The
word Torah can have different meaning, depending on the context in which it is
used. Torah come from the Hebrew word Yaroh,
which means “teaching or instructions.”
Although
Torah is often mistranslated as “Law,”
from the Greek word Nomos, this is incorrect and gives one the impression that
the Torah is a legal document or set of laws, which it is not. From the Hebrew
perspective, the Torah defines a set of principle or desires written by the
CREATOR for which we should lived by. These sets of principles called Mitzvoth
in Hebrew, is how sinful man used to draw near to a Holy Elohim. The term legalism
is derive from the Greek understanding of Scripture; therefore a stigma is
place against anyone who keeps the law, as being a legalist.
In
the general sense, Torah refers to the word, both the Written and the Oral
Torah. The Written Torah can be seen philosophically, as the Constitution of
the Heavenly Kingdom. It is the owners manual for the
human soul which desire to elevate itself spiritually.
The
Oral Torah also known as the teachings of Kabbalah, explains and elaborates
upon the Written Torah; similar to the method Messiyah Yahushua uses to teache His
Disciples, called Parables in English. The Torah is a direct communication from
the CREATOR, given to Moses and the Prophets, and it imparts to HIS Children:
what to do and what not to do, and how righteous men in history walk according
to its rules and regulations. One cannot solely keep the commandments and
expect to achieved perfection, we must keep the Commandments out of the love
for our Messiyah. The one who died on the Cross. That is why Scripture admonish
us that if you love me keep the Commandments.
Messiyahnic
Judaism teaches that the highest Commandments “Mitzvah” is to study the
Scripture. It is through the study of Torah, the Word; we are given different
levels of enlightenment, the understanding of the wisdom and purpose of the 613
Mitzvoth as well as the purpose for our individual lives.
Hebrew
tradition expresses the belief that the ultimate purpose of Torah is to provide
humanity with spiritual enlightenment, to draw humanity back to spiritual
fellowship with the CREATOR. As every country has a constitution, the Torah is
the Constitution of the Heavenly Kingdom, and every good citizen is determine
by how well they adhere to it’s Principles, Precepts, Judgments, statues,
desires and Right Rulings.
In
common usage the Torah refers specifically to the Five Books written by Moses:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Number, and Deuteronomy. In another common usage,
Torah refers, generally to one’s spiritual perspective or opinion (Kavanah), as in the expression “Tell me
your Torah,” which means “What is your spiritual perspective on the subject.”
The
Hebrew culture teaches that the Torah is the hand of the CREATOR extended, the
Mighty Hand reaching across the vast gap of space, that separates us from HIM.
Kabbalah view the Written Torah as a composition of letters that are nothing
less than configuration of the Divine Light, the Essence of the CREATOR, the
Supernal Wisdom of YAHWEH, which encompasses and comprise all of Creation.
Therefore,
the Torah is seen as the method by which humanity can get to know the CREATOR,
by repairing the gap between our own limited individual consciousness and the
Holy Spirit “The CREATOR Consciousness.”
Biblical,
Scripture or Torah History as been establish by great men such as Seth, Noah,
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Ezekiel to name a few, to
whom their natural nature was the vehicle for them to achieve the quest or the
meaning of life. They are the remnant who sees the word within the word, the
thought within the thought, the meaning within the meaning. The true existence
of all things created.
They
search for the hidden significance that lies at the heart of Kabbalah; the
ancient wisdom that helps to reveals the Spirit of understanding and knowledge
about the spiritual forces that drives our natural world.
I believe that the Word
was the first thing that the Elohim Created, and that Heavens and Earth was
Created according to the Word. The Word is the Light of man, without the Holy
Spirit to lead us into all the colors of the rainbow, the crescendo of Light that
makes up the pure light; we are all lost without it. As human who believe in
Yahushua Messiyah, we are imbued with Spiritual power, with the Light of the
CREATOR. One of these is the Holy Spirit also called in Isaiyah 11:2 “And the Spirit of YAHVEH shall rest upon
him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might,
the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of YAHVEH,” or the Menorah. The other is the Torah, also known as the Five Books
of Moses, or the Alter of Showbread.
I believe that the
Menorah is not just a beautiful Light, but it is a symbol of the Holy Spirit,
the Sheckinah, the Feminine attribute of the FATHER and the Stories in the
Torah are not just meant to be understood on a literal level, but on a deeper
spiritual level. The Torah uses analogies and code to reveal the spiritual
understanding of everything we see and experience in the world today.
