יהוהYa-hwuah

(the fathers name)

YHWH/ EHYH

English is written (left to right hebrew right to left)

היהא/ הוהי ) )

יחוחשוצThe name of His Word , who lived among us

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Yâhuwshúa`

yod, he, vav, he, tsaddi, daleth, qoph

His Name is unique, no other name will bring salvation

Zekeniam Y’sra’al

( teacher of Y’sra’al)

Sherut haRitztzuy (the ministry of reconciliation)

by whom we have now received the( Atonement)

Reconciliation of the Dvar HaRitztzuyLet this day be a day of reconciliation and regeneration

[“EHYEH ASHER EHYEH”]

( HaYaH (He was), Howeh (He is), and Yihyeh (He will be).

I AM

Father and son are one

My Memorial for generation after generation.”

Shemot 3:13-16This is MY NAME for ever,

I AM / WILL BE WHAT I AM / WILL BE:

Yâ-hwuah, Aluahiym of your father’s Abraham, Yitzchak [Isaac], and Ya’aqob [Jacob], has sent me to you. This is my name

forever, and this is my memorial for generation to generation." and I appeared to Abraham, to Yitzchak, andto Ya’aqob as

hashadday [the almighty]. and my name, Ya-hwuah, was not well known (famous) to them.

Yâ-hwuah, Aluahiym Tsebaowt,

Yâhuwshúa`

is his name.The ministry of reconciliation

Message of Reconciliation

Torah sh’Bichtav(Written Torah)

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear?

“Sola Scriptura”

(the Scriptures alone is authoritative for faith)

Yâhuwshúa`

HaNaTSReY uWMeLeK HaYaHuWDYM

Yahuwshua ‘Nätzräya king of the Jews

(in His Name)

Yâ-hwuah הוהי

( Fathers name of the

[Yah -hoo-Wah]

is the Name of the Creator.

Yâhuwshúa`

(Yâhuwshúa`) is His Son

Aluahiym

[Al-u-heem - ALHYM] means "Mighty Ones“ or "Power"

Qadosh

means Set-apart, Pure.

Kodesh

(Qodesh) also means "Set-apart"

Ruwach (Spirit) is the Ibry (Hebrew) name for His "Presence", pictured as the Counselor, Helper, and Advocate, the One Who

"proceeds from the Father"

ANY HuWE

(I am He)

Tehillim 27:5

For in the day of trouble He will keep me secretly in His booth. In the covering of His Tent He will hide me. On a Rock He raises

me up.

is for you too!

Scripture speaks of a secret place where we can simply go, be alone, be protected, pray, and hear from Yahuahshua. Knowing there is such a place is a matter of faith. Going back time and again, that's a matter of building a relationship. You need not

have an advanced degree in any subject, need not have memorized Scripture from beginning to end, but instead be

aware the Yâ-hwuah of Y’sra’al has a place for each Jew and Gentile who will open their minds and hearts to Him.

Mt 6:5-8

When you pray, you shall not be as the role-fakers, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell

you, they have received their reward. But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray

to your Father Who is in secret, and your Father Who sees in secret shall reward you openly. In praying, don’t use vain

repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Therefore don’t be like them, don't you see that your Father knows what things you need

before you ask Him.

The truth in reality is visited in this secret place AND must be shared by those who will live or else ... they will perish ... in

darkness.

It is written

Lu 11:33

“No one, when he has lit a Lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the

Light.

Tehillim. 119:105

Your Word is a Lamp to my feet, and a Light (aur) for my path.

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of Light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore see whether the

light that is in you isn’t darkness. If therefore your whole body is full of Light, having no part dark, it shall be wholly full of

Light, as when the Lamp with its bright shining gives you Light.”

The menorah is the only symbol created by Yâhuwshúa`

With this in mind, heart soul and strength let us study together in the Ruwach

And now brothers and sisters

Come out of the secret place bearing light!

who see it from afar. The Secret Place, here, shines a bit of light so many can see from afar. The topics we have chosen are

addressed to Jew and Gentile together. We do this because that is what the Bible does. This opens the window to make more

sense of what Scripture tells us!

In the secret place is plain language, something simple to read. This is a mere starting place for deeper consideration.

berı ̂yth ishY’sra’al

ber-eeth'covenant, man

(Understanding Ya'aqob/ Y’sra’al)

(All Jews are Y’sra’al/ but not all Y’sra’alite are Jewish)

(Part 2)

Y’sra’al

ישראל

lamed- aleph--resh -shin- yod

B'Rayshiyth 32:28

And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽaqob ̱, but Yisra’äl, because you have striven with Aluahiym and with men,

and have overcome.”

Y’sra’äl means

“to strive with Al, to overcome with Al, (then) to rule with Al”

Y’sra'al =

lamed- aleph--resh -shin- yod

= Ya-sh-ra-Al ….

the yod again carries the sound of "ah" –

then the

sh-ra-Al = Yashra'Äl ==

this name comes from the Ibriy word "sarah" (saw-raw) meaning "have power"

(of Hebrew Origin)

Bareshiyth 32:22)

He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of

the Yabboq.

The Yabboq flows west through Gil'ad into the Yarden halfway between the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee. Later it would be

the northern border of Moav, then Ammon. Yabboq means "emptying out", and this is what was being done to Yaaqov here. He left his old self behind and gained a new identity. (v.

28) Why is Yaa’qov’s daughter not mentioned? Daughters were rarely killed in battle, but were taken as booty. If all the

sons were killed, and the mothers too in case they were

pregnant (as one actually was), then the inheritance would revert to Esau.

Bareshiyth_32:23

He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

And Yaʽaqob ̱ was left alone (probably on the north bank of the Jabbok; but vide on

He removed from himself everything that mattered to him, and spent one final night in an alien land. He could not go any

further until he dealt with this one pressing matter. Just before his "passing over", the would be stretched to his limits as

Yâhuwshúa` was the night before a Passover many years later.

Bareshiyth 32:24

Ya'aqob was left alone, and wrestled with a Man there until the breaking of the day.

He was alone, yet he wrestled with someone. How could this be? The numerical value of this word for "alone" is 613--the

number of commandments in the Torah. So he was wrestling with the

Word of Yâ-hwuah.

this “man” is called a messenger and Yâhuwshúa` as this “man” was often called the “Malak Yâ-hwuah”.

Bareshiyth 48:16

The messenger who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my father’s Abraham and Yitschaq. Let them grow into a multitude

in the midst of the earth.”

He could not sleep, because he had to wrestle with his own inclinations. How we react under pressure defines us.

Struggles show if we are really committed or not. He had to come to terms with what kind of man he was. Now that he was

alone against the world unless he would have faith that this Aluahiym was truly who He said He was. Was he really the right

one to receive the birthright? Should he be afraid? Was he right to put Rakhel’s safety first, when Leah had proven very

faithful to him and much more fruitful? Was he really ready to be the leader of a nation? He was also wrestling with the Raukh

of his twin Esau, the philosophy of caring only for one's belly, which now threatened him in a very real way as everything

hung in the balance. How much of Esau—or Lavan--was still in him? How should he deal with him? Would he become like him,

or remain Yaaqov? Neither; there was a third option. Further, he was wrestling with Aluahiym All of this took place within

him, whether or not anyone else was physically present. And all of these aspects of his wrestling are really one and the same. Dawn means "what is sought" in Hebrew. He wrestled until

what he was seeking came to light. He would not receive clarity without the fight. To ignore the better focus and keep

aiming where we used to aim is the definition of “sin” in Hebrew—missing the target. As he fought his selfishness, the "black

cloud lifted"; his earnest seeking reached the heavenlies.

He was alone

(compare )

Bemidbar 23:9

"For from the top of the rocks I see Him. From the hills I see Him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be

reckoned among the nations.

Separately: alone, divided out and withdrawn from among everything else, yet together as one group. While it was not

beneficial for Adam to be alone, as a whole people, it was beneficial for Y’sra’al to be—for they would be “alone together”.

This is the same way in which Levi was not to be counted

among the tribes of Y’sra’al, though he was one of them; he had a task to which he was called to "isolate" himself. This also

exempts Y’sra’al from

YirmeYahuw 30:11,

For I am the One Who is with you [Yahuw-shua], says Yâ-hwuah, to save you: for I shall make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I shall not make a full end of you; but I

shall correct you justly, and will not declare you innocent.

