How many times do people come back from vacation and say, “I need a vacation from my vacation”?

All the time.

But nobody who ever truly kept the Sabbath, ever said they need to recover from their Sabbath.

It’s just not a thing.

And the only reason someone feels the need to get away on a sabbatical is because they don’t take that weekly sabbath.

People will fly all over creation to escape their problems and spend insane amounts of money but will never consider the fact that the sabbath is free. It comes around every single week. It comes to you; you don’t have to go to it. And it will offer you an escape from your problems…along with the ability to bear them better thereafter.

By the word of YHVH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. Psalm 33:6
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Twelve things awaited the twelve tribes when they finally reached the Promised Land: Brooks, fountains, wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olive oil, honey, bread, iron, and copper. This is literally true, but surely there were more good things than these in the Lnad. Why did Moses list these specific twelve items in Deuteronomy 8:7-9? Interestingly, they are arranged chiastically by type and function, and they also contain allegorical truths about life in God's Kingdom.

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12 Sources of Life in the Promised Land - American Torah

In Deuteronomy 8:7-9 God lists twelve things that the Hebrews would find when they finally arrived in the Promised Land. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the v

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This coming week, 25-31 August 2024 (21-27 Av 5784), the Bible reading plan covers Re’eh (See).

25 Aug Deut 11:26-12:10 Ezek 31:10-32:32 Titus 2:9-3:15 Psa 119:17-24
26 Aug Deut 12:11-28 Ezek 33:1-34:10 Phlmn 1:1-25 Psa 119:25-32
27 Aug Deut 12:29-13:18 Ezek 34:11-35:15 Heb 1:1-2:4 Psa 119:33-40
28 Aug Deut 14:1-21 Ezek 36:1-38 Heb 2:5-3:6 Psa 119:41-48
29 Aug Deut 14:22-29 Ezek 37:1-38:17 Heb 3:7-4:5 Psa 119:49-56
30 Aug Deut 15:1-18 Ezek 38:18-39:29 Heb 4:6-5:11 Psa 119:57-64
31 Aug Deut 15:19-16:17 Isa 54:11-55:5 Heb 5:12-6:20 Psa 119:65-72

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Weekly Bible Reading For August 25-31: Re'eh (See) - The Barking Fox

This coming week, 25-31 August 2024 (21-27 Av 5784), the Bible reading plan covers Re’eh (See). 25 Aug Deuteronomy 11:26-12:10 Ezekiel 31:10-32:32 Titus 2:9-3:15 Psalm 119:17-2426 Aug Deuteronomy 12:11-28 Ezekiel 33:1-34:10 Philemon 1:1-25 Psalm 119:

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Romans 7:15 ESV

We all sometimes say “I don’t know what I was thinking.” Paul is making a rhetorical statement only. Clearly he does understand his own actions because he goes on to explain them.

The sinful inclination drives us to behave in ways that we know are wrong and even in ways that we really don’t want. No matter how spiritual, sanctified, and knowledgeable we might be, we still sin.

“Should any of you, holding a matter against another, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the set-apart ones? Do you not know that the set-apart ones shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, matters of this life? If then you truly have judgments of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are least esteemed by the assembly? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise one among you, not even one, who shall be able to judge between his brothers? But brother against brother goes to be judged and that before unbelievers! Already, then, there is a failure with you, that you have lawsuits among you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and that to your brothers!”

Torah law commands us to establish believing and observant communities. It commands us to establish courts, judges and elders within those communities to judge all matters, from the least of civil disputes to the most heinous of criminal charges, between its members. It commands that we do so with righteous judgement, mercy, longsuffering and love, whenever possible. It commands us not to make a public charge of any kind against others on the testimony of a single witness, but to consider such uncorroborated testimony false and evil speech unless the accused first receives due process of law and is lawfully convicted. And these are only the basic requirements of Torah law to which we, as members of the Greater Commonwealth of Yisrael, are bound.

Yeshua Hamashiach and his apostles instruct us that we, as his followers and disciples, should go even farther in righteousness, mercy and love, by giving grace forbearance, and compassion to one another. They teach this not only in word, but by their own deeds and examples. When they were treated harshly, they forgave their oppressors for the sake of the Kingdom of YHWH and sought only to imitate and emulate Him and His ways. And what are His ways?

“YHWH,YHWH, an Ěl compassionate and showing grace, patient, and great in mercy and truth, watching over mercy for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

How many of us can truly claim, as supposedly Torah observant believers, that we keep all of these commands and instructions? How many of us can honestly claim to do much of anything like these? And if we do not, what does that make of us?