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Zekeniam Y’ISCHRaEL Sherut haRitztzuy (the ministry of reconciliation) by whom we have now received the ( Atonement) Reconciliation of the Dvar HaRitztzuy Let this day be a day of reconciliation and regeneration [“EHYEH ASHER EHYEH”] ( HaYaH (He was), Howeh (He is), and Yihyeh (He will be). I AM My Memorial for generation after generation.” Shemot 3:13-16 This is MY NAME for ever,

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Zekeniam Y’ISCHRaEL

Sherut haRitztzuy

(the ministry of reconciliation)

by whom we have now received the

( Atonement)

Reconciliation of the Dvar HaRitztzuy

Let this day be a day of reconciliation and regeneration

[“EHYEH ASHER EHYEH”]

( HaYaH (He was), Howeh (He is), and Yihyeh (He will be).

I AM

My Memorial for generation after generation.”

Shemot 3:13-16

This is MY NAME for ever,

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YaHuWaH, ALuaHiYM of your father’s Abraham, Yitzchak [Isaac], and

Ya’aqob [Jacob], has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is

my memorial for generation togeneration." and I appeared to Abraham,

to Yitzchak, andto Ya’aqob as hashadday [the almighty]. and my name,

YaHuWaH, was not well known (famous) to them.

The ministry of reconciliation

Message of Reconciliation

Torah sh’Bichtav

(Written Torah)

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear

“Sola Scriptura”

(the Scriptures alone is authoritative for faith)

(in His Name)

YaHuWaH

[Yah -hoo-Wah]

is the Name of the Creator.

YaHuWSCHuA

(YaHuWSCHuA) is His Son

ALuaHiYM

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[Al-u-heem - ALHYM] means "Mighty Ones“ or "Power"

Qadosh

means Set-apart, Pure.

Kodesh

(Qodesh) also means "Set-apart"

Ruwach (Spirit) is the Ibry (Hebrew) name for His "Presence", pictured

as the Counselor, Helper, and Advocate, the One Who "proceeds from

the Father"

Teh 27:5

For in the day of trouble He will keep me secretly in His booth. In the

covering of His Tent He will hide me. On a Rock He raises me up.

is for you too!

Scripture speaks of a secret place where we can simply go, be alone, be

protected, pray, and hear from Yahuahshua. Knowing there is such a

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place is a matter of faith. Going back time and again, that's a matter of

building a relationship. You need not have an advanced degree in any

subject, need not have memorized Scripture from beginning to end, but

instead be aware the YaHuWaH of Y’ISCHRa’EL has a place for each

Jew and Gentile who will open their minds and hearts to Him.

Mt 6:5-8

When you pray, you shall not be as the role-fakers, for they love to

stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that

they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received

their reward. But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber,

and having shut your door, pray to your Father Who is in secret, and

your Father Who sees in secret shall reward you openly. In praying,

don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they

shall be heard for their much speaking. Therefore don’t be like them,

don't you see that your Father knows what things you need before you

ask Him.

The truth in reality is visited in this secret place AND must be shared by

those who will live or else ... they will perish ... in darkness.

It is written

Lu 11:33

“No one, when he has lit a Lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket,

but on a stand, that those who come in may see the Light.

Teh. 119:105

Your Word is a Lamp to my feet, and a Light (aur) for my path.

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your

whole body is also full of Light; but when it is evil, your body also is full

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of darkness. Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

If therefore your whole body is full of Light, having no part dark, it shall

be wholly full of Light, as when the Lamp with its bright shining gives

you Light.”

With this in mind, heart soul and strength let us study together in the

Ruwach

And now brothers and sisters

Come out of the secret place bearing light!

who see it from afar. The Secret Place, here, shines a bit of light so

many can see from afar. The topics we have chosen are addressed to

Jew and Gentile together. We do this because that is what the Bible

does. This opens the window to make more sense of what Scripture tells

us!

In the secret place is plain language, something simple to read. This is a

mere starting place for deeper consideration.