Where Yâ-hwuah says He will make an end of all nations. The word for “correct you” also stems from a root meaning "to weave, or braid", so Y’sra’al is not one of the threads in the

world's fabric, but is a different entity altogether, even if there seems to be overlap at times. This is actually the beginning of

Bilaam’s blessing on Y’sra’al, but is the reason Y’sra’al enemies have cursed her throughout the centuries, the reason we were

exiled was because we wanted to be like the other nations. The Greeks and Romans exchanged Yâ-hwuah’s with whomever

they conquered, but cannot tolerate the “arrogance” of a nation that acknowledges only one Aluahiym. The “catholic” (all-

encompassing) mindset adopted within Christianity could not be satisfied with Yâ-hwuah being one, and had to invent the

doctrine of the trinity in order to facilitate its way of thinking, which stemmed from having many deities but all under the auspices of the name Ba’al (e.g., Ba’al-Peor, as related to v. 28). We should count it a blessing that we are a set-apart

people, for having to worry about what is outside would only distract us from the specific responsibilities Yâ-hwuah has given

us. We are also under no obligation to either Christianity’s or global society’s expectations, for we have our orders from a

higher authority. But having some who are set apart automatically marks the rest as common or ordinary. If we

were all the same, as the world wants us to be, nothing at all would be sacred. In particular, Yâ-hwuah sees Y’sra’al as

separate from Egypt, though we came out from there (cf. 22:5, 11). Ideally, it would never enter the minds of this generation

that they had ever even been part of that land. The nations are to be gathered into Y’sra’al, not the other way around. That

may seem like putting an elephant in a shoebox, but there will come a time when the nations will understand that they will

have to come under the covering of Y’sra’al to survive. All too often, Y’sra’al caters to other nations’ whims, but Yâ-hwuah

wants us to be a light to the nations. We cannot help others out of the quicksand if we are in it too! If the nations see us as one

of them, we are not doing our job.

Bemidbar 23:10

Who can count the dust of Ya'acob, or number the fourth part of Ysra'al?

Let me die the death of the righteous!

Let my last end be like his!”

Dust: an idiom for numerous descendants.

Bareshiyth 13:16

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also

be numbered.

[Like the dust of the earth: of course the main parallel is with inability to count his descendants, and one of the reasons for

this is that many of them do not realize that they are his descendants. But Adam was also created from the dust of the earth (the only reference to dust in the Scripture prior to this),

and again "seed" is singular (though it can refer to all his descendants).]

A fourth: one of the four camps, one of which was led by Yahuwdah. This may have been the “extremity of the people”

and it may be that because of their example that they received more mercy throughout the centuries than the rest of Y’sra’al.

But four extremities also reminds us of the blue tassels Yâ-hwuah told us to hang on our outer garments as a reminder to keep His commandments. Who indeed can count them? Even

the more-recognizable Jews often hide their identity, with notable exceptions; the rest of the tribes have become so lost

among the nations (to all but Yâ-hwuah) that no one else knows who they are. But we are still here and are already beginning

to be recalled to the covenant. The upright ones: a special nickname Yâ-hwuah has for Y’sra’al.

What was Yaa’qov’s final end like?

Bareshiyth 49

describes it in detail.

The Whole House of Y’sra’al

(Acharit-hayamin)

Ya'aqob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. Days to come: or "the end of days - latter

days"

"The Lost Sheep of the House of Y’sra’al"

Bareshiyth 49:1

Then Yaaqov summoned his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together and I will tell you what will befall you in the latter days;

first use - prophetically refers to the last 2 millennia of time - the Age of Mashiyach

The term here for “gather” is related to Yosef’s name.

Amos 9:9

“because here I am, giving the order; indeed, I have sifted the House of Y’sra’al among all the nations, just as one sifts [grain]

in a sieve, yet not a grain will fall to earth.

Not a grain will fall to earth: or, not a parcel of land will fall. Ya-hwuah is concerned even for one lost sheep.

Luke 15:4-6

“What man from you who has a hundred sheep, and who has lost one from them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine

within the uninhabited land and goes after that which has been lost until he might find it? And when he should find it, he lays it upon his shoulders, rejoicing, And having come into the house, he calls together her friends and her neighbors, saying to them:

“Rejoice together with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!”

But alternately, He determined where the seed would take root and where it would not; He sowed us in some places for

strategic reasons and allowed us to bear fruit, while others from Y’sra’al He allowed to be destroyed, perhaps because of the

seriousness or nature of their particular sins.

said Ya-hwuah would give a command in regard to our restoration. This is the command:

“Gather yourselves together!”

This is the pattern in Scripture, and our assignment. This is how we will be sifted. We cannot be united with Yahuwdah again until we are first united with one another. And we cannot do

that until everything that is not Torah is sifted out, including the “god-man”. Befall: meet or encounter; the same Hebrew term

used for “summon” here as well, which most basically means to call. This reminds us that although what he is to tell them is

prophetic, it is not so much a promise as a beckoning to

become what he has recognized as already potential in each one.

Bareshiyth 49:2

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Ya'aqob.

Listen to Ysra'al, your father.

The reason he repeats the summons after what he says in verse 1 is that this call is even more for us than it was for his

immediate children, as most of us are still only living as sons of Yaaqov (the man of flesh), when we need to be reminded of who our ancestor truly became and what he has to say to us today. “Assemble” here can have the sense of gathering in one’s arms, and is the root word for “qibbutz” (a collective settlement). When we gather with our brothers, we are far

better able to hear what Ya-hwuah wants for us than when we approach Him merely alone.

Bareshiyth 49:3

“Re'uwben [see, a son], you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling

in power.

Bareshiyth 49:4

Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

Boiling: or frothing, unbridled, unstable. Though he had tremendous potential (v. 3), it did not matter, because he was unfaithful; he forfeited the birthright. His lack of self-control

was evidenced by the fact that he took his father's own concubine for himself. He would not make a trustworthy leader

for Y’sra’al. Faithfulness, in Hebrew, includes the sense of fostering as a parent and nurturing so as to build up.

Sometimes one mistake can ruin a whole lifetime—especially

since his father waited until his deathbed to even confront him about it. He had let it turn into bitterness against his son, so

what he has for him is essentially a curse, not a blessing. But Re’uven should have repented and made whatever reparations he could long before this. In addition to all his research on the movements of the tribes of Y’sra’al throughout history, Steve

Collins has based his conclusions about who they are today on this chapter in particular. He suggests that France—a nation

known for its strong emphasis on emotion and passion—may be the chief embodiment of this tribe today.

Leah's firstborn

Bareshiyth 29:32

Le'ah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Re'uwben. For she said, „Because Yâ-hwuah has seen my affliction. For

now my husband will love me."

Re'uven means "Look! A son!" A wife who provided her husband with a male heir was more valued in that society.

Bareshiyth 49:5

“Simeon [Hearing] and Lewi [joined/attached] are brothers. (Leah's sons) Their swords are weapons of violence.

Brothers: or comrades. I.e., they are two of a kind, to a greater extent than the rest of his sons. They had the same lack of hesitancy when it came to shedding blood. Violence: Heb.,

hamas.

Bareshiyth 49:6

My being, don’t come into their council. My esteem, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In

their frenzy they also hamstrung an ox.

I.e., I had no part in their plan. United: This may be a play on Levi's name, which means "joined". But the word for “secret counsel” here is also often used for the deeper meaning of

Scripture. Since both Yaaqov and Y’sra’al were speaking here (v. 2), Ya-hwuah only honored part of his curse (the part in v. 7).

In self-will they hamstrung a bull: or, they lamed an ox with pleasure—suggesting they enjoyed bloodletting a little too much—though we must remember that Yaaqov was on the

other extreme, having never killed anyone, and more passive than he should have been. He still did not recognize that other Kanaanites had stayed out of their way because of the strength

these two sons manifested. This laming may be another reference to their killing Sh’khem’s king Khamor.

Bareshiyth 49:7

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Ya'aqob, and scatter them in

Ysra'al.

Cruel: or extreme, excessive. These two were like chemicals that cannot be allowed to mix, for they are too explosive. As

long as they were together, there was bloodshed. Thus neither of them had tribal lands, but only cities. But all of Y’sra’al

needed their side of the truth (34:31), only not in so high a concentration. The inheritance of Shim'on was encapsulated within Yahuwdah’s, but this not only meant Yahuwdah could

keep them in check; Yahuwdah also needed them to defend its unusually-large territory.

