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It isn't healthy to stay still for long. Stagnation and atrophy are the poison fruits of a sedentary life. We must keep moving and growing throughout our lives or we'll die. This means constant learning, career advancement, greater responsibilities, spiritual growth, and seeking out challenges.
Deuteronomy 1:6-7

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Devarim, the Hebrew name of Deuteronomy, means "words" and is from Deuteronomy 1:1: "These are the words..." This book used to be called Mishneh HaTorah or "repetition of the Torah". Deuteronomos, the Greek name, means "second law" and also refers to the book's recapitulation of the Law. Although it primarily contains the spoken words of Moses, Joshua or Pinchas may have acted as his scribe.

Here are some apostolic passages to study alongside #torah Parsha #devarim (#deuteronomy 1:1-3:22), plus links to commentary and related videos: https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/05/09/parsha-de

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Numbers 27
15And Mosheh spoke to יהוה, saying,

16“Let יהוה, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

17who goes out before them and comes in before them, who leads them out and brings them in, so that the congregation of יהוה be not like sheep without a shepherd.”

18And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Take Yehoshua son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit. And you shall lay your hand on him,

19and shall set him before El‛azar the priest and before all the congregation, and give him charge before their eyes,

20and shall put some of your esteem upon him, so that all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl obey him.

Deuteronomy 34
9And Yehoshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Mosheh had laid his hands on him. And the children of Yisra’ĕl listened to him, and did as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.

Numbers 11
24And Mosheh went out and spoke to the people the words of יהוה, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the Tent.

25And יהוה came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders. And it came to be, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, but did not continue.

Acts 1
5because Yoḥanan truly immersed in water, but you shall be immersed in the Set-apart Spirit not many days from now.”

8“But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehuḏah and Shomeron, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 19
6And when Sha’ul had laid hands on them, the Set-apart Spirit came upon them, and they were speaking in tongues and prophesying.

There are those who teach that the laying on of hands for people the receive the immersion of the Set Apart Spirit was started in the Brit. And also that this no longer is a practice that we Israel are supposed to do. Messiah said you will receive power when you receive the immersion of the Set Apart Spirit.

The Israelite elders and teachers were very familiar with this and this is why they were teaching this without questioning it.