With the Spirit of
Understanding, the Spirit of Knowledge and the Spirit of Wisdom, I will draw
from the Torah and other Kabalistic writings, to find fresh understanding in every
familiar story.
I believe that the Torah
as well as all of nature, contains secrets that we can used to transform out
lives. The very Words of the Torah contain power for good that we can unleash
in our lives just by understanding them. On every Sabbath when we read a
particular Torah portion, the Spirit of Understand comes to gives us the
correct level of Truth for the day of Creation we have experience so far.
As we uncover the various
level of truth of the Torah using the Spirit of Wisdom, Knowledge and
Understanding, we are not just learning in the academic sense as the Greek
does. But as the Hebrew our awareness literally shift as the hidden messages
open conduits of the Lights of the CREATOR to reach us, and help us to develop
the Anochi “god within.” That Light
that will express itself as the Fruit of the Spirit in our everyday lives.
For as we open up
ourselves to the various level of hidden Light in the Torah, with the help of
the Spirit of Truth, we expel ever increasing darkness or the fruits of the
flesh to reveal the endless beauty that is the essence of the Anochi, the god within.
We
begin a new cycle of Torah study after every Succoth, with the realization that
the Torah is not just a history book, but that it is the reason for the creation
of humans in the grand scheme of things in El “יהוה” YAHVEH’s Kingdom.
It
usually begins with the first Parasha called Beresheet, which means “in the beginning,” it is the Torah
portion read during, the first Sabbath after Succoth, the beginning of the
Torah reading cycle, a very important day. The Zohar tells us that each of the seven days of Creation referred to
by a number: second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day. The Torah
never called the first day ‘yum rishon’, or the first day, as we might
expect, but rather yum echad “one day.”
This
proclaim that one day, is a continuous progressive tense, when we decide to
start our six days of creation journey, the Light of the Creation will be
revealed to us. One day and I hope it is
today for all sinners, when we come together in unity, we would never again
have any doubt about the need to gather as one and to become attuned to each
other as a single spiritual entity.
Why
is the act of gathering so important in the Hebrew mind set? The Hebrew Kabbalist
teaches that, by creating the ability for anyone to do their spiritual works is
even more important than doing our own. We should think about this Sabbath as a
time when we celebrate our own connection with the Divine Light for ourselves and
our families.
Even
more valuable is the role we play as a conduit for others to be drawn to this
Divine Light. This dual consciousness we experience on Beresheet is to
celebrate our union and the union of other with the Divine Light. Beresheet
calls on us to remember, renew, and progress to the other days of Creation, so
we can receive more of the Divine Light in the lives of ourselves and our
family.
As
we seek to increase spiritually by experience the 52 Torah Portion, we should
consider Beresheet as the start of the revelation of a dimension of the seven
light that make up the perfect light or each day of Creation, or the different
stages of Divine Light. One of the many significant stories in Beresheet is the
experience of Adam and Eve, with the snake, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil, which begins with the CREATOR putting Adam and Eve in “Gan Eden” the Garden of Eden. When the
CREATOR Place Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, HE tells them that they may
eat from all the tree of the Garden except one, “Etz haDa’at Tov veRa,” the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
The
Snake “our evil inclination”, trick Eve” the flesh” into breaking the CREATOR’S
Command. When Eve gave the idea to Adam” the spirit” and he took her
suggestion, they both fall spiritually, awaking the selfish desire into their
lives. If Adam the spirit had not concede to the flesh request, then that dead
could not become apart of the human equation. It would simply be another test
of Adam faithfulness.
In
my journey or quest to discover or should I say, uncover the truth; I will
begin by praying for the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Understanding, the
Spirit of Knowledge, and the Spirit of Wisdom. It is the Holy Spirit, the Set
Apart Spirit that will lead us into all spiritual truth.
Beresheet
awakens us to realize that there is an opponent or evil inclination in this
world, and we must be cautious of him. If Adam had overcome this one test we
all would not be here struggling to bring our Light to Maturity. If the CREATOR
is the Never Ending Perfect Light, why did HE allow the Snake to exist? The
answer has to do with free will. The CREATOR wants us to choose to be obedient
to HIM, to be virtuous, we must choose to be, and not to because we have to.
