Week's Roundup - Liberty leads to health
Highlights from this week's learning and events; An eternal message from the Torah about how accessible Liberty from spiritual slavery leads us to physical health
Did you know that the Torah has an eternal Divine Message that applies to every single human being? Authentic Torah learning grounds us in reality, both what we can observe and what is beyond our observation, grasp and even understanding, and leads to practical positive action. Positive for us and positive for those around us. Torah reveals our Divine Innate Spiritual Compass and brings our Spiritual Backbone to the forefront of life.
If you have adopted some or all of Enlightenment thinking, learning Torah will challenge everything you believe and hold dear.
In each Weekโs Roundup, you will find a special topic, links to this weekโs learning, the Torah perspective on current events, upcoming learning and action suggestions. This week we embrace spiritual and physical health. Learn, take hope and take action, and share.
G-d willing you had the best Passover yet and you are going out of the limitations of Egypt every day. Egyptian thinking is about being constrained by what we can perceive in the natural world and becoming slaves to the natural order within us and around us.
Passover breaks us out of that and leads us into the seven week counting of Sefiras HaOmer, which each one of the shining aspects of our character, or perhaps more accurately in aspects that needs some work to shine as they should, take center stage in our focus so we can bring our character traits in line with our Divine soul.
Breaking out of spiritual slavery leads to freedom from physical slavery and to physical health. Tonight is the first day of the month of Iyar, the letters of which spell out "I am the L-rd G-d Al-mighty Your Healer."
In our weekly Torah learning of Rabbi Yonoson Steifโs Mitzvos Hashem, the Divine Commands that apply to every human being, we have been learning how the Caananites, like we all can, were worried about the future, and so sought out clever ways through divination and sorcery to figure out the future. G-d Al-mighty explicitly forbids Jews and non-Jews from engaging in these practices.
In the following video conversation, Rabbi Chyrek and I discuss the ways in which modern health care resembles the Canaanite cults through the cult of experts, rituals of testing and diagnosis, seeking certainty through treatment rituals and how this takes a person into spiritual slavery and therefore away from real health. All this is distasteful to G-d Al-mighty. Even so called natural health is leading people away from a relationship with G-d Al-mighty into a ritualistic fear based relationships with physical tests and supplements looked to as the source of well-being. Sponsored for a complete and speedy healing for Rifka Brina bas Basia.
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Shabbos is coming, a reminder for every human being that they are an intentional creation of G-d Al-mighty right now and a continuing beneficiary of His Love, His Joy and His Abundance! What an incredible moment to increase even more in joy!
Action: Use the link above to check Shabbos Candellighting times in your city around the world. Shabbos Candlelighting time in New York City this week (3/31/23) is 7:23 pm and Shabbos ends at 8:34 pm.
Here is some of the learning we did this week:
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Sunday Learning
๐ 2023-04-02 - Mitzvos Hashem - Rabbi Steif #55 - Passover: whatโs in it for non-Jews?
๐2023-04-16 - Mitzvos Hashem - Rabbi Steif #56 - Stop turning to artificial senses of security (Playlist - Mitzvos Hashem of Rabbi Steif for Bnai Noach).
Wednesday Learning
๐ Zecharia 8:23 - Parshas Tazria-Metzora: How baseless hatred is created to spread terror and the specter of Anti-Semitism This video has not be uploaded yet, so hopefully by early next week. (Zecharia 8:23 Playlist).
Thursday Learning
ย ๐ Emunah (Faith) in Action 46 - Beis HaLevi 33 - It's not about the information, nor the result...it's about the tranquillity of the soul! (Emuna (Faith) in Action Playlist)
Gate of Oneness - Definitions of Chassidus #12 - ืืืืืขืช ืขืื - What is a skilled eye? (Gate of Oneness Playlist).
๐๐๐๐How does modern healthcare resemble ancient Canaanite cults? (Torah Lessons Playlist).
On Substack this week:
On Substack, I write about the practical implications of Torah learning, and how to keep our thinking clear, grounded in honesty and common sense. Hereโs The Rabbi Smith Bulletin for this week: I posted a number of Notes which were discussed in a prior email.
A Torah perspective on the world around usโฆ
Ask in the comments below about topics and news you would like the Torah perspective on.
A peek aheadโฆ
Sefiras HaOmer
Restarting the Rambam Mishnah Torah
A thought in concluding for nowโฆ
Thank G-d, we live in the most inspiring and incredible times in the history of the world. We have a great and beautiful mission before us. The need in the people is great, time is of the essence and the undertaking is massive, but eminently doable with the help of G-d Al-mighty. Please consider a generous gift to bring this message of hope to thousands more people, by clicking here.
May G-d Al-mighty bless you and Gut Shabbos!
