bamidbar/in the wilderness, commonly called numbers 13

8/14/2019 Bamidbar/in the Wilderness, Commonly Called Numbers 13

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Bamidbar/In the Wilderness, commonly calledNumbers 13 15

Parshah Shelach Lecha:

Send You

Wayne Ingallshttp://www.BeitTefillah.org


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Outline Shelach Lecha

Bamidbar 13 A Commandment to Send, or Not?

The Spies

Descendants of Anaq/Nephillim

Bamidbar 14 Back to Egypt Kalevs/Calebs Spirit

Bamidbar 15 Torah achat umishpat echad

Sins by Mistake Defiant Sin

Tzitziyot at several levels

Questions


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The Traditional Blessing Before

Reading the Torah Portion

Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,

asher bachar banu mikol-ha'amim, venatan lanu et-torato

Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim, King of the Universe,

who has chosen us from all peoples and has given us His Torah.

Baruch atah Adonay, noten hatorah

Blessed are You - Adonai, Giver of the Torah.


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Bamidbar 13


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Vayedabbarel-Mosheh lemor shelach lekha anashimveyaturu et-eretz kenaan asher-ani naten livney Yisrael iysh

echad iysh echad lematteh avotayv tishlachu kol nashiy bahem.

Bamidbar 13:1-2 (ISR) And ,spoke to Mosheh, saying2 Send men to spy out the land of Kenaan, which I am giving to the children of

Yisrael. Send one man from each tribe of their fathers, every one a leader

among them.

Shelach Lecha


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Shelach Lecha

Send men. The Artscroll Interlinear Chumash directly translates

Shelach Lecha as send forth-for you, and may beunderstood to mean send for yourself. Based on this, therabbinic understanding here is that Yah is saying: According

to your own understanding. I am not commanding you, but ifyou wish, you may send.

Thus, according to this view, YHWH is not actuallycommanding Israel to spy out the land, but allowing it

because of their unbelief that Yah will deliver them into theLand safely and lead them in the conquest of it.

Compare with Devarim/Deuteronomy 1: 19 36. Is there a discrepancy between these two descriptions?


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The Spies

Send one man from each tribe: Who represents Levi?

Hoshea Yehoshua, represents Ephraim

Caleb, son of a Kenizzite, represents Judah.

Significance of Joshua and Caleb.

Converts and the Temple

When did the spies report?


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The Descendants of Anaq

Bamidbar 13:22 (ISR) And they went up through the South andcame to Hebron. And Ahiman, Shshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anaq, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Tsoan in Mitsrayim.

Bamidbar 13:32-33 (ISR) And theygave the children of Yisral an evil

report of the land which they had spied out,

saying, The land through which we have

gone as spies is a land eating up its inhabitants,

and all the people whom we saw in it are men

of great size. 33 And we saw there the

Nephilim, sons of Anaq, of the Nephilim. And we were like

grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in their eyes.


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These really were the descendants of Anaq/Anak, since we meet them againlater:

Yehoshua/Joshua 15:13-14 (ISR) And to Kalb son of Yephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Yehudah, according to the command of to Yehoshua: Qiryath Arba, that is Hebron Arba was the father of Anaq.

14 And Kalb drove out the three sons of Anaq from there: Shshai, and Ahiman,

and Talmai, the children of Anaq.

but were these the Nephilim of Bereshiyt/Genesis 6?

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 theybore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, the men ofname.


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And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were intheir eyes.

Perspective is important. They first saw themselves as grasshoppers,then projected that self-image onto the image they thought the sons ofAnak saw in them.

(F)rom this account we learn that we must never underestimate thedestructive power of negative speech. Such speaking not onlydiscourages otherwise faithful people, but leads them to outrightrebellion. We must realize that the people in this case were not rebellingagainst Mosheh, but against Almighty Yahweh Himself. Rabbi Tom(Mordecai) Mitchell, Rabbi and Rosh Zaken of B'nai Yeshurun Nazarene Yisraelite Synagogue


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Eshkol

Bamidbar 13:23-24 (ISR) 23 And they came to the wadiEshkol, 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 themen of Yisrael 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 Yisral 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 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 toMitsrayim. 5 Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of

the congregation of the children of Yisral. 6 And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalb

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 stonethem with stones. Then the esteem of appeared in the

Tent of Meeting before all the children of Yisral.

The spies report caused despair and panic in the camp.

They wanted to stone Yehoshua and Kalev.

The presence of YHWH had to come topersonally intervene.


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Kalevs Different Spirit

Bamidbar 14:22-24 (ISR) for none of these men who have seen Myesteem 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 Kalb, because he has a different

spirit in him and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the landwhere he went, and his seed shall inherit it.

Different Spirit//Followed Yah completely: Compare with

Yehezqel/Ezekiel 36:22-27 (next slide).

Which tribe did Kalev represent?


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My Spirit and Ephraim

Yehezqel 36:22-27 Therefore say to the house of Yisral, Thus said the Master

, Ido not do this for your sake, O house of Yisral, but for My set-apart Names 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 , when I am set-apart, declares the Master

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 Icleanse 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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Bemidbar/Numbers 15: 3/Vayiqra/Leviticus 23: 1-2

(ISR Scriptures)

Whose Moedim are They Anyway?