Y’hoshua 19:9

Out of the part of the children of Yahuwdah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of

Yahuwdah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

Ya-hwuah also used Shimon’s proclivity to violence—the fact that he did not mind killing people—to help Yahuwdah defend

borders that were too big for it alone to handle. Today we have a very similar situation, in which the whole Land has been given

to Yahuwdah, but they are not able to occupy it all, and enemies still dwell within. They need more of the tribes to

whom the Land has been deeded to properly defend it. In many ways, our inheritance does rest within Yahuwdah’s. Our King, is

from the tribe of Yahuwdah. But as returning Y’sra’al, we are already partaking of an inheritance that has been within

Yahuwdah alone for many centuries. That tribe preserved many things that we never knew had anything to do with us. To

some extent, Yahuwdah has maintained an unbroken line of Torah practice ever since the days of Y’hoshua. In an electrical line, we can see that, although a broken wire can be re-spliced,

there is much more likelihood of corrosion, corruption, and static than in one that remains unbroken. Our line was broken;

Yahuwdah has had “signal boosters” in place in every generation to keep sending the message onward. Sometimes they have taken some unnecessary detours from the shortest distance between two points, but their line is still the cleanest available in this regard. And it has preserved the records of

more ancient practices that are even purer than the remnants of Torah keeping that we see today. When we read “Remember

the Sabbath to keep it set apart”(Ex. 20:8ff), for example, we might wonder how to do so. The Scriptural text does not tell us

the specifics, especially in English. Yahuwdah has preserved both the “how-to” as well as the Hebrew language that tells us exactly what is meant here by both “Sabbath” (ceasing) and “remember” and which types of “work” are allowed on the Sabbath and which are not. They do not show the whole

spectrum of Y’sra’alite life; they are often limited to one era (that of the Second Temple) and the viewpoint of the “winners who wrote the history books”—the successors to the Pharisees.

It is as if they “pickled” those examples so that we could partake of them later. While that does change the flavor and smell somewhat, we must appreciate the fact that we would

have very little to go on otherwise. Before entering into many

Torah practices, we have found it very valuable to first check how Yahuwdah does it, while we still do seek the “fresh” form of

what they have preserved in “pickled” form. Yahuwdah has kept the Sabbath on the right day while we had veered off

course in this regard. As long as Yahuwdah’s traditions strengthen the Torah and in no way diminish or contradict it, then their inheritance is ours as well. But there is an even

bigger picture—the concept that Shim’on, a man, could have an inheritance in Yahuwdah, his brother, for it helps us understand

that we all have our inheritance in one another. This helps define who we are. The Torah is not for you or me, but for us,

not only because our covenant with Ya-hwuah is a national one, but because to fulfill it, we need one another. Yosef’s

inheritance is in Yissakhar, and Reuven’s is in Asher. An individual keeping the Sabbath is not part of the covenant, but a nation keeping it is; to truly keep the Sabbath, we all need for

each other to keep it. There is a Rabbinical teaching that if every Jew would just once keep the Sabbath at the same time, the Messiah would come. This is unlikely, because it probably would require every Y’sra’alite of every tribe to do so. We all

need to uphold the covenant so that Y’sra’al can repay what we have robbed Ya-hwuah of for all these years. I need for you to observe the festivals of Ya-hwuah, and you need me to do so,

though we will not all do it in the same way. Walking in Torah is not necessarily religion, but a lifestyle. Some approach it as religion (ritual that focuses on the unseen realm), and if they

are within the boundaries of the Torah, that is acceptable. Whether we see it as religion or a lifestyle, the Torah defines what is what. Torah will probably educate most of us out of

religion, for it focuses us on protecting our brothers, whom we can see, and aims for us to bring the unseen realm to bear on what we can see, so that we really accomplish change where it is most needed. Religion is often about tomorrow, but in the

Temple, almost nothing from today carries over to tomorrow; it is burned up. It is not about ensuring something down the road. It is not about the invisible, but what is right in front of us. But

walking in Torah is what matters. We are not yet ready to agree on the details. But if we really want the world to get

along and for Ya-hwuah to like this place and involve Himself in it again, we are dependent on one another keeping the Torah. Nowadays one can rarely repair a car without a manual, but there are some manuals that are much better than others.

There are many “self-help” systems in the world, but the Torah is not just a better way, but the best. We need every Y’sra’alite to stop violating the Sabbath—not necessarily all going to the

extent of not walking more than a certain distance, but according to the Torah’s standard: to not do customary work, as for an employer. It is not religion; it is just that if we govern our relationships with Him and with one another by what He says, things will work in this world. It is not religion; do these things and your mind will be on the things we need to concentrate on, and we will mellow out and find much to appreciate about one

another. Each one will do his part in a unique way, but we need everyone to do his part—to work six days and rest on one.

Whether we use cash or a check, the bill is still paid, though we should not really think of Torah as a duty, but a privilege. Is it really too hard to stop working one day in seven (and not just

any of the seven, but the particular day He rests)? Is it really a burden to have a feast when He wants to have a party with us?

But we cannot force anyone to do them, or they will not be done rightly. What we are actually studying in the book of Y’hoshua is boundaries. But the how-to’s are not the actual boundaries, but just the building materials. Put a wall where only a cordon is needed, making it stiff and religious, we only

give people something to rebel against. We do not all need to do it in the same way, but we all need to enter into rest. Some of my boundaries rest within you, and I need you to do these

things. The boundaries of Y’sra’al, more than the Mediterranean, the Yarden River, the desert, or the mountains, are found in the Torah. Yet notice here how the boundary is not

always a river. Sometimes it is a desert or a canyon; sometimes it is straight, and sometimes it winds around. Sometimes it is only a rope—or a line drawn on a piece of

paper. They do not all shock us when we cross over them. We may not see them at all until we start looking for them, though

they were there all the time. And even then, they do not

appear the same to everyone. Where some see them as a wall, others see them as a river, which invites us to ride along with the flow. For some For some keeping the Sabbath will mean

nothing more than a simple sentence that says to stop working; others will have many more involved rituals. While we are in

another’s house, we need to respect his rules. But regardless of how we perceive it, we all need to recognize the boundary. To be within Yahuwdah’s boundaries, we do not have to stop being

Shim’on and become Yahuwdah. Even those most eager to have the other tribes come back still feel that they have to

require us to convert. But that is not Torah, but religion. This is just another example of how guarding the boundaries is too big

a job for Yahuwdah alone. Yahuwdah needs others who can hear what they cannot hear, in order to get the whole picture of what Torah is really saying. Once all of us recognize that Torah is the boundary, what will come next? We will never know as

long as we cling to a merely religious understanding rather than being concerned about the boundaries. The Creator says this is what He wants us to do, and when we do it, all of creation can

be realigned for us. Ya-hwuah is so infinite that we cannot really relate to Him until He gives us actions to carry out that

show us who He is in a way that comes right to the point. When we do not pay attention, how can we blame the prophets for

being harsh? The offerings He prescribes are not about killing animals, but about dealing decisively with things in ourselves.

It sometimes takes such an extreme act of violence to really be done with them once and for all. That is not religion, but being

freed to be fully alive again. He added many rituals just because we were looking across the boundaries too often and wanting to be like others who were religious, so He decided to communicate Himself along those lines. But we are not meant to be religious, but Torah people. Ya-hwuah is less upset if we

bring no offering than if we bring an offering but have the wrong attitudes. It is almost as if He did a favor by removing the Temple, so that we would focus on becoming the kind of

people He wants to have in His home. He prefers to dwell among us in a tent more than a building anyway. The Temple was not usually a part of everyday life for most Y’sra’alites; it

was a place to visit three times a year. Why should it be rebuilt if we are not ready to occupy it? But Torah is really about how

we treat our neighbors, for any father wants his children to treat one another rightly. And all the brothers have to be back home before the Father really has peace. Possibly the greatest

inheritance Yahuwdah alone has preserved is the Hebraic perspective—how to think the way the writers of Scripture and the Messiah himself thought, the logic they used rather than

what we have today, which has much Greek thought mixed in. To be sure, many Jews have bought into this as well, and we

must beware the leaven of the P’rushim (read “Rabbis” today) and Tz’doqim, so we must be learned and study out each

aspect, but we must appreciate how far Yahuwdah surpasses most men alive today. We do not need their permission to

return to the covenant, for the King, who is also from Yahuwdah, has already granted that. While we do not inhabit their cities (for we have another job to do), we have the same

boundaries as they, as prescribed by the Torah.

