Parasha Beshalach
Exodus 13:17 – 17:15
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
Parasha Beshalach is the 16th reading in the yearly Torah Cycle
Beshalach means “sent away.” The spiritual consciousness derive from this week
portion will help us receive the power to banish and cleanse any and all
negativity as long as we sincerely let go of our own negative energy.
While going through the pages
of the Zohar I discover that a unique gift is given to us every year on
this Sabbath. 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.
If a person in his or her
subconscious or Nefesh speaks positive, it is because there is positive energy
place in their Yachida from above. We must actively expel our own negativity,
not passively wait for it to disappear.
The Zohar goes on to
elucidate that if a person is participating and connecting to the Light of this
Sabbath, he should not awaken the mundane things of the world on this Sabbath,
for by doing so, he literally cause damage to the revealed Light of the Sabbath.
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 silent.”
Which seams to indicate that on this Sabbath, the power of the Word is even
greater than usual?
The Zohar goes on to
explain that the Light revealed on Beshalach Sabbath is called the “Light of
Atika,” which is beyond anything we
can awaken with our work or with our prayers. This is why ABBA YAHVEH warned
the Yisraelites not to speak. If there 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 Sabbath of Beshalach,
even Light revealed by prayer or study can diminish the greater Light available
to us.
If the Light of this Sabbath
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 “Sabbath Shirah,” or the Sabbath of the Song. When we look at
the Major events surrounding this day, besides the parting of the Red Sea, and the Song that was sang thanking ABBA YAHVEH
for their deliverance.
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 most of the time.
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 YAHVEH 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.
Ultimately, the purpose of our
lives in this world have never been explain to us. The goal and objective of
all our works is to help us attained the highest spiritual level possible. The
purpose of life on earth 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
counsciousness, a taste of miracuous unit.
The Sabbath of Beshalach is
the only Sabbath 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 carefull
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 YAHVEH knew that the Children of Yisrael
who had just came out of slaver, had no fighting skills. They would lose heart
and want to 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 untill we become a young man spirituall, one who
is stronger in the Word, before He ask us to engage in spiritual warfair.
Exo 13:17 And it came
to be, when Pharaoh had sent away the people, that Elohim did not lead them by
way of the land of the Philistines, though that was nearer, for Elohim said,
“Lest the people regret when they see fighting, and return to Mitsrayim.” – This verse where Pharaoh sent
the Yisraelite away and Yahweh Roeh made their way for He was their guide.
Moses gave them direction but as he received it from YAHVEH ROEH. The way of
man is not in himself, Jer. 10:23. He may devise his way, and design it,
which is eating of the Tree of Good and Evil; but, after all, it is ABBA YAHVEH
that must directs all our steps, Prov. 16:9.
Man proposes, but
YAHVEH disposes, and in HIS disposal we must acquiesce, and set ourselves to follow
providence. There were two ways from Egypt
to Canaan. One was a short cut from the north
of Egypt to the south of Canaan, perhaps about four or five days’ journey; the
other was much further about, through the wilderness, and that was the way in
which YAHVEH chose to lead HIS people Yisrael.
Exo 13:18 So Elohim
led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Sea of Reeds.
And the children of Yisra’ĕl went up armed from the land of Mitsrayim. – The way to the Promise Land, the Holy of Holies is the same for
everyone. Moses had to experience Mt.
Sinai as do all the
Children of Yisrael, there are no exception.
Even though a nation under the direct
protection of EL YAHVEH should not need arms to defend itself, it is the
Torah’s way that people should conduct themselves in a matural manner, and
then, if necessary, EL YAHVEH will intervene with miracles. Even though the
people were armed, they would have fled back to Egypt if they were faced by a war
against the Philistines.
It was not the sword by their side
that was the problem; it was the condition of their heart. The Hebrew word wmh
used in this contex represent a fifth, and it implies that only one-fifthe
of the Children of Yisrael left Egypt
spiritually. The rest was not prepared to adopt a new life as EL YAHVEH’s
people.
Exo 13:19 And Mosheh
took the bones of Yosĕph with him, for he certainly made the children of
Yisra’ĕl swear, saying, “Elohim shall certainly visit you, and you shall bring
my bones from here with you.” - Although Joseph wanted to be buried in the Land, he could not ask his
children or his brother to do so because of the lofty position he hold as
Viceroy of Egypt. He knew that the role of Yisrael was to rape Egypt of its
wealth, and he told the Children of Yisrael not to leave him behind when the
appointed time came for the exodus.
Exo 13:20 And
they departed from Sukkoth and camped in Ětham at the edge of the wilderness. - In the
first two stages it was enough that YAHVEH directed Moses where to march: he
knew the country and the road well enough; but now that they had come to the
edge of the wilderness they would
have need for a guide; and a very good guide they had, one that was infinitely
wise, kind, and faithful.
Exo 13:21 And יהוה went before them by day
in a column of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a column of fire to give
them light, so as to go by day and night. – The protective cloud and the pillar of fire. The cloud and the pillar of
fire offered protection on both the physical and metaphysical levels. The
Yisraelites were unaffected ball the limitations of living in the material
world called the wilderness.
We are told that their clothes and
shoes did not wear out, and some even says that their bodies did not produce
any wast.
In our spiritual journey from Egypt
to the promise land, we can be best assured that the very Presence of EL YAHVEH
will be with us at all time. A column of cloud by day and a column of fire by
night. During the hotest part of my day HE will provide shelter, even in my
journey towards perfection In the night part of my journey His guiding light
will still make it possible for my feet to thred on safe ground.
Why did they had to travel by day amd
night. Life is a cycle of day and night as in there is evening and morning the
first day. The negative things in our lives is just as important as the
positive. Obedient to the positive commandments are very essential as resisting the negative ones. Obedient to the positive bring a blessing, and resisting
the negative produce spiritual strength.
Exo 13:22 The column
of cloud did not cease by day, nor the column of fire by night, before the
people. – This preseence will
never cease and it never cease untill the children of Yisrael reach the Promise Land. He who starts a good work in me is
faithfull to complete it to the end. These last two verses are revealed Word. Phi 1:6 And I am sure of this: that the
One who began a good work among you will keep it growing until it is completed
on the Day of the Messiyah Yahushua.
