Saturday, November 27, 2021

CHUCK KOLB

 Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Vayeshev - Favor, Inheritance and a Grand Destiny !!!


חנוכה שמח
 Chanukah Sameach! 

Jews around the world celebrate the eight-day holiday of Chanukah. We celebrate the miraculous triumph of the Maccabees, but really, we remember that whatever the odds, the righteous fight is the one worth fighting for, worth dying for, no matter the odds. So pray – for our people, our nation. And pray Yeshua echad gives our righteousness, the strength and wisdom to prevail as the forces of evil surround us and work furiously to subsume free will. Miracles do happen.  

Hanukkah – the Oil of Joy for the Poor in Spirit
https://free.messianicbible.com/holiday/chanukah-oil-joy-poor-spirit/


Erev Chanukah 24 Kislev, 5782 - Sunday, November 28, 2021
Kindle One Chanukah Light tonight  

Then - Chanukah Day 6 - Rosh Chodesh Tevet
Saturday, December 4, 2021 - Parsha Miketz
Endless Blessings ...


Previously posted ...
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Vayishlach - Overcoming Anger and Reconciling !!!
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2021/11/chuck-kolb_20.html
What Will Heaven Be Like? - 11/20/21
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2021/11/semon-what-will-heaven-be-like.html
Thanksgiving Cornucopia of Truth !!!
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2021/11/chuck-kolb_26.html
 
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world
ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Luke 12:37
The war against Truth has been raging ever since
evil was expulsed from the realm of Heaven.  
God instructed Pharaoh, "Let my people go."
God instructs us, "Let my people know."
Shema Y'israel - Maranatha !
Na'aseh V'nishma   

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כבוד שם יהוה Baruch Hashem Adonai  
#ShabbatShalom - Welcome to Vayeshev (And He Lived), this week’s Torah portion. We are certain that you will be blessed as you go through this portion that will be read in synagogues around the world during this week’s Shabbat (Saturday) service.  Enjoy!

In last week’s Torah study, Vayishlach, Jacob returned from Haran with his entire household to settle in the Land of Canaan.  After all the twists and turns of Jacob’s life, he longed to settle down in the land God had promised. The opening Hebrew Scripture of this Parasha uses the word yeshev, which means to settle. In Israel, a settlement is called a yishuv, and those who settle in Israel, especially within the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, do so at great risk from Palestinian terrorists who often live nearby.
 
In Parasha Vayeshev, we learn about the trials of Jacob’s favorite son, Joseph, whom God had given the gift of dreams and their interpretation.  Many of those dreams revealed Joseph’s future exalted position. By relating these dreams to his brothers, however, Joseph fueled their jealousy, which had already been aroused by their father’s favoritism toward Joseph, son of his favored wife, Rachel.

You can view this Parasha on our website complete with embedded links ...
Vayeshev – Jacob, Joseph and the Folly of Favoritism

https://free.messianicbible.com/parasha/vayeshev-jacob-joseph-and-the-folly-of-favoritism-5782/

Constantine and the Foundations of Anti-Semitism
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/constantine-foundations-of-anti-semitism/
Ah No Salvation and the 7 Noahide Laws
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/can-salvation-come-through-the-seven-noahide-laws/
Are You a Jew? The Answer Might Surprise You
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/are-you-a-jew-fname-the-answer-might-surprise-you/
The Temple Vessels Are Ready for the Rebuilding of Jerusalem’s Third Temple
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/the-temple-vessels-are-ready-for-the-rebuilding-of-jerusalems-third-temple/
Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38, and the Coming Battles for Israel
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/psalm-83-ezekiel-38-and-the-coming-battles-for-israel/

Revelation and Na'aseh V'nishma
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/11880
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/do-first-understand-later/
We will do and we will listen to all that God has declared. Exodus 24:7

When to Celebrate Yeshua HaMashiach's birthday ...
The Joy of Tabernacles when Yeshua was Born
http://conpats.blogspot.com/2019/10/chuck-kolb-10142019.html
How Yeshua was born on the Feast of Tabernacles by Rabbi Yitzchak
http://www.calledoutbelievers.org/how-yeshua-was-born-on-the-feast-of-tabernacles/