The Levites were scattered to all the tribal lands. Yet this way they ended up being of much benefit just as salt is much better when spread out than when concentrated in one place. They provided priests for each city until the Temple was designated as the only place for sacrifice. Levitical priests were not to go to war, yet their tasks were often described in military terms;

their war was spiritual, though they were also charged with the task of defending the sanctity of the Temple, and sometimes had to kill someone who violated it. The reparation for this

curse came with Pin'has, the grandson of Aharon, who did just that to ward off another curse, standing up for purity in the

worship of Yâ-hwuah

Num. 25:7.

When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took

a spear in his hand;

This young man was next in line to be the high priest. His name comes from a root word meaning “to urge on”. The sight

of what was going wrong urged him on to do what everyone else was hesitant to do. He should not have had to do this, for other Levites should have stopped them before they got this

far; there were armed guards at the entrance to the holy precinct. But someone was about to defile it, and the priests

were ultimately responsible to keep it set apart. Someone had to stand up and do what needed to be done, so he both judged rightly and acted on it quickly--both necessary components of

justice.

Ya-hwuah made an eternal covenant with his family (of the tribe of Levi) for his zealous act of faithfulness. Levi's lot continued to be shedding blood and wielding knives, as this is the way he

was inclined, but Ya-hwuah focused it in a beneficial way. Collins has found evidence that a large contingent mainly of Shim’onites defected from Y’sra’al and went to what is now

Ireland after the incident of Korach under Moshe (which may be where the concept of the “fighting Irish” originated); others

later became some of the Sea Peoples and Spartans.

POINT OF ATTENTION

FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS

(is the true exodus of the Y’sra’alites even though it has been written in vain to boaster Christianity, many will see the truth

beneath concerning the Nätzräym who followed what is called “ THE WAY”

Bareshiyth 29:33

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Ya-hwuah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me

this son also.” She named him Shim'own.

Bareshiyth 29:34

She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three

sons.” Therefore was his name called Lewi.

Bareshiyth 49:8

“Yahuwdah [Yâ-hwuah be praised], your brothers will praise you. (Leah's son) Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

Praise you: an allusion to his name, which actually comes from the root word "to throw" (yadah); while the word for sin actually

means "missing the mark", Yahuwdah has helped cast us toward the target, especially through Yahshua. King David and

the ultimate conqueror, descended from Yahuwdah. The deeper root for "yadah" is "yad", or "hand". We praise Ya-

hwuah through what we set our hands to accomplish for Him.

Bareshiyth 49:9

Yahuwdah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness.

Who will rouse him up?

Yahshua is called the Lion of the Tribe of Yahuwdah.

(Rev. 5:5)

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion Who is of the tribe of Yahuwdah, the Root of Dawiyd, has been found worthy: He will open (at) the book and its seven seals.”

Long before his time this was commonly understood to be a reference to the Messiah, so this iconography is well-founded,

and probably rooted right in this verse. Yet few notice that this lion is a lively cub, not a lazy full-grown lion, which leaves the

hunting to its females if he possibly can—though one still would not want to get in its way!

Bareshiyth 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Yahuwdah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes. To Him will the

obedience of the peoples be.

Shiloh: possibly, “Him to whom it belongs”. The Aramaic targum says this is a reference to the Messiah. Though it was delayed ten generations because of Yahuwdah’s incest (Deut. 23:2), Ya-hwuah promised the tenth (David) that his throne

would be established forever. He may have no dynasty today, but the heir to his throne is on a long journey and will come

back to claim it. Though there was no king in Y’sra’al during the Babylonian exile, they were still allowed to enforce their own laws, but when the Romans took away the Sanhedrin's legal

right to adjudicate capital offenses around A.D. 7, a great lament went up in Jerusalem since the scepter, by definition, HAD departed, and Messiah had not come. But, unknown to

them, there was a lad growing up in Galilee who was qualified to fill the role. He passed the "scepter"--the "keys of the

Kingdom" to bind and loose (make rulings on Torah)--on to his students. Between his feet: The scepter of the kings of Judah

bore the "star of David", as it appears on the tip of the pomegranate. Stars were created, in part, to serve as signs. (1:14) The planets Jupiter (Tsedeq, or righteousness, and associated with the birth of kings) and Venus (the mother)

came to conjunction in 3 B.C. would have been seen as a "star rising from Yaaqov, a scepter out of Y’sra’al" (Num. 24:17).

Jupiter travels more slowly than the earth, so it appeared to go backwards, stop in the constellation of the virgin, then come back to a second conjunction 10 months later, when the magi

saw “his star” again. (Mat. 2:10) This time it was in the constellation Leo (the Lion), and right beside the star Regulus (the ruler, or lawgiver)—which represents the lion's front feet!

(John Mosely, Griffith Observatory; Avi Ben Mordechai)

Lawgiver: at root, the word means “to engrave or inscribe”. So though Yahuwdah is clearly the ruling tribe, it is also the tribe of

the scribes—those who carve out in letters the laws that Ya-hwuah gives. The human king establishes the laws on earth as

well. But in the absence of a visible throne, Yahuwdah has been responsible for keeping the Torah intact, and it has not

departed from existence. Shiloh has long been seen in rabbinic tradition as a name for the Messiah. But there are four different

spellings in Scripture for Shiloh. The way it is spelled in YermiYahuw 7:12 et al does suggest “him to whom it belongs”, but here it appears to stem from "shalah", which means "rest",

probably linked with the Tabernacle’s resting place. (Psalm 95:11; compare Heb. 4:11) However, shalah can mean “at

ease” as well, and the time the royal line overtly reached its termination was when King Tzidqiyahu was exiled to Babylon,

where Yahuwdah came to be so much at ease that most did not want to return home when the corrective sentence was up. Many who did also retained Babylon’s superstitions like not

speaking the names of their deities. There cannot be a scepter as long as this attitude remains.

Bareshiyth 49:11

Binding His foal to the vine, His donkey’s colt to the choice vine; He has washed His garments in wine, His robes in the

blood of grapes.

Foal” is a masculine word and refers particularly to a donkey in the sense of rising up to bear a burden, whereas the word for

“donkey” here is the feminine term, and “colt” is literally “son”, suggesting a possible father-son relationship between two

different donkeys. “The choicest vine” is a phrase that appears again in Yeshayahu 5:2. Washes his clothing in wine: Targum Onqelos, "Let his raiment be of fine purple", an ancient custom

of royalty, apt for the Messiah; Targum Ps.-Jon.: "makes the mountains red with the blood of the slain", i.e., the grapes of

wrath, cited in Yeshayahu 63:2. Yet wine symbolizes joy,

because it is the wicked He is destroying, and this means his Kingdom can come and true peace can be known on earth.

Bareshiyth 49:12

His eyes will be red with wine, His teeth white with milk.

Literally, dark from wine … white from milk. This explains why a vine could tie a donkey down. One would expect it to easily be able to pull away from it—or, more likely, eat from it! And that seems to be the point. If one has plenty, he can afford to let his donkey eat even from the choice vine. Verse 11 is more like the modern idiom that someone who is extremely wealthy can “bathe in champagne”. I.e., he can brush his teeth with

milk! Despite all the flak they have received for it, Yahuwdah is the wealthiest of the tribes. Ya-hwuah has used this to restore

the infrastructure of the Land in our own era.

Bareshiyth 29:35

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yâ-hwuah.” Therefore she named him Yahuwdah. Then

she stopped bearing.

She learned her lesson. Yahuwdah means "thanksgiving" or "praise". His descendants are those specifically called "Jews"

(Yehudi). This is what Paul means by “Anyone who is a praise’r of Ya-hwuah is a Jew.” Both Christians and Jews have

evidenced a strong desire to “give sons to the Father”. To the Jews, it is important to make students of the chosen, and they are right. Christians prioritize making converts of everyone, though in most cases they are really giving them to the other

“father”, the pope. Yahshua told us to make disciples, not converts.

Bareshiyth 49:13

“Zebuwluwn [dwelling] will dwell at the haven of the sea. (Leah's son)He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on

Tsiydown.

