Sola scriptura

Zekeniam Y’Isra’al

Sherut haRitztzuy

(the ministry of reconciliation)

by whom we have now received the

( Atonement)

Reconciliation of the Dvar HaRitztzuy

Let this day be a day of reconciliation and regeneration

( HaYaH (He was), Howeh (He is), and Yihyeh (He will be).

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YHWH

Debarim6:4

Hear, Y’Isra'al: YHWH is our ALuaHiYM! YHWH Is One!

Debarim 6:5 and you shall love [long for] your ALuaHiYM with all your

heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. (me'ode)

My Memorial for generation after generation.”

Shemot 3:13-16

This is MY NAME for ever,

YHWH , ALuaHiYM of your father’s Abraham, Yitzchak [Isaac], and Ya’aqob

[Jacob], has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial

for generation to generation." and I appeared to Abraham, to Yitzchak, and to

Ya’aqob as hashadday [the almighty]. and my name, YHWH , was not well

known (famous) to them.

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The ministry of reconciliation

Message of Reconciliation

Torah sh’Bichtav

(Written Torah)

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear?

“Sola Scriptura”

(the Scriptures alone is authoritative for faith)

(in His Name)

[Yah -hoo-Wah]

is the Name of the Creator.

(YâHuWsHúa`) is His Son

[Al-u-heem - ALHYM] means "Mighty Ones“ or "Power"

means Set-apart, Pure.

(Qodesh) also means "Set-apart"

Ruwach (Spirit) is the Ibry (Hebrew) name for His "Presence", pictured as the

Counselor, Helper, and Advocate, the One Who "proceeds from the Father"

Tehillim 27:5

For in the day of trouble He will keep me secretly in His booth. In the covering

of His Tent He will hide me. On a Rock He raises me up.

is for you too!

Scripture speaks of a secret place where we can simply go, be alone, be

protected, pray, and hear from YâHuWsHúa. Knowing there is such a place is a

matter of faith. Going back time and again, that's a matter of building a

relationship. You need not have an advanced degree in any subject, need not

have memorized Scripture from beginning to end, but instead be aware the

YHWH of Y’Isra’al has a place for each Jew and Gentile who will open their

minds and hearts to Him.

Mt 6:5-8

When you pray, you shall not be as the role-fakers, for they love to stand and

pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen

by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. But you,

when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray

to your Father Who is in secret, and your Father Who sees in secret shall

reward you openly. In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do;

for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Therefore don’t

be like them, don't you see that your Father knows what things you need

before you ask Him.

The truth in reality is visited in this secret place AND must be shared by those

who will live or else ... they will perish ... in darkness.

It is written

Lu 11:33

“No one, when he has lit a Lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a

stand, that those who come in may see the Light.

Tehillim. 119:105

Your Word is a Lamp to my feet, and a Light (aur) for my path.

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole

body is also full of Light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness. If therefore your

whole body is full of Light, having no part dark, it shall be wholly full of Light, as

when the Lamp with its bright shining gives you Light.”

The menorah is the only symbol created by YâHuWsHúa`

With this in mind, heart soul and strength let us study together in the Raukh

And now brothers and sisters

Come out of the secret place bearing light!

Who see it from afar. The Secret Place, here, shines a bit of light so many can

see from afar. The topics we have chosen are addressed to Jew and Gentile

together. We do this because that is what the Bible does. This opens the

window to make more sense of what Scripture tells us!

In the secret place is plain language, something simple to read. This is a mere

starting place for deeper consideration.

If the Raukh of YHWH has moved your Raukh to seek out his word

www.slideshare.net/Keiyah

Before the study I wish to point out that only the WORD is the TRUTH, be it

days, months, years, hence the calendar is “sola Scriptura” based.

Dan_7:25

And it shall speak words opposing the Most High, and it will wear down

the pure ones of the Most High Ones, and it will try to change set times

(Festivals) and Law, (Lawlessness) and they shall be granted into its hand for a

time and times and half of a time.

And then I will profess to them,

‘Never did I acknowledge you: even if you are on My lap and do not do the will

of My Father Who is in heaven, out of My lap will I cast you away! Depart

from Me, all ye workers of Lawlessness!’

So that in them is fulfilled the prediction of Yshá`Yâhuw, which says: “You shall

surely hear, but you shall not understand; and you shall surely see, but you

shall not perceive! For the heart of this people has grown thick, and they do

hardly hear with the ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest they should see

with their eyes, and with their ears they should hear, and their heart should

understand, and they should return to Me and I should cure them.

The Hebrew Bible is fully aware of that. Deuteronomy declares the worship of

sun, moon, and stars as allotted by YHWH that is to all the other peoples

Dev 4:19.

