Reeh

Parasha Re’eh

Deuteronomy 11:26 – 16:17

Please pray following

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 Re’eh is the 47 Portion of the Torah cycle and the forth in Deuteronomy it begins with: “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse.” Since the sin of Adam and Eve, everything in the world has become a mixture of good and evil, positive and negative, light and darkness, right and wrong.

Re’eh and the following two Parasha Shoftim and Ki Tetze hold the majority of the Creator’s Commandments, ordinances and Statutes found in Deuteronomy. When Moses gave his preamble to these Commandments, Ordinances and Statutes of his message was that the Yisraelites choice of whether or not to observe them was essentially between being blessed or cursed.

The story of Re’eh is the only biblical story with one of the 72 names of Yahweh as its title, and thus it gives us an extra connection to the power of miracle and wonders. In addition, the number of verse in this portion is 126, which is the numerical value of the Aramaic word Pliyah or wonderment, offering us yet another indication that Re’eh gives us the power to go beyond the illusion of our physical reality and truly see the wonderment of the 95% reality.

Today we look at every situation and every person from the point of view of good or bad. This means that at any moment, we are making a choice to connect to the light or the darkness, what is good or bad. Whatever mode we choose it is the dominant mode in our lives, the 5%.

As believers we need to understand that it is impossible for us to see anything outside of ourselves that we did not first awaken within ourselves, for the fruit we manifest is the result of the inward programming of our mind. Yahushua and Moses were two of the greatest persons who ever lived, but if someone wanted to they could find all sorts of faults about them.

Unfortunately, all the time Moses spend perfecting his ego in the wilderness, many Yisraelites still find fault with him. But what was the Children of Yisrael actually doing? They were living in their own darkness, which was connecting to the 5% shell of darkness around them, which all of us have.

Take this idea a step further, it turns out that how we view the world and the people around us, actually influence what happen next. If we choose to focus on the positive in a person, for instance, we not only connect ourselves to the Light of the CREATOR, we also awaken the positive energy in that person as well. When we only see the negative in a person, we cause darkness and separation in that person and in ourselves. That is why we are told in Pro 18:21 Death and Life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

The Talmud says that the nature of the world is cyclical: The Light we reveal through an action of giving away money will come back to us in a positive way. In the Book of prophets, we read that whenever King Saul went to seek Samuel the Prophet so that Samuel could pray from him, King Saul would always ask what he could give Samuel.

The Talmud reiterates this point: If a person is having difficulties, he should ask a righteous person to pray for him. But if a person does not first give something to the righteous person, the prayers of that righteous person cannot have an effect.

Every difficulties we experience in our lives fall into three categories: Family, life and sustenance. The reason we lack Light in these area is because we have somehow cut ourselves off from the blessing through our negative actions. How can we correct this? We do it through prayer, and that the prayer of a righteous person is especially effective.

When anyone blesses a righteous person with something that is important to him or her, for most people this is money; through the righteous person, the giver is able to be connected to the essence of that righteous person.

On the Sabbath of Re’eh, we are reminded that we make a powerful choice every time we decide if a person or situation is good or bad. When we aligned ourselves on the side of the good, we can further tip the scale by giving our money and our prayers.

Here Moses concludes his general exhortations to obedience; and his management by objective seems to be very affecting, and such as one would think, should have encourage them to strive for maturity. This exhortation should have left everlasting impressions upon them, which would never be forgotten. The Book of Deuteronomy is the police man of the Torah, it contains the curses of the Laws that stands against us, and the blessing of the laws that stands with us.

Deu 11:26 ‘See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: - He sums up all his arguments for obedience in two words, the blessing and the curse, that is, the rewards and the punishments, as they stand in the promises and the threatening, which are the great authority of the law.  Taking hold of hope and fear, those two handles of the soul, by which it is caught, held, and managed.

These two; the blessing and the curse, יהוה set before them and us that is. יהוה explained to us, that we might know them; Moses enumerated the particulars contained both in the blessing and in the curse, that they might see more fully, how desirable the blessing was, and how dreadful the curse the policeman was.

 He confirmed to us, that we might believe them, made it evident to us, by the proofs He produced of His own commission, that the blessing was not a fool’s paradise, nor the curse a nuisance, but that both were real declarations of the purpose of YAHWEH concerning them.

 Moses is charging us to choose which of these two choices they would have, so does every good spiritual leader, when dealing with the people.

Deu 11:27 the blessing, when you obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I command you today; - Moses was informing the people as he is informing us today, to be careful on what terms we stand with The Almighty EL. If we be obedient to HIS Laws, we may be sure of a blessing. Duet 28:¹ “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the YAHWEH EL ELYON, to observe carefully all HIS commandments which I command you today, that YAHWEH EL ELYON will set you high above all nations of the earth. ²“And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of YAHWEH EL ELYON: ³“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. ⁴“Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the producer of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. ⁵“Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ⁶“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

⁷“YAHWEH will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. ⁸“YAHWEH will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which YAHWEH EL ELYON is giving you. ⁹“YAHWEH will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of YAHWEH EL ELYON and walk in His ways. ¹⁰“Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of YAHWEH, and they shall be afraid of you. ¹¹“And YAHWEH will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which YAHWEH swore to your fathers to give you. ¹²“YAHWEH will open to you HIS good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. ¹³“And YAHWEH will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of YAHWEH EL ELYON, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. ¹⁴“So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deu 11:28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other mighty ones which you have not known. - But, if we be disobedient, we may be as sure of a curse. Say you to the righteous (for YAHWEH has said it, and the entire world cannot unsay it) that it shall be well with them: but woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with them. Due 28:¹⁵ “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of YAHWEH EL ELIYON, to observe carefully all HIS commandments and HIS statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: ¹⁶“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. ¹⁷“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ¹⁸“Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. ¹⁹“Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Moses began by saying, behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse. The Hebrew word Anochi meaning “I” as in the creator awakens that part of Yahweh inside of us, our soul. It is this God part that the Holy Spirit give the understand to know and the wisdom and power to perceive the difference between the positive and the negative energy in our lives and to make the correct choice between them. For some time what we thing is good for us and what we thing is bad for us is actually the opposite. This is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.