Since
it was Adam and Eve exercising their free will that led to their expulsion from
the Garden, it must be our free will that will allow each and every individual
to return to that spiritual paradise called the Garden of Eden. The only way to
remove the pain, suffering and death that entered into our lives and this world
is to overcome the Opponent who make us doubt, who keep us in darkness, who
keep misleading us.
The Opponent is also essential for our spiritual
growth, for without resistance there is no growth. Only in this way can we
achieve “bila hameavet lanetzach,”
the removal of pain, suffering, and death from our world.
The
Spirit has revealed in Torah that there was a rebellion in the Kingdom of Heavens. We also know that a war broke
out; we also know that the rebellion was led by the Evil-one who took one- third
of the angelic powers as is seen in Revelation 12. In any organization if
one-third of the vice president should leave with their work force, then that
would create a large vacuum or vacancies.
Our Heavenly Father told us that pertaining to
Yahushua (Jesus Christ), that He learned obedience through the things that He
suffered. Yahushua showed us the true purpose of Creation: which is to learn
obedience to the Torah, by having it written on our heart, Jeremiyah 31:23, and
Hebrew 8:10, and in so doing, we will be developed into a perfect sons. These
sons are to replace those who rebelled with Lucifer.
To
most unenlighten people, an even some belivers the Book of Genesis is simply an
account of an historical event. It is, amittely, a momentous event, the most
profoun event in all of human history. Yet today it is still seen as nothing
more than a story from the istant past, with scarcely any relevance to the
present. To a mature beliver a Kabbalist, however, this Torah Story of Creation
invokes the power of a see. Just as an apple see contains the entire tree, the
seed of Creation contains the entire spiritual consciousness of humanity.
Therefore the Story of Beresheet contains within itself the beginning an final
outcome of a pefect human and, how he achieve the light of the Creators.
Contained within the opening verse of
the Story of Genesis is the spiritual energy for an entire or a day of Creation
. It is as if our soul is been transporte to a high level of light or
consciousness, or in plane terms having a birthday. These seven traditional
reaing in Genesis are like seelings of spiritual light as the colors of the
Rainbow dipicts, are the seelings for
whatever ay of Creation or light we are trying to develop. In them the Torah
grants us the power both to redesign an control our lives by etermining the
quality of our lives, both individually and collectively. The light therefore
nourishes these seeslings in a manner that in unique an unprecedented.
It
is an awesome prospect. The light that shines from Beresheet exterminates the
root of all evil; a eathblow is dealt to the angel of eath, clering the way for
our own soul, an the endless fulfillment.
The
Torah recount the seven ays of Creation. In truth, the process of Creation is a
moel for the process that we, the soul of humanity must undergo to remove the
barriers we have place between ourselves an the light. What all of us seek, in
every aspect of our lives, is the ability to shrink the distane so that we may
connect with loved ones, friens, our own oul, an the source of all fulfillment,
which is the light of the Creators.
The
purpose for this reading is to bridge the gap an therefore eradicate the
distance between us an the light. However, as in any endeavor, when we set our
hearts on a goal, there is always a process we must go through before we may
realize our objective. It is this process where we encounter obstacles before
we can realize our obstacles, challenges, and chaos, that creates an opening
for negativity. We can immunize ourselves against this negativity by
understanding thoroughly the universal law governing such processes of change
call the days of creations.
Genesis
1:1 Beresheeth Bara, Elohim, Et, hashamayim v-et
ha-aretz. This is the Hebrew rendition of the first verse in the
Bible or Torah.
Beresheeth: means in the
beginning. Question! In the beginning of what? The answer I will give is: in
the beginning of the re-creation story “Bara”
. The whole purpose of Creation is to restore the Kingdom of Heavens,
by developing faithful servants who have proven their faithfulness, while they
were here on Earth; as Yahushua proved Himself to be absolutely faithful, even
by dying on the Stake.
The
Hebrew Text define Elohim as (Gods or Mighty
Ones), their purpose was to re-establish the Kingdom, with faithful servants.
Continuing with Genesis 1:1 the Hebrew word (את) Et
the first and last word of the
Hebrew alphabet, (את) (Aleph-Taf). This is equal to the Greek “Alfa and Omega” and
the English the A and Z. These two letters represent the complete written Word.