Seashore: the only way this has might have been fulfilled historically is the seashore of Galilee (Yeshayahu 9:1, 2), but by

most interpretations, Z'vulun's ancient inheritance was even landlocked, so the final fulfillment (in the latter days) will be all the sweeter for him. According to Y'hezq'el 48, every tribe will

have a seacoast. But in the meantime, many connect the seafaring nations such as the Netherlands with his descendants. Collins points out that not only is Rotterdam the world’s busiest port, but the loose lifestyle of Tzidon (a prominent Phoenician seaport in what is now Lebanon) as exemplified in Akhav and

Yizevel (who was from there) is especially rampant in the Dutch homeland.

Bareshiyth 30:20

Le'ah said, “Aluahiym has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six

sons.” She named him Zebuwluwn.

"Endowment": or dowry; "the better portion". Dwell with me: i.e., settle permanently in my tent, making me his favorite.

Z’vulun thus means "Exalted dwelling" or "habitation. Thus ten of Yaa’qov’s sons were not born to his favorite wife Rakhel’s. Levi was dedicated specifically to the service of Ya-hwuah's

sanctuary; he was the tithe.

Bareshiyth 49:14

“Yissakar [man of hire] is a strong donkey, (Leah's son)

lying down between the saddlebags.

Bareshiyth 49:15

He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a

servant doing forced labor.

They preferred to stay in their territory and bear with this its inconveniences because of the advantages they found in it.

Collins sees this as a possible description of Finland, which has been somewhat of a buffer between Sweden and Russia,

surviving invasion by both but having its liberties severely restricted by both, having tribute imposed on them as the price

of its maintaining some autonomy.

Le'ah said, “Aluahiym has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” She named him Yissakar.

Bareshiyth 49:16

“Dan [judge] will judge his people, (Bilhah's son - Rachel's servant) as one of the tribes of Ysra'al.

Or, "will avenge his people and unite the tribes of Y’sra’al." Some rabbinic writings suggest that this was fulfilled by

Shimshon (Samson), who was from the tribe of Dan. Ya-hwuah did not allow Y’sra’al to enter the Land until courts were

established, and the only way there can be complete justice is when all of Y’sra’al is united. Yet this tribe is the only one not

named in the listing in the book of Revelation. (See notes on vv. 17-18.) Starting from its first colonization of Laish, this tribe has left its name wherever it went, ending up to the greatest

extent in the nation of Denmark.

Bareshiyth 49:17

Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

War-horses make us think of Egypt. If Y’sra’al unites (see note on v. 16), Egypt will fall.

Bareshiyth 49:18

I have waited for your deliverance, Yâ-hwuah.

[ It appears he is contrasting the Counterfeit Mashiyach, whom tradition says will come from the tribe of Dan, with the true

Mashiyach, who will come only a short time afterward for those willing to persevere just a little while longer]

Bareshiyth 30:6

Rachel said, “Aluahiym has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name

Dan means judgment or verdict. Ya-hwuah had accepted her prayer, thus “judging” in her favor. And a judge named

Shimshon (Samson) would come from this tribe.

Dan. 30:7

by Bilhah

Bareshiyth 49:19

“A troop will press on Gawd [troop/invader/good fortune], (Zilpah's son - Leah's servant) but he will press on their heel.

Collins sees the national embodiment of this tribe in latter-day Germany. Besides the reasons he cites, Moshe’s prophecy that the lawgiver (which we have already seen is Yahuwdah) would

be hidden in Gad

(Deut. 33;20-21) c

Could be a reference to “Yiddishkeit” in the era when many Jews primarily spoke this dialect of German.

Bareshiyth 30:10

Zilpah, Le'ah’s handmaid, bore Ya'aqob a son.

Bareshiyth 30:11

Le'ah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gawd.

Again, the firstborn of the slave-girl shares a name--and a philosophy--with a pagan god. She has acknowledged Ya-

hwuah, but why should we assume she worships Him exclusively? She still lives in her father's house in more ways

than one. Haran is the half-way city--the family of Avram's stopping point between full-scale paganism and the Promised Land, and thus a picture of today's half-Y’sra’alite, half-pagan

church. The part of the family that remained here when Avram moved on still could not give up their idols. Gad (pronounced like "God" in American English) sounds just like this word for

"fortune" (luck), which is one reason we should not substitute it for YHWH's name. We are commanded not to even have the

names of pagan deities on our lips (Exodus 23:13), and Gad is listed as just that in Yeshayahu/Isaiah 65:11. He was known as

Ba'al-Gad in Yehoshua 11:17. This is too close to “Lord God” for comfort. Gad’s feast-day, perpetuated through adoption of its practices in Christianized Europe when they could not rid the

common people of their feast of Saturnalia, is what has become modern-day Christmas. Some believe the Norsemen and Germans, who count “Gud” or “Gott” as their deity, are

descendants of Gad, and thus this name for the creator may have stemmed from a form of ancestor worship. Gad can mean "a troop", so she may have also been counting him as another “soldier” in her battle against her sister. But indeed, it turned out that the Roman army chose Gad as their deity--the god of

aggression. They changed the name of this religion to Mithraism. And "luck" (including the terms fortune,

opportunity, and even “per-haps”—by the permission of Hapi, an Egyptian deity) has nothing to do with Ya-hwuah, but is the philosophy of Amaleq, who believed everything was according

to chance. Ya-hwuah's providence is very deliberate, as in 25:21.

Bareshiyth 49:20

“Asher’s [happy] food will be rich. (Zilpah's son - Leah's servant) He will yield royal dainties.

The imagery sounds like that of a baker. Asher’s territory is fertile, but it will also produce petroleum in the last days (Deut. 33:24), contributing greatly to Y’sra’al wealth. Delicacies: or,

luxuries. Collins sees a meantime fulfillment of this in the nation of South Africa with its diamond trade. Indeed, there has been a notable response from that nation to the message of the

restoration of the two houses of Y’sra’al.

Bareshiyth 30:12

Zilpah, Le'ah’s handmaid, bore Ya'aqob a second son.

Bareshiyth 30:13

Le'ah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

I am blessed: Literally, "In my happiness!" But Asher is based on a verb meaning to go straight ahead and make progress,

which should shape our definition of what “happiness” really is--not based, as in English, on "happenstance", which is the same

as "luck" (Gad). Our concepts should be based on Hebrew terminology.

Bareshiyth 49:21

“Naphtaliy [my wrestling] is a doe set free, (Bilhah's son - Rachel's servant) who bears beautiful fawns.

Rachel’s handmaid, conceived again, and bore Ya'aqob a second son.

Beautiful sayings: the valley of Genasaret, in his tribal land, is where the glad news of the Kingdom

(Yeshayahu/Isaiah 52:7)

was first announced. Collins sees the modern embodiment of this tribe to be Sweden.

Bareshiyth 30:8

Rachel said, “With mighty wrestling’s have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtaliy.

Nafthali means “My wrestling" (or maneuvering): based on a word for "twisting"; possibly "born by a roundabout way". She

did not actually give birth, but Rakhel considered this her victory because she knows she will be judged more favorably since she did all that was in her power to provide Yaaqov with more children. These children had to live with the names that

reflected their mothers' running feud. This animosity was unnecessary, because the sisters were taking things too

personally. Rather than simply trying to please Yaaqov, each was trying to please him more than her sister. Yet if they had not cared whether they gave him sons, none of these children would have come forth. Wanting to outdo her sister is a great

example, apart from the bitter competitive spirit in which it was done, for we each excel in certain areas, and admiration for others’ success should lead us to try to climb higher. At the very least it will make us much more fruitful than we would

have otherwise been. This is an example of the left hand being brought into subjection to the right. Vintners go through a

season in which they only water the vines at the minimal level needed for subsistence, because the fact that the grapes have to struggle increases the sugars and makes the wine sweeter.

Bareshiyth 49:22

“Yahuwseph [increaser/adding] is a fruitful vine, (Rachel's son) a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

Branches: literally "daughters”, a picture of his possessions expanding. Half of his son Menashe's land spilled across the

Yarden River—additional territory outside the Land given to him unrequested since Ya-hwuah knew he would need it. But 48:19 links Yosef’s other son Efrayim with the part of Y’sra’al that will come from among the Gentile nations. The suffering Messiah, who is often called the "son of Yosef", "broke down the wall of

partition" between Jews and Gentiles (Ephesians 2:14) because Yosef’s children had spread beyond Y’sra’al's borders and

mixed wit the Gentiles.

