Parasha: Ekev 5785/2025 (ָּפָּרָשַׁת עֵקֶב) reading:

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:12-11:25
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49-51
Yochanan (John) 13-15

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Welcome. Parashat “Ekev 5785 (2025): The Consolations of Yahweh’s Servant” explains the need to keep Yahweh’s written Covenant; the prophecies of Isaiah concerning Judah, Israel, and the Mashiach; and the costs and consolations of being Yahweh’s servant in each generation.

Are we His faithful servants? Are we imitating Yeshua HaMashiach? Are we bearing the right fruit? Are we sitting on the sidelines? Or are we actively contributing in the building of His kingdom the way He wants it built, as faithful, thankful servants would? Join us this week as we talk about counting the cost and making a commitment to Elohim to give Him the things He wants.

Recent news

Pope Francis with visits nativity scene with baby Jesus laying in a Palestinian keffiyeh.

Israeli minister’s letter to Pope Francis: ‘Jesus lived and died as a Jew’

Interestingly, in 2026-17, the Sanhedrin would always say “No Christian [Notzri] can be a Jew”. But here we see the Israeli minister claiming HaNotri [Yeshua HaMashiach] as having lived and died as a Jew.

Green-red horse alliance

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.

The climb back after the fall

Black -white horse alliance

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.”

Ekev: midrash themes:

• Ekev talks about the costs of getting involved in helping to build Yeshua’s kingdom.
• Ekev also talks about the consolations and the benefits of serving Yahweh the way He wants.
• Have we sat down to count the cost?

Ma’asei (Acts) 1:6-8
6  Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Adon, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7  And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.”
8  “But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Torah portion

Blessings of faithful obedience

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:12

12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your Elohim will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:13
13 “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:14-15
14 “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
15 “And Yahweh will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:16
16 “Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom Yahweh your Elohim delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their elohim, for that will be a snare to you.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:22-23
22 “And Yahweh your Elohim will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
23 “But Yahweh your Elohim will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:24
24 “And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.”

Abstain from idols

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:25
25 “You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your Elohim.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 7:26
26 “Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.”

Idols in Judah and Ephraim today

Do not forget

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:1
8:1 “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which Yahweh swore to your fathers.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:3
3 “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Yahweh.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:7-8
7 “For Yahweh your Elohim is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;
8 “a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey…”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:9-10
9 “a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
10 “When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless Yahweh your Elohim for the good land which He has given you.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:11-12
11 “Beware that you do not forget Yahweh your Elohim by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
12 “lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them…”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:13-14
13 “and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
14 “when your heart is lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage…”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:17-18
17 “…then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember Yahweh your Elohim, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:19-20
19 “Then it shall be, if you by any means forget Yahweh your Elohim, and follow other elohim, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20 “As the nations which Yahweh destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 9:1-2
1 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Yarden today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
2 a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 9:6
6 “Therefore understand that Yahweh your Elohim is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 9:7
7 “Remember! Do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your Elohim to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 10:12-13
12 “And now, Israel, what does Yahweh your Elohim require of you, but to fear Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 and to keep the commandments of Yahweh and His statutes which I command you today for your good?”

Turn back to Yahweh

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 10:16-17
16 “Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.
17 “For Yahweh your Elohim is Elohei haElohim and Adonei haAdonim, the great El, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 10:18-20
18 “He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
19 “Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 “You shall fear Yahweh your Elohim; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:1-2
1 “Therefore you shall love Yahweh your Elohim, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
2 “Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of Yahweh your Elohim, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:3-4
3 “His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;
4 “what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day…”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:5-6
5 “what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
6 “and what He did to Dathan and Aviram the sons of Eliav, the son of Reuven: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:7-8
7 “…but your eyes have seen every great act of Yahweh which He did.
8 “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:9
9 “and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:13-14
13 “And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your Elohim and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:15
15 “And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.”

About tefillin and the mezuzah

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:16-17
16 “Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other elohim and worship them,
17 lest Yahweh’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which Yahweh is giving you.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:18
18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:19
19 “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H3925
לָמַד    lâmad    law-mad’
A primitive root; properly to goad, that is, (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive): – [un-] accustomed, X diligently, expert, instruct, learn, skilful, teach (-er, -ing).

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:20-21
20 “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 “that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:22-23
22 “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
23 “then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:24
24 “Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:25
25 “No man shall be able to stand against you; Yahweh your Elohim will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.”

Yeshua’s everlasting kingdom

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 9:6
6  For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty Elohim, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 9:7
7  “Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will perform this.”

