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Welcome to this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion), which is called Eikev (Because).
We hope you enjoy this portion of Scripture that will be read during the morning
services this Shabbat (Saturday) in synagogues around the world.
“Because [eikev] you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will
keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that He swore to your fathers.
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you.” (Deuteronomy 7:12–13)
Last week, in Parasha Va'etchanan, Moses predicted that the people in future generations
would be exiled from the Promised Land and scattered among the nations because they
would turn from God and worship idols. But Moses also foresaw that in the last days
they would once again seek Him and obey His commandments.
The title of this week’s Parasha, Eikev, means because. It is used in this Parasha as a conjunction
to create a relationship between experiencing God’s blessings and obedience to His Torah.
In connection with this, the Haftarah portion this week contains an important prophecy that provides
us with added insight into how to walk in the blessings of Adonai—through faith and obedience.
These three - faith, obedience and blessings - are seen operating in our forefather Abraham,
who first believed and then out of faith, obeyed God and was circumcised.
Abraham exemplified the concept that obedience is more than exercising our will over
our own flesh; it is faith in action. Out of his faith flowed obedience to God.
In Genesis 15:6, we see that his faith was counted to him as righteousness, and the ancient
Hebrew prophet Yeshayahu (Isaiah) beckons us to look to Abraham, our father of faith.
We are to be like him; putting faith into action.
Then we too will experience the blessings that flow from obedience.
“Listen to me, you pursuers of justice, you who seek ADONAI: consider the rock from which you were cut,
the quarry from which you were dug—consider Abraham your father and Sarah, who gave birth to you …”
(Isaiah 51:1–2)
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Shabbat Shalom- Parasha Eikev (Because)
- the Rewards of Faith in Action !!!
A yad (Torah pointer) helps the reader follow along during the public reading of the Torah scroll.
Shabbat Shalom !
Welcome to this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion), which is
called Eikev (Because).
We hope you enjoy this portion of Scripture that will be
read during the morning services this Shabbat (Saturday) in
synagogues around the world.
EIKEV (Because)
Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25; Isaiah
49:14–51:3; John 13:31–15:27
“Because [eikev]
you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord
your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast
love that He swore to your fathers. He will love you, bless
you, and multiply you.” (Deuteronomy 7:12–13)
Reading from the Torah scroll
Last week, in Parasha Va'etchanan, Moses predicted that
the people in future generations would be exiled from the
Promised Land and scattered among the nations because they
would turn from God and worship idols. But Moses also foresaw
that in the last days they would once again seek Him and obey
His commandments.
The title of this week’s Parasha, Eikev, means
because. It is used in
this Parasha as a conjunction to create a
relationship between experiencing God’s blessings and
obedience to His Torah.
In connection with this, the Haftarah portion this week
contains an important prophecy that provides us with added
insight into how to walk in the blessings of Adonai—through
faith and obedience.
These three—faith, obedience and blessings—are seen
operating in our forefather Abraham, who first believed and
then out of faith, obeyed God and was circumcised.
Abraham exemplified
the concept that obedience is more than exercising our
will over our own flesh; it is faith in action. Out of
his faith flowed obedience to God.
In Genesis 15:6, we see that his faith was counted to him
as righteousness, and the ancient Hebrew prophet Yeshayahu
(Isaiah) beckons us to look to Abraham, our father of faith. We
are to be like him; putting faith into action. Then we too
will experience the blessings that flow from obedience.
“Listen to me, you pursuers
of justice, you who seek ADONAI: consider the rock from
which you were cut, the quarry from which you were
dug—consider Abraham your father and Sarah, who gave birth
to you …” (Isaiah 51:1–2)
"Give careful thought to the paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways."
(Proverbs 4:26)
Eikev: The Heel of
Messiah
The word eikev
comes from the verb akav,
which means to take by the heel.
Similarly, the Hebrew noun akev means heel, as in the
heel of a foot. All of these words share the root letters
ayin-kof-vet.
