Deuteronomy 24 is part of today's Torah study. There is so much mercy and practical application woven into this chapter that is illustrates the wisdom of our Creator and His Son. I'm lost why anyone would want to do away with the Torah when it reflects the righteousness God wants us to know and live.
In Jewish interpretation prayer is a mitzvah, a duty incumbent on all humans, whether Jew or Gentile, man or woman, slave or free. As with all mitzvot, prayer is beneficial to us; whether our specific petitions are granted or not, we are rewarded for the simple act of praying itself. Prayer is one way for us to store up “Treasures in Heaven” {Matthew 6:20}. To pray is to have an encounter with YHVH, to connect with Him, and to commune with Him. Prayer is worthwhile and important whether we have personal requests to make or not. There are two main aspects of Jewish prayer: service and petition. “Service” in Hebrew is “avodah” -- this word connotes the duties of the priests who ministered in the Tabernacle and in the Temple. In our prayer we perform a labour on behalf of YHVH. The word in Hebrew for “sacrifice” is “korban” which comes from a root meaning “to draw near.” By serving Elohiym in prayer, we draw near to Him, and that process sanctifies and purifies us. We come away from prayer changed and renewed. The Hebrew word for prayer is “Tefillah” which comes from the verb “lehitpalel”. The literal meaning based on its root is “to judge oneself.” This demonstrates the introspection and self-awareness that should accompany our approach to our Creator. We come as we are, laying aside any pretence or self-delusion. Yeshua taught us about the humble self-judgment that YHVH favours in our praying in His parable about the Pharisee and the tax collector {Luke 18:11–14}. In Messianic Judaism we consider Yeshua to be a Mediator in prayer. A mediator is one who brings two parties together, reconciling the two and eliminating the distance and barriers between them. If we ask YHVH for something in Yeshua’s Name, we are asking Him to respond to us because of our association with Yeshua. In a way, we are merely the messenger; the request truly belongs to Him. When we ask in Yeshua’s Name, it is not as though Yeshua is pleading on our behalf; rather, we are pleading on His behalf: “In that day you will ask in My Name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father Himself Loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from YHVH.” {John 16:26–27}
Christians profess to know the Messiah, but what do we know of Messiah's Kingdom? Since we'll be living there a long time, it might be good to learn what it will be like.
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Christians profess to know the Messiah, but what do we know of Messiah's Kingdom? Since we'll be living there a long time, it might be good to learn what it will be like.
https://thebarkingfox.com/2025..../09/06/committed-to-
9/6/2025
THE SELICHOTH PRAYERS
The Selichoth Prayers – Standard Edition, can be found at:
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SHABBATH – SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK
“Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”
Blessed be He who spoke and the world was; Blessed be He – and blessed be His Name.
(On Shabbath , no selichoth are said. Read the following only.)
TEHILLAH 103
Bless YHWH, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His set-apart name. Bless YHWH, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with mercy and compassion; Who satisfies your years with excellent things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. YHWH performs righteous deeds and judgments for all who are oppressed. He made known His ways to Moshe, His acts to the sons of Yisrael. YHWH is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. Just as a father has compassion on his children, so YHWH has compassion on those who fear Him. For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust. As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, and its place acknowledges it no longer. But the mercy of YHWH is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep His covenant and remember His precepts to do them. YHWH has established His throne in the heavens, and His sovereignty rules over all. Bless YHWH, you His angels, mighty in strength, who perform His word, obeying the voice of His word! Bless YHWH, all you His hosts, You who serve Him, doing His will. Bless YHWH, all you works of His, in all places of His dominion; Bless YHWH, O my soul!