English to Hebrew to English lookup
https://context.reverso.net/translation/hebrew-english/
https://www.doitinhebrew.com/Translate/default.aspx
https://english-hebrew-dictionary.com/
https://alittlehebrew.com/transliterate/  
https://yiddishkeit101.wordpress.com/category/hebrew-word-of-the-day
The Best Jewish Words You Need To Know: A Yiddish and Hebrew Glossary
https://www.joyofkosher.com/from-jamie/the-best-jewish-words-you-need-to-know/
https://hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Hebrew_Glossary_-_Sh/hebrew_glossary_-_sh.html
A Living Library of Jewish Texts in Hebrew and English translation
https://www.sefaria.org/   https://dictionary.co.il/   https://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il/
https://www.mechon-mamre.org/

Torah Teasers Parshat Vayeshev by Moshe Erlbaum
https://www.aish.com/tp/i/teasers/The-Kutonet.html

Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Ralph Messer ...
Simchat Torah Beit Midrash - Joy of God’s Teaching and Instruction
What Does It Mean to Choose Life? Every decision you make can be made in a way that you are “choosing life.” The Torah is God’s constitution; it is His teaching and instruction; it is eternal and it is life. His Spirit is pure Light, abundant with untouchable, supreme, sovereign power.
God is the Source of all life.


וַיֵּשֶׁב Vayeishev means “and he settled.”

Vayeishev begins the famous Joseph story, a story that continues until the end of the Book of Genesis. Even though it seemed that Joseph would spend the rest of his life in prison, alone, and away from his family, things eventually changed.  He gained favor with Pharaoh and soon rose to be viceroy of Egypt—the most powerful empire at that time.  Because of it, he was able to save his family from a severe famine.  In the end, all that seemed bad was turned around for the good. From Prison to the Palace - Joseph’s perspective was his key.  He could have given up, he could have sulked in loneliness, he could have believed the very worst, he could have let anger overtake him.  But he didn’t.  He understood that God is always in control of everything.
https://stbm.org/vayeishev/

חנוכה Chanukah
When the Maccabees were faced with darkness, they did not resign themselves to it. And neither should we. The Chanukah candles serve as a reminder that darkness can be won by light. So go ahead, light a candle and let your soul shine bright for the rest of the year by helping others who are in need, being patient and kind, living with joy, reaching out to others to encourage and strengthen them, helping the poor, visiting the sick, and standing up for what is morally and ethically right in your family, your business or occupation, and your community.
https://stbm.org/chanukah/

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Jachter ...
Kol Torah Academy of Bergen County 
VaYeishev - Kislev 22, 5782 - November 26, 2021
https://www.koltorah.org/articles/?category=VaYeishev
https://www.koltorah.org/by-parashah https://www.koltorah.org/about-us
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TABC Parashat VaYeishev (6 page pdf)  
https://www.koltorah.org/s/Kol-Torah-Vayeishev-2021.pdf
Chanukah - https://www.koltorah.org/articles/?category=Chanukah


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Parshat Vayeshev 

https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/3202/jewish/Vayeshev-in-a-Nutshell.htm
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tDate=11/27/2021  
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Jewish-Calendar.htm

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Naphtali “Tuly” Weisz ...   
https://israel365.com/  https://www.israel365news.com/
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https://theisraelbible.com/bible/genesis/  


The Portion of Vayeishev
https://theisraelbible.com/portion-VaYeishev

The Biblical Roots of Thanksgiving No One Ever Told you About
by Rivkah Lambert Adler
https://www.israel365news.com/140686/thanksgiving-has-biblical-roots-but-they-are-gnarly/


Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States.
Stand with 100,000+ people who stand with Israel.
https://www.israel365.com/the-israel-covenant/

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President Donald J. Trump

https://www.45office.com/
https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump
https://t.me/real_DonaldJTrump
http://Instagram.com/realDonaldTrump  
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/alerts
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https://www.instagram.com/ivankatrump/
DONALD DATES

Donald, Jr. 12/31/77 <<<
Jared Kushner 1/10/81
Eric 1/6/84


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Good News From Israel - Achievements and Heartwarming Stories
In the 28th Nov 21 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
https://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/2021/11/israels-good-news-newsletter-to-28th.html
http://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/


Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly
https://mishpacha.com/  

Root of the Issue
When, How, and Where Must We Demand Proof of Jewish Identity?
Rabbis in the trenches share how they deal with the uncertainties that come with the territory.
by Yosef Herz

A Lebanese Shiite Muslim man managed to infiltrate Brooklyn’s frum community —
to the extent that he was able to marry a Jewish woman.

https://mishpacha.com/root-of-the-issue/

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Todah Rabah - beloved Ted Belman writing from Jerusalem, Israel for 20+ years ... 
THERE IS NO DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION  

Bibi Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו
Happy Thanksgiving to the American people!
facevid> https://www.facebook.com/Netanyahu/videos/484744769480150/ (0:28)
https://www.netanyahu.org.il/en/  https://www.youtube.com/user/Netanyahu


Bibi sings this beautiful Chanukah Shira in duet
חג חנוכה שמח! Happy Chanukah!
vid> https://www.facebook.com/Netanyahu/videos/242486733972667/ (3:44)
Posted by ~ CK


China and Russia race ahead of America
by Caroline B. Glick

The US has been twiddling its thumbs while the Chinese and the Russians develop anti-satellite capabilities as well as hypersonic missiles.
https://www.israpundit.org/china-and-russia-race-ahead-of-america/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/11/26/china-and-russia-race-ahead-of-america/

The Church planted the seeds of the Holocaust
by Ted Belman (first published in Dec 2014)

The Christians were against the practise of Judaism and tried to convert the Jews. In secular Europe, the Jews themselves were rejected as a race. Hitler’s foundations were laid in the 4th century, and still stand.
https://www.israpundit.org/the-holocaust-was-caused-by-the-church-not-just-hitler/

Trump calls Muslim migration “the all-time biggest Trojan Horse”.
by Ted Belman (Sept 16/16)

The countries conquered in the name of Islam, became and remained, Islamic. For example Pakistan, part of India, and Malaysia were Hindu; Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and N. Africa were Christian; Afghanistan was Buddhist. They are all Islamic now.
https://www.israpundit.org/muslim-migration-is-the-all-time-biggest-trojan-horse-trump/

>> The Jordan Option, plain and simple
https://www.israpundit.org/the-jordan-option-plain-and-simple/
>> The Jordanian Option is the only game in town
https://www.israpundit.org/my-jordan-option-is-the-only-game-in-town/

Kindly donate to support the work I do
by Ted Belman

https://www.israpundit.org/please-support-the-work-i-do-2/
https://www.israpundit.org/my-half-yearly-appeal-for-donations/

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Quest For The Lost Tribes - Full Simcha Jacobovici Documentary

vid> https://www.bitchute.com/video/jbB2ELq4xPw/ (1:33:29) 8/18/19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Jacobovici
12 Tribes of Israel: The Shevatim
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3798842/jewish/12-Tribes-of-Israel-The-Shevatim.htm
https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/who-are-tribes-judah

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Within parasha Vayeishev
the first of Yosef’s dreams, eleven sheaves of wheat in the field bow down to a single one.
Oh, Yosef! What are we going to do with you? It must be some very impressive wheat.
This week we will impress our guests with several dishes made from all kinds of ancient forms of wheat.
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/shabbat-menu-with-spelt-challah/
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/a-wholewheat-shabbat-menu/

The Ultimate Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Club Sandwich
vid> https://youtu.be/XJ-t2ci5bQw
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/ultimate-leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-club-sandwich/

Chanukah Sameach! Happy Chanukah


Pumpkin Hanukkah Recipes
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/pumpkin-hanukkah-recipes/

Start Thinking About Latkes!
A Hanukkah Brunch Party Menu
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/a-brunch-hanukkah-party-menu/

21 Classic Hanukkah Recipes With A Modern Twist
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/classic-chanukah-recipes-with-a-modern-twist/

How to Fry Perfect Latkes for Hanukkah
vid. https://youtu.be/sNfhf8OWP68 (4:35) JG
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/the-secret-to-frying-perfect-latkes/

Hanukkah is the time where we celebrate with
fried foods because of the miracle of the oil.
Easy Fried Sweets For Chanukah
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/easy-fried-sweets-for-chanukah/

Sfenj are the type of doughnuts Moroccans eat on Hanukkah. They are not filled like traditional sufganiyot,
instead, they are coated in sugar and are made with a hole in the middle.
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/sfenj/

