Parashas Mattos
Numbers
30:2 – 32:42
Please pray this
Prayer before reading
Prayer
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 Mattos “tribes” is the 42 Portion of the Torah Cycle. With the exception of
a leap year in the Torah Calendar, this portion Mattos is read on the same Sabbath
with the following portion of Mesei, which is why they are discussed
together here.
Mattos is the second to last Portion in Numbers, and
it began with a discussion of the Law regarding our vows. At first, this
Portion does not seem to address anything important, but that in itself turns
out to be the heart of a significant matter.
One clue we have is about the weight of these
portion is that they contain lessons that Moses taught in the last moments of
his life. What could be so important that Moses would need to wait forty years
to reveal it? What is so profound about the portion of Mattos.
The lesson that Moses gives us is that if we want to
bind our soul to the CREATOR, we have to make sure that nothing in our lives is
mundane, that everything is holy. When nothing in our lives is mundane,
including the negative thoughts that lead to negative actions, then everything
we say, everything we pray for, and everything that comes out of our mouth will
have the power to create life.
In this Parasha we have a law concerning vows, which
had been mentioned in the close of the foregoing chapter. Here is a general
rule laid down; that all vows must be carefully performed. There are some
particular exceptions to this rule. That
the vows of daughters should not be binding unless allowed by the father “.
3-5”. Nor; The vows of wives unless allowed by the husband “v. 6, etc”. Women
liberation movement will have a field day with this chapter. Never the less
this is what Torah says.
Parashas Massei
Numbers 33:1 – 36:13
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 Parasha
That the Truth of Torah may
Come forth. Amen
This Torah Portion Massei is the 43 Parasha; it is read
in conjunction with Mattos except on a Leap year. Massei “Journey,” as every man life is a journey to the mountain top, and
that every experience we experience while on that journey is a part of the
process to correct our ego. Our ultimate destintion lies in our correctoion of
our ego.
The jest of this Portion, is that the most basic and
most important understanding is that everything that happens in our life is
from the CREATOR, and that every thought that comes into our mind is from the
CREATOR.
He goes on to explain that even when a negative
thought comes into our mind, urging us to perform a negative action, if we do
not have the Holy Spirit and the Word in our mind we will fail.
Too often when a negative thought come to mind, we
either fall victim to it because of the lack of the influence of the Holy
Spirit and the lack of the Word written on our heart. When our ego is dominated
by the flesh, we will either act upon the negative thought or push it aside.
Both of these actions does nothing to correct the Ego.
What then can we do? Within every dark cloud is a
silver lining. When we focus on or desire the Light that lies within a dark
thought, we will transform the thought. When the negative thought comes and we
stop long enough to realize it is the Light of the Creator covered by a shell
of darkness, we remove that shell, and exposed the Light.
If we do not believe this and we do not do it, we
are not desiring the light as children of Light, we are the children of
darkness, we are still in Egypt.
Our Job as believers is to free the Light hidden within every negative
thoughts, but we do not believe that negative thought are the Light of the Holy
Spirit, then our mind are still in exile in Egypt.
To the degree that we do not see the Light of the
Holy Spirit in everything, we diminish the domain of the Holy Spirit in the
World. But as we come to a clear understand of the Holy Spirit, we expand the
domain of holiness in our world. Therefore it is vitally important that we see
every negative thought as Light.
When we see a person, situation or circumstances as
negative, we dimes the gevul haKedushah,
the borders of Holiness in this world. We have to realize how powerful our
consciousness is. How we see people and circumstances is curtail to whether we
are going to expand the borders of Light or the border of darkness.
We revealed the Light within us when we diminish the
influence of the spirit of Korach and Bilaam and increase the Spirit of
Holiness.
Our purpose in life is to expand the borders of
Light, even in the mundane thing in our lives. Our goal is to expand gervul haKedushah, the border of Holiness, until we reach the Gemar HaTikkum, the final correction.
In this chapter we learn of a particular account of
the removals and encampments of the children of Yisrael, from their escape out
of Egypt to their entrance
into Canaan, forty-two in all, with some
remarkable events that happened at some of those places verse 1 – 49. A strict
command given them to drive out all the inhabitants of the land of Canaan,
which they were now going to conquer and take possession of verse 50 – 56. So
that the former part of the chapter looks back upon their march through the
wilderness, the latter looks forward to their settlement in Canaan.
