Post by alon on Dec 5, 2019 0:48:23 GMT -8
Name of Par’shah- 7. Vayetze- He Went Out
Par’shah- Gen 28:10 – 32:3
Haftara- Hoseah 11:7-14:10;
Jeremiah 24:1-10
D’rash: I saw nothing in the way of a commandment in this week’s par’shah. However I did find an intriguiging passage which bore striking resemblence to our haftara while studying:
Jeremiah 24 (NASB) Baskets of Figs and the Returnees
1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord! 2 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3 Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. 6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. 7 I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.
8 ‘But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them. 10 I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”
Now figs themselves make an interesting short study:
Mishle 27:18 (OJB) He who is guard over the te’enah (fig tree) shall eat the p’ri (fruit) thereof, so he that is shomer over his adon shall be honored.
Proverbs 27:18 (NASB) He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be honored.
This actually speaks of
, and more specifically our study. Melech Shlomo was making a very deep comparison here of and the fig. Rabbi Chiya bar Abba quoted Rabbi Yochanan (Eiruvin 54a) as to why the comparison was made: “Just as one constantly finds figs when he approaches the tree, so too will one always find a new taste in the he is studying.”
Whereas most trees harvested all at once, the fig ripens little by little over the course of the year. So there is always fruit. It is the same with. We learn a little one day and more next, as often as we return to it. It is also by this repetition that we retain our knowledge. “One who sees a fig tree in a dream, it is a message from Heaven that his knowledge is retained and protected in him.” (Berachot 57a) The fig tree thus metaphorically conveys a double message; that of acquiring knowledge of in the thrill of learning, and our need to retain and protect that knowledge, done through constant review. Thus we enjoy the fruits of our study.
As, our beginning is compared to the fig tree, so Yeshua had some things to say about the fig and the end times:
Luke 21:29-31 (NASB) Then He told them a parable: “Behold the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near. So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near.
There is a hidden principle here as well: if you want to understand the end, you must first understand the beginning.
In Luke 21 Yeshua tells us to look at the fig tree (Israel) and ‘all the trees’ (the nations) and observe the signs of the times. Israel has always been the center of biblical history. Certainly it is central to. However looking at the world today and how things are shaping up, we see that once again Israel is central to the events which more and more shape our world. In 1948 the nation of Israel prophetically (but most unlikely) was reborn. The fig put forth its leaves. Then little by little we see prophecy taking shape. Those who tend the fig eat the fruit of understanding a bit more as each event unfolds. But the fertile ground of that and all understanding is .
In case you wondered why we go through every year.
Dan C
Par’shah- Gen 28:10 – 32:3
Haftara- Hoseah 11:7-14:10;
Jeremiah 24:1-10
D’rash: I saw nothing in the way of a commandment in this week’s par’shah. However I did find an intriguiging passage which bore striking resemblence to our haftara while studying:
Jeremiah 24 (NASB) Baskets of Figs and the Returnees
1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord! 2 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3 Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. 6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. 7 I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.
8 ‘But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them. 10 I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”
Now figs themselves make an interesting short study:
Mishle 27:18 (OJB) He who is guard over the te’enah (fig tree) shall eat the p’ri (fruit) thereof, so he that is shomer over his adon shall be honored.
Proverbs 27:18 (NASB) He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be honored.
This actually speaks of
, and more specifically our study. Melech Shlomo was making a very deep comparison here of and the fig. Rabbi Chiya bar Abba quoted Rabbi Yochanan (Eiruvin 54a) as to why the comparison was made: “Just as one constantly finds figs when he approaches the tree, so too will one always find a new taste in the he is studying.”Whereas most trees harvested all at once, the fig ripens little by little over the course of the year. So there is always fruit. It is the same with
. We learn a little one day and more next, as often as we return to it. It is also by this repetition that we retain our knowledge. “One who sees a fig tree in a dream, it is a message from Heaven that his knowledge is retained and protected in him.” (Berachot 57a) The fig tree thus metaphorically conveys a double message; that of acquiring knowledge of in the thrill of learning, and our need to retain and protect that knowledge, done through constant review. Thus we enjoy the fruits of our study.As
, our beginning is compared to the fig tree, so Yeshua had some things to say about the fig and the end times:Luke 21:29-31 (NASB) Then He told them a parable: “Behold the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near. So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near.
There is a hidden principle here as well: if you want to understand the end, you must first understand the beginning.
In Luke 21 Yeshua tells us to look at the fig tree (Israel) and ‘all the trees’ (the nations) and observe the signs of the times. Israel has always been the center of biblical history. Certainly it is central to
. However looking at the world today and how things are shaping up, we see that once again Israel is central to the events which more and more shape our world. In 1948 the nation of Israel prophetically (but most unlikely) was reborn. The fig put forth its leaves. Then little by little we see prophecy taking shape. Those who tend the fig eat the fruit of understanding a bit more as each event unfolds. But the fertile ground of that and all understanding is .In case you wondered why we go through
every year.Dan C
