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A centrepunch laid the eye through the bleachers to the bone sands with the withered crocs. Teeth of brought narrow scythe reap streetlamps, into the gunnysack with the bleachers.
Winds ram their hair through the scene, bringing another coated one, setting to rights the fibers clinging on every surface, tending them on the pile, to watch them grow in halflight.

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Thought for Today: Wednesday July 31

Can't find refuge? Why not share David's shelter? The One he called my Strength, Mighty Rock, Fortress, Stronghold and High Tower. Yeshua promised people "rest" if they would come to Him, not an endless list of unrealistic expectations.

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Sabbath Keepers Fellowship & Prison Ministry
Christi Banks
Yochanan Ben Yisrael

47 R’eih – Day 4

D’varym/Deuteronomy 14:1-21

“You are the children of YHWH your Elohim.

Do not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead, for you are a set-apart people to YHWH your Elohim, and YHWH has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

“Do not eat whatever is abominable.

“These are the living creatures which you do eat:

ox, sheep, and goat, deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and wild goat, and mountain goat, and antelope, and mountain sheep.

“And every beast that has a split hoof divided in two, chewing the cud, among the beasts, you do eat.

“But of those chewing the cud or those having a split hoof completely divided, you do not eat, such as these:

the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they chew the cud but do not have a split hoof, they are unclean for you.

“And the pig is unclean for you, because it has a split hoof, but does not chew the cud.

You do not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

“These you do eat of all that are in the waters:

all that have fins and scales you do eat.

“And whatever does not have fins and scales you do not eat, it is unclean for you.

“Any clean bird you do eat, but these you do not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture, and the red kite, and the falcon, and the buzzard after their kinds, and every raven after its kind, and the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the hawk after their kinds, the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl, and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the fisher owl, and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.

“And every creeping insect that flies is unclean for you, they are not eaten.

“Any clean bird you do eat.

“Do not eat whatever dies of itself.

Give it to the stranger who is within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a foreigner.

For you are a set-apart people to YHWH your Elohim.

Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Sabbath Keepers Fellowship and Prison Ministries
Christi Banks
Yochanan Ben Yisrael

TEHILLAH 94 - DAY 4 (YOM REVI’Y)
O YHWH, Ěl of vengeance; O Ěl of vengeance, shine forth!
Raise Yourself up, O Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud.
YHWH, how long are the wrong, How long are the wrong going to exult?
They pour forth words, They speak arrogantly; All the workers of wickedness boast in themselves.
They crush Your people, O YHWH, And they afflict Your inheritance.
They kill the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.
Yet they say, “Yah does not see, And the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ pays no heed.”
Take heed, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when would you become wise?
He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?
He who disciplines the nations, Does He not reprove – The One teaching man knowledge?
YHWH knows the thoughts of man, That they are but a breath.
Blessed is the man You discipline, O Yah, And instruct out of Your Torah, To give him rest from the days of evil, Until the pit is dug for the wrong.
For YHWH does not leave His people, Nor does He forsake His inheritance.
For judgment returns man to righteousness, And all the upright in heart follow it.
Who would rise up for me against evil-doers? Who would stand up for me against workers of wickedness?
If YHWH had not been my help, My being would soon have settled in silence.
When I said, “My foot has slipped,” Your mercy, O YHWH, supported me.
When anxiety was great within me, Your comforts delighted my being.
Would a throne of destruction, Which devises trouble by law, Be joined with You?
They band together against the life of the righteous, And declare innocent blood wrong.
But YHWH is my defense, And my Elohim the rock of my refuge, And brings back on them their own wickedness, And cuts them off in their own wrongdoing; YHWH our Elohim does cut them off.
Come, let us sing to YHWH! Let us raise a shout to the Rock of our deliverance.
Let us come before His face with thanksgiving; Let us raise a shout to Him in song.
For YHWH is a great Ěl, And a great King above all mighty ones.

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Ovadyah Ben Yisrael

From This Week’s Torah Portion:

“When there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, within any of the gates in your land which YHWH your Elohim is giving you, do not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, for you shall certainly open your hand to him and certainly lend him enough for his need, whatever he needs.”

"Freely you have received, freely give."