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n° 888 Shabbat Shalom Newsletter August 8, 2020 Eikev 18 Ab, 5780 עֵקֶב Deuteronomy 7:12 -11:25

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We pray every 2021 Tour in with Autumn Feasts Zeff Zaremsky and his team ummer is the time to prepare for the upcoming week for the Jewish eff Zaremsky is organizing a Tour to Israel in Sfeasts. Are you preparing your virtual congrega- J2021, April 26-May 5, all together 10 days, 9 tion to reach out your Jewish friends? nights. Only $2,990 for the land tour; the flight The current pandemic has demonstrated that tickets are not included in the price. great opportunities are at our doors to reach people Friendship Ministry According to Jeff: “The best tour ever has just as never before. People are not afraid to enter your gotten better.” congregation since they will do it from the comfort Here is a small overview of the first few of their home, and in this way their privacy is pre- nights: 1st night overlooking the Mediterranean and their partner. I served. A good way to gather people is to advertise Sea. 2nd night overlooking the Dead Sea. 3rd hotel in the heart of , within walking your celebration on the Internet. Here again is some distance to the Western Wall. 4th hotel overlook- practical information about the autumn feasts. suggest our friends ing the Sea of Galilee. This tour includes many more Feast of Trumpets: , the Jewish views of spectacular Israel. new year. There are no better locations in Israel than Day of Atonement: , the holiest day to pray from August these. Get your deposit in now to reserve your of the Jewish calendar, the day of judgment and hotel room, with still plenty of time to cancel for forgiveness. a full refund if things don’t improve by then for Feast of : Seven days of Sukkoth, the 8 through 15, for travel. Check out Jeff’s new video of the tour. If feast of the harvest, reminding Yisrael of their stay you are interested, contact Jeff at jeff@jewish- in the wilderness. heritage.net Simchat : Rejoicing in the Torah – the Alexander Vashchinin. completion of the Torah-reading cycle and the 2021 French Speaking beginning of a new cycle for the new year. Tour in Israel with Richard Elofer It is time to begin thinking about and making The leaders of this ichard Elofer has been invited by the Mon- plans to have an online presence during these feasts. Rtreal Jewish Adventist ministry to organize This is a great opportunity to hold friendship events an educational tour in Israel. Hoping that the that are attractive to , since most of the syna- ministry in the Euro- current pandemic of the Covid 19 will be over, gogues will be closed. Let us invite our Jewish friends this French speaking tour is being planned for and neighbors to celebrate these festive moments October 2021. We will communicate the details on-line with us. The schedule this year for these Asia Region. It is a for this tour later (exact dates, cost, etc…). If you are interested, please contact Richard Elofer at feasts is: [email protected]. Rosh Hashanah: Shabbat, 19 September, begin- huge territory which ning Friday evening, 18 September in with Yom Kippur: Monday, 28 September, beginning r oger ang D . R L with Kol Nidre Sunday evening, 27 September r. Roger Lang has been invited to lead a ser- includes Russia, : Shabbat 3 October, beginning Friday Dvice in London. We encourage everyone to Succoth connect to this virtual meeting to be edified and evening, 2 October, through 10 October encouraged. Here is more information about this Simchat Torah: Sunday, 11 October Ukraine and most of event. Do you want Jewish Adventist Friendship (JAF-UK) your the countries of the invites you to and celebrations ‘Learn how to do a Kabbalat Service’ former Soviet Union. with to be published Dr Roger Lang (and his Family) on here end us let’s pray for him and Saturday/Sabbath 29th August 2020 ? S Time: 18:00pm – 20:00pm (BST) your information. Meeting ID: 916 6284 1214 his family. Passcode: 223558

