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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. _______________ 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: ______________ 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 _______________ 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. © Copyright 2010 Mind Changing Ministries Beit Yeshua All rights reserved. The E-Training Program |
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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: ______________________________________ 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 © Copyright 2010 Mind Changing Ministries Beit Yeshua All rights reserved. The E-Training Program |