My 11 Latke Loves
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/my-11-latke-loves/

From Latkes To Shakshuka: 21 Recipes Exploding With Spicy Harissa Flavor
https://jamiegeller.com/guides/what-is-harissa/
Shakshuka and Sheet Pan dinners.
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/shakshuka-ish/

Spinach Tortilla Espagnole
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/spinach-tortilla-espagnole/

Hanukkah Gifts: The Ultimate Gift Guide
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/hanukkah-gift-guide/

AISH DESTINY, the life changing women's mission to Israel
The Aish Destiny Women’s Mission - Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2022
https://about.aish.com/destiny-women/

Jamie's Quick & Easy Shabbat Menu App
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/exclusive-jamie-gellers-menu-plans/
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LIVE Series: FEED YOUR SOUL
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/feed-your-soul/

Simchat Torah Menus
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/simchat-torah/
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/simchat-torah-party-finger-food/
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/shabbat/   
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Jamie Geller Welcome's You
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The answer is, it's made with love from Israel ! 
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-jewish-food-memories/
My Love Affair With Jerusalem
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-love-affair-with-jerusalem/
 
Until next week, Happy Hanukkah and Shabbat Shalom!

Lots of 💕 Jamie


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Best of the Best w Hubby - Family Heirloom Cholent ...
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Jacob lived [yeshev] in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. Genesis 37:1


Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Vayeshev - Favor, Inheritance and a Grand Destiny !!!



 
Shabbat Shalom,
during this Hanukkah Holiday Season!
 
Welcome to Vayeshev (And He Lived), this week’s Torah portion.
 
We are certain that you will be blessed as you go through this portion that will be read in synagogues around the world during this week’s Shabbat (Saturday) service.  Enjoy!
 
VAYESHEV (And He Lived)
Genesis 37:1–40:23; Amos 2:6–3:8; Romans 8:18–39
 
“Jacob lived [yeshev] in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.” (Genesis 37:1)
 
In last week’s Torah study, Vayishlach, Jacob returned from Haran with his entire household to settle in the Land of Canaan.  After all the twists and turns of Jacob’s life, he longed to settle down in the land God had promised.
 
The opening Hebrew Scripture of this Parasha uses the word yeshev, which means to settle.
 
In Israel, a settlement is called a yishuv, and those who settle in Israel, especially within the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, do so at great risk from Palestinian terrorists who often live nearby.
 
In this Parasha, we learn about the trials of Jacob’s favorite son, Joseph, whom God had given the gift of dreams and their interpretation.  Many of those dreams revealed Joseph’s future exalted position.
 
By relating these dreams to his brothers, however, Joseph fueled their jealousy, which had already been aroused by their father’s favoritism toward Joseph, son of his favored wife, Rachel.
 

Joseph's Sheaves (1919 Bible Primer)
 
The Folly of Favoritism
“Now Israel [Jacob] loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.”  (Genesis 37:3)
 
Jacob made no secret of the fact that he loved Joseph more than any of his other children, and he gave him a special coat of many colors.
 
By giving him this coat, Jacob was proclaiming Joseph’s sovereignty and leadership over all his other sons, since in the patriarchal age, Semitic chiefs wore coats of many colors as an insignia of rulership.
 
Perhaps Jacob should have foreseen the negative effects of sibling rivalry that usually result from such favoritism, since he was also a victim of this kind of dysfunction.
 
His mother, Rebecca, favored Jacob but his father, Isaac, favored Jacob's brother Esau.  This caused a great deal of animosity between the two brothers.  Rather than learn from his parents' mistakes, however, Jacob simply perpetuated their parental weaknesses.
 
Instead of following Jacob's example, we can make a choice to learn from our parents’ mistakes and decide today not to carry on with unhealthy parent-child relationships that have been modeled for us by previous generations.
 
Of course, to make such a change requires us to be set free from the past, and that begins with repentance and forgiveness—repentance for judging our parents (and perhaps for being a troublesome child), and forgiving them for their mistakes.
 
Everlasting spiritual new beginnings are found in the freedom that Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) offers when we repent of our sins and receive His forgiveness.
 

Family gathers together on Erev Shabbat for a special meal.
 
