Tying tzitzit is a commandment, one with depth, intention, and identity woven into every knot and winding.
If you’ve ever wondered how to do it yourself — or why you even should — this video has your back.
Tying tzitzit is a commandment, one with depth, intention, and identity woven into every knot and winding.
If you’ve ever wondered how to do it yourself — or why you even should — this video has your back.
For years, I read Daniel 7:25 without grasping its full weight:
and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.
It was right in front of me, yet I missed it — over and over. I should have held fast to Deuteronomy 11:18, binding His words to my heart and mind.
And you shall lay up these Words of Mine in your heart and in your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
Instead, I drifted, unknowingly aligning myself with the warning in Revelation 13:16
And he causes all, both small and great, and rich and poor, and free and slave, to be given a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,
What follows is the evidence I finally saw — the shift in worship, the change of times, and the authority behind it. Continue reading From Sabbath to Sunday: Who Changed the Day of Worship — and Why?
Lesson date: 3/17/5854AA
Why study Deuteronomy? Why study Torah? Deuteronomy is the most quoted book in the B’rit Hadasha (NT). If it was good enough for Yeshua, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Sha’ul and the rest it is good enough for me. Since we read Deuteronomy for the sabbatical year it has been my favorite book of Torah because it encapsulates the other 4 books. People often forget that when the writers of the B’rit Hadasha were writing their letters Torah was the authority: Timotiyos Bět/2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work.”
In the past we have discussed the various “principles” of of Biblical exegesis and compared that to the Hebrew model of exegesis. Christianity has roughly 30 different levels or “principles” in exegesis of Scripture/Hermeneutics. Hebrew has 4. Naturally the rabbis insist that there is actually a fifth that has to be used in order to ‘truly’ understand the Kabbalah, (the Jewish book of black magic compiled while dispersed in Babylon). Always steer clear of rabbis and deeper meanings. The four levels are represented as an acronym PaRaDeS:
Continue reading Debarim (Deuteronomy) 2 — What comes first?
Lesson date: Rosh Chodesh Month 4/5854AA
In verse one we see the Children of Yisrael turning and “went up the way” to Bashan – H1316 – בּשׁן – bâshân BDB Definition: Bashan = “fruitful”. Psa 22:12 Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong ones of Bashan have encircled Me.
Eze 39:18 “Eat the flesh of the mi ghty, drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs, of goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Continue reading Debarim (Deuteronomy) 3 — Giants, giants, giants
Lesson date: Rosh Chodesh Month 4/5854AA
Chapter 4 begins with an exhortation of Mosheh: Deu 4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you.
We see it again: Deu 12:32 “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.
And again: Pro 30:6 Do not add to His Words, Lest He reprove you, and you be found a liar.
Lesson date: 4/8/5854
And Mosheh called ALL Yisrael – all 12 tribes: Jas 1:1 Yaʽaqoḇ, a servant of Elohim and of the Master יהושע Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings.
And what do we see next? Hear – guard – do!
Verse 2 – Deu 5:2 “יהוה our Elohim made a covenant with us
Lesson date: 4/15/5854AA
Deu 6:1 “And this is the command, the laws and right-rulings which יהוה your Elohim has commanded, to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over to possess,
The Commands: H4687 – מִצְוָה – mitsvâh – mits-vaw’ = a command, whether human or divine (collectively the Law): – (which was) commanded (-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
The Laws: H2706 – חֹק – chôq – khoke = an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage): – appointed, bound, commandment,
Right-rulings: H4941 – מִשְׁפָּט – mishpâṭ – mish-pawt’ = properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (particularly) divine law,
Lesson date: 4/22/5854AA
Hittites: חִּתִּי Ḥittiy – Strong’s H2850 – meaning “sons of Ḥeth” or “terror”.
Girgashites: – גִּ ר גשִּי Girgashiy – Strong’s H1622 – means “dwelling on a clayey soil” or ‘clay dwellers’ or ‘unsure foundation’.
Amorites: – אֱמֹרִּי Emoriy – Strong’s H567 – meaning ‘cave dwellers’. amar – Strong’s H559 which means, ‘utter, say, speak’ which can mean “boasters”.
Kena’anites: – כנַעֲנִּי Kena’aniy – Strong’s H3669 ‘zealous, lowlands people, brought down, defeated or made low’.
Perrizites: – פרִּזִּי Perizziy – Strong’s H6522 – means ‘belonging to a village’, ‘rustic village’ or ‘having a breach in the wall’. Continue reading Debarim (Deuteronomy) 7 — Seven Nations Greater and Mightier than You or, The Enemy of YHVH is our Enemy, not our Friend