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חיים עץets chaiyim,

“the tree of life,”

Mishle 3:18 She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every

one] that retaineth her.

Alluding most manifestly to the tree so called which YaHuWaH in the beginning planted in the garden of Paradise, The leaves are the

blessings of wisdom given to men, preserve them in life, comfort them through life, cause them to triumph in death, and ensure them a glorious

immortality.

Mishlei 11:30 The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that winneth souls

[is] wise.

A wise person is a model of a meaningful life. Like a tree attracts people to its shade, a wise person's sense of purpose attracts others who want to know how they, too, can find meaning. Gaining wisdom yourself can

be the first step in leading people to YaHuWaH.

For YaHuWaH knows the way of the righteous:

“The tree of life”

Which Adamah was not to taste lies open to his children. Wisdom is the “tree of life,” giving a true immortality.

BLESSING OR CURSE YOUR CHOICE

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YirmeYahu 21:8 To this people you shall say, Thus says YaHuWaH: Behold, I set before

you the Way of Life and the way of death.

YaHuWaH is reiterating a choice He vividly portrayed to Ysra'al in

Yahuwshua day.

Deut. 11:26; Look! [re'eh] I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

And, not or: He is only offering one set of directions; what we do with

them determines which they will be for us.

Deut. 11:28;

and the curse, if you shall not listen to the Commandments of YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this

day, to go after other mighty ones, which you have not known.

If we follow them, we will be blessed; if we do things our own way, by our own logic, or only halfway, we cannot help but receive a curse. Who

would look up driving directions on the Internet, and start to follow them, but then skip from the first to the third, and expect to end up in

the right place? Because our ancestors picked and chose which of YaHuWaH’s commandments they wanted to obey, we ended up as the “lost sheep of the House of Y’ISCHRa’AL”. To end up where we belong,

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we need to follow the directions completely. Been familiar: We must not worship anything our righteous ancestors did not, and they never

worshipped a man as an Aloha. He has told us He is jealous, and Pin ‘has received an eternal covenant for having the same jealousy on behalf of YAHUWAH’s relationships with Y’ISCHRa’AL. He wants us to have this

jealousy also. Otherwise we are cheating on Him. He is making His heart known to us through these rules. They are not just hoops to jump

through, strange though some of them seem at first glance. They are about knowing who He is so that we can have an intimate friendship

with Him. They are about learning how to love Him—how to be the kind of people He can relate to. If we only learn them by rote and carry them

out mechanically, we may look right, but we will not be right. The blessing YaHuWaH sets before us are the relationship with Himself. Are

we after having Him live in our midst, or just a religious experience? Though the consequences may take many unpleasant forms, the actual

curse is not having His presence with us. Most people are familiar with at least some of these commandments. Some in Christianity use them to build doctrines of a god-man or personal salvation. Humanists like the

command to love our neighbors as ourselves. But they are rarely used in

the context He intended—that of Y’ISCHRa’AL dwelling in His Land with Him at our core--so what should be a blessing becomes a curse instead. They become only codes of morals rather than a way to love YaHuWaH. Not that immorality is better, but when morality mixes Torah with men’s thought and is not used for the right purpose, it is not profitable either. It may end up making us serve the state rather than YaHuWaH as our

provider. His commands are meant to stay whole and intact. When we obey them out of love for Him and for one another, He responds by

upholding His side of the covenant. What we give priority to and what we reject determine whether we are going after YaHuWaH or another aloha. Some of the most upstanding, decent, loving people choose to obey only parts of the Torah, and this does not mean they are bad people, but they are doing it for other reasons. The curse is only for

those who turn aside from the way. To turn aside from a path, one must first be walking on it. We cannot judge anyone by the rules of this path if he has never been on it. The commands resonate with and hit home for those who are Y’ISCHRa’AL and whose time it is to take up this mantle. Those who are not on this path are under neither blessing nor curse. Christianity as a system may have left the path, but do not consider

individual Christians to be under this curse. The nations have their own judgment to undergo, and they play a large role in the prophetic

scenario. Someone has to be there to support Y’ISCHRa’AL and return it

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to its rightful place. (Yeshayahu 49:22-23, etc.) But to find YaHuWaH, this is where Y’ISCHRa’AL must look; these commands are the path.