TEHILLAH 104
Bless YHWH, O my soul! YHWH my Elohym, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, stretching out heaven like a tent curtain. He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon the wings of the wind; He makes the winds His messengers, flaming fire His ministers. He established the earth upon its foundations, so that it will not totter forever and ever. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters were standing above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled, at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose; the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass over, so that they will not return to cover the earth. He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains; they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they lift up their voices among the branches. He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works. He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the labor of man, so that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine which makes man’s heart glad, so that he may make his face glisten with oil, and food which sustains man’s heart. The trees of YHWH drink their fill, the cedars of Lebanon which He planted, where the birds build their nests, and the stork, whose home is the fir trees. The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. He made the moon for the seasons; the sun knows the place of its setting. You appoint darkness and it becomes night, in which all the beasts of the forest prowl about. The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from Elohym. When the sun rises they withdraw and lie down in their dens. Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening. YHWH, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your possessions. There is the sea, great and broad, in which are swarms without number, animals both small and great. There the ships move along, and Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it. They all wait for You to give them their food in due season. You give to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with excellence. You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire and return to their dust. You send forth Your Ruach, they are created; and You renew the face of the ground. Let the esteem of YHWH endure forever; Let YHWH be glad in His works; He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing to YHWH as long as I live; I will sing praise to my Elohym while I have my being. Let my meditation be pleasing to Him; as for me, I shall be glad in YHWH. Let sinners be consumed from the earth and let the wicked be no more. Bless YHWH, O my soul. Halaluyah!
TEHILLAH 27
YHWH is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? YHWH is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell. Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident. One thing I have asked from YHWH, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of YHWH all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of YHWH, and to meditate in His temple. For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to YHWH. Hear, YHWH, when I cry with my voice, and be gracious to me and answer me. When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, YHWH, I shall seek.” Do not hide Your face from me, do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; do not abandon me nor forsake me, O Elohym of my salvation! For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but YHWH will take me up. Teach me Your way, YHWH, and lead me in a level path because of my foes. Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the excellence of YHWH in the land of the living. Wait for YHWH; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for YHWH.
AVINU PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, sanctified be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from all evil. Amein.
Avinu sh’bashamayim, yitqadesh shimka, veyitbarech malkutka, retsonka yih’yay asuee b’shamayim uva’aretz, vetiten lachmaynu temidit, umechol lanu chatotaynu ka’asher anachnu mochalim lachotim lanu, v’al teviaynu liday nissayon, v’shomraynu mikol rah. Amein.
QADDISH TITKABBAL
Exalted and sanctified be His great Name in the world that He created according to His will. May His kingdom reign, and may He cause His redemption to sprout, and may He hasten the coming of His Mashiach in your lifetime and in your days and in the lifetime of the entire house of Yisrael, speedily and very soon; and let us say: Amein!
May His great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity.
Blessed, lauded, esteemed, exalted, extolled, honored, upraised, and praised be the Name of the set-apart One; Blessed be He; above all the blessings, songs, praises and words of consolation that may be uttered in the world; and let us say: Amein!
May you be answered, and may your prayers be accepted with compassion from the heavens; may your cry be
accepted. May your prayer be heard with grace, and may it be answered – the voice of your supplication, and may He fulfill in you the verse that is written: YHWH, Elohym of your forefathers – may He increase your likes a thousand-fold, and may He bless you as He has spoken concerning you. So may it be His will; and let us say: Amein!
May your prayers and pleas be accepted together with the prayers and pleas of the entire house of Yisrael before our Father in heaven and earth, in the name of Yehoshua HaMashiach; and let us say: Amein!
May there be abundant shalom from heaven, life, contentment, salvation, consolation, deliverance, healing, redemption, pardon, atonement, comfort and relief for us and for His entire nation Yisrael; and let us say: Amein!
He who makes shalom in His high places, may He, in His compassion, make shalom for us and for His entire nation Yisrael; and let us say: Amein!
Isaiah 11:3 — 4, And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear, but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.”
"If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear"
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Thought for Today: Shabbat September 06
The only thing that counts as far as our salvation is concerned is our relationship with Yeshua Moshiach. If you have acknowledged your sinfulness, and truly trust the Moshiach to save you, then nothing can take away your salvation. If we are committed to Yeshua however, YHVH also wants us to become part of a fellowship of believers. YHVH wants us to grow in our faith and one of the ways we do this, is through our fellowship with other believers. Ask YHVH to lead you to a church, Bible study group, prayer group or social media group – that discuss and believe in the truth – where you can grow spiritually. And if you know of someone seeking where to join – invite and introduce them to TTN today.
It's been at least a year since I logged on here. I'm glad to see that Jay Carper is still posting. 👍
Sabbath is almost here. I look forward to this day every week. The best thing I'm looking forward to is when I am with Yeshua the Messiah.
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