Favor Follows Joseph into the Pit
The name Yosef (Joseph) is associated with the modern kabbalistic (Jewish mysticism) term yesod, meaning foundation, from the expression, “Tzadik yesod olam”a righteous man is the foundation of the world.
 
Indeed, Joseph had a great destiny upon his life, the twists and turns of which would provide a foundation for the survival of his family; and in the fullness of time, a freedom that provides a foundation for Jewish life and salvation.
 
Jacob’s favored son is so important that he is allotted more text in the Tanakh (Old Testament) than any other character except Moses.
 
But he was not immediately ready to fulfill his divine purpose. Either Joseph needed to learn humility, which he gained through painful and difficult trials, or through his trials, God positioned him to fulfill that destiny.  Perhaps both.
 
The drama began when Jacob dispatched Joseph on a mission to check on his brothers.  Unbeknownst to both of them, the jealous siblings had already plotted to kill Joseph.
 
Their plan might have succeeded except for the protests of Reuven, who urged them to throw Joseph into a pit instead.  He secretly intended to rescue him later.  But Reuven never had the opportunity to save his brother, since the other brothers sold Joseph, at Judah’s suggestion, to an Ishmaelite caravan.
 
“They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites.”  (Genesis 37:28)
 

This Butterfield mosaic of Joseph being sold is displayed in the Keble
College Chapel at Oxford.
 
Once in Egypt, Joseph was sold to Potiphar, an Egyptian captain of Pharaoh’s guard, who soon discovered the greatness within Joseph.  Potiphar came to trust Joseph so implicitly that he placed him in charge of all of his affairs.
 
Meanwhile, Joseph’s brothers returned to their father with his coat of many colors.  They dipped it in blood to deceive their father into thinking that a wild animal had killed his beloved son.
 
It was Judah, fourth son of Jacob and future ruler of the twelve tribes of Israel, who led the decision to sell Joseph rather than kill him.
 
“Then Judah said to his brothers, ‘What do we gain by killing our brother and covering up his blood?  Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let us not do away with him ourselves.  After all, he is our brother, our own flesh."  (Genesis 37:26–27)
 
Judah seems to be a complex character, with signs of integrity as well as duplicity.
 

Jacob Receiving the Bloody Tunic of Joseph, by Jan Lievens
 
Keeping Hope Alive through Inheritance
There is a curious interruption in the narrative of Joseph’s story, as the Scriptures turn to the episode of Judah.
 
At this point, Judah had married the daughter of a Canaanite, Shua:
 
“There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her and cohabited with her.”  (Genesis 38:2)
 
Shua conceived and had a son named Er, who married Tamar.  But Er died without giving Tamar a child because the Lord was displeased with this son of Judah and prematurely took his life.
 
Judah then urged his second-born son, Onan, to take Tamar as a wife.  It was the duty of the brother of a man who died without children to marry his widow in order to perpetuate his brother's line.
 
“Then Judah said to Onan, ‘Join with your brother's wife and do your duty by her as a brother-in-law, and provide offspring for your brother.’”  (Genesis 38:8)
 
This kind of familial responsibility may seem alien to us, but God later included it in the laws found in the Book of Deuteronomy:
 
“When brothers live together, and one of them dies childless, the wife of the deceased man shall not marry outside to a strange man; her brother-in-law shall come to her, and take her to himself as a wife, and perform levirate marriage.
 
“The firstborn son whom she bears will then perpetuate the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be obliterated from Israel.”  (Deuteronomy 25:5–6)
 

Reading from the Torah scroll.
 
Why would God maintain a custom that predates even Abraham?
 
One reason is grounded in eternal inheritance.  Another is “for the express purpose of keeping alive the hope of resurrection in the minds of the chosen people.”  (Elliott’s Commentary for English Readers, Deuteronomy 25:5)
 
By keeping the inheritance within the family, this law of levirate marriage kept alive the hope of an earthly resurrection of the family name. 
 
We see this in the Book of Ruth:  the wealthy Bethlehem landowner Boaz (who foreshadowed Yeshua) gave this hope of resurrection and eternal inheritance to the widow Ruth (who foreshadowed those who follow Yeshua) when he became her bridegroom and she his bride.  (Ruth 4)
 
The hope of our spiritual, eternal resurrection and inheritance was fulfilled when Yeshua became the “Bridegroom” of all chosen people—Gentiles and Jews—creating a marriage covenant with all those who enter into that covenant with Him.  Those who become His Bride receive His eternal inheritance.
 