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto Shomayim, and when thou seest the shemesh, and the yarei'ach, and the kokhavim, even all the tz’va HaShomayim,

shouldest be driven to hishtachaveh (bow down, worship) them, and serve them which Hashem Aloheicha hath divided unto kol HaGoyim under kol

HaShomayim.

Duet 4:19

"or lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the armies of heaven, you should be impelled to bow down to

them or enslave yourselves to these [things] that YHWH has apportioned to all the nations under the whole heaven;

Anyone can see the heavenly bodies, but we have heard from YHWH. There is no “hard copy” of Him! People want something they can identify with, which

is what makes the “god-man” concept so attractive, because it makes them think they can be gods too. We can only understand what YHWH allows us to

know about Himself, and we cannot control what we cannot comprehend. Apportioned: divided, assigned, distributed; Aramaic, "designated to serve". I.e., He gave them to all the nations and they are common (contrast v. 20).

But none of them is to be identified specifically with YHWH.

Dev 4:20 But Hashem hath taken you, and brought you forth

out of the iron furnace, even out of Mitzrayim, to be unto Him an Am Nachalah (a people of inheritance), as ye are yom hazeh.

Deut 4:20. "But YHWH has selected you, and brought you out from the crucible of iron--

from Egypt--to become His own--for the purpose of being a people [that are His own] prized possession, just as [is the case] today."

Any wood placed into a furnace for smelting iron would be consumed

immediately. Egypt completely used them up, while feeding them—like pack animals. Even the products forged of iron there—chariots—were used to kill

them. Now they were going to a place that would serve them rather than consuming them. Nothing in the Tabernacle was made of iron; YHWH had no use for it at this point. Prized possession: How awesome! Why throw away such a rare privilege and settle for something that the nations all stoop to--

nations that He considered a mere drop in the bucket in comparison

Yeshayah40:15?

Surely the Goyim are like a drop in a bucket, and are accounted as dust of the scales; surely He taketh up the iyim (islands) like fine dust.

Isa 40:15

See, nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the balance. See, He lifts up isles as fine dust.

Today we see the illegitimate worship of these celestial bodies , within those who claim to WORSHIP YHWH

How many more times will Y’Isra’al turned to

HIS CREATION and not their CREATOR

Melachim Bais 23:5, | And he did away with hakemarim (the idol priests), whom the Melachim of

Yehudah had ordained to burn ketoret in the high places in the towns of Yehudah, and in the places around Yerushalayim; them also that

burned ketoret unto Ba'al, to the shemesh, and to the yarei'ach, and to the mazalot (constellations) and to all the Tzeva HaShomayim.

2 kgs 23:5

And he put down the black-robed priests whom the sovereigns of Yehudah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Yehudah and in

the places all around Yerushalayim, and those who burned incense to Baʽal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of the

heavens

Melachim Bais 23:11 And he took away the susim that the Melachim of Yehudah had dedicated to the shemesh, at the entrance of the Beis Hashem, by the chamber of Natan-

Melech the saris, which was in the colonnades, and set eish to merkevot hashemesh.

2 Ki 23:11

And he did away with the horses that the sovereigns of Yehudah had given to the sun, at the entrance to the House of YHWH, by the room of Nathan-Melek the eunuch, that were in the court. And he burned the chariots of the sun with

fire.

Yirmeyah 8:2 And they shall spread them out before the shemesh, and the yarei'ach, and all the tz'va haShomayim, whom they have loved, and whom they have served,

and after whom they have walked, and whom they have consulted, and whom they have worshiped; they shall not be gathered up, nor be buried in a kever;

they shall be like domen upon the surface of ha'adamah.

Jer 8:2; And shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of the

heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought, and to which they have bowed

themselves. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be for dung on the face of the earth.

And He brought me into the khatzer Beis Hashem hapenimit [i.e., the Court of the Kohanim], and, hinnei, at the petach (entrance) of the Heikhal Hashem, between the Ulam and the Mizbe'ach, were about five and twenty ish, with

their backs toward the Heikhal Hashem, and their faces toward the east; and they bowing down toward the east worshiping the sun.

Ezek 8:16 And He brought me into the inner court of the House of YHWH. And there, at the door of the Hĕkal of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the Hĕkal of YHWH and their faces

toward the east, and they were bowing themselves eastward to the sun.

Yet in the creation story these celestial elements are simply taken as creatures like any others

yehovah tsidqenu

Self-Existent or eternal Righteous YHWH

YHWH -Tsidkenu, a symbolical epithet of HaMaSHiYaCH and of

Yahrushalom:

Righteousness

In the renewed Covenant it is the Greek word

Dikaiosune

(G1343)

It is

"the character or quality of being right or just"

it was formerly spelled

Which clearly expresses the meaning?

