Numbers 19:11-13: He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the...
FI Y5 P.38 KORACH GOD’S PHENOMENAL WORKS
Numbers 16:28-30 “Moses said, ‘Through this shall you know that HASHEM sent me to perform all these acts, that it was not from my heart. “If these die like the death of all men, and the destiny of all men is visited upon them, then it is not HASHEM Who...
FI Y5 WK 37 P. SHELACH (SEND) “IF YOU PLEASE”: WILLING OBEDIENCE TO THE CALL
Numbers 13:1-2 VA’YE’DABER ADONAI (Y”H) EL-MOSHE LEY’MOR SHE’LACH-LE’CHA ANA’SHIM VE’YA’TU’RU ET-ERETZ CE’NA’AN ASHER-ANI NO’TEYN LIV’NEI YISRAEL ISH E’CHAD LE’MA’TAI A’VO’TAIV TISH’LA’CHU KOL NASI BA’HEM “The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Send forth men (--LE’CHA, “for you”, “to you”, “before you”: “IF YOU PLEASE”—STONE Tanakh translation), that they may search...
FI Y5 WK. 36 P. BE’HA’ALOT’CHA (WHEN YOU KINDLE) THE DIVINE VOICE SPEAKING AND THE PROPHETIC ANOINTING UPON GOD’S PEOPLE: GOD’S CALL TO YOU THROUGH THE GOSPEL
I wish to connect the beginning of this Parashah with the last verse of the prior Parashah to bring home a major point: the Voice that spoke with Moses in the Tabernacle is the same Voice that spoke to Samuel as a small boy while he lay in his bed...
FI Y5 WK 35 P. NASSO (TAKE) UNITY OF ISRAEL AND OF THE BODY OF MESSIAH
(NUMBERS 4:21, “ROSH B’NEI…LE’MISH’PE’CHO’TAM” WITH EPHESIANS 4:4, “ONE BODY”) Numbers 4:21, VA’YI’DABER ADONAI EL MOSHE LEY’MOR NASSO ET-ROSH B’NEI GER’SHON GAM-HEYM LE’VEIT AVO’TAM LE’MISH’PE’CHO’TAM “And the LORD spoke to Moses saying, Take a census (ET-ROSH, “the Head(s) of the sons”) of Gershon by the house of their fathers, according...
FI Y5 WK 34 P.BA’MIDBAR (IN THE WILDERNESS) “HEAD COUNT”: THE INDIVIDUAL ASPECT OF THE NATION (with John 3:16)
Numbers 1:18e, “…LE’GUL’GE’LO’TAM” (“…their head count.”) This Hebrew word is from the word for “skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons):--head, every man, poll, skull.” [STRONG] The text in question is Numbers 1:18-19, “And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day...
FI Y5 WK 33 P. BE’CHUKOTAI (STATUTES) STANDING TALL IN THE LORD
Leviticus 26:3-13 Walking in the Blessing will cause you to stand upright and tall in the LORD. Keep in mind that Messiah has redeemed us from the curse of the Torah (the curse upon the flesh nature that has been crucified to us and circumcised from us through the...
FI Y5 WK 32 P.BEHAR (ON THE MOUNTIAN) THE SABBATICAL YEAR & PROPHETIC REVELATION IN THE BIBLE
Leviticus 25:1-7 [This devotion derives in part from the content of the commentary on the sabbatical year in THE TORAH: A Modern Commentary, edited by W. Gunther Plaut and published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, New York, in 1981. This article is very fine as a scholastic work...
FI Y5 WK 31 P.EMOR (SAY) SAY AND SAY (or “SAY AND TELL”)—THE ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION OF DEATH CONTAMINATION FOR PRIESTS
Leviticus 21:1, “And THE LORD said to Moses, Say to the Priests the sons of Aaron and Say to them (Tell them) no one of you shall defile himself for the dead.” [OWENS translation, modified with emphasis] When a statement in the Bible is doubled, as here, “Say and Say”...
FI Y5 WK 30 P. KEDOSHIM (HOLY ONES) SEXUAL SINS & THE LAND
Leviticus 20:10-22 “And the man that commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death…. You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where...