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...... SIMPLE FAITH…GOD’S WILL……PUNISHMENT……GOD/MAN…... CLEAN MIND… RELATIONSHIP
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……….....…| In WHOM ' is | … |… FIRE / SACRIFICE … | … | …SON… |
.......… 'EXEMPTION from JUDGMENT
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]
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]
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.
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.
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
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."
TAV.....in Aramaic means MORE.
SHALOM !
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