Shoftim Judges DevarimDeuteronomy Chapter 16:18 Chapter 21:9

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Shoftim (Judges)Devarim/Deuteronomy Chapter
1618 Chapter 219
Wayne Ingalls
http//www.BeitTefillah.org
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Outline

• Tzedeq Tzedeq
• Do Not Do So II
• Idolatry and Stoning
• According to All They Instruct You
• Magic and Diviners
• Prophet Like Moshe
• How to Tell a False Prophet
• Cities of Refuge
• Exemptions from Battle
• Haftorah
• Questions

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The Traditional Blessing Before Reading the Torah
Portion
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher bachar banu mikol-ha'amim, venatan lanu
et-torato Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim,
King of the Universe, who has chosen us from all
peoples and has given us His Torah.
Baruch atah Adonay, noten hatorah Blessed are
You - Adonai, Giver of the Torah.
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Read the Torah Portion
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The Traditional Blessing After Reading the Torah
Portion
Baruch atah Adonay, Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher natan lanu torat emet, vechayey olam nata
betochenu. Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim,
King of the universe, who has given us the Torah
of truth, and has planted everlasting life in our
midst.
Baruch atah Adonay, noten hatorah Blessed are
You - Adonai, Giver of the Torah.
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Shoftim
Deuteronomy 1618 Devarim 1618
(Transliterated Hebrew) Shoftim veshoteriym
titen-lekha bekhal-seareykha esher YHWH
eloheykha noten lekha lishvatekha veshaftu
et-haam mishpat-tzedeq.
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Shoftim
Devarim 16 18 (ISR) Appoint judges and
officers within all your gates, which ????  your
Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes.
And they shall judge the people with righteous
right-ruling.
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Tzedeq Tzedeq
Devarim 16 19-20 (ISR) 19 Do not distort
right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a
bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise
and twists the words of the righteous. 20 Follow
righteousness, righteousness alone (Tzedeq,
Tzedeq), so that you live and inherit the land
which ????  your Elohim is giving you.
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Tzedeq Tzedeq

• Key Points/questions
• Tzedeq, Tzedeq Repeated for emphasis.
• Justice, Justice (JPS) Righteousness,
  Righteousness (Artscroll). The Aramaic Targum
  expands on this to read Honesty, Honesty,
  Truth, Truth.
• The righteous will judge justly (v. 16).
• Implication If Israels judges do not follow
  Tzedeq, Tzedeq, Israel will NOT live and inherit
  the Land given by YHWH.
• Yeshayahu/Isaiah 3217 (ISR) The work of
  righteousness (tzedeqah) shall be peace, and the
  service of righteousness (tzedeqah) be rest and
  safety forever.

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Tzedeq Tzedeq

• Key Points/questions
• Yeshayahu/Isaiah 3217 (ISR) The work of
  righteousness (tzedeqah) shall be peace, and the
  service of righteousness (tzedeqah) be rest and
  safety forever.

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Do Not Do So II
Devarim 16 21-22 (ISR) 21 Do not plant for
yourself any tree as an Asherah near the altar of
????  your Elohim that you make for yourself. 22
And do not set up a pillar (matztzevah), which
????  your Elohim hates. Devarim 12 3-4 (ISR)
3 And you shall break down their altars, and
smash their pillars, and burn their Asherim with
fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of
their mighty ones and shall destroy their name
out of that place. 4 Do not do so to ????  your
Elohim,
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Do Not Do So II

• Key Points/questions
• No Asherah trees, no pillars.
• Yaakov/Jacob set up several pillars to YHWH
  e.g. Genesis 2818 (NASB) So Jacob rose early in
  the morning, and took the stone that he had put
  under his head and set it up as a pillar
  (matztzevah), and poured oil on its top.
• Why no pillars now??