Haftarah portion

Obedience over sacrifice

Shemote (Exodus) 19:5-6
5  “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

6  “And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a set-apart nation.’ These are the
words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 7:21-22
21  Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the Elohim of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
22  “For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.”

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 7:23-24
23  “But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your Elohim, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’
24  “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.”

Tish B’Av and 7 weeks of consolation

Nehemiah 8:1-2
1  Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Torah of Moshe, which Yahweh had commanded Israel.
2  So Ezra the priest brought the Torah before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with understanding on the first day of the seventh month.

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 40:1-2
1 “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your Elohim.
2 “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Eliminating Isaiah 53 from parashiot

Dr. Eitan Bar, “Refuting Rabbinic Objections…”
…The 17th century Jewish historian, Raphael Levi, admitted that long ago the rabbis used to read Isaiah 53 in synagogues but after the chapter caused “arguments and great confusion” the rabbis decided that the simplest thing would be to just take that prophecy out of the Haftarah readings in [the] synagogues…

Dr. Eitan Bar, “Refuting Rabbinic Objections…”
“…That’s why today when Isaiah 52 is read the reader stops in the middle of the chapter and the week after skips straight to Isaiah 54…”

Double for her sins

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 40:1-2 Va’etchanan
1  “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your Elohim.
2  “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 41:8-9
8  “But you, Israel, are My servant, Yaakov whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.
9  “You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its farthest regions, And said to you, ‘You are My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away…”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 42:1-2
1 “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
2 “He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 42:3-4
3 “A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.
4 “He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His torah.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 43:1
1 “But now, thus says Yahweh, who created you, O Yaakov, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 43:5-6
5 “Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west;
6 “I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth— ”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 44:1-2
1 “Yet hear me now, O Yaakov My servant, And Israel whom I have chosen.
2 “Thus says Yahweh who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you: ‘Fear not, O Yaakov My servant; And you, Yeshurun, whom I have chosen.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 45:1, 4
1 “Thus says Yahweh to His anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—To subdue nations before him And loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that the gates will not be shut…
4 “For Yaakov My servant’s sake, And Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 46:3
3 “Listen to Me, O house of Yaakov, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been upheld by Me from birth, Who have been carried from the womb:

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 47:1-2
1 “Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called Tender and delicate.
2 “Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 48:1
1 “Hear this, O house of Yaakov, Who are called by the name of Israel, And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; Who swear by the name of Yahweh, And make mention of the Elohim of Israel, But not in truth or in righteousness;
2 For they call themselves after the set-apart city, And lean on the Elohim of Israel; Yahweh of hosts is His name…”
2  For they call themselves after the set-apart city, And lean on the Elohim of Israel; Yahweh of hosts is His name…”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:1-2
1 “Listen, O coastlands, to Me, And take heed, you peoples from afar! Yahweh has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.
2 “And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiver He has hidden Me.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:3-4
3 “And He said to me, ‘You are My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.’
4 “Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with Yahweh, And my work with my Elohim.’ “

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:5
5 “And now Yahweh says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Yaakov back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of Yahweh, And My Elohim shall be My strength)…”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:6
6 “Indeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Yaakov, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.'”

Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H5336
נָצִיר nâtsı̂yr naw-tsere’
From H5341; properly conservative; but used passively, delivered: – preserved.

Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H5341
נָצַר nâtsar naw-tsar’
A primitive root; to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.): – besieged, hidden thing, keep (-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve (-r), subtil, watcher (-man).

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:7
7 “Thus says Yahweh, The Redeemer of Israel, their Set-apart One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of Yahweh who is faithful, The Set-apart One of Israel; And He has chosen You.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:8
8 Thus says Yahweh: “In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages…”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:9
9 “That You may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’ To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ “They shall feed along the roads, And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:10
10 “They shall neither hunger nor thirst, Neither heat nor sun shall strike them; For He who has mercy on them will lead them, Even by the springs of water He will guide them.
11 “I will make each of My mountains a road, And My highways shall be elevated.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:12-13
12 “Surely these shall come from afar; Look! Those from the north and the west, And these from the land of Sinim.”
13 Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For Yahweh has comforted His people, And will have mercy on His afflicted.

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:14-16
14 But Tzion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, And my Master has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.
16 “See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:17-18
17 “Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.
18 “Lift up your eyes, look around and see; All these gather together and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament, And bind them on you as a bride does.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:19-20
19 “For your waste and desolate places, And the land of your destruction, Will even now be too small for the inhabitants; And those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 “The children you will have, After you have lost the others, Will say again in your ears, ‘The place is too small for me; Give me a place where I may dwell.’”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:21
21 “Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children and am desolate, A captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought these up? There I was, left alone; But these, where were they?‘”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:22
22 Thus says Yahweh Elohim: “Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders…”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:23
23 “Kings shall be your foster fathers, And their queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 49:24-25
24 “Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, Or the captives of the righteous be delivered?
25 But thus says Yahweh: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.”

