Parasha Balak 5785/2024 (פָּרָשָׁה בָּלָק) reading:
Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:2-25:9
Melachim Bet (2 Kings) 5, (Micah) 5-6
Yehudah (Jude)
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Welcome to NI’s midrash on Parasha Balak. “Parasha Balak 5785 (2024): Balaam: Messianic Mercenary Minister For Hire” explains who is the prophet Balaam, how Balaam’s actions correspond with the Protestants, the Messianic ministry, and Orthodox Judah; and how sorcery is unwittingly practiced today in the two houses of Judah and Ephraim.
Balak: main topics
1. Who was Balaam the sorcerer?
2. How is Levi like him?
3. How are the Protestant and Messianic ministers like him?
4. Conquest of the Land of Canaan
Who was Balaam? False ministers vs true ministers
Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H1109
בִּלְעָם bil‛âm bil-awm’
Probably from H1077 and H5971; not (of the) people, that is, foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine: – Balaam, Bileam.Yochanan (John) 10:12-13
12 “But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
13 “The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.Philipim (Philippians) 3:18-19
18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross [stake] of Messiah:
19 whose end is destruction, whose elohim is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.Romim (Romans) 16:17-18
17 Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.
18 For those who are such do not serve our Adon Yeshua Messiah, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.Mattityahu (Matthew) 6:31-33
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 “For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 “But seek first the kingdom of Elohim and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Avraham and Balaam: themes
1. (Arose in the morning and saddled their donkeys)
2. Blessings of physical multiplicity
3. Shall be a blessing to all nations
4. Reciprocal blessing arrangement
5. Military victory and control over their enemies.
B’reisheet (Genesis) 12:1
1 Now Yahweh had said to Avram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.”B’reisheet (Genesis) 12:2-3
2 “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
3 “I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”B’reisheet (Genesis) 14:18-20
18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of Elohim Most High.
19 And he blessed him and said: “Blessed be Avram of Elohim Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
20 And blessed be Elohim Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave him a tithe of all.Ivrim (Hebrews) 7:4
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Avraham gave a tenth of the spoils.B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:2
2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Yitzhak, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:3
3 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitzhak his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which Elohim had told him.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:21
21 So Balaam rose in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moav.B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:16
16 and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:17-18
17 “blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
18 “In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Avraham and Balaam: common themes
1. (Arose in the morning and saddled their donkeys.)
2. Blessings of physical multiplicity
3. Shall be a blessing to all nations
4. Reciprocal blessing arrangement
5. Victory and control over their enemies.
Bemidbar (Numbers) 21:1
1 The king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Israel was coming on the road to Atharim. Then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners.Bemidbar (Numbers) 21:2-3
2 So Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
3 And Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called Hormah.
Addressing questions about contradictions
Bemidbar (Numbers) 20:18-19
18 Then Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
19 So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 20:20-21
20 Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
Bemidbar (Numbers) 21:21-22
21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 21:23-24
23 So Sihon gathered all his people together and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
24 Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon…
Bemidbar (Numbers) 21:25-26
25 So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moav, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon.Bemidbar (Numbers) 21:31,33
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 Then Moshe sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
33 And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.Bemidbar (Numbers) 21:34-35
34 Then Yahweh said to Moshe, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.”
35 So they defeated him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left him; and they took possession of his land.
Bemidbar (Numbers) 32:1, 4
1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock…
4 the country which Yahweh defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”
Torah portion:
Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:1-2
1 Then the children of Israel moved, and camped in the plains of Moav on the side of the Jordan across from Jericho.
2 Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:3
3 And Moav was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Moav was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.
Intermarriage between Esav and Ishmael
B’reisheet (Genesis) 28:9
9 So Esav went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Avraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.B’reisheet (Genesis) 36:3
3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
Balak sends for Balaam
Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:4
4 So Moav said to the elders of Midian, “Now this company will lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moavites at that time.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:5
5 Then he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of his people [Septuagint: Ammon], to call him, saying: “Look, a people has come from Egypt. See, they cover the face of the earth, and are settling next to me!”
Concept of spiritual army and physical army
Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:6
6 “Therefore please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
The diviner’s fee
Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:7-8
7 So the elders of Moav and the elders of Midian departed with the diviner’s fee in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.
8 And he said to them, “Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as Yahweh speaks to me.” So the princes of Moav stayed with Balaam.
Ancient Jewish magic, Kabbalah, blood rituals
Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 [1] – July 25, 1572 [2]), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha’ari [a], Ha’ari Hakadosh [b] or Arizal, [c] was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria, now Israel. He is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah, [5] his teachings being referred to as Lurianic Kabbalah.
