{"id":9555,"date":"2019-08-14T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T00:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2019-08-18T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T11:48:24","slug":"developing-awe-and-reverence-for-the-creator-parashat-vaetchanan-bits-of-torah-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/developing-awe-and-reverence-for-the-creator-parashat-vaetchanan-bits-of-torah-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Awe and Reverence for the Creator, \u05e4\u05e8\u05e9\u05ea \u05d5\u05d0\u05ea\u05d7\u05e0\u05df, Parashat Va\u2019etchanan, Bits of Torah Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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In this week\u2019s Torah portion, we read the following according to Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:1-3<\/span><\/em>, \u05d0 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d6\u05b9\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b4\u05e6\u05b0\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d4\u05b7\u05d7\u05bb\u05e7\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d5\u05b0\u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05d8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05e6\u05b4\u05d5\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b5\u05d9\u05db\u05b6\u05dd \u05dc\u05b0\u05dc\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b5\u05d3 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea\u05b0\u05db\u05b6\u05dd \u05dc\u05b7\u05e2\u05b2\u05e9\u05b9\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea \u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b6\u05dd \u05e2\u05b9\u05d1\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05de\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4\u05bc: \u05d1 \u05dc\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2\u05b7\u05df \u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05dc\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05b9\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc-\u05d7\u05bb\u05e7\u05bc\u05b9\u05ea\u05b8\u05d9\u05d5 \u05d5\u05bc\u05de\u05b4\u05e6\u05b0\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea\u05b8\u05d9\u05d5 \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b8\u05e0\u05b9\u05db\u05b4\u05d9 \u05de\u05b0\u05e6\u05b7\u05d5\u05bc\u05b6\u05da\u05b8 \u05d0\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05b4\u05e0\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05b6\u05df-\u05d1\u05bc\u05b4\u05e0\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05db\u05bc\u05b9\u05dc \u05d9\u05b0\u05de\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d7\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05d5\u05bc\u05dc\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2\u05b7\u05df \u05d9\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05e8\u05b4\u05db\u05bb\u05df \u05d9\u05b8\u05de\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8: \u05d2 \u05d5\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05de\u05b7\u05e2\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8 \u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d5\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05de\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8 \u05dc\u05b7\u05e2\u05b2\u05e9\u05b9\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d9\u05b4\u05d9\u05d8\u05b7\u05d1 \u05dc\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05d5\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05e8\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc\u05df \u05de\u05b0\u05d0\u05b9\u05d3 \u05db\u05bc\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d3\u05bc\u05b4\u05d1\u05bc\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b9\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b2\u05d1\u05b9\u05ea\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05dc\u05b8\u05da\u05b0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05d6\u05b8\u05d1\u05b7\u05ea \u05d7\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05d1 \u05d5\u05bc\u05d3\u05b0\u05d1\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1: 6:1 \u2018Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, 6:2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 6:3 \u2018O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. (NASB)<\/span><\/em> Notice how the opening verses to Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6<\/span><\/em> speak about the command which were given to benefit us as it says, 6:2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. (NASB)<\/span><\/em> The purpose of the command is so that it goes well for us and that we will multiply in \u05d0\u05b6\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05d6\u05b8\u05d1\u05b7\u05ea \u05d7\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05d1 \u05d5\u05bc\u05d3\u05b0\u05d1\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1 \u201ca land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d The very next verse is the Shema (\u05e9\u05de\u05e2 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc, 6:4<\/span><\/em>) followed by \u05d5\u05b0\u05d4\u05b8\u05d9\u05d5\u05bc \u05d4\u05b7\u05d3\u05bc\u05b0\u05d1\u05b8\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05d4, \u201cthese words\u201d are meant to remind us that our dwelling in the land the Lord God has given us is not simply for our enjoyment, or the fulfillment of His promises, but for the purpose of enabling us to keep God\u2019s mitzvot (commands). The idea here is found in the joy of doing what is right, obeying the Lord, and the peace given by the Spirit that dwells within us (His Holy Spirit that He gives us), this peace dwells within when we remain faithful. The rabbis say, \u201cThe enlarged letter \u05d3 in the word \u05d0\u05d7\u05d3 alludes to both the goodwill of God which is the source of Mercy as well as to the attribute of Justice. The whiteness of the milk in the word \u05d7\u05dc\u05d1 in our verse as well as redness of the honey respectively also point at the attribute of Mercy and Justice respectively. This same thought is alluded to also in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 8,8 \u05d0\u05b6\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05d7\u05b4\u05d8\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e2\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d4 \u201ca land producing wheat and barley.