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Zekeniam YISCHRaEL Sherut haRitztzuy (the ministry of reconciliation) by whom we have now received the ( Atonement) Reconciliation of the Dvar HaRitztzuy Let 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 My Memorial for generation after generation.”

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Zekeniam YISCHRaEL

Sherut haRitztzuy

(the ministry of reconciliation)

by whom we have now received the

( Atonement)

Reconciliation of the Dvar HaRitztzuy

Let 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

My Memorial for generation after generation.”

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Shemot 3:13-16

This is MY NAME for ever,

YaHuWaH, 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 togeneration." "Shemoth 6:3," and I appeared to

Abraham, to Yitzchak, andto Ya’aqob as hashadday [the almighty]. and my

name, YaHuWaH, was not well known (famous) to them.

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)

(in His Name)

YaHuWaH

[Yah -hoo-Wah]

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is the Name of the Creator.

YaHuWShuWaH

(YaHuWSCHuA) 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"

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The 10 Commandments are

"The Torah."

The Hebrew word "torah"

is translated into English as meaning,

"The Law."

The word actually means much more.

The (archaic) root is:

yarah (yaw-raw')[Strong's #3384];

to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach:

And by implication; to discipline, and show "the way." That is,

or

WORSHIPPING THE SUN OR THE MOON

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Transgressing His Covenant

Since the dawn of time (or shortly thereafter) the descendants of Qayin have

worshipped the moon.

Around 3000 B.C. Uruk was the largest settlement in southern Mesopotamia

(Iraq/Babylon). It was most likely the largest settlement in the world at that

time, with around 80,000. people. It is believed to be the Biblical town of Erech

(Gen 10:10) the second city founded by Nimrod in Shinar. The people of Uruk

worshipped the Moon God Nanna (also known as Sin, as in Mount Sinai), the

Moon Goddess Ningal, and her daughter Innana (the New Moon Goddess) also

referred to as the Queen of Heaven or the Queen of the South. Throughout other

places in the near east she was called, Ishtar, Astarte, Asherah, and Dumuzi

(also Tammuz)

Debarim 17:2

If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which YaHuWaH

your Aluahiym gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the

sight of YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, in transgressing His Covenant,

Debarim 4:13

He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even

the Ten Words; and He wrote them on two tables of stone.

Stone: by tradition, it was sapphire, corresponding with the "plane" on which

YaHuWaH feet stood

Shemot. 24:10

They saw the Aluahiym of YISCHRaEL. Under His feet was like a paved work

of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

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and like which His throne appeared

Yechezqe'l 1:26;

Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in

appearance like a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a

likeness as the appearance of a man high above it.

A man: Heb., Adam. Appearance…resembled…looked like: all terminology of

comparison and allegory, not literal physical entities, though they are very real.

Yechezqe'l 10:1

Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the keruwbiym

there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the

likeness of a throne.

On Mt. Sinai, Moshe, Aharon, and the elders of YISCHRaEL saw a similar

vision of YaHuWaH with a tile work of sapphire under His feet. The word

sapphire is related to the Hebrew word for writing or recounting. The word for

stone is from the word for building. Thus we could say YaHuWaH throne is built

through the recounting of what is written.

and the inscription went all the way through the stones so that when held

backwards the gaps between the letters spelled something different. This

reminds us of the contrast between

"The Ruwach of the Torah"

and the letter, the curse and the promises, the choice between life and death

that it offers, and the fact that long after this sinful world is done away with and

recreated and the sin against which it spoke is long forgotten, the Word of

YaHuWaH will still endure forever. There is even a tradition that in the

Messianic kingdom, the letters of the Torah will rearrange themselves and,

though all the letters are still present, it will present a different message for the

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altered environment to which it will still go on speaking. Moshah wrote the

words of the Torah on the slabs after YaHuWaH had carved into them the

instructions for building the Tabernacle.

Shemot 34:28

He was there with YaHuWaH forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread,

nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten

Commandments.

Hirsch says this forty-day period was from the first of Elul until the tenth of the

seventh month, the Day of Atonement, a period which focuses us on repentance

in preparation for that day. A healthy person can go forty days without food

(and no one was ever asked to do so), but going more than three days without

water is a miracle. But he was directly in YaHuWaH's presence, and needed no

other sustenance. Yahshua told His disciples, "I have food to eat that you don't

know about: My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me, and to complete

His work."