[Wikipedia: Rabbi Isaac Luria]
Chabad descendant of (or influenced by) Frankism
Rabbi admits blood rituals done on dead bodies
Chabad’s deception: avoiding syncretism
Chabad.org: “Is Buddhism Kosher?”: Answer:
“You will find throughout our people’s history a process by which some elements of alien cultures are adopted while others are rejected. Not a very formalized process — the rules are rather vague and tenuous — but nevertheless successful in avoiding the syncretism that has dissolved other cultures while imbibing all that is good from the world about us…
…You will find distinct traces of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Athens, Rome, Persia, Cordoba, Istanbul, Florence and every other civilization in which Jews have lived. But you’ll only find those aspects which are in confluence with the body and soul of Torah…
The final say, Thus says Yahweh Elohim!
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 12:29-30
29 “When Yahweh your Elohim cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,
30 “take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’”Devarim (Deuteronomy) 18:9-10
9 “When you come into the land which Yahweh your Elohim is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
10 “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer…Devarim (Deuteronomy) 18:11-12
11 “…or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
12 “For all who do these things are an abomination to Yahweh, and because of these abominations Yahweh your Elohim drives them out from before you.”
Vatican serpent worship
Does Balaam understand “No”?
Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:9-11
9 Then Elohim came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”
10 So Balaam said to Elohim, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moav, has sent to me, saying,
11 ‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the earth. Come now, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to overpower them and drive them out.’ “Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:12-13
12 And Elohim said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
13 So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go back to your land, for Yahweh has refused to give me permission to go with you.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:14-15
14 And the princes of Moav rose and went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
15 Then Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more honorable than they.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:16-17
16 And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me;
17 for I will certainly honor you greatly, and I will do whatever you say to me. Therefore please come, curse this people for me.’ “Mattityahu (Matthew) 16:26
26 “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Balaam sees a chance to benefit himself
Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:18-19
18 Then Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of Yahweh my Elohim, to do less or more.
19 “Now therefore, please, you also stay here tonight, that I may know what more Yahweh will say to me.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:20-21
20 And Elohim came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men come to call you, rise and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you—that you shall do.”
21 So Balaam rose in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moav.Mishle (Proverbs) 1:29-31
29 Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of Yahweh,
30 They would have none of my counselAnd despised my every rebuke.
31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:22
22 Then Elohim’s anger was aroused because he went, and the Messenger of Yahweh took His stand in the way as an adversary against him. And he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:32
32 And the Messenger of Yahweh said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to stand against you, because your way is perverse before Me.”Thessaloniquim Bet (2 Thessalonians) 2:10-12|
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason Elohim will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:34-35
34 And Balaam said to the Messenger of Yahweh, “I have sinned, for I did not know You stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases You, I will turn back.”
35 Then the Messenger of Yahweh said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.Bemidbar (Numbers) 22:38
38 And Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you! Now, have I any power at all to say anything? The word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that I must speak.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:3
3 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate height.Shemote (Exodus) 33:11 (Ki Tisa)
11 So Yahweh spoke to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:4-5
4 And Elohim met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5 Then Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Yahweh’s blessings upon Israel
Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:7-8
7 And he took up his oracle and said: “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east. ‘Come, curse Yaakov for me, And come, denounce Israel!’
8 “How shall I curse whom Elohim has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced?”Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:9-10
9 “For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him; There! A people dwelling alone, Not reckoning itself among the nations.
10 “Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number one-fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my end be like his!”Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:13
13 Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place…”Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:18-20|
18 Then he took up his oracle and said: “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, son of Zippor!
19 “Elohim is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
20 “Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:21-22
21 “He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. Yahweh his Elohim is with him, And the shout of a King is among them.
22 “Elohim brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox.”
Avraham and Balaam: themes
1. Blessings of physical multiplicity
2. Shall be a blessing to all nations
3. Reciprocal blessing arrangement
4. Military victory and control over their enemies.
Balaam finally decides to listen
Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:1-2
1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling tribe by tribe; and the spirit of Elohim came upon him.Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:23-24
23 “For there is no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Yaakov And of Israel, ‘Oh, what Elohim has done!’
24 Look, a people rises like a lioness, And lifts itself up like a lion; It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the blood of the slain.”