Rashi Comments (A)lthough it was dear to Him
in the days of the Patriarchs, now He hates it,
since these people made it a statute for
idolatry.
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Do Not Do So II
Like so much else in Canaanite religion, the name
and worship of Asherah were borrowed from
Assyria. She was the wife of the war-god Asir
whose name was identified with that of the city
of. Assur with the result that he became the
national god of Assyria. Since Asirtu was merely
the feminine form of Asir, "the superintendent"
or "leader," it is probable that it was
originally an epithet of Ishtar (Ashtoreth) of
Nineveh. (continued)
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Do Not Do So II
In the West, however, Asherah and Ashtoreth came
to be distinguished from one another, Asherah
being exclusively the goddess of fertility,
whereas Ashtoreth passed into a
moon-goddess. (from ISBE Bible Dictionary)
Asherah is the consort of Baal, and known as
Venus to the Romans and Diana to the Greeks.
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Do Not Do So II
Did you know? Biblical archaeologists have
discovered drawings of Asherah that depict her as
YHWHs wife?
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Idolatry and Stoning
Devarim 17 2-4 (ISR) 2 When there is found in
your midst, in any of your cities which ???? 
your Elohim is giving you, a man or a woman who
does what is evil in the eyes of ????  your
Elohim, in transgressing His covenant, 3 and has
gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down
to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any
of the host of the heavens, which I have not
commanded, 4 and it has been made known to you
and you have heard, and has searched diligently.
Then see, if true the matter is confirmed that
such an abomination has been done in Yisrael,
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Idolatry and Stoning
Devarim 17 5-7 (ISR) 5 then you shall bring out
to your gates that man or woman who has done this
evil matter, and you shall stone to death that
man or woman with stones. 6 At the mouth of two
or three witnesses shall he that is to die be put
to death. He is not put to death by the mouth of
one witness. 7 The hand of the witnesses shall
be first against him to put him to death, and the
hand of all the people last. So you shall purge
the evil from your midst.
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Idolatry and Stoning

• Key Points/questions
• A commandment while in the Land.
• An abomination Serving other gods or the
  sun, moon stars.
• IdolatrySpiritual Adultery. PenaltyDeath by
  Stoning.
• 2 or 3 witnesses are required//1 witness will
  not do. The witnesses are to be the first to
  cast the stones. Can DNA evidence cast stones?

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Idolatry and Stoning

• Key Points/questions
• Read Yochanon/John 81-20.
• Was Yeshua making reference to this passage in
  Devarim?
• Who are the witnesses?
• Comparing Yeshuas words with this passage in
  Devarim, is there anything we can glean about
  Ephraim and the Northern Kingdoms
  idolatry/adultery?

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According to All they Instruct You
Devarim 17 8-10 (ISR) 8 When any matter arises
which is too hard for you to judge, between blood
and blood, between plea and plea, or between
stroke and stroke matters of strife within your
gates then you shall rise and go up to the
place which ????  your Elohim chooses, 9 and
shall come to the priests, the Lewites, and to
the judge who is in those days, and shall
inquire. And they shall declare to you the word
of right-ruling, 10 and you shall do according to
the word which they declare to you from that
place which ????  chooses. And you shall guard to
do according to all that they instruct you.
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According to All they Instruct You
Devarim 17 11-13 (ISR) 11 Do according to the
Torah in which they teach you, according to the
right-ruling which they say to you. You do not
turn to the right or to the left from the word
which they declare to you. 12 And the man who
acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the
priest who stands to serve there before ???? 
your Elohim, or to the judge, that man shall die.
So you shall purge the evil from Yisrael. 13
And let all the people hear and fear, and no
longer do arrogantly.
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According to All they Instruct You

• Commandment 579 Devarim 1711 Do not deviate from
  the word of the Sanhedrin

• Key Points/questions
• Does this passage mean that believers in Yeshua
  must adhere to the rulings of rabbinic Judaism?
  

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According to All they Instruct You

• Key Points/questions
• Traditionally the Great Sanhedrin consisted of
  70 members the High Priest, total71.
• The Sanhedrin condemned Yeshua. Were they
  judging justly, and should we affirm their
  ruling?
• Peter and Stephen both tell us (in Acts 3 and
  7, respectively) that Yeshua is the Prophet like
  Moshe. Devarim 1815-19 say that if you do not
  heed that Prophets words, YHWH will require it
  of you. Did the Sanhedrins of 30 CE to the
  present heed the words of Yeshua?

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According to All they Instruct You

• Key Points/questions
• Did the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) consult the
  Great Sanhedrin?
• The Talmud is not a uniform interpretation of
  the Torah, but captures the disagreements of the
  rabbis. Was there a Sanhedrin formed to solve
  these disputed interpretations?

