Friday, May 20, 2022

 Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Behar (On the Mount) - The Year of Faith !!!


Previously posted ...
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Emor - Sanctifying His Name With Holy Lives !!!
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/05/chuck-kolb_14.html
Change is Often Necessary  
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/05/sermon-change-is-often-necessary.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
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. Eph 5:11
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 Parasha Behar (On the Mount), this week's study of the Torah portion. We invite you to read along with us and enrich your understanding of the Bible by discovering Torah truths in this portion that will be read in synagogues around the world this Shabbat (Saturday). We know you will be blessed as you study this Torah portion with us.  Enjoy!

Last week, in Parasha Emor, God called the Kohen (priests) to live lives that expressed a greater measure of holiness.  It also described the essential festivals that God calls His feasts, which included the Sabbath. This week, in Parasha Behar God gives Moses the law of the Shemitah (literally, release but commonly translated Sabbatical Year). This law is related to the pattern or rhythm of seven in Scripture.

You can view this Parasha on our website complete with embedded links ...
Parasha Behar (On the Mount): The Year of Faith

https://free.messianicbible.com/parasha/parasha-behar-on-the-mount-the-year-of-faith-5782/

Giving Others More of God
It is our divine privilege as heirs in the kingdom of God and priests of a holy nation
to declare the blessings of our King over others, especially children. Discover how.
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/sabbath-blessing-giving-others-god/

The Missing Messianic Prophecies
But the Haftarah constitutes only selected portions of the Prophets and is read only on Shabbat and certain holy days.
Most importantly, many of the prophecies concerning the coming of the promised Messiah are simply not read at all.
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/why-the-messianic-prophecies-are-not-read-in-the-synagogue/

Ancient Jewish Wedding Customs and Yeshua’s Second Coming

https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/ancient-jewish-wedding-customs-and-yeshuas-second-coming/

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/

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

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Torah Teasers Parshat Behar by Moshe Erlbaum
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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Ralph Messer ...
Simchat Torah Beit Midrash - Joy of God’s Teaching and Instruction

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.  2 Timothy 3:16

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.

בְּהַר  Behar means “on the mountain.”  
Behar contains many important laws regarding money and the helping of one’s brother in time of need.  Giving charity to the poor, granting interest-free loans, helping one find and keep a job, and offering advice are all topics that are covered. When someone lends without charging interest, they demonstrate that they don’t think of themselves as the true owner of their money.
https://stbm.org/behar/

Friday 19 Iyar > Omer Day 34 Tonight Count 35 >
Counting the Omer - ספירת העומר Sefirat HaOmer counting the sheaves

Daily Omer Reflections - Simchat Torah Beit Midrash
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the aday of rest, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the waving; seven weeks shall there be complete; even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:15-16
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Todah Rabah - Dr. Gary Hedrick ...

Reaching the Jewish people with the Gospel
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Charles Halff - What It Costs a Jew to Become a Christian
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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Jachter ...
Kol Torah Academy of Bergen County  

Parashat BeHar- 19 Iyar, 5782 - May 20, 2022
https://www.koltorah.org/articles/?category=BeHar-BeChukotai
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Yeshiva > https://www.tabc.org/  https://www.instagram.com/koltorah.tabc/
TABC Parashat BeHar > https://www.koltorah.org/s/Kol-Torah-BeHar-2022.pdf (4 page pdf)

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Parshat Behar
https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2033/jewish/Behar-in-a-Nutshell.htm
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tDate=5/21/2022  
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Portion of Behar ...
Interest Free Loans: A Family Matter

Leviticus instructs the Children of Israel regarding how to deal with money matters,
and one of the clearest and unequivocal prohibitions is usury:
https://theisraelbible.com/interest-free-loans-a-family-matter/

Israel, US to simulate invasion of against Iran
The exercise is part of the IDF’s largest war drill in decades, dubbed “Chariots of Fire.”
https://www.israel365news.com/269522/israel-us-to-simulate-invasion-of-against-iran/

Sanhedrin rules: Forbidden for Israel to sign WHO resolution
The Sanhedrin just released an official ruling on the upcoming vote by the World Health Organization on resolutions that will give them emergency powers over any country they choose.
https://www.israel365news.com/269577/sanhedrin-rules-forbidden-for-israel-to-sign-who-resolution/

