- Parasha Miketz (At the End) Light Shining in Darkness !!!
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Welcome to Parasha Miketz (At the End), this week’s Torah Portion.
Because this Shabbat (Sabbath) falls during the eight-day holiday of
Chanukah, it is called Shabbat Chanukah.
We know you will be blessed as you study with us the portion of the
Torah that will be read in synagogues around the world during this
week’s Shabbat (Saturday) service.
Miketz (At the End)
Genesis 41:1–44:17; Zechariah 2:10(14)–4:7; John 1:1–18
“And it came to pass at the end of [miketz] two full years, that
Pharaoh dreamed a dream: and, behold, he stood by the river.”
(Genesis 41:1)
In last week’s study, Joseph’s brothers became jealous of him.
They plotted against him because his father favored him above
his other sons and because his prophetic dreams revealed his
own grand destiny. So they threw Joseph into a pit and then sold
him into slavery. While serving honorably as a slave, Joseph was
falsely accused and sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
In this week’s reading, Joseph is finally about to come to the end
of his many trials and enter into his grand destiny. In fact, the name
of the Parasha, Miketz, found in the opening verse of this week’s
Torah reading, hints at this since this Hebrew word means at the end of.
Joseph is brought out of the darkness of an Egyptian dungeon to
illumine the strange dreams of the Pharaoh. In just one day, Joseph
is promoted from prison to palace; his life was transformed suddenly
from darkness to light.
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Weekly Torah Portion: Miketz
The Chanukah connection: One Dream, One G-d, One Truth: How a young Hebrew, sold into slavery
by his brothers, thought to be dead by his father, and thrown into prison a thousand miles from home,
alone and unknown, was able to rise to the top of the Pharaonic ladder in Egypt, liberate the powerful
potentate from the bondage of his own societal mindset, rescue the world from famine and reunite
with his father and brothers.
Miketz (Genesis 41:1-44:17)
Parashat Miketz is read on Shabbat:
Kislev 30, 5776 / December 12, 2015
Weekly Torah Portion: Miketz - Rabbi Chaim Richman
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And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top
of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: And two olive trees
by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
Zechariah 4:2–3 KJV
Shabbat Shalom
- Parasha Miketz (At the End) Light Shining in Darkness !!!
Chanukah Rosh Chodesh
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Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach
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Welcome to Parasha Miketz
(At the End), this week’s Torah Portion.
Because this Shabbat (Sabbath) falls during the eight-day
holiday of Chanukah, it is called Shabbat Chanukah.
We know you will be blessed as you study with us the
portion of the Torah that will be read in synagogues around
the world during this week’s Shabbat (Saturday) service.
Hanukkiahs lit for the sixth night of Chanukah
(Photo by Congregation Beth Israel)
Miketz (At the End)
Genesis 41:1–44:17; Zechariah 2:10(14)–4:7; John
1:1–18
“And it came to pass at the end of [miketz]
two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed a dream: and, behold,
he stood by the river.” (Genesis 41:1)
In last week’s study, Joseph’s brothers became jealous of
him. They plotted against him because his father favored him
above his other sons and because his prophetic dreams revealed
his own grand destiny. So they threw Joseph into a pit and
then sold him into slavery. While serving honorably as a
slave, Joseph was falsely accused and sent to prison for a
crime he didn’t commit.
In this week’s reading, Joseph is finally about to come to
the end of his many trials and enter into his grand destiny.
In fact, the name of the Parasha, Miketz, found
in the opening verse of this week’s Torah reading, hints at
this since this Hebrew word means at the end of.
Joseph is brought out of the darkness of an Egyptian
dungeon to illumine the strange dreams of the Pharaoh. In
just one day, Joseph is promoted from prison to palace; his
life was transformed suddenly from darkness to light.