Yochanan 4:32-33

He wrote: Around the "blueprint" for the Tabernacle that YaHuWaH had carved

onto them, Moshe also wrote the terms of the covenant. He is bringing a new

covenant here--or really the same one, but presented in a different order.

YaHuWaH realized the people could not handle the ten words until we learned

to be a set-apart people, so He begins with that this time before He ever says

anything about the ten words.

Debarim 17:3

and has gone and served other mighty ones, and worshiped them, or the sun, or

the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;

Idolatry is the blemish of blemishes.

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Worship of created things mixed with worship of the Creator is not presentable

to YaHuWaH. Army of the skies: the rest of the stars, planets, or heavenly

bodies. We know from the names of the planets that we have in English today

that they were at least associated with objects of worship. There is evidence

that, at least with "Mars", there was real reason that men feared the actual

planet, because until 701 B.C.E. it used to periodically come close enough to the

earth to cause disruptions in the magnetic fields and major crustal tides, which

translated into not only earthquakes but the raising of new mountain ranges.

This seems to explain many of the cataclysmic events described in Scripture. But

YaHuWaH thus shows that He used these otherwise-horrifying events to the

advantage of His people, so if we are on His right side, there is no cause to fear

the instruments He uses, whatever damage they may do to those who are not--or

try to placate them, which is about as futile an endeavor as one could imagine,

for, just like wood and stone, they have neither eyes to see nor ears to hear.

Appointed: i.e., to be worshipped; alt., "commanded". YaHuWaH has put them

there for an important purpose--for signs and to define the seasons by which He

operates.

B’Rayshiyth1:14

Aluahiym said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of heavens to divide the day

from the night; and let them be for signs for, days and years;

If the only part of the Torah we had was this chapter, we would have enough to

be able to draw near to YaHuWaH. Appointed times: that is, appointments.

Each of the spring festivals indeed coincided with an important event in the life

of the Messiah in his first coming. It stands to reason that the fall festivals also

signify on what day the prophesied events that are yet to be fulfilled may take

place. But they are not just appointments for Him, but for all of YISCHRaEL.

The term also means fixed or agreed-upon times. YaHuWaH has fixed the times

for these, for they are His, though He allows us and even requires us to

participate in them, which is part of the enacting of the covenant between Him

and corporate YISCHRaEL. If you want to be part of His covenant, you must

agree to them. And we must show up at the right time--not the most convenient

day nearest to them--or we will not find Him there. But if we call one another

together at the right time, we can come with the expectation that the Director

will be there to meet us, because He made the appointments. The term

"appointed" is even used of becoming engaged for marriage. This is exactly

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what YaHuWaH intends for us, and He gave us many occasions to rehearse for

the wedding. Today, without the Temple, we can only do rehearsals for the

Rehearsals, yet they bring us one step closer in our training. The root word for

"rehearsals" is "calling out", which coincides with "ekklesia", the assembly that

Yahauhshua came to call back out of the Gentile world and back into the

covenant of YISCHRaEL. And no one can do a rehearsal on his own; he can

only practice. If we only show up for some of the rehearsals and not all of them,

we will not be in the play; our understudies will be instead. And merely being

present in body is not enough, if our attention is not fully engaged. But as we do

show up for the rehearsal and gather in unity with our whole selves turned over

to Him in worship, we are indeed rehearsing for the Kingdom.

B’Rayshiyth1:15

and let them be for lights in the expanse of heavens to give light on the earth;”

and it was so.

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B’Rayshiyth1:16

Aluahiym made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the

lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

These two lights were not given names here, only descriptions, because men

tended to worship them. Much of Christianity as it has become is based on sun-

worship, Islam has moon-worship at its root, and the sun-worshippers condemn

the moon- and star-worshippers, and vice versa. The later Hebrew terms for the

sun and moon are simply “the servant” and “the white one”. They work for

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YaHuWaH; He does not work for them. They are only to rule the times and

seasons, not us. They tell His story

Tehillim 19,

tell us when to plant and harvest, and show what is going on in the unseen

realm that will soon be manifested in the physical world. We are to watch them,

like a clock, for they affect our lives, but we are not to fear them. As the one

actually reflects the light of the other, Yahuahshua said that we, like Himself,

could be the "light of the world", having been "chosen in Him before the

foundation of the world".

