Post by alon on May 24, 2019 10:52:41 GMT -8
This week’s readings:
Date of reading- 25 May, 2019/20 Iyyar, 5779
Name of Par’shah- B’midbar, In the Desert
Par’shah- Numbers 1:1-4:20
Haftara- Hoseah 1:10 - 2:22
Brit Chadashah- Luke 2:1-7; ! Corinthians 12:12-31
D’rash: Before reading of our census in
, let’s go first to another time a census was taken:
1 Chronicles 21:1-4 (ESV) Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.” But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?” But the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem.
The KJV has all references as adon, and translates it as though all refer to the king. However even if this were so, we’d have to consider the Strong’s definition:
אדון adon ʼâdôwn, aw-done'; or (shortened) אָדֹן ʼâdôn; from an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine):—lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with ‘Adoni-‘.
My Vine’s Expository Dictionary says ‘Adon refers to one with absolute authority’ while ‘Adonai always refers to God.’
My Green’s Interlinear has the following for vs. 3: “Are they not, my lord the king (המלך ha melech, the king), all of them my lord’s (אדוני Adoni, used only for “my God”).”
This makes much more sense translated that way:
“But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my Lord God's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?” If all references to ownership referred to Melech Dovid, why would Yisroel incur sin when he counted them? And were they not counted in our par’shah:
Numbers 1:1-3 (ESV) The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
Numbers 2:32-33 (ESV) These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers' houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550. But the Levites were not listed among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Why those able to go to war? And why weren’t the Levites counted? These are clues to why David was punished (actually Israel because of his actions) and Moses was not. The Levites were God’s alone. They ministered in, moved and set up and then guarded the Mishkan. They encamped around it, while the rest of the tribes were encamped in military order around them. The Hebrews moved and camped with military order and discipline.
Note the Levites actually were counted, but because of their special duties they were counted differently.
God owns His people, not the king or any ruler. When He says take a census, then and only then you take the doggone census! But kings and other rulers like to think they own the people. And what you own, you count, just as you would the royal treasury. David’s sin was thinking God’s people were his own, to do with as he pleased. He could send them to war or conscript them for labor, moving them as suited his purposes. Think again.
1 Corinthians 12:27-28 (ESV) Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
Today as then the body of believers belongs to Adonei HaAdonim, Lord of Lords (Deu 10:17). And as then the body functions when we leave God in command of His people. He numbers the hairs on our heads! He knows our abilities and what He wants us to do. He moves us where He wants us, and we find our niche in His work as He desires.
I help edit teachings for Rabbi. I wanted to do leatherwork for the synagogue store, but my illness restricts me there, sometimes making any progress at all impossible. But I can edit most times, and he assures me those teachings are reaching thousands. Mark and myself also do these par’shot each week, which go up on a few internet venues. God said don’t do that, do this instead, and so far it’s working out. Amazing how that works!
But when we try and force others into our mold, sin and disorder often result. Our haftara speaks of the results of the kingdom splitting to serve two kings. The Northern Kingdom even changed and sacrificed on a different mountain than told by Adonai their God. Yisroel punished first and the greatest, then Yehuda. The backsliding nation fighting against itself and slipping more and more into sin until they suffered the punishment of Adon Kol HaAretz, Lord Of All The Earth (Micah 4:13); the one with absolute authority to punish His own as well as all the earth.
Mekorot: JPS Study TNK, Green’s Interlinear, Strong’s Concordance, Brown, Driver, Briggs Lexicon, Vine’s Expository Dictionary, my father, Rav S, and many others
Date of reading- 25 May, 2019/20 Iyyar, 5779
Name of Par’shah- B’midbar, In the Desert
Par’shah- Numbers 1:1-4:20
Haftara- Hoseah 1:10 - 2:22
Brit Chadashah- Luke 2:1-7; ! Corinthians 12:12-31
D’rash: Before reading of our census in
, let’s go first to another time a census was taken:1 Chronicles 21:1-4 (ESV) Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.” But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?” But the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem.
The KJV has all references as adon, and translates it as though all refer to the king. However even if this were so, we’d have to consider the Strong’s definition:
אדון adon ʼâdôwn, aw-done'; or (shortened) אָדֹן ʼâdôn; from an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine):—lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with ‘Adoni-‘.
My Vine’s Expository Dictionary says ‘Adon refers to one with absolute authority’ while ‘Adonai always refers to God.’
My Green’s Interlinear has the following for vs. 3: “Are they not, my lord the king (המלך ha melech, the king), all of them my lord’s (אדוני Adoni, used only for “my God”).”
This makes much more sense translated that way:
“But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my Lord God's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?” If all references to ownership referred to Melech Dovid, why would Yisroel incur sin when he counted them? And were they not counted in our par’shah:
Numbers 1:1-3 (ESV) The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
Numbers 2:32-33 (ESV) These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers' houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550. But the Levites were not listed among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Why those able to go to war? And why weren’t the Levites counted? These are clues to why David was punished (actually Israel because of his actions) and Moses was not. The Levites were God’s alone. They ministered in, moved and set up and then guarded the Mishkan. They encamped around it, while the rest of the tribes were encamped in military order around them. The Hebrews moved and camped with military order and discipline.
Note the Levites actually were counted, but because of their special duties they were counted differently.
God owns His people, not the king or any ruler. When He says take a census, then and only then you take the doggone census! But kings and other rulers like to think they own the people. And what you own, you count, just as you would the royal treasury. David’s sin was thinking God’s people were his own, to do with as he pleased. He could send them to war or conscript them for labor, moving them as suited his purposes. Think again.
1 Corinthians 12:27-28 (ESV) Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
Today as then the body of believers belongs to Adonei HaAdonim, Lord of Lords (Deu 10:17). And as then the body functions when we leave God in command of His people. He numbers the hairs on our heads! He knows our abilities and what He wants us to do. He moves us where He wants us, and we find our niche in His work as He desires.
I help edit teachings for Rabbi. I wanted to do leatherwork for the synagogue store, but my illness restricts me there, sometimes making any progress at all impossible. But I can edit most times, and he assures me those teachings are reaching thousands. Mark and myself also do these par’shot each week, which go up on a few internet venues. God said don’t do that, do this instead, and so far it’s working out. Amazing how that works!
But when we try and force others into our mold, sin and disorder often result. Our haftara speaks of the results of the kingdom splitting to serve two kings. The Northern Kingdom even changed
and sacrificed on a different mountain than told by Adonai their God. Yisroel punished first and the greatest, then Yehuda. The backsliding nation fighting against itself and slipping more and more into sin until they suffered the punishment of Adon Kol HaAretz, Lord Of All The Earth (Micah 4:13); the one with absolute authority to punish His own as well as all the earth.Mekorot: JPS Study TNK, Green’s Interlinear, Strong’s Concordance, Brown, Driver, Briggs Lexicon, Vine’s Expository Dictionary, my father, Rav S, and many others