It is used to denote an attribute of YHWH

Rom 3:5

But if our wickedness commends the righteousness of YHWH , what will

we say? Is YHWH unrighteous who inflicts wrath? (I speak like men

do.)

YHWH in choosing Y’Isra’al was and is His means of reaching the world

B'Rayshiyth12:2

I will make of you great nation/goyim. I will bless you and make your

name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and

I will curse him who despises you. All of the families of the earth will be

blessed in you.”[be grafted]

"Be grafted": or simply "bless themselves", but the former rendering is

supported by such usage of this tense (Nif'al) in the Mishnah, and forms

the basis for Sha'ul's discourse in Romans 11. So as to fulfill His promise

to bless Shem, yet not to show favoritism to any of the 70 nations,

YHWH took a man away from his own land and created a new culture, a

counter-history that put men's plans to shame and was an exception to

the rule that "under the sun, all is vanity". The one who despises you:

perhaps any individual, but probably an allusion to haSatan (the

adversary), whose malice toward Abram underlies everyone else's. The

blessed ones, though, are plural, reminding us of a similar contrast in

Exodus 34:7,

Watching over kindness for thousands, forgiving crookedness and

transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the

crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children

to the third and the fourth generation.

Where a curse remains for 3 or 4 generations, but a blessing lasts for

thousands.

The context of which shows that

"the righteousness of YHWH "

means essentially the same as His faithfulness, or truthfulness, that

which is consistent with His own nature and promises;

Atonement is the evidence of deliverance

Rom 3:25

Whom YHWH set forth as atonement, for an evident sign of His

deliverance through belief in His blood, thereby Passing-Over the sins

that had taken place beforehand, and in YHWH ’s forbearance

His Righteousness is life giving

Rom 3:26

To demonstrate His righteousness in the present feast season; that He

might Himself be righteous, and declare righteous him who has belief in

YaHuWsHua the Life-Giver.

The term "righteousness" is etymologically related to the terms "just"

and "justifier" of YHWH desires His character to be manifested in

believers' lives through faith in YaHuWsHua.

2 Co 5:21

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we

might become the righteousness of ALuaHiYM.

but believers must also become conformed to His righteousness, His

likeness

His "righteousness"

as exhibited

in the death of HaMaSHiYaCH, which is sufficient to show men that

YHWH is neither indifferent to sin nor regards it lightly. On the contrary,

it demonstrates that quality of Sacredness in Him which must find

expression in His condemnation of sin.

Dikaiosune

is found in the sayings of the YaHuWsHua of whatever is right or just in

itself, whatever conforms to the revealed will of YHWH ,

Mat 5:6,

Baruk are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall

be filled in abundance.

Those who are far from home in exile are starving to be back in

covenant with YHWH again. When we desire and seek Him with all of

our heart, He will let Himself be found by us. You shall seek Me, and find

Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart. „Come, everyone

who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!

Yes, come; buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do

you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that

which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat you that which is

good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. I AM the Bread of life.

Your Abbas ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the

Bread which comes down out of shamayim that anyone may eat of it and

not die. I AM the living Bread which came down out of shamayim. If

anyone eats of this Bread, he will live le' olam wa'eyd. Yes, the Bread

which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

Mat 5:10,

Baruk are those who have been persecuted for righteousness sake,

because theirs is the reign of the shamayim.

1 Kepa 3:14

But even if you suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. „And do

not fear their threats, neither be troubled

1 Pe 3:13a

Because the eyes of יהוה are on the righteous, and his ears are open to

their prayers

Mat 5:20;

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes

and P'rushim, there is no way you shall enter into the reign of

shamayim!

Righteousness Beyond the Prushim: A shocking statement, because to

most they appeared to be the epitome of righteousness in their day. But

He called them lawless at heart

Mat 23:27-28

“Woe to you, scribes and P'rushim, role-fakers! For you are like whitened

tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead

men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear

righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Though they claimed to be keeping the Torah better than anyone

around them. You have to do better than they, He says. Their

interpretation is on faulty footing.

Matt 7:26-27

Everyone who hears these Words of mine, and does not do them shall

be like a heedless man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came

down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house;

and it fell—and great was its fall.”

He is setting the Torah back on its original foundation. Shem-Tob:

greater than the Prushim and the sages.

Joh 16:8

And When He has come, He shall convict the world about sin,about

righteousness, and about judgment;

Joh 16:9-11

About sin, because they do not believe on Me; about righteousness,

because I go away to My Father, and you do not all discern Me yet;

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

Whatever has been appointed by YHWH to be acknowledged and

obeyed by man,

Mat 3:15;

But YaHuWsHua, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the

fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed it.