Deut. 30:19;

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose

life, that you may live, you and your seed;

This calling of the most potent witnesses available is a common aspect of a covenant-cutting ceremony. Survive: in order to love Him, not just

for its own sake:

Yahuwshua. 8:30-35. Then Yahuwshua built an altar to YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, in

Mount Ebal, as Moshah the servant of YaHuWaH commanded the children of Ysra'al, as it is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moshah, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They

offered burnt offerings on it to YaHuWaH, and slaughtered peace offerings. He wrote there on the stones a copy of the Torah of

Moshah, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Ysra'al. All Ysra'al, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood

on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of YaHuWaH’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the

native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moshah the servant of YaHuWaH had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Ysra'al. Afterward he read all the words of the Torah, the blessing and the curse, according to all

that is written in the scroll of the Torah. There was not a Word of all that Moshah commanded, which Yahuwshua didn’t read before all the

assembly of Ysra'al, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

PLEASE READ ABOVE CAREFULLY, HEBREW and FOREIGNER

Mt. Eval: just north of Sh'khem, some twenty miles nearly due north of Ay and Beyth-El; they would have traveled along the mountain ridges to get there. Y'hoshua obeyed this command (Deut. 27:4ff) as soon as the path to the mountain was clear. This is probably the main reason they chose to take Ay second, because the first time they went, YaHuWaH

had not specified what city to take next. Ay was the only major obstacle

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that stood in the way of obeying this command (since they "got Beyth-El for free"), so it was the logical choice of where to attack. Unaltered

stones: symbolizing doctrines unshaped by the opinions of men. No sin offerings were made here because it was not the Tabernacle altar. They probably slaughtered many of the animals they had just taken as plunder

out of thankfulness to YaHuWaH that no man was lost. An altar has been found on Mount Eval that may well be this one. It was limed over so

there would be a smooth surface to write all these words on. (Deut. 27) Though the specific tactics changed at each location, the Torah itself was set in stone, literally. To maintain the flow, we get to decide the “how”

at certain times, but this is not “every individual doing what is right in his own eyes”, as we see through the book of Judges. The lowest common denominator in Y’ISCHRa’AL is “rulers of tens”. Within that group, all

must follow the same way of walking out the Torah, but the Torah itself is the solid foundation every part of Y’ISCHRa’AL must agree upon.

Because of all they had gone through, they might understand the Torah better, and they were now an army, not merely shepherds, but they

were still the same people and the Torah was still the Torah. It is our constitution. Its words--those that Y'hoshua wrote down just as Moshe

had said them--are still the words we are to live by. Like Rahav and Giv'on, there may have been others from surrounding towns who,

knowing there would be no mercy once Y’ISCHRa’AL arrived, joined them before they arrived at their towns and became counted as part of Y’ISCHRa’AL. Not just the men, and not in separate groups. All received the Torah and became responsible for it together. His word was what

brought the victory, so going back to dwell in it was the next step before attempting any further battles. Among them: The particular word implies

being close to the middle of the group, not on the sidelines. The sojourners: Though we just had to go through a season of destroying

what inhibits our obedience to YaHuWaH, that is not what we are really about. Who we really are is a people who are a refuge even for

sojourners. The shepherd’s rod must always balance out the spear that must sometimes be in our hands.

The allusion seems to be to a phrase used by Moshe, when he gave the law; obedience to which would issue in life, and disobedience in death,

Debarim 30:15

Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;

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After all those curses, it should be a "no-brainer" which one to choose,

yet still we chose death! Truth is stranger than fiction!

