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Special Note:
This week I will be treating this double parsha differently than usual, as I have elected to
run the two together as if they were two separate teachings done back to back. So this is a
DOUBLE FEATURE Torah 101!
ANSWERS TO LAST WEEKS STUDY QUESTIONS (from Emor)
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42) Aramaic literally reads, "free those who are oppressed by the power of forgiveness",
but that could leave the wrong impression that the power of forgiveness is oppressing
them! Instead, the verse says, "free those who are oppressedhave their oppression
endbecause of the power of forgiveness. This is a great example of how a "word for
word" translation could potentially result in an unintentional meaning.
Luke 4:19
43) This language is specific to either a Land Sabbath (shemittah) or a Jubilee (yovel)
year according to Torah, when the land is required to rest. The occasion that Yshua is
referring to here, is him freeing the captives in Sheol after his death (Isa_58:6; Isa_61:12). Yshuas burial and resurrection occurred in the year 30 CE, during a Land Sabbath.
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Galatians 5:10
64) Maran, always refers to Y'shua as "our Master" and is a common narrative term
throughout the NT.
Galatians 5:11
65) In other words, if he went back and preached salvation through physical circumcision
in the context of tradition, rather than Torah. Rav Shaul clearly indicates that religious
tradition, which overruled Torah, was the majority view within the religious welter of his
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day. Therefore, if he preached the "party line" he would no longer be persecuted. But
persecution came about because he exposed religious tradition and taught that Torah
requires understanding and a circumcised heart before physical circumcision.
66) The upright "stake" brings to mind the "pole" which YHWH instructed Moshe to
hold up in Num_21:8. A brass serpent was put upon the pole and when the people looked
upon it, they were healed from the bite of the snake. So it is, that when people are bitten
by the "serpent" (Gen_3:15), they must look to Mashiyach for healing and deliverance.
The cross was introduced by pagans; it was formerly a symbol of the Babylonian sun god
as cruciforms indicate. Later, Julius Caesar and his heirs struck coins with symbols of
the cross (solar wheel) to commemorate the sun god. The Roman Emperor Constantine
was a sun worshipper who became a Christo-Pagan and advanced Hellenized
Christianity, making his "version of Christianity" the official religion of the Roman
Empire. The Greek "stauros" also denotes an upright stake; the verb stauroo means to
drive stakes. The Greek "xulon" denotes a timber or a log or any piece of dead wood.
Bullinger's Companion Bible notes that, "Our English word "cross" is the translation of
the Latin crux; but the Greek stauros no more means a crux than the word "stick" means
a "crutch." See Pole, The Standard, in Appendix.
Galatians 5:12
67) Or, literally "cut off" which, given the subject matter, has an ironic and almost dark
humorous twist.
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fence around the Torah." Y'shua specifically warned against this activity in Matthew
15, rebuking the Pharisees in the process. Later on, Y'shua said he was the
"door/gate" using a synonym for syaga, known as taarea, which is a homonym
"torah" and "teachers," meaning the Pharisees. So while the Pharisees are busy
erecting their fence, Y'shua is pulling it down, allowing everyone access!
Ephesians 2:15
22) The grammatical structure here fully guarantees that namusa is referring to
"customs" as in the traditions of the Pharisees, not Torah itself. Mashiyach abolishes
the "enmity" (hatred or animosity) that has been brought against YHWH by religious
tradition and false interpretations of Torah, which was a heavy burden that people
could not bear. Christian theologians, however, twist this verse and teach that it was
YHWH's Torah that brought the hatred and that Mashiyach did away with Torah,
which is a very reckless and evil theology. Mashiyach sent the Ruach haKodesh to
write YHWH's Torah upon the hearts of his people, not abolish it. See Eighteen New
Testament Misconceptions #11: Commandments Nailed to the Torture Stake in
Appendix.
23) Qnoma can mean "core substance" or "occurrence." Although Greek reads "self"
Aramaic does not; "self" leads to assumptions of "personhood" which breeds idolatry.
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