Eph. 1:4

Long ago, even before the disruption of the world, YaHuWaH loved us and

chose us in haMashiyach to be set-apart and without fault in His eyes.

Olam She'awar

The World That Was

[According as “B-Rë’shíyth bârâ´” [Genesis 1: 1] “Beforehand He chose”

us, in Him [“Within the First He chose…”], before the foundation of the world,

for us to be pure and unblemished before His sight;]

B’Rayshiyth 1:17

Aluahiym set them in the expanse of heavens to give light to the earth,

This is not a scientifically-fallible book. The fact that the sun, moon, and stars

are all “in” the expanse tells us that the expanse consists of more than just the

earth’s atmosphere as such. So there are still waters beyond the heavens; they

are not merely rain-clouds, but something beyond what we would call the

“universe”. This is a “kink in the rubber band”, but as the narrative of the

“stretching out”: continues, it will be brought to further clarity. The term

“Kingdom of the Heavens” is used only in MattithYahuw account (the only

“Gospel” we are sure was written in Hebrew). So there is something in both of

the heavens that separates the one type of water from the other.

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B’Rayshiyth 1:18-19

and to regulate the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the

darkness. Aluahiym saw that it was good. There was evening [dusk] and there

was morning [dawn], a fourth day.

The creation week is often seen as a microcosm of human history, in which each

"day is as a thousand years"

Teh. 90:5

You have swept them away, they are as sleep.In the morning they sprout like

new grass.

the Mashiyach, the Light of the World, entered the scene at the end of the

"fourth day" of this "world week". A 6,000-year-old universe need not conflict

with the appearance of age. Trevor Norman and Barry Setterfield compared 163

measures of the speed of light through the centuries and found it (well beyond

expected margins of error) to be slowing down in a cosecant-squared curve.

Graphs of "light-year"- based accounting and earth-revolution-based time

converge about that long ago by this measure. The electric permittivity of space

has not changed, but the magnetic permeability has been "stretched out"

cf. YashaYahuw 42:5;

Thus says the Power, YaHuWaH, Creator of ha'shamayim, Who stretches out

ha'shamayim and spreads out the earth and that which comes out of it, Who

gives inspiration to the people upon it and breath to those who walk on it.

YirmiYahuw 10:12

He has made the earth by His Power, He has established the world by His

Wisdom (chokmah), and by His Understanding (biynah) has He stretched out

the heavens: (still stretching-out today!)

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The Torah is not as concerned with things above ("heaven") or beneath ("the

afterlife), but with the responsibilities that are right in front of us. We may think

we are too sophisticated to worship the sun. moon, and stars today (though

people do follow horoscopes), but we worship many things that are meant to

serve us.

In Yoseyf's dream, the sun and moon also represent one's forefathers

The forefathers--either the "early Church fathers" or the ancient rabbinical

sages--while they may have said much we can learn from, were far from perfect

and are not to be worshipped. We must also confess that our fathers gave us

some lies as an inheritance.

Yirmeyahu 16:19

O YaHuWaH, my Strength, and my Fortress, and my Refuge, in the day of

affliction (tribulation/oppression), the gentiles shall come to you from the ends

of the earth, and shall say, "Surely our fathers have inherited only lies, futility,

and there is no value in them."

Ends of the earth: can also mean “final [days] of the earth”, which further

clarifies the point of reference—our own day. Falsehood: includes the sense of

being a disappointment. Vapor: a breath, or vanity—something of no substance.

Gentiles: By the first century, Jews spoke of only fellow Jews as “men”; other

were counted on the same level as dogs. But this presented one problem: they

could not relegate their exiled relatives, the other tribes, to this category, so they

spoke of them as “Gentiles” since they had become like a mixture between man

and animal. Everything the Apostles wrote about the “Gentiles „must therefore

be taken in this context. The second sentence (not being a people), which was

not doubled, but extended sevenfold) to 2,730 years, is now at an end, and many

who thought we were Gentiles are realizing that though YaHuWaH allowed us

some degree of mercy by providing salvation through YaHuWSHuWaH, have

still been understanding Him in many wrong ways, and are now being called to

jettison many theological concepts and rediscover what it means to be Ysra'al

and to know YaHuWaH as YaHuWaH and not as anyone else. No benefit:

something you cannot “cash in”, but at the root, something by which you cannot

ascend; they keep us on the same level where we are. Falsehood: a sham,

something meant to deceive. What our parents DID give us served to obscure

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what they did NOT give us—the Torah, which they said would kill us! So to

ascend again, we must call on the merits of our fathers’ fathers, to whom it was

given, since we want to be more like them than our immediate ancestors.