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream, by James Tissot
A Light in the
Darkness
Because Miketz coincides with Chanukah or the Festival of
Lights this year, this week’s portion includes a
special Haftarah (prophetic reading) about the prophet
Zechariah’s vision of a grand Menorah. He says,
“He
asked me, 'What do you see?' I answered, 'I see a solid
gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it,
with seven channels to the lamps. Also there are two olive
trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on
its left.'” (Zechariah 4:2–3)
Two olive trees feed this grand Menorah with oil. The
trees are often considered to refer to Joshua the High Priest
and Zerubbabel, religious and political figures.
But since prophecy usually reveals the present and future,
and since trees in
Scripture often represent people, these
two trees are seen by some to represent Jewish Believers and
Gentile Believers, anointed sons who have been shining light
into the darkness for over 2,000 years.
Others think the two trees represent the Messiah (the
Lord's Righteous Branch) and Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) who
are “anointed to serve the Lord
of all the earth.” (Zechariah 4:14)
Zechariah promises that the darkness that comes from our
sin, which separates us from God, will be supernaturally
lifted in a single day by His Righteous Branch.
“I am going to bring My
servant, the Branch. … and I will remove the sin of this
land in a single day.” (Zechariah 3:8–9)
God also speaks of the supernatural working of the Ruach
to accomplish His plans, such as the building of the Second
Temple by Zerubbabel:
“This is the word of the
LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by My
Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty." (Zechariah 4:6)
The fried food of Chanukah, which includes donuts (sufganiyot),
represents the miracle of a one-day supply of holy oil for the Temple
Menorah lasting the eight days required to purify more oil.
In the Holy Sanctuary, the light of the Menorah
became a symbol of God’s Divine Presence; its light
shone not only inside the Temple, but tradition says it also
shined out the windows and into Jerusalem where people could
bask in its rays during the dark nights.
During this time of year, when the winter nights are the
longest, we sense our need for light more intensely.
Some people even experience what has been termed S.A.D.
(Seasonal Affective Disorder) — a particular depression
brought about by a deficiency of sunlight. Likewise, when we are going
through our “long, dark night of the soul,” we feel more
intensely our desire to see even a glimmer of light.
The Hebrew prophet Isaiah wrote of a “Great Light” that
would one day come to lift people out of the gloomy darkness:
“Nevertheless the gloom will not
be upon her who is distressed … The people who walked in
darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the
land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.”
(Isaiah 9:1–2)
(Isaiah 9:1–2)
Jewish children bask in the glow of the hanukkiah
(Chanukah menorah).
(Go Israel photo by Dana Friedlander)
Who is this “great light” of which Isaiah
prophesied? The Light would come in the form of a
child, who would eventually rule the nations in righteousness
and justice, seated on the throne of His father, David, for
all eternity.
“For
unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the
government will be upon His shoulder and His name will be
called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and
peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and
over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment
and justice, from that time forward, even forever.” (Isaiah
9:6–7)
Yeshua HaMashiach (the Messiah—the Anointed One) said, “I am the Light of the World.
Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will
have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
Enjoying the light of the hanukkiah (Go Israel photo by Dana Friedlander)
Light of the World
Chanukah is a celebration of light.
This joyous festival commemorated the salvation of the
Jewish people from the oppression of the Greeks who ruled the
Jewish people from 332–164 BC.
It was both a physical salvation and a spiritual one,
since the Jews were not only rescued from persecution, but
also liberated from an enforced Hellenized (Greek) religious
system and culture.
They fought for
freedom to worship the One True God, to keep His
commandments and observe the festivals as written in the
Torah.
Though not commanded in the Torah, the Jewish People have
honored the liberation of the Holy Temple and its
re-dedication to God by celebrating the Festival of Dedication
/ Chanukah.
Did Yeshua celebrate Chanukah? The only reference in
Scripture to Chanukah is found in the Brit Chadashah (New
Testament), and it indicates that He more than likely kept the
festival.
The Gospel of John reveals that Yeshua walked in the
courts of the Temple during Chanukah:
“Now it was the Feast of
Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. And Yeshua
walked in the Temple, in Solomon’s porch.”
(John 10:22–23)
(John 10:22–23)
While He was there, some asked Him directly if He were the
Messiah.