Bareshiyth 49:23

The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

Bareshiyth 49:24

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya'aqob,

(from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Ysra'al),

A slack bow—like a lazy person—accomplishes little. Yosef is ready to shoot back when attacked, so he need not run and

hide. Menashe’s descendant Makhir is the only one described in Scripture, other than David, as particularly a “man of war”.

(Y’hoshua 17:1) "Arms of his hands" appears to be in an unusual order. A deeper look shows that the root meaning of "agile" here is "bound", and it is Yâ-hwuah’s Word that is to be

bound onto our hands. (Deut. 6:8) As the descendants of Yosef return to the reality this ritual symbolizes, and makes its

community tighter, we not only prevent our enemies from hurting us, but set the stage for the Shepherd to come back.

Bareshiyth 49:25

Even by the Al of your father, who will help you; by the Shaddai, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above,

blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

Blessings of the deep: Menashe's territory is atop reserves of oil that have until only recently been too deep underground to

exploit.

Bareshiyth 49:26

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Yahuwseph, on the crown of the

head of him who is separated from his brothers.

Yosef is given more blessings than any of the other sons, possibly because he was already someone who recognized the blessing even in very distasteful situations, and appreciated the

fact that Ya-hwuah had been with him even in those circumstances (39:2, 21). Ya-hwuah was with him because he remained in order despite the chaos created by those around him. What he knew of Ya-hwuah was based on stories passed down by his ancestors, probably including Shem. He probably practiced ver little of what we consider religion, but he based

his behavior on what he had learned from them, and Ya-hwuah

continued to intervene in his life. My progenitors: These are indeed the same promises Yitzhaq had given to Yaaqov. So

Yosef is clearly the one made responsible for the seed, which is still scattered. Ya-hwuah Himself says “Efrayim is My firstborn” (YirmeYahuw 31:9), so in some sense he is responsible to bring deliverance to all of Y’sra’al—and this will not be accomplished

by magic, but as we set our hands to fulfill the prophecies.

Bareshiyth 30:22

Aluahiym remembered Rachel, and Aluahiym listened to her, and opened her womb.

Remembered: not that He had forgotten her, but now He proved He had not.

Bareshiyth 30:23

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “Aluahiym has taken away my reproach.

Disgrace: reproach, taunt, but from a root word for “spend the winter”, for YHWH had now ended her “winter” and brought her

into a season of fruitfulness.

Bareshiyth” 30:24

She named him Yahuwseph saying, “May Yâ-hwuah add another son to me.”

Ten sons seemed like a complete number, but Rachel intended for Yaaqov to be more fruitful still. She saw that she was now

capable of bearing children, so her ambition is to be even more fruitful. He did indeed, but Yosef also added to the people of Y’sra’al by means of his two sons who gave Yitzhaq another

tribe.

Bareshiyth 49:27

“Binyamin [son of the right hand] is a ravenous wolf. (Rachel's son)In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will

divide the spoil.”

In his territory the sanctuary for Yâ-hwuah’s dwelling would be built, with its morning and evening sacrifices. King Sha’ul would

be from this tribe. Like a wolf, he had great ability to attack, but when frightened, tended to run away. Collins sees a latter-day fulfillment in the land of Norway, with the heavy emphasis its mythology and symbolism places on wolves. Levite Re’uven Prager claims the Ethiopian falashes are also from the tribe of

Binyamin.

Bareshiyth 35:18

It happened, as her being was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-'Owniy [son of sorrow] but his father named

him Binyamin. [son of my right hand]

She also died because Yaaqov prophesied it due to her association with idolatry. (31;32) Ben-Oni means “son of my

agony/trouble/sorrow”. Binyamin means “son of the right hand”, i.e., his favorite wife Rakhel. The Temple Mount and more of Yerushalayim actually belong to his tribal land. (1

Shmuel 10:2)

Bareshiyth 49:28

All these are the tribes of Ysra'al, two and ten, [already prophesied to be two Houses] and this is what their father

spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

Twelve: literally two and ten, a foreshadowing of the southern and northern kingdoms. This is the first place the tribes of

Y’sra’al are described in terms of being twelve. His own blessing: Yaaqov has pointed out what is already in each of his children and needs to be fully developed—or, in some cases,

overcome. Each has strengths and weaknesses; some need to hear more about one side than the other, but he challenges

each to do something about both. Will we outlive the curses? Or will we remain unstable? Even unstable (flowing) water can be a great blessing, being full of energy—or it can take down a

whole nation. A serpent can destroy one’s enemies, but if it bites you…! Even the glowing blessings given to Yosef are not

certain promises, but things his children are to become, expectations to live up to, for which Ya-hwuah has given

adequate strength to carry through to completion--if we will take them up. He gave parents the ability to bless their

children, but the more we receive, the more we are responsible to do. (Luke 12:48)

Bareshiyth 49:29

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the

field of the Chittiy,

Bareshiyth 49:30

in the cave that is in the field of Mackpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Kena'an, which Abraham bought with the

field from Ephrown the Chittiy as a burial place.

Yaaqov had already told Yosef this, but the brothers would have the memory of where this was fresh in their minds, having

lived in Hevron much more recently.

Bareshiyth 49:31

There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Yitschaq and Ribqah, his wife, and there I buried Le'ah:

He is very specific: Make sure I am buried with them! Leah: He does not say "my wife" as he does for his ancestors; indeed, he only ever calls Rachel his wife. But in te end he chose to be

buried with her rather than where Rachel was buried.

Bareshiyth 49:32

the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Cheth.”

Bareshiyth 49:33

When Ya'aqob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the Raukh, and was

gathered to his people.

Gathered to his people: Often an idiom for being buried together with them. After assorted blessings, curses, and mere

statements about who some of his sons were and what they would become, Yaaqov again repeats, “Make sure my body is

taken back Home!” These are his very last words, so they were never overridden by a later command. Now Y’sra’al is no longer one man; the tribes are now Y’sra’al. The covenant is no longer passed from father to one son; it is now passed to the people as a whole—a nation that has grown exceedingly but is out of its

proper context. He has been the one who struggled and prevailed, but now the responsibility is divided among them all,

and he is just Yaaqov again, and after giving the tribes their inheritance, he wants to go home too. Both Yaaqov and Y’sra’al need to be in that Land. Yaaqov tells them to make sure he is

“planted” in the field where he can be fruitful. (Compare Yochanan 12:24.) This is probably one reason he chose Efrayim

(“doubly fruitful”) as his “firstborn”; M’nasheh means “forgetting”—not so auspicious a name. Each of us must now make sure Y’sra’al returns to the Land. We hope to get back

there in life rather than in death. This is such a great and eternal responsibility that while a huge chunk of Y’sra’al lost its identity over 2,700 years ago, we who were not born into Torah-observant, Sabbath-keeping families are being reawakened to our heritage as the seed comes back to life in us and we hear the call. Like that generation, we have increased exceedingly, but we are still scattered, heavily invested in our “Egypt”, and

out of context. Y’sra’al belongs in Y’sra’al. We have drawn near to our spouses and even to Ya-hwuah in this “Goshen”, so

we have become attached to it. But Y’sra’al desire to return home is set in our souls like homing pigeons. We need to go

back, no matter how far afield we are taken. This very fruitfulness that filled all of Egypt with our ancestors is exactly

what got them in trouble. (Ex. 1:6ff) They moved out of community and the life of a shepherd. They probably became

the best irrigation specialists, and the “Hebrew Storehouse Company” was in the greatest demand because of its quality,

but the wrong people noticed, and they became enslaved. And now, after tremendous growth and increase, “Pharaoh” has

again called in his cards, and everyone is his slave again. It is to our shame that it took the plagues to push us back to Goshen, and yet again we need to get back into context!

He had his entire family around him. He had laid out the path for his heritage and given them prophecies that would empower them to live in unity. He had said all he needed to say and seen

his son as a ruler on the earth. He knew he had fulfilled his calling, and that his work was done. His body was then

“planted” in the Land of Y’sra’al to await the resurrection. But Bilaam’s final end would not be like Yaa’qov’s, for he made

further wrong decisions.