He gives men wives to help us

B’Rayshiyth 2:18

YaHuWaH Aluahiym said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will

make him a helper suitable for him.”

But they are not to have the final word in decisions, for the husband is the head

YaHuWaH appointed. The sun does not bow to the moon. Our children are

given to help share the burden, but we must not give in to their foolish whims.

We are to honor our parents, but still leave them in order to cleave to a spouse.

Many spend all their time polishing and perfecting their cars, and indeed many

of these are named after the gods (Mazda, Mercury, Saturn, etc.). We should not

let our homes fall into decay, but they do not need to take time and energy away

from Kingdom work. We also worshipped the sun when we were in Sunday

churches, though we did not realize it. But serving our own desires--any that are

not in line with Torah or even with YaHuWaH priorities for YISCHRaEL today--

is the path to serving idols, whatever form they may take. Make sure you are not

serving them in place of YaHuWaH.

Debarim 17:4

and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently;

and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in

YSCHRaEL,

inquire diligently. There must be evidence that this person is serving the wrong

thing. Without this step, the report could be only hearsay, suspicion, or gossip.

But we are not free just to say, "That's a rumor and it might not be true; I'm not

going to think about it." We are not to become witch-hunters, but neither are we

permitted to be lax, lest Amaleq come and devour some of us. We must found out

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if there is substance to it. Verse 6 explains what constitutes reliability. There

must be a confession or witnesses. The best place to start is to go to the source.

In YSCHRaEL: the holiest part of the earth, where there is no tolerance for

anything pagan, whatever may be permitted anywhere else.

Debarim 17:5

then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing,

to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death

with stones.

The gates are where we are to write YHWH's words, and anyone who passes

through them is served notice that he must adhere to YHWH's standards. In

Muslim countries where they still do stone people to death, it is often a

"kangaroo court" in which women have no say at all when accused. Here, men

and woman have the same rights. A right to be executed? No, to be fairly

judged, whatever the outcome. Before taking them to the gate--before we even

accuse someone--we must be sure we have evidence. Every YSCHRaELite must

be a lawyer of sorts, able to search out whether there truly is a defect in

someone's actions, and present a valid case. There must be eyewitnesses, and

the judge will decide if the accusation is true. Only the judge(s) can determine

that someone deserves to be stoned, and he may have to take additional time to

investigate further himself; it cannot be rushed, though swift justice is also a

deterrent. The ancient method of stoning was not to throw small stones at people

like children do, but to first throw someone off a cliff to stun him, then knock him

out with a large stone to the head, then continue to pile relatively large stones

on him until he was dead and covered up. It formed a memorial to remind others

not to do the same thing. It is very hard to do this to a person who comes from

our midst, but it is the Torah, whether we like it or not (though we'd do best to

learn to like it). YHWH gives fair warning. We can only pray that by the time we

again have the sovereignty to carry this out, we will all have learned enough

that it will not be necessary. Ideally it should be a rare occasion, but the fact

that we ended up steeped in idolatry means that not enough people did love each

other enough to "nip it in the bud" like this before it spread.

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10 words 10 commandments

Love YaHuWaH your Might One with all your heart.

Love your neighbor as yourself

I Am YaHuWaH.

Yahuahshua pointed “the way of righteousness” to his followers

Acts 24:14

But this I confess to you, that after The Way, which they call a sect, so I serve

the Aluahiym of our Fathers, believing all things which are according to the

Torah, and which are written in the Prophets;

Matt 5:17

Don’t think that I have come to loosen [unravel/misinterpret] the Torah or the

Neb'im. I didn’t come to loosen [unravel], but to fulfill [give the correct

interpretation - to bring them out in fulness].