\u201d In that latter verse wheat is the \u201cwhite\u201d and the word \u05d3\u05d1\u05e9 appears there also to depict the attribute of Justice.\u201d<\/span><\/em> (Rabbeinu Bahya on Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:3 Part 1<\/em>) Another purpose for the commands that is coupled to the narratives found in the Torah is to teach us to fear the Lord, \u05dc\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2\u05b7\u05df \u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8, \u201cso that you will fear the Lord your God.\u201d<\/span><\/em> This does not mean that we will be fearful, but that these things teach us a degree of awe and reverence for the Creator, the Lord our God. Nachmanides states that he does not believe these things are meant to inspire awe and reverence or to enjoy long life, but that they are meant to teach us to perform the command which leads to reward. (Tur HaAroch on Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:2 Part 1<\/span><\/em>) The Lord God\u2019s overriding interest is to help us to live righteous lives by His influence and then to reap the benefits thereof. This draws us back to what is written in the text of things going well for us and being multiplied. (6:2-3<\/span><\/em>) Sforno\u2019s commentary on these verses describe the reason for the goodness of God in His legislating the commands, it was because of His great kindness. (Sforno on Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:3 Part 1-2<\/span><\/em>) The idea is the performance of the commands is not meant for the sake of material reward, but \u05dc\u05e9\u05de\u05d4 (leshamah), for His name sake (for His honour) because acts of righteousness and justice are to be done in the purest sense from the purest intentions. Sforno goes on to say the following on Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:2<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sforno on Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:2 Part 2<\/strong>
\u05d0\u05ea\u05d4, \u05d5\u05d1\u05e0\u05da, \u05d5\u05d1\u05df \u05d1\u05e0\u05da. This is a reminder that even the generations who had not been eyewitnesses to G\u2019ds powerful miracles will learn to revere Him when they accept the commandments, as you have seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This reminds us about what Yeshua said to Thomas saying blessed are those who have not seen but yet believe! (Believing in the Messiah of God.) The first and greatest command is to believe in the Creator God (the God of Israel) and this is alluded to in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:4<\/span><\/em> stating \u201cHear O Israel the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/em> The intent was not for hearing but for having faith. For example, from Shemot \/ Exodus 24:7<\/span><\/em> the people having heard state \u201cwe will do and we will hear\u201d<\/span><\/em> and Moshe states in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:3 \u201chear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it.\u201d<\/span> The word Shema (\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2) means to hear or listen. Listening suggests that one has heard, listens, and then applies (takes or keeps) the word that was spoken. The word for hearing (Shema, \u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2) has the intent to bring about faith and acceptance of the Lord God our Father in heaven, of His Messiah, and of His Word which is meant to be applied to our lives! Because of this, the study of God\u2019s Word causes us to draw nearer to God in love and piety as we devote our lives in faithfulness to that which He has set our hand to accomplish. The rabbis describe this \u201cas means for carrying out your mission of blessing, and in order to be able independently to establish a house, as a temple in which shall be reared young scions of Adam\u2019s race as ideal human beings, ideal Israelites. For such purpose, to grace such a house, take a wife and bring her into your home. Next follows the first task of your blessed mission of love, the first and the highest; to be all in all to helpless human creatures without claim or demand upon you; even to sacrifice your own welfare in order that they shall be able to attain to both earthly well-being and spiritual ideal; that your child may become man-Israel.\u201d<\/em><\/span> (Nineteen Letters 12:2<\/span><\/em>) The description that is being provided here within these verses from Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6<\/span><\/em> is a very high calling that is connected to setting up one\u2019s house as a holy place before God to rear our children to fear the Lord God in heaven so they become spiritually mature. This is the awesomeness of our God who calls us to these things as the Scriptures say, \u201cGod, who is our Lord, is one God\u201d<\/span><\/em> (Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:4<\/span><\/em>) in other words, He is absolutely unique where an uncountable number of things demonstrate God \u2019s uniqueness (Ibn Ezra on Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:3 Part 3<\/span><\/em>) and most certainly in the way in which He calls us to live and how to raise our children for the Glory of God and for the betterment of mankind!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scriptures we are looking at for this week are from Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:1-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:1-25<\/strong>