Most
English translation conveniently left out this (את)(Aleph – Tav) in their
translation of the Scripture. Most Scriptures says that in the beginning God
created the Heavens and the earth. But this is not what the Hebrew text says.
The
Correct translation should have said that “in the beginning the “אלהים” Elohim “Gods” Created the Word,
the Heavens and the Word the Earth”.
Genesis
1:26 says let Us make man
in our image. Who then is this us? This
‘us’ refers to the plurality of the Godhead, in Hebrew language it is called
Elohim. The singular name for God is El, and Elohim is the plural name for Gods
or the Mighty Ones. The paragraph below is taken from the Hebrew text of
Genesis 1:1 below it is the Translation into the English. Hebrew read from
right to left.
Gen 1:1 בראשׁ ברא
אלהים
את השׁמים
ואת
הארץ׃
The
English translation of the Hebrew is as follow. Beresheet
Bara Elohim et HaShamayim v-et ha-aretz.
Beresheet means in the
beginning, Bara means created, Elohim means gods, et
means the word, HaShamayim means the
heavens, v-et means and the word, ha-aretz means
the earth.
In
the Hebrew language, spiritual beings are called (gods) or mighty ones, and
gods are called Elohim or the mighty ones. In the beginning of the Creation
process the Mighty Ones created the Word, the Heavens, and the Word created the
Earth.
John
chapter 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with the Mighty One, and the Word was the voice of the Mighty One. 2 the
Word was in the beginning with the Mighty One. 3All things were made
through the Word, and without the Word nothing was made that were made. 4In
The Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 5And the light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
In
the beginning the Elohim created the substance of the heavens and the substance
of the earth. The first thing that the Mighty-Ones Created was the Word; and
therefore everything in the Heavens was created according to that Word.
Therefore, the Word is the formular and the Constitution of the Heavenly Kingdom. All Kingdoms today have a
constitution, on how things in that kingdom or country should function or
operate.
If
we use the analogy of the computer; we know that the Physical world is the
computer, the Holy Spirit is the Operating System and the Word is the
Application program. Therefore, all things in the Kingdom of Heavens, must be built
according to the word and function according
to the attributes of the Spirit, as is stated in: Galatians 5:22 But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control.
After
the fall, the children of darkness did not have access to the light or the
Word. This light was the Word to the children of light, those angels who did
not rebel. John describe this very well when he said “In The Word was
life, and the life was the light of men. And the light” Word” shines in the
darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” One could use the analogy of the light bulb, the bulb that shine was
connected to the Power, the word, while the bulbs that were darkened were
disconnected from the Word.
With
this in mind, let us examine what it says in Genesis 1:2 And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of EL YAHVEH moved upon the face of the waters. Some translations of Scripture say that the earth
came to be without form. This formlessness means that things were not in their
right order. Remember, that I said earlier that there was a war and a rebellion
in the Heavens. During a war, chaos usually reigns supreme, and things get
pushed out of their proper order. We must always remember that Elohim, The
Mighty Ones are an Elohim of order and not confusion.
In
Genesis 1:2, it says that void, emptiness, a vacancy was now in the Kingdom of Heavens, due to the one-third of the
stars (angels) that joined the rebellion.
The darkness spoken of here
in Genesis 1:2 is not merely the absence of light, but a specific attitude as
spoken of in Isaiyah 45:7 I form the light, and create
darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I YAHVEH do all these things. Until then, light, and darkness, good and bad,
truth and untruth did reside together. They function in isolation to each
other, implying that patches of light and darkness were intermixed with one
another. Now back to the beginning of
the re-creation story. On the 1st day of creation.
The Holy Name of the Universal Father is “YAHVEH,” it was
blotted out of the consciousness of the inhabitance of part of the Universe by
Lucifer. This verse says that the earth became Tohu, this Hebrew
word means formless and Bohu means empty or void of the Holy Spirit
dwelling in the mind of the inhabitance of the earth.
The earth was without order
and void of the Word because the source of light was removed from the water
which sustains the earth and the Spirit of YAHVEH came and vibrates upon the
face of the water. Meaning that the Holy Spirit came and causes a shaking, a
stirring of the water. As the Holy Spirit today create an understanding of the
Word, by His Ministry, the Holy Spirit came at that time to stir up the water,
to separate light from darkness, truth from lies. Before there can be a
separation there must be a spiritual understanding.
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