Is there acontradiction

between these

verses?


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He Must Do Exactly As You Do

Numbers 15:14 (NIV) For the generations to come, whenever

an alien or anyone else living among you presents an offeringmade by fire as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, he must do

exactly as you do.

Ephesians 5:1-2 (NASB) Therefore be imitators of God, as

beloved children; 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved

you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to

God as a fragrant aroma.

Help Christians make a connection to Torah by showingthese verses to them using their own translations:

Was Paul using imagery from the Torah here?

What connection, if any, would Paul expect his readers to make?

Th C it R l


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The Community Rule

Numbers 15:15 (NIV) The community is to have

the same rules for you and for the alien living

among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the

generations to come. You and the alien shall be

the same before the LORD:

HaQahal chuqah achat.

Many possible translations forchuqah, including statute,

ordinance, fixed order. (Note that the word as used here is

singular, not plural). Achatis a feminine singular form ofechad.


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Torah achat, umishpat echad

Torah achat umishpat echad

Many possible translations ofmishpat, including justice,

ordinance, judgment, right-ruling, manner, statute. ordinance,

fixed order.

Bamidbar/Numbers 15: 16 (RSTNE3) One Torah and one ordinance

shall be for you, and for the ger that sojourns with you.

Bamidbar/Numbers 15: 16 (ISR) One Torah and one right-ruling

is for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.

Bamidbar/Numbers 15: 16 (JPCT) There shall be one law and one

ordinance for you and the proselyte who resides [with you].


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RSTNE Definition: Sojourner, Or Stranger, Or Convert To A

Form Of Judaism

Bamidbar/Numbers 15: 16 (RSTNE3) One Torah and one ordinance

shall be for you, and for the ger that sojourns with you.

What is ager?

The words Hebrew wordsger*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).

*Strongs H#1616 **Strongs H#5237


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RSTNE Definition: Foreign, Or Strange, As In Foreign Vine

What is a nokri?

Words above are in their lemma, or citation form

The Aramaic cognate is nokraya.

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.

Ephesians 2:19 (Peshitta)So, not being strangers (aksenaya), nor

sojourners (tautaba), but sons of the set apart city and sons of the

house of Eloha.


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Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Entry

1 Palm,Palestinian,CPA,Syras noun: stranger, foreigner, visitor

2 Syrstrange, foreign

3 Syrstrange, wondrous4 JLAGal (fem.) as noun: foreign country

What is an aksenaya?

However, in the Aramaic Targum Psalms it is used to translate

ivver(blind) in Psalm 146: 8:

Psalm 146:8-9 YHWH opens the eyes of the aksenaya.9

YHWH protects thegerim/giyora.; He supports the fatherless

and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked.

Bringing us back toger


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What is a tautaba?There are direct Aramaic cognates for the Hebrew wordger, but in Acts, Stephen

connects the Aramaic tautaba to the Hebrewger:

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 servethem, 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).


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Stranger things have happened

Some words translated as Stranger in the Aramaic Peshitta gospelsMattityahu/Mattai/Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I

was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger (geyr), and you took me

home;

38 And when did we see you a stranger (aksenaya), and took you home? or

naked, and clothed you?

43 and I was a stranger (aksenaya), and you did not take me home; and I wasnaked, and you did not clothe me; and I was sick and in prison, and you did not

visit me. 44 Then they will also answer and say: Maran, when did we see you

hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger (aksenaya), or naked, or sick, or in prison, and

did not minister to you?

Luqa/Luke 24:18 And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered andsaid to him: Are you only a stranger (nokraya)in Jerusalem, that you do not

know the things that have occurred there in these days?

Yochanon/John 10:5 But after a stranger (nokraya)the flock will not follow, but

it flees from him; because it knows not the voice of a stranger (nokraya).

Note the parallel usage


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Putting it Together

There are some different nuances, but the Messiah and the Brit

Chadashah writers essentiallygeyr,aksenaya,nokraya, and

tautabainterchangeably.

We have seen how each of these Aramaic words have been usedas the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew wordger.

Thus, this passage indicates that believers in the Messiah are no

longer considered ger no matter what their DNA might indicate:

Ephesians 2:19 (Peshitta)So, not being strangers

(aksenaya), nor sojourners (tautaba), but sons of the set

apart city and sons of the house of Eloha.


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The Terumah Offering

Bemidbar/Numbers 15: 17-21 (RSTNE) 17 And spoketo Moshe, saying,18 Speak to the children of Yisrael, and say to them, When

you come into the land where I bring you,19 Then it shall be, that, when you eat of the lechem of the

land, you shall offer up a terumah offering to

.20 You shall offer up a cake from the first of your dough fora terumah offering: as you do the terumah offering of thethreshing floor, so shall you present it.21 From the first of your dough you shall give to a terumah offering in your generations.

Terumah, from the Hebrew word rum to lift up, to arise, to be

high (above)


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The Terumah offering takes a portion of the bread tosanctify the entire amount of bread.

