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Overview of the Tanakh - Session 30

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Why are people referred to as “children” in scripture? e.g., Children of Israel

We are instructed to “not forget” and “don’t turn away” from the Father’s discipline–how do we keep from doing these?

Why do some “turn away” from the words of Elohim?

How are some people today “disempowered”?

From where does understanding come? Why is wisdom referred to as a “crown”?

We know the Shema (Deut 6:4) is “hear and do”, but is there another understanding we can add to it?

Going deeper into Proverbs 4, Rabbi Steve Berkson delivers more “Covenant-Life Coaching”–Perspectives and understanding you need to get you from where you are now into the Kingdom of Elohim.

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Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my

lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. 19

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 20 And we said to my lord,

‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead,

and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.’ 21 Then you said to your

servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22 We said to my lord, ‘The

boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23 Then you

said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my

face again.’

24 “When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25 And

when our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’ 26 we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our

youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man's face unless

our youngest brother is with us.’ 27 Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my

wife bore me two sons. 28 One left me, and I said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I

have never seen him since. 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you

will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’

30 “Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us,

then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life, 31 as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he

will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow

to Sheol. 32 For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do

not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ 33 Now

therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the

boy go back with his brothers. 34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I

fear to see the evil that would find my father.” (Ge 44:18-34)

Some say this is the moment that Judah was awarded royal authority over the tribes.

Judah conquered “The Red One,” of the soul. He wants to feed others, not be fed. He’d overcome his jealousy of his brother, his murderous thoughts toward his brother, his lack of honor for the wishes of his father, and confessed his relationship with Tamar to ensure the righteous offspring of Judah

would live to fulfill the covenant promise of inheritance in the Land of Israel.

Esau (Edom) has never conquered his jealousy of Jacob, his murderous inclination toward Jacob, and his lack of honor for the wishes of the “father” in marriage. Esau spurned the birthright of protecting the offspring and sold it for food.

The Jewish sages say it was not then, nor when he was chosen to bring the first dedicatory gifts to the Tabernacle, nor when he was appointed to take the first step in the Camp movement to follow the Cloud and Ark. These foreshadowed. It was not until Israel entered the Land and Joshua died. After

that, Judah was given leadership when he was chosen to lead his brothers in war against the Canaanites. Others add Boaz when he was kind to Ruth. [Midrash Rabbah to Shir HaShirim 4§16]

Audio reading: Genesis 48:10-16, Zech 8:1-23, Rev 16:1-21, Psalm 144:1-15, Prov 30:29-31, 12-26-23

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Unbelievable! The God of Israel is speaking to the Arab World

For I have bent Judah, My bow,

Fitted the bow with Ephraim,

And raised up your sons, O Zion,

Against your sons, O Greece,

And made you like the sword of a mighty man.” Zechariah 9:13

Audio reading: Genesis 48:17-22, Zech 9:1-17, Rev 17:1-18, Psalm 145:1-21, Prov 30:22

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This week we see the conclusion to the 'cliff-hanger' story of Miketz, where Yosef has tested his brothers, and they stand before him accused, and evidently guilty, of theft.

And this week, as Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship likes to put it, Judah 'draws near' (Vayigash, Genesis 44:18 through 47:27) and "mans up." And, perhaps to put it mildly, that surprises his brother Yosef. And certainly changes history. Or, more to the point, puts it on the track Yah evidently intended all along.

The Erev Shabbat reading tells the story, and IS the central teaching for our instruction and blessing.

https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/SSM-12-22-23-Vayigash-teaching-only-Yehuda-mans-up-hope-QQQ-then-morality-depression-QQQ-podcast-xxx.mp3

The Sabbath day midrash this week, connected largely to the haftorah reading from Ezekiel chapter 37, and for reasons that may, at first, not seem obvious, will no doubt "offend many."

Indeed, that was what Yahushua told us He would do. And so will we, when we "walk in obedience" to Him, and "for His Name's sake."

Which is why this teaching includes not only an "adult content," warning, but more. After all, even the phrase "man up" will offend many in a world where the very concept of patriarchy, or "men being men," and not espousing the proper PC BS, already "offends many." How much more so, then, His Truth - as actually Written?

The Sabbath day midrash begins with the observation that there are SO many aspects of this story that are prophetic, from Judah honoring his word to his father [Father] to the promised 'great deliverance' (past, long past, their present, and our future) to the "ruach of Yakov" being revived...into Israel.

But why is the haftorah portion that goes with this story from Ezekiel 37, and the "two sticks?"

It is certainly obvious that this is another of those prophecies that has NOT yet been fulfilled. Just as both of the "two whoring wives," Aholah and Aholibah, and their descendants, the Whore Church and the Whore Synagogue, are both still scattered, still in exile...they are not even remotely "echad."

And, if that terminology is "offensive" to some (we have, after all, been warned) then how much more so that both of those adulterous bodies still call the Son of Yah, the Torah Made Flesh, and the Messiah Himself, a "liar"?

Mark suggests that a good part of that answer, and more, lies in warnings like Hosea 5:15. They aren't even about ready to "acknowledge their offense," against Him.

"Vayigash: Lost Sheep, but Still Two Sticks - the Whore Church and Whore Synagogue

https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/WT-CooH-12-23-23-Vayigash-Two-Sticks-The-Whore-Church-n-Whore-Synagogue-podcast-xxxx.mp3

There is much "food for thought" on the table at this point. As always, Mark welcomes comments, questions, and feedback: [email protected]

The combined two-part teaching is here:

On this episode Robert answers the question as to how Orthodox Jewish music dispersed after the fall of the temple.  Three distinct methods of cultural worship have evolved throughout the centuries, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi.  These three coexist separately and interchangeably depending on  the style of worship practiced in various countries all over the world.  After this we conclude with some insights from the Talmud as to Rabbinic decree of worship using instruments, vocals, and during feast days.  

Resource links

Hebrew Music Museum

https://hebrewmusicmuseum.com/nosespaces/

Virtual Jewish Library  Music Overview

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/an-overview-of-jewish-music

Talmudic Quotes regarding Jewish feasts, and music

https://www.sefaria.org/search?q=Music&tab=text&tvar=1&tsort=relevance&svar=1&ssort=relevance

The teachers discuss Isaiah chapter 13, which continues the theme of "the "Day of the LORD," as well as more about "Babylon."

But there is so much more in here beyond just references that most of xtianity have heard of, but never really studied.

The 'gloves have been off' for quite a while now. But too many of our friends, family, and neighbors just wouldn't believe it.

That all changed this week.