Shoftim parashat service

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Parasha Shoftim “Judges” 8/30/2014

Prayer

Barkhu (Bless)

While blowing the Shofar

Reader:

Bar'khu et YHWH Ham'vo'rakh Bless YHWH the source of all blessing Group:

Ba'rukh et YHWH Ham'vo'rakh Le'olam Va'ed Blessed is YHWH, the source of all blessing forever and ever!

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The Shema

Shema Yisrael YHWH Elohenu, YHWH echad. Ve'ahavta et YHWH Elo'hekha, b'khol l'vave'kha,

u'vekhol naf'shekha, u'vekhol me'o'de'kha. Baruch shem kevod mal'khoo'to le'olam va'ed.

Hear O Israel, YHWH our God, YHWH is one. And you shall Love YHWH your God with all your Heart, with all your Soul, and all your strength! Blessed is the name

of his kingdom forever and ever.

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Family

Blessed are you YHWH our God, who has given us our family and instruction on how each of us should act in our family. Strengthen us and guide us so our households would glorify You!

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Thanksgiving / Needs

Worship

Blessed are you YHWH our God, please accept our offering of Praise and Worship. Let our

voices ascend up to you and may it be pleasing in your ears!

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Psa 66:4 All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing unto you; they shall sing your name.

YHWH

IT IS GOOD TO GIVE THANKS TO YHWH, I WILL GIVE YOU PRAISE YHWH, I WILL GIVE YOU THANKS YOU ARE, THE MOST HIGH, YOU O’ ADONAI YOU HAVE MADE ME GLAD BY, THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS YOU THOUGHTS ARE VERY DEEP, DEEPER THAN MAN’S YOU ARE, GOD MOST HIGH, YOU O’ ADONAI THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL FLOURISH, LIKE THE PALM LIKE THE CEDAR IN, LEVANON PLANTED BY, THE MOST HIGH, PLANTED BY ADONAI YHWH, I WILL SING YOUR PRAISE I WILL GIVE YOU THANKS, ALL OF MY DAYS I WILL PRAISE, THE MOST HIGH, PRAISES TO ADONAI

PRAISE TO THE MOST HIGH

PUT ON YOUR BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES, YAHRUSHALAYIM YHWH’S REMOVED, YOUR CUP OF TREMBLING PUT OFF YOUR NECK TZIYON, YOUR BANDS YOUR STRENGTH HAS RETURNED, BY ELOHIM’S HAND CHORUS AWAKE, AWAKE, YAHRUSHALAYIM AWAKE, AWAKE, O’TZIYON DEPART, DEPART FROM OUT OF THERE AND HE’LL GATHER YOU, AND BRING YOU HOME END – AWAKE, AWAKE, YAHRUSHALAYIM, AWAKE, AWAKE, O’TZIYON YAHRUSHALAYIM, TZIYON, WHY DON’T YOU COME HOME 2X COME HOME HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON, MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING, GOOD TIDINGS PEACE AND SALVATION, IS WHAT THEY PROCLAIM TO TZIYON THEY SAY, YOUR ELOHIM REIGNS - CHORUS YAHRUSHALAYIM, AND TZIYON FOREVER BREAK FORTH INTO JOY, AND SING TOGETHER YOUR REPROACH IS GONE, IT’S TAKEN AWAY COME SEE THE SALVATION, OF YHWH - CHORUS

AWAKE

MY SOUL WAIT THOU ONLY, ONLY UPON GOD FOR FROM HIM IS MY EXPECTATION CHORUS HE IS MY DEFENSE I SHALL NOT BE MOVED HE IS MY DEFENSE I SHALL NOT BE MOVED MY MESSIAH ONLY HE ONLY IS MY ROCK AND THE HORN OF MY SALVATION YES MY YAHUSHUA ONLY, HE ONLY IS MY ROCK AND THE HORN OF MY SALVATION SH'MA YISRA'EL ADONAI ELOHENU ADONAI, ADONAI ECHAD BARUCH SHEM K'VOD, K'VOD MALCHUTO L'OLAM, L'OLAM VA'ED

HE IS MY DEFENSE

MAKE US LIKE AVRAHAM, YOSEF AND IYOV TO FEAR YOU IN EVERYTHING, ABLE TO BE SHOFTIM CHORUS YOU JUDGE THE GREAT THINGS AND WE’LL JUDGE THE SMALL THINGS ALL THIS PEOPLE SHALL GO TO THEIR PLACE IN PEACE TO THEIR PLACE IN PEACE END - 2X CHORUS LET OUR WORD AND DEED BE TRUE LIKE DAWID AND ELIYAHU BY TWO WITNESSES PROVED THAT WE MAY SERVE YOU – CHORUS WE HATE UNJUST GAIN SHEDING BLOOD FOR COVETING PERVERTING JUDGEMENT, TAKING BRIBES LURKING PRIVILY FOR THEIR LIVES - CHORUS