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Upcoming Learning:
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Shabbos Afternoon (Saturday) 4 pm Eastern
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Tanya: Sha'ar Hayichud v'HaEmunah - the Gate of Oneness and Faithย
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๐Rabbi Steif Mitzvos Hashem
SUNDAY 7 am Eastern (1 pm Germany time)
Rabbi Steif wrote this holy book to avert the Holocaust by making sure that both Jews and non-Jews should know clearly G-d Al-mighty's rules for non-Jews.
๐Zecharia 8:23 - Weekly Torah Portion, Prayer and Talmud
WEDNESDAY 8:00 pm Eastern
Learn the week's Torah Portion (parsha) as it is relevant to every man, Prayer for every man and portions of the Talmud that are relevant to non-Jews
๐Emunah (Faith) in Action
THURSDAY 10 am Eastern
Only with tranquility of the soul can we hear G-d Al-Mighty's voice clearly, know what to do and have the strength to do it effectively
๐Gate of Oneness
Words on the Torah Portion
The Torah Experience - Life Fully Lived
THURSDAY 8:00 pm Eastern
Study the Gate of Oneness (Sha'ar HaYichud) by the Mittler Rebbe which teaches us how to think clearly.ย Delivered by Rabbi Shimon Chyrek.ย Rabbi Smith speaks on the weekly Torah portion at the end of the class.
Actions:
Any diminution in apparent health is a wake up call to address a weakened connection with G-d Al-mighty. Start that inquiry with whatever ails you and may you have a complete and speedy recovery.
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**GOD wants to be worshipped HIS WAY no longer in an old covenant Jewish way and definately not in 35,000 and growing Protestant "man made" Golden Calf ways.***
BIBLICAL โFOREVERโ COMMANDS OF WORSHIP
Does your Church meet the โforeverโ historical link all the way back to Judaism when Jesus Christ died on the cross, and from that point on until this very day celebrate the fulfillment of these โforeverโ liturgical worship commands of GOD in their โperfectedโ NEW COVENANT FORM?
1.ย Passover Feast (Exodus 12:14, 24) Jesus during the โLast Supperโ transformed the โforeverโ GOD commanded Passover by replacing the lamb with Himself in all the Gospel accounts. (Jesus is described as the โLamb of GODโ in John 1:29, 1 Peter 1:19,ย and in 1 Corinthians 5:7 โChrist, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for usโ)ย In the OT, everyone celebrating the Passover Feast was commanded by GOD to eat the meat of the lamb for death to โPassoverโ. Could a Hebrew or later practicing Jew only โsymbolicallyโ eat the lamb and obey GOD?ย Jesus was being liturgically consistent with the original โforeverโ OT Passover commands to โeat the meat of the lambโ culminating in His โhardโ teaching in John 6:53-54: ย โTruly, Truly, I say to you, UNLESS YOU EAT the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, YOU DO NOT HAVE LIFE IN YOU.ย Whoever EATS my flesh and drinks my blood HAS ETERNAL LIFEโ. ย ย NEWPASSOVER(CCC#611,13391340)ย www.salvationhistory.com/studies/lesson/the_paschal_mystery_how_jesus_celebrated_fulfilled_the_passoverย
2. Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:30-33)ย CC has the altar and gives out the atoning blood provided by the โeternalโ High Priest Jesus fulfilling Leviticus 17:11 prophecy โFor the LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD, and I HAVE GIVEN IT FOR YOU UPON THE ALTAR TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOULS; for it is THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT, by REASON OF THE LIFEโ (CCC 616,623) www.salvationhistory.com/studies/lesson/jesus_and_the_day_of_atonement
3. Tabernacle Feast (Leviticus 23:41-42) CC has the Tabernacle and fulfills this feast within Mass. (CCC #1183,1090) www.salvationhistory.com/studies/lesson/tabernacles_old_testament_feast_and_eucharistic_fulfillment
4. Unleavened Bread Feast (Exodus 12:17) CC has โ7 daysโ a week unleavened bread (CCC#1334)ย ย www.salvationhistory.com/studies/lesson/the_mystery_of_the_feast_of_unleavened_bread