For your transgressions

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:1
1 Thus says Yahweh: “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.”

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:8
8 “Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.”

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:9-10
9  “So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
10  “And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says Yahweh.

Hoshea 2:1-2
1 “Say to your brethren, ‘My people,’ And to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown.’
2 “Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts.”

Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 16:1-3
1 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3 and say, ‘Thus says Yahweh Elohim to Jerusalem: “Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.”’”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:1
1  Thus says Yahweh: “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has
been put away.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:2
2 “Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, And die of thirst.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:4-5
4 “Yahweh Elohim has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.
5 Adonai Yahweh has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:6-7
6 “I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
7 “For Adonai Yahweh will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:10
10 “Who among you fears Yahweh? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of Yahweh And rely upon his Elohim.”

Kabbalistic concept of sparks

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:11
11 “Look, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with sparks: Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down in torment.

My Jewish Learning.com, “Holy Sparks”
Holy Sparks are the spiritual illuminations inherent in all things. The doctrine, as found in the kabbalistic system of Isaac Luria, the Ari, runs that when the light of Ein Sof, the Limitless Ground of Being, poured into the vessels which were to receive this light in order to produce the sefirot, the powers or potencies in the Godhead, the light was too strong to become limited in the vessels of the seven lower sefirot…

My Jewish Learning.com, “Holy Sparks”
…As a result, there took place the “breaking of the vessels.” When the vessels were broken, the lights returned to their source; but not all the lights returned. “Sparks” of the lights remained, adhering to the broken shards in order to keep them in being…

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…In this way the effect of the breaking of the vessels results in holy sparks being imprisoned among the kelipot. It is the human task to reclaim these sparks for the holy and by so doing to assist the fallen worlds to be restored to their former harmony. The reclaiming of the holy sparks from the kelipot is achieved by rejecting evil, that is, by obeying the negative precepts of the Torah.

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…Conversely, every good deed assists in the reclaiming of the holy sparks and ultimately the restoration of cosmic harmony. When the task of restoration is complete, when all the sparks have been reclaimed for the holy, the Messiah will come and the disharmony resulting from the breaking of the vessels will be no more and cosmic redemption will have been achieved.

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 50:11
11  “Look, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with sparks: Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down in torment.

Consolations of Yahweh’s servant

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:1-2
1 “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek Yahweh: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
2 Look to Avraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:3
3 “For Yahweh will comfort Tzion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of Yahweh; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:11
11 “So the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, And come to Tzion with singing, With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness; Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:12
12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid Of a man who will die, And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:16
16 “And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Tzion, ‘You are My people.’”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:17
17 “Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk at the hand of Yahweh The cup of His fury;
You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, And drained it out.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:18-19
18 “There is no one to guide her Among all the sons she has brought forth; Nor is there any who takes her by the hand Among all the sons she has brought up.
19 “These two things have come to you; Who will be sorry for you?—Desolation and destruction, famine and sword—By whom will I comfort you?”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:21-22
21 “Therefore please hear this, you afflicted, And drunk but not with wine.
22 “Thus says your Adon, Yahweh and your Elohim, Who pleads the cause of His people: “See, I have taken out of your hand The cup of trembling, The dregs of the cup of My fury; You shall no longer drink it.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 51:23
23 “But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, Who have said to you, ‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’ And you have laid your body like the ground, And as the street, for those who walk over.”

Brit Chadasha

Abide in Me and bear good fruit

Yochanan (John) 15:1-2
1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”

Yochanan (John) 15:4-5
4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

Yochanan (John) 15:6
6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”

Yochanan (John) 15:7-8
7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Yochanan (John) 15:9-10
9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
10 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Yochanan (John) 15:11-13
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

Yochanan (John) 15:18-19
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
19 “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

Yochanan (John) 16:1-3
1 “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble.
2 “They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers Elohim service.
3 “And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.”

Yochanan (John) 16:6-7
6 “But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
7 “Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Her to you.

Yochanan (John) 16:13-14
13 “However, when She, the Spirit of Truth, has come, She will guide you into all truth; for She will not speak on Her own authority, but whatever She hears She will speak; and She will tell you things to come.
14 “She will glorify Me, for She will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.”

Yochanan (John) 16:15
15 “All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that She will take of Mine and declare it to you.”

Yochanan (John) 16:20
20 “Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Yochanan (John) 16:33
33 “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Yochanan (John) 17:14-15
14 “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.”

Shabbat shalom.

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