Chukas

Parashas Chukas

Numbers 19:1 - 22:1

Please Pray this

Prayer, before reading

I Prayer

In the name of Yahushua

Our Messiyah,

I pray for the Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit of Knowledge and

The Spirit of Wisdom

As I read through this Parasha

That the Truth of Torah may

Come forth. Amen

Chukas “Status” is the 39 Torah Portion, it begins with a detail description of the CREATOR’S rules for the Red Heifer ceremony needed to provide purification for those who have come in contact with a dead body.

This is the ordinance of the law “Zot chukat haTorah” which ABBA YAHVEH has command, saying “Speak to the Children of Yisrael that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein there is no blemish, and upon which never came a yok.”

The Torah Portion chukat refers to a concept called “Amatri achakmah vehi rechokah mimeni,” meaning that there is something very difficult to comprehend about the portion of Chukat.

When King Solomon said “all this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me,” he was actually speaking about the Portion of Chukat. This is a difficult portion to unpack its meaning. Zot chukat haTorah means this is something that you won’t be able to explain.

What then is this revelation that ABBA YAHVEH would share only with the likes of Moses? We know that it must include the essence of this Torah Portion which is the “para aduma,” the Red Heifer, which involve purification from “tum’at met,” the negative energy from a dead body. The other aspect of Chukat is Moses striking the rock.

The last Torah Potion Korach we learn about a rebellion against Moses, where he was accusation of some heinous crime against the Children of Yisrael. According to the Kabbilist, the secret ABBA YAHVEH revealed to Moses in this Torah Portion was due to the humiliation that Moses suffered as a result of Korach’s accusations.

On the Sabbath of Chukat, the ABBA YAHVEH gave to Moses “bila hamevet lanetzach,” the authority over death, the key to remove “tum’at met,” the negative energy that was neutralized by the sacrifice of the Red Heifer.

This great gift off Torah Portion Chukat was not a transmission of information, but of consciousness. The only difference between where we are today and bila hamavet lanetzach, the removal of our selfish ego is our consciousness.

On this Sabbath Moses got the consciousness of charity and certainty that death can be removed from him. We are told that no one knew where Moses was buried, Like Elijah the prophet he achieved spiritually maturity.

The commentators on the Torah tell us that the process of removal of tum’at met, the removal: of the energy of death, the selfish ego, does not only belong in the Torah Portion Chukat. This Portion focuses on what occurred in the fortieth years of the Yisraeltes’ journey in the desert, whereas the revelation of the Red Heifer and the removal of tum’at met, took place in the  second years after the exodus.

So why is the discussion of the Red Heifer, chukat haTorah, revealed in Torah Portion Chukat. The answer is that Moses could not have received the high level spiritual maturity, had it not been for Korach.

This is why the story of Moses receiving “chukat haTorah” is where it is. Although this level of Maturity was describe by the CREATOR earlier in Torah, if it was not for the Korach in our lives and their contribution in diminishing the ego in our lives, perfection could not be achieved. Psalms 82:7 – 9, admonishes us to live like gods and not die like men. Human who reached this level of Maturity have no grave, “Elijah, Enoch, Messiyah, and Moses.”

The law of the Red Cow is described as the quintessential decree of the Torah, meaning that it is beyond human understanding. What then is the purpose of this commandment? The Torah states that it is a decree of the One who gave the Torah, and it is not for anyone to question why.

It is axiomatic, however, that since all of the laws of Torah are the product of the Kingdom of Heavens, any human inability to comprehend it indicates the limitation of the spirit of understanding in the student’s life.

There is nothing meaningless of purposeless in the Torah, and if it seems so, it is only a product of the reader inability to build their Menorah, or to develop spiritually.

This chapter focuses primarily on one paradox in the laws of the Red Cow: its ashes purify believers who had become contaminated. It was regarding this aspect of its laws that King Solomon exclaimed, “I said I would be wise, but it is far from me” Ecc 7:23.

Following the same theme, this story illustrate  a number of such paradoxical cases of righteous people who descended from wicked parents, such as Abraham from Terach, Josiah from Ammon. As it is forbidden to drink blood in the Torah, but an infant may nurse from its mothers, whose blood supply the ingredience the source of life for the child.

The underlying message of all this, as well as many other mysteries of the Torah, is that the Supreme Intelligence has granted man a huge treasury of spiritual wisdom and understanding Isaiyah 11:2.

It is not the corpse that causes contamination or the ashes of the Cow that purify, it is our obedience to the principles of Torah. These laws are decrees of the King of the Universe, and man has no right to question them.

In others word, an essential component of wisdom is the knowledge that man’s failure to understand truth does not make it untrue.

Contamination and purification, this chapter, seem to have no sequential or chronological relationship to the chapter before or after it. As to when the laws of the Red Cow were actually given, is not clear, what I do know that these principle was in existence from the foundation of the Kingdom of Heavens.

This law was given for the redeemed community to learn shortly after they left Egypt, but  the people were not yet commanded to carry them out, Exodus 15:25. On the first of Nissan, the second year after leaving Egypt, the day the Tabernacle was inaugurated, and the very next day, on the second of Nissan, Moses oversaw the burning of the first Red Cow. This month of Nissan was the start of the second year in the wilderness. This seems to imply that the purification process would not be implemented until the second years of our spiritual development, after we had learn what is right and what is wrong, from the Spirit of Truth.

The laws of the Tabernacle and the Kohanim, which began in Levitius, we concluded in the chapter 18 with a list of priestly gifts. Therefore,  the laws of the Red Cow belong here, for knowledge of the way to remove contamination was necessary for the individual to keep their own personal Tabernacle clean.

Maintaining the spiritual integrity of our Tabernacle is an exercise in wisdom and understand, which is the developing of the first two branches of the Menorah in our lives, or otherwise called the second day of Creation, where we learn to separate the water under the Heavens from the water above the Heavens.