Parasha Devarim
Deuteronomy 1:1 –
3:23
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 Light of Torah may
Revealed to me. Amen
We
often hear people say that only if I knew then what I known now! The Book of
Deuteronomy, “Devarim”, the Torah offers us a
second chance to understand and know why every thing that happens before
happens again.
Deuteronomy repeats the story of the Exodus
from Egypt,
which as we shall see, is the quint-essential story of our lives. But Deuteronomy is more than just a repetition in a conventional sense. It gives us
a second chance to maximize the new consciousness of this Torah Cycle or day of
Creation. We can achieve this learning to live differently because if we are
honest with ourselves, we know we are constantly making the same mistake today
as we did last month or year.
W
hat does this second chance really means for us. Each Torah cycle like each day
of Creation produce the foundation for the rest of our lives. Next year Torah
will built on this years foundation until we finish building our lives. If on
day or one Torah is not completely formed, we are creating a weak link in the
cghain.
As
Kabbalah teaches if we do not change our Consciousness or the way we view life,
then our lives cannot change for the better. Deuteronomy give us the energy and
consciousness to make sure we gain the light that each Torah cycle has for us.
By connecting spiritually with this Book of the Torah, we can receive three
specific and distinct form of spiritual energy that will help us make the very
difficult change: the energy to du our spiritual work, the energy of spiritual
excitement and the energy of spiritual perseverance.
The
purpose and illumination of Deuteronomy is to infuse these three seemingly
different forms of the Creator’s Light into our lives to give us the Wisdom,
knowledge and understanding to recreate our lives into who we are called to be.
Kabbalah
teaches that spiritual work is not called work for nothing. It is not easy
because it is not meant to be easy. Spiritual work is a process of growth
called the sixth days of Creation, for us to move beyond our physical
boundaries and our comfort zone. It means going against our innate reactive
tendencies and consciously choosing the proactive approchate to life. It is
refusing to succumb to the temptation of the role of victim and taking full
responsibility for what goes on in our lives.
The
95% Wisdom, knowledge and understanding
we can receive from the Book of Deuteronomy is something different from
what we find in the 5% we find in the world. This type of consciousness is not
like the light of a flash bulb that illuminates for a moment and then darkness
return. This type of consciousness is not something that we can ever lose, for
what we have gain in the spirit the 95% is permanent. It is the excitement
generated from within, not from without; from having a sense of purpose; from
seeing a much bigger picture than we ever saw before; from having a sense of
purpose; from seeing a much bigger picture than we ever saw before; from taking
responsibility for change and acting on it with eagerness, knowing it will
bring us to a better, and more enrich life.
The
same way, the quality of light we gain from Deuteronomy is not like the light
we require to clean our Neshomah. It is actually the quality of light that build
or establish the light within. There is a light that remove darkness and there
is a light that build up the light within.
It
is interesting to notice that many of the events of this Book take place in the
same desert as in the previous four books, just as many of the events of our lives
involves the same sorts of actions and responsibilities from one cycle to the
nest.. Remember this: in developing a stronger consciousness that the Light of Deuteronomy with the added infusion of light that accompanies our
consciousness, we can change everything.
We
can revolutionize our lives with new wisdom, knowledge and understanding, not
just by changing the 5%, but the 95%, but by remaking ourselves at the seed
level of our soul. That is what transformation really means, and the power to
make it happen awaits us in these pages.
The Sabbath of
Devarim is the 43rd Torah Portion, it is also known as “Sabbath
Chazon” or the Sabbath of vision it is one of the greatest Sabbath of the year.
There is no greater day for the Yisraelites than the day that the Temple was destroyed.
The Talmud teaches
that if a husband is going away on a long trip, he has to lie with his wife the
night before he leaves. Whenever there
is a separation, there has to be an equally great union.
On this week in
history, both the temple in Jerusalem
were destroyed and it is regarded as the most negative day of the Year. In
addition to the psychic and spiritual damage, Thousand of people were killed
when the temple was destroyed. Where there was a tragic day in the physical world,
it was a day of amazing love in the upper world.
Where there is a
great amount of darkness, there is also the possibility for a great amount of
light. The greatest revelation of the light of the Creator is Messiyah
Yahushua. This means that this Light is revealed completely only on the Shabbat
of Deverim.
One of the gifts of
this Sabbath of Devarim is that all of our spiritual strength can be double, as
Elisha ask Elijah for a double portion of his blessing.
One week before the
9th of Av, on the Sabbath that connects us to the greatest
separation, the destruction of the Tabernacle, we gain access to the most
incredible Light. On this Shabbat, we have the power to double the strength
of Elijah the Prophet.
This book is a repetition of both the history
and the laws contained in the three previous books, which repeat what Moses
delivered to Yisrael (both by word of mouth, that it might affect, and by writing,
that it might last) just before his death. There is no new revelation in it,
but, that of the death of Moses in the last chapter, nor any new revelation to
Moses, and therefore the style here is not, as before. YAHWEH spoke unto
Moses, saying.
