Why Messianic Halakha is needed- Part 15.
Date: Jun 13th, 2009 6:40:13 pm - Subscribe
Mood: Loving Torah
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 – 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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