The Talmud and the sorcery
Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 65b
Indeed, Rava created a man, a golem, using forces of sanctity. Rava sent his creation before Rabbi Zeira. Rabbi Zeira would speak to him but he would not reply. Rabbi Zeira said to him: You were created by one of the members of the group, one of the Sages. Return to your dust.Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 65b
The Gemara relates another fact substantiating the statement that the righteous could create a world if they so desired: Rav Ḥanina and Rav Oshaya would sit every Shabbat eve and engage in the study of Sefer Yetzira, and a third-born calf [igla tilta] would be created for them, and they would eat it in honor of Shabbat.Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 67b
The Gemara relates: A man named Yannai arrived at a certain inn. He said to the innkeepers: Give me water to drink. They brought him flour mixed with water. He saw that the lips of the innkeeper woman were moving, and he cast a bit of the drink to the ground, and it turned into scorpions, and he understood that the innkeepers performed sorcery on the drink…Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 67b
Yannai said to them: I drank from yours; you too drink from mine, and he also performed sorcery on the drink. He gave it to her to drink and she turned into a donkey. He rode upon her and went to the marketplace. Her friend came and released her from the sorcery, and people saw him riding on a woman in the marketplace.Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 68a
Moreover, I can teach three hundred halakhot, and some say that Rabbi Eliezer said three thousand halakhot, with regard to the planting of cucumbers by sorcery, but no person has ever asked me anything about them, besides Akiva ben Yosef.Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 68a
Once [Rabbi Eliezer] and I were walking along the way, and he said to me: My teacher, teach me about the planting of cucumbers. I said one statement of sorcery, and the entire field became filled with cucumbers. He said to me: My teacher, you have taught me about planting them; teach me about uprooting them. I said one statement and they all were gathered to one place.Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 101a:8
The Sages taught in a baraita: With regard to demons of oil and demons of eggs, i.e., demons consulted by means of oil and eggs, respectively, it is permitted to consult them; but it is futile to do so, due to the fact that they deceive.Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 101a:8
One may whisper an incantation for healing over oil that is in a vessel but one may not whisper an incantation over oil that is in one’s hand…
There is no sorcery against Jacob, nor divination against Israel
Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:23-24
23 “For there is no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Yaakov And of Israel, ‘Oh, what Elohim has done!’
24 Look, a people rises like a lioness, And lifts itself up like a lion; It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the blood of the slain.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:1-2
1 Now when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he did not go as at other times, to seek to use sorcery, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
2 And Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel encamped according to their tribes; and the Spirit of Elohim came upon him.
More blessing upon Israel
Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:3-4
3 Then he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, The utterance of the man whose eyes are opened,
4 “The utterance of him who hears the words of Elohim, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Who falls down, with eyes wide open:Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:5-6
5 “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel!
6 “Like valleys that stretch out, Like gardens by the riverside, Like aloes planted by Yahweh, Like cedars beside the waters.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:7-8
7 “He shall pour water from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters. “His king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.
8 “Elohim brings him out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox; He shall consume the nations, his enemies; He shall break their bones And pierce them with his arrows.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:9-10
9 “‘He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him?’ Blessed is he who blesses you, And cursed is he who curses you.”
10 Then Balak’s anger was aroused against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have bountifully blessed them these three times!Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:15-16
15 So he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened;
16 The utterance of him who hears the words of Elohim, And has the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Who falls down, with eyes wide open:Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:17-18
17 “I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Yaakov; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, And batter the brow of Moav, And destroy all the sons of tumult.
18 “And Edom shall be a possession; Seir also, his enemies, shall be a possession, While Israel does valiantly.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:19-20
19 “Out of Jacob One shall have dominion, And destroy the remains of the city.”
20 Then he looked on Amalek, and he took up his oracle and said: “Amalek was first among the nations, But shall be last until he perishes.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:21-22
21 Then he looked on the Kenites, and he took up his oracle and said: “Firm is your dwelling place, And your nest is set in the rock;
22 “Nevertheless Kain shall be burned. How long until Asshur carries you away captive?”Bemidbar (Numbers) 24:23-25
23 Then he took up his oracle and said: “Alas! Who shall live when Elohim does this?
24 “But ships shall come from the coasts of Cyprus, And they shall afflict Asshur and afflict Eber, And so shall Amalek, until he perishes.”
25 So Balaam rose and departed and returned to his place; Balak also went his way.
Upcoming Parasha Pinchas
Bemidbar (Numbers) 25:1-3
1 Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moav.
2 They invited the people to the sacrifices of their [false] elohim, and the people ate and bowed down to their [false] elohim.
3 So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of Yahweh was aroused against Israel.Bemidbar (Numbers) 25:4-5
4 Then Yahweh said to Moshe, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before Yahweh, out in the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
5 So Moshe said to the judges of Israel, “Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 25:6
6 And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moshe and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.Bemidbar (Numbers) 25:7-8
7 Now when Pinchas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;
8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.Bemidbar (Numbers) 25:9
9 And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.Bemidbar (Numbers) 25:14-15
14 Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a father’s house in Midian.
Haftarah portion
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil
Melachim Bet (2 Kings) 5:14
14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of Elohim; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.Melachim Bet (2 Kings) 5:15-16
15 And he returned to the man of Elohim, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no Elohim in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
16 But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.Melachim Bet (2 Kings) 5:20
20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of Elohim, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as Yahweh lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”Melachim Bet (2 Kings) 5:23
23 So Naaman said, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his servants; and they carried them on ahead of him.Melachim Bet (2 Kings) 5:25-26
25 Now he went in and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you go, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant did not go anywhere.”
