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Zekeniam Y’Isra’EL 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

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Zekeniam Y’Isra’EL

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

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My Memorial for generation after generation.”

Shemot 3:13-16

This is MY NAME for ever,

I AM / WILL BE WHAT I AM / WILL BE:

"And YHWH said to mosheh , 'I am that which I am. [ehyeh asher ehyeh]' and

he said, 'so you will say to the sons of Y’isra’EL, "I am [ehyeh] has sent me to

you." 'and YHWH said further to mosheh, 'now you are to say to the sons of

Y’isra’EL, "YHWH, elohey of your fathers Abraham, Yitzchak [Isaac], and

Yaa’qob [Jacob], has sent me to you. this is my name forever, and this is my

memorial for generation to generation." ' "Shemoth 6:3," 'and I appeared to

Abraham, to Yitzchak, and to Yaa’qob as hashadday [the almighty]. and my

name, YHWH, was not well known (famous) to them.

YHWH, ELohey Tsebaoth, is his name.

The ministry of reconciliation

Message of Reconciliation

Torah sh’Bichtav

(Written Torah)

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Yahu(ah)shua

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A pearl begins as nothing more than an irritating grain of sand stuck in the shell

of an oyster.

But the oyster surrounds the grain with a crystalline covering, which over years

hardens and becomes precious and valuable

. Those who study such things say the most beautiful pearls take seven years to

form.

During that seven-year period, the irritating piece of sand is hidden away—

clothed and covered with beauty

. That's us, (you and I)—irritating pieces of sand.

Yet,

YHWH (Yahuah) clothes us in His righteousness.

Pearl

H142

The pictograph d is a door representing a moving back and forth. The r is the

head of a man. Combined these mean "the back and forth movement of man".

A generation is one revolution of the family line.

The Hebraic understanding of order is the continual cyclical process of life and

death or renewal and destruction.

This root can also have the meanings of circling around of something in a wide

area or to cover a large area. (eng: adore - as honor)

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Mattiyahu 13:45

Again, the Malkut Shamayim is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly

pearls:

Mattiyahu13:46

Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had,

and bought it.

This pearl refers to the Kingdom of YHWH and the truth that leads us to it.

Once we find the truth about the Kingdom, we seek it with all our hearts.

We are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes for the Kingdom’s sake.

Yochanan 5:39-43

Search the scriptures

For in them ye think ye have eternal life:

And they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye

might have life.

I receive not honour from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of

Elohim (אלהים) in you.

I am come in My AVI's Name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in

his own name,

Him ye will receive.

How can ye believe?

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Which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that [cometh]

from Elohim (אלהים) only?

Matt. 6:19-21.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth

corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal

: But lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth

corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"

Moth nor rust: the Aramaic adds "caterpillar" before "moth"; "rust" appears in

only one Aramaic version;

Shem-Tov Heb., decay and the grub. The Divine "treasuries" (Bullinger) are the

only ultimate security

Yesh. 33:6

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, [and] strength of

salvation: the fear of YHWH (יהוה) [is] his treasure.

The stability of thy times: Aramaic, "That which you promised, You will bring

and establish in its time."

A treasure-store...supply: LXX, "Salvation is our treasure.

There are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward YHWH; these are the

treasures of righteousness."

The fear of YHWH:

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Luk. 10:21

In that hour Yahu(ah)shua (ישוע) rejoiced in ruakh, and said, I thank thee, O

Abba, Master of shamayim and earth,

That thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed

them unto babes: even so,

Abba;

For so it seemed good in thy sight.

But how do we make investments in that "bank"? One way, YHWH says, is to

lend to Him by having pity on the poor

Prov. 19:17

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto YHWH (יהוה); and that which he

hath given will he pay him again.

who cannot repay us.

Luke 14:13

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Then we will be sure that we are placing our confidence in the only One who

ever really can guarantee anything anyway

. Treasure: Aramaic, store, i.e., your "nest egg". If we first develop a recognition

that our ultimate security comes only from YHWH,

and act on this in faith (by using what would be our personal security for needs

we may have "someday" to meet needs that others have already),

we will look forward more to the time and place where we can enjoy our

investments (the true retirement--YHWH's Kingdom of Sabbatical Rest).

Yahu(ah)shua made the connection between almsgiving and treasure in heaven

clearer in

Luke 12:21.

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So [is] he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward Elohim.

