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Name of Par’shah- 45.3 V’Etchanan- I Pleaded
Par’shah- Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11
D’rash: There is a lot of instruction in this parashah meant only for those standing before Moshe at that time. However there are many mitzvoth applicable to us today also.
Deuteronomy 4:2 (ESV) You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. Keep the mitzvoth as HaShem gave them to us, not as we want.
Deuteronomy 4:9 (ESV) “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children— Be diligent in learning the mitzvoth and keeping them, and pass them on to your children.
Deuteronomy 5:1 (ESV) And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. In Judaism, to hear is to learn, and to learn is to do. So hear these instructions, and do them.
Deuteronomy 5:7 (ESV) “‘You shall have no other gods before [Or besides] me. We absolutely do not give worship, credit, nor consort to any god but our God, El Elohe Yisroel.
Deuteronomy 5:8-9a (ESV) “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, We make no graven images, and bow before nothing; even to say it represents our God is a grave sin.
Deuteronomy 5:11 (ESV) “‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
vain (vān) adj. vain·er, vain·est
Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless: a vain attempt.
Lacking substance or worth: vain talk.
Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
Archaic Foolish.
Idiom: in vain A. To no avail; without success: Our labor was in vain. B. In an irreverent or disrespectful manner: took the Lord's name in vain.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15 (ESV) “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. Probably the most oft repeated commandment: keep the Sabbath holy, set apart to God. Here both the observance and the remembrance are brackets by the command to keep the Sabbath.
Deuteronomy 5:16 (ESV) “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Honor- respect your parents, uphold your families reputation. I believe this includes all in our lineage, as well as close relatives.
Deuteronomy 5:17 (ESV) “‘You shall not murder.” In Hebrew the term also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence
Deuteronomy 5:18 (ESV) “‘And you shall not commit adultery.”
Deuteronomy 5:19 (ESV) “‘And you shall not steal.”
Deuteronomy 5:20 (ESV) “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Particularly in matters of law, but also among your community.
Deuteronomy 5:21 (ESV) “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’ Class envy is one of the main socialist tools being used today to destroy America and much of the free world. Had we but been more diligent to teach our children and youth this commandment. Though a national problem, observance starts in our own communities. Do not covet what your neighbor has.
Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV) “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone
Deuteronomy 6:5-6 (ESV) You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. Considered the greatest commandment (Luke 10:27), we are to love God, the ways of God, the things of God more than even ourselves.
Deuteronomy 6:7 (ESV) You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. His Torah is to be on our lips and heart, and we are to speak of it all day.
Deuteronomy 6:8 (ESV) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. This is fulfilled in Judaism by binding Teffilin and saying prayers at prescribed times (which coincide with the times of the daily sacrifices in the Temple). Many Messianics also do this. Others take this as a metaphor, that we are to bind our minds and the work of our hands to serve God.
Deuteronomy 6:9 (ESV) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. This is fulfilled by placing a Mezuzah on the front doorpost of your home. It should also be taken metaphorically that this home and all in it are dedicated to HaShem.
Deuteronomy 6:16 (ESV) “You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. There the Hebrews tried to threaten Moshe and manipulate God into giving them water on their command. They also questioned God’s motives. But we are not to test God. He tests us, we do not test Him.
Deuteronomy 6:17-18a (ESV) You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, … We are to painstakingly persevere in keeping the Mitzvoth.
Deuteronomy 7:2c (ESV) … You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. Contextually this speaks of those we have conquered in His Name. We, with the Ruach share in Yeshua’s conquering of sin when we accepted Him. Therefore we should not compromise with sin. And when dealing with the world, I have a saying, “Never compromise with evil.”
Deuteronomy 7:3 (ESV) You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, Jews are not supposed to “marry out.” We as believers in Messianic Judaism should marry neither Jews nor Christians, and certainly not others who are not Messianic. Now, I married both (a Jewess and one who does not believe in MJ, but who did convert to Christianity). I can tell you that causes problems. However I did that prior to becoming Messianic, and Rav Shaul instructs if we are already married not to divorce because of that.
Deuteronomy 7:5 (ESV) But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire. We should destroy the items of pagan worship wherever and whenever we can. This can mean physically, but I also take it that every time we convince an idolater to stop, we just in a sense destroyed the idols he worships.
Speaking of “commandments,” this parashah makes an interesting point.