The 39 Acts Forbidden on the Sabbath
https://theisraelbible.com/the-39-acts-forbidden-on-the-sabbath/
https://theisraelbible.com/the-true-day-of-rest/

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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DONALD DATES
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Donald 6/14/46 <<< Flag Day '76' 2022
Tiffany 10/13/93
Ivanka 10/30/81  

Save America Rally > Casper, WY
Sat, May 28, 2022 4:00 pm (MDT) - 6:00 pm (EDT)
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Good News From Israel - Achievements and Heartwarming Stories
In the 15th May 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
https://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/2022/05/israels-good-news-newsletter-to-15th.html
http://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/

Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly

https://mishpacha.com/  

Baby Formula Shortage Adds to US Woes

The images of empty shelves are reminiscent of Venezuela, where citizens have to stand in line to buy essential commodities. The Sturgis plant shutdown is the main driver of the baby formula shortage now plaguing the country — and no one can say when the plant will reopen.
https://mishpacha.com/baby-formula-shortage-adds-to-us-woes/

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ACLJ Petition - Jay Sekulow
Stop Biden IRS From Spying on You and Your Bank Account
https://aclj.org/government-corruption/stop-biden-irs-from-spying-on-your-bank-account

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Todah Rabah - beloved Ted Belman writing from Jerusalem, Israel for 20+ years ...  
THERE IS NO DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION
Israel should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state


DANGER: The WHO’s Death Trap for the US Act Fast
I am not exaggerating – this article exposes the culminating steps of the globalist COUP, and how the Biden regime is planning to quietly surrender the sovereignty of the United States to the authority of the United Nations on May 22, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland.
https://www.israpundit.org/danger-the-whos-death-trap-for-the-us-act-fast-they-vote-next-week/
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18534/who-death-trap

Globalist Enemies of the State
Treason, however, does not address the highest of all crimes against the state, the attempted dissolution of the state itself. The globalist elite are guilty of the highest crimes. Globalism is absolute totalitarianism on a planetary scale, deceitfully marketed as global peace, harmony, security, and public health.
https://www.israpundit.org/globalist-enemies-of-the-state/
https://goudsmit.pundicity.com/26222/globalist-enemies-of-the-state

Kari Lake’s Epic Annihilation Of Fake News
This is absolutely brutal… She could end up being better than DeSantis.
vid> https://rumble.com/v157gdl-kari-did-so-well-in-this-interview-that-the-most-biased-paper-in-az-history.html (20:39( 5/18/22
https://www.israpundit.org/kari-lakes-epic-annihilation-of-fake-news/

Russia begins cutting Ukraine from the Black Sea
vid> https://youtu.be/awL-M0cTxfk (4:15) 5/18/22 TFIglobal
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https://www.israpundit.org/russia-begins-cutting-ukraine-from-the-black-sea/

The Jordan Option Conference Videos reposted
https://www.israpundit.org/the-jordan-option-conference-videos/
https://www.israpundit.org/jordan-past-present-and-future-the-jordan-option-revisited/

>> 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/
>> The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution by Ted Belman
https://www.israpundit.org/the-ultimate-alternate-israel-palestine-solution-3/

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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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In this week's Parsha Behar,
Hashem commands the Jewish people to cease all agricultural activity during the seventh year and allow the produce to be freely available to man and animal, it's a Shabbat for the land and it's called Shmitah. Did you know this year is a Shmitah year!?  This year, Israeli farmers leave their fields to fulfill the biblical mitzvah of shmitah.  During the shmitah year, Israel’s farmers stop their work and remember Who their land really belongs to.
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/a-farmers-kitchen-shabbat-menu/

Jamie Geller Reunites with Heroic Farmers in Jerusalem
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The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai, 'Speak to the Israelites and say to them:
When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the Lord. Leviticus 25:1–2


Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Behar (On the Mount) - The Year of Faith !!!

Jerusalem
 
Shabbat Shalom
 
Welcome to Parasha Behar (On the Mount),
this week's study of the Torah portion.
 
We invite you to read along with us and enrich your understanding of the Bible by discovering Torah truths in this portion that will be read in synagogues around the world this Shabbat (Saturday).
 