A lamb, bull or ox cannot sanctify the bread. It must bebread that makes the rest of the bread set-apart.

I believe Paul is referencing the Terumah offering when he says:

Romans 11: 16 (ISR) Now if the first-fruit is set-apart, the

lump is also. And if the root is set-apart, so are the branches.


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Anti-Missionaries often argue that there is noconcept of substitutionary offering in Judaism.

However, the entire concept of first-fruits, first-born

priesthood, and the Terumah offering refutes that.


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Bamidbar 15:22-25 (ISR) 22 And when you sin by mistake, and

do not do all these commands which

has spoken to Mosheh,23 all that has commanded you by the hand of Mosheh, from

the day 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, 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

Yisral, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was by mistake. Andthey shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to , and

their sin offering before ., for their mistake

If the congregation wants to fully obey Yah, but its shepherds have taught

that certain of Yahs instructions were outdated, legalism and bondage, isthe congregation guilty of a mistake or of defiant sin?

When You Sin By Mistake


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Bamidbar 15:26-30 (ISR) 26 And it shall be forgiven all thecongregation of the children of Yisral 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

, 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 Yisral and for the

stranger who sojourns in their midst.

Is the sojourner to obey a different Torah than the native-born

Israelite? To whom does the sojourner bring the offering? Could

this commandment have been obeyed during the time of the earthly

ministry of Yeshua?

When You Sin By Mistake


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Bamidbar 15:30-36 (ISR). 30 But the being who does whatever

defiantly, whether he is native or a stranger, he reviles , and that beingshall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has despised the

word of, and has broken His command, that being shall certainly be

cut off, his crookedness is upon him. 32 And while the children of

Yisral were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the

Sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him toMosheh and to Aharon, and to all the congregation. 34 And they put him

in under guard, because it had not been declared what should be done to

him. 35 And said to Mosheh, The man shall certainly be put to

death, all the congregation stoning him with stones outside the camp. 36

And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned himwith stones, as commanded Mosheh, and he died.

How does YHWH feel about defiant sin? Has this Scripture ever been

formed as a weapon against your Torah-obedient lifestyle?

Defiant Sin and the Sabbath Example


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Bamidbar 15:37-41 (ISR) 37 And spoke to Mosheh, saying,

38 Speak to the children of Yisral, and you shall say to them tomake 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 and shall do them, and notsearch 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 your Elohim, who

brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am

your Elohim.

Is this a commandment that can be obeyed today? Did Yeshua obey

this commandment? What is the purpose of this commandment?

Blue Cord Tzitziyot


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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 thatthey shall make for themselves fringes on the corners of theirgarments, throughout their generations, and they shall affix athread of sky blue [wool] on the fringe of each corner.

Rashi Comments:

blue The green-blue dye obtained from the chillazon (TheZohar says the blue color is produced from a certain fishin the sea of Kineret (Galilee) called Kineret after her.


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Tzitziyot

Bemidbar/Numbers 15: 38 (Judaica Press Complete Tanakh) Speak to thechildren of Israel and you shall say to them that they shall make forthemselves fringes on the corners of their garments, throughout theirgenerations, and they shall affix a thread of sky blue [wool] on the fringeof each corner.

Rashi Comments:

on the corners of their garments Corresponding to [the verse said inconnection with the exodus from Egypt]I carried you on the wings) ) of eagles (Exod. 19:4). On the four corners, but not on agarment of three or five [corners]. [This] corresponds to the four

expressions of redemption that were said in Egypt:I will take yououtI will save youI will redeem youI will take you (Exod. 6:6-7). - [Mid. Aggadah]


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Tzitziyot Tzitzitare 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 Tzevaotemployed in bringing this universe into being,according to Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Formation, which begins:

With 32 mystical paths of Wisdomengraved YahYHWH of Hoststhe Elohim of Yisraelthe living ElohimKing of the universeEl ShaddaiMerciful and GraciousHigh and ExaltedDwelling in eternityWhose name is qadosh -He is lofty and qadosh -And He created His universewith three books (Sepharim),with text (Sepher)with number (Sephar)

and with communication (Sippur).

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Gematria (numerical value of words)

First letter of the Torah=bet, 2Last 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

Yeshayahu/Isaiah 4:2a In that day the Branch (Targum:Messiah) of the YHWH shall be beautiful (tzevi) and glorious

(kavod).

Tiferet=Branch=Messiah


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Tzitziyot

Why is blue chosen above all other colors [for the tzitzit]? Because the blueresembles the sea, and the sea resembles the sky, and the sky resembles theThrone 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.

The Traditional Blessing After


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The Traditional Blessing After

Reading the Torah Portion

Baruch atah Adonay, Eloheynu melech ha'olam,

asher natan lanu torat emet, vechayey olam nata betochenu.

Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim, King of the

universe,

who has given us the Torah of truth, and has planted

everlasting life in our midst.

Baruch atah Adonay, noten hatorah

Blessed are You - Adonai, Giver of the Torah.


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Any Questions???

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Bamidbar/Numbers 16 18

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