel reached 5 miles high, The Mystery Babylon is the spirit of Iniquity-
It is Mystery= secret, hidden, subtle and well camouflaged- It is so un-noticed and unrecognized in the church(Pagan House) that the over shadowing seducing spirits of evil creeps easily in the houses that are suppose to be Hashems or God's house as they say, even so conveyancing among us is The symptom of The Laodicean Congregational Age - The sin of being luke warm ( Allowance of sin) It becomes the norm, like acceptance of gay men in these so many black churches and other churches, who pastor, lead ministers and live in a gay abomination detestable life style... That's luke warm, Luke warm means in Webster:
Lacking Enthusiasm,tepid,dull of hearing-
eyes so blind in sin and the allowance of sin that it's unable of seeing it's own lukewarmness- The condition of the church is called: COMPROMISE -willing to change the word, willingly to accept wrong as right, What was right is now ok to be wrong and state it is right, In being wrong in the church..
Babylon has it's root in the beginnings in Genesis, It is one of the earliest societies of mankind-Babylon was founded by Nimrod- Genesis 10. Nimrod was one of the sons of Cush- Cush was African as well as his family, So then it was one of the earliest African Pagan Religions first followings. It is the place of Rebelling= it goes against Hashem and his Word- Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord -Which is what his name means: Why? It means he was a tyrant and powerful hunter as well as powerful tyrannical leader before or in the way of the Lord, against God or as he prefer to say his Hebraic name: Hashem-Nimrod built a tower to reach Heaven- Shomayim- Gen 11.4-
In order to make a name for himself Nimrod wanted to usurp authority over Hashem and become a god- The Spirit of Nimrod and Babylon becomes-> THE MAN OF SIN, THE SON OF PERDITION-
Which literally means son of the lost soul,son of hell, son of HaSatan and the Anti- Messiah in the book of Revelations or Book of Hisgalus, This man becomes the epitome of rebellion- his brazen boldness will cause him to set near the Temple professing to be Hashem or God- capturing the attention of others through the thrills of miracles and signs and spectacular light shows(Oh MY) and thus for the show receive the mark of the beast or mark of the governmental seal. six six six-
The enslavement symbol of rebellion, ownership and torment as you remember from my last teaching on The Life of the Soul- Which is apart of our News Letter Series the soul remembers the deeds of it's prior body, Thus the seal to buy or sell, produce and product, buy and demand- This seal is nothing like what these Revelation TV Preacher shows are talking about or there books and cds about the rapture- There crazy- professing all these great signs of our doom and end.
The fact is your living apart of it right now, the conclusion hasn't happened yet, the rise out of the full water has happened already- a few examples- this governmental seal is in place through your credit cards, Through the hand and dogs implants, Through your social security number and Through bar codes on all the can goods and goods you buy at your local grocery store- Through the changing laws of congress and the ultra atheist and ultra acceptance of gays and Lesbian marriage in churches- Which i am not all to surprised about since it is but the invention of rome. It's already in place thou over the years it has moved like a snell in it's subtle approach- That's how the enemy operates slowly on most occasions- Let me explain:
All of these events are taking place because of disobedience, Denial of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach as Hashem, and as Saviour of Jew and Gentile together, It is the spirit of deceitfulness, denying Yeshua will cause a many good jew to be lost forever, It is unavoidable that some good jews will go to Hell, Because salvation is not in reading Talmud, Not just reading Torah, Nor just reading Halakhah or Mishnah- It is in no other name but Yeshua that Jew and Gentile be saved- The Torah is in him and fulfilled, not excluded.. The spirit of deceitfulness that is found in The Great Harlot called: Church- Rev 17. not from a roman bible but from a Jewish Bible will reveal- She is drunken with the blood(Murderer) of the believers( These are not Christians, these are the jews she is seeking to kill- Isn't that what we see since the beginning of time) She is drunken with the blood of the believers and the prophets- The Anti- Messiah will ride Babylon into the day of Armageddon-
There are three divisions of Babylon:
(1.) religious power- use of the word of God in sin, or the word used to promote agenda
(2.)Political- governmental Babylon
(3.) commercial and economic Babylon
The history reveals Babylons ugly head manifested through the spirit of deceit and seduction for power, rulership and dominion over the churches-The reason why i say that is because there easily deceived and tricked by counterfeit miracles,they run to wonders and conferences and revivals, the earth, heaven, through laws, congress, government, regulations, presidents, murdering jews and the ever present worry of those who wish to destroy Israel- stepping on biblical truths and the answers of the Torah and seeking to overthrow the word and to raise humanism on the throne where Hashem almighty reigns- You do recognize no such thing is possibly but the antic to draw people is enough to pull the unlearned and religious unbible knowing few. Few meaning millions or trillions.( The Church acounts for through out this country some 300 million and more which fall between the 1300 different denominations, belief systems and religions inside religions- They have in effect built the tower of babel- religiously, politically, economically, and have sought the gates of heaven typified to overthrow Hashem- The omnipotent creator through humanistic means, liberalism, evolutionist and the atheist and agnostics. They have said as their predecessor Satan- I will be like the most high or become another god, this one hunting souls with compromise, political and financial dishonesty-reminds you of obama huh? Babylons influence is so powerful that Rev 17.18 -says- And the women which you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings ( Government, Leadership, Authority, Order, Law, Vows)
But the sign of victory in Rev. 18.11-13 shows Babylons destruction- The earth shall weep and mourn over her- for no man buyeth their merchandise any more- The gold, silver, and scarlet, and thyine wood, vessels or ivory, most precious wood, brass, iron, marble, cinnamon, odours, ointments, frankincense,wine, oils, fine flour, wheat, beasts, sheep, horses, chariots, slaves and souls of men..
The many who enjoyed the profits of idolatry and her influence will weep because of her destruction- for in one hour- so great riches is come to nothing- But the believers will rejoice.. The heaven and ye kodesh talmidims, cohanims and prophets for Hashem hath avenged you on her, And a mighty angel took a stone like a great mill stone, and cast it into the sea, saying Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all- He expresses Yeshua is coming back and this evil wile spirit of the adulterer will be removed..
Now i would like to address the scriptures which i gave you preferentially in the beginning as a foot note or historical factum
REVELATIONS 12.1- The women is Israel, while not referring specifically to Miriam of Yosef, It points to Israel as the source of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach
REVELATION 12. 3- HaSatan controls over the world empires(Governments of the world) in the great tribulation
REVELATION 13.. Depicting the roman empire, The beast is the world leader- Dan 7. The little horn on the beast is the world ruler- The fact that the beast comes from the sea shows he's either a complete gentile or a Jewish man. It reveals the final three and one half years before Yeshua return thereafter the temple for it's third time has been rebuilt. under the control of this central ruler in the middle east during the great tribulation will be 10 nations- Dan 7.24.
10 horns- 10 kings or leaders- Greece= Leopard/ Medo- Persia- Bear/ Babylon- Lion
The power of the beast was derived from HaSatan himself- The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority- Rabbi Shau'l called it in 2 Thess 2.9- The lawless one, or one without Torah, The Anti- Messiah- all of the workings of all kinds of counterfeit miracles- DYNAMEI- Signs.. SEMEIOIS wonders- MOWPHETH-omens, miracles
vs 7 It was allowed to make war on Hashems holy people(Jews and Goys) and to defeat them; and it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation 8. Everyone living on earth will worship it except(Isn't except wonderful) except those whose names are written(Recorded) in the Book of Chaim- Life belonging to the lamb( Yeshua Ha'Mashiach_
So then what's interesting is this the text says It was allowed to make war on Hashems people( Jews-Israels troubles aren't over just yet ) and defeat them except those written in the lambs book of life...
So then the messianic believers will be recorded while the other branches of Judaism who rejects him will be permitted by Hashem to be destroyed and killed except those who accept- Yeshua... See how important it is being Messianic and excepting Yeshua Ha'Mashiach as Hashem.. Vs 8. Everyone living on earth will worship it except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to( Not just in the book ) belonging to the Lamb..
Lamb definition: Ben- Son,
VS8. Slaughtered before the world was founded 9. Those who have ears, let them hear (CLEAR WARNING)
vs 10. If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he goes! If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he is to be killed! This is when Hashems holy people must persevere and trust!
Back in vs 7 again:
He will make war with these people and over come- The beast will take political dominative power over the whole world for a time, his authority will extend over every tribe and people at least those who were defiant and refused to accept Yeshua and obey him and Torah and are not written in the lambs book of life. He the Anti- Messiah will be very versed in many languages- Dan 7.23 He devours the whole earth- trampling it down and crushing some parts of it, He also abolishes the services to Hashem, He'll stop the Hebraic prayers, Torah reading, synagogues, tallid, kippas, tzit tzits etc. He'll want to control Israel and churches will be abolished for centers where he is there god and many of the churches will leave the roman Jesus for a man they can reflect homage to, All the people except those written in the lambs book of life will worship the beast, The lamb was slain before the creation of the world, when he created it, he already gave himself for it, The lamb slain further relates to his life more so than just his death on that wooden stake or tree- His life was given well before that tree- Rabbi Shau'l expresses that best in Ephesians 1.4- Those who were converted or saved were fore ordained ( Pre Selected) to Yeshua which means Salvation before creation...
REVELATION 17.
This women the prostitute is the religious systems of Babylon and the water is the people , nations- The kings of the earth had committed adultery with the women- They became apart of the religious systems- paganized idol systems. She was dressed in purple( The Royal Color) She was a fake copy of the religion Yeshua established in and of himself, a fake system that used his ideals, his name, parts of his beliefs and built off of it a new belief labeled with his name mostly named Christianity but more so the worst paganism yet- Catholicism -who by the way killed Yeshua not the jews- She was dressed also in scarlet ( scarlet represents sin being removed) why is she wearing it? she is dressed in that sin that isn't removed. Israels people and the surrounding nations and even America which is not in prophecy after Yeshua returns it has left him also and will be destroyed as will all other nations but Israel- Thou some of Israel's inhabitants have found another lover in the world systems at this time as they have in the past, She is glittering in gold, precious stones, pearls, her clothes like the religions trappings of ritualistic churches not congregations to the day- representing beauty, glory, performance, theatrics, alluring slender- The pretty beautified church buildings with it's leaders prostituting it's people for money, that gold, silver, precocious stones, TBN and TCT major Christian television is a big part of this greed out here- thou not every show on there is bad, just most is beggar thon, begga thon , fornicating the truth away- The apostate system killing all who hold to the true faith- ( Great Adversity as we have not seen- Yeshua says some will die for his name)Messianic Judaism Vs 9. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the women sitteth
VS 10. Seven Kings- Five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue a short space..
That devil will one day be let lose and those fallen angels which are being held right now will be released for a time
The seven hills are Rome- The city of seven hills- Rome which is trying to rebuild it's empire as you read this will be the capital of the coming world empire originally rome included seven small mountains which were named:
1. Palatine
2. Avenine
3. Caelian
4.Equiline
5.Viminal
6.Quirimal
7.Capitoline
Later the city expanded to include the hill janiculum and pincian- The place of paganism becomes an established empire again-but will be destroyed as Yeshua makes his final return and we will see shalom as Israel have never seen and we will be in Yerushaliyim and there we shall still learn Torah, still wear tzit tzit, still study and learn the eyons of ephod chasm days long ago when our souls wore with Hashem before the day of this body and the experience of life here and the work he layed for our hands to do- The gleaning must continue and the threshing floor must be swept and the offerings of thanksgiving must continue to be offered, the wave offering was still be given and the feast days fully observed for we do not no the hour nor the day when Yeshua returns, It could be while we are observing the feast days- Some day soon we are going to see Melech Yeshua Ha'Mashiach -The End -
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The Temptation of Adam- 11/1/08
Date: Nov 1st, 2008 4:37:41 am - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
The question is always surmised who's fought was it, Adam is the blame for chavahs sin, as her husband and leader- He could have not co hearsed and became apart of it, but he did!
A few scriptures for you to read Gen 2.1-24/ Gen 3.1-24/ Gen 4. 1-17/ Gen 5. 1-5/ Romans 5.12-21/ 1 Cor 15.15-58/ Luke 3.38 verse/ 1 Tim 2.7-15
Adam means Atom- Particles of earth elements combined with cosmos of nuclear energies- The energy and power in melecular creation- Adam further means Red earth, It follows the reference of the color of the ground and the area where Adam was created, not born- Which means Adam was brownish red- Black in fact- Adam was perfect in body, soul and spirit without defect or human traits or error, He had no childhood he was created a full adult male and placed in the Garden of Eden- paradise- a type of heaven was the garden as adam was a type of Yeshua, a type of full Godliness in the body of Hashems man- who was a living soul, without a body which humanity now shares, He was a prototype of mankind to come! as Hashem in Innocent- The garden was eastward in eden which is in Armenia possibly which Armenia is apart of asia between cappadocia near mount ararat where Noah's Ark still remains, Adam was created according to Hebrew Chronology in BCE 4004- Adam was made in the likeness of Hashem, He was the greatest work of creation and received dominion over all the earth- He was made pure and holy yet given something for a purpose for those to come- to have away of escape( Choice) Free Will is over rated, choice leads to consequence- Adam broke the express command of Hashem and brought a curse upon himself, started time and decay and death through that choice beyond his generation. He was banished from eden and did at the age of 930 Years old- It is believed that he is the first among saved as he was the first among sinners, Adam was the second author of sin other than Satan and death, as Yeshua is the author of righteousness and life- The final Adam, Adam in Hebrew is Adham- Hashems first human son of Hashem- Adam is the head of mans great ancestor, the head of the human race, Adam found himself in the Genesis beginnings of the end of Revelations- The kingdom place on earth a place without sin and the place stays with out sin- The man had sin, the place was taken up into heave being there the garden of eden is with Hashem which is the kingdom to come the fulfilling of eden into Yerushaliyim- Adam was our predated message of defiance, how men can even be created without sin and go and yearn after sin, how can no sin want sin, because sin appeals to our inner desire, as soul people- sin is against the inner self.
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The Life of the Soul- 11/1/08-Learn every thing about your souls!
Date: Nov 1st, 2008 4:06:41 am - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
Let's began this lesson- with a, old aged Indian story called:
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
For Kingdom Living Letters- News Letters-
Mind Changing Ministries Bible Congregation
Two Wolves-
One evening an old cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people, He said, My son, The battle is between two wolves inside us all.
One is Evil:
It is Anger, Envy, Jealousy, Sorrow, Regret, Greed, Arrogance, Self Pity, Guilt, Resentment, Inferiority,Lies, False Pride, and Ego
The other is Good:
It is Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Serenity, Humility, Kindness, Empathy, Generosity, Truth and Faith.
The grandson thought for a minute and then asked his grandfather
Which wolf will win?