Dutch Edition: Emails: Hubert Paulleta SHABBAT SHALOM English: [email protected] English Edition: Richard-Amram Elofer A weekly Journal of information and training Dutch: [email protected] French Edition: Sabine Baris published by French: [email protected] German Edition: German: [email protected] Yaw Heiser the General Conference — Portuguese Edition: Portuguese: [email protected] Carlos Muniz Office of Adventist Mission Russian Edition: Russian: [email protected] Alexandra Obrevko World Jewish Adventist Friendship Center Spanish: [email protected] Spanish Edition: Claudia Masiero https://wjafc.globalmissioncenters.org Ekev, Parasha’s Title He will love you, bless you and make fruits of the : wheat, barley, vines (grapes), figs, pomegranates, olive, Ekev, Akev for you numerous. He will bless the fruit) עֵ֣קֶב he The word English pronunciation) is the sec- honey (translated by some as “dates”). of your womb, the fruit of your land, ond Hebrew word of our T your grain, your wine, your oil, the – a word that is used 13 times in the not to be haughty . The first use is in connec- calves of your herds, and the lambs he Torah states, “Take care that you tion with humanity’s salvation: “… he shall of your flocks, in the land that He do not forget HASHEM your God bruise your head, and you shall bruise promised your fathers that He would Tby not keeping His mitzvoth, ordi- -Akev)” (Genesis 3:15 NKJV). © freebibleimages.org give to you. (Deuteronomy 7:13) nances and statutes that I am command עֵ֣קֶב) his heel The dictionary Nidotte says Genesis 3:15 ing you today. . . . then your heart will es, when you keep and do them, that The second result of observing God’s “describes the archetypal seizing of the be haughty and you will forget HASHEM HASHEM your God will keep with you the commandments is BLESSING (BRACHA). serpent at the heel of humankind. Here your God. He brought you out from the kindness that He swore to your Since our deeds further only what is in the heel serves as the point of impact for land of Egypt, from the house of slav- fathers” (Deuteronomy 7:12). The final accordance with His will, and our success the manifestation of hostility between the ery” (Deuteronomy 8:11, 14). The verses of the preceding parashah explain means the success of God’s work on earth, seed of humankind and the serpent.” says that there is a Commandment not that the truly righteous individual should He grants us success in all our ways. Hirsch says this parashah was to be haughty. Rebbe Ila’a explains: “Any not expect to receive his personal reward The third result of observing God’s com- called ’Ekev because it describes what fol- time the Torah employs the phrase ‘guard for his good deeds while he himself is still mandments is MULTIPLYING (ARBEH). lows “on the heel” of obedience to Hashem. yourself, lest...’ the Torah is warning us to living on the earth. Scripture describes Biological multiplication is also presented Hence, the Sages of Yisrael learn from not violate a Law—in this case, not to for- the blessings that will come to the com- as a blessing from God. Each generation get God. And when the Torah continues this expression the spirit in which the munity if it lives in accordance with its gives repeated, multiple expression to our ‘... and you become haughty, and forget commandments are to be fulfilled. The duty. These blessings come as a result of spirit, to our heart, and to the faithfulness Hashem your God...’ God is telling us that commandments are interconnected, and such a life, but they are not rewards to be of our deeds, and our increasing popula- the one inevitably leads to the other: if one that appears insignificant in our eyes pursued for their own sake. Rabbi Hirsch tion extends the borders of God’s kingdom you become haughty, the end result will Parasha for this Week may have far-reaching repercussions. All comments, “That is why all the com- on earth. (2009, 157). be that you will forget God.” (Sotah 5a) the commandments are valid, without mandments of the Torah are subsumed Rabbi Hirsch concludes: “Parallel to Rabbi Hirsch takes this concept a step exception. We must consider them all here under one term Hamishpatim—they this richness is the increasing thriving further, saying that arrogance is, in and equally important. That is why Yeshua are none other than legal axioms through of the riches of the soil, as described in of itself, the beginning of forgetfulness of says “whoever breaks one of the least of which the many varied aspects and rela- the continuation of the verse.” (Ibid.) “He God. The Talmud Sotah also understands these commandments and teaches oth- tionships of physical and spiritual life of will also bless the fruit of …” is merely the that Hashem says concerning anyone with Eikev - ers the same, shall be called least in the both individual and nation receive their continuation of “multiplying”—the Land the trait of haughtiness, “he and I can- kingdom of heaven. But whoever keeps rightful due, in accordance with the stan- will blossom and meet the needs of the עֵקֶב not coexist in this world.” Why? Because and teaches them, this one shall be called dard of Tsedek, the Divinely-set ideal state