FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – EMOR:
If the children of Yisrael had not kept this command continually, the lamp would not stay lit. Likewise, if you do not keep spiritual oil in your you own lamp continually...
Think about it.
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And YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, “Command the children of Yisra’el that they bring to you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.”
READINGS FOR OMER COUNT – DAY 10
Behold, I am about to fulfill the affirmative precept of the counting of the Omer, as it is written in the Torah:
“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbath, from the day that ye brought the Omer of the wave-offering, seven complete weeks they shall be; until the morrow of the seventh Shabbath shall ye number fifty days.”
Blessed art Thou YHWH, our Elohym, King of the universe, who hast set us apart by Thy commandments and hast given us command concerning the counting of the Omer.
This is the tenth day, making one week and two days of the Omer.
May the All Merciful restore the service of the Temple to its place. May it be Thy will, YHWH our Elohym and Elohym of our fathers, that the Temple be speedily rebuilt in our days, and grant our portion in Thy Torah. And there we will serve Thee with awe, as in the days of old and as in ancient years.
May Elohym be favorable unto us and bless us. That Thy way may be known upon the earth, Thy salvation among all nations. Let the peoples give thanks unto Thee, Elohym; let all the peoples give thanks unto Thee. Let the nations rejoice and exult: for Thou wilt judge the peoples with equity and lead the nations upon the earth. Let the peoples give thanks unto Thee, Elohym; let all the peoples give thanks unto Thee. The earth hath yielded her increase: Elohym, even our Elohym, shall bless us. Elohym shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
READINGS: TEHILLAH 25
To You, O YHWH, I lift up my being.
O my Elohim, in You I have put my trust; Let me not be ashamed; Let not my enemies exult over me.
Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those who are treacherous without cause be ashamed.
Show me Your ways, O YHWH; Teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the Elohim of my deliverance; On You I wait all the day.
Remember, O YHWH, Your compassion and Your mercies, For they are from everlasting.
Do not remember the sins of my youth, and my transgressions; According to Your mercy remember me, For Your excellence’s sake, O YHWH.
Excellent and straight is YHWH; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way.
He guides the meek ones in judgment, And He teaches the meek ones His way.
All the paths of YHWH are mercy and truth, To those who guard His covenant and His witnesses.
For Your Name’s sake, O YHWH, You shall pardon my crookedness, though it is great.
Who, then, is the man that fears YHWH? He teaches him in the way he should choose.
His life dwells in excellence, And his seed inherits the earth.
The secret of YHWH is with those who fear Him, And He makes His covenant known to them.
My eyes are ever toward YHWH, For He brings my feet out of the net.
Turn Your face to me, and show me favor, For I am lonely and afflicted.
The distresses of my heart have enlarged; Oh, bring me out of my distresses!
Look on my affliction and my toil, And forgive all my sins.
See how many my enemies have become; And they hate me with a violent hatred.
Oh, guard my life, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in You.
Let integrity and straightness guard me, For I have waited for You.
Redeem Yisra’ěl, O Elohim, Out of all his distresses!
READINGS: TEHILLAH 26
Rule me rightly, O YHWH, For I have walked in my integrity. And I have trusted in YHWH, without wavering.
Examine me, O YHWH, and prove me; Try my kidneys and my heart.
For Your mercy is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
I have not sat with men of falsehood, Nor do I enter with pretenders.
I have hated the assembly of evil-doers, And I do not sit with the wrong.
I wash my hands in innocence; And I walk around Your slaughter-place, O YHWH, To raise a voice of thanksgiving, And to declare all Your wonders.
YHWH, I have loved the abode of Your house, And the place where Your esteem dwells.
Do not gather my being together with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men, In whose hands is a plot, And their right hand is filled with bribes.
But as for me, I walk in my integrity; Redeem me and show me favor.
My foot shall stand on a level place; In the assemblies I bless YHWH.
READINGS: TEHILLAH 27
YHWH is my light and my deliverance; Whom should I fear? YHWH is the refuge of my life; Whom should I dread?
When evil-doers come against me To eat up my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, They shall stumble and fall.
Though an army encamps against me, My heart does not fear; Though battle comes up against me, Even then I would be trusting.
One matter I asked of YHWH – this I seek: To dwell in the House of YHWH All the days of my life, To see the pleasantness of YHWH, And to inquire in His Hěḵal.
For in the day of evil He hides me in His booth; In the covering of His Tent He hides me; On a rock He raises me up.
And now my head is lifted up above my enemies all around me; And I slaughter in His Tent with slaughters of sounding; I sing, yes, I sing praises to YHWH.
Hear, O YHWH, when I cry with my voice! And show me favor, and answer me.
To my heart You have said, “Seek My face.” Your face, YHWH, I seek.
Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in displeasure; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O Elohim of my deliverance.
When my father and my mother have forsaken me, Then YHWH does take me in.
Teach me Your way, O YHWH, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
Do not give me over To the desire of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And they breathe out cruelty to me.
What if I had not believed To see the excellence of YHWH In the land of the living!
Wait on YHWH, be strong, And let Him strengthen your heart! Wait, I say, on YHWH!
READINGS: MISHLE 9:1-18
Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out its seven columns, She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also prepared her table.
She has sent out her young women, She cries out from the highest places of the city: “Who is simple? Let him turn in here!” As for him who lacks heart, she says to him, "Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.”
Leave the simple ones and live, And walk in the way of understanding.
He who reproves a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wrong one gets himself a blemish.
Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you; Reprove a wise one, and he loves you.
Give instruction to a wise one, and he is wiser still; Teach a righteous one, and he increases in learning.
The fear of YHWH is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Set-apart One is understanding.
For by me your days become many, And years of life are added to you.
If you have become wise, You have become wise for yourself, And if you have scoffed, You alone bear it.
A foolish woman is loud, Simple, and without knowledge. For she has seated herself At the door of her house, On a seat by the highest places of the city, To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their way: “Who is simple? Let him turn in here.” And as for him who lacks heart, she says to him, “Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” But he does not know that the dead are there, Her guests are in the depths of She’ol.
READINGS: AVOTH 2:5-8
Hillel said, separate not thyself from the congregation; trust not in thyself until the day of thy death; judge not thy fellow-man until thou art come into his place; and say not anything which cannot be understood at once, in the hope that it will be understood in the end; neither say, When I have leisure I will study, perchance thou wilt have no leisure.
He used to say, an empty-headed man cannot be a sin-fearing man, nor can an ignorant person be truly pious, nor can the diffident learn, nor the passionate teach, nor is everyone who excels in business wise. In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.
Moreover, he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water; he said to it, because thou drownedst others, they have drowned thee; and, at the last, they that drowned thee shall themselves be drowned.
He used to say, the more flesh, the more worms; the more property, the more anxiety; the more wives, the more witchcraft; the more maid-servants, the more lewdness; the more men-servants, the more robbery; the more Torah, the more life; the more schooling, the more wisdom; the more counsel, the more understanding; the more charity, the more peace. He who has acquired for himself words of Torah, has acquired for himself life in the world to come.
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When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests...
#leviticus 13:2 #tazria
"He shall be brought" implies that the leper's community has a responsibility to intervene when his life conditions begin to get out of hand.
Only a Levitical priest is authorized to declare a condition to be tzaraat (biblical leprosy, which is not the same as Hansen's Disease) or a leper to be cleansed. This is why #yeshua told the leper to go to the priest after he healed him.
[Genesis 2:1-3] The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
[Exodus 20:8-11] “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
[Isaiah 56:2] Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
[Hebrews 4:8-11] There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
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