Parasha
Re’eh
Deuteronomy 11:26 – 16:17
Please pray the
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 in the eyes of man either good or evil, positive and negative,
light and darkness, right and wrong.
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, good or bad. Whatever expression we choose it is the dominant factor
in our lives.
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. Moses was one of the greatest persons who
ever lived, but if someone wanted to; they could find all sorts of faults about
him,just ask his Aaron and Mariam.
Unfortunately, all
the time and effort 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 awakening or manifesting their own darkness, which was connecting to
the shell of darkness around Moses, which all of us have.
Take this idea a
step further, it turns out that is 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.
The Talmud says that
the nature of the world is cyclical: The Light we reveal through any action of
giving 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 these points: 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’s important to him or her, for most
people this is money, through the righteous person the giver is able to be
connect to the essence of the righteous person.
On the Sabbath of
Re’eh, we are reminded that we should make a powerful choice every time we
decide if a person or situation is good or bad. When we put 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: - Moses 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 blessing, which are the
great authority of the law. Taking hold
off 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 off
Chapter 28, 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, and make 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 YAHVEH
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.