increased population.. the arrogant individual is so full of him- great in the kingdom of heaven. For I of the world.” . Parasha Overview: tell you that unless your righteousness Faithful to God self that he loses his recognition of all exceeds that of the Pharisees and Torah Keeping the Mitzvot hapter 8 of Deuteronomy is a higher authority—including The Higher Deuteronomy 7:12 - 11:25 scholars, you shall never enter the king- his week’s parashah, ’Ekev, records new exhortation to be faithful to Authority. (aish.com) dom of heaven!” (Matthew 5:19-20). ’Ekev Moshe’s words to the people of CHashem and His commandments: Moshe continues, “You may say in your f Bnei Yisrael (Children of d) who gives them wealth and denotes something that was not deliber- Yisrael before his death, as does the “You are to take care to do the whole mitz- heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand ately sought, something that one did not T vah that I am commanding you today, so has made me this wealth.’ Rather you are to Yisrael) will carefully ob- success. remainder of this fifth book of the Torah, have in mind. The Sages of Yisrael say (Deuteronomy). that you may live and multiply and go remember HASHEM your God, for it is He serve even those “minor” Nor did Hashem drive out the that in each generation attention must Knowing that he will not enter the in and possess the land that HASHEM who gives you power to make wealth, in order mitzvot (commandments) that Canaanites because of the people be paid especially to the observance of Promised Land, Moshe spends his final swore to your fathers” (Deuteronomy 8:1). to establish His covenant that He swore to I those commandments that tend to be days preparing the Jewish nation for Eretz Yisrael is promised to be a great your fathers—as it is this day” (Deuteronomy are often “trampled underfoot,” of Yisrael’s righteousness, but neglected in that generation because they their future. He cautions them to adhere land of milk of honey, but only if the 8:17-18). During the 40 years in the desert, Moshe promises them that they rather because of the sins of the seem trivial. These are the “mitsvoth on to all the mitzvoth (commandments) of people are faithful to Hashem. During the the Jewish people received their daily portion will be the most blessed of the Canaanites; for the road from Si- which people tread with their heels, leav- Hashem, especially when they enter the time of Eliyahu Hanavi, it did not rain of , “bread from heaven;” water flowed ing them behind as they walk over them in the land for more than three years. from a rock, and their clothing grew with nations of the earth. nai had been a catalogue of large land—their physical and spiritual welfare and trample them because they consider and prosperity depend on their actions. People were dying because the country them. Since Hashem took care of all their Moshe tells Bnei Yisrael that and small sins and rebellions them to be of little significance.” He reminds them that if they keep the became so parched that no would needs, they were constantly reminded they they will conquer Eretz (land) against Hashem and Moshe. In fact, the word ’Ekev, is an unusual word. mitzvoth, in return Hashem will fulfill His grow and the stored food was depleted. could not survive if it were not for Hashem. Since the word’s literal translation is derived In Deuteronomy 8, the land of Yisrael But when they entered the Promised Land, little by little, so that the promises to them: “And He will love you Moshe details events that hap- from ‘heel’, the back of the foot, it is there- and bless you and multiply you. He will is described as a land of blessings: “For these miracles stopped. Instead, Hashem’s land will not be overrun by wild pened after Hashem spoke the fore taken to mean ‘that which follows’, as also bless the fruit of your womb and the HASHEM your God is bringing you into blessings were revealed through nature. animals in the hiatus before Bnei 10 Commandments at Sinai, the heel follows the foot. Thus, the verse produce of your soil ...” (Deuteronomy a good land—a land of wadis with water, To keep the people from thinking they describes the relationship with Hashem that 7:13). In Chapter 9, Moshe reviews the sin of springs and fountains flowing out in could credit themselves for their success, Yisrael are able to organize and culminating in his bringing will result from our observance of the laws of Yisrael in the worship of the Golden the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and Moshe stressed that it is Hashem who settle the entire land. down the second