All Believers who put their hope in Yeshua as Savior have the hope of the resurrection sealed into their spirit.
 
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach!  According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua HaMashiach from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.”  (1 Peter 1:3–4)
 

The Marriage of Ruth and Boaz, by Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir
(Museum Georges Garret)
 
Obedience Is Rewarded
Still, we can well imagine that sin might get in the way of this hope, and it did in the case of Judah's second son, Onan.  In fact, the Lord was displeased with him, too, because he refused to raise up a son for his brother.  In judgment, the Lord took his life also.
 
Instead of admitting that his sons died early because of their sin, Judah blamed the widow, Tamar.  And though he promised her that his third and last son, Shelah, would give her a son, he did not want to risk losing him as well.
 
He told Tamar to wait as a widow until Shelah grew to maturity.  But when Shelah became a man, Judah still did not give him to Tamar as her husband, so she took matters into her own hands.
 
Tamar disguised herself as a cult prostitute and lured Judah into an encounter that resulted in her becoming pregnant.  Approximately three months later, when her pregnancy became evident, Judah ordered her executed for harlotry; but it was then that Tamar displayed Judah’s seal, cord, and staff, which Judah had given Tamar as pledge of payment for her services.
 
“As she was being brought out, she sent this message to her father-in-law, ‘I am with child by the man to whom these belong.’  And she added, ‘Examine these: whose seal and cord and staff are these?’"  
(Genesis 38:25)
 

Judah and Tamar, by School of Rembrandt
 
Judah then realized that though Tamar’s actions were less than perfect, she had acted to fulfill the familial responsibility to raise up a child for her husband under the family name.  He realized that she was more righteous than he was, so he set her free.
 
Tamar gave birth to twins, one of whom, Perez, became a forefather of Boaz, who became the great-grandfather of King David, who became a forefather of the Messiah.  (see Matthew 1; Ruth 4:18–22)
 
Judah is considered, in traditional Judaism and in the Tanakh, the father of the Mashiach (Messiah), who we know to be Yeshua (Salvation), the Lion from the tribe of Judah.
 
“The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from his descendants, until the coming of the one to whom it belongs, the one whom all nations will honor."  (Genesis 49:10)
 

Versailles Synagogue (Photo by Djampa)
 
From Pit to Palace
What does this story show us?  It shows us that God, by His mercies, can redeem us and take us from the depths of despair to the heights of fulfilled dreams.
 
Although Judah made some very bad decisions that tremendously hurt people, and although he fell into immorality, God still chose to bring forth the Messiah of all mankind through his lineage.
 
Similarly, Joseph’s dark descent into a pit, his betrayal by his brothers, his period of slavery in Egypt, and abandonment in a dungeon for a crime he did not commit served to position him to be exalted over all of Egypt, next to Pharaoh.
 
In this exalted position Joseph was able to arrange for all of Egypt to have enough food to eat during the seven-year famine throughout the region.  The people living around Egypt, including his own brothers who came to Joseph seeking food, survived the famine because of Joseph’s wise leadership. 
 

Jewish men pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.
 
Each of us may have to endure challenging situations in life as we journey toward fulfilling our calling in God.
 
When times are the darkest—when we have fallen into a pit, either by those who sin against us, or by our own sin—we can take heart because this is not the end of the story.  God promises to make all things work together for our good:
 
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”  (Romans 8:28)
 
It is during life’s dark times that the light of Yeshua seems brightest.
 
Yeshua said, “I am the Light of the world.”  His light of truth and eternal love can sustain us through the darkest of nights as we continue to place our faith and trust in Him.
 
“Then Yeshua spoke to them again:  'I am the light of the world.  Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.'"  (John 8:12)
 
Even when Israelis are being attacked by rockets from Gaza and throughout Israel by Palestinian terrorists, Yeshua can shine His light through the darkness.
 
 
Let your light shine during this Hanukkah season and help us
bring the Good News of Yeshua to the Holy Land.
 
"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you."  (Isaiah 60:1)
 

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