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 Shabbat 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 ELYON, 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.

Deu 11:29 ‘And it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ěyḇal. – There were two mountains next to the city of Shechem: mount Eval, from which curses were delivered, and Mount Gerizim, from which came blessings. We know that Joseph is buried in Shechem, so a tremendous amount of Light lies in that place.

From the moment the Sons of Jacob, Shimon and Levi, killed everyone in Shechem, it became the center of negativity in the Middle East and the epitome of conflict throughout history. In all areas of life, we see the struggle between good and evil. To win, we must be able to recognize which is which and to acknowledge that there is a constant war between the two.

He appoints a public and solemn proclamation to be made of the blessing and curse which he had set before them, upon the two mountains of Gerizim and Ebal “evil”. We have more particular directions for this solemnity in ch. 27:11, etc., and an account of the performance of it, Jos. 8:33, etc.

It was to be done, and was done, immediately upon their coming into Canaan, that when they first took possession of that land they might know upon what terms they stood. The place where this was to be done is particularly described by Moses, tough he never saw it, which is one circumstance among many that evidences his divine instructions.

It is said that near the plain, or oaks, or meadows, of Moreh, which was one of the first places that Abraham came to in Canaan; so that in sending them there, to hear the blessing and the curse, YAHWEH reminded them of the promise he made to Abraham in that very place, Gen. 12:6, 7.

Deu 11:30 ‘Are they not beyond the Yardĕn, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Kenaʽanites who dwell in the desert plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? - The mention of this appointment serves one purpose. For the encouragement of their faith in the promise of YAHWEH, that they should be masters of Canaan. Do it (says Moses) on the other side Jordan, for you may be confident you shall pass over Jordan. When we pass over Yarden River spiritually, we are entering the Holy of Holies, we are coming into our inheritance, full maturity; curse will we be if after such a long journey, we are still prone to sin.

Deu 11:31 ‘For you are passing over the Yardĕn to go in to possess the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it, - This verse is a fulfillment of the 3^rd day of Creation. The seed of Abraham was to go into the Land during the 3^rd millennium. This verse discusses the Land of Yisrael and Yisrael in known as the Land, where so much power exists.

There has always been conflict in the Land, whether it was with the people of Moses’ time when the Yisraelites first arrive or later with the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Turks and the British. The source of this conflict is the fact that religiosity has essentiality eliminated spirituality.

When spirituality returns to religion, however, we will find it so much easier to treat others with kindness. Then lasting peace will come. Yisrael is a mirror for what is happening in the world.

Every day, everywhere in the world people fail to give others the dignity they deserve. To remedy this situation, we must focus on spreading the wisdom of Torah and the understanding of the Holy Spirit to people. This is what Yahushua meant when He says to carry our cross daily.

The institution of this service to be done in our spiritual Canaan, the our promise Land, was an assurance to them that they should be brought into possession of it, and a token like that which YAHWEH gave to Moses (Ex. 3:12): You shall serve YAHWEH upon this mountain. We are entering into the Land not for a picnic, but to possess the Land, which has been set aside for us. Our bodies and the traits that we have to overcome is what each and everyone must overcome. When we return to the Heavens and see the place that will be our home, we will uproot those squatters who are in the Land, and their possession will be given to us.

Deu 11:32 and shall guard to do all the laws and right-rulings which I am setting before you today.’ - It serves for an encouragement upon the children of Yisrael to be obedient, that they might escape that curse, and obtain that blessing, besides what we had already heard, they must shortly be witnesses to the solemn publication of. "You shall observe to do the statute and judgments, that you may not be in that position that the Policeman of the law will not be a witnesses against yourselves.’’

Statutes are acts, decrees, ruling, edict, announcement, proclamation, While Judgments relates to: sentences, conclusion, and decisions. In others words obedience is mandatory.

Is there a two-tier system in Shamayem, is there one set of law for the Yisraelites and one for the Gentiles, as those who believe in JC.

So those who choose not to follow the Sabbath and the Feast days of Leviticus 23 are not guarding the laws and right-rulings!