Ancient Jewish sages interpreted this dual
meaning of ayin-kof-vet
to refer to the generation of the “heels of Mashiach
(Messiah).”
The last generation
of the Exile is called Ikvata d’Meshichah
or the Heels of Messiah,
since that generation is expected to hear the footsteps of the
Messiah.
The word akev
is first used in Genesis in an important prophecy: the seed of
Chava (Eve) will eventually crush the head of the serpent.
“And I will put enmity
between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your
offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will
strike His heel [akev].” (Genesis 3:15)
This is the first
Messianic prophecy in the Bible.
From it we understand that the enemy would attempt to
strike at the heel of the Messiah; instead however, our
Messiah would crush the enemy’s head and destroy the works of
the devil.
“The one who does what is
sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning
from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was
to destroy the devil's work.” (1 John 3:8)
Women pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.
The Promised Land
In today’s climate of rekindled anti-Semitism,
many consider it factually or politically incorrect to refer
to Israel as the land promised to the Jewish People.
The Word of God has no such limitation.
God is Lord of all the earth, but the Land of Israel is
unique among the nations; it is not like any other nation of
the earth. It is a Land that God cares for and watches over
continually.
“The land you are crossing
over to take possession of is a land of hills and valleys,
which soaks up water when rain falls from the sky. It
is a land Adonai your God cares for. The eyes of
Adonai your God are always on it, from the beginning of the
year to the end of the year.” (Deuteronomy 11:11–12)
In Parasha Eikev, Moses, who is continuing his closing
address to the Israelites before they cross the Jordan River
(which he began at the beginning of Deuteronomy), tells them
that if they are obedient to the Torah, they will prosper in
the Land they are about to conquer.
The people are to
possess the Land and not fear the nations living there
because God would expel them.
“You
are to devour all the peoples that Adonai your God hands
over to you … nevertheless, you are not to be afraid of
them; you are to remember well what Adonai your God did to
Pharaoh and all of Egypt…
“You
are not to be frightened of them, because Adonai your God is
there with you, a God great and fearsome. Adonai your God
will expel those nations ahead of you little by little.” (Deuteronomy
7:16–22)
A man touches the Western (Wailing) Wall as he prays.
Even today, Israel is not to fear the people in
the Land, for our God is with us to help us, just as He
helped us in ancient times in Egypt and in Israel.
Although Hamas and
other terrorist organizations have engaged in brutal
battles to take the land from the Jewish People,
the soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces bravely risk their
lives to restore the security of the land given to the Jewish
People.
While Israel's enemies might vastly outnumbered her, the
Word of God promises that He will watch over her day and
night.
“He who keeps Israel neither
slumbers nor sleeps.” (Psalm 121:4)
The plan to destroy Israel is of the enemy, and all those
who make themselves God's enemies will find themselves under
the feet of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah).
(Psalm 110:1; Hebrews 10:13)
(Psalm 110:1; Hebrews 10:13)
There are those who are not prepared to hear the Biblical
truth that God has given the Land of Israel to the Jewish
People, but those who know their God will stand firmly upon
the Rock of God’s Word.
An Orthodox Jewish man prays in the men's section at the Western
(Wailing) Wall Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Turning to the
Source of Blessing
“I raise my eyes to the
hills, from where will my help come? My help comes from
Adonai, the maker of heaven and earth.”
(Psalm 121:1–2)
(Psalm 121:1–2)
In Israel today, the terrible struggle against
terrorism has caused many of God’s people to turn their
hearts towards Him as they search for help and victory.
Throughout the history of Israel, however, we see over and
over again that when God blessed the Jewish People, many soon
forgot Him as the source of their blessing and turned away
from their devotion and obedience to Adonai.
God said of Gomer, the unfaithful wife of the prophet
Hosea, “She doesn’t know
it was I who gave her the grain, the wine and the oil; I who
increased her silver and gold, which they used for Ba’al.” (Hosea 2:8)
Harvesting barley in Israel (Photo by Luz Prieto)
We must always
remember that when we prosper in the land that He gives
us, it is God who is the source of our every blessing.