The Old Cherokee simply replied, The one you Feed"
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The Life of the soul Pt 1:
Hashem is Soul and soul is mentioned in the Bible 458 times the scripture states in
Genesis 2.4-7-
Ancient Roots Translinear Bible
In the days that Yahweh Hashem made the land and heavens, these progeny of the heavens and of the land were created. 5. Before the land had any greenery in the field, and before any cereals of the field sprouted, Yahweh Hashem rained nothing over the land, and no human served the earth 6. But a haze (Mist) ascended from the land( Out of the ground a mist watered the earth)and watered all the face of the earth. 7. Yahweh Hashem designed Adam from the dust of the earth, and bellowed(Ruah- Wind) in his nose the breath of life. Adam was a living soul(Nephesh)
Deuteronomy 10.10-22-
10:And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
11: Yahweh said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swear unto their fathers to give unto them.
12: And now, Israel, what doth Yahweh thy Hashem require of thee, but to fear Yahweh thy Hashem, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh thy Hashem with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
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13: To keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14: Behold, the heaven(Celestial 1st) and the heaven(Space- Creos) of heavens(Hashems abode) is Yahweh thy Hashem, the earth also, with all that therein is.
15: Only Yahweh had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
16: Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked.
17: For Yahweh your Hashem is El of gods, and Yahweh of Yahweh, a great Elohim, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger(Goyim-Gentile) in giving him food and raiment.
19: Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20: Thou shalt fear Yahweh thy Hashem; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
21: He is thy praise, and he is thy Hashem, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22: Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Yahweh thy Hashem hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Leviticus 5. 1-19- 1:
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of promise, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
2: Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
3: Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
4: Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
5: And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
6: And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
7: And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
8: And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
9: And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
10: And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
11: But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
12: Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.
13: And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.
14: And Yahweh spake unto Moshe, saying,
15: If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring for his trespass unto Yahweh a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
16: And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
17: And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of Yahweh; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
18: And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
19: It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 30.1-20-
1And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither Yahweh thy Hashem hath driven thee,
2And shalt return unto Yahweh thy Hashem, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3That then Yahweh thy Hashem will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither Yahweh thy Hashem hath scattered thee.
4If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will Yahweh thy Hashem gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5And Yahweh thy Hashem will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6And Yahweh thy Hashem will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Yahweh thy Hashem with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live(Warning)
7And Yahweh thy Hashem will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
8And thou shalt return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
9And Yahweh thy Hashem will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy Hashem, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the Torah, and if thou turn unto Yahweh thy Hashem with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
11For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16In that I command thee this day to love Yahweh thy Hashem, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and Yahweh thy Hashem shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely die, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Yordan to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed(Generation may live:
20That thou mayest love Yahweh thy Hashem, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which Yahweh sware unto thy fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak and to Ya'akov, to give them.
Deuteronomy 32.1-32-
1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3Because I will publish the name of Yahweh: ascribe ye greatness unto our Hashem.
4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a Yah of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6Do ye thus pay Yahweh, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9For Yahweh portion is his people; Ya'akov is the lot of his inheritance.
10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12So Yahweh alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods-Idols, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17They sacrificed unto devils, not to Hashem; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19And when Yahweh saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not Hashem; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Yahweh hath not done all this.
28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had shut them up?
31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33Their wine is the fury of snakes, and the cruel venom of rattlesnakes.
34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35To me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36For Yahweh shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41If I whet my glittering(fast lightning) sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
44And Moshe came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45And Moshe made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
48And Yahweh spake unto Moshe that selfsame day, saying,
49Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab,(Central Yordan)that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
50And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
52Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. _____________________________________ NOW THE LESSON--- All of these scriptures indicate something about the soul, I wish to express that message first of all
Soul:
Nephesh= Breath, Wind, Source- Nshamah- Life= Chaim- in Greek= Pneuma -Breath, Air
There are three Hebraic terms to explain the soul 1. Neshamah 2. Nefesh, Nephesh 3. Ruah
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1. The soul- nephesh is the part of mankind that is the image, life of Hashem(G-d) YHWH. The flesh is not Hashems image- Adam was soul and became flesh. The soul has a body of it's own, He was an existing soul not of todays flesh till after sin- Then he became flesh, Flesh denotes sin- Which he did not have when he was created- When we see sin, we see death-
Ez 36. The soul (not flesh) that sinneth shall die. why not flesh? I'll show you why--
Adam and Chavah((Not Eve))- Eve is the name of a pagan goddess-Thank the romans for putting that in your roman bibles)) Lost there place in Shamayim- Celestial Cosmos because of sin entering there souls, not bodies- sin entering the soul caused the flesh to lose perfection- Kalliyl- wholeness, completeness- Katartisis- equipment,
Teleiotes- Verification, Perfection, Ripen Fruit-
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The soul lived with Hashem without sin till Hasatan sinned in his soul- He didn't have a body of flesh he had a soul, placing sin in humanity from Man's Soul to his flesh- Our mind which is our Leb- Hearts hold contention from the flesh- We were once soul without flesh and sin entered the soul causing sin to be placed in humanities flesh, The soul is the breath of the person, The soul is the body of thought- The soul is opposite of the body which is why? flesh dies and no soul ever dies, Ever since creation (Bara)no soul has died- It is either with Hashem or continually being Tormented in Hell, Soul and Spirit are interchangeable- The Hebrew Terms 1. Neshamah 2. Nephesh also spelled Nefesh 3. Ruah conveys first the word Ruah implies- a force which is a Yad- which means a hand- While the same conjectured term Ruaymay means breath.. Hashem said in Genesis 6.3- My breath (Ruhi) will not govern man forever since he is flesh....
Ruah then ends it's association with the mortal man ( Anthropos-being) Greek Jew Philo claimed that 1. Nashamah 2. Nefesh 3. Ruah wore three parts of man- supporting Philo claim- The Jews rejected all of the Greek thinking views, Instead the literature of Talmud proclaims:
The body and soul- should be in harmony just as the kodesh one of blessing sees but can't be seen, So does the soul see but cannot be seen- Just as the Holy one of blessings is pure, so is the soul- pure- Berakhot 10.9
In Midrash Leviticus Rabbah, We read that the soul is a guest in the body and that care of the body is deemed a commandment by the great sage- Hillel- who cited the ideal in the creation story that YHWH made the human in the divine image.
A Rabbeinu Bahya points out that even bodily fluids- menstrual blood, skin eruptions, man fluids, skin cell waste material are all considered impure( Tamei) are only deemed such after they left the human body- before sin the bodies had no sin, no issues in it, For it was a living soul! The glorified body is not flesh- but a living breathing existing soul in no need or the wants of the body- Phil 3.20-21/ 1 Cor 15.30-38.....
In the mind of the sages:
Sin is not the product of an unruly body asserting itself over a pure soul- on the contrary, the body and soul are seen in a partnership of equal responsibility for actions, in this life as well as the next.
The Talmudic Anecdote from tractate sanhedrin- The Emperor Antoninus tries to convince Rabbi Yehudah Hanai that the body and soul can each excuse themselves from sin by claiming that the transgression is the fault of the other, since without its counterpart it is life less. Rabbi Yehudah counters, Hashem judges the actions of the body and soul in partnership after returning the soul to a body at resurrection notably: If sin is done in the body -the body is destroyed and the soul contained and contaminated with sin must be placed in Torment- because he can't be destroyed because Hashem never stated that it could be- He never stated that a soul could be destroyed- Yet- until Yeshua comes back- Which suggest if he has not spoken it, It can't be done- But the soul is the person has full remembrance of the prior body and i it's prior deeds, You will remember in Hell your sins against the father- Here's biblical proof- Luke 16:23 in regard to the 2nd Lazarus
In Sh'ol where he was in Torment, the rich man looked up(from Hell) and saw Avraham far away with Elazar(Lazarus) at his side 23. He called out Aba Avraham take pity on me and send Elazar(From Heaven to Hell) just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue,because im in agony in this Fire... 25. However Avraham said son(Ben) remember( able to remember as soul) that when you were alive(Body) you got the good things while he got the bad; But now he gets his consolation here, while you are the one agony-Torment 26. Yet that isn't all: between you and us a deep rift(expansion) has been established so that those who would like to pass( escape) has been established so that those who would like to pass ( leave Hell) from here to you cannot, not can anyone cross over from there to us..
The soul predates creation - We can't remember our lives as soul- myriads of years with Yahweh Hashem, For our sin bodies has caused the mirror to be blocked for a time till we come together again with Yeshua in Yerushaliyim, Then the eons will come back to our remembrance for we will have no sin to hinder our vision, nor a need to remember our own past life sins..
The Myriori shall be 1.35 million years or so and shall just be one day in the life of a daily living Nephesh- Soul with Hashem Yeshua..
One Midrash stated:
Sleep, like death, temporarily separates body and soul- Jews express gratitude to Hashem every morning for renewal of body and soul- The prayer stated in the siddur: I offer thanks to you, living and ever lasting King, For having returned to me my soul with compassion and great faithfulness-
The Modehani Prayer..
The Talmudic Rabbis taught:
That the soul not only exist separately from the body, but also exist in a fully conscious state in an ethereal realm, Ketubbot 77b- Berakhot 18b-19a
Maimonides developed a complicated Aristotelian model of the soul, He describes a number of faculties of the soul, all of which are related to the relationship of a person to his or her material environment, perceptions, memories, creativity, and desires, most of these faculties of soul exist only in a living human body- with the death of the body they too die- For Maimonides, the only eternal aspects of the soul are logical and spiritual speculations and learning of a person produced over his or her lifetime...
Maimonides is half right and then wrong, missing some foundational facts about the book of Genesis/ Bresheet- For instance he fails to see the soul as being separate from the body while cohesively working with the body, He doesn't see us as living souls, not living bodies-
The Halakhah( Jewish Law) teaches us that holiness in regard to the body, human life extends to how we treat this body. Mitzvahs cover bodily matters- such as Cleaning, Clothing, Eating, Health care and about mutilations of the body. Tattooing for the dead and idolatry- Lev 19.27-28/ Deut 23.3-
Maimonides deemed it obligatory to provide proper sustenance and respectful clothing for the body- Judaism offers an optimistic view of life- Union of Body and Soul..
The body is a gift- for it's few and little time in this creos existence of life, but the soul is deemed it's eternal place based on whats done in this body- Hashem has caused an angel to be present in the earth to write it down the deeds of your every day, thus only true repentance removes whats labeled on there each and every day of your life- so live well because you will give an account one day on what you did in this body, not in the next body. The body is to be tended and protected only with pure, holy bodies can we bring the commitments and Emets(Truths) of our souls into every good and Kodesh action- For good and not evil- Scripture backs this up by saying in
1 Cor 6.19- or don't you know that your body is a Beit Ha Mikdash =Temple for Ha'Ruach Hokodesh (The Holy Spirit) who lives inside you, whom you received from Hashem, The fact is you don't(own the soul) belong to yourselves(To the body) 20. For you were bought at a price (Death, Burial, Resurrection of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach) So use your bodies to glorify Hashem Yahweh
Rashi explains:
That we are like Yahweh in that we have the ability to understand and discern..
Maimonides elaborates that by using our intellect, we are able to perceive things without the use of our physical senses, an ability that makes us like Hashem, Who perceives without having physical sense...
Hashem doesn't need a body when he created man for himself and can use his. honestly Hashem as well as Yeshua has a transcending euphony surpassing external and internal bondouries of scasms celestrial, terrestrial and telestrial and Platonic invisible ideas and archetypes which produces resulting forms in the physical world. He is translucent and immutable.. Thank you and just think your are a living soul, with a body of flesh, which will one day die off, at that point your soul shall stand forever before the throne room of Hashem, and the judging factor will display what you did in that life, So if you live holy then you will know what he has recorded-
The soul is a divine dress of Godliness and Perfection, It remembers the mind of the body and likewise the body is crafted after the body of the soul, Our souls compound a body for the flesh that looks like the soul but obviously shares some difference in it's traits- Soul has no blood in it, Soul has no sin in it, and souls can even eat- Yeshua came back after the resurrection and ate boiled fish with his talmidim(Disciples)The soul doesn't need food but can eat it if it wants to, The soul is the cosmogony of Hashem, A attachment of Hashem is in the fibers of his creation... You are more than what you ever imagined you could be, you are the mind of Hashem put in his image, which birthed a soul and given a comparable body to live in and actively live for him or die to him, What you do in that body determines your eternal destiny... Live wisely
Torah a day keeps ignorance away
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Shalom -on this coming Sunday- October 26th 2008 myself and the wife will undergo conversion thereafter we will be completely Jewish- There is countless Biblical evidence of Goyims( Gentiles) Who wanted to obey the God-Hashem of Israel- Ex 12. mentions the mixed thousands who were Jews and gentiles(Proselyte) Ruth is by far the most heard story told about a Moabite women who converted her heart to receive conversion. Here in is the syllabus for your day- basic questions asked and the answers, some of which i just learned myself- I hope your under a good Judaic Rabbi- preferable Messianic. either way Torah observant for us who use to be goys- I pray you under take such a task out of faith some day, not religion- It is totally a persons choice:
Conversion Question and answers to Messianic Judaism-
Includes 1. Immersion 2. Ketubah-wedding 3. Questionare Etc.
Conversion Syllabus
BY Aminidav Ben Avraham Hinton 10/26/08~10:00 AM
There are two aspects of circumcision or conversion:
one performed by man/women striving to elevate self after Hashem. 2. To be added to the land of Yisrael
QUESTION AND ANSWER:
1.Why do you desire to join yourselves to the Judaic faith and people of Israel?
2.Can you name at least three Biblical holidays in English and Hebrew?
Shabbat, Pesach, Sukkot
3. In what year did the modern nation of Israel obtain its independence-May 14th 1948
4. In what year did the Six-Day War take place- 1967
The Six-Day War Hebrew: מלחמת ששת ×"ימים‎, Milhemet Sheshet Haâ€'Yamim), also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the Third Arab-Israeli War, Six Days' War, anâ€'Naksah (The Setback), or the June War, was fought between Israel and Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The nations of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria also contributed troops and arms to the Arab forces.[4]
In May 1967, Egypt's president Nasser expelled the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) from the Sinai Peninsula. The peacekeeping force had been stationed there since 1957, following a British-French-Israeli invasion which was launched during the Suez Crisis. Egypt amassed 1,000 tanks and nearly 100,000 soldiers on the border,[5] closed the Straits of Tiran to all ships flying Israeli flags or carrying strategic materials, and called for unified Arab action against Israel.[6] On June 5, 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive attack[7] against Egypt's airforce. Jordan, which had signed a mutual defense treaty with Egypt on May 30, then attacked western Jerusalem and Netanya.[8][9][10] At the war's end, Israel had gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day.