Y’hoshua 13:22;

The children of Ysra'al also killed Bala'am also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

They may not have even known who he was when they killed him, because he had prophesied about them from an overlook

somewhat removed from them. (Num. 22-24) Though he technically obeyed Ya-hwuah and would not curse Y’sra’al

directly, Bilaam (of the royal family of Edom) told the king of Moav how to weaken Y’sra’al (Rev. 2:14), and thus ended up siding with Moav, who had hired him, and thus had to perish along with those with whom he threw in his lot. Though this

generation did not directly suffer from his influence, they could not say it had nothing to do with them. Sometimes we need to settle old scores, as David told Shlomo to do when he himself

had bound himself by promises not to kill certain individuals; he did not promise that his son would not kill them! Purim is all

about what occurs when we leave unfinished business: Mordekhai had to deal with someone his tribe had allowed to

survive when Ya-hwuah had said to annihilate him.

2 Kefa 2:15;

When they left the straight Way, they went astray, having followed in the way of Bil`â´m son of B`ówr who loved the

reward of injustice,

Rev. 2:14

Moreover, I have a few things against you: that you maintain there those strongly retaining the instruction of Bil`â´m, who

instructed Bâlâ´q to throw a snare before the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l: to eat things offered to worshipped images and to commit

fornication

Bareshiyth 32:22

He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of

the Yabboq.

The Yabboq flows west through Gil'ad into the Yarden halfway between the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee. Later it would be

the northern border of Moav, then Ammon. Yabboq means "emptying out", and this is what was being done to Yaaqov

here. He left his old self behind and gained a new identity. (v. 28) Why is Yaaqov’s daughter not mentioned? Daughters were

rarely killed in battle, but were taken as booty. If all the sons were killed, and the mothers too in case they were pregnant (as

one actually was), then the inheritance would revert to Esau.

—a man—called a messenger by Hosea

Bareshiyth _12:4

So Abram went, as Yâ-hwuah had spoken to him. Lowt went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed

out of Charan.

One is never too old to heed Yâ-hwuah’s call. Avram did not use the excuse that he was already too set in his ways. As it turns out, he had not even reached "mid-life" yet when he walked

away from his past. Having no son of his own, Avram may have adopted his brother's orphan. Lot was not called by Ya-hwuah to go as Avram was; Avram had "left him behind" as far as he was concerned, but Lot apparently believed Avram had truly

heard from a reliable source, and chose to go along.

and Yâ-hwuah by Yaʽaqob ̱ ;

but vide infra—with him until the breaking of the day—literally, the ascending of the morning.

The letters of Y’sra’al

The letter yud, a small suspended point, reveals the spark of essential good hidden within the letter tet. Subsequent to the initial tzimtzum, the contraction of Yâ-hwuah's Infinite light in order to make "place" for Creation, there remained within the

empty void a single, potential point or "impression." The secret of this point is the power of the Infinite to contain finite

phenomena within Himself and express them to apparent external reality. Finite manifestation begins from a zero-

dimensional point, thereafter developing into a one-dimensional line and two-dimensional surface. This is alluded to in the full spelling of the letter yud (yud-vav-dalet): "point" (yud), "line"

(vav), "surface" (dalet). These three stages correspond in Kabbalah to: "point" (nekudah), "spectrum" (sefirah), "figure"

(partzuf). The initial point, the essential power of the yud, is the "little that holds much." The "much" refers to the simple Infinity of Yâ-hwuah hidden within the initial point of revelation, which

reflects itself as the Infinite potential of the point to develop and express itself in all the manifold finite phenomena of time and

space.

Before the tzimtzum, the power of limitation was hidden, latent within Yâ-hwuah's Infinite Essence. Following the tzimtzum, this

power of limitation became revealed, and paradoxically the Infinite Essence of Yâ-hwuah that originally "hid" the power of limitation now itself became hidden (not in truth, but only from

our limited human perspective) within the point of contracted light.

From within this point of limitation is revealed the secret of the ten sefirot, the Divine channels of light through which Yâ-hwuah continually brings His world into being. Ten, the numerical value

of the yud, is also the number of commandments (literally "statements") revealed by Yâ-hwuah to His People Y’sra’al at

Sinai. All the commandments, and in fact every letter of Torah, possess the power of the "little that holds much"; each is a

channel for the revelation of Yâ-hwuah's Infinite Light in finite reality.

The letter shin appears engraved on both sides of the head- tefilin. On the right side, the shin possesses three heads, while

on the left side it possesses four heads. In Kabbalah we are taught that the three-headed shin is the shin of this world while

the four- headed shin is the shin of the World to Come.

The secret of the shin is "the flame [Divine Revelation] bound to the coal [Divine Essence]." A simmering coal actually possesses

an invisible flame within it, which emerges and ascends from the surface of the coal when the coal is blown upon. The three levels: coal, inner flame, and outer flame, correspond to the

secret of chash-mal-mal, as will be explained in the next letter, the tav.

One of the meanings of the word shin in Hebrew is shinui, "change." The coal symbolizes changeless essence, the secret of the verse: "I am Yâ-hwuah, I have not changed," meaning

that relative to Yâ-hwuah’s Essence absolutely no change has

occurred from before Creation to after Creation. The inner flame is the paradoxical latent presence of the power of change within the changeless. The outer flame of the shin is continuously in a

state of motion and change.

As in the above-quoted verse, the changeless Essence is the secret of the Name Havayah. The power of change, as latently

present within Yâ-hwuah’s Essence before Creation and thereafter revealed in the infinite intricacy and beauty of an

ever-dancing flame, is the secret of the explicit Name of Creation, Aluahiym, the only Name of Yâ-hwuah which appears in the plural. The number of the letter shin, 300, unites these

two Divine Names as the "flame bound to the coal." In at'bash, the Name Havayah transforms to the letters mem-tzadik-pei-

tzadik, which total 300. The five letters of Aluahiym (alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem) when written in full, also equal 300.

The three heads of the shin of this world correspond to the three levels of the changeless, potential, and actual change as discussed above. In this world, the changeless is symbolized

only by a black, dark coal, not as the revealed light of the flame. Nonetheless the endurance of the flame depends upon the changeless essence of the coal. In the World to Come, the

changeless essence will reveal itself within the flame. This revelation of the future is the secret of the fourth head of the

shin.

In the flame of a candle one sees three levels of light: the "dark light" around the wick of the candle, the white flame

encompassing it, and an amorphous aura around the white flame itself. Each of these three levels of revealed light

manifests a dimension contained within the invisible flame present in the coal. In general the flame symbolizes love, as is

said:

"as mighty as death is love...the flame of Yâ-hwuah."

The dark light corresponds to the love of Y’sra’al, souls enclothed within physical bodies. The white light corresponds to

the love of Torah. The aura corresponds to the love of Yâ-hwuah. These are the three essential manifestations of love as taught by the Ba'al Shem Tov. The fourth head of the shin of the future - the revelation of the essence of the coal itself - corresponds to the love of the Land of Y’sra’al and, as our

Sages teach: "the Land of Y’sra’al will in the future spread to incorporate all the lands of the earth."

Although the letter reish is situated close to the end of the alef-beit, "its primary meaning is "head" or "beginning." There are four "beginnings" in the alef-beit (comparable to the four New

Years enumerated in the beginning of the tractate Rosh HaShanah) relative to four different categories of phenomena.

The ordinal beginning of the alef-beit is the letter alef. Phonetically, the vapor, the amorphous "matter" from which the

pronunciation of every letter is formed, is the secret of the letter hei. In script, every letter begins from a point, the secret of the letter yud. In relation to meaning, cognizant intelligence

or wisdom, reish means "beginning." These four letters combine to spell aryeh, "the lion," the first of the four "holy animals" of

the Divine chariot of Ezekiel. They further combine to spell yirah, "fear" or "awe."

"The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Yâ-hwuah." In Chassidut we are taught that the inner experience of the soul

which serves as the vessel to arouse and contain ever new flashes of insight, wisdom, is bitul, "selflessness." Fear, the

beginning of wisdom, corresponds to the source of this state in the soul. Fear "shocks" ego, breaking the innate coarseness of

the heart, that coarseness or egocentricity that prevents one from being truly receptive and perceptive to reality outside oneself in general, and the Divine Essence of all reality in

particular.

The two letters that fill the letter reish are yud and shin, spelling yeish, which means "something," in general identified

in Chassidut with the consciousness of ego or being a separate, independent entity - a "something." Reish is the only letter

"pregnant" with this "filling." In Chassidut we are taught that though the lower "something," the "created something,"

appears to be totally separate from the consciousness of its Creator and the creative force which continuously brings it into existence, nonetheless its seeming separate "some thingness" serves, in truth, to reflect the Absolute and "True Something"

who is truly and uniquely independent, the

"Cause of all causes."

