Beshalach

Parasha Beshalach

Exodus 13:17 – 17:15

Haftarah

Shophtin Judges 4:4-5:31

Brit Chadasha

Gilyahma Revelation 15:1-8

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 Parashas

While going through the pages of the Zohar I discover the unique gift it gives us on this Shabbat. I came across a section that reads “The energy of the words that comes from our mouth literally awaken the same type of energy from above.” If a believer speaks positive, he or she awaken within themselves positive energy from above.

The Zohar goes on to elucidate that if a person is participating and connecting to the Light of the Shabbat, he should not awaken the mundane things of the world on the Shabbat, for by doing so, he literally cause damage to the Light of the Shabbat.

A number of amazing things happen in the portion of Beshalach, including the parting of the Red Sea. The CREATOR said to the Children of Yisrael just prior to the crossing, "I will do battle for you and you must remain splent.” Which seams to indicate that on this Shabbat, the power of the Word is even greater than usual.

The Zohar goes on to explain that the Light revealed on Beshalach Shabbat is called the “Light of Atika,”  which is beyond anything we can awaken with our work or with our prayers. This is why ABBA YAHWEH warned the the Yisraelites not to speak. If these words had awakened any other type of Light during the parting of the Red Sea, they would have diminished the Superior Light being revealed at that time, the same way the mundane thing of the world dampen the effect of the Sabbath.

On the Shabbat of Beshalach, even Light revealed by prayer or study can diminish the greater Light available to us.

If the Light of this Shabbat is not revealed through the Words of the Torah, then how is it revealed? The answer to this question, we need to first know why the Kabbalists called this day the “Shabbat Shirah,” or the Shabbat of the Song. When we look at the Major events surrounding this day, beside the parting of the Red Sea, and the Song that was sang thanking ABBA YAHWEH for saving their lives.

As we look closer we see that the song itself was a singular event in the Torah. There is no other recorder event of a song in Torah. No one in Torah had sung a song prior to the Yisraelites singing the Song of the Sea.

As believers we either operate in the reality of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil or the reality of The Tree of Life. Unfortunately the majority of believers operate under the influence of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.

When we look at events of the physical world and see them as good and evil, we are living in the more superficial reality of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In the deeper reality of the Tree of the Tree of Life, there is only good. If we were able to look at our world today and see only how it benefit me, I am living in the knowledge of good and evil.

If we were able to look at the world and see only the Might Hand of YAHWEH at work, we would be standing in the “Gemar HaTikkun,” the Final Correction. However, because we are still feeding from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we still see darkness as well as light, we still see the world according to how it benefit Me. We see sin as good when it benefit us and good as bad when it cost us to give of ourselves.

Ultimately, the purpose of our lives in this world have never been explain to us. The goal and objective of all our lives is to help us attained the highest spiritual level possible. Life is to elevate ourselves and the world to the consciousness of the Tree of Life in reality. 

This Torah portion explains that when the Yisraelite sang as they cross the Red Sea, the words came directly from the Holy Spirit, and their song expresses the gratitude of their heart. The parting of the Red Sea was not as important as the song they sang, an expression of the Tree of Life consciousness, a taste of miraculous unit.

The Shabbat of Beshalach is the only Shabbat of the year where the consciousness of Shirah of the unity of the world, of the Tree of Life, is revealed. This priceless gift cannot be successfully describe, we have to experience it.

This is why the Zohar makes it so clear that on the Sabbath of Beshalach, we have to be exceptionally careful of our speech. This is a Sabbath when, if we are quite, the experience of the Tree of Life consciousness is made more available to each of us.

The quickest, easiest, and most direct route out of Egypt to the Promise Land of Yisrael is north East, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a route that goes through Palestine, which is on the West Cost of the Holy Land.

However just as this was the easiest route to return home. Since the war-like Philistines were sure to wave war, EL YAHWEH knew that the Children of Yisrael who had just came out of slaver, had no fighting skills. They would lose heart and return to Egypt.

To avoid this He took them on a round about path through the Sinai, to develop a sense of unity and purpose among them. In the ongoing story, Yisrael would develop their fighting skill little by little against the weaker enemies like the Amalekites. This is the same way our Heavenly Father do to us today.

After we are saved we are only a child spiritually, He waits until we become a young man spiritual, one who is stronger in the Word, before He ask us to be in spiritual warfare.