5. Sanctuary Lamp (Exodus 27:20-21) CC has this burning constantly before the Tabernacle.
6. Tabernacle Candles (Leviticus 24:2-4) CC has special candles placed next to the Tabernacle as commanded (CCC #1154, 1189)
7. Bread of the Presence (Leviticus 24:5-9, Exodus 25:30) Jesus Christ becomes the true fulfilled โBread of the Presenceโ during Mass consecration. (CCC #1378)
8.ย Leviticus Priesthood (Exodus 29:7-9, Exodus 40:15, 1 Chronicles 23:13, *Numbers 25:12-13, *Jeremiah 33:14-22, *Isaiah 66:21, Malachi 2:4-7, Malachi 3:3) Jesus fulfills the Levi Covenant promise by ordaining and reconciling the 12 apostles (tribes) for priesthood in the Upper Room ordered to โdo this in remembrance of meโ (CCC #611, 1337). Proof? John 13:1-20 Jesus prior to His passion washes and โpurifiesโ the Apostles to prepare them for priestly altar work (fulfilling Malachi 3:3 and the โforeverโ priest washing in Exodus 30:21). Like OT โForeverโ Feasts, a Leviticus form of priesthood has to preside over the altar of sacrifice, be washed, and has to abstain or be celibate to even touch the โBread of the Presenceโ (CCC # 1541-2) Jesus is the โpure offeringโ presented by the priesthood through โdailyโ Mass across the world fulfilling Malachi 1:11 prophesy.
9. Priest Washing (Exodus 30:21) CC Priests complete a washing before consecration (CCC #1337)
10. Priestly Share (Numbers 18:22-23) CC Priests are the first partakers of the Holy Eucharist, and receive offerings to the Church (CCC #2043)
11. Animal Sacrifice (Leviticus 7:36-38; Deuteronomy 12:26-28, Exodus 29:42) Jesus is the described fulfillment โLamb of GODโ (John 1:29 and 1 Corinthians 5:7) (CCC #608, 613)
12. Grain Offering (Leviticus 6:9-11; 23:13-14) CC has bread and wine offering from parishioners brought up to the priests and the altar. (CCC #1334, 1350)
13. Incense Burning (Exodus 30:8) CC Mass celebrates feasts with incense. (CCC #1154)
14. Sabbath โ Mark 2:28, Matthew 12:8, Luke 6:5 โFor the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbathโ.ย The day our Risen Lord showed us what to do in Luke 24:13-35 and โhow He was made known to them in the breaking of the breadโ.ย The risen Jesus obeys His Heavenly Father's "perpetual" celebration commandย being on "the day after Sabbath" per Leviticus 23:11-14, Pentecost 15-21, and verse 39 Tabernacle Feast being the โFirst dayโ and โEighth Dayโ which is one in the same SUNDAY or โFirst Day of the Weekโ.ย CC follows our Risen Lordโs lead with โbreaking of breadโ or celebrating the โforeverโ NEW COVENANT PASSOVER on Sundays.ย CC even fulfills Jesusโs โOur Fatherโ prayer โgive us this day our daily breadโ (Jesus compared Himself to OT manna in John 6:31-35) by providing the NEW COVENANT PASSOVER โdailyโ.ย
The Hebrew word โolamโ or English translations โforever, everlasting, or perpetualโ was clearly understood by the Jewish people as they still are โforeverโ obeying GODโs liturgical commands and celebrating a form of the original Passover, Unleavened Bread, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacle Feasts to this very day. ย ย ย
JESUS CHRIST is the NEW ADAM (Romans 5:12-21) making us part of the NEW CREATION ( 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17, GALATIANS 6:15) under NEW LAW (John 13:34, Romans 7:6, 1 Corinthians 9:19-21, Hebrews 7:12) to enter into the NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH form of worship (Isaiah 66:18-23).ย NEW ADAM + NEW CREATION + NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH + NEW LAW = NEW SABBATH.ย ย Old covenant law is the law of the flesh and New Covenant law is of Spirit being"Love".ย Pentecost is "forever" GOD commanded on what "day" in Leviticus 23:15 with a day of rest in verse 21? Hebrews 4:7-9? "HE AGAIN SETS A CERTAIN DAY โ AND โ GOD WOULD NOT SPEAK LATER OF ANOTHER DAY ".
So, if the Church was "born" on Pentecost (Acts 2:1) through the "same day" the NEW ADAM was resurrected on, then what "day" would we get "reborn" (John 3:5) on to "LIVE in the "Spirit of the law" (Romans 8:2) being LOVE (John 13:34) of the NEW COVENANT???
What absolutely "proves" GOD's existence, and that He established only ONE CHURCH - being the ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH??? GOD keeping His covenant promises.
GOD established the Davidic Covenant promise in 2 Samuel 7:12-16 (931-722 BC), then that same covenant promise was expanded upon in Psalms 89:27-37 (539-450 BC), Isaiah 22:21-23 (700-680 BC), Jeremiah 33:14-22 (586-570 BC), and Ezekiel 34:23, 37:24-26 (590-570 BC).
Jesus Christ (whom fulfilled 355 old testament prophecies and resurrected from the dead overwhelmingly proved His claim of being GOD in John 10:30) fulfilled the Davidic Covenant in Matthew 16:18-19 that has now resulted in 2,000 and ongoing years of covenant "proof" (Pope):
https://www.accordingtothescriptures.org/prophecy/353prophecies.html
www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm
https://catholicexchange.com/church-new-israel