The insight of Divine wisdom is the "nothing" between the two states of "something," whose ultimate purpose is to serve to

draw the consciousness of the "True Something" into the experience of the lower "something." In the power of the

process of rectification, the ego must first be "shaken" by the fear of Yâ-hwuah, the beginning of wisdom. Thereafter one’s "matter" can be purified and clarified in order to become a

fitting "mirror" to reflect the True Something. This process of clarification, dependent upon wisdom and its beginning, fear, is expressed in the verse: "You have made all in wisdom." "Made" refers throughout the Torah to the process of rectification and

clarification. The Zohar paraphrases this verse: "You have clarified them all with wisdom." The "art of clarification" is the "beginning of the end"; the three final letters of the alef-beit,

are the beginning, middle, and end of the end, respectively. Just as the tzadik connects to the kuf in its full spelling, so the

"reish" "leads in" to the shin, all the clarifications of wisdom ascending upward to their Divine Source in the flame of the

love of Yâ-hwuah and His people Y’sra’al.

The alef is formed by two yuds, one to the upper right and the other to the lower left, joined by a diagonal vav. These

represent the higher and lower waters and the firmament between them, as taught by the Ari z"l ("Rabbi Isaac Luria of

blessed memory," who received and revealed new insights into the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah)

Water is first mentioned in the Torah in the account of the first day of Creation: "And the Raukh of Yâ-hwuah hovered over the

surface of the water." At this time the higher and the lower waters were indistinguishable; their state is referred to as "water in water." On the second day of Creation Yâ-hwuah separated the two waters by "stretching" the firmament

between them.

In the service of the soul, as taught in Chassidut, the higher water is water of joy, the experience of being close to Yâ-hwuah, while the lower water is water of bitterness, the

experience of being far from Yâ-hwuah.

In Jewish philosophy, the two intrinsic properties of water are "wet" and "cold." The higher water is "wet" with the feeling of

oneness with the "exaltation of Yâ-hwuah," while the lower water is "cold" with the feeling of separation, the frustration of experiencing the inherent "lowliness of man." Divine service, as

taught by Chassidut, emphasizes that in fact the primary consciousness of both waters is the sense of the Divine, each from its own perspective: from the perspective of the higher

water, the greater the "exaltation of Yâ-hwuah," the greater the oneness of all in His Absolute Being; from the perspective of the

lower water, the greater the "exaltation of Yâ-hwuah," the greater the existential gap between the reality of Yâ-hwuah and

that of man, thus the inherent "lowliness of man."

The Talmud tells of four sages who entered the "Pardes," the mystical orchard of Raukhually elevation reached only through

intense meditation and Kabbalistic contemplations. The greatest of the four, Rabbi Akiva, said to the others before

entering, "When you come to the place of pure marble stone, do not say 'water-water,' for it is said, 'He who speaks lies shall not stand before my eyes.'" The Ari z"l explains that the place

of "pure marble stone" is where the higher and the lower waters unite. Here one must not call out 'water-water,' as if to divide the higher and lower waters. "The place of pure marble stone" is the place of truth--the Divine power to bear two opposites

simultaneously; in the words of Rabbi Shalom ben Adret: "the paradox of paradoxes." Here "the exaltation of Yâ-hwuah" and

His "closeness" to man unite with the "lowliness of man" and his "distance" from Yâ-hwuah.

The Torah begins with the letter beit: "Bereishit (In the beginning) Yâ-hwuah created the heavens and the earth." The

Ten Commandments, the Divine revelation to the Jewish People at Sinai, begin with the letter alef: "Anochi [I] am Yâ-hwuah your Yâ-hwuah who has taken you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." The Midrash states that "higher reality" had been set apart from "lower reality," for Yâ-hwuah had decreed that neither higher reality descend nor lower reality ascend. In

giving the Torah, Yâ-hwuah annulled His decree, He Himself being the first to descend, as it is written: "And Yâ-hwuah came

down on Mount Sinai". Lower reality, in turn, ascended: "And Moses approached the cloud...." The union of "higher reality,"

the upper yud, with the "lower reality," the lower yud, by means of the connecting vav of Torah, is the ultimate secret of the

letter alef.

In The "Letters of Rabbi Akiva," the full spelling of the letter lamed (lamed-mem-dalet) is read as short for the phrase: "a heart that understands knowledge" (lev meivin da'at). The

numerical value of this phrase (608) equals "heart" (32) times "Eve" (19), i.e. "the heart of Eve."

In his commentary on the story of the Garden of Eden, the original episode of mankind, Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra states that Adam is the secret of the brain; Eve, the secret of the heart; the snake, the secret of the liver. In Kabbalah and Chassidut these fundamental correspondences are developed and explained in

depth.

Adam and Eve, male and female, are the prototype Raukhually forces of giving and receiving. The marital union and gift of

male to female relates to the secret of knowledge, as is said: "And Adam knew his wife Eve." For this reason Adam and Eve

are often seen to represent teacher and pupil. The teacher contracts his intellect into a point (yud) in order to convey his

teaching to his student, whereas the student nullifies his previous levels of conception to become a fitting vessel for the

new, wondrous teachings of his teacher.

In particular, the form of the lamed represents the aspiration of the truly devoted pupil to learn from the mouth of the teacher. The literal meaning of the letter lamed is "to learn" (or "teach"). The seed of wisdom, alluded to by the letter yud, descends from

the brain (Adam) to impregnate the full consciousness of the heart (Eve). The heart aspires (upwardly) to receive this point of

insight from the brain. This is the secret of the form of the letter lamed, the heart ascending in aspiration to conceive and comprehend ("understand knowledge") the point of wisdom,

the yud situated at the top of the letter lamed.

Our Sages refer to the lamed as "a tower soaring in air." Three hundred laws relate to the secret of this "flying tower." In our study of Torah, the "flying tower" is the expression of our love and devotion to the teachings of the Torah, our aspiration to

conceive its inner truth, lifting us above the "gravity barrier" of earthly preoccupation. We are told that the Ba'al Shem

Tov would place the palm of his hand on the heart of a Jewish child and bless him to be a "warm Jew." The palm, the power to actualize potential, becomes manifest - at the inner Raukhual

level - in the "will [crown, keter] of the heart" to conceive and unite with Yâ-hwuah's Will, the teachings of Torah. The lamed, the heart, aspires upwardly and connects to the yud of Divine

insight. This is reflected in the form of the letterlamed, a kaf reaching upward to a yud. This is also the secret of the Raukhual sequence hinted at in the letters of the word keli,

"vessel" (kaf-lamed-yud): the power to actualize potential (the palm [kaf] of the Ba'al Shem Tov), manifest in the aspiration of

the heart [lamed] reaching upward to conceive the secret of Divine wisdom [yud]. Throughout Torah the heart symbolizes

the primary concept of vessel, the secret of Eve.

shalom

Yâhuwshúa`

Aluahiym Yâhuwshúa’HaMaschiYach

In His Name

Blessed be, in His name

"d'aidala nehwa Awraham aina ayti"

Asher Hu-Howeh, Hayah, waBah –

'Ya-hwuah be with you.' and they answered him, 'Ya-hwuah bless you.' "

Be not blind to the truthAnd, hinnei, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they

heard that Yâhuwshúa` passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Yâ-hwuah, [thou] Ben David. An Yâhuwshúa`

stood still, and called them, and said, what will ye that I shall do unto you they say unto Him, Yâ-hwuah, that our eyes may be

opened. So Yâhuwshúa` had compassion [on them], and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight,

and they followed him.

His servant and yoursshalowm in Righteousnessby the GRACE of Yâ-hwuah

keiYAHnätzräya

Remember me and pray for me that Yâ-hwuah will be gracious unto me and be merciful unto my sins which I have sinned

against him. Peace be to them that read and that hear these things and to their servants:

Amein and Amein

Freely ye have received, freely give

A rule necessary, and of great extent. A servant in the Gospel Vineyard, though worthy of his Comfortable support while in the work. Should never preach for hire, or make a secular traffic of the Ruwach (spiritual work): what a scandal is it for a man to traffic with gifts which he pretends, at least, to have received

from the Ruwach HaQodesh, of which he is not the master, but the dispenser. He who preaches to get a living, or make a

fortune, is guilty of the most infamous sacrilege

The Everlasting Covenant is The Sabbath

Aluahiym Yâhuwshúa `HaMashiyach

be with your Raukh