Balak

Parashas Balak

Numbers 22:2 – 25:9

PLEASE PRAY THIS

RAYER BEFORE READING

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

This Torah portion is the 40^th  in the Torah Cycle, in this reading the Torah tells us the story of Bilaam the prophet who had the power to cast a curse on the Yisraelites, to give the evil eye sotospeak. In the previous Torah Portion, we realize what is the purpose of a Korach in our lives, now we will see the value of a Bilaam in our spiritual development.

According to the Torah, the King of Moab, saw how successful the Yisraelites were in their spiritual battle, and became envious of them, so Balak summoned Bilaam to cast a evil eye on the Yisraelites.

As believers there are spiritual forces acting against us every day, like the Children of Yisrael, we had no idea what plans the spirit of Balak is planning against us, we also do not know what spiritual forces is stack up against us every day.

In this Torah Portion we will learn how essential it is to be always be connect spiritual to El Yahushua our Messiyah.

This is a valuable lesson for our lives. There is never any spiritual falling without an avenue for redemption. No soul falls forever. We must always realize that, no matter how low it might seems that we have fallen, our spirit is in a process of correction.

There is a verse in Isaiyah 60:4 “Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. ” This verse is describing the “Gemar HaTikkum,” the final correction, and that the first three letter of the word “Nikbatzum ba’u lecha” ‘have gathered and come to surround you’ make up the name NaBaL.

When we look around, we awaken the consciousness that no soul truly fall without the process of redemption available to it. Very soul or Ego is in a state of correction, even Bilaam soul was in a state of correction.

It is important fore every believer to study this Torah Portion, for in studying it, we realize that there is no negative soul, all souls are in a state of correction. Even when we see something negative in another person, we must remember that there is also tremendous holiness in us. We need to read the words of this Torah Portion over and over again in order to awaken our consciousness within us, so that we may move toward the Gemar HaTikkum, the final correction.

This chapter begins with the famous story of Balak and Balaam, their attempt to curse the Hebrew people, and the baffling of their attempt; יהוה people were told long afterward to remember what Balak the king of Moab, who consulted Balaam the son of Beor, and the answer he gave “that they might know the righteousness of YAHVEH”, Mic:5.

In this chapter we have:

• Balak’s fear of the Hebrew People, and the plot he had to get them cursed.
• The delegation he sent to Balaam, a conjurer, to fetch him for that purpose, and the disappointment he met with in the first delegation.
• Balaam’s coming to him upon his second message.
• The opposition Balaam met with by the way.
• The interview at length between Balak and Balaam.

The children of Yisrael had been traveling the Wilderness for some thirty-nine years, now they were now referred to as Yisrael. This was the final attack of the enemies of our soul to squelch their progress towards the final correction, Yisrael. They were encamped in the plains of Moab on the east side of Jordan, where they dwell till they passed through the Jordan River. This narrative starts with a fright of the Moabites, bases on the approaching Yisraelites. Now the narrative!

Num 22:2 And Balak son of Tsippor saw all that Yisra’ĕl had done to the Amorites. -   They heard of the triumphs over the Amorites, and think that their own kingdom was in danger, when he saw the relative ease in which the Amorites fall before Yisrael.

Num 22:3 And Mo’aḇ was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Mo’aḇ was in dread because of the children of Yisra’ĕl. -  They observed the multitude of the Yisraelites, for they were many. The Moabites speculate on the easy it would be for the Yisraelites to overpowered them. Some effective strategic course of action, was to be employed to stop the progress of the advancing Yisraelites. It is always the intent of the evil-one to prevent our Spiritual progress to maturity. When we observe such a campaign, we know for a fact it is not the flesh, but a spiritual battle in progress.

The Children of Yisrael knew nothing about the plans of Balak and Balaam since it was not a military campaign, is was not conducted in the natural, but in the spiritual. It is essential that we summoned the name of YAHVEH TSEBAOTE the Army of Host of Heavens, for our protection. My Master, teach my hands to do warfare. 2Sa 22:35  He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

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.