Deuteronomy 4:44-45 (ESV) This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel. These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules [judgements], which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
law- תּוֹרָה tôrâh
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes-חֹק chôq
rules or judgements- מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
Deuteronomy 6:17 (ESV) You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
commandments- מִצְוָה mitsvâh
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes- חֹק chôq
Deuteronomy 6:20 (ESV) “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’’
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes- חֹק chôq חֻקִּים֙ choqim (pl)
rules/judgements- מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
The key terms are defined below. Testimomies and statutes are common to all three passages:
testimonies- H5713 עֵדָה ‛êdâh; in its technical sense; testimony: - testimony, witness.
statutes- H2706 חֹק chôq; an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage): - appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom,
However we have three terms not common to all: law, rules/judgements, and commandments:
decree (-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance, portion, set time, statute, task.
law- H8451 תּוֹרָה tôrâh to-raw', to-raw’; a precept or statute, … This definition shows Strong’s heavy leaning to the King James definitions and understanding. Even though the team that wrote his famous concordance were at a Methodist university, the Catholic influence really shows through. Calling all Torah “law” is a gross overgeneralization. “Instruction would be a far better translation, and should have been included in this definition. However, for our purposes here the term “torah” does carry connotations of “law,” and thus we will use the Strong’s definition. But we should understand the limited nature of the scope of this definition, even as w use it.
rules or judgements- H4941 (Strong) מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ; properly a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree, divine law, including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly justice, including a particular right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style: - + adversary, ceremony, charge, crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just (-ice, -ly), (manner of) law (-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
commandments- H4687 מִצְוָה mitsvâh; a command, whether human or divine (collectively the Law): - (which was) commanded (-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For our purposes here, the same as a “law.” However the term “Torah” here translated “Law” refers to the entire body of work of the Five Books of Moses. “Commandments” would be the individual mitzvoth.
Looking at these, rules or judgements seems to subsume the other two, giving us one broad category. It incorporates not only the laws/commandments, but judgements and penalties for breaking the laws; the entire system of justice. The terms “law” and “commandment” are more specific subsets of “rules/judgements.” Not as broad a category, but still pretty much synonymous with “rules or judgements,” for our purposes we’ll use “commandments” to name the third category.
I think as we go through Devarim, we’ll find this is how God refers to His instructions throughout:
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes- חֹק chôq חֻקִּים֙ choqim (pl)
commandments- מִצְוָה mitsvâh
rules/judgements- מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
law- תּוֹרָה tôrâh
At least I once read something similar, but could not find it in my notes. So this is something we might watch as we read this, the last of the Books of Moshe.
Baruch HaShem.
Dan C
Par’shah- Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11
D’rash: There is a lot of instruction in this parashah meant only for those standing before Moshe at that time. However there are many mitzvoth applicable to us today also.
Deuteronomy 4:2 (ESV) You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. Keep the mitzvoth as HaShem gave them to us, not as we want.
Deuteronomy 4:9 (ESV) “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children— Be diligent in learning the mitzvoth and keeping them, and pass them on to your children.
Deuteronomy 5:1 (ESV) And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. In Judaism, to hear is to learn, and to learn is to do. So hear these instructions, and do them.
Deuteronomy 5:7 (ESV) “‘You shall have no other gods before [Or besides] me. We absolutely do not give worship, credit, nor consort to any god but our God, El Elohe Yisroel.
Deuteronomy 5:8-9a (ESV) “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, We make no graven images, and bow before nothing; even to say it represents our God is a grave sin.
Deuteronomy 5:11 (ESV) “‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
vain (vān) adj. vain·er, vain·est
Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless: a vain attempt.
Lacking substance or worth: vain talk.
Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
Archaic Foolish.
Idiom: in vain A. To no avail; without success: Our labor was in vain. B. In an irreverent or disrespectful manner: took the Lord's name in vain.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15 (ESV) “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. Probably the most oft repeated commandment: keep the Sabbath holy, set apart to God. Here both the observance and the remembrance are brackets by the command to keep the Sabbath.
Deuteronomy 5:16 (ESV) “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Honor- respect your parents, uphold your families reputation. I believe this includes all in our lineage, as well as close relatives.
Deuteronomy 5:17 (ESV) “‘You shall not murder.” In Hebrew the term also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence
Deuteronomy 5:18 (ESV) “‘And you shall not commit adultery.”
Deuteronomy 5:19 (ESV) “‘And you shall not steal.”
Deuteronomy 5:20 (ESV) “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Particularly in matters of law, but also among your community.
Deuteronomy 5:21 (ESV) “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’ Class envy is one of the main socialist tools being used today to destroy America and much of the free world. Had we but been more diligent to teach our children and youth this commandment. Though a national problem, observance starts in our own communities. Do not covet what your neighbor has.
Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV) “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone
Deuteronomy 6:5-6 (ESV) You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. Considered the greatest commandment (Luke 10:27), we are to love God, the ways of God, the things of God more than even ourselves.
Deuteronomy 6:7 (ESV) You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. His Torah is to be on our lips and heart, and we are to speak of it all day.
Deuteronomy 6:8 (ESV) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. This is fulfilled in Judaism by binding Teffilin and saying prayers at prescribed times (which coincide with the times of the daily sacrifices in the Temple). Many Messianics also do this. Others take this as a metaphor, that we are to bind our minds and the work of our hands to serve God.
Deuteronomy 6:9 (ESV) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. This is fulfilled by placing a Mezuzah on the front doorpost of your home. It should also be taken metaphorically that this home and all in it are dedicated to HaShem.