5. What was the holiday being observed by Yeshua at the Last Supper- pesach-
6. Rav Sha’ul was a member of a particular Jewish sect. What sect was that? (Acts 23:6). Pharisee
7. Did Yeshua come to “do away” with the Law or the Prophets? (Matthew 5) no- He fulfilled Torah, Strengthened it
8. What was the religion of Yeshua and His Disciples? Messianic Judaism
9. What is the New Covenant promised by Jeremiah (31) and the writer of Hebrews (Hebrews 8 &)? Yeshua,The people brought back to the land under Hashem, Moshiach Yeshua- No more Diasporas
10.What city is Yeshua coming to when He returns to set up His Kingdom? Jerusalem-Rev 21.
11. In what year was the Beit HaMikdash (Temple) destroyed by the Romans? 70 BCE -Matt 24.1-3
12. When does the Sabbath begin, and when does it end each week? Erev Friday to Yom Shabbat- 24 hr period- Exodus 20.10-Deuteronomy 5.14,
13. How many sons did Jacob have? Genesis 29:31-30:24 ( 12-Sons) Dina the daughter
Gen 34. 1- Dina and 35:23-26
Jacob have? 12-
Genesis 29:31-30:24 and 35:23-26
Jacob had twelve sons
31 When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, "It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now."
33 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon.
34 Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." So he was named Levi.
35 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
30 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"
2 Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
3 Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family."
4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, 5 and she became pregnant and bore him a son. 6 Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son." Because of this she named him Dan.
7 Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Then Rachel said, "I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won." So she named him Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, "What good fortune!" So she named him Gad.
12 Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.13 Then Leah said, "How happy I am! The women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.
14 During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
15 But she said to her, "Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?"
"Very well," Rachel said, "he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."
16 So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.
17 God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband." So she named him Issachar.
19 Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20Then Leah said, "God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.
21 Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
22 Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and opened her womb. 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace." 24 She named him Joseph, and said, "May the LORD add to me another son."
2.
13.Which is the tribe of Israel that Yeshua is from? Tribe of Judah- Rev 5.
Esther 2:5, where Mordecai is referred to as both a Yehudi and a member of the tribe of Benjamin. Ruth converted to Judaism before marrying Boaz and bearing Obed. See Ruth 1:16, where Ruth states her intention to convert. After Ruth converted, she was a Jew, and all of her children born after the conversion were Jewish as well.
14.Which is the tribe of Israel that Yeshua is from? The lion of the tribe of Judah- Rev 5:5
1. Ruth was a Moabite
Ruth 1:16 And Ruth said to her mother in-law Naomi, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodges, I will lodge: thy people (Conversion)shall be my people, and thy Hashem my El : 1:17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: Hashem do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Dvarim 10.16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart and don't be stiff necked any longer
Breshith 17.14 Any uncircumcised male who will not let himself be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin- that person will be cut off form his people, because he has broken my covenant
Shemot 12.48-49 If a goy staying with you wants to observe Hashems Pesach, all his males must be Circumcised, then he may take part and observe it, he will be like a Citizen of the land. But no uncircumcised person is to eat it, The same teaching is to apply equally to the citizens and to the foreigner living among you.
Romans 2.27-29 Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised but obeys the Torah will stand as a judgment on you who have had a Brit Milah and have Torah written out but violate it, For the Jew is not merely Jewish outwardly! True circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal-so that his praise comes not from other people but from Hashem
Dvarim 30.5-6 Hashem your El will bring you back into the land you ancestors possessed, and you will possess it, He will make you prosper there, and you will become even more numerous than your ancestors. Then Hashem your El will circumcise your hearts of your children, So that you will love Hashem your el with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live.
Romans 3.1-4 Then what advantage has the Jew? What is the value of being circumcised 2. much in every way! In the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the very Torah of Hashem, If some of them were unfaithful, so what? Does their faithlessness cancel Hashems faithfulness ? Heaven forbid! Hashem would be true even if everyone were a liar! As the Tanakh says( Ps 51.4) So that you Hashem may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial
Romans 11:17-25 - Gentile Conversion
But if some of the branches were broken off( Left there jewish roots) And you- a wild olive( Lost Gentile) were grafted in among them(Messianic Jews) and have become equal sharers in the rick root of the olive tree, then don't boast as if you were better than the branches! However if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root( The Gentile didn't come first, The Jew did) the root is supporting you. So you will say Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in(Dispensation Theology- The church replaced Judaism- nonscence) True, but so what? They were broken off because of their lack of trust(not willing to obey Torah) However, you keep your place only because of your trust. So don't be arrogant; on the contrary,be terrified( Fear Hashem) For if Hashem did not spare the natural branches( Jews) He certainly won't spare you! So take a good look at Hashem's kindness and his severity: on the one hand, severity toward those who fell off(Became Christian, Heathens)But on the other hand, Hashems kindness toward you provided you maintain yourself(Govern after Torah) in that kindness!Otherwise you too will be cut off! Moreover, the others, if they do not persist in their lack of trust, will be grafted in; because Hashem is able to graft(Convert-make Jews)them back in. 24. For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature(Wildness, Sin) Into a cultivated olive tree(Transformed converted Messianic Jew)How much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!( Jewish Roots, Judaic Heritage) For, brothers, I want you to understand this Truth which Hashem formerly concealed but has now revealed, so that you won't imagine you know more than you actually do. It is that stoniness, to a degree has come upon Israel, until the Gentile (Goyim-Nation, Non- Jew, Pagan) world enters in its fullness; and that it is in this way that all Israel will be saved( Through faith in Yeshua, not by ethnicity) As the Tanakh Says: Out of Tziyon will come the Redeemer; He will turn away ungodliness from Ya'akov and this will be my covenant with them. When i take away their sins Dvarim 29.3-4 Isaiah 29.10 Psalm 69.23-24(22-23) Dvarim 32.21
Hashems Feast Days:
1.Shabbat- Gen 2.1- Lev 23.1-4- Nehemiah 9.14
2. Pesach Barley- Nisan 14- Lev 23.5 This feast celebrates the deliverance of Hebrew Slaves from Egypt- Ex 12.1-13- eating unleavened bread 7 days- eating Matzah- Rom 6.4.- 2 Cor 5.21- Ex 23.14-16
3. Chag Ha Bikkurim- Feast of First Fruits celebrated 0n Nisan 16th First Fruits fall between March/ April- The Feast celebrates the bringing of the first fruits of the winter harvest to the Temple.
4. Shavout- Wheat- Feast of Weeks/ Pentecost- Ex 34.22- Shavuot falls fifty days after Passover. Torah directs the seven week counting of the omer -Which begins on the second day of passover and culminates after seven wks- next day being Shavuot Acts 2
5. Yom Teruah- Feast of Trumpets- day of awakening blast- Rosh Hashana, Head of the year- Lev 23.23-25- Lev 23.1-2- 1 Sam 1:1- 1 sam 2:10- 1 Thess 4. 13-18- Jewish New Year- Holy Convocation announced with blast of Shofar. 100 notes
6. Yom Kippur- Day of Atonement- Lev 16.29
7. Sukkot- Feast of Booths, Tabernacles- Tishri 15.- The fall feast of September/ October- Deut 16.13-15- Lev 23.39-43 All Israel is to live in a Sukkah for 7 days
8. Sh'mini Atzeret- eight day of assembly- Simchat Torah -Lev 23.36- Num 29.35-39- The Seven days of Sukkot which end with Hoshana Rabbah, are followed by another festival -Shemini Atzeret- The Final day of Sukkot is called Simchat Torah- Joy for/of the Torah
9. Rosh Chodesh- The New Moon- It means Head of the month or first of the month- IS 66.23- 1 Chron 23.31/ 2 Chron 2.3-4- The New Moons
10. Chanukah- Feast of Dedication- John 10./ Festival of Lights- is an eight day Jewish festival Holiday commemorating the re dedication of The Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd Century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight days-Starting on the 25th day of Kislev- November/ December- The Festival is observed by the kindling of the lights of a special candelabrum- The menorah or Hanukkah 11. Purim- Lots- Esther 9.1- Esther 9.17- Esther 9.22
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Dvar Torah Parshat Vayelech-10/4/08
Date: Oct 5th, 2008 12:43:45 am - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Torah- Dvarim 31.1-30
HafTorah-Isa 55.6/Isa 58.6
Yoel 2.11-27
Ivrim or Ibrim-Hebrews 13.1-9
Vayelech- Yey-Ya-Lek is the hebrew word for: Then He Went Out.
This is the 52nd weekly Torah portion(Parashah) in the annual jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the sections of Dvarim. The Lunisolar Hebrew Calender contains up to 54 weekly parshat.
A.
Here in parashah vayelech on the last day of Moshe rabbeinus life, Moshe received prophetic news from Hashem, Moshe informes the jewish people of the mitzvahs of Hakhel- assembly.What's the sheer important direction of Hashem that he would destroy Israel's enemies himself, without any assistance of man, that he would go up against the emori/ amorites and destroy them, He instructs them that after seven years during the year of shmitah-Which deals with 7 cycles for land to return to original owners. The people were to be gathered together and have the Torah read before them, which Shmitah bares Sephardic and farmer reasonings- The text states behold. You will lie with your forefathers, but this people will rise up and stay after the gods of the foreigners(Gentiles) in whose midst it is coming, and they will forsake me and annul my covenant(Contract) that i have sealed it,
Moshe tells the people that because of his advanced age he can no longer lead the children of Israel, not only age was the factor but that scripture stated that Moshe said to them I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. And Hashem said to me, You do not pass over this Yarden -The scriptures state Moshe was still with strength when Hashem took him so then, what is the answer- Hashem YHWH said you're not going over to Yarden which is why he is not going any further, The mention of 120 years was to encourage the acceptance of Yoshua a new leader.
Prior sins also caused Hashem to make that decision, because blood was across his hands in prior years, He couldn't see yordan- Moshe tells them Yoshua- Joshua will be his successor. Yohoshua the aramaic term for Yeshua-(Interesting) To ensure that the Torah survives Moshe writes it all down, He wrote down with out any help from Hashem, the whole law of Torah- all five books or divisions and he entrust it to the cohanim and elders ordering them to read it to the people every seventh year- Tishri- so that all the people, young or old could learn it,That they would hear and learn it- Dvarim- 31:12- So here at HarSinai according to this parashah- psat- only the generation that left Mitsrayim= Egypt had the privilege to be there. Vayelech is the 9th reading out of 11 in Dvarim- Moshe, Aharon and Miriam of these three siblings- Hashem gave Yisrael- Manna, The Clouds of Glory, and the well of miriam which nourished and prepared them physically, enabling them to absorb Torah-
Conclusion:
I am certain Moshe wanted to see Yarden and all his 120 years had prepared him for such a task but then Hashem doesn't allow him in; It was reigns to raise new leadership who would not replace Moshe,but continue it's law and order and instruction
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Rosh Hashana-The Briyah Shaneh-9/27/08
Date: Sep 27th, 2008 11:34:48 pm - Subscribe
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Title: Rosh Hashana- The Briyah Shaneh
[ Briyah-New][Shaneh-Year]
(1.) Rosh Hashana also called Yom Truwah- This monday night starts Rosh Hashana(24 hr)
The Jewish New Year - literally marks the head of the year- Head(Rosh) or beginning of the year (Hashana)-Rosh Hashana occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. It means head of the year or first of the year. Rosh Hashana is mentioned with three meanings 1. Rosh Hashana-Head of the Year 2. Yom Truwah- The day of sounding Shofar 3. Yom Ha-Zikkaron- The day of remembrance-at such time a total of 100 notes of the shofar is sounded. A. The sound of Tekiah-3 second sustained note B. Shevarim 1 second note rising in Tone. C. Teruah-a series of short staccato notes rising in tone extending over a period of three seconds D. Tekiah Gedolah (Big Tekiah) The shofars purpose is a call of Kodesh days-Mikra days- Wars- Teshuvah-Repentance- no work is permitted on rosh hashana- This holy holiday falls on the 7th month of the Hebrew Calendar as ordained by Torah, Rosh Hashana is Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe) It is the first of the high holy days or Asseret Yemei Teshuva (The Ten days of Repentance) The most solemn days of the Jewish Year-Which conclude with the holiday Yom Kippur (Kippur-Kipporah-Atonement) Rosh Hashana is the start of the civil year in the Hebrew Calendar- One for new years observances, it is a new year for people, animals, and legal contracts, The Mishna also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and Sabbatical( Shmita) and Jubilee(Yovel) Years.
The Rosh Hashana commemorates the creation of man whereas five days earlier on the 25th of Elul marks The first day of creation- The Mishna- The core text of Judaisms oral torah contains the first known reference to Rosh Hashana, It is the day on which Hashem created Adam-Hashem's final and most precious creation, Each Rosh Hashana is the birthday of mankind- of the Mishnah which formed the basis of the tractates in both The Babylonian Talmud and The Jerusalem Talmud of the same neighbor= Talmud is not scriptural but has some useful wise comments and suggestive inclinations of historical Jew in related terms of reading and studying Torah and the experience of Torah's breathing force!
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Parashah Ki Tavo-Dvarim 26
Date: Sep 20th, 2008 11:39:45 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Torah Nation
9/20/08- HaShabbat
By Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
I had the joyful opportunity to teach this parashah twice today at our services and at Petah Tikvah Fellowship where me and my wife attend and now i wish to share it with you:
Torah: Deut -Dvarim 26.1-29
Hatorah: Isaiah 60- Yeshayah 60.1-22
V'hayah ki tavo el-haretz asher adonai eloheycha notei l'cha
When you have entered the land that Adonai your Hashem is giving you
In parashat Ki Tavo Hashem made his third brit(Covenant) with the Bnai Yisrael-Children of Israel=You have affirmed the day that Adonai is your Hashem(G-d) That you will walk in -ALL- his ways, That you will observe his Torah and commandments and that you will obey him.
There are five terms to say the parashah title: 1 Ki Tavo 2. Ki Tabo 3. Ki Thabo 4. Ki Savo 5. Ki Thavo
Ki Tavo means: When you enter
Ki Thabo: Sephardic
Ki savo means: If you will listen
Ki Thavo means: Honor due to Hashem
Ki Tavo is the 50th weekly Torah portion,
We hear Moshe instructing the people of Yisrael, When you enter the land Hashem is giving to you as your Eternal Heritage and you settle it and cultivate it, bring the first fruits(Bikkurim)The farmer/Owner would mark the first fruit to ripen by tying a piece of papyrus seed around it- Only the seven species mentioned in Dvarim 8.8 could be used which were fig trees-pomegranates-olive oil-honey-vines
The first fruits could only be brought to the Bayith-Temple- after Shavuoth- The Feast of First Fruits- Ex 23.16/ Num 28.26 A food basket called Tene was used to carry the fruits,
The basket was made of peeled willow twigs the main law established that the first fruits must be brought in a vessel, the blessings and curses in the primary focus of ki tavo proclaims by the Lviims-Levis- once Yisrael crossed Yordan entering Kna'an(Canaan) It is described a ceremony that is to take place on the neighboring mountains of Gerizim and Ebal- Gerizim is to the left of ebal near Nablus= ancient Shechem.
