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Par’shah: 49.2
This week’s readings: Par’shah 49
Date of reading: September 14, 2019/14 Elul, 5779
Name of Par’shah: Ki Tetze (When you go out)
Par’shah: D’varim 21:10-25:19
Haftarah: Yesha’yahu 52:13-54:10
Brit Chadashah: Mattityahu 5:31-32; 19:3-12; 22:23-32; Mark 10:2-12; 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-38; 1 Corinthians 9:4-18; Galatians 3:9-14; 1 Timothy 5:17-18
D’rash:
D’varim 21:18-21---"If a man has a stubborn, rebellious son who will not obey what his father or mother says, and even after they discipline him he still refuses to pay attention to them; then his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him out to the leaders of his town, at the gate of that place, and say to the leaders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he doesn’t pay attention to us, lives wildly, gets drunk.’ Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death; in this way you will put an end to such wickedness among you, and all Isra’el will hear about it and be afraid.”
Notice that this behavior, along with a few others in this par’shah, is described as “such wickedness” and deserves the death penalty. Before continuing, it needs to be stated clearly that HaShem has very good reasons for his solution to this transgression despite modern opinions that would say, “that was back then, today is different,” or, “since Yeshua came, we are now under grace,” or whatever other human reasonings they come up with. Scriptures give the correct reason: to expel wickedness from the community, but Kohelet 8:11 gives a bit more detail:
“…because the punishment decreed for an evil act is not promptly carried out; therefore people who plan to do evil are strengthened in their intentions.”
Sin will not remain an isolated incident; if allowed to exist, it spreads like cancer, sickens and eventually destroys a righteous community and for this reason HaShem, out of love, needs to decree such a harsh penalty. But what is the reality? If our young adult children who know right from wrong choose to rebel and indulge in outright sin, would, or could we (if it were legal), do what
requires? When Moshe commanded this mitzvah to the people, I wonder if some of the parents were thinking to themselves, “I don’t think I could bring myself to do that.” It’s a fact that affection for our children will at times come into conflict with . Note that the prodigal son in Luke 15:13 went to a distant country, far from his righteous community and the elders at the town gates before indulging in his reckless living. Z’kharyah (Zechariah) prophesies of a future time in Yerushalayim where love and dedication to HaShem and will override affection towards our rebellious children:
Z’kharyah 13:1-3---When that day comes, a spring will be opened up for the house of David and the people living in Yerushalayim to cleanse them from sin and impurity. “When that day comes,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “I will cut off the very names of the idols from the Land, so that no one even remembers them anymore. I will also expel the [false] prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the Land; so that if anyone continues to prophesy, his own father and mother who brought him into the world will tell him, ‘You cannot continue to live, because you are speaking lies in the Name of Adonai’; then his own father and mother who brought him into the world will stab him to death…”
This Scripture sheds light in a new way to the words Yeshua spoke in Mattityahu 10:34-36, almost literally, when He said,
“Don’t suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword! For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, so that a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.”
This Scripture continues, teaching that anyone who loves any family member more than Yeshua will not be worthy of Him. Grace and mercy will not continue indefinitely for those in rebellion or those who have apostatized:
Hebrews 10:28-29-----Someone who disregards the of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses. Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of G-d; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of G-d’s grace!
Each of us has a race to run; let’s run to win and according to the rules (1 Corinthians 9:24-27).
References: Scriptures taken from the Complete Jewish Bible, copyright 1998 by David H. Stern
MRD
This week’s readings: Par’shah 49
Date of reading: September 14, 2019/14 Elul, 5779
Name of Par’shah: Ki Tetze (When you go out)
Par’shah: D’varim 21:10-25:19
Haftarah: Yesha’yahu 52:13-54:10
Brit Chadashah: Mattityahu 5:31-32; 19:3-12; 22:23-32; Mark 10:2-12; 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-38; 1 Corinthians 9:4-18; Galatians 3:9-14; 1 Timothy 5:17-18
D’rash:
D’varim 21:18-21---"If a man has a stubborn, rebellious son who will not obey what his father or mother says, and even after they discipline him he still refuses to pay attention to them; then his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him out to the leaders of his town, at the gate of that place, and say to the leaders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he doesn’t pay attention to us, lives wildly, gets drunk.’ Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death; in this way you will put an end to such wickedness among you, and all Isra’el will hear about it and be afraid.”
Notice that this behavior, along with a few others in this par’shah, is described as “such wickedness” and deserves the death penalty. Before continuing, it needs to be stated clearly that HaShem has very good reasons for his solution to this transgression despite modern opinions that would say, “that was back then, today is different,” or, “since Yeshua came, we are now under grace,” or whatever other human reasonings they come up with. Scriptures give the correct reason: to expel wickedness from the community, but Kohelet 8:11 gives a bit more detail:
“…because the punishment decreed for an evil act is not promptly carried out; therefore people who plan to do evil are strengthened in their intentions.”
Sin will not remain an isolated incident; if allowed to exist, it spreads like cancer, sickens and eventually destroys a righteous community and for this reason HaShem, out of love, needs to decree such a harsh penalty. But what is the reality? If our young adult children who know right from wrong choose to rebel and indulge in outright sin, would, or could we (if it were legal), do what
requires? When Moshe commanded this mitzvah to the people, I wonder if some of the parents were thinking to themselves, “I don’t think I could bring myself to do that.” It’s a fact that affection for our children will at times come into conflict with . Note that the prodigal son in Luke 15:13 went to a distant country, far from his righteous community and the elders at the town gates before indulging in his reckless living. Z’kharyah (Zechariah) prophesies of a future time in Yerushalayim where love and dedication to HaShem and will override affection towards our rebellious children:Z’kharyah 13:1-3---When that day comes, a spring will be opened up for the house of David and the people living in Yerushalayim to cleanse them from sin and impurity. “When that day comes,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “I will cut off the very names of the idols from the Land, so that no one even remembers them anymore. I will also expel the [false] prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the Land; so that if anyone continues to prophesy, his own father and mother who brought him into the world will tell him, ‘You cannot continue to live, because you are speaking lies in the Name of Adonai’; then his own father and mother who brought him into the world will stab him to death…”
This Scripture sheds light in a new way to the words Yeshua spoke in Mattityahu 10:34-36, almost literally, when He said,
“Don’t suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword! For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, so that a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.”
This Scripture continues, teaching that anyone who loves any family member more than Yeshua will not be worthy of Him. Grace and mercy will not continue indefinitely for those in rebellion or those who have apostatized:
Hebrews 10:28-29-----Someone who disregards the
of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses. Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of G-d; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of G-d’s grace!Each of us has a race to run; let’s run to win and according to the rules (1 Corinthians 9:24-27).
References: Scriptures taken from the Complete Jewish Bible, copyright 1998 by David H. Stern
MRD
