'Allahu akbar' - Chants of terror vs. chants of rescue - hopefully soon on the Har HaBait
'Allahu akbar' - Chants of terror vs. chants of rescue - hopefully soon on the Har HaBait
Isa
2:2-3 And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the
House of Adonai is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above
the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.
3
And many peoples shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Adonai,
to the House of the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk
in His paths, for out of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah, and the Word of Adonai
from Yerushalayim.”
Exo 25:22 “And
I shall meet with you there, and from above the lid of atonement, from between
the two keruḇim which are on the ark of the
Witness, I shall speak to you all that which I command you concerning the
children of Yisra’ěl.
Deu 30:10 if you
obey the voice of Adonai
your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book
of the Torah, if you turn back to Adonai
your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.
When Yehuda and
Ephraim come to unity (again) Messiah Ben Joseph 'died' and Messiah Ben David
shall be revealed and anointed by the Israeli people as the Messiah-King of
Israel. As YeshaYahu is teaching:
Isa 11:9 – 16 They do no evil nor
destroy in all My set-apart mountain, for the earth shall be filled with the
knowledge of Adonai as the waters cover the sea.
Rashi: knowledge of the Lord: [lit.] to
know the Lord.
10 And on that day, there shall be a
Root of Yishai, standing as a banner to the people. Unto Him the nations shall
seek, and His rest shall be esteem.
Rashi: as a banner for peoples: that
peoples should raise a banner to gather to him.
11 And it shall be in that day that
Adonai sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people
who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from
Ěylam and from Shin‛ar, from Ḥamath and from the islands of the sea.
Rashi: a second time: Just as he
acquired them from Egypt, when their redemption was absolute, without
subjugation, but the redemption preceding the building of the Second Temple is
not counted, since they were subjugated to Cyrus.
and from the islands of the sea: the
islands of the Kittim, the Romans, the descendants of Esau.
And he shall raise a banner: Perka,
perche in O.F. [i.e., the verse is literally referring to the pole upon which
the banner is attached.] And it shall be for a sign to gather to him and to
bring the exiles of Israel to Him as a present.
12 And He shall raise a banner for the
nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ěl, and assemble the dispersed of
Yehuḏa from the four corners of the earth.
13 And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn
aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏa be cut off.
Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏa, and Yehuḏa
not trouble Ephrayim.
Rashi: Ephraim shall not envy Judah:
The Messiah, the son of David, and the Messiah, the son of Joseph, shall not
envy each other.
14 But they shall fly down upon the
shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they plunder the people
of the east, their hand stretching forth on Eḏom and Mo’aḇ, and the children of
Ammon shall be subject to them.
Rashi: And they shall fly of one accord
against the Philistines in the west: Heb. בְכָתֵף. Israel will fly and run of one accord against the Philistines
who are in the west of Eretz Israel and conquer their land. [כָּתֵף, lit. a shoulder,
is used in this case to denote unity. The word שֶׁכֶם, also lit. a shoulder, is used in a similar sense.] Comp.
(Hoshea 6:9) “They murder on the way in unison (שֶׁכְמָה) ”; (Zeph. 3:9) “One accord (שְׁכֶם
אֶחָד).” And so did Jonathan rendered it: And
they shall join in one accord to smite the Philistines who are in the west.
and the children of Ammon shall obey
them: As the Targum states: Will hearken to them. They will accept their
commandments over them.
15 And Adonai shall put under the ban
the tongue of the Sea of Mitsrayim, and He shall wave His hand over the River
with the might of His Spirit, and shall strike it in the seven streams, and
shall cause men to tread it in sandals.
Rashi: And… shall dry up: [lit. shall
cut off] to dry it, so that the exiles of Israel will pass through it from
Egypt.
over the river: The Euphrates River,
for the exiles from Assyria to cross.
with the strength of His wind: Heb. בַּעְיָם.
This is hapax legomenon in Scripture, and according to the context it can be
interpreted as “with the strength of His wind.”
into seven streams: into seven
segments, for the aforementioned seven exiles: from Assyria and from Egypt,
etc. Those from the islands of the sea are not from that side.
and He shall lead: the exiles within
it.
with shoes: on dry land.
16 And there shall be a highway for the
remnant of His people, those left from Ashshur, as it was for Yisra’ěl in the
day when he came up from the land of Mitsrayim.
Rashi: And there shall be a highway: in
the midst of the water for the remnant of His people.
Daily Thought
(ChaBaD: Wednesday,
February 15, 2023 / Shevat 24, 5783 - Jewish Calendar - Hebrew Calendar
(chabad.org)
Do, Then Know
When you approach any human wisdom, you must
first understand and discern. You must say, “This makes sense to me; I will
follow this. This is a teacher with a good reputation; I will consider her
lessons. This doesn’t fit for me; I will put this aside for now.”
But learning Torah means more than learning
wisdom. To learn Torah is to enter into union with the Giver of Torah. To make
G-d’s thoughts your thoughts, G-d’s mind your mind. To achieve perfect oneness
with the One Above.
At Sinai, we understood this well. When Moses
asked us if we were ready to accept the Torah, we answered, “We will do, and we
will understand.”
First, we said, “We will do.” Because we
understood Who was asking us and we desired to connect with Him.
Then we said, “We will understand.” We would
take upon ourselves a venture that should be entirely impossible, only now made
available to us through divine intervention:
To know the divine. To bring His thoughts into
our thoughts, His mind into our minds. To become one with Him.
Our Prayer and hope: All
the gates to the Har HaBait have to be opened for Jews and non-Jews seven days
in the week 24 hours a day. The Jews need to have the freedom to go with
Tefillin, Tallit and Torah Scroll up on the Mountain to serve Hashem. Every
member shows his/her respect for the Jewish and all other religions. But NOT
for the words/deeds/sins spoken against any word of the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu
and the 'real' teachings of the Jewish Rabbis. The Jews must be the guardians
of the Har HaBait.
Comments
Post a Comment