The people would erect a stone monument on Mount Ebal, inscribed on it was the entire Torah and then bring offerings- Then the tribes of Shim'own(Simeon) Leviy, Yhuwdah, Yissakar, Yosef, Benyamin are to assemble on Mount Gerizim to hear the blessings, while the tribes of Dan, Naphtali, Ruwbeniy(Reuben) Gad, Asher and Zebulun are to assemble on Mount Ebal to hear the curses-
There curses begin in Parashah Re'eh Dvarim 11:26- The Kohanim and the elders of the Levites are to stand in the valley between the two mountains and loudly proclaim the blessings and the curses- Blessings for those who observe the commandments and curses for those who did not. The tribes would publicly acknowledge the judgment and consequences by Tshuah- shouting
Twelve curses were screamed on Mount Ebal and equal number shouted for blessings on Mount Gerizim these curses were labels of Transgressions performed secretly or in private by those who appear to be qodesh(Holy)
A Rabbi Shlomo Riskins states:
The blessings and curses apply to all human beings nor just the Israelites- Cursed is the Goyim who scorns his/her parents- Trespass the boundary of his neighbor, deceived people, pervert the judgment of a Jew or Ger, Orphan or Widow or involved in premarital sexual immorality.
There are 12 curses and 12 blessings in all which correspond to the 12 tribes- The first forbid making any graven image, One of the central themes in Judaism is Sechar V'onesh- reward and punishment- This means mankind is culpable for his deeds and misdeeds. A significant portion of the Sidrah deals with Tochachah- admonition in it,, The Torah vividly delineates true horrendous catastrophes to be fall Yisrael- But should they defy the word of Hashem and fail to fulfill their responsibilities in observing Mitzvahs- The reward for Mitzvahs is given to declare Sechar Mitzvahs- The reward of a Mitzvahs is the Mitzvahs itself- Avos 4.2- What reveals Mitzvahs is the concept Dveykus b'Hashem-Closeness to Hashem the very act of obeying Mitzvah is the course whereby man forges a timeless relationship with Hashem, conversely every sin or transgression causes the opposite impact, It draws the person away from Hashem- So one should never attempt to evaluate and weigh up the relative importance of Mitzvahs based upon their perceived level of reward- Insofar as both function to successfully bring mankind closer to Hashem-Who wants his people closer to him, The jew truly has no way of knowing the exact reward within each Mitzvahs, Wheather it is classified as easy compared to harder- They must perform borth with the same vigilance and zeal
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Receiving a disciples spirit in the hearts of believers
Date: Sep 16th, 2008 2:41:43 am - Subscribe
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Receiving a Disciples Spirit in the hearts of believers
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton
Script:
Isaiah 8. 1-22/ Luke 6.3-49/ Matt 9.1-38/ 1 Cor 4.1-18/ Eph 5.1-33/
The word disciple and apostles work in the same accord, The disciples were apostles also as scriptures will reveal, They were disciples-Talmidim/students while being taught, and apostles as doing the work taught to them, disciples are pupils, apostles are witnesses,
You are disciples with hopes of being an apostle doing the apostolic work
Mahershalalhashbaz.
Family tree of Mahershalalhashbaz
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Isaiah - Esaias
Shearjashub Isaiah 7
Isaiah - Esaias
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Maher-shalal-hash-baz
Maher-shalal-hash-baz plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa. 8:1-3; comp. Zeph. 1:14), a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a son that was to be born to him (Isa. 8:1, 3), as denoting the sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army.
4122. Maher Shalal Chash Baz, mah-hare' shaw-lawl' khawsh baz;
from {A.}H-4118 and {B.}H-7998 and {C.}H-2363 and {D.}H-957; hasting (is he [the enemy] to the) booty, swift (to the) prey; Maher-Shalal-Chash-Baz; the symbol. name of the son of Isaiah:-- Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
{A.} H-4118. maher, mah-hare';
from H-4116; prop. hurrying; hence (adv.) in a hurry:--hasteth, hastily, at once, quickly, soon, speedily, suddenly.
.... H-4116. mahar, maw-har';
a prim. root; prop. to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by impl.); to hurry (in a good or a bad sense); often used (with another verb) adv. promptly:--be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste (-n, -ily, (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) X quickly, rash, X shortly, (be so) X soon, make speed, X speedily, X straightway, X suddenly, swift.
{B.} H-7998. shalal, shaw-lawl';
from H-7997; booty:--prey, spoil.
.... H-7997. shalal, shaw-lal';
a prim. root; to drop or strip; by impl. to plunder:--let fall, make self a prey, X of purpose, (make a, [take]) spoil.
{C.} H-2363. chuwsh, koosh;
a prim. root; to hurry; fig. to be eager with excitement or enjoyment:-- (make) haste (-n), ready.
{D.} H-957. baz, baz;
from H-962; plunder:--booty, prey, spoil (-ed).
.... H-962. bazaz, baw-zaz';
a prim. root; to plunder:--catch, gather, (take) for a prey, rob (-ber), spoil, take (away, spoil), X utterly
The Definition of a disciple is
a.
one of the 12 personal followers of Yeshua.
b.
one of the 70 followers sent forth by Yeshua. Luke 10:1.
c.
any other professed follower of Yeshua in His lifetime.
2.
any follower of Yeshua.
3.
a member of the Disciples of Yeshua.
4.
a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another
The definition of an apostle:
noun Talmidim
1.
any of the early followers of Yeshua who carried the Jewish message into the world.
2.
(sometimes initial capital letter) any of the original 12 disciples called by Yeshua to preach the besora: Simon Peter, the brothers James and John, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas Iscariot.
3.
the first or the best-known Messianic missionary in any region or country.
Middle English, from Old English apostol and from Old French apostle, both from Late Latin apostolus, from Greek apostolos, messenger, from apostellein, to send offThe term disciple is derived from the New Testament Greek , coming to English by way of the Latin discipulus meaning "a learner". disciple should not be confused with apostle, meaning "messenger, he that is sent". [1]While a disciple is one who learns from a teacher, a student, an apostle is sent to deliver those teachings to others. The word disciple appears two hundred and thirty two times in the four gospels and the Book of Acts.
disciples of Yeshua become apostles â€" people sent on Hashems mission.
One should never aspire positions, there frivolous name badges, the work speaks louder than name badges- forget about ordinations with certain titles and man's approval, obey leadership, torah and live for Hashem,what ever else you became is wrapped up in pleasing Hashem-
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Christmas the pagan gods and goddesses of Rome.
Date: Sep 16th, 2008 2:26:05 am - Subscribe
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Christmas the pagan gods and goddesses of Rome and not the birthday of Yeshua
Fifth addition since 2000- As a ministry we never have celebrated any roman holidays and god and goddesses sex idols- only the holy biblical feast have we taught and observed
By Rabbi Aminadav Ben Avraham Hinton,
Mind Changing Ministries Beit Yeshua
Romans 14.5-12- Don’t esteem one day over another!
Script:
Jer 10.2-8/ 2 King 17.6-23/ Jer 11.3-17/ Deut 18.9-22/ Psalms37.27-40/
scripture reference:
Remember as i keep telling you, Christianity, Christendom is but an invention of Catholicism with all it's beliefs
Hoshea: King of Israel of the tribe of Ephraim
Halah: Province of Assyria
Habor: a land mass of Assyria
Gozan: City in Assyria
Medes: inhabitants of Media
Baal: deity of idol of Phoenicians- even the cities were named after him Divination: fake foretelling of the future and future events
enchantments: magic, sorcery, divination, séances, black magic, spells, incantations
The birth of Ha'Mashiach- Yeshua was already two years old when the wise men came to see him-Luke 1.26-80/ Matthew 1.18-25/ At this time was Hanakkah and Yeshua according to John 10. was an adult in Solomons Porch
Jeremiah 10:2-4
2Thus saith Hashem, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not
The Mithric observance of the "Birthday of the Invincible Sun." This also coincided with Saturnalia and the Winter solstice during the period when Mithraism was practiced in Rome. Since the day was already being kept as a holiday, Christians may have adjusted the symbolism of the day, declaring it the birthday of their "Invincible Son." According to events in the Gospel of Matthew, the date of Jesus' birth may actually have taken place much earlier in the year.
The word "Christmas" means "the mass of Christ," and originated in the 11th century as a name for this pagan feast. It was one of the most popular and universally celebrated holidays in Europe during the Middle Ages. During the Reformation, however, the celebration of Christmas began to decline in importance. Reformers engaged in complex doctrinal arguments in an attempt to prove the celebration of Christmas was unscriptural. The first mention of December 25 as the birth date of Yeshua occurred in A.D. 336 in an early roman calendar. The celebration of this day as Jesus' birth date was influenced by pagan [Christian] festivals held at that time. The ancient romans held year-end celebrations to honor Saturn, their harvest god; and Mithras, the [sic] god of light... As part of all these celebrations, the people prepared special foods, decorated their homes with greenery, and joined in singing and gift giving. These customs gradually became part of the Christmas celebration."
"In the late 300's, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire... The popularity of Christmas grew until the Reformation, a religious movement of the 1500's. This movement gave birth to Protestantism. During the Reformation, many Christians/catholics began to consider Christmas a pagan celebration because it included nonreligious customs. During the 1600's, because of these feelings, Christmas was outlawed in England and in parts of the English colonies in America." THE YULE LOG
The custom of burning the Juul (pronounced yool) came from the Norse and Anglo-Saxons. They burned a huge oak log once a year to honor Thor, the god of thunder. After the Norse became Christians, they made the yule log an important part of their Christmas ceremonies. The Scandinavians adopted the word yule to mean Christmas. In Lithuania, the word for Christmas actually means log evening. The yule log became equally important in England. The English considered it good luck to keep an unburned part of the log to light next year's yule log.
MISTLETOE
Mistletoe decorates many homes in the United States, Canada, and Europe at Christmastime. No one knows exactly how mistletoe became connected with Christmas. Ancient Celtic priests, called Druids, used to give people sprigs of the plant as a charm. Hundreds of years ago, some people in Europe used it at religious gatherings.
HISTORY
In A.D. 354, Bishop Liberius of Rome ordered the people to celebrate on December 25. He probably chose this date because the people of Rome already observed it as the Feast of Saturn, celebrating the birthday of the sun. Christmas is the pagan mixture of Christianity and the other gods and goddesses birthed through Catholicism. Tradition, Marketing and Mysticism- It is the trait of those who are commercialized through there acceptance of anything and will deny the truth, scriptures and facts to met there flesh driven desires-The Church is sadistic idol worshipers and do not even follow the biblical feast which are recorded in scriptures- Halloween, Christmas, Lent, Easter Divination, Valentines day, and none of the other pagan holidays can be even seen in the Bible…… Below are the names of Hashems festive days that Jews and Christians should be following, Hashem did not separate the Gentile after the cross to be separate from the Jews but as the part of the olive tree in Romans 11. we are suppose to be doing the same things as they do as Joint Aires as family people of the same God Hashem
Rosh Hashanah â€" New Years Day/Yom Kippur â€" Day of Atonement/
Sukkot â€" The Feast of Tabernacles or Booths/
Shemini Atzeret
Begins the day after the seventh day of Sukkot. In Israel Shemini Atzeret is also the holiday of Simkhat Torah. Outside of Israel, where extra days of holidays are held, the second day of Shemini Atzeret is Simkhath Torah.
Simchath Torah â€" The Rejoicing over the Law
October 26th
On this day in ancient Jewish tradition the reading of the book of Deuteronomy is completed and Genesis is begun. The law is rejoiced over, taking the Scrolls of the Law in the arms and carrying it around the synagogue seven times whilst all the time singing songs celebrating and honoring the giving of the Law
Hanukkah â€" Festival of Lights (The Feast of Dedication)
Purim/ Pesach â€" Passover/ Shavu’ot â€" The Festival of Weeks/Tisha B’Av
No we rather serve the holidays of the Greeks and Romans through the veneration of pagan deities and goddesses, Serving the demons of Halloween and two months later profess the birth of Christ. (Who is he?) a roman name for a female deity
( There is no birthday celebrations in the bible that we are suppose to honor-None) and in two months from now buying human hearts( red hearts and inexorable amounts of chocolate- will but cascade from holidays to scenes and buy and purchase and follow every custom with ease and say we are believers- No your not, no such Jews follow any paginated roman gods and goddess and equinox venerations. 99 % of these so called believers unknowingly worship the God of Israel. Mixed with the gods and goddesses and traditions of pagan’s blood drinkers. The church has integrated Romanization and Jehovah mixed with Baal all in one tight nit religion- Let’s expose the Truth:
December 25th was celebrated by the Pagan sun-worshipers of Mithraism as the "birthday of the invincible sun," because on that day the sun began its return to the northern skies "the winter solstice." And so, the sun and the Son, have become a deliberate Pagan mix. Tammuz, the Babylonian Pagan sun deity, was also the first counterfeit savior. The Scriptures in Ezekiel 8:14-18 condemns ancient Israel for adopting worship of the Pagan god Tammuz, which included sun worship and the Asherah (a phallic symbol). The Christian cross symbol is actually the letter " t " the symbol for the Pagan god tammuz with it's many shapes and forms. All cross symbols are of Pagan origin and date thousands of years before our Messiah's birth. The Messiah was executed on an upright stake not on a cross with a horizontal cross member.
December 25th was also the date of the Pagan Brumalia (winter) festival in Rome. It was preceded by the Saturnalia festival Dec. 17-24 - in honor of the Roman god Saturn, as a period of unrestrained merriment in celebration of the winter solstice.
The Saturnalia and Brumalia festivals were so popular among the heathen and so deeply entrenched in their customs, that rather than attempt to reform the Pagan populous the Roman Church, the Emperor Constantine, chose instead to absorb their festivities into the Constantine Roman Catholic Church. This corrupted form of Christianity continues to be with us today, and has crept into many modern so-called "Christian" but actually "Pagan" Churches.
The word Christmas is a contraction for "Christ's Mass." The "mass" is a man-made Constantine Roman Catholic ceremony in which the Messiah is sacrificed over and over again in what is called an "unbloody sacrifice." It is taught that the true believer cannot be fully cleansed of his sins unless he partakes of this sacrifice at mass over and over again. This is a complete corruption of the full forgiveness available from Yahweh for sincere repentance. It is an abomination of Yahweh's commandments against the eating/drinking of blood. This is an act, which resembles cannibalism. But so called Christians are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza â€"Hanukkah according to John 10. verse 20-23 is the only one of Hashem- the rest are pagan. Kwanzaa is a made-up creed cobbled together by a man hostile to the very God you claim to worship! According to Karenga, Christianity is a myth.(That part is true) He does not believe in the God of the Bible. He says this about Christianity and the bible itself: “Belief in spooks who threaten us if we don't worship them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives must be categorized as spookism and condemned.” He believes that the death, burial and resurrection of Yeshua, the whole rationale behind Christianity, is a myth.(True)
Over the years, Karenga has altered his pagan intentions to attract more black Christians into the fold. He now claims that Kwanzaa is a time of giving “reverence to the Creator.” Just what creator he refers to is unclear. Red flags should jump out at any Bible-believer when someone reveres a “Creator” but denies the deity of Yeshua.