Yahu(ah)shua declared that where your treasure is, there is where your heart will

be found.

That is to say,

Mattiyahu 16:26

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own

nefesh? or what shall a man give in exchange for his nefesh?

That which you desire, that which dominates your thinking and is your goal in

life

that is where your heart is

one thing I have learn is my life is but a shadow,

Tehillim 90:10

The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength

[they be] fourscore years,

yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

YHWH alone is permanent and enduring, and therefore the only true security is

found in him

Human life, by contrast, is short and uncertain, and is brought to an end as

YHWH decides and when he chooses.

No matter how long a person lives, even to a thousand years, the number of

years is insignificant compared with the timelessness of YHWH

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Sin has spoiled human life and brought YHWH’s judgment upon people in the

form of life’s troubles and finally death

The ungodly live to please themselves.

They do not fear YHWH and do not consider that they are spending their lives

building up YHWH’s judgment against them

. Those who love YHWH should therefore seek YHWH’s wisdom, so that they

might use their short lives in the best way possible

Since the psalmist wants to live his life wisely,

He asks for YHWH’s help.

Then sorrow will be replaced by joy, and his life will become one of fruitful

service for YHWH

We need to find and walk the Old paths of righteousness,

And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise

up the foundations of many generations;

and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to

dwell in.

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In Yeshayahu 58; it is written

Im-tashiv mishabat raglekha ashoot khafatzeikha beyom kadshi vekarata

laShabat Oneg likdosh YHWH

mekhubad vekhibadto mea`shoot derakheikha mimtzo kheftzekha vedaber

Davar:

If you turn away your foot from [traveling unduly on] the Shabbat,

from doing your own pleasure on My Set Apart Day,

and call the Shabbat a [spiritual] delight, the Set Apart of YHWH honorable,

and honor Him and it,

not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking

with your own [idle] words,

Az titanag al-YHWH vehirkavtikha al-bamovtei eretz ve ha akhaltikha nakhalat

Ya’akov avikha: Ki pi YHWH Diber:

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Then will you delight yourself in YHWH, and I will make you to ride on the

high places of the earth,

and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Ya'akov your father:

Beresheet 28:15

And, Hinnei, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither thou

goest, and will bring thee again into this eretz;

For I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken to thee of.

You are the pearl of great price. You have been clothed with the righteousness

of YHWH (Yahuah) through .

And His righteousness is a thing of matchless beauty and unspeakable value in

the eyes of YHWH.

Korínthios bet 5:21

For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin;

that we might be made the righteousness of Elohim (אלהים) in him.

That which had been sown as a grain of mustard-seed becomes a great tree;

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THE AGED ARE PUT ASIDE FROM THE ACTIVITIES OF LIFE.

Life goes past them: opinions change; customs change; business is changed

.The old man no longer fits; he must stand aside; if he persists in keeping his

place, he ruins his business, and worries everybody.

It is hard to have to live on into a time when we shall no longer be of any use.

THE AGED MUST BEAR THE BURDEN OF FAILING POWERS

.See the description of old age in Ecclesiastes

. See the force of the terms "labour" and "sorrow" in the text.

The necessary weakening of the bodily faculties is accompanied save in very

extreme cases with corresponding failing of mental powers, and a trying

limitation of human interests.

The old man ceases to belong to his day, and lives over again his childish years

. Sometimes aged helplessness, with disease, is most pitiful.

THE AGED SOMETIMES HAVE TO BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES OF

THE SINS OF YOUTH.

All sins of sensuality and self-indulgence carry their inevitable penalties; and if

the pressure of them be delayed by a well regulated manhood,

they come on a man with a rush when the vitality is lowered by advancing age.

A man bears "the sins of youth in the bones of old.

THE AGED OFTEN FIND THEIR HEAVIEST TROUBLE TO BE THE

LONELINESS IN WHICH THEY ARE LEFT

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He who has had troops of friends dies at last tended by the hireling.

Loved ones die away or remove out of reach.

The old man often says, as did the Revelation William Jay, of Bath, in his

advanced years,

"My burying ground is richer than my church."

To sensitive, affectionate souls, aged loneliness must be the supreme woe

. Wife, children, friends, gone on before.

How the old man must say to himself continually

"What is my nest to me?

my empty nest?

THE AGED SOMETIMES HAVE TO BEAR DISTRESSING

CIRCUMSTANCES AS WELL AS BODILY FRAILTY.