WE WALK IN THE WAY OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS

Mat_21:32

For Yahuwchanan came to you in the Way of righteousness, and you

didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed

him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might

believe him.

The sum total of the requirements of YHWH ,

Mat_6:33;

But seek first YHWH ’s Reign, and His righteousness; and all these

things shall be given to you as well.

Righteousness has another name in Kindness,

Mat 6:1-2

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving/kind deeds [tzadikim]

before men, in order to be seen by them, or else you have no reward

from your Father who is in shamayim. Therefore when you do merciful

deeds [tsedakah], don’t sound a shofar before yourself, as the role-

fakers do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get honor

from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

When: not if. Despite these warnings, YaHuWsHua assumes that we will

do such almsgiving, as He does with prayer (v. 7) and fasting (v. 16ff).

As with the Sabbath (ch. 12), He removes all elements of legalism and

spiritual pride, but leaves the righteous acts themselves absolutely

intact. Trumpeter: interestingly, the Miqdash's contribution-boxes were

also trumpet-shaped. Streets: Aram. and Heb., marketplaces. (Compare

v. 24.) Have their reward: repeated in vv. 5, 16. YHWH will not reward

what was not truly done for Him. If we want praise from men, from men

we will get it, but that is all. In the synagogue: a reminder to the

returning Northern Kingdom that we do not need to do everything the

way it has been done by Yahuwdah.

Almsgiving

Mat 6:2-4,

Therefore when you do merciful deeds [tzedakah], don’t sound a shofar

before yourself, as the role-fakers do in the synagogues and in the

streets, that they may get honor from men. Most certainly I tell you,

they have received their reward. But when you do merciful deeds, don’t

let your left hand know what your right hand does, 6:4 so that your

merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father Who sees in secret

shall Himself reward you openly.

Prayer,

is the way to YHWH , meditation is to seek him in the Ruwach, for only

in truth and Ruwach can we walk in the Ruwach

Mat 6:5-8

When you pray, you shall not be as the role-fakers, for they love to

stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that

they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received

their reward. But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber,

and having shut your door, pray to your Father Who is in secret, and

your Father Who sees in secret shall reward you openly. In praying,

don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they

shall be heard for their much speaking. Therefore don’t be like them,

don't you see that your Father knows what things you need before you

ask Him.

Mat 6:9-13

Pray like this: ‘Our Father Who is in the shamayim, may Your name be

kept Set-apart (Qadosh be Your Name). Let Your Reign come. Let Your

determination be done, as in shamayim, so on earth. Give us today our

daily bread.Release us our debts, as we also release our debtors. And let

us not come into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one: for Yours

is the reign, and the might, and the splendor, into the Ages and beyond.

Amein

Like this: Not necessarily in these exact words (though there is no harm

in that, if they are not themselves "useless repetition", , but the true cry

of one's heart), but in a similar manner. This prayer seems to be culled

from different parts of the Amidah ("standing prayers") used in the

synagogue:

"May Your will be done in shamayim above"

in Tosefta Berachot 3:7;

"Do not lead me into sin, nor into iniquity, nor into temptation, nor into

dishonor" and "let me this day and every day find grace, mercy, and

favor in Your eyes", in Berachot 60. As was a common practice, He uses

a key line as shorthand for the rest, to remind them of the rest. These

seem more elaborate than necessary; YaHuWsHua says YHWH does

not need explanations for our heart cries; He knows them all. What He is

referring to might (ironically) be better understood in our day as

something like "saying the ‘Our Father’ prayer 50 times". Your Kingdom:

This should be the perspective we maintain not only in all of our prayers

(to keep them "on track") but in ordering all of our priorities; Aram., may

Your Kingdom be blessed. Just as… in shamayim: As every aspect of the

Tabernacle and Miqdash were patterned after precise revelations of the

things in shamayim (2 Kings 16:10; Env. 7:44; Heb. 8:5; 9:23f), we too

must order our actions according to what YHWH is actually doing, as

YaHuWsHua did (16:19; 18:18; Yoch. 5:19, 30). But He also wants us to

pray that the day may be hastened when the Kingdom is no longer just

in the spiritual realm, but is a concrete, physical reality and no distinction

is made between earthly life and shamayim. Bread we need: our regular

portion (Prov. 30:8), not too much (Ex. 16:20), lest we feel secure and

fail to continue looking only to Him for our supply. Though we are

responsible to work hard for our food (Gen. 3:19), ultimately we have no

control over whether our crops will grow or whether what we have

already gained will remain in our hands. This places us permanently in

dependence on YHWH every day. But v. 32 reminds us that we need

only to humbly ask our loving Father for sustenance, not use elaborate

self-injury as the pagan nations did to placate bloodthirsty " YHWH ’s"