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A King Over You
Devarim 17 14-16 (ISR) 14 When you come to the
land which ????  your Elohim is giving you, and
shall possess it and shall dwell in it, and you
shall say, Let me set a sovereign over me like
all the gentiles that are around me, 15 you
shall certainly set a sovereign over you whom
????  your Elohim shall choose. Set a sovereign
over you from among your brothers, you are not
allowed to set a foreigner over you, who is not
your brother. 16 Only, he is not to increase
horses for himself, nor cause the people to
return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for ???? 
has said to you, Do not return that way again.
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A King Over You
Devarim 17 17-20 (ISR) 17 And he is not to
increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn
away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and
gold for himself. 18 And it shall be, when he
sits on the throne of his reign, that he shall
write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book,
from the one before the priests, the Lewites. 19
And it shall be with him, and he shall read it
all the days of his life, so that he learns to
fear ????  his Elohim and guard all the Words of
this Torah and these laws, to do them, 20 so that
his heart is not lifted up above his brothers,
and so as not to turn aside from the command,
right or left, so that he prolongs his days in
his reign, he and his children, in the midst of
Yisrael.
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A King Over You

• Key Points/questions
• Israel was designed for YHWH to be King over
  Israel.
• Prophecy by Moshe Israel will ask for a King.
  
• According to the Talmud (Sanhedrin 20b), Israel
  had 3 commandments once established in Israel
• Request a King
• Eliminate the seed of Amalek
• Build the Temple

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A King Over You

• Key Points/questions
• When Israel chooses a King, it must be the King
  YHWH chooses.
• The King is not to multiply horses or wives
• The King must write two copies of the Torah in
  order to read it every day, and learn to keep it.
  

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The Abominations of the Gentiles
Devarim 18 9-12 (ISR) 9 When you come into the
land which ????  your Elohim is giving you, do
not learn to do according to the abominations of
those gentiles. 10 Let no one be found among you
who makes his son or his daughter pass through
the fire, or one who practises divination, or a
user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a
sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a
medium (KJV consulter with familiar spirits),
or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12
For whoever does these are an abomination to
????, and because of these abominations ???? 
your Elohim drives them out from before you.
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The Abominations of the Gentiles

• Key Points/questions
• The Nations (Gentiles) are going to driven out
  of Israel because of their abominations.
• Giving our children as a burnt offering,
  divination, magic, consulting familiar spirits
  and sorcery are forbidden.

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Divination in the Book of Acts
Acts 1616-17 (CJB) 16 Once, when we were going
to the place where the minyan gathered, we were
met by a slave girl who had in her a snake-spirit
(Greek puthon, most translations spirit of
divination Aramaic qetsma, divinations,
soothsaying) that enabled her to predict the
future. She earned a lot of money for her owners
by telling fortunes. 17 This girl followed
behind Sha'ul and the rest of us and kept
screaming, "These men are servants of God
Ha'Elyon! They're telling you how to be saved!"
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Divination in the Book of Acts
Acts 1617-18 (CJB) 17 This girl followed behind
Sha'ul and the rest of us and kept screaming,
"These men are servants of God Ha'Elyon! They're
telling you how to be saved!" 18 She kept this
up day after day, until Sha'ul, greatly
disturbed, turned and said to the spirit, "In the
name of Yeshua the Messiah, I order you to come
out of her!" And the spirit did come out, at that
very moment.
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Divination in the Book of Acts
Acts 1619-21 (CJB) 19 But when her owners saw
that what had come out was any further prospect
of profit for them, they seized Sha'ul and Sila
and dragged them to the market square to face the
authorities. 20 Bringing them to the judges,
they said, "These men are causing a lot of
trouble in our city, since they are Jews. 21
What they are doing is advocating customs that
are against the law for us to accept or practice,
since we are Romans."
My View vv 20-21 the argument most
Christians make against Messianics.
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Magic and Diviners
Devarim 1814 (Transliterated Hebrew) Ki hagoyim
haeley asher atah yoresh otem el-meonniym
vel-qosemiym yishmau vatah lo ken natan leka
YHWH Eloheyka. Singular qasam Devarim 18 14
(ISR) for these nations whom you are possessing
do listen to those using magic and to diviners.
But as for you, YHWH your Elohim has not
appointed such for you.
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Magic and Diviners

• Key Points/questions
• Qassam Rockets, which regularly are launched by
  Hamas with the intent to kill Jews in Israel, are
  named after Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam, a Syrian cleric
  who preached Jihad against the British and
  Zionists in the 1920s and 30s. He was killed in
  the first guerilla action against the British in
  1935. Al-Qassam means the generous or the
  charitable in Arabic. Interesting that Qasam
  here in Hebrew means to practice divination.
• Magic. Literal meaning is to cause something
  to make an appearance.

