Tuesday, July 5, 2011

God's Covenant - In the Beginning 1 - B'RASHYT

Genesis 1:1 in the BEGINNING God
t.......y.......#.......).......r.......b

........….t..................y....................#..................)...................r..................b
TAV 400…….YUD 10 …….SHIN 300 ….… ALEF 1…….REISH 200 ….…BEYT 2
.....……MARK…....…HAND…........…FIRE…..............OX….........…HEAD….....…HOUSE
...... SIMPLE FAITHGOD’S WILLPUNISHMENTGOD/MAN…... CLEAN MIND RELATIONSHIP
………………………………....…GRACE

….......................... ty……….......…….…..….#)………........….......rb

….....| In WHOM ' is | | FIRE / SACRIFICE | | SON |

.......… 'EXEMPTION from JUDGMENT




John 1:1 in the BEGINNING was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God

If God had spoken only 'one word - B'RASHYT' - it would have been enough. This one word has much to show. Looking at if from Jesus Christ's fulfillment we see: A relationship of the pure mind of God - God Himself becoming man, the Word made flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus received our punishment, the death penalty of sin, extending us His Grace. God's will for 'exemption from judgment' and for his creation to walk in truth - in simple faith.


BEYT.. means HOUSE. A man's 'house' is said to be his WIFE.
............a dwelling place marked by desire for family relationship.
............God's house is called a 'house of prayer' for all nations. [Isaiah 56:7; Mark 11:17]

REISH means HEAD, BEGINNING, FIRST, CHIEF.
............as one who clarifies (makes clean) his MIND.
............The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.. [Job 28:28; Proverbs 9:10]

ALEF....means OX as strong, able to bring the thousandfold increase of the field.
............An OX is docile: 'ready to accept control or instruction; submissive'; teachable.
............The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
...................but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [Proverbs 1:7]
............For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light;
..................reproofs of instruction are the way of life [Proverbs 6:2]
............All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
..................for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness [2 Timothy 3:16]

............ALEF is also LEADER often translated as guide, governor, captain, duke.
............A duke is 'a male holding the highest hereditary title'.
............But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, "I put You
.................under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!"
................Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. Matthew 26:63-64]

Water, the letter MEM, is wisdom. In the beginning the waters / wisdom above were indistinguishable from the waters / wisdom below. All was 'God' - His WORD 'light'. But when darkness was seen on the face of the earth, the Spirit of God called for a separation of the 'waters / wisdom above (light) from the waters below (darkness).

Day 1
. God called for LIGHT and divided light from darkness.
.........Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. [John 8:12]

Day 2 God said, "Let there be a firmament (supporting waters from above) in the midst of
.........the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters... And God called the
.........firmament (supporting waters (wisdom) from above) HEAVEN: shamayim: fire & water.
.........Our God is a consuming fire, His living Word - living Water.
........."I (Jesus) came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
.................But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is
.................accomplished! Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you,
.................not at all, but rather division. [Luke 12:49-51]

Jesus, the light of the world, just as the 'firmament', the supporting waters from above, Jesus came dividing the 'waters from the waters', heavenly wisdom from worldly wisdom. On day 3 God gathered the 'waters under the heavens' into one place. In the book of Revelation 16 Jesus speaks of coming as a thief, and of a 'gathering together' at one place - Armageddon (the place of crowds),

Rabbi Ginsburgh, Israel
http://www.inner.org/hebleter/alef.htm
calls ALEF the 'paradox of God and Man'. The Ari z"l explains that the place of "pure marble stone" is where the higher and the lower waters unite. Here one must not call out 'water-water,' as if to divide the higher and lower waters. "The place of pure marble stone" is the place of truth--the Divine power to bear two opposites simultaneously; in the words of Rabbi Shalom ben Adret: "the paradox of paradoxes." Here "the exaltation of God" and His "closeness" to man unite with the "lowliness of man" and his "distance" from God.

At least for me - - that sounds just like JESUS, the Word, living water, supporting waters from above, made flesh and dwelt among us. Emmanuel, God with us.

ALEF .. pictorially the 'two hands (yuds) of friendship' of the 'vav - the upright man'.
.............Numerically JEHOVAH.
[John 1:1-14; John 3:16]

SHIN
....means TEETH: tooth, lex talionis, beast; sharp; a sharp rock, crag.

LEX TALIONIS is the law of retaliation, whereby a punishment resembles the offense committed in kind and degree. This is where 'an eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth' and 'gnashing of teeth' gets its meaning. A tooth is 'sharp' meaning to teach (incisively), to pierce to desire lex talIonis.

SHIN....the symbol of FIRE - both teeth and fire are meant to consume,
.............to change to what is then changeless.
.............For our God is a consuming fire. [Hebrews 12:29]
.............For I am the Lord, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed,
..................O sons of Jacob. [Malachi 3:6]

TAV.....means MARK (as a sign of exemption from judgment).
............TAV is to 'imprint, make an impression, as the seal of the King's signet.
............TAV's ancient form was 'crossed sticks' or a 'cross'.
............The modern form is a DALET [door / tongue] attached to a NUN [kingdom heir]
............Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
.....................old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
.....................Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through
.....................Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is,
.....................that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing
.....................their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
.....................Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ,
.....................as though God were pleading through us:
.....................we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. .
.....................For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us,
.....................that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
.....................2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Rabbi Ginsburgh: http://www.inner.org/hebleter/tav.htm The impression is the secret of simple faith in God's ultimate omnipresence the Infinite present in the finite, for "there is none like unto Him" ... The tav, the final letter of the alef-beit, corresponds to malchut ("kingdom"), the final Divine power, in the secret of "Your Kingdom is the Kingdom of all worlds." ...

God's seal (in Creation) is truth (in Hebrew, emet, spelled out by the final letters of the three last words in the account of Creation: bara elokim la'asot," " ...God created ‘to do’"). The last letter or seal of the word emet, "truth," itself - the seal of God's seal - is the letter tav, simple faith, the conclusion and culmination of all twenty-two forces - letters - active in Creation.

The three letters which spell emet are the beginning, middle and ending letters of the alef-beit." The alef corresponds to one’s initial awareness of Divine paradox in the infinite source (where the higher and lower waters, joy and bitterness, are absolutely one). From this awareness issues mem, the fountain of Divine wisdom, ever- increasing power of insight into the mysteries of Torah. "The final end of knowledge is not to know." The culmination of the flow of Divine wisdom in the soul (after all is said and done) is the "majestic" revelation of the infinite "treasure-house" of simple faith in God's absolute omnipresence below innate in the soul of Israel. The culmination of truth simple faith is the secret of the "tav."

"All follows the seal," in the secret of "returning light" from the tav to the alef, thereby forming the word ta, "cell."...

TAV.....in Aramaic means MORE.

SHALOM !

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