6:1 \u2018Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, 6:2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 6:3 \u2018O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 6:4 \u2018Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! 6:5 \u2018You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6:6 \u2018These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 6:7 You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 6:8 \u2018You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 6:9 \u2018You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 6:10 \u2018Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build, 6:11 and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied, 6:12 then watch yourself, that you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 6:13 \u2018You shall fear only the Lord your God; and you shall worship Him and swear by His name. 6:14 \u2018You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you, 6:15 for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth. 6:16 \u2018You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah. 6:17 \u2018You should diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you. 6:18 \u2018You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, 6:19 by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken. 6:20 \u2018When your son asks you in time to come, saying, \u2018What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?\u2019 6:21 then you shall say to your son, \u2018We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand. 6:22 \u2018Moreover, the Lord showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household; 6:23 He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.\u2019 6:24 \u2018So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today. 6:25 \u2018It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us. (NASB)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Scriptures say, \u201cGod, who is our Lord, is one God\u201d<\/span><\/em> (Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:4<\/span><\/em>, \u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2 \u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5\u05bc \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4 | \u05d0\u05b6\u05d7\u05b8\u05d3) in other words, He is absolutely unique, awesome, and powerful and there is no other besides Him! Within this Scripture verse we read the ineffable, or incommunicable name of God which is written twice. This name of God is called the Tetragrammaton, from the Greek tetra (four), and gramma (letter), since this Name in Hebrew consists of the four letters YHVH. This name is known as the ineffable name because it was by tradition not to be pronounced, one was to use a circumlocution out of respect and honor for the powerful name of God. The rabbis say that everything our ancestors of blessed memory have transmitted concerning the Shema is true and needs no justification. This is how Yeshua understood it as he drew upon these Scriptures in his answering the question of the two greatest commandments. The glorious Name of God (YHVH) is followed by another name of God (\u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5\u05bc), this serves to illustrate a proper name as elsewhere the name may be description of multiple things, as is in the example of the name \u201cadam\u201d<\/span><\/em> for man (Bereshit \/ Genesis 3:17<\/span><\/em>, adam) and the word adam also describing the earth (Bereshit \/ Genesis 2:7<\/span><\/em>, adamah). Here God\u2019s name is proper, this name only describes the Lord God of Israel and nothing else. The YHVH is repeated in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6:4<\/span><\/em> in order to describe His uniqueness. There is a particular significance to knowing a persons name. In the Hebrew bible, knowing a persons name allows us to know who they are since it is descriptive of who they are and their lives. When Samson\u2019s father Manoach encountered the Angel in the book of Judges 13<\/span><\/em>, he asked the Angel for his name. The Angel refused, saying that his name is hidden, beyond Manoach\u2019s understanding. In the Torah, we read how Abraham, Sarah, and Joshua underwent name changes. The most significant of which was Jacob having his name changed to Israel, which changed his entire path in life, his encounter with God even led to his walking differently, as it should for all of us! (see Bereshit \/ Genesis 32:22-32<\/span><\/em>) Note also something in the opening chapters of Shemot \/Exodus (chapter 2) we read of an unnamed man from the tribe of Levi marrying an unnamed woman, having an unnamed son, with an unnamed sister. The Torah says Pharaoh\u2019s daughter (unnamed) raises this baby boy from the water to raise him as her son and she calls him Moshe saying \u201cFor I drew him from the water.