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A Prophet Like Moshe
Devarim 18 15-19 (ISR) 15 YHWH your Elohim
shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from
your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,
16 according to all you asked of YHWH your
Elohim in Horeb in the day of the assembly,
saying, Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH
my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any
more, lest I die.
LXX Ekklesia
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A Prophet Like Moshe
Devarim 18 17-19 (ISR) 17 And YHWH said to me,
What they have spoken is good. 18 I shall raise
up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst
of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in
His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I
command Him. 19 And it shall be, the man who
does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My
Name, I require it of him.
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A Prophet Like Moshe

• Key Points/questions
• The Apostolic Scriptures identify this Prophet
  as Yeshua (Acts 323-24 Acts 737).
• Listen to Him. Shema Yisrael, Yeshua is
  speaking My words!
• When the priests and Levites questioned
  Yochanon the Immerser (John 121), they asked him
  if he was The Prophet. (He said No).

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A Prophet Like Moshe

• Key Points/questions
• Muslims believe that Mohammed is this Prophet
  (hence they call him The Prophet). But did
  Mohammed really come from among the midst of the
  Israelites who left Egypt? Mohammed, a brother
  Israelite?
• YHWH sending the Prophet like Moshe is in
  response to the request to not hear the voice of
  YHWH. Psalm 29 tells us that the voice of YHWH
  shakes the wilderness, strips forests bare,
  breaks the cedars of Lebanon, and causes deer to
  give birth.

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A Prophet Like Moshe
Devarim 18 18 (ISR) I shall raise up for them a
Prophet like you out of the midst of their
brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth,
and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

• Key Points/questions
• If Yeshua is the Prophet like Moshe, and if he
  came to speak exactly the words given to Him by
  YHWH, and if He did speak all that YHWH
  commanded, why didnt the Priesthood and the
  Pharisees hearken to those words and obey what
  Yeshua said?

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I Will Require It of Him
Devarim 18 19 (ISR) And it shall be, the man
who does not listen to My Words which He speaks
in My Name, I require it of him.
Key Points/questions JPS99 will call him to
account Artscroll will exact from him
KJV will require it of him Require it.
edrosh, root is darash, to seek, inquire
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I Will Require It of Him
Edrosh. However, the word can also carry the
meaning of require or call to account, as in
Berishiyt/Genesis 9 4-6 (ISR) 4 But do not eat
flesh with its life, its blood. 5 But only your
blood for your lives I require, from the hand of
every beast I require (edrosh) it, and from the
hand of man. From the hand of every mans brother
I require (edrosh) the life of man. 6 Whoever
sheds mans blood, by man his blood is shed, for
in the image of Elohim has He made man.
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How to Tell a False Prophet
Devarim 18 21-22 (ISR) 21And when you say in
your heart, How do we know the word which YHWH
has not spoken? 22 when the prophet speaks in
the Name of YHWH and the word is not, or comes
not, that is the word which YHWH has not spoken.
The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not
be afraid of him.
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How to Tell a False Prophet
Key Points/questions Since many of the
prophecies of the Bible have not yet come to
pass, and certainly did not come to pass during
the lifetime of the one who made the
prophecy.. how do we prove that
Yehezqel/Ezekiel, Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah and even
Moshe are not false prophets??
Have all of Moshes Prophecies come true?
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Cities of Refuge
Devarim 19 7-10 (ISR) 7Therefore I am
commanding you, saying, Separate three cities
for yourself. 8 And if YHWH your Elohim enlarges
your border, as He swore to your fathers, and has
given you the land which He promised to give to
your fathers 9 when you guard all this command
to do it, which I am commanding you today, to
love YHWH your Elohim and to walk in His ways all
the days then you shall add three more cities
for yourself besides these three, 10 so that
innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your
land which YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an
inheritance, or blood-guilt shall be upon you.
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Cities of Refuge

• Key Points/questions
• The purpose of the cities is protection against
  the shedding of innocent blood on the Land.
• Is this an actionable commandment for us today?