Debarim 30:16

In that I command you this day to love YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, to walk in His ways, and to keep His Commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that YaHuWaH your

Aluahiym may bless you in the Land where you go in to possess it. He tells us to guard every aspect of the Torah, so there is no room to

wiggle out of any of them. It is the choosing (see v. 19) that allows us to have it written on our hearts. It is not our own personal lives we must

choose (doing that is what got us into trouble), but the life of Y’ISCHRa’AL.

Debarim 30:17

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other mighty ones, and serve them;

Turns away: LXX, "changes". Note the progression in how our various members respond: If our heart turns off our hearing, our feet will be

pulled away by an outside source. "Drawn away" could also read "compelled". Idolatry is the main issue, because YAHUWAH wants

relationship with us more than any of the details, though they all add to it and there is no contradiction between the two. But the big issue is that

we are with Him wholeheartedly. He desires obedience more than sacrifices, etc. (1 Shmu'el 15:22) In contrast, if we "guard" His ways, we

preserve our ability to hear and live as our true selves, fulfilling the calling for which we were carefully and specifically designed. But the

guarding takes an interesting twist, because trying to keep the Torah for its own sake, rather than for YAHUWAH's and Y’ISCHRa’AL's (not one or the other), can make it our ALuaHiYM. We do not serve the words or the doing, but the purpose. Even if we kept every detail to the letter, if it is for selfish reasons--like personal salvation--our righteousness will not

surpass that of the P'rushim YaHuWSCHuA criticized. It must be kept in the context YaHuWSCHuA put it back into--the very context verse 20 below tells us it was meant to be a means to: love. Make no mistake; the Torah is the key to our return. But it is a tool, a means to the end,

not the end in itself.

Debarim 30:18

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I declare to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the Land, where you pass over the Yarden to go in

to possess it.

Does it mean that this time, if we turn away from habitual obedience, we

will perish altogether, and that there will not be another "doubling of the sentence" (Yirmeyahu 16:18) or "seven times" (Lev. 26:18)? I.e., once we've tasted of the power of the age to come, which is the Torah, is

there no hope of forgiveness (as in Hebrews 10:26)? This should deter us indeed, but we must also remember that the Northern Kingdom did completely perish at one time, and yet YAHUWAH has restored it. True

repentance is always a "game change".

Debarim 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose

life, that you may live, you and your seed;

This calling of the most potent witnesses available is a common aspect

of a covenant-cutting ceremony. Survive: in order to love Him, not just for its own sake:

Debarim 30:20

to love YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, to obey His Voice, and to cleave to Him; for He is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell

in the Land which YaHuWaH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Yitzhaq, and to Ya'aqob, to give them.

This defines what life is and what love is and is not. Hold tightly: the

term used of a man "cleaving" to his wife (Gen. 2:24), for Y’ISCHRa’AL is YaHuWaH's bride. Paul prays that by HaMaSHiYaCH dwelling in our

hearts, we may grasp what is indeed incomprehensible, and be filled with all the fullness of YAHUWAH. (Eph. 3:18) Those who do return and have all the curses that were on our ancestors removed will rebuild the ancient places that were ruined, and be dressed as a bride! (Yeshayahu 61:1-10) He is your life: It is not His provisions per se, but YaHuWaH

Himself that sustains us (8:3), and we live only because He chooses to remember us. How can those to whom YaHuWSCHuA says, "I never knew you", continue to exist? If YaHuWaH expels someone from His

memory, where can he be? It would be as if he had never existed. Life is not a qualitative thing that one can measure; we can only see evidence that it is present or departed. The HaMaSHiYaCH is also called our life

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(Col. 3:4), because his redemption of us as kinsmen means we have another occasion to not only rejoin the commonwealth of Y’ISCHRa’AL from which we cut ourselves off. Length of your days: Jewish scholars say that this means that your life will continue in the age to come (the

Messianic Kingdom).

Look in the mirror and choose life.

Tehillim 18:28

For thou wilt light my candle: YaHuWaH ( יהוה ) my ALuaHiYM ( אלהים )

will enlighten my darkness.

