Why Messianic Halakha is needed, Part 4.
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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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