before making requests. (1 Kings 18:28) "Rabbi Shimon said, '...When

you pray, do not make your prayer fixed [repetitive, mechanical], but

[appeal for] mercy and supplication before the Omnipresent, blessed be

He." (Avoth, 2:13; note the similarities to vv. 7 and 9 above; see also

Qoh. 5:2.) Into temptation: Trimm points out that it is a common

Hebrew idiom that means "Do not let us be tempted (beyond our

ability)". (compare 1 Cor. 10:13) Part of the Shakharit (dawn) liturgy

prays that we will have set-apart thoughts “without even an inkling of

sin”, and “that the evil inclination may not seduce us”. YHWH never

tempts anyone to sin (Ya'aqob 1:13). … Are Yours: He echoes His

ancestor David’s prayer in 1 Chron. 29:11-13.

Mat_6:14-15

For if you release men from their slip-ups, your Father who is in

shamayim shall also release you. But if you don’t release men from their

slip-ups, neither shall your Father in the shamayim release your

trespasses.

We must operate on the same "wavelength" He is on, or we cannot

expect to "receive" anything from Him (cf. 7:2; 8:13; parable in 18:21ff).

Gamaliel (Rab Sha'ul's mentor) is recorded as saying YHWH grants

mercy to the merciful, but not to those who show no mercy. (Pal.

Talmud) Slip-ups: or stepping off track, offenses.

Fasting,

Mat_6:16-18

Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the role-fakers, with sad faces. For

they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting.

Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. 6:17 But you,

when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; 6:18 so that you

are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father Who is in secret,

and your Father, Who sees in secret, shall reward you.

[Yom Kippur]

YashaYahuw 58:1

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a shofar, and declare to My

people their disobedience, and to the House of Ya'aqob their sins.

Like a shofar: Yom T’ruah, the Day of the Alarm (awakening trumpet-

blast) lets us know that the Day of Coverings is fast approaching, and it

is high time to repent. Rebellion: or treason, not necessarily malice, but

thinking only of what is best for the individual, not the people as a

whole.

[Like a shofar: Rosh HaShanah (Yom Teruach), the Day of the Alarm

(awakening trumpet-blast) lets us know that the Day of Atonements is

fast approaching, and it is high time to repent.]

[Two Witnesses of Rev. 11]

YashaYahuw 58:2

Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways: as a nation that

did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their Aluahiym,

they ask of Me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to

Aluahiym.

They keep the fast strictly on Yom Kippur. Yet there is something wrong:

YashaYahuw 58:3

‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and You don’t see? why have we

afflicted our being, and You take no knowledge?’“Behold, in the day of

your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your laborers.

Here fasting is linked to afflicting one's soul, which explains the current

Jewish interpretation of Lev. 23:27. Yet here the fasting is a farce,

because they are not truly acting as a nation (v. 3), but are trying to get

an upper hand with YHWH at someone else’s expense. They feel that if

they fast, YHWH has no choice but to do what they want. By not letting

your laborers have a holy day also, you exploit them. And they compare

their piety with that of others. YaHuWsHua says that those who fast to

be noticed by men have all the reward they will ever receive. (Mat.

6:16ff; Luke 18)

YashaYahuw 58:4

Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of

wickedness: you don’t fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard

on high.

The way they practice the fast ends up becoming a contest between

those who should all be participating in the day together. Different sects

are trying to outdo each other by “keeping” the commands regarding

Yom haKippurim more dramatically than others. In reality they are

doing it more to be “heard” by those around them than by YHWH.

YashaYahuw 58:5

Is this the fast that I have chosen? Isn't it the day for a man to afflict his

being? Isn't it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth

and ashes under him? Shall you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to

YHWH ? (Yom Kippur)

The Stone edition Tanakh clarifies this verse by prefacing these activities

with “merely”. These actions are prescribed in Lev. 23, but they are

symbolic of a much deeper attitude. Is the fast really about looking sad

and pitiful in order to bring more attention to yourselves?

YashaYahuw 58:6

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness,

to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and

that you break every yoke?

We can even hide from YHWH behind our own routines, but this

complete fast gives us the time we need to focus on Him and on the

changes we need to make toward one another. It is not so much that

we cannot feed our bodily appetites on this day, but that we do not have

to. A yoke forces us to walk in step with whatever we are yoked to, and

that can be a positive thing if it is Torah or our fellow Y’Ishra’alites. But

being “unequally yoked” to other kinds of obligations can hold us back

from serving those who matter most. Others’ expectations of us—which

on other days are generally acceptable because we do have

responsibilities toward them—have to be set aside, for YHWH’s

expectations are all that count on this day.

