Ever since lesson 49 in this series entitled, “The Gospel According to Moses: Exodus,” we’ve been dealing with added laws to the Ten Commandments that Yahvay יהוה is giving to His people at Sinai through Moses. For me I know I have read these chapters (chapter 21-23) in Exodus and have not been overly affected. I mean I am reading laws and in some cases they mean little to me in the 21st century. The content of chapters 21-23 was not very stimulating for my faith and understanding. Once again it is incumbent on ...
Ever since lesson 49 in this series entitled, “The Gospel According to Moses: Exodus,” we’ve been dealing with added laws to the Ten Commandments that Yahvay יהוה is giving to His people at Sinai through Moses. For me I know I have read these chapters (chapter 21-23) in Exodus and have not been overly affected. I mean I am reading laws and in some cases they mean little to me in the 21st century. The content of chapters 21-23 was not very stimulating for my faith and understanding. Once again it is incumbent on us to read the Bible but we can not stop there. We need to go further and study the Bible if we are to be true disciples of Adonai Yeshua.
A number of years ago I began Torah studies “under” Dennis Prager, the famous and renowned conservative radio talk show host, who is also a Torah and Hebrew expert. Matter of fact as a religious Jew (he’s not orthodox) he has said that this is his life’s passion; to teach Torah תּוֹרָה to all, both Jew and Gentile. He has an audio series on the Torah תּוֹרָה that took him 25 years to complete. He is now taking those study materials and bring them to books called the “Rational Bible” one for each of the books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. They are awesome and Dennis did this to help Jews in Judaism and Christians into a deeper and more profound understanding of God’s Word in the Torah תּוֹרָה. Like Dennis has said, Christians and Jews have the same God and the same Bible except for the New Testament of course.
For me my studies in my graduate program was focused on the historical context of the Bible. So where Dennis stops his lessons because he is a religious Jew, I take up and take us to the Messiah, the Lord, Jesus. By knowing the New Testament and the Jewish culture of Jesus’ day we find that indeed SCRIPTURE testifies of Jesus and we see His teaching and His words in the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures, just like Jesus taught us in John 5:39 …
"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me.” (Joh 5:39)
So I listened to the audio lessons and use them as a foundation for this series in Exodus and the completed series in Genesis. It has been my goal to share these awesome lessons from the true Jewish scholar but also to go beyond Dennis’ lessons and commentaries and show how the words of Torah testify of Yeshua, our Lord, Jesus. For these chapters in Exodus 21-23 I was amazed at how much I missed. The laws, especially in the Hebrew, are more intense and explosive than in the English and so applicable to our day. The Torah תּוֹרָה is God’s instruction for them then and us now. In this lesson, lesson 58 focusing on Exod. 23:6-12, we study and experience that same awesomeness to God’s word. More than that once we go into the Hebrew it takes us to the very words of Jesus again and again. The Torah תּוֹרָה was Jesus’ Bible and He tells us to immerse ourselves and base our entire life on God’s Word when He said …
"If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (Joh 8:31-32)
I mentioned in this lesson about the two Hebrew words one of truth and the other for a lie. The Hebrew word for truth is AYMET and in Hebrew it is אֶמֶת – the first and middle and last letter in the Hebrew alphabet. The word for lie is SHEKER and in Hebrew it is שֶׁקֶר – the last three letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Is the Lord giving us a “picture?” Perhaps. Rabbi Daniel Lappin comments in this way …
Truth or AYMET אֶמֶת comprises, in sequence, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the middle letter, and the final letter. The message is that truth fits into the entire story from A to Z as it were. The word for LIE or SHEKER שֶׁקֶר is made up of the 2nd last, the 4th last, and the 3rd last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Since truth and lies are so incompatible, the last letter, having already been used for the final letter of AYMET, truth, cannot be used for falsehood. That leaves the next three letters, jumbled up to indicate that lies never go from A to Z but rather from Y to W to X. (See Rabbi Daniel Lapin’s website for his total teaching on the concept of truth and lies at https://rabbidaniellapin.com/)
The Rabbi also provides a cool picture of Truth and Lie in the Hebrew alphabet. See the picture below.
https://rabbidaniellapin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HEBREW-ALPHABET-truth-600x565.png
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