Blacks must understand that Karenga intends Kwanzaa to be an alternative to Yeshua-whom men call Christ so that blacks can celebrate themselves rather than Yeshua.
The truth revealed about Christ-mass = Christmas
Where did Christmas come from and why do Christians feel it is of God and that Yeshua was born on Christmas with the graven idols of the nativity scenes even in the church yards, It baffles me that people think there saved who serve devils, The Pagan Christmas trees and idol groves tracing back to The Prophet Jeremiah- December which again should be only Hanukkah-John10. It moves in trees in the homes and in the churches of people who have no ideal of its origins. With the Heathen Greeks and their worship of their god Adoniia who allegedly was brought back to life by the serpent Aessulapius after having been killed. The ancient romans(Who killed Yeshua) who stole Judaism and revamped it with the tag: Christian rather Christendom after Yeshua and the final witnesses were murdered and the temple destroyed who then Killed the Jews under the Christian title and terms who had no genealogy of Hashem but of gods and goddesses of wood, stone, clay, and gold, and temples that are still seen in Rome proves it, The Romans who again stole Judaism ideal and Christianized it after Yeshua and the talmidim died who through Alexander the great and Constantine reinvented another version which acclaims millions as Catholics. Stole biblical ideals and revamped them with 162 idol pagan beliefs and did not want to get rid of the other gods and goddesses and so mixed them together. Decorating there trees with bits of metal and replicas of there god Bacchus â€"a fertility goddess, They placed twelve candles on the tree in honor of there other god the sun god also-Which Islam also worships as the god Allah- which occurred during there winter festival of Saturnalia starting on December 17th and lasting until a few days after the solstice, In Northern Europe the ancient druids tied Fruit and attached candles also to ever green tree branches in honor of there gods. Wooden trees were viewed as symbolizing eternal life. This is the deity (gods and goddesses) after which the trees joined holly, mistletoe, the wassail bowl and the Yule as symbols of this season. The word of Hashem- The Bible/Torah says:
LEARN NOT THE WAYS OF THE HEATHEN- But the so-called Christians do the ways of the Heathens, why do they oppose the scriptures because they are not of Hashem/ God -1 John 3. and We do not want salvation according to Hashems ways, He despises his people mixing with the pagans gods and practices but we still go ahead and do it anyway.
Christmas Full History:
Christmas goes back to Germany in the 16th century they called there trees of Christmas Paradeisbaunt meaning â€"Paradise Trees and were brought into homes to celebrate the annual feast of Adam and eve on December 24. The Bible has no mention of honoring the days of Adam with trees and paganism, The mixture of Christianity and paganism was brought to the Church- By Hasatah Satan with such vestments of Humanism, stargazers, Tree Huggers. It kind of interesting that the pagan nations as Rome, Europe, Greek honored the same gods and goddesses sometimes just with different abbreviations and slight changes of names- but the same devil
Christmas was proceeded by Eastern, Pentecost, Ascension and Epiphany, further proof that Yeshua/Jesus was not born in the winter: December is the rainy season in Judea and a time when the Shepherds would have been in the fields of Bethlehem; Christmas was established to replace existing pagan festivals of the time, Pagan significance at the time of the roman saturnalia god was during the Mithriac birthday of the god called the unconquered sun, much of our current Christmas comes from these ancient customs mixed with Christianity through Constantine and Alexander the great after the death of Yeshua and all his talmidim/ apostles, all witnesses- Then was this never mixed paganism mixed with Christianity rather birthed it. The Christmas lore from these ancient customs, Saint Nicholas inheriting his reindeer comes from the Nordic god called Odin chief of the wild hunt. Who rode through the sky, saturnalia the ancient roman festival and god occurred December 17-23. It was the predecessor to many of the customs of Christmas. The festival of Saturn-the god celebrated in ancient Rome at the end of the vintage and harvesting with feasting and unrestrained merry making and it was done to honor saturnus the god of agriculture(harvest gods of the earth) Observance included exchanging presents and offering pagan sacrifices to there idol gods- Children would receive wax tapers and clay dolls- Mithra-the god/ Mithraicism-The sacrifice services was Christianities main competitor for converts in early Judaic times, Mithiraic winter festivals occurred for the birthday of Mithra the god of the sun, It coincides with a pagan celebration of the winter solstice birthday of the unconquered sun as mentioned prior, Early Christmas celebrations did not appear until the 4th century- It’s customs of the Mistletoe- Than hanging of the mistletoe comes from the druids to whim it was believed to have healing powers from there gods, They would hang it over their doors to appease the woodland spirits in the belief that only happiness could pass the mistletoe, From this derived the custom of kissing under the mistletoe at Christmas(Christ-Mass/ Catholic Mass) Holly comes from the use of the term to deck the halls, It comes from saturnalia and from Teutonic gods of hanging ever green trees in homes as refuge from Sylvan spirits-from the inclement winter weather- Jeremiah 10 already told us why the Trees in the homes and even in the churches are honored to other gods and goddesses. There had long been a custom of exchanging gifts on New Years day, The patron of pagan origins of this custom and the desire by the Christians to abolish all pagan customs combined them with the difficulty in eliminating long observed customs was moved into Christmas and all the rest of the pagan Romanized holidays that can not be found anywhere in the whole Bible/Torah. Where it could be looked upon as an emulation of Magi the god and a token of generosity and good will by mixing Christianity and paganism together to please each groups the pagan and Christians.
The name Santa Claus is a name of corruption of what the name really is Saint (Catholics) Nicholas which was pronounced as -Sinter Klaus-The patron saint of children whose feast day is on December 6. It was the custom in Old England to clean out the chimneys at the bonging of the year so that luck could descend and stay all year, The term luck came from paganism: Luck or Lucky is a word of mixture of magical beliefs, witchcraft thus Christians should never use the word luck because for we are not pagans first, secondly the word Luck deals with games of chance- Lottery, Gambling, Games of Chances- Luck is not of Hashem and not by Hashem, we as Believers do not just cohabitate but we are blessed- Bless, Blessings, Blessed-Baruch in connotation of bliss or having become blessed- Hashem operates in Blessings not luck- not games of chance- but in trusting him and not trusting agents of a gamble or demon.
Looking at greater paganism as the title Never Lands- The mystical story of the home of Santa Claus come from mixing pre-Christian mythology of the god named as wpden- The legend mixed with magic and morbid is the custom of placing a wooden shoe by the fire place to be filled with gifts which later became the stockings following Scandinavia the ancient Goths and Saxons celebrating the winter solstice gods and goddesses with a festival called Juul from which we get the name Yule- the ancient festival including Bone fires(Bon fires) Burning the dead and throwing them in the fires for the pagan gods-dedicated to the gods called Thor and we still refer to a larger Christmas log with the mythological wreaths of hanging silver and gold and dancing around it celebrating the goddess of futility, Thus if you say you are Christians after the way of Israel- Messianic believers following the Bible only and asunder ourselves to the other gods and celebrate there holidays instead of the Holy Feast then you are honoring graven images, idols and man made carved images from mans imaginations and are worshiping Satan
(HaSatan in Hebrew)
Revelations 3. Verse 8-9 says I know thy works behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it for thou hast a little strength, and has kept my word and hast not denied my name. Behold I will make them of the synagogue (Church, Congregation) of Satan which say they are Jews and are not( Who say there of Hashem and are not-
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Other supported scriptures:
Ezekiel 3.1-27/ Romans 11.2-36/ Deuteronomy 12.30-32/ Judges 16. verse 23/ 1 Samuel 5.2-12/ 1 Chronicles 10.1-14
Christmas is a driven force of commercialism, You can’t put Yeshua in something he was never ever in, The Torah/ Bible no where tells us to observe a holiday celebrating the birthday of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach but it does mention to commensurate his death- Yeshua was already two years old when the not three wise men came but the wise men came and presented him with gifts as it was common to do to the new king coming on the throne in Judaism, Christmas is nothing more than pagan worship to strange gods and goddesses and unbiblical customs and beliefs thrown together with a mixture of Yeshua/Jesus name and Teutonic gods, Druids and other gods and goddesses made to look innocent to you, made to look harmless to you, made to look even Biblical to you who are all so focally blinded>
More on Christmas:
There is no biblical warrant, precedent, nor precept for remembrance of the day of Yeshua's birth as a day of special religious celebration. This is not to say that we shouldn't remember Yeshuas birth as mentioned and its significance, but for religious commemorations or celebrations, We must have biblical command or precedent! The fact of the matter is this -- the early Jews did not celebrate Yeshua's birth, but such celebration only came into the church with the "Christianize" of pagan rites as Catholicism was made the state religion by Constantine in the fourth century A.D. Since the Word of Hashem does not support the tradition of Christmas, a Christian's conscience ought not and must not be bound.
The following outline describes the origin of Christmas (with its associated pagan customs, symbols, and terminology), details the Scriptural support against celebrating Christmas, attempts to show that celebrating Christmas violates the spirit of every one of the ten commandments, attempts to demonstrate that celebrating Christmas does not fall in the realm of Christian liberty, and attempts to debunk eight of the major rationalizations Christians put forth for celebrating Christmas.
I.The Origin of Christmas
A. A Long Evolution -- Christmas customs are an evolution from times long before the Christian period -- a descent from seasonal, pagan, religious, and national practices, hedged about with legend and tradition. Their seasonal connections with the pagan feasts of the winter solstice relate them to ancient times, when many of the earth's inhabitant's were sun worshipers. As the superstitious pagans observed the sun gradually moving south in the heavens and the days growing shorter, they believed the sun was departing never to return. To encourage the sun's return north (i.e., to give the winter sun god strength and to bring him back to life again), the sun gods were worshipped with elaborate rituals and ceremonies, including the building of great bonfires, decorating with great evergreen plants such as holly, ivy, and mistletoe, and making representations of summer birds as house decorations. The winter solstice, then, was the shortest day of the year, when the sun seemingly stood still in the southern sky. Observing the slowdown in the sun's southward movement, and its stop, the heathen believed that their petitions to it had been successful. A time of unrestrained rejoicing broke out, with revelry, drinking, and gluttonous feasts. Then, when the pagans observed the sun moving again northward, and a week later were able to determine that the days were growing longer, a new year was proclaimed.
B. Not Among the Earliest Christian Festivals
Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Jews. It was not celebrated, commemorated, or observed, neither by the apostles nor in the apostolic messianic congregation -- not for at least the first 300 years of church history! History reveals that about 440 A.D., the Church(Catholic-Roman) at Jerusalem commenced the celebration of Christmas, following the lead of Roman Catholicism.It was sufficient for the early Christians that Jesus, Yeshua Hashem their Lord and Savior, had been born. They praised God that Jesus Christ had, indeed, come in the flesh. The day and the time of His birth had no relevance to them, because Jesus was no longer physically on earth. He had returned to heaven. And it was the risen, exalted Christ(Idol, Statue) to whom they looked, and that by faith -- not a babe laid in a manger. Yeshua Ha'Mashiach is no longer a baby; no longer the child," but the exalted El of all. And He does NOT somehow return to earth as a baby every year at Christmas-time -- though this is the impression given even in certain hymns sung in Protestant services.
C. The Role of Religion in Ancient Rome -- Seemingly forgotten is the essential role religion played in the world of ancient Rome. But the Emperor Constantine understood. By giving official status to Christianity, he brought internal peace to the Empire. A brilliant military commander, he also had the genius to recognize that after declaring Christianity the "state" religion (Constantine forced all the pagans of his empire to be baptized into the Roman Church), there was need for true union between paganism and Christianity. The corrupt Roman Church was full of pagans now masquerading as Christians, all of which had to be pacified. What better way than to "Christianize" their pagan idolatries. Thus, the Babylonian mystery religions were introduced by Constantine beginning in 313 A.D. (and established a foothold with the holding of the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.). The Constantine-led Roman Church was more than willing to adapt and adopt pagan practices in order to make Christianity palatable to the heathen. Constantine used religion as a political tool, totally devoid of any true spirituality:
Pagan rituals and idols took on Christian names (e.g., Yeshua Ha'Mashiach was presented as the Sun of Righteousness- a roman female god [Malachi 4:2] replacing the sun god, Sol Invictus ).
Pagan holidays were reclassified as Christian holidays (holy-days).
December 25th was the "Victory of the Sun-God" Festival in the pagan Babylonian world. In the ancient Roman Empire, the celebration can be traced back to the Roman festival Saturnalia, which honored Saturn, the harvest god, and Mithras, the god of light; both were celebrated during or shortly after the winter solstice (between the 17th and 23rd of December). To all ancient pagan civilizations, December 25th was the birthday of the gods -- the time of year when the days began to lengthen and man was blessed with a "regeneration of nature." Moreover, all of December 25th's Babylonian and Roman festivals were characterized by 5-7 day celebration periods of unrestrained or orgiastic revelry and licentiousness.
December 25th was particularly important in the cult of Mithras, a popular deity in the Old Roman Empire. Robert Myers (a proponent for celebrating Christmas) in his book Celebrations, says:
"Prior to the celebration of Christmas, December 25th in the Roman world was the Natalis Solis Invicti, the Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun. This feast, which took place just after the winter solstice of the Julian calendar, was in honor of the Sun God, Mithras, originally a Persian deity whose cult penetrated the Roman world in the first century B.C. ... Besides the Mithraic influence, other pagan forces were at work. From the seventeenth of December until the twenty-third, Romans celebrated the ancient feast of the Saturnalia. ... It was commemorative of the Golden Age of Saturn, the god of sowing and husbandry."
In order to make Christianity palatable to the heathen, the Roman Church simply took Saturnalia, adopted it into Christianity, and then eventually many of the associated pagan symbols, forms, customs, and traditions were reinterpreted (i.e., "Christianized") in ways "acceptable" to Christian faith and practice. (In fact, in 375 A.D., the Church of Rome under Pope Julius I merely announced that the birth date of Christ had been "discovered" to be December 25th, and was accepted as such by the "faithful." The festival of Saturnalia and the birthday of Mithra's could now be celebrated as the birthday of Christ!(His name is Yeshua and always have been-rome changed that to) The pagans flocked into the Catholic places of worship, because they were still able to worship their old gods, but merely under different names. It mattered not to them whether they worshiped the Egyptian goddess mother and her child under the old names (Isis and Horus), or under the names of the "Virgin Mary" and the "Christ-child." Either way, it was the same old idol-religion (cf. 1 Thes. 1:8-10; 5:22 -- Paul says to turn from idols, not rename them and Christianize them). Roman Catholicism's Christmas Day is nothing but "baptized" paganism, having come along much too late to be part of "the faith once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3).
