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Post by alon on Aug 13, 2020 23:11:17 GMT -8
Name of Par’shah- 47.3b Bane, Sons/Children
Par’shah- Deuteronomy 14:1-16:17
Mourning/Avel
Deuteronomy 14:1 (ESV) “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead." Do not deface your body when in mourning.
Clean and Unclean/Tahara and Tame Food
This one will hit home with many of us, as most of us love some foods that are forbidden to eat. But Dr. Laura Schlesinger used to say, “A principle is not a principle until it has cost you something.” We should take that to heart.
Deuteronomy 14:3 (ESV) “You shall not eat any abomination." Do not eat food sacrificed to idols." H8441 תֹּעֵבַה תּוֹעֵבַה tô‛êbah; properly something disgusting (morally), that is, (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol: - abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Deuteronomy 14:4a,6 (ESV) These are the animals you may eat: … Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. The animal must both part the hoof and chew the cud to be considered good for consumption.
Deuteronomy 14:9-10 (ESV) “Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. Must have both fins and scales. I’m Southern, and I love catfish, especially fried. There is some argument about whether it is a clean fish, but I have to say them ain’t scales; so no.
Deuteronomy 14:11 (ESV) “You may eat all clean birds." Verses 12-18 lists those we should not eat, and we should be familiar with that list and abstain from eating: But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the falcon of any kind; every raven of any kind; the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant, the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.
Deuteronomy 14:19 (ESV) And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 14:21a (ESV) “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally.
Deuteronomy 14:21b (ESV) “You may give it (anything that has died naturally) to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 14:21c (ESV) “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.” My JPS TNK commentary says of this statement: “The rabbinic assumption that no law in the Bible is redundant led to the postbiblical generalization that prohibited the consumption of meat and milk products together. On its own terms, the law seems to have had a more restricted application. It originally applied specifically to pilgrimage festival offerings (Exod 23.19; 34.26). … Philo viewed it as redirecting the mind away from the body. Maimonides viewed it as directed against idolatry. Some moderns have viewed the prohibition as directed against Canaanite religious rituals; others view it as concerned to prevent the abuse of animals.” All these have merit to us except the rabbinical interpretation. As Messianics we are not bound by the excessive rulings of the rabbonim of the 3rd cen CE on. The practice of killing a newborn goat in front of its mother and boiling it in her milk was an extremely cruel one, and our God is not cruel. We are also prohibited from mixing pagan traditions with our worship of the One God. And all worship, all we do should redirect our minds to the things of our God.
Tithes/Ma'aser
Deuteronomy 14:22 (ESV) “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.” We tithe the produce of our labors at the time we reap their rewards.
Deuteronomy 14:23 (ESV) And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. The Mishkan and later the Temple was to be the place of offerings. It was also the place where we were to partake of some of those offerings. Today we typically bring our tithes to a synagogue, or for some to a church. Whatever we do, I think it important to set aside a tithe to the service of the Lord. This is born out in vss. 24-29: "And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there, then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household. And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do."
The Sabbatical/Shmitah Year
Deuteronomy 15:1-2 (ESV) “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.” Most rabbis and scholars I’ve talked to say this applies only to those living in he’eretz, Israel. However there is no proscription against our doing it to honor the commandment. Some however do say it applies to all who claim His Name. If we do observe it, we need to understand the terms brother and neighbor refer to our Messianic community, not to everyone, as we read in the next verse: "Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release."
Deuteronomy 15:7-9a,11 (ESV) “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, … For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’” We are to give to the poor among us. And God stressed this, saying it is a commandment.
Deuteronomy 15:12-14 (ESV) “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold [Or sells himself] to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.” People today sell their time to employers. As employers, we are commanded to give generously to a faithful servant at the end of his service or employment.
Deuteronomy 15:19 (ESV) “All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the Lord your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock." Firstborn clean animals are consecrated, and should not be worked or sold for your own profit.
