Shoftin

Parashas Shoftim

Deuteronomy 16:18 –  21:9

Please pray this

Prayer before reading

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

This Torah Portion of Shoftim begins with the word: “Appoint judges and officers within all your gates, which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous right (mishpat tzedek).”  The word tzedek, translated literally, “Just”.

The ultimate purpose of our spiritual life is to diminish the effect of darkness and awaken the Light of Messiyah in this world. We accomplish this when we act with mercy, when we  judge other in a merciful way, we open the gate of Light in the area of our influence.

 It is important to our understanding, to know just how essential this is to us, especially as we come into the sixth month of Elul, the end of the summer when the final harvest is about to be harvested, the month when the seed of the judgements we have created through previous actions produces its fruits.

To those who have proactively judge others in a positive way, will have open to them the Gate of Mercy. The opposite hold true also, every time we judge others negatively, we open the Gate of negative Judgement and we bring darkness and death to our lives. All the judgement that we experience in our lives is due to our thinking.

An interesting fact about the Ant, an Ant live about six month, and in that time it eats about 1.5 grams of food. Yet that same Ant spend most of its time gathering a vast supply of food. Why? The reason simple the Ant gathers more food than it could ever eat in its life time, is because it knows that one day there will be no harvest, and when that day comes the ant will have enough food in reserve. King Solomon tells us that the Ant has more wisdom than we do.

When we learn to choose to see the positive in others we awaken the immortality of the spirit of the Ants, which is one of the gifts of the Sabbath of Shoftim.  By making that choice, or any other choice, whether positive or negative, affects what comes next in our lives.