JUDGE THE SMALL THINGS

HOW LONG, WILL MY EARS, BE CLOSED TO YOUR WORDS LORD, CALL ME OUT OF THE WORLD YOUR, VOICE, CAN HEAL ME CHORUS ONE DAY, OUR LORD, WILL COME FOR US AND SAVE US AND WE’LL, LEARN TO WALK IN HIS WAYS END 2X – LEARN, LEARN TO WALK IN HIS WAYS HOW LONG, WILL MY EYES, BE BLIND TO YOUR SPIRIT LORD, CLEANSE THE INSIDE OF MY CUP DON’T LEAVE ME, IN THIS WORLD OF DARKNESS – CHORUS HOW LONG, WILL MY HEART, BE UNLIKE YOU LORD, HEAL ME, CLEANSE ME, WITH YOUR WORD MAKE ME LIKE YOU, HOLY AND TRUE, ONE WITH YOU

ONE DAY

KADOSH…..KADOSH, KADOSH KADOSH…..KADOSH, KADOSH ADONAI….ELOHIM, TZEVAOT ADONAI….ELOHIM, TZEVAOT ASHER….HAYA….VE HOVEH…VE YAVO 2X HOLY….HOLY, HOLY HOLY….HOLY, HOLY O’LORD….OUR GOD, LORD OF HOSTS O’LORD….OUR GOD, LORD OF HOSTS WHO WAS, AND WHO IS, AND WHO IS TO COME 2X

KADOSH

O HOLY GOD, WE WORSHIP YOU MERCIFUL ONE, MIGHTY AND TRUE WE’LL SEARCH YOUR WORD, EVERY DAY WE’LL KNEEL TO YOU, AND WE’LL PRAY O HOLY GOD, WE LIVE THROUGH YOU PATIENT ONE, OUR HEART SUBDUE LEAD US IN THE WAY WE SHOULD GO YOU’RE THE ONE WE WANT TO KNOW O HOLY GOD, YOU CHANGED MY LIFE YOU TAUGHT ME, WRONG AND RIGHT I HOPE I’LL BE PLEASING SOME DAY WHEN I LOOK IN YOUR EYES AND SAY O HOLY GOD, CAN YOU FORGIVE ME FOR ALL I’VE DONE, I WANT TO BE RIGHTEOUS AND PLEASING IN YOUR SIGHT LOVING YOU WITH ALL OF MY MIGHT (End top line x2)

O HOLY GOD

I LIFT MY EYES UP, TO THE MOUNTAINS WHERE DOES MY HELP COME FROM MY HELP COMES FROM YOU MAKER OF HEAVEN CREATOR OF THE EARTH O HOW I NEED YOU LORD YOU ARE MY ONLY HOPE YOU'RE MY ONLY PRAYER SO I WILL WAIT FOR YOU TO COME AND RESCUE ME COME AND GIVE ME LIFE END Top 2 lines

I LIFT MY EYES UP

Blessing for the Torah Blessed are you YHWH our God, King of the

universe, who gives us the Torah of truth so that we may study, live, learn, and be changed by it,

so that we may have righteous judgment and your spirit of love, So that we may keep your

commandments, do them, and live in them, and teach them to our children and our children's

children forever. Amain!

Torah Reading

Shoftim“Judges”