I have come: a Hebrew idiom for “my purpose is”. To give them their fullest

meaning: as seen by the rest of this discourse, where He expands on the

common interpretations of His day to get to the heart of the matter. "Fulfill" (or

complete) was also a technical term used by rabbis to describe a correct

interpretation, which "established" it. He reveals what YaHuWaH really

intended by the commandments by setting forth specific cases a common

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rabbinic method. In MattithYahuw He reiterates, alludes to, and/or amplifies on

every one of the ten commandments.

Matt 5:18

for most certainly, I tell you, until shamayim and earth pass away

2 Kepha 3:11-12

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people

ought you to be in Set-apart conduct and the fear of Aluahiym, looking for and

earnestly desiring the coming of the Day of YaHuWaH, which will cause the

burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

not even one Yodh (י) or accent mark (taga) shall in any way pass away from

the Torah, until everything happens.

Debarim 30:11-20;

For this Commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for

you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who shall go

up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?

„Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who shall go over the sea

for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?” But the

Word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I

command you this day to love YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, to walk in His ways,

and to keep His Commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, that you

may live and multiply, and that YaHuWaH your Aluahiym may bless you in the

Land where you go in to possess it. But if your heart turns away, and you will

not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other mighty ones, and serve

them; I declare to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not

prolong your days in the Land, where you pass over the Yarden to go in to

possess it. I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set

before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that

you may live, you and your seed; to love YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, to obey His

Voice, and to cleave to Him; for He is your life, and the length of your days; that

you may dwell in the Land which YaHuWaH swore to your fathers, to Abraham,

to Yitshaq, and to Ya'aqob, to give them.

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Yasha 40: 12-25

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and Who marked off

the sky with His span, and Who calculated the dust of the earth in a measure,

and Who weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who has

directed the Ruwach of YaHuWaH, or has taught Him as His counselor? Who

did He take counsel with, and Who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path

of justice, and taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of

understanding? Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are

regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, He lifts up the islands like a

very little thing. Lebanown is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for

a burnt offering. All the heathen masses are as if nonexistent before Him. They

are regarded by Him as less than nothing, as if they had already been brought to

and end and laid waste. To whom then shall you compare the Power (Al)? Or

what likeness shall you compare to Him ?A workman has cast an image, and the

goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. He who is too

impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that shall not rot. He seeks a

skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that shall not be moved.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard, yet? Haven’t you been told from the

beginning? Haven’t you discerned the Foundations of the earth?It is He Who

sits above the circle of the earth (in orbit of the earth), and its inhabitants are

like grasshoppers; Who stretches out ha'shamayim like a curtain, and spreads

them out like a tent to dwell in;Who brings heads to nothing; shall make the

rulers of the earth as emptiness. They are scarcely planted. They are scarcely

sown. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on

them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. “To whom

then shall you liken Me? Who is My equal?” says the Qadosh-One.

Luke 10:25-28

Behold, a certain Torah scholar stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher,

what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the

Torah? How do you read it?” He answered, “You shall love YaHuWaH your

Aluah with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all

your mind; and affectionately love your neighbor as yourself.” He said to him,

“You have answered correctly. Do this, and you shall live.”

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Can you answer this question

But what is the Torah? Is it the 10 commandments alone, or does it include all

of the other ordinances and statutes included in what would become,

Judaism

Yahuahshua spoke the fathers words, neither adding or subtracting

Debarim 5:6

“I AM YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim,

out of the house of bondage.

Brought: or snatched, took (even took as a bride). This is probably His most

frequent description of His relationship to YSCHRaEL. He constantly reminds

us that if it were not for Him, we would still be slaves in Egypt--or attached to

whatrever else held us in bondage. I am: recognize nothing else as Me. No

matter who is His agent, He is the one who brings salvation. Do these things

and you will be on the trail to knowing Him. The first command is therefore to

recognize who He is to us.

Debarim 5:7

“You shall have no other mighty ones before Me.