PARASHA BEHAR (On the Mount)
Leviticus 25:1–26:2; Jeremiah 32:6–27; Romans 6:1–23
 
"The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai, 'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: "When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the Lord."'"  (Leviticus 25:1–2)
 
An Israeli girl strolls through a field of wheat.  God instructed that the
fields not be cultivated during a Sabbatical Year, and whatever grows
naturally is free for the taking.
 
Last week, in Parasha Emor, God called the Kohen (priests) to live lives that expressed a greater measure of holiness.  It also described the essential festivals that God calls His feasts, which included the Sabbath.
 
This week, in Parasha Behar God gives Moses the law of the Shemitah (literally, release but commonly translated Sabbatical Year).
 
This law is related to the pattern or rhythm of seven in Scripture.  Here are a few instances:
  • God created the universe in seven days;
  • There are seven days in the week;
  • God rested on the seventh day;
  • The Temple menorah was seven-branched;
  • The Israelites made seven circuits around Jericho before the walls fell; and
  • There are seven moadim or appointed times:  Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Day of Blowing Trumpets/New Year, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles.


The Seven Trumpets of Jericho, by James Tissot


Seven is the number that celebrates the sacred purpose of infusing holiness into the whole of Creation.  (Jewish Wisdom in the Numbers)
 
And while most people are aware of the seven-day cycle of the Shabbat, and the holiness it infuses to the week, few realize that God instituted a yearly cycle of seven for the Holy Land.
 
Just as we are to work for six days but rest on the seventh, the land is to be sown and harvested for six years.  In the seventh year, the land is to have its Shabbat year of rest — its Shemitah.
 
"But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the Lord.  Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.  Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines.  The land is to have a year of rest." (Leviticus 25:4–5)
 
A resident of Holon, Israel, has posted a sign stating the fruits on the trees
in his backyard are hefker (abandoned property) during the Shemitah year.
 
In Israel, even the children keep this commandment
in their gan (kindergarten).
 
In the year of Shemitah, it is not unusual to see a sign posted next to their weedy, unkempt garden that reads, "In honor of the year of Shemitah, our Gan is not tending our gardens."
 
This is a beautiful sight, reminding us of the uniqueness of living in the Holy Land.
 
Of course, this law involved more than allowing the land to rest.  During the Shemitah, the Israelites were to make some agricultural and economic adjustments in order to rest and take the time to learn about the Lord.
 
It was not only a time of physical rest, saving both the land and the people from exhaustion, it was a time of spiritual refreshment:
 
"At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles (Sukkot), when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place He will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing.
 
"Assemble the people — men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns — so they can listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.  Their children, who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."  (Deuteronomy 31:10–13)
 
There was also an element of benevolence or social justice in this holiday since debts were to be forgiven, and the poor could pick the produce that grew without the land being worked.
 

A scarecrow watches over the preschooler garden on a kibbutz in Israel.
  
The Year of Jubilee: the Redemption of the Land
"Count off seven Sabbath years — seven times seven years — so that the seven Sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.  Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants."   (Leviticus 25:8, 10)
 
The seven-year Shemitah cycle accumulated in sets of seven (49 years) and culminated in the Yovel (The Year of Jubilee).
 
Every 50th year, both the land and the people rested.
 
This is a very special appointed time of freedom and liberty that is sanctified, set apart, or holy (kadosh) to the Lord.
 
It was proclaimed throughout the land with the blowing of the shofar on the Day of Atonement.
 
With the blast of the shofar, Hebrew slaves were freed and debts were forgiven.
 
And while the land was left uncultivated, as in the Shemitah year, in the Yovel year, hereditary property was returned to its original family, even if it had been sold because of misfortune, poverty, or to pay off a debt. 
 
In fact, at any given time, the proximity of the Jubilee determined the value of a person's land.  If it were just a few years away, the land would sell for less since it would soon be returned to its rightful owner.
 
In other words, though land could be sold, it could only be sold for a limited period of time.
 

The shofar is blown for a variety of reasons, including the convening
of an assembly, the coronation of a new king, and the announcing
of the new moon and the Year of Jubilee.  Its piercing call is regarded
as a prompt to return to the Lord and to seek His face.