But the principles of
Torah are repeated and commented upon, explained and enlarged, and some
particular precepts clarified to them, with abundant reasoning’s for the
enforcing of them.
In this book Moses
was divinely inspired and assisted, so that this is truly the word of YAHWEH
written by Moses as that which was spoken to him with an audible voice out of
the tabernacle of the congregation, Lev. 1:1.
The Greek
interpreters call it Deuteronomy, which signifies the second law,
or a second edition of the Torah, not with amendments, for the
principles of Torah needed none, but with additional clarification, for the
further direction of the people in specific cases, not mentioned before. That
is why this book of the Law was design to be place on the outside of the Ark,
Deut 31:25 That
Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of YAHWEH, saying,
26Take this book of the law, and put it at the side of the Ark of the covenant of YAHWEH your EL,
that it may be there for a witness against thee. 27For I know thy
rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day,
ye have been rebellious against YAHWEH
and how much more after my death?
One could safely say
that Deuteronomy is the policeman of the Torah, since it contains the laws that
stand against us, both in chapter 11:17And then YAHWEH’S
wrath be kindled against you, and HE shut up the heaven, that there be
no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from
off the good land which YAHWEH giveth you. 11: 26Behold, I set before you this day a blessing
and a curse; 27A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of YAHWEH
your EL, which I command you this day: 28And a curse, if ye will not
obey the commandments of YAHWEH your EL, but turn aside out of the way which I
command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 29And
it shall come to pass, when YAHWEH thy EL hath brought thee in unto the land
whither You goest to possess it, that You shalt put the blessing upon mount
Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
Deut 28:15But
it shall come to pass, if You will not hearken unto the voice of YAHWEH thy EL,
to observe to do all HIS commandments and HIS statutes which I command thee
this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16Cursed
shalt You be in the city, and cursed shalt You be in the field. 17Cursed
shall be thy basket and thy store. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of
thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks
of thy sheep. 19Cursed shalt You be when You comest in, and cursed
shalt You be when You goest out.
Deut 30:1And
it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing
or the curse, which I have set before thee, and You shalt call them to mind
among all the nations, whither YAHWEH your EL hath driven thee.
Now, it was much for the
honor of the Divine Principles that it should be therefore repeated; how great
were the things of those principles which was place inside the Ark Exodus 40:20
“And he took and put the testimony
into the Ark, and set the staves on the Ark, and put the mercy seat above upon
the Ark:” Therefore think on how
inexcusable would those be by whom they were counted as a strange thing!
Hos. 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange
thing.
There might be a
particular reason for the repeating of it in this book; the men of that
generation to which the Torah was first given were all dead, and a new
generation had sprung up, to whom YAHWEH would have Moses repeated, that if
possible, it might make a lasting impression upon them. Now that they were just
going to take possession of the Promise Land, Moses must read the contract of covenant to them, that they might know the terms and conditions they were to
hold and enjoy the land, and that they might understand how to behavior in it.
It would be of great
use to the people to have those parts of the law therefore gathered up and put
together which did more immediately impact them and their practice; for the
laws which concerned the priests and Levites, and the execution of their offices,
are not repeated: it was enough for them that they were once delivered.
But, in compassion
to the infirmities of the people, the Torah was delivered a second time. The
first law was place inside the Ark
Exodus 40:20 and this second law was place on the outside of the Ark Duet
31:26.
Precept must be
upon precept, and line upon line,
Isa. 28:10. The great and essential truths of the gospel should be often
pressed upon people by the ministers of El (Jesus) Yahushua. To write the
same things (says Paul, Phil. 3:1) to me indeed is not grievous, but for
you it is safe. What YAHWEH has spoken once we have need to hear twice, to
hear many times, and it is well if, after all, it be faithfully perceived and practice.
In three ways this
book of Deuteronomy was magnified and made honorable:
1. The king was to
write a copy of it with his own hand, and to read therein all the days of his
life, ch. 17, 18, 19.
2. It was to be
written upon great stones plastered, at their passing over Jordan, ch. 27:2, 3.
3. It was to be read
publicly every seventh year, at the feast of tabernacles, by the priests, in
the audience of all Yisrael, ch. 31:9, etc. The gospel is a kind of
Deuteronomy, a second law, a remedial law, a spiritual law, a law of faith; by
if we are under the law of Messiyah and it is a law that makes the believer
perfect.
This
book of Deuteronomy begins with a brief rehearsal of the most remarkable events
that had happen to the Yisraelites since they came from Mount
Sinai. In the fourth chapter we have a most pathetic exhortation
to obedience.
In
the twelfth chapter, and on to the twenty-seventh, are repeated many particular
laws, which are enforced (ch. 27 and 28) with promises, blessings and curses,
formed into a covenant, ch. 29 and 30.
Care
is taken to perpetuate the remembrance of these things among them (ch. 31),
particularly by a song (ch. 32), and so Moses concludes with a blessing, ch.