Reader 1: Deut 16:18 – 17:13

Reader 2: Deut 17:14 – 17:20

Reader 3: Deut 18:1 – 18:5

Reader 4: Deut 18:6 – 18:13

Reader 5: Deut 18:14 – 19:13

Reader 6: Deut 19:14 – 20:9

Reader 7: Deut 20:10 – 21:9

Haftarah: Isa 51:12 – 52:12

Reader 1 – Deut 16: 18 - 20

There shall be just judges in all your

gates

Reader 1 – Deut 16: 21 - 22

You shall not plant any groves by an

altar of YHWH or set up an idol

Reader 1 – Deut 17: 1

You shall not sacrifice anything

that is blemished to YHWH

Reader 1 – Deut 17: 2 - 5

You shall stone anyone who serves other elohim after

making diligent search to see if it's

true

Reader 1 – Deut 17: 6 - 7

All matters shall be established by two or three witnesses

Reader 1 – Deut 17: 8 - 13

Levi, Priests, and Judges shall decide

the sentence for hard matters

Reader 2 – Deut 17: 14 - 17

When you come into

the land you shall set a King over you from your brethren whom YHWH will

choose

Reader 2 – Deut 17: 18 - 20

King must write a copy of the whole

Torah and read from it every day

Reader 3 – Deut 18: 1 - 2

The Levi'im shall have no part with Yisra'el, YHWH is their inheritence

Reader 3 – Deut 18: 3 - 5

The Levi’im’s

portions of the offerings are given

Reader 4 – Deut 18: 6 - 8

If a Levi desires to

come and serve YHWH he shall be

allowed to take part

Reader 4 – Deut 18: 9 - 13

You shall not take on

any of the ways of the nations before

you

Reader 5 – Deut 18: 14 - 19

A prophet like Moshe is promised to stand between

YHWH and the people

Reader 5 – Deut 18: 20 - 22

You shall put to death a false

prophet

Reader 5 – Deut 19: 1 - 10

You shall make cities of refuge for people who accidentally kill

someone

Reader 5 – Deut 19: 11 - 13

If a man kills

someone but not by accident and flees to a city of refuge the judges shall

deliver him to the avenger of blood

Reader 6 – Deut 19: 14

You shall not move your neighbor's

landmarks

Reader 6 – Deut 19: 15

All matters shall be established by two or more witnesses

Reader 6 – Deut 19: 16 - 21

False witnesses to receive the

punishment of the accused

Reader 6 – Deut 20: 1 - 4

Priests to speak to men before going to

war

Reader 6 – Deut 20: 5 - 9

4 reasons men should not go out to

war

Reader 7 – Deut 20: 10 - 15

Before making war on a city first offer

peace, if they refuse kill all males

Reader 7 – Deut 20: 16 - 18

When taking a city of your inheritance

from God kill all breathing creatures

Reader 7 – Deut 20: 19 - 20

When making a long war you shall not destroy the fruit

trees because you can eat from them

Reader 7 – Deut 21: 1 - 9

Laws for finding a dead person in a

field

Haftarah – Isa 51: 12 – 52:12

Do not fear your oppressor because YHWH will take His fury off you and put

it on them

Blessing for the Torah Blessed are you YHWH our God, King of the

universe, who gives us the Torah of truth so that we may study, learn, live, and be changed by it,

so that we may have righteous judgment and your spirit of love, So that we may keep your

commandments, do them, and live in them, and teach them to our children and our children's

children forever. Amain!

Kids Fathers: Deu 6:6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: Deu 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. Deu 6:8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Children: Deu 6:20 when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which YHWH our Elohim has commanded you?

Kids Fathers: Deu 6:21 Then you shall say unto your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: Deu 6:22 And YHWH showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: Deu 6:23 And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers. Deu 6:24 And YHWH commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear YHWH our Elohim, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. Deu 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before YHWH our Elohim, as he has commanded us.

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Last Weeks Parashat Review

Kids

What was last weeks Parashat?

Kids

Last week’s parashat was in the book of Devarim also called Deuteronomy. Last week’s parashat was called Re’eh which

means ‘Behold'

● Devarim ● Va’etchanan ● Ekev

● Re’eh ● Shoftim

● Ki Tetze ● Ki Tavo ● Nitzavim/Va’yelech ● Ha’azinu ● Vezot ha’Bracha

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Review Questions ● What does the word Re’eh mean? ● What causes the commandments to be a blessing or cursing? ● What are we to do with all the idolotry in the land? ● What makes an animal clean or unclean? ● How do you treat the poor?

Kids

This week’s parashat is in the book of Devarim also called Deuteronomy, This week’s parashat is called Shoftim which

means ‘Judges'

● Devarim ● Va’etchanan ● Ekev ● Re’eh

● Shoftim

● Ki Tetze ● Ki Tavo ● Nitzavim/Va’yelech ● Ha’azinu ● Vezot ha’Bracha

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THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY IS DEVARIM THE 5TH BOOK OF THE TORAH THERE'S 10 PARASHOT IN DEVARIM AND THIS IS THEIR ORDER DEVARIM, VA’ETCHANA, EKEV, RE’EH SHOFTIM, KI TETZE, KI TAVO, NITZAVIM VA’YELECH, HA’AZINU, VEZOT HA’BRACHA THANK YOU ELOHIM FOR OUR PARASHAT SHOFTIM IS OUR PORTION WE LEARN YOUR WORD ON EVERY SHABBAT AND NOW LET'S LEARN THIS ONE. HEY!

The Parashat Song

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Kids

What does the word Shoftim mean?

Kids

Judgement

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What condition do our sacrifices to YHWH have to be in?

Kids

Perfect, we don’t offer sacrifices with blemishes!

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How many witnesses are needed to establish something?

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Two or more witnesses are needed to establish a matter!

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What happens to a false witness?

Kids

They get the punishment that the person they accused would have

gotten!

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Parashat Message

Belonging in the Promised Land By Messianic Torah

Blessing for the Sabbath

Blessed are you YHWH our God, who rested on the seventh day and has given rest to all people through your Holy Torah!

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