Re'eh

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 plays a 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.

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 in our lives. 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 in return.

The Talmud reiterates these points over and over: 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. Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love Yahweh, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

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 clearly, 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 fable, 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. Deu 30:15 "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, Jer 21:8 "Now you shall say to this people, "Thus says YHVH: "Behold, I have set before you the way of life and the way of death.

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 in what way we stand with The Almighty EL. If we are 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 YAHVEH EL ELYON, to observe carefully all HIS commandments which I command you today, that YAHVEH 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 YAHVEH 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 produce 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“YAHVEH 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“YAHVEH 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 YAHVEH EL ELYON is giving you. ⁹“YAHVEH will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of YAHVEH EL ELYON and walk in His ways. ¹⁰“Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of YAHVEH, and they shall be afraid of you. ¹¹“And YAHVEH 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 YAHVEH swore to your fathers to give you. ¹²“YAHVEH 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 YAHVEH will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of YAHVEH 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 to the righteous (for YAHVEH has said it, and all the world cannot unsay it) that it shall be well with them: but woe to the wicked, it shall be a cursen to them. Due 28:¹⁵ “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of YAHVEH 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.

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. - He appoints a public and specefic proclamation to be made pertaining to the blessing and curse which he had given to them, between the two mountains of Gerizim and Ebal.

In this verse we have a more detail directions for these laws in ch. 27:11, etc., and an account of the performance of it, Jos. 8:33, etc.

The laws are symbolic of desires abeliver should have when they reach maturity. 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 on what terms they stood. The place where this was to be done is described in particular by Moses, though he never saw it, which is one circumstance among many that evidences his divine instructions.

It is said that it was 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, YAHVEH reminded them of the promise HE made to Abraham in that very place, Gen. 12:6, 7.

Does Mt Eybal sound a lot like Mt Evil,by the way b and v in the Hebrew language are inter changeable.