Yom Kippur is a day to repent (turn around 180 degrees) and break the

bonds of sin in our lives, and then to bring the same freedom to others.

"Yoke" comes from the word for "wavering", and we want to end this as

well. Yom Kippur is called the day of the closing of the gates, and it is a

time to make choices and build walls between ourselves and the

alternatives so that we will put our hand to the plow and not look back.

YashaYahuw 58:7

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the

poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you

cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

One might fast so he has something left to give to the needy. But we

are not actually commanded to fast in Torah. In a deeper way, bread is

symbolic of the community which is meant to be one loaf (1 Cor. 10:17).

"Share" here literally means "divide", so it is meant to offer the needy a

piece of the true solution. When we start sharing our limited bread,

YaHuWsHua multiplies it and makes it enough for all—and more. If we

do fast, how can we get the fast back to what it was meant to be? By

learning from the hunger we feel that as long as there is anyone hungry

in Y’Ishra’al, the whole nation is still truly hungry. We are all in the

same boat, and YHWH sees us as a whole, just like a body. We are

meant to feel what others are feeling and then respond by sharing what

we have. We depend on each other. Learning to live as a single

community overcomes our treason against our “own flesh”. In short, it

is about hospitality—letting others invade our space and taking care of

them. If we do not come out on the other side of it being more like

Avraham, who not only was ready to be hospitable but looking for

people to show hospitality to, YHWH says we are just wasting our time.

He called Avraham His friend. We could nickname this “the Festival of

Hospitality”. The Biblical name is not Yom Kippur—the day of a

covering—but Yom haKippurim, the day of the coverings, because right

here we see that it is about providing a covering for those who are

exposed, whether to hunger, the elements, or other kinds of threats. It

is not just a covering for ourselves. The aim is to get us back into the

kind of relationship with YHWH in which we take care of our brothers as

well. Poor: the needy, but it can also mean the busy and preoccupied,

like Martha was (Luke 10:41ff). He gives us rest. Many in the church are

kept so busy with activities that they never get an occasion to rest and

sit at his feet, as Martha's sister Miryam did. They are not even given a

Sabbath, let alone a Yom haKippurim, which is even more of a ceasing

from activity than the Sabbath is. They are like refugees (wandering

from place to place), but He wants to bring them into His sheepfold.

YashaYahuw 58:8

Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall

spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the

esteem of YHWH shall be your rear guard. Then: and not until then.

Then: and not until then. This sounds like “being the head and not the

tail”. (Deut. 28:13)

YashaYahuw 58:9

Then you shall call, and YHWH shall answer; you shall cry, and He shall

say, ‘Here I AM.’ “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the

finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

“Here I am.” This is the way Avraham responded even when YHWH was

giving him his greatest test, and is the exact opposite of what Adam and

Chawwah did, hiding when He called, as in verse 7. YHWH does not

really hear our words unless they are combined with actions. When we

attach the “we” to our prayers, He will take care of our personal needs

as well. It may not be in the way you expect, because you may become

busier than ever. Many people pray, assuming that YHWH is listening,

but if we are not doing what He expects us to, why should He even

listen to us at all? If we are doing things our own way when He has

given clear instructions on how He wants things done, why should He

stand up for us when we inevitably fail? And if you do not intend to do

what He says when He answers, why should you even ask? The real test

is not how righteous you look on this day as what you will be doing

tomorrow. The results must be real. We must do what we need to do

to make the lessons stick for more than just a few days,and really make

a change, or it will prove to have only been the game that verse 4

suggests. The day is about fixing patterns that are broken and faulty,

with more than a band-aid. Pointing of the finger:

Compare Mat. 7:1-5.

YashaYahuw 58:10

and if you draw out your being to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted

being: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the

noonday;

Each of us is hungry in one way or another, and He has put in each

community those capable of meeting each other's needs. Taking care of

one another is what He is trying to teach us through His Torah and His

festivals.

Afflicted: or humbled, depressed. This is how a strong community--the

bride of YHWH --is formed. Each of us is hungry in one way or another,

and He has put in each congregation those capable of meeting each

other's needs. Taking care of one another is what He is trying to teach

us through His Torah and His festivals.

YashaYahuw 58:11

and YHWH shall guide you continually, and satisfy your being in dry

places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered

garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

Invigorate your bones: brace them up, make them strong, "arm"

them. This holds a clear connection to Yom Kippur as a "day of bones"

(Lev. 23:30) and the bones of Yosef that assemble into a mighty army

(Y'chezqel 37) before the restoration that the next verse speaks of:

Drought: or “a scorched region”, perhaps when all of Ysra'al is

regathered in the desert near Mount Sinai.