Yeshua pointed to the works He had done as proof, but
explained that they did not believe in Him because they were
not His sheep.
In this week’s Brit Chadashah portion, Yeshua the
Messiah proclaimed His mission as one of healing the
brokenhearted and setting captives free.
The verses He cited came directly out of the book of the
Hebrew prophet Isaiah.
“So
He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as
His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath
day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of
the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He
found the place where it was written:
“The
Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to
preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted; To proclaim liberty to the captives and
recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those who
are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD”
(Luke 4:16–19; see also Isaiah 61:1)
Yeshua Teaches in the Synagogues,
by James Tissot
Yeshua and Yosef
(Jesus and Joseph)
Many parallels can be drawn between Yeshua and
Joseph.
At the time of Joseph’s release from prison into the
service of Pharaoh he was 30 years old, just as Yeshua was 30
when he began His public ministry in the service of the King.
Also, Joseph's appearance and personality had been so
changed during his time in Egypt that his brothers no longer
recognized him.
They stood right in front of Joseph, seeking the salvation
from their famine that only he could provide, and yet they had
no idea he was their brother.
Likewise, Yeshua’s
Jewish brothers and sisters hold in front of them the
Scriptures that reveal who He is, and yet they are unable
to recognize Him as their Jewish Messiah.
One reason for this modern-day blindness is the way Yeshua
has been portrayed by Christians over the centuries: He seems
to have ceased being the observant Jew who faithfully kept the
commandments of God in the Torah and has, instead, been
labeled as the Gentiles’ “god.”
A 13-year-old Jewish boy reads from the Torah
for the first time publicly.
Yeshua's identity has been so changed that the
great majority of Jewish people cannot fathom that this
“Jesus” could possibly be the Jewish Mashiach
(Messiah) for whom they
have been waiting, longing and praying for over 3,000 years.
Nevertheless, the
prophet Zechariah told us that one day, all the Jewish
people will recognize Him:
“And I will pour out on the
house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of
grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on
him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one
mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one
weeps over a firstborn.” (Zechariah 12:10)
Today, thousands of Yeshua’s brothers and sisters are
coming to understand who He truly is: they are known as
Messianic Jews and their search for the Messiah of the
Scriptures has ended. These “completed Jews,” as some call
them, are steadily gaining recognition as a legitimate sect of
Judaism in Israel and in the world.
Reading the Torah
Another important parallel is that Joseph’s
father Israel (Jacob) had exalted Joseph, and God has
exalted Yeshua:
“When He appeared as a human
being, He humbled himself still more by becoming obedient
even to death — death on a stake as a criminal! Therefore
God raised Him to the highest place and gave Him the name
above every name.” (Philippians 2:8–9)
Although Joseph’s brothers had hated him and vowed that
they would never bow down to him, as his dreams suggested they
would (Genesis 37:19–20), we see in this Parasha
that in the end
(miketz), they do come and bow down to their brother
Joseph.
This is a prophetic picture of the day when all of Israel
will recognize Yeshua’s authority, and every knee will bow to
Him and know that He is the Lord.
“... that in honor of the
name given Yeshua, every knee will bow —in heaven, on earth
and under the earth — and every tongue will acknowledge that
Yeshua the Messiah is ADONAI — to the glory of God the
Father.” (Philippians 2:10; see also Isaiah 45:23)
Please pray that the Jewish People will recognize Yeshua
(Jesus) in Zechariah's Messianic prophecy as they hear about
the Righteous Branch and the promise that sin will be removed
in a single day.
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sending a special gift to help set the captives free from
sin. Your gift shines a light in the darkness by helping us
explain the Messianic prophecies to the Jewish People.
"In Him was life, and that
life was the light of all mankind."
(John 1:4)
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"You will bring them in and
plant them on the mountain of your inheritance—the place,
LORD, You made for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, Lord, Your
hands established." (Exodus 15:17)
Happy Chanukah and Shabbat
Shalom from all of the Bibles For Israel Family!
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Articles cannot be copied without permission
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.
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