Passover/Pesach
Deuteronomy 16:1 (ESV) “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, We are to observe Pesach." For many Meshiacim this will mean doing the best we can. But regardless how little or much we can do, we should observe it the best way possible in our present circumstances.
Deuteronomy 16:3a, 4a (ESV) “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction … No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days,” Eat only unleavened bread for the seven days of the feast. Make no leavened products, and all leavened items should be gone before the evening of the 14th.
Deuteronomy 16:4b (ESV) nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. Do not leave the meat prepared on the 14th for the pesach seder until the 15th.
Deuteronomy 16:7a (ESV) And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your God will choose. I try to find a demonstration seder as close as possible to Pesach and attend that, then just mark the day at home. While not really a Pesach seder, they are as close as I can now get. And as I read this, without a Temple all sederim since its destruction are pretty much equivalent to demonstration seders anyhow.
Deuteronomy 16:8 (ESV) For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it. The seventh day of the feast is a “solemn assembly” and should, if possibly be held with believers (preferably Messianic).
The Feast of Weeks/Shavuot
Deuteronomy 16:9-10 (ESV) “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.” Lev 23:15-16 says to count from the day after the Shabbat (the 15th is a Shabbat, and is apparently what is being spoken of here). This would be around the time when the sickle was first put to the grain, so the 16th which is FIrstfruits would start the count.
Deuteronomy 16:11 (ESV) And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. This is a time of rejoicing and sharing for everyone; and from the sounds of it for Gentile friends as well.
The Feast of Booths/Sukkoth
Deuteronomy 16:13-15a (ESV) “You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful." Since there is no Temple, the rest of vs 15 does not apply. However note the similar language to vs 11, “the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.” This is a feast to be shared, including any worthy Gentiles (Christians mostly today).
The Pilgrimage Festivals/Shalosh Regalim
Deuteronomy 16:16a (ESV) “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths.” These are the Shalosh Regalim, where every Jewish male was to appear before the Lord in Jerusalem. Today, whenever possible we celebrate with a holy convocation either in our homes or at synagogue.
Deuteronomy 16:16b-17 (ESV) They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. These are times of giving to God’s work and for His glory.
Par’shah- Deuteronomy 14:1-16:17
Mourning/Avel
Deuteronomy 14:1 (ESV) “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead." Do not deface your body when in mourning.
Clean and Unclean/Tahara and Tame Food
This one will hit home with many of us, as most of us love some foods that are forbidden to eat. But Dr. Laura Schlesinger used to say, “A principle is not a principle until it has cost you something.” We should take that to heart.
Deuteronomy 14:3 (ESV) “You shall not eat any abomination." Do not eat food sacrificed to idols." H8441 תֹּעֵבַה תּוֹעֵבַה tô‛êbah; properly something disgusting (morally), that is, (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol: - abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Deuteronomy 14:4a,6 (ESV) These are the animals you may eat: … Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. The animal must both part the hoof and chew the cud to be considered good for consumption.
Deuteronomy 14:9-10 (ESV) “Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. Must have both fins and scales. I’m Southern, and I love catfish, especially fried. There is some argument about whether it is a clean fish, but I have to say them ain’t scales; so no.
Deuteronomy 14:11 (ESV) “You may eat all clean birds." Verses 12-18 lists those we should not eat, and we should be familiar with that list and abstain from eating: But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the falcon of any kind; every raven of any kind; the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant, the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.
Deuteronomy 14:19 (ESV) And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 14:21a (ESV) “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally.
Deuteronomy 14:21b (ESV) “You may give it (anything that has died naturally) to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 14:21c (ESV) “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.” My JPS TNK commentary says of this statement: “The rabbinic assumption that no law in the Bible is redundant led to the postbiblical generalization that prohibited the consumption of meat and milk products together. On its own terms, the law seems to have had a more restricted application. It originally applied specifically to pilgrimage festival offerings (Exod 23.19; 34.26). … Philo viewed it as redirecting the mind away from the body. Maimonides viewed it as directed against idolatry. Some moderns have viewed the prohibition as directed against Canaanite religious rituals; others view it as concerned to prevent the abuse of animals.” All these have merit to us except the rabbinical interpretation. As Messianics we are not bound by the excessive rulings of the rabbonim of the 3rd cen CE on. The practice of killing a newborn goat in front of its mother and boiling it in her milk was an extremely cruel one, and our God is not cruel. We are also prohibited from mixing pagan traditions with our worship of the One God. And all worship, all we do should redirect our minds to the things of our God.