26 Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?”Melachim Bet (2 Kings) 5:27
27 “Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever.” And he went out from his presence leprous, as white as snow.TimaTheus Aleph (1 Timothy) 6:6-8
6 Now righteousness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.TimaTheus Aleph (1 Timothy) 6:9-10
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Yeshua Mashaich Nagid
Micah 5:1
1 “Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops; He has laid siege against us; They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.”Zekaryah (Zechariah) 13:7
7 “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, Against the Man who is My Companion,” Says Yahweh of hosts. “Strike the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones…”Marqaus (Mark) 14:27
27 Then Yeshua said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP WILL BE SCATTERED.’Micah 5:2
2 “But you, Beit Lechem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.”Daniel 9:25
25 “Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Mashiach Nagid, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.Daniel 9:26
26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
Yahweh’s complaint
Micah 6:1-2
1 Hear now what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice.
2 “Hear, O you mountains, Yahweh’s complaint, And you strong foundations of the earth; For Yahweh has a complaint against His people, And He will contend with Israel.”Micah 6:3-4
3 “O My people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.
4 “For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of bondage; And I sent before you Moshe, Aharon, and Miriam.”Micah 6:5
5 “O My people, remember now What Balak king of Moav counseled, And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, From Acacia Grove to Gilgal, That you may know the righteousness of Yahweh.”Bemidbar (Numbers) 31:16
16 Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against Yahweh in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of Yahweh.Yehoshua (Joshua) 3:13
13 “And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Adon of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap.”Yehoshua (Joshua) 6:5
5 “It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.”Micah 6:3-4
3 “O My people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.
4 “For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of bondage; And I sent before you Moshe, Aharon, and Miriam.”
Brit Chadasha portion:
Shimon the sorcerer
Ma’asei (Acts) 8:9-10
9 But there was a certain man called Shimon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,
10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of Elohim.”Ma’asei (Acts) 8:11-12
11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time.
12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of Elohim and the name of Yeshua HaMashiach, both men and women were immersed.Ma’asei (Acts) 8:13-14
13 Then Shimon himself also believed; and when he was immersed he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.
14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of Elohim, they sent Kepha and Yochanan to them…Ma’asei (Acts) 8:15-17
15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Set-apart Spirit.
16 For as yet [She] had fallen upon none of them. They had only been immersed in the name of the Master Yeshua.
17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Set-apart Spirit.
No portion, for your heart is not right in the sight of Elohim
Ma’asei (Acts) 8:18-19
18 And when Shimon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Set-apart Spirit was given, he offered them money,
19 saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Set-apart Spirit.”Ma’asei (Acts) 8:20-21
20 But Kepha said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of Elohim could be purchased with money!
21 “You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of Elohim.”
Shepherds who cannot understand
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 56:10-11
10 His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant; They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark; Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory.Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H1109
בִּלְעָם bil‛âm bil-awm’
Probably from H1077 and H5971; not (of the) people, that is, foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine: – Balaam, Bileam.Yehudah (Jude) 1:3
3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Yehudah (Jude) 1:4
4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, unrighteous men, who turn the favor of our Elohim into lewdness and deny the only Yahweh Elohim and our Adon Yeshua HaMashiach.Yehudah (Jude) 1:5
5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that Yahweh, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.Yehudah (Jude) 1:6
6 And the messengers who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day…Yehudah (Jude) 1:7
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.Yehudah (Jude) 1:8-9
8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moshe, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “Yahweh rebuke you!”Yehudah (Jude) 1:10-11
10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.Yehudah (Jude) 1:12
12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;Yehudah (Jude) 1:13
13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.Yehudah (Jude) 1:14-15|
14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, Yahweh comes with ten thousands of His saints,
15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are unrighteous among them of all their unrighteous deeds which they have committed in an unrighteous way, and of all the harsh things which unrighteous sinners have spoken against Him.”Yehudah (Jude) 1:16
16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.Yehudah (Jude) 1:17-19
17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Adon Yeshua HaMashiach:
18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own unrighteous lusts.
19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.Yehudah (Jude) 1:20-21
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most set-apart faith, praying in the Set-apart Spirit,
21 keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the mercy of our Master Yeshua HaMashiach unto eternal life.Yehudah (Jude) 1:24-25
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To Elohim our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amein.
Question of the week: The Original Faith, one doctrine, fivefold ministry, foundation of Apostles and Prophets
The fleeing bride must return to the Original Faith
Timeline of advancement back to the Torah
The big picture
B’reisheet (Genesis) 35:11-12
11 Also Elohim said to him: “I am Elohim El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
12 “The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.”Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 37:16-17
16 “As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’
17 “Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.”Jude 1:3
3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones.
Shabbat shalom.
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