The lighting of the lamp is a cheerful moment in the winter's evening, but the lifting up of the light of YaHuWaH's countenance is happier far. It is said that the poor in Egypt will stint themselves of bread to buy oil for the lamp, so that they may not sit in darkness; we could well afford to part with all earthly comforts if the light of YaHuWaH's love could but

constantly gladden our soul

Iyov 29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked

[through]darkness;

Job fondly remembered the days when it seemed that YAHUWAH was for him rather than against him. It reminds us of the fact that Job’s great crisis after his catastrophic losses was primarily spiritual, in that he did not sense the support and succor of YAHUWAH in the aftermath of his loss. “It is a great thing for a man to be near to YAHUWAH; it is a very

choice privilege to be admitted into the inner circle of communion, and to become YAHUWAH’s familiar friend. Great as the privilege is, so great

is the loss of it. No darkness is so dark as that which falls on eyes accustomed

to the light.” (Spurgeon)

Pro 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of

instruction are the way of life:

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The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Ruwach,

We cannot offer any thing to YAHUWAH, that he will accept but what he is pleased to teach us to do. To have our soul or life continually in our

hands, implies constant danger of life; yet he did not forget YAHUWAH's

promises nor his precepts.

There are two ways, two destinies There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end

thereof [are] the ways of death.

Tehillim 1:1 Happy is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked nor stands

in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scoffers,

YAHUWAH doesn't judge us on the basis of race, sex, or national origin. He judges us on the basis of our faith in him and our response to his revealed will. Those who diligently try to obey YAHUWAH's will are

blessed. They are like healthy, fruit-bearing trees planted along a riverbank with strong roots

Jer-17:7-8

Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in YAHUWAH ( יהוה ), and whose hope YAHUWAH ( יהוה ) is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the

waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful

in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

and YAHUWAH promises to watch over them. YAHUWAH's wisdom guides their lives. In contrast, those who don't trust and obey YAHUWAH

have meaningless lives that blow away like dust.

Tehillim( Praises) Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the Torah of YAHUWAH; and in His Torah he

meditates day and night.

Delight חפצו

chephtso,

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his will, desire, affection, every motive in his heart, and every moving principle in his soul, are on the side of YAHUWAH and his truth. He takes up the law of the Lord as the rule of his life; he brings all his actions and

affections to this holy standard. He looketh into the perfect law of liberty; and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word; and is

therefore blessed in his deed. He not only reads to gain knowledge from the Divine oracles, but he meditates on what he has read, feeds on it; and thus receiving the sincere milk of the word, he grows thereby unto eternal life. This is not an occasional study to him; it is his work day and

night. As his heart is in it, the employment must be frequent, and the disposition to it perpetual.

Rhomaios 13:8-10 Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Torah. For this, Thou shalt not commit

adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other

commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely,

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the Torah.

Tehillim 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reprove

me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my tefillah also [shall be] in their calamities.

“Let the righteous chastise me in mercy, and instruct me: but let not the oil of the wicked anoint my head. It shall not adorn

(navah נוה yani, from יני )

my head;

for still my prayer shall be against their wicked works.”

Yeshayahu 8:20

To ha Torah and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.

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Law and testimony each refer to YAHUWAH’s Word. We might say that law refers to YAHUWAH’s holy commands, and testimony refers to His

dealings with His people as recorded in His Word. But that may be slicing it too thin, because often similar terms for YAHUWAH’s Word are

repeated, not for the sake of distinction, but for the sake of emphasis.

“Let us remember, as servants of the true Gospel, what M’Cheyne

beautifully said; ‘Depend upon it,’ said he, ‘it is YAHUWAH’s Word not man’s comment upon YAHUWAH’s Word, that saves souls;’ and I have marked, that if ever we have a conversion at any time, in ninety-nine

cases out of a hundred, the conversion is rather traceable to the text, or to some Scripture quoted in the sermon, than to any trite or original

saying by the preacher. It is YAHUWAH’s Word that breaks the fetters and sets the prisoner free, it is YAHUWAH’s Word instrumentally that saves souls, and therefore let us bring everything to the touchstone.”