Tithes/Ma'aser
Deuteronomy 14:22 (ESV) “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.” We tithe the produce of our labors at the time we reap their rewards.
Deuteronomy 14:23 (ESV) And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. The Mishkan and later the Temple was to be the place of offerings. It was also the place where we were to partake of some of those offerings. Today we typically bring our tithes to a synagogue, or for some to a church. Whatever we do, I think it important to set aside a tithe to the service of the Lord. This is born out in vss. 24-29: "And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there, then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household. And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do."
The Sabbatical/Shmitah Year
Deuteronomy 15:1-2 (ESV) “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.” Most rabbis and scholars I’ve talked to say this applies only to those living in he’eretz, Israel. However there is no proscription against our doing it to honor the commandment. Some however do say it applies to all who claim His Name. If we do observe it, we need to understand the terms brother and neighbor refer to our Messianic community, not to everyone, as we read in the next verse: "Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release."
Deuteronomy 15:7-9a,11 (ESV) “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, … For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’” We are to give to the poor among us. And God stressed this, saying it is a commandment.
Deuteronomy 15:12-14 (ESV) “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold [Or sells himself] to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.” People today sell their time to employers. As employers, we are commanded to give generously to a faithful servant at the end of his service or employment.
Deuteronomy 15:19 (ESV) “All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the Lord your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock." Firstborn clean animals are consecrated, and should not be worked or sold for your own profit.
Passover/Pesach
Deuteronomy 16:1 (ESV) “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, We are to observe Pesach." For many Meshiacim this will mean doing the best we can. But regardless how little or much we can do, we should observe it the best way possible in our present circumstances.
Deuteronomy 16:3a, 4a (ESV) “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction … No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days,” Eat only unleavened bread for the seven days of the feast. Make no leavened products, and all leavened items should be gone before the evening of the 14th.
Deuteronomy 16:4b (ESV) nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. Do not leave the meat prepared on the 14th for the pesach seder until the 15th.
Deuteronomy 16:7a (ESV) And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your God will choose. I try to find a demonstration seder as close as possible to Pesach and attend that, then just mark the day at home. While not really a Pesach seder, they are as close as I can now get. And as I read this, without a Temple all sederim since its destruction are pretty much equivalent to demonstration seders anyhow.
Deuteronomy 16:8 (ESV) For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it. The seventh day of the feast is a “solemn assembly” and should, if possibly be held with believers (preferably Messianic).
The Feast of Weeks/Shavuot
Deuteronomy 16:9-10 (ESV) “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.” Lev 23:15-16 says to count from the day after the Shabbat (the 15th is a Shabbat, and is apparently what is being spoken of here). This would be around the time when the sickle was first put to the grain, so the 16th which is FIrstfruits would start the count.
Deuteronomy 16:11 (ESV) And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. This is a time of rejoicing and sharing for everyone; and from the sounds of it for Gentile friends as well.
The Feast of Booths/Sukkoth
Deuteronomy 16:13-15a (ESV) “You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful." Since there is no Temple, the rest of vs 15 does not apply. However note the similar language to vs 11, “the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.” This is a feast to be shared, including any worthy Gentiles (Christians mostly today).
The Pilgrimage Festivals/Shalosh Regalim
Deuteronomy 16:16a (ESV) “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths.” These are the Shalosh Regalim, where every Jewish male was to appear before the Lord in Jerusalem. Today, whenever possible we celebrate with a holy convocation either in our homes or at synagogue.
Deuteronomy 16:16b-17 (ESV) They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. These are times of giving to God’s work and for His glory.
