{"id":1133,"date":"2011-05-15T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2011\/5\/15\/Parashat-Bekhukotai-How-does-Walking-and-Dwelling-establish-God-Covenant-in-a-way-only-He-could-do"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:23:25","slug":"parashat-bekhukotai-how-does-walking-and-dwelling-establish-god-covenant-in-a-way-only-he-could-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-bekhukotai-how-does-walking-and-dwelling-establish-god-covenant-in-a-way-only-he-could-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Bekhukotai, How does Walking and Dwelling establish God Covenant in a way only He could do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>In this week&rsquo;s Parashat, from sefer <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus 26:3-27:15<\/em><br \/>\n<\/font>, we find the conditional phrase <em><font style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;im bekhukotai telechu ve&#8217;et mitsvotai<br \/>\ntishmeru ve&#8217;asitem otam&#8221;<\/font><\/em>&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong>meaning <em>&ldquo;<font style=\"color: \n#0000ff;\">if you walk in my statutes and keep my commands and so as to carry them out (you doing them)<\/font>&rdquo;<br \/>\n<\/em> then the Lord will give rain upon the land in their seasons and the land will yield its produce and bear its<br \/>\nfruit (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>26:3<\/em><\/font>).&nbsp; Moshe goes on to tell the people the Lord will<br \/>\nthen bring the harvest of food in its season and they shall eat and be filled and be blessed in fullness.&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn addition to this, not only will they not fear their enemies, but their enemies will fall before them by the<br \/>\nsword and they shall chase their enemies where one person will chase a hundred and an hundred will chase ten<br \/>\nthousand.&nbsp; The Lord will put fear in the heart of our enemies.&nbsp; By obeying God and His mitzvot (commands)<br \/>\n the Lord says that He will make his dwelling among His people and walk among them saying<strong><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/strong> &#8220;<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>ve&#8217;hayyiti lachem le&#8217;lohim ve&#8217;atem tehu li le&#8217;am&#8221;<\/em><\/font><br \/>\nmeaning <em>&ldquo;<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\">and I will be their God and they will be my people.&rdquo;<\/font><br \/>\n<\/em>&nbsp; These scriptures <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>26:11-12<\/em><\/font> are very significant for our<br \/>\nunderstanding the Word of God, God&rsquo;s plan of redemption, and why Yeshua (Jesus) had come to die for our sins.<br \/>\n&nbsp; How does walking and dwelling in our midst signify the establishment of His covenant in a way that only God<br \/>\ncould do?&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Bechukotai%20_2010-2011_.pdf\"> Read More here. <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s Parashat, from sefer Vayikra \/ Leviticus 26:3-27:15<br \/>\n, we find the conditional phrase &#8220;im bekhukotai telechu ve&#8217;et mitsvotai<br \/>\ntishmeru ve&#8217;asitem otam&#8221;&nbsp;meaning &ldquo;if you walk in my statutes and keep my comm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}