D. "Christianization" of Pagan Customs, Symbols, and Terminology -- Christianity had to undergo a transformation so that pagan Rome could "convert" without giving up its old beliefs and rituals. The actual effect was to paganize official Christianity. "'A compound religion had been manufactured, of which ... Christianity furnished the nomenclature, and Paganism the doctrines and rights.' The idolatry of the Roman world, though deposed from its ancient pre-eminence, had by no means been demolished. Instead of this, its pagan nakedness had been covered with the garb of a deformed Christianity" (W.E. Vine). Pagan customs involving vestments, candles, incense, images, and processions were all incorporated into church worship and continue today.
The following customs and traditions associated with Xmas all have pagan/heathen origins. ("Xmas" is the more preferable form for the day, since it at least leaves the name of our Savior out of the heathen observance.) Naturally, Christians would not keep these customs for such evil and perverse reasons, but the fact of their origins remain -- "the customs of the people are vain" (Jer. 10:3), and should thereby be carefully considered by all who know and love the Lord:
1. The blasphemous "Christ's Mass" shortened to "Christ-mas" -- The Roman Catholic "Christ's Mass" is a special mass performed in celebration of Christ's birth. In this mass, Jesus is considered both the priest and the victim, represented by the Catholic priest who offers Him as a sacrifice each time the mass is performed. In offering this "sacrifice," the priest believes he has the power to change the bread and the wine of the Communion into Jesus' literal flesh and blood, requiring the people to worship these elements as they do God Himself. This is obviously a denial of the gospel, and thereby, a false gospel (a re-doing of the sacrifice for sin -- Heb. 9:12, 24-26; 10:10,12,14). Yet, many who cry out all year long against the blasphemous Roman Catholic system, at year-end embrace Rome's most blasphemous abomination of them all -- Christmas!
2. Nativity Scenes (tainted with paganism) -- Nearly every form of pagan worship descended from the Babylonian mysteries, which focus attention on the "mother-goddess" and the birth of her child. This was adapted to "Mary-Jesus" worship, which then easily accommodated the multitude of pagans "converted" to Christianity inside Constantine's Roman Catholic Church. If anyone were to erect statues (i.e., images) of Mary and Joseph by themselves, many within Protestant circles would cry "Idolatry!" But at Xmas time, an image of a little baby is placed with the images of Mary and Joseph, and it's called a "nativity scene." Somehow, the baby-idol "sanctifies" the scene, and it is no longer considered idolatry! (cf. Exo. 20:4-5a; 32:1-5a; 9-10a).
3. Christmas Tree -- Evergreen trees, because of their ability to remain green through-out the winter season when most other forms of vegetation are dormant, have long symbolized immortality, fertility, sexual potency, and reproduction, and were often brought into homes and set up as idols.
The full mystical significance of the evergreen can only be understood when one considers the profound reverence the ancient pagans had for all natural phenomena -- "To them, Nature was everywhere alive. Every fountain had its spirit, every mountain its deity, and every water, grove, and meadow, its supernatural association. The whispering of the trees ... was the subtle speech of the gods who dwelt within" (W.M. Auld, Christmas Traditions). This is nothing but nature worship or Animism.
The custom of bringing the tree into the home and decorating it as is done today has legendarily been attributed to Martin Luther. In truth, the modern custom has been lost in obscurity, but almost every culture has some such tradition. For ages, evergreen trees would be brought into the house during the winter as magic symbols of luck and hope for a fruitful year to come, It may also be that the star with which many of today's trees are topped did not originate as a representation of the star that the wise men followed, but rather a representation of the stars to which the ancient Chaldean astrologers looked for guidance.
The first decorating of an evergreen was done by pagans in honor of their god Adonis, who after being slain was brought to life by the serpent Aesculapius. The representation of the slain Adonis was a dead stump of a tree. Around this stump coiled the snake -- Aesculapius, symbol of life restoring. From the roots of the dead tree, then comes forth another and different tree -- an evergreen tree, symbolic to pagans of a god who cannot die! In Babylon, the evergreen tree came to represent the rebirth/reincarnation of Nimrod as his new son (Sun), Tammuz. In Egypt, this god was worshiped in a palm tree as Baal-Tamar. (Heathen people in the land of Canaan also adopted tree worship, calling it the Asherah -- a tree with its branches cut off was carved into a phallic symbol.) The fir tree was worshiped in Rome as the same new-born god, named Baal-Berith, who was restored to life by the same serpent. A feast was held in honor of him on December 25th, observed as the day on which the god reappeared on earth -- he had been killed, and was "reborn" on that day, victorious over death! It was called the "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun." Thus, the annual custom of erecting and decorating evergreen trees was brought down to us through the centuries by the pagan Roman Catholic Church -- the paganism of Tammuz and Baal, or the worship of the sun, mingled with the worship of Aesculapius the serpent. Whether erected in private homes or in churches, decorated or not, the evergreen tree is a glaring symbol of this false god.
4. Christmas Wreaths -- In pagan mythology, evergreen means eternal life and a never-dying existence. Made from evergreens, Christmas wreaths were most frequently round, which symbolized the sun (just as do halos in most religious art). Hence, the round Xmas wreaths stand for an eternal sun, a never-dying or self-renewing sun. In addition, the round form can also relate to the sign of the female, which stands for the regeneration of life. Because of these pagan associations, the Christian church was initially hostile towards the use of wreaths and other evergreen derivatives. But in the same way it Christianized other pagan traditions, the church soon found a way to confer its own symbolic meanings. For example, the sharp pointed leaves of the "male" holly came to represent Christ's crown of thorns and the red berries His blood, while the "female" ivy symbolized immortality (Sulgrave Manor, "A Tudor Christmas," p. 6). Such wreaths now not only adorn churches at Christmas time, but are also appearing during the equally pagan Easter season.
5. Mistletoe -- The use of the mistletoe plant (which is poisonous to both man and animals) can be traced back to the ancient Druids. (The Druids were pagan Celtic priests who were considered magicians and wizards.) It represented the false "messiah," considered by the Druids to be a divine branch that had dropped from heaven and grew upon a tree on earth. This is an obvious corruption of God's prophetic Word concerning Yeshua, "the Man the Branch," coming from heaven. The mistletoe symbolized the reconciliation between God and man. And since a kiss is the well known symbol of reconciliation, that is how "kissing under the mistletoe" became a custom -- both were tokens of reconciliation. The mistletoe, being a sacred plant and a symbol of fertility, was also believed to contain certain magical powers, having been brought to earth from heaven by a mistletoe thrush carrying it in its toes (hence the name). It was once known as the "plant of peace," and in ancient Scandinavia, enemies were reconciled under it (yet another reason why people came to "kiss under the mistletoe"). It was supposed to bring "good luck" and fertility, and even to protect from witchcraft the house in which it hung.
A kiss is also something which is, at times, associated with lust. So the practice of "kissing under the mistletoe" also had roots in the orgiastic celebrations in connection with the Celtic Midsummer Eve ceremony. At the time the mistletoe was gathered, the men would kiss each other as a display of their homosexuality. (The custom was later broadened to include both men and women.) Kissing under the mistletoe is also reminiscent of the temple prostitution and sexual license proliferating during Roman Saturnalia.
6. Santa Claus -- Santa Claus or "Father Christmas" is a corruption of the Dutch "Sant Nikolaas." ("Saint Nicholas" was the 4th century Catholic bishop of Myra in Asia Minor, who gave treats to children; he was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, "regarded as a special friend and protector of children." The red suit comes from the fact that Catholic bishops and cardinals in Italy wear red.) Santa Claus was also known as "Kriss Kringle," a corruption of the German "Christ Kindl"-- Christ Child. This has to be one of the most subtle of Satan's blasphemies, yet most Christians are unaware of it{ It wasn't Hashems will that you be Christian/ Catholic-same thing}
Originally, the Santa Claus concept came from the pagan Egyptian god, Bes, a rotund, gnome-like personage who was the patron of little children. Bes was said to live at the North Pole, working year-round to produce toys for children who had been good and obedient to their parents. In Dutch, he was called "Sinter Klaas." Dutch settlers brought the custom to America. In Holland and other European countries, the original Santa Claus was actually a grim personage who traversed the countryside, determined to find out who really had been "naughty or nice." Those who had been acting up were summarily switched. The association of Santa Claus with snow, reindeer, and the North Pole suggests Scandinavian or Norse traditions of the Yuletide season. (In Babylonia, also, the stag [reindeer] was a symbol of the mighty one, Nimrod. The symbolism of antlers worn on the head of a noble leader would demonstrate his prowess as a hunter, and thereby, influence people to follow him.)
Santa is the blasphemous substitute for God! He is routinely given supernatural powers and divine attributes which only GOD has. Think about it. He is made out to be omniscient -- he knows when every child sleeps, awakes, has been bad or good, and knows exactly what every child wants (cf. Psa. 139:1-4). He is made out to be omnipresent -- on one night of the year he visits all the "good" children in the world and leaves them gifts, seemingly being everywhere at the same time. He is also made out to be omnipotent -- he has the power to give to each child exactly what each one wants. Moreover, Santa Claus is made out to be a sovereign judge -- he answers to no one and no one has authority over him, and when he "comes to town," he comes with a full bag of rewards for those whose behavior has been acceptable in his eyes.
Santa Claus has become one of the most popular and widely accepted and unopposed myths ever to be successfully interwoven into the fabric and framework of Christianity. It is a fact that Christ was born, and that truth should greatly rejoice the heart of every Christian. But the Santa Claus myth distorts the truth of Christ's birth by subtly blending truth with the myth of Santa Claus. When Christian parents lie to their children about Santa Claus, they are taking the attention of their children away from God and causing them to focus on a fat man in a red suit with god-like qualities. All of this teaches the child to believe that, just like Santa, God can be pleased with "good works," done in order to earn His favor. Also, they teach that no matter how bad the child has been, he will still be rewarded by God -- just as Santa never failed to bring gifts. Even in homes of professing Christians, Santa Claus has clearly displaced Yeshua in the awareness and affections of children, becoming the undisputed spirit, symbol, and centerpiece of Christmas.
7. Christmas Eve -- "Yule" is a Chaldean word meaning "infant." Long before the coming of Christianity, the heathen Anglo-Saxons called the 25th of December "Yule day" -- in other words, "infant day" or "child's day" -- the day they celebrated the birth of the false "messiah"! The night before "Yule day" was called "Mother night." Today it is called "Christmas Eve." And it wasn't called "Mother night" after Mary, the mother of our Lord -- "Mother night" was observed centuries before Jesus was born. Semiramis (Nimrod's wife) was the inspiration for "Mother night," and "Child's day" was the supposed birthday of her son (Tammuz), the sun-god!
8. Yule Log -- The Yule log was considered by the ancient Celts a sacred log to be used in their religious festivals during the winter solstice; the fire provided promises of good luck and long life. Each year's Yule log had to be selected in the forest on Christmas Eve by the family using it, and could not be bought, or the superstitions associated with it would not apply. In Babylonian paganism, the log placed in the fireplace represented the dead Nimrod, and the tree which appeared the next morning (which today is called the "Christmas tree") was Nimrod alive again (reincarnated) in his new son (sun), Tammuz. (Still today in some places, the Yule log is placed in the fireplace on Christmas Eve, and the next morning there is a Christmas tree!)
Today's Yule log tradition comes to us from Scandinavia, where the pagan sex-and-fertility god, Jule, was honored in a twelve-day celebration in December. A large, single log was kept with a fire against it for twelve days, and each day for twelve days a different sacrifice was offered. The period now counted as the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany was originally the twelve days of daily sacrifices offered to the Yule log. (What, then, are we really doing when we send "Yuletide greetings"? Are we really honoring Christ by sending greetings in the name of a Scandinavian fertility god? These are the same customs being practiced today as in ancient paganism! Only the names have changed.)
9. Candles -- Candles were lit by the ancient Babylonians in honor of their god, and his altars had candles on them. And as is well known, candles are also a major part of the ritualism of Roman Catholicism, which adopted the custom from heathenism. Candles approached the Yule log in ritual importance. Like the Yule log, they had to be a gift, never a purchase, and were lighted and extinguished only by the head of the household. Such candles stood burning steadily in the middle of the table, never to be moved or snuffed, lest death follow. The Yule candle, wreathed in greenery, was to burn through Christmas night until the sun rose or the Christmas service began (Sulgrave Manor, "A Tudor Christmas," p. 9). Obviously, candles used for pagan practices should have no part in believers worship, for nowhere in the scriptures is their use sanctioned for that.
10. Giving of Gifts -- The tradition of exchanging gifts has nothing to do with a reenactment of the Magi giving gifts to Yeshua, but has many superstitious, pagan origins instead. One prominent tradition was the Roman custom of exchanging food, trinkets, candles, or statutes of gods during the mid-winter Kalends (the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar). This custom was transferred to December 25th by the Roman Church in keeping with the Saturnalian festival and in celebration of the benevolent St. Nicholas. [Is it not the height of ridiculousness to claim that giving one another presents properly celebrates Jesus' "birthday" (not that there is anything necessarily wrong in giving each other presents)? But what are we giving Him, if indeed we are specifically celebrating His incarnation?]
11. Christmas Goose -- The "Christmas goose" and "Christmas cakes" were both used in the worship of the Babylonian "messiah." The goose was considered to be sacred in many ancient lands, such as Rome, Asia Minor, India, and Chaldea. In Egypt, the goose was a symbol for a child, ready to die! In other words, a symbol of the pagan "messiah," ready to give his life (supposedly) for the world. This is obviously a satanic mockery of the truth.
12. Christmas Ham ( your not even suppose to eat ham, You learned it from being pagan)-- Hogs were slaughtered and the eating of the carcass was one of the central festivities of the Saturnalia. Each man would offer a pig as a sacrifice because superstition held that a boar had killed the sun deity Adonis. Hence, the tradition of the Christmas ham on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
13. Christmas Stocking -- According to tradition, a poor widower of Myra, Turkey, had three daughters, for whom he could not provide a dowry. On Xmas-Eve, "Saint Nicholas" threw three bags of gold down the chimney, thereby saving the daughters from having to enter into prostitution. One bag rolled into a shoe, and the others fell into some stockings that had been hung to dry by the fire. Hence, the beginning of the tradition of the "Christmas stocking" or "boot."
14. Christmas Cards -- The first British Xmas card can be dated back to 1843. The first cards featured pictures of dead birds! Evidently, the popularity of hunting robin and wren on Christmas Day made the dead bird image an appropriate one for "holiday" cards. Often the text of the cards would also have a morbid tone. Later, the cards displayed dancing insects, playful children, pink-cheeked young women, and festively decorated Christmas trees. The first actual Xmas cards were really Valentine's Day cards (with different messages) sent in December. Mass production of Xmas cards in the United States can be traced back to 1875. Initially, the manufacturers thought of Xmas cards as a sideline to their already successful business in playing cards. But the "tradition" of sending cards soon caught on, leading to a very profitable business by itself.