There may indeed be other elohim given jurisdiction over areas of the world to

prevent total anarchy (1 Cor. 8:5; Dan. 10:13, etc.), but none are to obscure

Him from us; as far as we are concerned, there are no intercessors except

Yahshua. If we are given access to the highest court, why should we go through

other middlemen? And why should we bring the man who had tried to take us

into his harem into the bridal chamber with the one who rescued us and took us

as a husband? (The story of Avram, Sarai, and Pharaoh in Ber. 12 is a

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foreshadowing of what He would do with His whole people.) Mekhilta reminds

us that "against My face" also means "in My presence"--i.e., wherever I am, and

that is the entire world. So no matter where we are geographically, we are not

to regard anything else as mighty to us. Anything to which we pay too much

attention is His competitor, whether something physical or just a scenario

created in our minds that does not really exist. Fearing things that are not a true

threat is one of the curses for not keeping His covenant. (Lev. 26:36)

Debarim 5:8 “

You shall not make a carved image for yourself, nor any likeness of anything

that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water

under the earth:

Carved: or shaped. This is not limited to things made of wood and stone; we

shape ideas in our minds and then fear them, which is tantamount to worship.

We carve out importance for things that might occur, and put them ahead of

YHWH, though they have no real value for the Kingdom and are not

YSCHRaEL’s priorities.

Debarim 5:9

you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, YaHuWaH, your

Aluahiym, am a jealous Aluahiym, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the

children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate Me;

In the "renewed covenant" (Yirmeyahu 31:29ff), YHWH makes some

amendments on His side to strengthen the covenant, and one of these is that this

punishment for the fathers’ sins will be rescinded. There are also expanded

benefits for Efrayim, which did not remain with the covenant as Yehudah did to

some degree (so Efrayim must also be recognizable by that time), and this time

we will not break it. But the same actions are required of us on our side of the

covenant; we have to know His commands in order for them to be written on our

minds. It will not take place magically. Having His commands written on our

hearts means we will no longer think of them as burdensome or as something

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that stands against us, but love them and appreciate them for the freedom they

really do grant us as a nation; they may restrict individuals in some ways, but it

is for the benefit of us all when we operate as a whole. If we try to operate in

Torah as mere individuals, however, they will backfire on us. Another aspect of

the renewed covenant is that the city will be rebuilt. Yerushalayim is the capital

of a nation, not just a place for individuals to visit YHWH’s House. YHWH’s

King will reign there in righteousness. If we walk in covenant, he will take us

back into the Land as His namesake was about to do here. A jealous El: A

yardstick by which we can determine whether something is worth doing or

loving is to ask whether it will make YHWH jealous. Will it require so much of

us that it will make us neglect Kingdom duties?

In the “Renewed Covenant” (N.T) spoken of in Heb. 8:6ff (quoting YirmeYahuw

31:29ff), YaHuWaH makes some amendments on His side to strengthen the

covenant, and one of these is that this punishment for the fathers’ sins will be

rescinded. There are also expanded benefits for Efrayim, which did not remain

with the covenant as Yehudah did to some degree (so Efrayim must also be

recognizable by that time), and this time we will not break it. But the same

actions are required of us on our side of the covenant; we have to know His

commands (learn them, as verse 1 says) in order for them to be written on our

minds. It will not take place magically. Having His commands written on our

hearts means we will no longer think of them as burdensome or as something

that stands against us, but love them and appreciate them for the freedom they

really do grant us as a nation; they may restrict individuals in some ways, but it

is for the benefit of us all when we operate as a whole. If we try to operate in

Torah as mere individuals, however, they will backfire on us. Another aspect of

the renewed covenant is that the city will be rebuilt. Yahrushalom is the capital

of a nation, not just a place for individuals to visit

YaHuWaH’s House.

YaHuWaH’s King will reign there in righteousness.

If we walk in covenant,

He will take us back into the Land as His namesake was about to do here.

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Debarim 5:10

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love Me and keep My

Commandments.

Thousands: that is, of generations, as in v. 9. Some crookedness is so strong

that it passes down through generations. We can bequeath it to our children if

we do not deal with it. Thus, while this generation was still suffering from some

mistakes its parents made (v. 5), they also still benefit from His love for

Avraham, Yitzhaq, and Yaaqov. With such a mixed legacy, we must do all we

can to tip the scale toward the latter with each new generation. Love and

guard...: Fondness for Him alone does not earn us His mercy.

Debarim 5:11

“You shall not take the Name of YaHuWaH your Aluahiym in vain: for

YaHuWaH will not hold him guiltless who takes His Name in vain.

