FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – CHUQQATH:

“And the people spoke against Elohim and against Moshe, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.’ And YHWH sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra’el died. Then the people came to Moshe, and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have spoken against YHWH and against you. Pray to YHWH to take away the serpents from us.’ So Moshe prayed on behalf of the people. And YHWH said to Moshe, ‘Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.’ So Moshe made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.”

“As Moshe lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up, so that whoever is believing in him should not perish but possess everlasting life. For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life. For Elohim did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not judged, but he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only brought-forth Son of Elohim. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked. For everyone who is practicing evil matters hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But the one doing the Truth comes to the light, so that his works are clearly seen, that they have been wrought in Elohim.”

“Thy Torah is Truth”