15. Christmas Carols -- What do you suppose the reaction would be by a church's leaders if its pastor were to propose that the following hymns be introduced into the church to commemorate the birth of Christ? After all, the tunes are quite lovely.
Hymn #1 -- A hymn by a Unitarian minister (Unitarians reject the Trinity and full deity of Yeshua ) that does not mention Yeshua Ha'Mashiach and reflects the liberal social gospel theology of the 19th century.
Hymn #2 -- A hymn by an American Episcopal priest, the fourth verse of which teaches Roman Catholic superstition about Christ coming to be born in people during the Advent season.
Hymn #3 -- A song, the words by an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, the music by a Roman Catholic school teacher, containing the Roman Catholic superstition about halos emanating from holy people, with no gospel message.
Perhaps you would expect the church's leaders to be very upset. It might surprise you to learn that they were upset when they suspected that the pastor might somehow prevent them from singing them! You see, those three hymns were already in the church's hymnals! The pastor did not have to introduce them. The three theologically incorrect "Christmas carols" referred to above are It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, O Little Town of Bethlehem, and Silent Night. (See the sub-report for an evaluation of some of the most popular Xmas carols found in church hymnals today.)
E. European Xmas Traditions -- In the early days of Christianity, as it moved north and west into Europe, many pagan celebrations were encountered. For example, in the late-6th century in England, the Angles and Saxons were found celebrating Yule. The Christian evangelists thought they would fail in any attempt to rival, suppress, or stamp out such long held customs, so they simply adopted popular dates for their own "special rituals and hallowed services." In other words, it was easier to establish a festival celebrating the birth of Christ if it conveniently coincided with an existing popular pagan feast day. In this way, the pagan peoples (albeit potential converts to Christianity) could continue with their usual celebrations at this time of year, but the reason for the merrymaking could be redefined and attributed to Christ's birth rather than to any pagan rituals. As paganism eventually died out and Christianity became widespread, Christmas became increasingly more associated with its religious foundations than any others (Sulgrave Manor, "A Tudor Christmas," p. 2).
It was left to the Puritans to denounce everything. For them, Christmas was rightfully part popish, part pagan, and was forbidden to be kept as a holiday or feast day. The attack began in 1644 when the Puritans controlled the Parliament; December 25th was changed to a Fast Day. By 1647, even the Fast Day was abolished as a relic of superstition, synonymous with the Church of Rome. No observation on December 25th was any longer permitted, but the day was to be observed as a normal market-day. Christmas was accurately depicted by such names as the Profane Man's Ranting Day, the Superstitious Man's Idol Day, the Papist's Massing Day, the Old Heathen's Feasting Day, the Multitude's Idle Day, and Satan -- that Adversary's -- Working Day. In those days, any Christmas celebrations would be broken up by troops, who would tear down decorations and arrest anyone holding a service. Some who celebrated it in Europe were also thrown into prison. Because of the riots that broke out following the banning of Christmas, the celebrations and revelry were restored in 1660 by King Charles II, a Roman Catholic (Sulgrave Manor, "A Tudor Christmas," p. 3).
F. American Xmas Traditions -- America's settlers (the "founding fathers" of so-called "Protestant America") rightfully considered Christmas a "popish" holiday. In fact, it was only in the early 1800s that several founding members of the New York Historical Society "invented" Christmas. Before then, it was illegal in colonial Massachusetts to even take December 25th off work. Christmas was forbidden as "unseemly to ye spiritual welfare of ye community." (It was banned in Massachusetts in 1659, and this law remained on the books for 22 years. In Boston, public schools stayed open on December 25th until as late as 1870!) It wasn't until 1836 that any state declared Christmas a holiday (Alabama), and then there were no more state declarations until the Civil War. It was not until 1885 that all federal workers were given Christmas Day off. The so-called Xmas customs and traditions were later concocted more for commercial purposes than for religious.
Quoting from a 12/23/83 USA TODAY article about Christmas: "A broad element of English Christianity still considered Christmas celebration a pagan blasphemy. The Puritans, Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Calvinists and other denominations brought this opposition to early New England and strong opposition to the holiday lasted in America until the middle of the 18th century." Henry Ward Beecher, a Congregationalist, wrote in 1874 of his New England boyhood:
"To me Christmas is a foreign day, and I shall die so. When I was a boy I wondered what Christmas was. I knew there was such a time, because we had an Episcopal church in our town, and I saw them dressing it with evergreens, and wondered what they were taking the woods in the church for; but I got no satisfactory explanation. A little later I understood it was a Romish institution, kept by the Romish Church."
II. Scriptural Support Against Celebrating Christmas -- Unacceptable Worship
A. 2 Chron. 33:15-17 -- The Israelites had kept the old pagan form (the high places of Baal), but had merely introduced the worship of Hashem into that form -- a refusal to let go of pagan worship forms (i.e., Hashem was to be worshiped in the Temple, not on the high places). This was unacceptable worship because the right object of worship was mixed with wrong forms of worship; i.e., the mixing of Holy worship with ungodly form. Likewise, is not the celebration of Christmas the taking of a celebration established by pagans and for pagans, and then introducing the worship of Christ into that pagan form?
B. Deut. 12:29-32 â€" Hashem warned His people Israel to destroy all vestiges of pagan worship that they found in the "Promised Land." Not only did Hashem want to prevent His people from being enticed to worship false gods, but He also specifically revealed that He did not want His people to worship Him in the same manner in which the heathen worshiped their gods. We know, therefore, that our El is displeased by practices which profess to honor Him, but which are copied from the tradition of false religions. The command here was to worship Hashem only in His way, do only what Hashem commands -- not adding to Hashems commands nor taking away from them. Therefore, is not "putting Yeshua back into Christmas," worshiping "the Lord your God their way"? Is there any command in the Bible to give special reverence to the Scriptural account of Yeshuas birth more so than to any other Scripture, let alone even a suggestion to celebrate or commemorate His birth in any way whatsoever? Hashem never intended for His people to be imitators of the pagan customs of the world, but has called us to be separate and set apart.
C. Lev. 10:1,2 -- Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire to the Lord. Is not the celebration of Christmas, with all its pagan symbols and forms, a "strange fire" unto the Lord, and is not this form of worship contrary to what Hashem commands?
D. 1 Sam. 15:1-3, 7-9, 21-23 -- Saul disobeyed Hashems prophet in order to worship Hashem in his way. Is not the celebration of Christmas one of man's ways of worshiping there named Christ? There is certainly no Biblical command to offer worship in this manner.
E. 2 Sam. 6:2-7 -- David attempts to transport the ark on a "new cart" instead of using the rings and poles as the Law required (Exo. 25:12-15). Additionally, the "transporters" of the ark were not even authorized to carry it (1 Chron. 15:2, 13-15); i.e., the ark was not only transported in the wrong way, but was transported by the wrong people! Is not the celebration of Christmas the wrong way (pagan forms and tradition) with the wrong people (the heathen of the world join right in with the professing Christians)?
F. 1 Ki. 12:26-33 -- In order to unify the northern ten tribes of Israel, ungodly King Jeroboam set up pagan idols, not in place of Hashem, but as new focal points for directing worship to Hashem. He even instituted a new festival on a new day; i.e., a new religious holiday of his own choosing. Even though the true Hashem of Israel was still to be the object of worship in the new religious holiday, both the holiday and the worship were not authorized by Hashem nor accepted by Him (1 Ki. 13:1-3; 15:29,30). Why? Because the concocted mixture of error with truth constituted false religion! Likewise, is not the celebration of Christmas a religious holiday of man's own choosing, replete with pagan symbols and forms, all under the guise (by pagan Christians at least) of worshiping the one true Hashem and Savior? But does not this worship form and system still constitute false religion, and thereby, make it unacceptable to Hashem? And besides, where in the Bible do Christians have the right to add a new holy day to the so-called Christian calendar, any more than King Jeroboam had the right to add a new holy day to Hashems theocratic calendar?
G. 1 Cor. 8:4-13; Rom. 14:1-13; 1 Cor. 10:14, 18-21 -- These passages concerning Jewish liberty are discussed in more detail under Roman numeral IV. [Believers liberty can best be defined Biblically as "the freedom to engage in practices not prohibited by the Scriptures or denying oneself what is permitted (i.e., a moral choice of self-discipline) in order to be a more effective witness for Hashem." So the question must first be answered, "Is Christmas permitted?"] Briefly, some claim that Rav. Shaul is teaching that the participation in pagan forms condemns no one, and therefore, participation in Christmas and its forms, even though arising out of pagan idolatry, is inconsequential. However, Rav. Shaul nowhere approves participation in acts of idolatry, of which the participation in the pagan forms of Christmas comes dangerously close to doing. Instead, Rav. Shaul is speaking of the liberty to continue in Jewish days of worship/festival that had been previously ordained under the Jewish law. There is certainly no liberty to bring outside pagan forms into the Jewish worship services. Likewise, there is no liberty to ChristianizeBabylonian/Roman pagan holy days as special days.
Messianic in the first century synagogue had the liberty to observe Old Testament holy days and feasts (days that had previously been revealed by Hashem and all Gentiles) According to exoduds 12. all strangers who accepted the ways of the Jews observed the same feast, not pagan ones. if they were so immature as to do so. The weaker brother, Rav. Shaul wrote, was at that time not to be censured for continuing to attach some importance to the Old Testament holy days, as a clear knowledge of their abolition in Yeshua was not yet given to him (the weaker brother). But to observe a pagan holy day is something this passage does not sanction. They certainly did not have the liberty to regard Babylonian/Roman pagan holy days (days that were invented by the devil) as special days. Again, that would have been idolatry, worldliness, and even a form of Satan worship on their part. Therefore, how can the observance of Christmas Day, or any other Babylonian/Roman Catholic holy day, be a matter of Jewish liberty?
Yet when some of us refuse to regard the pagan holy days as special days, we are the ones often referred to as the "weaker brother" in this matter! Are we opposed to such days because we are "weak in faith"? Faith would be defined as believing what the Word of Hashem says about a matter and acting upon it. It was by faith that we stopped regarding pagan holy days as special days. Would we be more mature believers if we would start regarding such days again? It would certainly be much easier on our families and us.
III. Christmas and the (Spiritual) Violation of the Ten Commandments (reverse order)
A. Do Not Covet -- Children learn to covet the gifts of others, to drool over the Christmas catalog, to drag their parents endlessly through toy stores, all in the name of "the Christmas spirit."B. Do Not Bear False Witness -- "Yeshua is the reason for the biblical seasons!" is the Christian battle cry to "put Yeshua back in Christmas," when in actuality, there is not only no Biblical warrant for Christmas, but its roots are in pagan worship systems. Nevertheless, professing Christians lie to their children about Santa Claus, the supernatural, sorcerers false "god" of Christmas, whose "gospel" is one of works salvation along with unconditional acceptance and rewards. Parents lie to their children for years about the god-like character of Santa Claus, in effect asking them to trust in a false god and a lie, and then don't understand why later in life their children won't believe and trust in the true Hashem, Yeshua Ha'Mashiach.
C. Do Not Steal -- Christmas spending patterns could never stand the test of Biblical stewardship; i.e., Christians, in celebrating Christmas, "steal" El's resources by ignoring their proper use; lavishly spend these resources on worthless and useless trinkets (in many cases); and withhold resources from those in need, while at the same time claiming to never have enough money to buy good Jewish books, pay for home schooling, or buy Bible helps for their children. (Christians could also be helping the spiritually needs by buying and giving them tracts, books and getting out of Christianity and getting into Messianic Judaism) We "steal" from our families what they need and what we owe them in order to buy gifts for those who don't need them.
D. Do Not Commit Adultery -- At this "special" time of the year, lustful thoughts are actually encouraged; e.g., teens are allowed to go to parties and stay out later, thereby having temptations put in front of them that otherwise wouldn't be there. Christmas parties for adults also encourage evil thoughts through the use of the mistletoe, etc. (According to Matt. 5, such thoughts constitute adultery. At the very least, spiritual adultery is encouraged by the "season.")
E. Do Not Murder -- Envy and hate of my brother (which, according to Matt. 5, is equal to murder) because he has more than me or because he receives a larger Christmas bonus than me, is encouraged at Christmas time. We also tend to spiritually sacrifice our children to the "god of Christmas" via greed, selfishness, etc.
F. Honor Father and Mother -- Christmas gift-giving is not an honor to parents; the term "exchanging" gifts (i.e., giving in expectation of a return) is a dead give-away of the mockery associated with this tradition.
G. Remember the Sabbath/Shabbat and Keep It Holy -- Although we recognize that Hashem is not the "Christian Sabbath," clearly the Lord's Day is to be kept for worship and observed as such. Yet when Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or the day after Christ-mas falls on a Sunday, most churches adjust the Lord's Day to accommodate Christ-mas, usually by canceling the regularly scheduled Sunday evening service. Most of its members are too busy or too tired to attend services anyway.and they have already denied Saturday as Shabbat or as the true holy set aside day-They choose the Sunday which is the day of the sun god
H. Do Not Take Hashems Name in Vain -- "Yeshua" and "mass" are two words that are totally opposite from one another, and to connect the two is to blaspheme the name of Yeshua. By taking a pagan celebration, "Christianizing" it, and calling it a celebration of the birth of Yeshua, is most certainly taking Hashems name in vain. (A good example of the willingness of the professing church to profane the name of the Lord would be the title of a popular children's Christmas concert production -- The Divine Ornament. Imagine, identifying Hashem with a pagan ornament to hang on a pagan tree! What insult! What blasphemy!) In addition, some professing Christians use religion ("Christ's birthday") as a cloak to cover the evils of covetousness, idolatry, greed, immorality, etc. -- all excuses to give vent to evil lusts.
I. Do Not Make Yourself Any Carved Image -- Nativity scenes, "pictures" of Roman pagan Christ, Christmas cards with "pictures" of Jesus/Yeshua, etc., all violate this command. Hashem has given us His Word, not images, to teach us about Yeshua (1 Pe. 1:23; Dt. 4:12, 15-19).
J. Have No Other Elohims Before Me -- The "god of Christmas" is idolatrous! Looking to the Christmas season for happiness, joy, and fulfillment, rather than through a pure, personal, and Biblical relationship with Yeshua Ha'Mashiach , is idolatry.