Although this type of land ownership may seem foreign and impractical, the intent of this law is to convey the truth that the Lord is the real owner of Israel's real estate; therefore, it cannot be permanently sold.
 
"The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is Mine and you reside in My land as foreigners and strangers.  Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land."  (Leviticus 25:23–24)
 
We might liken this concept of land ownership to a lease, with the Jewish People being God's tenants.
 
This law was for everyone, rich and poor alike.  It was designed to protect the rights of each person and prevented land and wealth from being accumulated in the hands of a rich few, while the majority remained poor.
 
What's more, this law really brings home the fact that no one — no leader or politician or individual — has the right to sell, divide or give away God's land for any reason.
 
Not even for the purpose of a supposed peace deal with those determined to destroy the Jews in Israel.  God will execute His judgment on all those who attempt to divide up His land.  (Joel 3:2)
 

A 13-year-old Jewish male carries the Torah for the first time during
his Bar Mitzvah (a coming of age ritual) at Jerusalem's Western
(Wailing) Wall.
 
The Hope of Jeremiah: the Hope of Israel
"Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land."  (Jeremiah 32:15)
 
Haftarah Behar (the corresponding Prophetic portion) echoes the theme found in the Torah portion of the purchase and redemption of land.
 
This portion opens with a rather bizarre situation.
 
King Zedekiah has imprisoned Jeremiah in Jerusalem because he had prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jewish People.
 
Jerusalem is under siege by the Babylonians who will soon overtake the Land.  Nevertheless, the Lord tells Jeremiah that his uncle will ask him to purchase his field, and God instructs Jeremiah to accept the offer.
 
"Buy my field in Anatot, since you have the right of redemption to purchase it."  (Jeremiah 32:7)
 

Modern-day Anatot, also called Almon, is named after the hometown of
Jeremiah.  Ezra 2:23 reveals the true toll on Anatot when it states that only
128 men returned home after the exile.

This seems like an absurd thing to ask of Jeremiah!  What?  Buy a field that will soon be Babylonian property?  Ridiculous, especially for a man rotting in jail.
 
But this is no ordinary purchase.  It is a prophetic act.
 
Despite Jeremiah's accurate predictions of Jerusalem's destruction, he retains the ability to see hope in the face of desolation.
 
Even though he knows that the city is about to be destroyed and the rest of the land conquered, in obedience to the Lord, Jeremiah redeems the land.
 
In doing so, he affirms his faith in the Eternal who promised the redemption of Israel — that houses and fields would once again be bought in the land.  (Jeremiah 32:15)
 
Although it is unlikely that Jeremiah will ever live on that land during his lifetime, this prophetic act displays his refusal to give in to hopelessness.
 
He trusts in God's mercy.  One day, God will bring His people back home to the Land and to Himself. 
 
"Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm.  Nothing is too hard for you."  (Jeremiah 32:17)
 

A depiction of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
 
The exiled people of Israel did rebuild Jerusalem and again inhabited Israel, as God promised.  However, after AD 70 they were scattered by the Romans, though a remnant has always remained in the Land.
 
Yet, God promised that a second time, He would return His people to His land — not from Babylon but from the four corners of the earth to never be dispersed again:
 
"I will bring My people Israel back from exile. They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.  They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.  I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them."  (Amos 9:14–15)
 
Our generation is witnessing the fulfillment of the hope of many prophets — the miraculous restoration of the nation of Israel and the regathering of its people from the four corners of the earth.
 
The Torah scroll is opened at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem
 
We have yet to see the fulfillment of the promise that the Jewish People will turn back to God and be reunited in the Land under the sovereign rule of the Messiah, sitting on the eternal throne of His father, David.
 
Just like in the Year of Jubilee, when debts were forgiven and the Hebrew slaves set free, the day is soon coming when all of Israel will recognize that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah who forgives us and releases (shemitah) us from slavery to sin.
 
"We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with Him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin … so now offer your various parts as slaves to righteousness, which leads to being made holy, set apart for God."  (Romans 6:6, 19)
 
 
Please help Bibles For Israel bring Yeshua (Jesus) to the Jewish People here in Israel and around the world.
 
"I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against Me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me."  (Jeremiah 33:8)
 
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