Deuteronomy 6:16 (ESV) “You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. There the Hebrews tried to threaten Moshe and manipulate God into giving them water on their command. They also questioned God’s motives. But we are not to test God. He tests us, we do not test Him.
Deuteronomy 6:17-18a (ESV) You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, … We are to painstakingly persevere in keeping the Mitzvoth.
Deuteronomy 7:2c (ESV) … You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. Contextually this speaks of those we have conquered in His Name. We, with the Ruach share in Yeshua’s conquering of sin when we accepted Him. Therefore we should not compromise with sin. And when dealing with the world, I have a saying, “Never compromise with evil.”
Deuteronomy 7:3 (ESV) You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, Jews are not supposed to “marry out.” We as believers in Messianic Judaism should marry neither Jews nor Christians, and certainly not others who are not Messianic. Now, I married both (a Jewess and one who does not believe in MJ, but who did convert to Christianity). I can tell you that causes problems. However I did that prior to becoming Messianic, and Rav Shaul instructs if we are already married not to divorce because of that.
Deuteronomy 7:5 (ESV) But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire. We should destroy the items of pagan worship wherever and whenever we can. This can mean physically, but I also take it that every time we convince an idolater to stop, we just in a sense destroyed the idols he worships.
Speaking of “commandments,” this parashah makes an interesting point.
Devarim 4:44-45 (WLC) וְזֹ֖את הַתּוֹרָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־שָׂ֣ם מֹשֶׁ֔ה לִפְנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
אֵ֚לֶּה הָֽעֵדֹ֔ת וְהַֽחֻקִּ֖ים וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּצֵאתָ֖ם מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃
Deuteronomy 4:44-45 (ESV) This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel. These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules [judgements], which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
law- תּוֹרָה tôrâh
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes-חֹק chôq
rules or judgements- מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
Devarim 6:17 (WLC) שָׁמ֣וֹר תִּשְׁמְר֔וּן אֶת־מִצְוֺ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם וְעֵדֹתָ֥יו וְחֻקָּ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּֽךְ
Deuteronomy 6:17 (ESV) You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
commandments- מִצְוָה mitsvâh
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes- חֹק chôq
Devarim 6:20 (WLC) כִּֽי־יִשְׁאָלְךָ֥ בִנְךָ֛ מָחָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר מָ֣ה הָעֵדֹ֗ת וְהַֽחֻקִּים֙ וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֛ה יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ אֶתְכֶֽם׃
Deuteronomy 6:20 (ESV) “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’’
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes- חֹק chôq חֻקִּים֙ choqim (pl)
rules/judgements- מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
The key terms are defined below. Testimomies and statutes are common to all three passages:
testimonies- H5713 עֵדָה ‛êdâh; in its technical sense; testimony: - testimony, witness.
statutes- H2706 חֹק chôq; an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage): - appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom,
However we have three terms not common to all: law, rules/judgements, and commandments:
decree (-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance, portion, set time, statute, task.
law- H8451 תּוֹרָה tôrâh to-raw', to-raw’; a precept or statute, … This definition shows Strong’s heavy leaning to the King James definitions and understanding. Even though the team that wrote his famous concordance were at a Methodist university, the Catholic influence really shows through. Calling all Torah “law” is a gross overgeneralization. “Instruction would be a far better translation, and should have been included in this definition. However, for our purposes here the term “torah” does carry connotations of “law,” and thus we will use the Strong’s definition. But we should understand the limited nature of the scope of this definition, even as w use it.
rules or judgements- H4941 (Strong) מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ; properly a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree, divine law, including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly justice, including a particular right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style: - + adversary, ceremony, charge, crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just (-ice, -ly), (manner of) law (-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
commandments- H4687 מִצְוָה mitsvâh; a command, whether human or divine (collectively the Law): - (which was) commanded (-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For our purposes here, the same as a “law.” However the term “Torah” here translated “Law” refers to the entire body of work of the Five Books of Moses. “Commandments” would be the individual mitzvoth.
Looking at these, rules or judgements seems to subsume the other two, giving us one broad category. It incorporates not only the laws/commandments, but judgements and penalties for breaking the laws; the entire system of justice. The terms “law” and “commandment” are more specific subsets of “rules/judgements.” Not as broad a category, but still pretty much synonymous with “rules or judgements,” for our purposes we’ll use “commandments” to name the third category.
I think as we go through Devarim, we’ll find this is how God refers to His instructions throughout:
testimonies- עֵדָה ‛êdâh
statutes- חֹק chôq חֻקִּים֙ choqim (pl)
commandments- מִצְוָה mitsvâh
rules/judgements- מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
law- תּוֹרָה tôrâh
At least I once read something similar, but could not find it in my notes. So this is something we might watch as we read this, the last of the Books of Moshe.
Baruch HaShem.
Dan C