\u201d<\/span><\/em> (\u05d5\u05b7\u05bd\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05be\u05dc\u05b8\u0596\u05d4\u05bc \u05dc\u05b0\u05d1\u05b5\u0591\u05df \u05d5\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05e7\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05a4\u05d0 \u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05d5\u05b9\u0599 \u05de\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u0594\u05d4 \u05d5\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b9\u0595\u05d0\u05de\u05b6\u05e8 \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05a5\u05d9 \u05de\u05b4\u05df\u05be\u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b7\u0596\u05d9\u05b4\u05dd \u05de\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05b4\u05d9\u05ea\u05b4\u05bd\u05d4\u05d5\u05bc) The root of \u05de\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05b4\u05d9\u05ea\u05b4\u05bd\u05d4\u05d5\u05bc is the verb \u05dc\u05de\u05e9\u05d5\u05ea, meaning to fish out, to extricate or to rescue. Some Jewish commentaries use this analogy from Moshe\u2019s name to make reference to Moshe rescuing Israel from death and drowning in the Sea of Reeds when Pharaoh\u2019s chariots were intent upon destroying the people. It is interesting how some commentaries analyze the name of Moshe by providing the etymology of his name:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open the pages of almost any recent Bible dictionary, Exodus commentary, or biblical reference work and you will likely find the name Moses linked to the Egyptian verb ms\/msi (\u201cto give birth\u201d) or the related noun ms (\u201cchild,\u201d \u201cson\u201d<\/span><\/em>),various forms of which occur in Egyptian royal and non-royal names. The verb ms is incorporated into the royal birth names of New Kingdom pharaohs Ahmose (\u201cthe moon god is born\u201d<\/em>) and Thutmose (\u201cThoth is born\u201d<\/span><\/em>) as the suffix -mose. In the Greek forms of the names, the verb ms becomes -mosis: Amosis and Thutmosis. The name Ramesses follows a similar pattern: Re-mes-su (\u201cRe is the one who bore him\u201d<\/span><\/em>). The verb is also found in non-royal personal names such as Ptahmose (\u201cPtah is born\u201d<\/em>) and Ramose (\u201cRe is born\u201d<\/span><\/em>). All of the above names feature what scholars call a divine or theophoric element, but the Hebrew name Moses stands alone in the biblical text; it has no god\u2019s name attached to it. Scholars have debated whether it may have once included a god\u2019s name that was later dropped. (https:\/\/www.bibleodyssey.org<\/span><\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Moshe\u2019s birth story, we read how Pharaoh commanded to kill all the Jewish baby boys and two Jewish midwives (Shiphra and Puah) feared God and allowed the boys to live. As Moshe is growing up, he knows his birth right, and defends the Jewish people killing an Egyptian taskmaster and then fleeing to Midian. He marries a gentile woman (Tziporah) the daughter of Yitro, and has two children (both boys). (Note an allusion here to the Annointed One of God also calling the nations to the truth of Torah and the God of Israel.) While tending the sheep, the Lord God appears to him in a bush that burned but was not consumed. HaShem Called to Moshe by name (Shemot \/ Exodus 3:1-6<\/span><\/em>) and the Lord God introduces Himself as YHVH saying, \u201cI am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\u201d<\/em><\/span> The Lord God calls Moshe to a new way of life, to lead His people Israel out from Egypt. Moses asks the Lord when \u201cI come to the children of Israel, and I say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers has sent me to you,\u2019 and they say to me, \u2018What is His name?\u2019 what shall I say to them?\u201d<\/span><\/em> (Shemot \/ Exodus 3:13<\/span><\/em>) \u201cGod said to Moses, I will be what I will be, and He said, \u2018So shall you say to the children of Israel, I will be has sent me to you.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lord God Almighty has just revealed His name to Moshe and to the Children of Israel. This is the personal name of God, of who He is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why we do not articulate the name of God when we read it, instead we say HaShem, Adonai, or Elohim (Note in our English bibles we find the words \u201cLord\u201d and \u201cGod\u201d<\/span><\/em> representing the YHVH in the Hebrew text). According to the rabbinic literature, the only time the name of God was spoken was during Yom Kippur within the holy of holies. In addition to this, there are alternate interpretations on Shemot \/ Exodus 3:12<\/span><\/em> when the Lord introduces Himself to Moshe. According to the Metsudah Chumash (Metsudah Publications 2009) translates this verse in Shemot \/ Exodus 3:12 He [God] said, \u201cBecause I will be with you [My Word will be your support]… This will be the proof that I have sent you\u2014when you bring the people out of Egypt\u2014you will serve [before] Elohim on this mountain.\u201d (MC)<\/span><\/em> The interpretation here is that \u201cI will be what I will be\u201d<\/span><\/em> should be interpreted as \u201cI will be with you\u201d<\/span><\/em> in good times and I will be with you in bad times. Therefore in the revelation of God\u2019s name to His people, we see the promise of His always being with us, we do not have to be afraid because our powerful God is by our side, in our midst! This then is consistent with what is written elsewhere in the Tanach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bereshit \/ Genesis 26:3<\/strong>
Stay temporarily in this land and I will be with you and bless you [My Word will be your support and I will bless you], for to you and your descendants I will give all these lands. (Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation])<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Shemot \/ Exodus 4:12<\/strong>
