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.