Wastefully: emptily, worthlessly, for nothing; i.e., making it void. Forbidding the

use of His true Name is one way of doing this. Are we who claim to be His

turning out to be of any benefit to Him? We already have His Name on us; if we

are not already truthful, but have to swear by His Name to prove we mean what

we say, then we have already disobeyed this command. (Mat. 5:33-37) The

behavior of any child reflects on his parents, no matter how righteous they may

be. Thus this chapter reiterates His three relationships to us: as Father to

children, King to subjects, and Husband to wife.

Debarim 5:12

“Treasure up the Sabbath day, to keep it set-apart, as YaHuWaH your

Aluahiym commanded you.

Treasure up: or safeguard. It is our responsibility to build a hedge around the

treasure He has given us. Be stricter than you have to, to be sure it is not lost! If

we are trying to find loopholes in it, we have not successfully hedged out our

own will. There is more written about this command than any of the others, yet it

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receives the least emphasis today, and what publicity it receives is usually

inaccurate. Nothing we do on the Sabbath should be common or profane. It is a

gift--made for man, as Yahuahshua said--but it comes with instructions as to

how it to use it most responsibly for the benefit of all--even our animals. (v. 14)

It must be used for us (corporately), not for yourself as such. The Sabbath is the

commandment that forms a hinge between the commands to love YHWH and the

commands to love our neighbors as ourselves. It emphasizes both aspects:

Debarim 5:13

You shall labor six days, and do all your work;

Six days you can be a slave to your employment, and we can often learn much

about the Torah through work than we can through study alone

Debarim 5:14

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, in which you

shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male

servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your

livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant

and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Sabbath: an intense time of ceasing and desisting. The seventh day we should do

as much as possible differently than on other days. Work: business,

craftsmanship, occupation, public or political activity, or anything in regard to

your own property (other than what is necessary to keep them alive). The term is

from a root meaning messenger; it means anything we do as a representative of

another. We may not allow others to work for us, which rules out purchasing

anything from shops which we are encouraging to remain open if we do so, thus

forcing others to work. Anyone who is within YSCHRaEL’ites precincts (or

under our authority) must also abide by the same regulations, whether or not

they recognize any need to do so when they are at home. Visitor: anyone who

recognizes YaHuWaH to any extent is also held accountable to observe His day.

What may be done is service to the holy community, especially assembling

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together to build up the spiritual house, for the Sabbath is called a "set-apart

calling out". (Guarding it does not mean hoarding it from others. This verse

does not forbid the service mentioned in v. Unless we are normally slaves, in

which case we must be allowed to rest. Slaves of those who live under Torah are

members of the household who receive the same benefit. In order to avoid the

other kind of work, it helps to occupy ourselves directly in service to one

another.) We are more likely to be of service to one another if we come prepard,

having studied in advance so we might provide the "missing piece" in our

corporate study.

What a glorious slave hood indeed!

Debarim 5:15

You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Mitsrayim, and

YaHuWaH your Aluahiym brought you out of there by a mighty Hand and by an

outstretched Arm: therefore YaHuWaH your Aluahiym commanded you to keep

the Sabbath day.

For this reason: It is linked directly to having been slaves, because when we

keep the Sabbath, we are truly freed from Egypt, which had enslaved us to the

day of the Sun. Under Pharaoh we had to work every day, and we need to

remember how wonderful it would have been to have a day off. Additional

"prongs" to this juxtaposition remind us that YaHuWaH "redeemed you on the

condition that you will be His slave and keep His commandments." (Rashi) He

releases us from bondage every seven days as well. The Sabbath is the

quintessential opposite of slavery; the more fences we build around it, the more

free we will be from anyone else who tries to lay claim to us on this day, for no

one but YaHuWaH and YISCHRaEL have a right to. The less we go into any

other public, the less occasion they will have to try to use us for their ends. Put

into effect: or prepare, carry out, do, perform, institute, accomplish, even

"make" or "produce"--i.e., do not do other forms of work, and by not doing so,

do carve out a space in time that is an entity in itself and a picture of the

Messianic Kingdom when everything on earth will serve YaHuWaH's purposes.

It already exists, but we need to make it effective.

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Debarim 5:16

“Respect your father and your mother, as YaHuWaH your Aluahiym

commanded you; that your days may be long and that it may go well with you, in

the land which YaHuWaH your Aluahiym gives you.