33. All this was delivered by Moses to Yisrael in the last month of his life.
The
whole book of Deuteronomy contains the history, except for two months; compare
ch. 1:3 with Jos. 4:19, the latter of which was the thirty days of Yisrael’s
mourning for Moses; see how busy that great and good man has to do good when he
knew that his time was short, how quick his motion when he drew near his rest.
Therefore,
we have more recorded of what our blessed Savior Messiyah Yahushua said and did
in the last week of his life than in any other. The last words of a eminent
persons make or should make deep impressions. For the honor of this book, that
when our Savior Messiyah Yahushua would answer the devil’s temptations with, It
is written, He got all His quotations out of this book, Mt. 4:4, 7, 10.
The
first part of Moses’ farewell teachings to Yisrael begins with this chapter,
and is continued to the latter end of the fourth chapter. In the first five
verses of this chapter we have the date of the sermon, the place where it was
preached verse 1, 2, 5, and the time when verse 3, 4. The narrative in this
chapter reminds them:
I.
Of the promise YAHWEH
made them of the land
of Canaan verse 6-8.
II.
Of the
provision made of judges for them verse 9-18.
III.
Of their
unbelief and murmuring upon the report of the spies verse 19-33.
IV.
Of the sentence
passed upon them for it, and the ratification of that sentence verse 34.
Deu 1:1 These are
the words which Mosheh spoke to all Yisra’ĕl beyond the Yardĕn in the
wilderness, in the desert plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and
Laḇan, and
Ḥatsĕroth, and Di Zahaḇ, - These are the words, refers to Moses
strong words of rebuke, and encoragement , indeed, Moses began his teaching by
reminding his people of the many shortcoming since the Exodus.
Alternatively,
the words are the commandments and exhortations from chapter 5 to 26:19, which
compiles the significant part of this book, and the first four chapters are the
preamble to those Instructions.
The term to
all Yisrael, means in the present of everyone, past present and future,
Yisrael. This verse gave the location of the significant event were some of
these things were spoken to Moses.
Deu 1:2 eleven days’ journey from Ḥorĕḇ by way of Mount Sĕʽir
to Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa. – After their journey to Mount Sinai, YAHWEH
said that the time had come for them to enter the Promise
Land, and instructed them to use the
route that skirt Mount
seir.
Normally, it
would have been an eleven day journey to Kadesh-Barnea, but YAHWEH as so
anxious for them to enter the Land quickly, that He miraculously brought them
there in only three days.
This should
have been more than adequate proof that YAHWEH was guiding them, yet the people
wanted spies to reassure themselves and before they would believed the prophecy
about the land.
Deu 1:3 And it came to be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
month, on the first day of the month, that Mosheh spoke to the children of
Yisra’ĕl according to all that יהוה
had commanded him concerning them, - At this point in the Torah, after 40 years in the
wilderness, Moses finally began to speak about his feelings. He told them about
all the mistakes they had made since the beginning of the journey. Moses had
always been their protector, but only at this point did he allow himself to
speak freely to them.
This teaches us that id we wait a
while before confronting people about their difficulties, we can avoid reactive
emotions. So if someone hurts us of if something goes wrong, we should wait
until we can peak about the incident objectively, not emotionally.
Moses began his final teaching on the eleven month on the first day of
Shevat the fortieth year after the Exodus. He conveyed his messages of this
book during a period of just over five weeks.
In general, Moses spoke
unto them all that YAHWEH had given
him in commandment, which intimates, not only that what he now delivered
was for substance the same with what had formerly been commanded, but that it
was what YAHWEH now commanded him to repeat.
Deu 1:4 after he
had smitten Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, and Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Eḏreʽi. – Numbers 20:22 after his victory over the Amorites
kings and conquest of their land, made it easier for Moses to admonish his
people, since no one could now say, What right has he to rebuke us; has he
brought us into a Land as he promised.
Deu 1:5 Beyond the
Yardĕn, in the land
of Mo’aḇ, Mosheh undertook to declair this Torah, saying, - This clearly
refers to the elucidation of the commandments that begins in Chapter 5. He
explained that the Torah in many languages, to symbolize that wherever Hebrew
people would go in the future, and whatever the language of the land they were
in, they would have to study or write Torah in a language that the world could
understand, without compromising the integrity of the Word. This has not happen
as yet.
Deu 1:6 “יהוה our Elohim spoke
to us in Ḥorĕḇ, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough
at this mountain. - He gave them this rehearsal and exhortation purely
by divine direction; YAHWEH appointed him to leave this legacy to the Assembly.
He begins his narrative with their removal from Mount
Sinai, and relates here. Therefore YAHWEH brought them this way to
humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of
promise. There he kept them about a year, and then told them they had dwelt long enough there, they must go
forward ad posses the Land.
Though, YAHWEH brings HIS
people into trouble and affliction, into spiritual trouble and affliction of
mind, HE knows when they have dwelt long enough in it, and will certainly find
a time, the best time, to advance them from the terrors of the spirit of
adoption. See Rom. 8:15.
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