I [My Word] will be with your mouth, and teach you what to say.\u201d (Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation])<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bereshit \/ Genesis 31:3<\/strong>
And the LORD said to Jacob: \u2018Return to the land of your fathers, and to your native land; and I will be with you.\u2019 (Modernized Tanakh – Based on JPS 1917, Edited by Adam Cohn)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 31:23<\/strong>
And He charged Joshua son of Nun: \u201cBe strong and resolute: for you shall bring the Israelites into the land that I promised them on oath, and I will be with you.\u201d (Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joshua 1:5<\/strong>
No one shall be able to resist you as long as you live. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. (Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rashi states that the phrase \u201cBecause I will be with you\u201d<\/span><\/em> is a response to both the first and last question of \u201cWho am I that I should go to Pharaoh?\u201d<\/span><\/em> saying to Moshe that it is not your [mission] but, rather, Mine, for I will be with you, and the vision that you saw in the thornbush is a sign to you that it is I who sent you and that you will succeed. (Rashi on Shemot \/ Exodus 3:12 Part 1<\/span><\/em>) The point of the Torah command is in knowing God is with us, His Messiah has delivered us, and His Spirit empowers us! What we are being taught here is the power of the command, from the NT account from Paul to the Romans, it has the power to bring both death and life (read Romans 6-8<\/span><\/em>) but that life comes only by the power of God working in our lives! This is consistent with what Moshe said in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 6<\/span><\/em> of the purpose of the command is so that it goes well for us and that we will multiply in \u05d0\u05b6\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05d6\u05b8\u05d1\u05b7\u05ea \u05d7\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05d1 \u05d5\u05bc\u05d3\u05b0\u05d1\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1 \u201ca land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d<\/span><\/em> This is also consistent with all of Scripture, such as in 1 Kings 11:38<\/span><\/em>, \u05d5\u05b0\u05d4\u05b8\u05d9\u05b8\u0597\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b4\u05dd\u05be\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2\u05ae \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea\u05be\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc\u05be\u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05a3\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b2\u05e6\u05b7\u05d5\u05bc\u05b6\u05da\u05b8\u0592 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d4\u05b8\u05dc\u05b7\u05db\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05a3 \u05d1\u05b4\u05d3\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05db\u05b7\u0597\u05d9 \u05d5\u05b0\u05e2\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05b4\u05a8\u05d9\u05ea\u05b8 \u05d4\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05a4\u05e8 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e2\u05b5\u05d9\u05e0\u05b7\u05d9\u0599 \u05dc\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05a4\u05d5\u05b9\u05e8 \u05d7\u05bb\u05e7\u05bc\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea\u05b7\u05d9\u0599 \u05d5\u05bc\u05de\u05b4\u05e6\u05b0\u05d5\u05ba\u05ea\u05b7\u0594\u05d9 \u05db\u05bc\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05a5\u05e8 \u05e2\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05b8\u0596\u05d4 \u05d3\u05bc\u05b8\u05d5\u05b4\u05a3\u05d3 \u05e2\u05b7\u05d1\u05b0\u05d3\u05bc\u05b4\u0591\u05d9 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d4\u05b8\u05d9\u05b4\u05a3\u05d9\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05e2\u05b4\u05de\u05bc\u05b8\u0597\u05da\u05b0 \u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05b8\u05e0\u05b4\u05a8\u05d9\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b0\u05da\u05b8\u05a4 \u05d1\u05b7\u05bd\u05d9\u05b4\u05ea\u05be\u05e0\u05b6\u05d0\u05b1\u05de\u05b8\u05df\u0599 \u05db\u05bc\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05a3\u05e8 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e0\u05b4\u05a3\u05d9\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b0\u05d3\u05b8\u05d5\u05b4\u0594\u05d3 \u05d5\u05b0\u05e0\u05b8\u05ea\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05a5\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b0\u05da\u05b8\u0596 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea\u05be\u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05c2\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05bd\u05dc\u05c3 11:38 If you heed all that I command you, and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight, keeping My laws and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you and I will build for you a lasting dynasty as I did for David. I hereby give Israel to you; (Sefaria.org)<\/span><\/em> These things speak of having faith, and to being faithful to the Lord God in heaven according to His Word! The rabbis even support this NT concept of \u201cwith regard to the mitzvot God assists the individual in their performance.\u201d<\/em><\/span> (Talmud Bavli Toma 39a<\/span><\/em>) We need the Lord, and we need His deliverer (Yeshua) and most of all, we need His Holy Spirit in our lives! Without the presence of God dwelling in our midst (our hearts) we would have no hope. This is how the Torah and the Gospel Message go hand in hand, without the Torah, it would be with great difficulty to understand the NT text!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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