Parasha: Vayeira 5785/2025 (פָּרָשַׁת וַיֵּרָא)  reading: 

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:1-22:24
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 53
Ivrim (Hebrews) 11

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Parashat Vayeira 5785 (2025): “Yeshua Manifestation of Elohim” examines Avraham’s faithfulness and obedience to Yahweh in offering up Yitzhak, and the promise of the Covenant through Yitzhak (Isaac) and his descendants. It also shows the parallels between Avraham’s willing sacrifice of Yitzhak and the sacrifice of Yeshua HaMashiach; the ‘two Yahwehs’ found in B’reisheet (Genesis) 19; and the Hebraic definition of ‘echad’.

Other topics in Parashat Vayeira include biblical weaning; the rabbinic law of not mixing milk and meat, and errors of the Karaite calendar.

Question of the week:

First, we take a look at the question of the week and problems with the Karaite calendar.

(Paraphrase) “Aren’t we all supposed to bring a wave sheaf of firstfruits up for the Pesach/Unleavened? And if so, doesn’t that mean every barley farmer must have ripe barley before you can declare the month of the aviv?”

Two issues:
1. Wave sheaf for the nation
2. Family firstfruits

Karaite doctrine (DDT) verses Scripture:

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
“To remind you, Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread), is one of three national harvest festivals, where the farmers are required to bring the first firsts of their produce to the Priest, when they go up to the Temple for the feast (Ex 23:14-19, 34:23-26, Dt 16:13-17).

“On Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread), the farmers bring an Omer of their crop to the Priest (Lev23:10), as a Reshit (first fruits offering). It’s understood that all the farmers must bring this offering at the feast, as the passage starts off saying, “Speak to the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL and say to THEM” (Lev 23:10), the entire passage is written in second person plural…”

“…and ends with “it shall be a perpetual statute IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS” (Lev 23:14).

Questions:
-Is it “Everyone brings a sheaf”?
-Or is it “You need one sheaf for the nation, and everyone brings their firstfruits at the next feast?

Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:10-11
10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you [all], and reap its harvest, then you [all] shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
11 “He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted on you-all’s behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:14
14 “You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your Elohim; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
…and ends with “it shall be a perpetual statute IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS” (Lev 23:14). And we also know that no one is to appear at the feasts empty-handed (Ex 23:14-19, Ex 34:23-26, Dt16:13-17).

Two issues:
Wave sheaf for the nation
Family firstfruits

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
“As the beginning of the Biblical Year is when the barley fields are ready to feed the nation (Ex 9:31,Lev 23:14, Josh 5:10-12), and everyone must bring an omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot, the fields may need to start being harvesting prior to Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Wave Sheaf Day).

Yehoshua (Joshua) 5:10-11
10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Pesach on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.
11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Pesach, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
“As the beginning of the Biblical Year is when the barley fields are ready to feed the nation (Ex 9:31,Lev 23:14, Josh 5:10-12), and everyone must bring an omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot, the fields may need to start being harvesting prior to Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Wave Sheaf Day).

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9
9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
10 “Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as Yahweh your Elohim blesses you.”

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
“This is why there’s no prohibition against harvesting as needed, we’re only prohibited from eating from the harvest before Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Day of the Wave Sheaf Offering) (Lev 23:14).

Issue: Deuteronomy 16:9 does not apply to you??

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9
9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
10 “Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as Yahweh your Elohim blesses you.”

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
“In other words, the farmers would harvest their fields as they became Aviv, and put an omer aside (Dt 26:2)to bring with them, when they went up to Temple for Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) (Lev 23:10).

Issue: Conflating the omer with family first fruits.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 26:1-2
1 “And it shall be, when you come into the land which Yahweh your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,
2 “…that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your Elohim chooses to make His name abide.

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
“In other words, the farmers would harvest their fields as they became Aviv, and put an omer aside (Dt 26:2)to bring with them, when they went up to Temple for Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) (Lev 23:10).

Issue: Conflating the omer with family first fruits.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9
9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
10 “Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as Yahweh your Elohim blesses you.”

DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…”: FAIR USE
“In order for everyone to be able to bring an Omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread), and for Chag HaSukkot (Feast of Booths) to fallout at the end of the agricultural year (Ex 23:16, Ex 34:22, Lev 23:39, Dt16:13), the Biblical Year must begin with the crescent New Moon after the Spring Equilux (Gen 1:14).

Errors of the equinox:

DDT: “When Does the New Year Begin?”: FAIR USE
“Although, we don’t look to the barley to try and determine the beginning of the Biblical Year, we do think it’s nice to witness the barley fields ripening, as we get closer to Chodesh HaAviv (month of the Aviv) and Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread), especially for those that aren’t here.

NI studies about the error of the equinox:

Why Karaite doctrine does not work:

Karaite incorrect definition of aviv barley:

More NI studies on the errors of Karaite doctrine:

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Daniel 7:26-27
26 “‘But the court shall be seated, And they shall take away his dominion, To consume and destroy it forever.
27 “Then the kingdom and dominion, And the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And all dominions shall serve and obey Him.’

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.

Refresher Torah bits:

B’reisheet (Genesis) 3:1
1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Yahweh Elohim had made. And he said to the woman, “Has Elohim indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

Strong’s Concordance H5172
נָחַשׁnâchash naw-khash’
A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate: – X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 44:15
15 And Yosef said to them, “What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 6:1-2
1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 that the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

Luqa (Luke) 1:30-32
30 Then the messenger said to her, “Do not be afraid, Miriam, for you have found favor with Elohim.
31 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Yeshua.
32 “He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and Yahweh Elohim will give Him the throne of His father David.

Luqa (Luke) 1:33-34
33 “And He will reign over the house of Yaakov forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
34 Then Miriam said to the messenger, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”

Luqa (Luke) 1:35
35 And the messenger answered and said to her, “The Set-apart Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Set-apart One who is to be born will be called the Son of Elohim.”

Mattityahu (Matthew) 22:30
30 “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like messengers of Elohim in heaven.”

Torah portion:

Yahweh appears to Avraham

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:1
1 Then Yahweh appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:2-3
2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,
3 and said, “Adonai, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant.

Three measures of meal

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:6
6 So Avraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.”

Rabbinic law: milk and meat

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:7-8
7 And Avraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.
8 So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.

Shemote (Exodus) 23:19
19 “The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

Babylonian Talmud Tractate Chullin 115b
115b: The school of Rabbi Yishmael taught: The Torah states three times: “You shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk” (Exodus 23:19, 34:26; Deuteronomy 14:21). One verse serves to teach the prohibition against eating meat cooked in milk, and one serves to teach the prohibition against deriving benefit from it, and one serves to teach the prohibition against cooking meat in milk.”

Yahweh and the two messengers

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:9-10
9 Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” So he said, “Here, in the tent.”
10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:17-18
17 And Yahweh said, “Shall I hide from Avraham what I am doing,
18 since Avraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:19
19 “For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, that Yahweh may bring to Avraham what He has spoken to him.”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:20-21
20 And Yahweh said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,
21 “I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:22-23
22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Avraham still stood before Yahweh.
23 And Avraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

B’reisheet (Genesis) 18:33
33 So Yahweh went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Avraham; and Avraham returned to his place.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 19:1
1 Now the two messengers came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 19:10-11
10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 19:12-13
12 Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place!
13 “For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 19:15
15 When the morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 19:16
16 And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

How many Yahwehs? Defining ‘echad’

B’reisheet (Genesis) 19:23-24
23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar.
24 Then Yahweh rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from Yahweh out of the heavens.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 6:4
4 “Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our Elohim, Yahweh is one!”

Strong’s Concordance H259
אֶחָד ‘echâd ekh-awd’
A numeral from H258; properly united, that is, one; or (as an ordinal) first: – a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any (-thing), apiece, a certain [dai-] ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together.