To live on means exhausting the savings;

to be unable to earn; to have none to work for us

. But life is in the YHWH"s hands, not ours.

"If life be long, we will be glad, that we can long obey.

JFB

Yahu(ah)shua HaMashiyach is the true Pearl within the treasure found;

In him there is an abundance of all that which is rich and useful, and will be a

portion for us:

Col 1:19

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For it pleased [ha Avi] that in him should all fulness dwell;

Yochanan 1:16

And of his fullness have all we received, and Chesed (favour/grace) upon

Chesed ( favour/grace) .

His fullness:

He was the complete white light which was refracted into many colors, which

make up his “Body”.

Each of us is given gifts (“empowering favor”) that help this whole Body work

together, but all comes from him who is the Head.

Eph. 4:16

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which

every joint supplieth,

According to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh

increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

fitly joined together:

has the connotation of exerting force, as is necessary if a thing being connected

together is to have the right amount of tension on it once the proper connection

is completed.

Here, the imagery shifts to that of muscles and ligaments fitting properly over

and through bones, as well as a building with great stability, but the picture is

the same

maketh increase

Energizing: or efficiency, effectiveness.

One standard measurement:

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An allusion to the manna in the wilderness, which was to be gathered by each

person according to what he thought was an appropriate amount for one day,

but then was pooled and redistributed using a standardized omer measure, and

thereby no one came up short and no one had excess.

Shemot 16:16-18

This [is] the thing which YHWH ( היהו ) hath commanded,

Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man,

[according to] the number of your persons;

Take ye every man for [them] which [are] in his tents. And the benai Y’Isra’EL

did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

And when they measured [it] with an omer, he who gathered much no excess,

and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his

eating.

An omer thus represents one person. 10 omers make one eyfah

Ex 16:36

Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.

Representative of a full congregation.

An omer is worth half a sheqel. 5 sheqels (the value of ten omers) is the price of

redemption of a firstborn son.

Lev 27:16

And if a man shall sanctify unto YEHOVAH (יהוה) [some part] of a field of his

possession,

then your estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley

seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.

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YHWH called Israel His firstborn.

Ex. 4:22

And you shall say to Paroh: Thus saith YHWH (יהוה), Y’Isra’EL is My son,

even My Firstborn:

Ten eyfoth = one homer, of which the eyfah is a tithe. Thus a homer (“heap”)

symbolizes the whole world, of which a tithe (the congregation of Israel)

belongs to YHWH in a special way

His firstfruits

Yaaqov 1:18

Of his own will begat he us with the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of

firstfruits of His creatures.

An eyfah also equals the three “measures” which Sarah leavened.

Gen. 18:6

And Avraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah (ׂשרה), and said:

Make ready quickly three seahs of fine flour, knead [it], and make cakes upon

the hearth.

It represents the fact that a community permeated by the Kingdom is as hard to

break as a 3-fold cord.

Mat. 13:33;

Another parable spake he unto them; The Malkut Shamayim is like unto leaven,

which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was

leavened.

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It represents the fact that a community permeated by the Kingdom is as hard to

break as a 3-fold cord.

This can represent the synergy of the priests, Levites, and the rest of Israel, or

Efrayim and Yehudah with their one king,

When each is fully permeated with the Kingdom, unity will come.

Col 2:3

In whom are hid all the treasures of chokmah (wisdom) and daat (knowledge).

of righteousness, grace, and peace;

these are laid up for us in Yahu(ah)shua ;

and,

if we have an interest in him,

it is all our own.

Eloneinu Yahu(ah)shua HaMashiyach

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In His Name

blessed be, in His name

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

Be not blind to the truth

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

Yahu(ah)shua (

passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O YHWH, [thou] Ben ( יהושע

David. And

Yahu(ah)shua stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do

unto you?

They say unto Him, YHWH, that our eyes may be opened. So Yahu(ah)shua had

compassion [on them], and touched their eyes:

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

His servant and yours

Shalom in Righteousness

by the GRACE of YHWH

keiYAH

nätzräya

Remember me and pray for me that YHWH 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

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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 Ruakh (spiritual work): what a scandal is it for a

man to traffic with gifts which he pretends, at least, to have received from the

Ruakh

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

The Everlasting Covenant is The Sabbath

Eloneinu Yahu(ah)shua HaMashiyach be with your Ruakh