YashaYahuw 58:12

Then some of those who shall be of you shall build the old waste

places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you

shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Paths to Dwell

In.

Ancient ruins: or wasted places, not only physically, but also ancient

ways of interpreting and navigating our way through the Torah. Closes

up the breach: in a wall, hedging it about or enclosing the city, so that

there can be set-apartness again, and the unclean cannot freely trample

His courts with no price to pay for doing so. This is the task of the house

of Yoseph, the northern kingdom that is being recalled in this day to our

previously-unknown heritage of "the ancient paths". (Micha 7:18-20;

YirmeYahuw 6:16)

YashaYahuw 58:13

“If you turn away your foot from the Shabbath, from doing your

pleasure on My Qodesh day; and call the Shabbath a delight, and the

Qodesh of YHWH esteem-able; and shall esteem it, not doing your own

ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words

[uttering a word of indignation from your mouth]:

Even when repairing the breach, we must still pause when He says to

pause. Your foot: the three pilgrim festivals are literally called "feet" in

Hebrew (shalosh regalim, Ex. 23:14). But our choice of festivals (most of

which were borrowed and adapted from pagan sources) has obscured

His. Man-made festivals claimed to replace the Sabbath, but He wants us

to turn back (repent) to the calendar He Himself set up. To be honored:

or important. Your own: We can only receive when we give back to Him

what He has given us by turning it over to the welfare of all Y’Isra’al.

YashaYahuw 58:14

then you shall delight yourself in YHWH ; and I shall make you to ride

on the high places of the Land; and I shall feed you with the heritage of

Ya'aqob your father:” for the mouth of YHWH has spoken it.

The Land’s ridges: the areas claimed by the Palestinians now, but which

actually belong to the northern Kingdom and Yehudah. (Yehezqel 36:2)

The high ground is a place of safety and having the upper hand, and

from which we can see an enemy coming. After the fast, if we receive

its lessons properly, we can move on to the feasting of Sukkoth. He

Himself will feed us with the words of His mouth. This provides a link to

Psalm 81, which was written most particularly for the season of

repentance prior to Yom haKippurim.

This provides a link to Tehillim 81, which was written most particularly

for the season of repentance prior to Yom Kippur.

"In the preaching of the apostles recorded in Acts the word has the

same general meaning. So also in

Ya'aqob 1:20,

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of YHWH .

This is not to say that when we do carry out His justice, there will not be

anger at the evildoers, but the emphasis is on hearing the whole story

and proving the guilt first through due process. Anger: or,

frustration/agitation. Getting upset at someone because he gets on your

nerves will not do anything to help your brother become more mature.

You need to teach him; getting angry only makes it more likely that you

will say things you will later regret.

Ya'aqob 3:18

Now the fruits of righteousness are sown in fertile land by those who

make peace.

While we may all aspire to the position of teacher (v. 1; 1 Cor. 12:30-

31), not all can be teachers, or there would be no one to teach. We must

therefore accept whatever position YHWH has put us into and channel

our energies into carrying out the calling to which He has perfectly

tailored us so that the whole body may benefit—the very thing Paul said

in a different way in Romans 14-15, where he speaks of fitting many

types of building materials together into one unified structure. Wisdom is

knowing how the pieces fit together—the skillful application of

knowledge and understanding. Yaaqov had developed this skill more

fully. He knows the level most Y’Ishra’al’ites were at stays with his

audience rather than showing how much he knows. Perhaps this was

why even his opponents among unbelieving Yehudah raised an outcry at

his wrongful execution. (Josephus, Antiquities 20:9.1) He got straight to

the point in as few words as possible, yet with full clarity. Paul finally did

ask Yaaqov to rule on whether the reigning halakhah needed to be

altered to fit the new situation so many who were exiled in pagan

environments now found themselves in. (Acts 15) While he knew

Messiah had given him a task, he had to operate in tandem with the

authority YaHuWsHua had already set up. Yaaqov gave consideration to

those in more difficult situations, and did not “boil the kids in their

mother’s milk”, yet he also would not water down the message, for there

is one standard for all of Y’Ishra’al. There is no partiality, for softening

the message will not accomplish the restoration of Y’Ishra’al. “Don’t boil

a kid in its mother’s milk”, but instead train the novices to keep all the

aspects of the Torah. Give no space for lack of commitment. All the

apostles had to be united on where they were headed, or the “one new

man” that was being formed would be fragmented again. Though Paul

concurred with Yaaqov in the end, his earlier writings, when he was

acting independently, got into the wrong hands and were taken as

normative, and fragmentation between the two houses of Y’Ishra’al was

indeed the result. We now have an occasion to repair that breach. May

we do so!

