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Numbers 13 – 15
Parshah Shelach Lecha:
Send You
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The Traditional Blessing Before
Reading the Torah Portion
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Shelach Lecha
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The Descendants of Anaq
Bamidbar 13:22 (ISR) And they went up through the South and
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came to Ḥebron. And Aḥiman, Shĕshai, and Talmai, the
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descendants of Anaq, were there. Now Ḥebron had been built
seven years before Tso’an in Mitsrayim.
Bereshiyt 6:4 (ISR) The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also
afterward, when the sons of Elohim came in to the daughters of men and they
bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, the men of
name.
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The Descendants of Anaq
“And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in
their eyes.”
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Eshkol
Bamidbar 13:23-24 (ISR) 23 And they came to the wadi
Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of
grapes. And they bore it between two of them on a pole, also
of the pomegranates and of the figs. 24 That place was called
the wadi Eshkol, because of the cluster (eshkol) which the
men of Yisra’el cut down from there.
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Bamidbar 14
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So, You Wanna Go Back to Egypt
• Bamidbar 14:1-5 (ISR) 1 Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried,
and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against
Mosheh and against Aharon, and all the congregation said to them, “If only we had
died in the land of Mitsrayim! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 “And why
is יהוה bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children
should become a prey? Would it not be better for us to turn back to Mitsrayim?” 4
And they said to each other, “Let us appoint a leader, and let us turn back to
Mitsrayim.” 5 Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of
the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl. 6 And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ
son of Yephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their
garments,
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So, You Wanna Go Back to Egypt
• Bamidbar 14:10 (ISR) But all the congregation said to stone
them with stones. Then the esteem of יהוה appeared in the
Tent of Meeting before all the children of Yisra’ĕl.
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Kalev’s “Different Spirit”
• Bamidbar 14:22-24 (ISR) for none of these men who have seen My
esteem and the signs which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and
have tried Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed My voice, 23 shall
see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor any of those who
scorned Me see it. 24 “But My servant Kalĕb,̱ because he has a different
spirit in him and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the land
where he went, and his seed shall inherit it.
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My Spirit and Ephraim
• Yehezqel 36:22-27 “Therefore say to the house of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “I
do not do this for your sake, O house of Yisra’ĕl, but for My set-apart Name’s sake, which
you have profaned among the gentiles wherever you went. 23 “And I shall set apart My great
Name, which has been profaned among the gentiles, which you have profaned in their midst.
And the gentiles shall know that I am יהוה,” declares the Master יהוה, “when I am set-apart
in you before their eyes. 24 “And I shall take you from among the gentiles, and I shall gather
you out of all lands, and I shall bring you into your own land. 25 “And I shall sprinkle clean
water on you, and you shall be clean – from all your filthiness and from all your idols I
cleanse you. 26 “And I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I
shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I shall give you a heart of flesh, 27 and
put My Spirit within you. And I shall cause you to walk in My laws and guard My
right-rulings and shall do them.”
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Bamidbar 15
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Whose Moedim are They Anyway?
Bemidbar/Numbers 15: 3/Vayiqra/Leviticus 23: 1-2
Is there a
contradiction
between these
verses?
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He Must Do Exactly As You Do
Help Christians make a connection to Torah by showing
these verses to them using their own translations:
What is a ger?
RSTNE Definition: Sojourner, Or Stranger, Or Convert To A
Form Of Judaism
The words Hebrew words ger* and nokri** are related, as in:
Shemot/Exodus 18:3 and her two sons, of whom one was named
Gershom, for he (Moshe) said, "I have been a sojourner (ger) in a
foreign (nokri) land."
Devarim/Deuteronomy 14: 21a “Do not eat whatever dies of itself.
Give it to the stranger (ger) who is within your gates, to eat it, or
sell it to a foreigner (nokri)…. 22
*Strong’s H#1616 **Strong’s H#5237
Torah achat, umishpat echad
What is a nokri?
RSTNE Definition: Foreign, Or Strange, As In Foreign Vine
Ephesians 2:12 (Peshitta) And you were, at that time, without the
Messiah; and were aliens (nokraya) from the regulations (dubara)
of Israel; and strangers (aksenaya) to the covenants of the promise;
and were without hope, and without Eloha in the world.
Bereshiyt/Genesis 15: 13 (ISR) And He said to Abram, “Know for certain that
your seed are to be sojourners (gerim) in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve
them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Acts 7:6 (Peshitta) And Eloha conversed with him, and said to him: Your seed
will be a sojourner (tautaba) in a foreign land; and they will reduce it to
servitude, and will treat it ill, during four hundred years.