We should never let pride rise in our hearts and
think that our own abilities are the source of all that we
have and enjoy.
If we understand that what we have has been given to us by
God, we are more likely to maintain an attitude of gratitude,
and to be good stewards, using our blessings in a way that
pleases God.
Each of us today should consider Moses' warning to the
people of Israel:
“…you
will think to yourself, ‘My own power and the
strength of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’
No, you are to remember Adonai your God, because it is He
who is giving you the power to get wealth, in order
to confirm His covenant, which He swore to your
ancestors, as is happening even today.” (Deuteronomy
8:17–18)
Fruit stall in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem.
God gives us the power to get wealth to confirm His
covenant. And though it is obedience that releases the
blessings of God, He is not so much after our obedience as He
is our hearts.
It is not just about outward obedience; it is
about the inward attitude of the heart. True obedience
begins with love for God and faith in His character.
Therefore, even more than the physical circumcision of
covenant, which is of course important, God desires that each
one of us be circumcised in our hearts. We cannot only change
outwardly, putting on a show of religion, character, or
purity; we must change inwardly, becoming soft, pliable
clay in the Potter’s hands.
“Therefore, circumcise the
foreskin of your heart; and don’t be stiff-necked any
longer!” (Deuteronomy 10:16)
God promises Israel that the rewards of love and obedience
are great. He will drive the nations out of the Promised Land
and give the Israelites success against those who are more
powerful than they.
If we will love the Lord our God and cling to Him and keep
His mitzvot (commandments),
then He will faithfully care for us and protect us from all
evil. What a wonderful assurance we have of His love.
“For if you will take care
to obey all these commandments [mitzvot] I am giving you, to
do them, to love Adonai your God, to follow all His ways and
to cling to Him, then Adonai will expel all these nations
ahead of you; and you will dispossess nations bigger and
stronger than you are.” (Deuteronomy 11:22–23)
In these troubled, difficult last days, you can make a
difference through prayer and by being a good steward of the
blessings God has bestowed on you, using them to help bring
the Good News of Yeshua to the Holy Land.
"Hear the word of the LORD,
you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: 'He who
scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over His
flock like a shepherd." (Jeremiah 31:10)
“‘Bring the whole
tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My
house. Test Me in this,' says the Lord Almighty, 'and see
if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour
out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to
store it.’”
(Malachi 3:10)
(Malachi 3:10)
Prayer Alert for the
next 75 days: Please
pray for Hadas, that she would have a
visitation / encounter with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and be immersed in the Living Waters of the Ruach
HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).
We believe that Hadas will be a future spiritual leader,
including leading Hebrew worship here in Israel, instrumental
in bringing thousands into a relationship with Adonai.
Please pray for these others here in Israel who need the
same holy encounter with the Messiah as Hadas: Jacky,
Miriam, Haya, Talia, Shmuel & Anav.
Shabbat Shalom from the
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The Jewish people (the People of
the Book)
gave the world the BIBLE.Today there are about 14 million
Jewish people in the world though most have never studied
the Messianic Prophecies. Finally, for the first time, there will
be a Hebrew Messianic Prophecy Bible, based on the
Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls and Masoretic texts translated
into hundreds of languages, exposing the true meanings.
Many have falsely said that God is finished with His Chosen People;
however, Bible prophecy clearly states that this will never be so.
In fact, in these Last Days, God is moving among His people to
physically and spiritually restore them.
gave the world the BIBLE.Today there are about 14 million
Jewish people in the world though most have never studied
the Messianic Prophecies. Finally, for the first time, there will
be a Hebrew Messianic Prophecy Bible, based on the
Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls and Masoretic texts translated
into hundreds of languages, exposing the true meanings.
Many have falsely said that God is finished with His Chosen People;
however, Bible prophecy clearly states that this will never be so.
In fact, in these Last Days, God is moving among His people to
physically and spiritually restore them.
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