2 Kepa_1:1,

Shim'own Kepha, a servant and emissary of YaHuWsHua HaMaSHiYaCH,

to those who have obtained a like precious belief with us in the

righteousness of our Master and Savior, YaHuWsHua HaMaSHiYaCH:

'the righteousness of our YHWH and Savior YaHuWsHua,' is the

righteous dealing of YHWH with sin and with sinners on the ground of

the death of YaHuWsHua. 'Word of righteousness,'

Heb_5:13,

for everyone who lives, being still an infant, is unskilled in the Word of

righteousness.

is probably the gospel, and the Scriptures as containing the gospel,

wherein is declared the righteousness of YHWH in all its aspects.

"This meaning of dikaiosune, right action, is frequent also in Paul's

writings, as in all five of its occurrences in Romans 6; Rom_6:14, etc.

But for the most part he uses it of that gracious gift of YHWH to men

whereby all who believe on the YaHuWsHua are brought into right

relationship with YHWH . This righteousness is unattainable by

obedience to any law, or by any merit of man's own, or any other

condition than that of faith in YaHuWsHua....The man who trusts in

YaHuWsHua becomes 'the righteousness of YHWH in Him,'

2 Co 5:21,

For YHWH made haMashiyach, Who never knew sin, to be sin for us, so

that in Him we might become the righteousness of Aluahiym.

i.e., becomes in YaHuWsHua all that YHWH requires a man to be, all

that he could never be in himself Because Abraham accepted the Word

of YHWH , making it his own by that act of the mind and spirit which is

called faith, and, as the sequel showed, submitting himself to its control,

therefore YHWH accepted him as one who fulfilled the whole of His

requirements, Rom_4:3....

"Righteousness is not said to be imputed to the believer save in the

sense that faith is imputed ('reckoned' is the better word) for

righteousness. It is clear that in

Rom 4:6-8

Even as Dawiyd also pronounces blessing on the man to whom YHWH

counts righteousness apart from works, saying: O the joys of one being

released from transgression, covering sin! O the joys of a man whose

sin YHWH does not count against him, and in whose Ruwach there is

no trickery!” [Tehillim 32: 1-2]

Heb., blessed is the one whose transgression is lifted [off him].

Rom 4:11

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the

belief which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the

father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision,

that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

,

'Righteousness reckoned'

must be understood in the light of the context,

'Faith reckoned for righteousness,'

Rom 4:3

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed YHWH , and it was

accounted to him for righteousness.”

Rom 4:5

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in Him Who declares right the

unworthy, his belief is accounted for righteousness.

Rom 4:9

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the

uncircumcised also? For we say that belief was accounted to Abraham

for righteousness.

'For' in these places is eis, which does not mean 'instead of,' but 'with a

view to.' The faith thus exercised brings the soul into vital union with

YHWH in YaHuWsHua, and inevitably produces righteousness of life,

that is, conformity to the will of YHWH ."

Dikaioma

(G1345)

is the concrete expression of "righteousness": see JUSTIFICATION,

Note: In Heb_1:8, KJV, euthutes, "straightness, uprightness" (akin to

euthus, "straight, right"), is translated "righteousness" (RV

"uprightness"; KJV, marg., "rightness, or straightness").

He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still.

Rev. 22:11

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still.

He who is filthy, let him be filthy still.

He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still.

He who is Set-apart, let him be Set-apart still.”

Amein

In His Name

Blessed be, in His name

YaHuWaH be with you.' and they answered him, YaHuWaH bless you.' "

Be not blind to the truth

And, hinnei, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that

YâHuWsHúa` passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O YaHuWaH,

[thou] Ben David. An YâHuWsHúa` stood still, and called them, and said, what

will ye that I shall do unto you they say unto Him, Yâ-huwah, that our eyes may

be opened. So YâHuWsHúa` had compassion [on them], and touched their eyes:

and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

His servant and yours

shalowm in Righteousness

by the GRACE of YaHuWaH

GO I

keiYAH

Nätzräya

Remember me and pray for me that YaHuWaH will be gracious unto me and be

merciful unto my sins which I have sinned against him. Peace be to them that

read and that hear these things and to their servants:

Amein and Amein

Freely ye have received, freely give

A rule necessary, and of great extent. A servant in the Gospel Vineyard, though

worthy of his Comfortable support while in the work. Should never preach for

hire, or make a secular traffic of the Raukh (spiritual work): what a scandal is it

for a man to traffic with gifts which he pretends, at least, to have received from

the Raukh HaQodesh, of which he is not the master, but the dispenser. He who

preaches to get a living, or make a fortune, is guilty of the most infamous

sacrilege