Acts 7:29 (Peshitta) And Moses fled at that speech, and became a sojourner
(tautaba) in the land of Midian. And he had two sons.
(Remember Moshe said: "I have been a sojourner (ger) in a foreign
land”). 25
Stranger things have happened
Some words translated as Stranger in the Aramaic Peshitta gospels
There are some different nuances, but the Messiah and the Brit
Chadashah writers essentially geyr, aksenaya, nokraya, and
tautaba interchangeably.
We have seen how each of these Aramaic words have been used
as the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew word ger.
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The Terumah Offering
“Anti-Missionaries” often argue that there is no
concept of “substitutionary offering” in Judaism.
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When You Sin By Mistake
Bamidbar 15:22-25 (ISR) 22 ‘And when you sin by mistake, and
do not do all these commands which יהוה has spoken to Mosheh,
23 all that יהוה has commanded you by the hand of Mosheh, from
the day יהוה gave command and onward throughout your
generations, 24 then it shall be, if it is done by mistake, without the
knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall
prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet fragrance to
יהוה, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the
right-ruling, and one male goat as a sin offering. 25 ‘Then the priest
shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of
Yisra’ĕl, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was by mistake. And
they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to יהוה, and
their sin offering before יהוה, for their mistake.
If the congregation wants to fully obey Yah, but its shepherds have taught
that certain of Yah’s instructions were outdated, legalism and bondage, is 31
the congregation guilty of a mistake or of defiant sin?
When You Sin By Mistake
Bamidbar 15:26-30 (ISR) 26 “‘And it shall be forgiven all the
congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl and the stranger who
sojourns in their midst, because all the people did it by mistake.
27 ‘And if a being sins by mistake, then he shall bring a female goat
a year old as a sin offering. 28 ‘And the priest shall make atonement
for the being who strays by mistake, when he sins by mistake before
יהוה, to make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. 29
‘For him who does whatever by mistake there is one Torah, both for
him who is native among the children of Yisra’ĕl and for the
stranger who sojourns in their midst.”
How does YHWH feel about defiant sin? Has this Scripture ever been
formed as a weapon against your Torah-obedient lifestyle? 33
Blue Cord Tzitziyot
Bamidbar 15:37-41 (ISR) 37 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
38 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them to
make tzitziyot on the corners of their garments throughout their
generations, and to put a blue cord in the tzitzit of the corners.
39 “And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, and you shall see it, and shall
remember all the commands of יהוה and shall do them, and not
search after your own heart and your own eyes after which you went
whoring, 40 so that you remember, and shall do all My commands,
and be set-apart unto your Elohim. 41 “I am יהוה your Elohim, who
brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am
יהוה your Elohim.”
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Karaite Tzitzit
Tzitziyot
Bemidbar/Numbers 15: 38 (Judaica Press Complete Tanakh)
Speak to the children of Israel and you shall say to them that
they shall make for themselves fringes on the corners of their
garments, throughout their generations, and they shall affix a
thread of sky blue [wool] on the fringe of each corner.
• Rashi Comments:
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Tzitziyot
Bemidbar/Numbers 15: 38 (Judaica Press Complete Tanakh) Speak to the
children of Israel and you shall say to them that they shall make for
themselves fringes on the corners of their garments, throughout their
generations, and they shall affix a thread of sky blue [wool] on the fringe
of each corner.
• Rashi Comments:
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Tzitziyot
• Tzitzit are made up of 32 (8 strings hanging down x 4 corners) strings, which in turn can be said to
symbolize the 32 "paths" which YHWH Tzeva’ot employed in bringing this universe into being,
according to Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Formation, which begins:
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Gematria (numerical value of words)
• First letter of the Torah=bet, 2
Last letter of the Torah=lamed, 30
First Letter + Last Letter = 32, the image of Torah from
beginning to end.
• Lev (heart) = 32
• Kavod (glory) = 32
• The heart of heaven = the glory of Elohim.
• These attributes = tiferet
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Tzitziyot
• Why is blue chosen above all other colors [for the tzitzit]? Because the blue
resembles the sea, and the sea resembles the sky, and the sky resembles the
Throne of Glory….” (Talmud Bavli, Menachot 43b)
Yehezqel/Ezekiel 1: 26 (ISR) And above the expanse over their heads was the
likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone. And on the likeness
of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man high above it.
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The Traditional Blessing After
Reading the Torah Portion
Next Week:
Parshah Korach (Korah):
Bamidbar/Numbers 16 – 18
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