Yochanan (John) 10:30
30 “I and My Father are one.”
DD 30 אני ואבי אחד אנחנו׃
SG 30 וַאֲנִי וְהָאָב אֶחָד׃

Biblical weaning

B’reisheet (Genesis) 21:1-3
1 And Yahweh visited Sarah as He had said, and Yahweh did for Sarah as He had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which Elohim had spoken to him.
3 And Avraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Yitzhak.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 21:8
8 So the child grew and was weaned. And Avraham made a great feast on the same day that Yitzhak was weaned.

Shemuel Aleph (1 Samuel) 1:23
23 So Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him. Only let Yahweh establish His word.” Then the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

Tehillim (Psalms) 131:2
2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Ishmael and Yitzhak

B’reisheet (Genesis) 21:9-10
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Avraham, scoffing.
10 Therefore she said to Avraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Yitzhak.”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 21:11-12
11 And the matter was very displeasing in Avraham’s sight because of his son.
12 But Elohim said to Avraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Yitzhak your seed shall be called.”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 21:13-14
13 “Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.”
14 So Avraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 21:20-21
20 So Elohim was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
21 He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Yitzhak, Yeshua, and the Covenant (parallels)

B’reisheet (Genesis) 17:19 (Lech Lecha)
19 Then Elohim said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yitzhak; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

1. The mother is barren.
2. Elohim promises a special son.
3. The covenant is through him.

Luqa (Luke) 1:31-32
31 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Yeshua.
32 “He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and Yahweh Elohim will give Him the throne of His father David.”

1. The mother is barren.
2. Elohim promises a special son.
3. The covenant is through him.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:1-2
1 Now it came to pass after these things that Elohim tested Avraham, and said to him, “Avraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
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.”

Yochanan (John) 3:16
16 “For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

1. Sacrifice of a unique son/Son at Moriah / Jerusalem.
2. Acts of faith are necessary to receive the blessing.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:3
3 So Avraham 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.

Parallels:
1. Two young men
2. Wood

Yochanan (John) 19:17-18
17 And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
18 where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Yeshua in the center.

1. Two other men
2. Wood

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:4
4 Then on the third day Avraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.

1. Third day parallelism.

Luqa (Luke) 9:22
22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”

1. Third day parallelism.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:5
5 And Avraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”

1. Faith.

Ivrim (Hebrews) 11:17, 19
17 By faith Avraham, when he was tested, offered up Yitzhak, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, “In Yitzhak your seed shall be called,”
19 concluding that Elohim was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 17:19 (Lech Lecha)
19 Then Elohim said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yitzhak; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:6
6 So Avraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Yitzhak his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.

Yochanan (John) 19:17-18
17 And He, bearing His cross [stake], went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
18 where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Yeshua in the center.

1. Two other men
2. Wood

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:7-8
7 But Yitzhak spoke to Avraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8 And Avraham said, “My son, Elohim will provide for Himself the Lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.

Yochanan (John) 1:29
29 The next day Yochanan saw Yeshua coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sin of the world!

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:9-10
9 Then they came to the place of which Elohim had told him. And Avraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Yitzhak his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Avraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

1. Yitzhak’s loving father prepares to offer him as a sacrifice.

Yochanan Aleph (1 John) 4:10
10 In this is love, not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1. Yeshua’s loving Father did not stop the sacrifice of His Son.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:11-12
11 But the Messenger of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, “Avraham, Avraham!” So he said, “Here I am.”
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear Elohim, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:12
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear Elohim, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

1. Yahweh stops Avraham from sacrificing his son Yitzhak (but He sacrifices His own Son Yeshua).

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:13
13 Then Avraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Avraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 And Avraham called the name of the place, Yahweh-Will-Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of Yahweh it shall be provided.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 53:7
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.

Yeshua our propitiation

Romim (Romans) 3:23-25
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Elohim, 24 being justified freely by His favor through the redemption that is in Mashiach Yeshua,
25 whom Elohim set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance Elohim had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:15-16
15 Then the Messenger of Yahweh called to Avraham a second time out of heaven,
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.”

Shalom

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