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Bless the Lord!Bless the Lord who

is worthy to be praised for all

eternity!

Shema

Shema Israel, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai

Echad.Baruch shem k’vod

malchuto l’olam va’ed.

Shema

Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the

LORD is One!Blessed be the name

of His glorious kingdom, forever and

ever. Amein.

Va’havata

V’havata et Adonai Eloheycha, b’chol le’vavecha, Uv chol nafshecha, uv’chol m’odecha.

V’hayu had’varim ha’eleh, asher anochi m’tsav’cha hayom, Al le’vavecha.

V’shinantam l’vaneicha, v’dibarta bam, b’shivtecha b’veiteycha,

Uv’lechtecha vaderech, uv’shochb’cha uv’kumecha

Uk’shartam le’ot al yadecha, v’hayu l’totafot bain einecha.

Uch’tavtam al mezuzot beiteycha, uvishareicha. Amein.

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I command to you this day, shall be on your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, thinking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Baruch HASHEM

Genesis 1 (NASB)

 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;  and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.  God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.  

God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."  There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.  God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Isaiah 42:5-9

Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched

them out, Who spread out the earth and its

offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,"I am the LORD, I have called You in

righteousness,

I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You,

And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people,

As a light to the nations,To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the

prison.

"I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images."Behold, the former things have come to

pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them

to you."

Hebrews 1

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.

When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

(Psalm 2:7)

For to which of the angels did He ever say, "YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU"? And again, "I WILL BE A FATHER TO HIM AND HE SHALL BE A SON TO ME"?

(2 Sam 7:14)

And when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says,

"AND LET ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM."

(Psalm 104:4)

And of the angels He says, "WHO MAKES HIS ANGELS WINDS, AND HIS MINISTERS A FLAME OF FIRE."

But of the Son He says, "YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND

EVER, AND THE RIGHTEOUS SCEPTER IS THE

SCEPTER OF HIS KINGDOM."YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND

HATED LAWLESSNESS;

(Psalm 45:6-7)

THEREFORE GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS ANOINTED YOU

WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE YOUR COMPANIONS."

And, "YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE

FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF

YOUR HANDS;THEY WILL PERISH, BUT YOU REMAIN; AND THEY ALL WILL BECOME OLD LIKE A

GARMENT, AND LIKE A MANTLE YOU WILL ROLL

THEM UP;

(Psalm 102:25-27)

LIKE A GARMENT THEY WILL ALSO BE CHANGED.

BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, AND YOUR YEARS WILL NOT COME TO AN

END."

(Psalm 110:1)

But to which of the angels has He ever said,

"SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET"?

 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Hebrews 2 (The Source)

For this reason we must increasingly pay attention to the things we have heard, so that we don’t drift away. For as the message spoken through Messengers was valid, and every overstepping of the mark and disobedience got what it deserved. Then how can we escape if we neglect such a great salvation!

(NASB)

After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking.  But one has testified somewhere, saying,

"WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM?

OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIM?

"YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS;

(Psalm 8:4-6)

YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR,

AND HAVE APPOINTED HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS;

YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET."

For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

(The Source)

But we see Yeshua, who was made lower than the Messengers for a short time, now crowned with glorious honor on account of the fact that he paid the penalty through death. This was so that he would experience death on behalf of everyone, because of God’s favor to everyone. It was fitting that God, on account of whom and through whom everything exists,

Would lead many children to glorious state and would bring the leader of their salvation to a complete state through his experiences. For both he who makes sacred and those who are being made sacred are all from one family. For this reason Yeshua is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. He says, “I will announce your name to my brothers and sisters, I will sing festive praise songs

(Psalm 22:22) (Is 8:17) (Is 8:18)

To you in the midst of the assembly.”

And again, “I will put my trust in him.”

And again he says, “Indeed, here I am, and the children that God has given to me.”

So since the children went into partnership with flesh and blood, he also pretty much shared in their flesh and blood. This was so that through his death he would abolish the effects of him who holds the power over death, that is to say, Slanderer-Liar, and release the ones from death, those in fear, who all their lives were liable to the penalty of slavery.

Obviously, I hardly need to say that he doesn’t do the work for Messengers, but he does do the work for Abraham’s descendants. This being the case, he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every aspect, in order that he would become a merciful and trustworthy high priest in the things pertaining to God, so that he could take away the sins of the people. For as he himself has experienced ordeals, he is able to help those who are going through ordeals.

Oseh Shalom

Oseh Shalom BimromavHu ya’aseh ShalomAleinu, v’al kol YisraelV’imru Amen.

The Source with Hebraic adaptation by Rabbi Lutton

May God who makes peace in the heavens, make peace for all of us and for all of Israel.

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