This is the only command that has benefits directly attached to it. (Ephesians

6:2) Honor: respect, give weight to, treat as important, enrich, do not take them

lightly. Compare Prov. 1:7-8; 2:1; 6:20-24. Of course it applies to those who

literally donated genetic material to our bodies, with some clarification and

qualification: remember how Yahuahshua defines our true parents (Luke

8:20ff). Underlying this command (since it does not say "fathers and mothers")

is the reminder not to take lightly what our first parents did that got them

banished from the ground they lived on and shortened their days, so that we can

avoid the same error. This is the clear context for this command. They wanted to

do things their own way, and if we do not remember them, we are very likely to

do the same. And YaHuWaH is our common Father as well; since YISCHRaEL’s

sons had four different mothers, Torah (a feminine word) is the common mother

of us all.

Debarim 5:17

“You shall not murder.

Murder: The Hebrew term does not include killing in war or by execution, as

some have interpreted it. Adultery is being unfaithful to one to whom you have

vowed loyalty, and thus includes idolatry against YaHuWaH. We are not to be

intimate with anyone or anything that is not joined to YaHuWaH. The term

technically always involves having another man’s wife; if a married man takes a

woman from a category Torah forbids, that is fornication. YaHuWaH can still

have some kind of relationship with Nin’veh or Assyria or Egypt, but we are not

to have intimate relations with anyone but YaHuWaH. Stealing can include

more than just physical things: someone’s ideas (breaking copyrights or failing

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to give credit where it is due), someone’s joy, or someone’s reputation (as the

last phrase in this verse would cover). Your fellow: literally, "one from your

same flock" or "one you graze together with". Since the Samaritan in

Yahuahshua parable obeyed the Torah, he proved to be from the same flock as

any true YSCHRaEL’ites. This is more than just not lying about them. We must

not even listen to slander against anyone with whom we walk in Torah. Mere

hearsay is never admissible, and if we did not witness a given action, we should

never speak as if it were certain. And if there is no profit in repeating something

about him, even if it is absolutely true, we should keep our mouths shut;

talebearers are to be stoned in YISCHRaEL. In typical English translations, this

verse constitutes four verses, thus giving the chapter 33 verses instead of 30 as

the Hebrew version has.

Debarim 5:18

“Neither shall you commit adultery.

Lust for: or take delight in. Envy: desire, wish for, or prefer over what you

already have, with which YaHuWaH calls us to be content (Heb. 13:5), since He

knows what is best for each of us. We might say this was Adam and Chawwah’s

original sin. Only in Hebraic perspective can we be commanded to not even

want these things. YaHuWaH has the right to tell us how to feel, for our desires

will cause trouble for our neighbors if we do not control them. Field: This

phrase was not in Exodus 20, probably because no one owned land at that time,

but now they are getting very close to having the Land distributed as YHWH

revealed to be appropriate by lot. If one needs more land, he can purchase it,

with the knowledge that it will revert to its original owners every fifty years.

Proverbs 6:19-33 ties these commands together in an intimate way.

Debarim 5:19

“Neither shall you steal.

Everyone heard YaHuWaH speak the words in vv. 6-18. The rest was what they

had to trust Moshe alone to have heard from YaHuWaH and accurately relayed.

Added no more: Only the ten commands were written on the slabs--and

somehow the instructions for the Tabernacle were included.

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Debarim 5:20

“Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

Debarim 5:21

“Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife; neither shall you desire your

neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or

his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Debarim 5:22

These Words YaHuWaH spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the

midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great Voice:

and He added no more.

He wrote on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

Yahu(ah)shua

ALuaHiYM Yahu(ah)shua HaMashiyach

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In His Name

blessed be, in His name

'YAHUWAH be with you.' and they answered him, 'YAHUWAH bless you.' "

Be not blind to the truth

And, hinnei, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that

Yahu(ah)shua passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O YAHUWAH,

[thou] Ben David. AndYahu(ah)shua stood still, and called them, and said,

What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto Him, YAHUWAH, that our

eyes may be opened. So Yahu(ah)shua d compassion [on them], and touched

their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

His servant and yours

Shalom in Righteousness

by the GRACE of YAHUWAH

keiYAH

nätzräya

Remember me and pray for me that YAHUWAH 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

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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 iving, or make a fortune, is guilty of the most infamous

sacrilege

The Everlasting Covenant is The Sabbath

ALuaHiYM Yahu(ah)shua HaMashiyach be with your Ruwach