set of Tablets and statutes—a relationship of spiritual and Calf and warns Yisrael not to repeat their barley, vines, figs and pomegranates, a deserves the credit just as before: “Rather you are to remember HASHEM your God, After again warning Yisrael to on Yom Kippur. physical bounty. In his commentary on this past mistakes. land of olive oil and honey, a land where verse, employs the metaphor of the you will eat bread with no poverty, where for it is He who gives you power to make burn all carved idols of Canaan- Aharon’s passing is recorded, as heel of the foot in a more literal fashion: “And God’s Blessings you will lack nothing, a land whose stones wealth, in order to establish His covenant ite gods, Moshe stresses that the is the elevation of the ’im to due to your listening if a [person listens] to n commenting on the text: “He are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig that He swore to your fathers—as it is this copper. So you will eat and be full, and you day” (Deuteronomy 8:18). Hashem wants Torah is indivisible and not open be Hashem’s ministers. the simple mitzvoth which people (usually) [Hashem] will love you, bless you, and trample with their heels.” (Rashi, on Devarim multiply you. He will also bless the will bless HASHEM your God for the good His people to continuously remember that to partial observance. I land He has given you” (Deuteronomy 8:7- if they have such a blessing in their land, Moshe points out that the 70 7:12) Instead of stressing the grandiose, or fruit of your womb and the produce of Moshe describes the land of people who went down to Egypt the “important” mitzvoth, Rashi stresses the your soil, your grain and your new wine 10). But this land will provide everything it is because God has blessed them. This is only if Hashem’s blessings are on it. In why it is customary to say, Baruch HaShem Yisrael as a land of wheat, barley, have now become like the stars light or easy mitzvoth, the ones that are per- and your oil, the increase of your herds formed in a nonchalant fashion. If those and the young of your flock, in the land this text is listed the famous “7 Species” or —“Blessed is God.” grapes, figs, and pomegranates, of the heavens in abundance. small, seemingly less-significant mitzvoth that He swore to your fathers to give you” I had climbed the mountain to are fulfilled, Hashem will fulfill the covenant a land of oil-yielding olives and After specifying the great (Deuteronomy 7:13), Rabbi Hirsch gives get the stone tablets - tablets of He made with our forefathers and will treat us three results or blessings of our faith- the covenant that G-d had made date honey. of the Land of Yisrael, Moshe us with kindness. fulness: Moshe cautions Yisrael not to speaks the second paragraph of . The first result of observing God’s with you. I remained on the become haughty and think that the Shema, conceptualizing the The righteous and his commandments is LOVE (AHAVA). God mountain forty days and forty blessings regards us as His faithful servant, for we nights without eating food or their success in the land of Yisra- blessings that accompany keep- he parashah begins with the verse: set aside our will in deference to His: drinking water. el is a result of their own powers ing mitzvot, and the curses that “Then it will happen, as a result of therefore, He loves us, as a master loves (Deuteronomy 9:9) or vigor; rather, it is Hashem (G- result from non-observance. Tyour listening to these ordinanc- his faithful servant. © freebibleimages.org Apostolic Writings Stories and Traditions Inspirational Corner . However, to their amazement, 49:14 - 51:3 Parents can and should Romans 14:1-9 What I Should Speak About when they returned, the Baal Shem Tov his Shabbat is the second Shabbat after here is a story of a rabbi who is asked had already finished his prayers and was Tisha B’Av. We are in the period called, to give a guest lecture in a synagogue. waiting for them. interest their children abbi Shaul who is the author of this the Rabbi or worship leader open the To- Shiva D’nechemta—”Seven weeks of The synagogue’s rabbi cautions him, letter to gives a lesson of tolerance rah scrolls for a reading of a portion of the Tcomfort.” The seven Haftarot of the weeks be- T They asked the Baal Shem Tov, “Why did in the varied knowledge Rand acceptation of others, those who parashah. The reading of the parashah from tween Tish’a B’av and Rosh Hashana are proph- “Don’t speak about Shabbat. Many of the the Rebbe finish his prayers so much ear- are thinking differently of us within our com- the Torah scrolls is done on