IV. Is a Christian's Decision to Celebrate Christmas a Part of Christian Liberty?
A. Romans 14:1-13 -- This passage is speaking of Jews who were observing the Old Testament Jewish holy days/festivals and dietary laws but they were also judging their Gentile brothers-in-Hashem who did not observe the Jewish customs. Likewise, the Gentile Christians were judging their Jewish brothers who were seemingly caught-up in ceremonial law. Rav. Shaul was thusly saying, "To you pagan Christians -- leave the Jewish converts alone, because they are not violating any Scriptural commands by their actions (i.e., it's a "disputable" matter [doubtful or gray area] and not a moral issue). To you Jewish believers -- it's okay for you to observe the Jewish festivals and dietary laws because they were given by Hashem in the Old Testament, and thereby, are considered to be previously approved worship forms, but don't judge your Gentile brothers, because there is no Biblical command for either of you to continue to observe these things. If a moral issue is involved (i.e., a practice that is covered in Scripture), then this passage and its application to liberty (i.e., the freedom to engage in practices not prohibited by Scripture) would obviously not apply. And as brought out earlier in this report, the celebration of Christmas appears to be such a moral issue, because its celebration is not only not from Hashem, but is from ancient paganism itself!
B. 1 Corinthians 8:4-13 -- The Gentile nations, who had been raised in an idolatrous system, were having a problem with their Jewish brothers who were eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols. (Apparently, this was the only "healthy" meat available.) Similar to the Romans 14 passage above, Paul says that eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols is not a moral issue, and thereby, is not prohibited. However, Paul does not say that it is okay to go into the pagan temple itself; in fact, in other passages (1 Cor 10:14, 18-21), Paul specifically prohibits getting involved with the pagan feasts. In other words, it's not a moral issue to partake in the byproducts of a pagan religious system (note, however, that there is no indication here that the Jewish brothers were using the "idol meat" as part of their worship), but it is not okay to partake in the religious system itself (because the corrupt character of the participants would be harmful for believers). Rather, we must be separate from the worldly system (2 Cor 6:14-7:1). Therefore, when items (byproducts) associated with a pagan religious system not only develop religious associations of their own, but have been integrated into what would otherwise be Christian worship (as the celebration of Christmas has clearly become in our culture), then we should pull away from them so that there is no confusion over our allegiances.
C. Galatians 4:9-10; Colossians 2:16-17 -- Both these passages of Scripture refer to the Jewish holy days under Torah . If Christians were not even to observe the Old Testament holy days( and they are suppose to) -- they certainly don't have the liberty to observe pagan holy days!
D. James 4:11 -- James is saying that Christians may only judge a brother on matters determined in Hashems Word (i.e., moral issues). If a matter is not covered in the Word, then these are matters of liberty in some cases (á la Rom. 14:1-13 and 1 Cor 8:4-13), and he who judges in these areas of liberty is, in effect, judging and condemning the Word of Hashem as being an imperfect standard to which the judge, thereby, refuses to submit. On the other hand, since we have clear Scriptural precept that condemns the things that go on around December 25th in the name of Yeshua other than that which is suppose to be honored being Hanukkah, the celebration of Christmas does not appear to be a matter of liberty, but one of moral conduct.
V. The Right Response
A. Quench Not the Holy Spirit(Truth) (1 Thes 5:19-22) -- Test all things against the Scripture and line-up beliefs and actions with what is true ( do not treat with contempt the Word of Hashem). If Hashem is convinced that to celebrate Christmas is sin, then he and his family must not compromise with the world or the church by participating in any Christmas pagan demonized celebrations (Rom. 14:23).
B. Avoid Traps of the Devil:
1. Lack of Zeal -- One who never considers why he does certain things, but he just does them because he always has or because his parents always have; one who acts on emotions rather than on facts.
2. Lack of Truth -- One who does things for good reasons and right motives ( plenty of zeal), but not in truth.
C. Realize that Christians Celebrating Christmas as the Day of Yeshuas Birth Makes No More Sense than Adding Any of the Following Days as Special Days of Celebration: -- (Remember, the Bible's focus on the birth of Yeshua is for the sole purpose of documenting his virgin birth, his resurrection, and the fulfillment of His prophetic Messiahship. Like the tongue-in-cheek suggestions below, one must also remember that there is no Biblical warrant, precedent, nor precept for the remembrance of the day of Yeshuas birth as a day of special religious celebration.)
1. Mikvah Celebration -- Why not have three days of swimming parties in the summer in order to celebrate/symbolize Yeshua three days in the grave? We could even honor a day based upon scripture evidence of when John the immerser baptized Yeshua! And celebrate that,But most certainly can not add his name to paganism submergence
2. Ascension Celebration -- Why not have one day set aside every year for hot-air balloon rides in order to celebrate Yeshua ascension to heaven?
3. Miracle Celebration -- There is considerable Biblical focus on Yeshuas' miracles (even more than on his birth), so why not have one day set aside every year to celebrate the first of Yeshuas miracles?
D. Avoid the Rationalizations that:
1. "Christmas Provides a Festive Time to Share the Gospel" -- One cannot take something condemned in Hashems Word and "use it" to spread the Gospel; neither will Hashem bless it to spread His Word. Unacceptable worship and the "mixing-in" of unholy/pagan forms is surely not the normal means through which Hashem blesses the faithful. Satan works to blend together his system with Hashems system,because when unacceptable worship (paganism) is blended with true worship (Hashems truth), true worship is destroyed. In fact, any time one mixes pagan ideas and practices with the pure religion of Yeshua, it is condemned in Scripture as the heinous sin of idolatry! Hashem has always detested taking those things dedicated to idols and using them to worship Him. As a matter of fact, this "special time of the year" is probably more a hindrance to the receptiveness of the gospel message than a help. Much of the celebration observed by our contemporary society deludes people into assuming that Hashem is pleased, when in reality, He is offended by false religion, pseudo-worship, and alien philosophies. The ecumenical spirit and a counterfeit "love" under the guise of "peace and goodwill among men," more than likely dulls one's sensitivity to his desperate need to repent of sin and be reconciled to thee holy Hashem.
2. "Christmas is Merely the Honoring of Idol Religion Births" -- Someone says, "I know Christmas is of pagan origin, but I still think it's not wrong for a church to have a special time for honoring Yeshuas birth." But since when did Protestants believe that so called Christians have the right to add to the Bible? Is the church a legislative body? Are we to follow the Bible in our faith and practice, or the thinking of fallible men and fallible roman created religion? If we have the right to add a special holy day to the economy, then we can add 10,000 other things. Then we will be no better than the false cults and the Roman Catholics who follow heathen traditions! [Besides, celebrating Yeshuas birth is a form of worship. But since Christmas is a lie, those who celebrate it are not worshiping in "spirit and truth" (John 4:24).]
3. "All I'm Doing is Putting Christ Back into Christmas" -- The modern conservative cry to put Christ/Ha'Mashiach back into Christmas is absurd. As detailed earlier in this report, Yeshua Ha'Mashiach was never in Christmas. It's a lie to say He was. He has no part in a lie. When anyone takes the truth and mixes it with a lie, they no longer have the truth. They have changed the truth into a lie. Neither is it possible to take a lie and mix it with enough truth to change the lie into the truth. You still come out with a lie. One may say, "Well, I know it's not the truth, but I'll put Yeshua back in Christmas and glorify God in it then." No, you won't. Yeshua never was in Christmas. You cannot change a lie into the truth. It should in reality be called Baal-mass, Nimrod-mass, Tammuz-mass, Mithras-mass, or Mary-mass.Yeshua-mass is a lie. Why use a lie as a good time for a fundamental truth (the incarnation) of the pagan Christian faith?
4. "I'm Using Christmas to Witness for Christ, Just Like the Apostle Paul Did" -- Some say that all they are doing is taking the "truth" from Christmas and "cultivating" it as the Apostle Paul did (Acts 17/Mars Hill),Rav Shaul a Jew did no such thing, taking the opportunity of the season to witness to a lost world. This would be fine if these Christians were actually doing only as Rav. Shaul really did, spread Judaism in a Goyim land, in addressing the Greek philosophers on Mars Hill, proclaimed to them that their "unknown god" to whom they had erected an altar, was none other than Hashem( That Hashem is the only God rather) who made the world and all the things therein." Shaul was not intimidated by the pagan surroundings and symbolisms, nor did he berate the Greeks for their error, but merely showed them the truth of the besora of Yeshua.
But do Christians really use the "opportunity presented by the season" in the same way as Shaul used the opportunity of the pagan altar? Do Christians personally stand in front of their hometown public displays of Xmas (Nativity scenes, etc.) and preach the gospel? To paraphrase Shaul, do they say: "Men of Indianapolis, I see that in every way you are very religious; what you worship as something unknown, I am going to proclaim to you"? Do they come out of the public schools, where they have just attended their children's Xmas programs, and preach to the attendees about the true Hashem who has been grossly misrepresented in the program they have just witnessed?
Hardly. Even to most of those who understand the true origin of Xmas, this "unique time of year" means inviting unbelievers into their homes to gather around the Xmas tree, to enjoy the beauty of the wreaths, absorb the heat from the Yule log, etc., reasoning that they are only using the pagan forms and the pagan festival season as an opportunity to witness. If Shaul meant this in Acts 17, he would have met the people in the Athenian temple or in his or their homes, gathering around their idols that he had witnessed to and was now using as a part of his worship. Most of the people who decorate their homes and churches with Xmas trees, holly wreaths, Nativity scenes, etc., all supposedly to be used as "opportunities" via "Xmas coffees," neighborhood "grab bag" gift exchanges, Xmas concerts, etc., are thoroughly convinced that they're doing God a service. And since they are not involved in the crass secular "commercialization" that the world revels in, but have instead "put Yeshua back in Xmas" (so to speak), they reason that all is Biblical and pleasing to God.
5. "It Doesn't Mean Anything to Me" -- Many Christians who routinely make a habit of picking-and-choosing which Biblical commands they will or will not obey, have likewise carried this practice over into a justification for celebrating Christmas. They claim, "but the Christmas tree, mistletoe, Santa Claus, etc., don't mean anything pagan to me, so I'll exercise my Christian liberty and partake in all of it." Obviously, if one were to take such a cavalier approach to the physical world ( "I can drink rat poison because I choose not to regard it as poison"), it would likely lead to a quick physical death. Why, then, do Christians think they can avoid spiritual harm by ignoring Hashems spiritual warnings?
6. "The 'Connection' Has Been Broken" -- There are those who clearly recognize the pagan nature of the various Christmas worship forms and practices. Nevertheless, many of these Christians claim that because of the long passage of time from their pagan inception to the present (6,000 years?), the "connection" to paganism has been sufficiently diminished to allow the adoption of these forms and practices into our Christian worship and celebration. While it may be true that most symbols have lost their original demonic meaning and significance in a modern society, it is strangely bizarre and ironic that Christendom seeks to commemorate Yeshua birth with the faded symbols of Satan. And even though some of God's people may be naive and ignorant about the source of these things, surely Hashem is not. Can such things please Him? And think about this -- if it were possible to "disconnect" current practices from their pagan/occultism roots, why does Scripture not provide us any guidelines as to:
(a) how much time is necessary for the "neutralization"/disassociation process to occur; and
(b) which of the hundreds of ancient pagan rites would then be acceptable for adaptation into Christian worship (since some are obviously much more pagan/occultism than others)?
7. "There Are Hundreds of Other Items of Daily Life that Have a Pagan Origin" -- It is said, "Such things as the wedding ring, certain clothing customs, the modern division of time into hours and minutes, the names of the days of the week, etc., all have pagan connections in their origins, so isn't it a contradiction on your part to say that their meanings have sufficiently changed while Christmas's meanings have not?" But we are not saying that their meanings have changed. The question is one of using things of pagan origin in our worship of Yeshua. So we would ask the question back, "Which of these pagan items do we focus on to celebrate the birth of Yeshua? Or which of these is 'Christianized' and brought into our weekly worship of, or our daily devotion to the so called roman Christ, as you do with the pagan forms and traditions of Xmas?" The origin and meaning of a custom, tradition, or form does not take on significance unless it is somehow specifically incorporated into, or lined up with, our worship. As we have already detailed in the section on Christian liberty (Section IV.B.), these rings, clothing customs, etc. would be merely the byproducts of paganism, not paganism itself, and they have developed no religious connotations or associations of their own, as have the Xmas customs and traditions.
8. "Baptism (and Circumcision) Have Pagan Origins and Hashem Still Gave Their Use in Scripture, So What's Wrong With Using the Pagan Forms of Christmas?" -- This argument is frequently made by pastors who say that to be consistent, those who would have us forbid the forms, symbols, and traditions of Christmas should also be calling for us to abandon believer's baptism; i.e., shouldn't the would-be banners of Christmas be saying, "Since the ancient mystery religions practiced forms of baptism, therefore baptism is a pagan custom and should be outlawed for the believer in Christ"? This is a strange argument for anyone to make, (and, in our opinion, reveals a low view of Scriptural admonitions). If baptism were absent from the Bible, as using pagan forms and traditions to celebrate or commemorate the birth of Yeshua are totally absent, there would then be no Biblical justification for baptism. But Hashem has not commanded us to celebrate or commemorate Yeshua birth in any way. He has commanded us to baptize (Matt. 28:19).
E. Abstain From the Observance of Christmas -- What, then, ought to be the Christian's response to this and other pagan and Roman inventions? It cannot be denied that they are pagan, pure and simple, from beginning to end. Hashem gives us specific instructions in His Holy Word: Thus saith El, Learn not the way of the heathen ... (Jer. 10:2). These words are perfectly clear. What rational options do you have as believing Christians?
VI. Conclusion
The very popularity of Christmas should cause the Christian to question it. Anyone and everyone can celebrate Christmas without question -- outright pagans, nominal Christians, and even Buddhists and Hindus. If, in reality, December 25th were a date set by Hashem to remember the birth of Yeshua, there is no doubt that the world would have nothing to do with it. After all, Hashem has commanded one day in seven -Shabbat -- to worship Him. Does the world observe it? Of course not. As expected, the world loves Christmas, but hates the true Yeshua-who was Jewish and not Roman (John 15:18, 23-25). It shuns anything pertaining to true religion. Shouldn't the Christian be just a little suspicious of a celebration in which the whole sinful world can join without qualms?
One way to test the Scriptural of our practices is to reflect on what we would expect missionaries to teach new converts in a foreign culture. We assume that they would use the Bible as their guidebook. If they could start new local churches without importing American culture encumbered with Roman Catholicism, liberal Protestantism, and crass commercialism, wouldn't it be wonderful? Missionaries who have urged new converts to forsake all pagan superstitious relics have later been questioned about the apparent inconsistency of their own American Christmas customs. Nationals perceived them as idolatrous even though the missionaries were oblivious to that possibility!
When Christmas is exposed for what it really is, this angers people. It angers Evangelical Protestant people! And there is reason why it does so. When the pagan celebration of Christmas is rooted up, and rejected, then what has become a Protestant tradition is, in effect, being rejected! And that is why people become angry. It began as a Roman Catholic holy day, and then it became a Protestant holy day. And if anyone dares show it up for what it really is, they face the wrath of the Protestant religious machine. And these days, that can be very ugly.
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