(Spurgeon)

If there is a disagreement between YAHUWAH’s word and the word of the messenger, it isn’t hard to figure out who is wrong. The messenger

is wrong. The word judges the messenger; the messenger doesn’t judge the word. When they forsake YAHUWAH’s word and trust in mediums

and wizards and the dead, they are courting darkness, not light.

Wisdom as a Family Treasure (4:1-9)

Fatherly advice

Mishlei 4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know

understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my torah. For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my

words: keep my mitzvot, and live. Get chokmah, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her

not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Chokmah (wisdom) [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get chokmah

(wisdom): and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she

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shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of

grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Shema, O Beni (my son),

and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I have taught thee in the way of chokmah; I have led thee in right paths. When

thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Take firm hold of musar (instruction); let [her]

not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn

from it, and pass away. For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall. For they eat the lechem of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and

more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Beni (my son):

Attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all

their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life. Put away from thee a forward mouth, and perverse lips put far

from thee. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight

before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot

from evil.

Hebrews 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned

out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and make teshuvah, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy Menorah out of his place, except thou make teshuvah.

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The first step in restoration is to them to remember. from where we have fallen. This means remembering where we used to be in our love for YAHUWAH and for one another. When the Prodigal Son was in the pigpen, the first step in restoration was remembering what life was like back in his father’s home This is always the first step in getting back to

where we should be with YAHUWAH. This is not a command to feel sorry, or really to feel anything. It means to change your direction, to go

a different way. It is an “urgent appeal for instant change of attitude and conduct,

before it is too late.” This means that they must go back to the basics, to the very first things they did when you first fell in love with

YaHuWSCHuA These are the things that we never grow beyond.

. What are the first works?

Remember how you used to spend time in His Word?

Remember how you used to pray?

Remember the joy in getting together with other Set Apart Ones?

Remember how excited you were about telling others about YaHuWSCHuA.? We might say that haSatan has done a masterful job in

creating a sense of general dissatisfaction with these first works Believers will run after almost every new, strange “method” or “program”

for growth and stability. Our shortened attention spans make us easily “bored” with the truest excitement. Sometimes we will do almost

anything except the first works. Or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place: YaHuWSCHuA . gives them a stern warning. Unless they repent, He will remove their light and His

presence. When their lampstand is removed, they may continue as an organization, but no longer as a true assembly of Y'ISCHRa'AL

shalom

YaHuWSCHuA

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ALuaHiYM YaHuWSCHuA haMaSHiYaCH

In His Name

Blessed be, in His name

'YaHuWaH be with you.' and they answered him, 'YaHuWaH bless you.' "

Be not blind to the truth

And, hinnei, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that

YaHuWSCHuA passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O YaHuWaH,

[thou] Ben David. An YaHuWSCHuA stood still, and called them, and said,

what will ye that I shall do unto you they say unto Him, YaHuWaH, that our

eyes may be opened. So YaHuWSCHuA had compassion [on them], and touched

their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

His servant and yours

shalowm in Righteousness

by the GRACE of YaHuWaH

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keiYAH

nätzräya

Remember me and pray for me that YaHuWaH will be gracious unto me and be

merciful unto my sins which I have sinned against him. Peace be to them that

read and that hear these things and to their servants:

Amein and Amein

Freely ye have received, freely give

A rule necessary, and of great extent. A servant in the Gospel Vineyard, though

worthy of his Comfortable support while in the work. Should never preach for

hire, or make a secular traffic of the Ruwach (spiritual work): what a scandal is

it for a man to traffic with gifts which he pretends, at least, to have received

from the Ruwach HaQodesh, of which he is not the master, but the dispenser. He

who preaches to get a living, or make a fortune, is guilty of the most infamous

sacrilege

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