Mondays, Thurs- esies of comfort and hope for Yisrael and for congregants are not Shabbat observant. And lier this Shabbat?” found in the sacred munity: “Now accept the one who is weak day, and Shabbat. G-d’s people at large. The Isaiah has don’t speak about Kashruth. Many of the The Baal Shem Tov replied, “I will ex- congregants don’t keep Kosher. Also, don’t in faith, but not for the purpose of disputes In the time of Yeshua and Rabbi Shaul, prophesied in his book that because of the sins plain this with the following parable. pages. But if they about opinions.” (Romans 14:1). It is so easy speak about learning Torah. Many congre- these two days were celebrated by observant of Yisrael and their constant disobedience, G-d Many people were standing near a tree, to lose the purpose of our mission, spending gants don’t make time to learn Torah. The Jews who wanted to be faithful to the rabbin- will allow the power of Babylon to deport His on the top of which there was a beautiful would interest their time to discuss private opinions and not to ical prescriptions. These people were fasting people from the Promised Land. However, G-d visiting rabbi asked, “Then, please tell me, bird. In order to catch the bird, they de- share the good news of Yeshua. and added special prayers on their liturgy is the G-d of Yisrael and will be the G-d of Yis- what should I speak about?” “Why,” says the sons and daughters in According to Rabbi Shaul, there are people on these special days. Fasting on other days rael forever. That is why, reading Isaiah 40 last synagogue rabbi, “speak about !”? cided that each person will stand on the who are eating only vegetables and who are than Yom Kippur was eating only vegetables week, we have seen that Yisrael has not been other’s shoulder, until the one on top will the Word of God, they considered in our text as “weak.” It is written: not any meat. We have an allusion of these rejected, that Hashem will comfort them and Let us Not be Yenemites reach the bird and catch it.” “One person has faith to eat anything, but the two days in the besorah. Yeshua was giving a requests His end time people to comfort Yis- Rabbi was asked to speak as a guest “The same is with us,” said the Baal Shem must be interested in weak eats only vegetables.” (Romans 14:2). teaching to his disciples: “Then Yeshua spoke rael, assuring them that G-d has forgiven their lecturer in a synagogue. He asked Tov. “The only way I can reach to the high- It is not an easy text, especially for vegetari- this parable to some who trusted in them- sins. In this week’s Haftarah, prophetically and the local Rabbi, “Is there anything er spiritual spheres is when I place each it themselves. They an people. Today to be vegetarian is a way to metaphorically Isaiah describes the Exile of A selves that they were righteous, while holding that I shouldn’t speak about that might be save the resources of the planet, it is an im- one of you one on top of the other (in a others in contempt.” (Luke 18:9) to illustrate Yisrael and their feeling of abandonment: “But too sensitive?” The rabbi replied, “No. Speak must be familiar with portant role we received from God as steward spiritual sense) and thus, with your help, his teaching, while he was in the temple, he said: ‘Hashem has forsaken me, Hashem about whatever you want. My congregants of God’s creation. However, there are always I could get to where I want to reach. How- its teachings and, gave the example of two different worshipers, has forgotten me.’” (Isaiah 49:14). Zion is the are Yenemites.” My friend was puzzled by people who use this text to speak against veg- ever, when you all left, I lost your support one was a Pharisee and the second one was Temple Mount, and for the Jewish people this the words. Yenemites? He had heard etarians, or who say that vegetarianism is not and thus the ability to reach the spiritual as God commanded a taxes collector. The of the Pharisee is a synonym of Jerusalem, the eternal city of of Yemenites, but surely the congregants what the Bible teaches and according to this G-d and the capital of Yisrael, the city to which was the prayer of a self-righteous man, he didn’t come from Yemen. The visitor Rabbi heights.” text the vegetarians are “weak” in their faith. all eyes of the Jews turn. It is on behalf of the Israel, speak of it “when It is clearly not the teaching of this text. To said to God in order to increase his merits: gave his talk with great vim and vigor urging people of Yisrael that Zion speaks, no matter he olden oin understand the meaning of what Rabbi Shaul “I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I the listeners to higher levels of observance T G C thou sittest in thine get.” (Luke 18:12). These two days of fast were where the people are: near or far, Zion speaks. man walking on a dark street lost said, we, as always, have to put this text in is We also find that the L-rd cannot forget Yisra- and learning. After the services, he and the Mondays and Thursdays. a bag of small change. He knew context, and to check if our conclusion is in el, as a woman cannot forget her children: “Can local rabbi greeted the congregants as they house, and when thou agreement with the other teaching of Rabbi After the death and resurrection of Yesh- left synagogue. One man congratulated the that if he asked people to provide ua, when Jews and Gentiles accepted Yeshua, a woman forget her nursing baby or lack com- A Shaul. Rabbi Shaul was a Torah observant, he passion for a child of her womb? Even if these speaker on his talk, “It was just what the guy light and help him search for his small walkest by the way, was a Jew and spoke according to his knowl- a new situation was created. They started to sitting next to me needed to hear!” Said the change, they would decline. They would live together, while before, never a Jew would forget, I will not forget you.” (49:15). What great edge of the Jewish culture and traditions. love! There is no stronger love than the love of local rabbi to the speaker, “See. I told you they consider it a waste of their time. when thou liest down, go to the house of a Gentile. In this context, Never he would advocate non kosher food, a mother for her baby, and the prophet com- were Yenemites—from the Yiddish word What did he do? He took a golden coin Pharisees Jews who accepted Yeshua, as and when thou risest and he certainly, on many occasion ate only pares the love of G-d for His people to the love ‘yenem,’ meaning ‘others.’ They don’t take those mentioned in Acts 15:5, who thought and placed it on the floor. He then begged vegetables because he did not find kosher of a mother feeding her baby. Hashem loves His messages to heart, they always think you are that we should observe all the prescriptions the people around him for light to help up.” Deuteronomy 11:19. meat on the market. people with an unconditional and everlasting speaking to the other guy.” Let us strive to of the Oral Law given by the Sanhedrin and him find his lost golden coin. When the The context of this text is not vegetarian- love: “Behold, I have engraved you on the palms NOT be Yenemites and to take what we learn ism, because in this text we read: “One person other Rabbis, continued to fast on Mondays passers by heard that he lost a golden Those who desire their of My hands. Your walls are continually before to heart and to action!” esteems one day over another while another and Thursdays, they continued to practice Me.” (49:16a). We remember that G-d asked the coin they stopped with their lanterns to judges every day alike. Let each be fully con- their religion in the same way as before. On children to love and High Priest to engrave the names of the tribes Baal Shem Tov and his help. Now, as the street was lit, in addition vinced in his own mind.” (5). Those who like the other hand, Gentiles did not consider of Yisrael on stones fastened to his ephod as a to the golden coin, he also collected the to spend hours discussing opinions are using Disciples reverence God must talk themselves subjected to these Jewish prac- memorial before Hashem. But when G-d en- smaller coins. this text to teach that we don’t need to keep tices which were not written in the Torah. he Baal Shem Tov used to spend graves the names of Yisrael, it is not on an ex- many hours in prayer. His disciples This, according to our sages, was the case of His goodness, His the Shabbat in order to be faithful to Yeshua. Thus, when a Gentile invited a Jew to eat in ternal material but on His own hands, on the These texts are not about people who his home a Monday or a Thursday, the Gen- would finish their prayer earlier with Moshe and the people of Israel whom palms of His hands. This means Yisrael is and T he took out of Egypt. The generation majesty, and His power, would like to respect the biblical principle of tile cooked normal biblical (Kosher) food, will be constantly before His eyes to love and and then wait for their Rebbe. Only then kosher food, or about people who would like but the Jew was not comfortable eating meat protect them. And even after the walls of Zion would they go home and have their Shab- who left Egypt had committed many to be faithful to the , as revealed in His Word (even Kosher meat) on that special days, and are destroyed and His people are in exile, G-d bat meal. sins (, rebelling against G-d, observing the 4th commandments which re- refused to eat them asking his host to eat continues to keep an eye on them: “Your walls One Shabbat, the disciples decided to sending the spies etc.). As a result, they quires worshiping on Shabbat. Reading the and in the works of only vegetables. We can understand that in are continually before Me.” (49:16b). We also go home, have their meal and return to may not have merited to be resurrected at text further it is said: “The one who observes the context of Middle East hospitality, refus- find the promise of return from exile: “Your synagogue before their Rebbe finished his the time of Mashiach. ” that day does so to the Lord. The one who creation. (PP 504) ing eating some food would raised some con- children will come quickly. Your destroyers eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to flicts between Jews and Gentiles. and devastators will go away from you.” (49:17). God; and the one who abstains, abstains to When Rabbi Shaul heard about these con- From verse 18 and following, Isaiah envi- the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.” (Ro- flicts, he clearly said that those who make sions the gathering of Yisrael: “Lift up your mans 14:6). The context is clear, it is eating distinction between days and eat only vege- eyes around and see: all of them will gath- He will love you, bless you and not eating food in connection with days. tables and not meat are the weak people, in er and come to you.” (49:18). Here Hashem is Let’s remember the context, on the first the sense that they don’t understand their speaking to the land: “to you” they are coming and make you numerous. century, when the majority of the believers freedom in Yeshua. Although we don’t have back, “to you” they will gather. A conversation came from a sort of rabbinical Judaism, and to judge them until the Ruach Hakodesh will ensues between G-d and the Land. The Land He will bless the fruit of more and more new believers came from give them more light and they will under- is afraid that with all the destruction it has Gentiles, There was conflict between Ob- your womb, the fruit of stand that in Yeshua we don’t need to follow suffered there will be not enough space to ac- servant Jews and Gentiles. Why? There were commodate all of them, but G-d comforts the among these people, some who made distinc- these non biblical traditions. your land, your grain, Land as He comforts His people: “‘As I live’ —it tion between days in connection with . Rabbi Shaul shows in this chapter, that That means, they were ready to accept to eat Jews and Gentiles can live together, can eat is Hashem’s declaration— ‘you will wear them your wine, your oil, the meat and on some other days they did not together. Monday and Thursday are not spe- all as jewelry and bind them on like a bride.’ want to eat meat, but only vegetables. cial days about prayers and eating. For your waste and desolate places and your calves of your herds, Once again to understand the problem- Let’s remember that we are new creatures destroyed land will now be surely too small for atic of this chapter, we have to remember in Yeshua HaMashiach, and not subject any- the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you and the lambs of your some Jewish practices of the first century. At more to human prescriptions: “For none of us up will be far away. The children of your be- that time, there were two special days each lives for himself, and none dies for himself. reavement will yet say in your ears, ‘The place flocks, in the land that week; these days were Mondays and Thurs- For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we is too cramped for me! Make room for me to He promised your fathers days. In fact, they are still special days for the die, we die for the Lord. So whether we live settle in.’ Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who Jewish people today. Jews pray at home or in or die, we belong to the Lord. For this rea- has borne these for me? Wasn’t I bereaved of that He would give to you. synagogues three time a day, every day. But son Messiah died and lived again, so that He my children— barren, an exile and wander- the morning prayer of Mondays and Thurs- might be Lord of both the dead and the liv- ing? So who has raised these? Behold, I was left (Deuteronomy 7:13) day are special in synagogues, on that day, ing.” (Romans 14:7–9). alone— these, where were they?’” (49:18–21).