When you find out someone has lied to you more than once it's hard to trust them again after that. I don't get angry at them. They just lose my fellowship.
Php 2:14 Do everything without kvetching or arguing,
Php 2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the sky,
Php 2:16 as you hold on to the Word of Life. If you do this, I will be able to boast, when the Day of the Messiah comes, that I did not run or toil for nothing.
We all need to pray for those affected by the hurricane. It looks like it's way worse than being reported on the news channels.
...for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:2
This echoes Exodus 20:12 and the command to honor your parents. The implication is that treasuring and obeying the instruction of your parents is integral to honoring them. The blessings that come from obedience presuppose that your parents are relaying the instructions of God as per Moses in Deuteronomy 32:46.
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WORD FOR TODAY “do you hear it”: Neh 4:14 But wherever you are, when you hear the sound of the shofar, come to that place, to us. Our God will fight for us!"
SPOKEN VERSE FOR TODAY: Pro 6:1 My son, if you have put up security for your friend, if you committed yourself on behalf of another; Pro 6:2 you have been snared by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your own mouth.
“Faith comes by hearing” positive frequencies spoken out loud hourly.
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Leviticus 23:33 — 34, “Again the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the people of Israel: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month is the Feast of Shelters. This feast to the Lord will continue for seven days.” Known as the Great Feast, Sukkot, Fest of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths there is a great deal happening during this time.
From this Week’s Torah Portion
“Noach walked with Elohim!”
“These are the generations of Noach, Noach was a righteous man he was perfect in his generations; Noach walked with Elohim.” (Genesis 6:9) There is an age old argument that by qualifying Noach’s righteousness and perfection as being “in his generations” Torah was teaching us that, as righteous and unblemished as Noach was, he fell short of Avraham, whose righteousness had no qualifying factor attached top it. While it is true that Noach, unlike Avraham, did not succeed in influencing others, or in teaching to others The Way of the One YHWH, being a righteous individual in the eyes of YHWH in the midst of a corrupt and wanton generation is no small feat. On the contrary: Noach wasn’t just righteous, he was pure and unblemished. Noach wasn’t just pure and unblemished, he walked with YHWH.
We were already told at the conclusion to last week’s Torah reading that Noach’s father Lemech saw great promise in his newborn son, naming him Noach, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands from the ground, which YHWH has cursed.” (ibid 5:29) And, of course, despite His profound regret for having created man, in light of the depths of depravity to which man, in ten short generations had descended, one man and one man only – Noach – “found favor in the eyes of YHWH.” (ibid 6:8)
Noach was a rock who could withstand the tide of iniquity which swept away his generation. He walked with YHWH when all others were following their own evil impulses and dancing to the tune of “I, Me & Mine,” all the way to the slippery slopes of self annihilation. Noach was a beacon and a lighthouse whom YHWH could entrust with navigating humanity to safer shores, even if humanity, at this point, consisted of Noach and his wife, and his three sons and their wives. The great sage, Hillel the elder said, “In a place where there are no men... be a man!” And this describes precisely the life of Noach. When all other men had purposely and flagrantly jettisoned the image of YHWH in which they were created, Noach held fast to his. And this was the chen – the grace – that Noach found in YHWH’s eyes. To cling to the truth that you are created in YHWH’s image, and to persist in the pursuit of honoring this truth in all your doings, is indeed to lead a righteous life and to achieve a certain perfection in your character. Had Noach been anything less, we would not be here to tell the tale. Noach walked with Elohim.
That YHWH should regret making man is a terrifying thought. Has man’s behavior improved over the thousands of years since Noach built the ark and weathered the storm of YHWH’s great disappointment? Yes – absolutely! And No – absolutely not! Fortunately for the rest of us there are many righteous who walk among us. But unfortunately there are still disciples of the dissolute human wrecks which peopled the generation of the flood. Yet today we rest assuredly and sanguinely upon the broad righteous shoulders of Noach and of the promise and the covenant which YHWH made with Noach on behalf of all future generations that “there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” (ibid 9:11) Should we be so confident? In looking around we can all spot the many black holes of wickedness which are sucking the life out of humankind, and we can all feel on our flesh the approaching storm of YHWH’s great discontent.
Perhaps basking in the promise of the rainbow as we proceed from day to day is no longer enough. Every covenant takes two. YHWH has certainly kept up His end of the bargain, but have we? Torah’s unparalleled description of Noach wasn’t simply intended as praise for the man, but more importantly as a blueprint for whom we must all strive to be: righteous, perfect in our generations and walking in step with YHWH – even if no one else is.
“And Noach built an altar to YHWH, and he took of all the clean animals and of all the clean fowl and brought up burnt offerings on the altar. And YHWH smelled the pleasant aroma, and YHWH said to Himself, ‘I will no longer curse the earth because of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and I will no longer smite all living things as I have done.’“ (ibid 9:20-21) Perhaps as Noach did, we should build ourselves an ark for the sake of ourselves and our children, and like Noach build an altar and make an offering of thanks and acknowledgement to YHWH, for the sake of all humanity.
(Adapted from an article by the Temple Institute)
From this week's Torah Portion:
“And Noach built an altar to YHWH, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered ascending offerings on the altar. And YHWH smelled a soothing fragrance, and YHWH said in His heart, ‘Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I have done, as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.’ And Elohim blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase, and fill the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you is on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea – into your hand they have been given. Every creeping creature that lives is food for you. I have given you all, as I gave the green plants. But do not eat flesh with its life, its blood. But only your blood for your lives I require, from the hand of every beast I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man. Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood is shed, for in the image of Elohim has He made man. As for you, be fruitful and increase, bring forth teemingly in the earth and increase in it.’ And Elohim spoke to Noach and to his sons with him, saying, ‘And I, see, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you, and with every living being that is with you: of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. And I shall establish My covenant with you, and never again is all flesh cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again is there a flood to destroy the earth.’ And Elohim said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living being that is with you, for all generations to come: I shall set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud, and I shall remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living being of all flesh, and never again let the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I shall see it, to remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living being of all flesh that is on the earth.’ And Elohim said to Noach, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.’”
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