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Not for Murderers
Devarim 19 11-13 (ISR) 11But when anyone hates
his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for him and
rise against him and smite the life from him so
that he dies, then he shall flee to one of these
cities, 12 and the elders of his city shall send
and bring him from there, and give him into the
hand of the revenger of blood, and he shall die.
13 Your eye shall not pardon him, but you shall
purge the blood of innocent blood from Yisrael,
so that it might be well with you.
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Not for Murderers

• Key Points/questions
• The cities of refuge were only for manslaughter
  or negligent homicide, not for murder. A
  murderer cannot safely seek refuge at a city of
  refuge.

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Malicious Witness

• Devarim 19 15 19 (ISR) One witness does not
  rise up against a man concerning any crookedness
  or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two
  witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a
  matter is established. 16 When a malicious
  witness rises up against any man to accuse him of
  turning aside, 17 then both men who have the
  dispute shall stand before YHWH, before the
  priests and the judges who serve in those days.
  18 And the judges shall diligently search and see
  if the witness is a false witness, who has
  falsely accused his brother, 19 then you shall do
  to him as he thought to have done to his brother.
  Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
• Key Points/question
• 2 or 3 Witnesses establish truth.
• A False witness shall have done to him what he
  thought to do to his brother, e.g. false witness
  accusing of murder bears the penalty for murder.

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Malicious Witness
Devarim 19 15 17 (ISR) One witness does not
rise up against a man concerning any crookedness
or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two
witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a
matter is established. 16 When a malicious
witness rises up against any man to accuse him of
turning aside, 17 then both men who have the
dispute shall stand before YHWH, before the
priests and the judges who serve in those days.
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Malicious Witness

• Devarim 19 18 19 (ISR) 18 And the judges shall
  diligently search and see if the witness is a
  false witness, who has falsely accused his
  brother, 19 then you shall do to him as he
  thought to have done to his brother. Thus you
  shall purge the evil from your midst.
• Key Points/question
• 2 or 3 Witnesses establish truth.
• A False witness shall have done to him what he
  thought to do to his brother, e.g. false witness
  accusing of murder bears the penalty for murder.

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Exemptions from Battle
Devarim 20 5-9 (abridged) (ISR) 5And the
officers shall speak to the people, saying, Who
is the man who has built a new house and has not
dedicated itAnd who is the man who has planted a
vineyard and has not begun to use itAnd who is
the man who is engaged to a woman and has not
taken herAnd the officers shall speak further to
the people, and say, Who is the man who is
afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return
to his house, lest the heart of his brothers
faint like his heart. 9 And it shall be, when
the officers have finished speaking to the
people, that they shall appoint commanders of the
divisions to lead the people.
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Exemptions from Battle

• Key Points/questions
• Both merciful for the soldier, and for improved
  morale in the army
• How much would military morale improve if this
  were in the regulations for modern militaries?

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Halakhah for War
Devarim 2010-13 (ISR) 10 When you draw near to
a city to fight against it, then you shall make a
call for peace to it. 11 And it shall be that if
it accepts your call for peace, and shall open to
you, then all the people found in it are to be
your compulsory labour, and serve you. 12 But if
it does not make peace with you, and shall fight
against you, then you shall besiege it, 13 and
????  your Elohim shall give it into your hands,
and you shall smite every male in it with the
edge of the sword.
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Halakhah for War
Devarim 2014-15 (ISR). 14 Only the women, and
the little ones, and the livestock, and all that
is in the city, all its spoil, you take as
plunder for yourself. And you shall eat the
enemies plunder which ????  your Elohim gives
you. 15 Do so to all the cities which are very
far from you, which are not of the cities of
these nations.
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Halakhah for War
Devarim 2016-18 (ISR) 16 Only, of the cities of
these peoples which ????  your Elohim gives you
as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that
breathe, 17 but you shall certainly put them
under the ban the H?ittite and the Amorite and
the Kenaanite and the Perizzite and the H?iwwite
and the Yeb_usite, as ????  your Elohim has
commanded you, 18 lest they teach you to do
according to all their abominations which they
have done for their mighty ones, and you sin
against ????  your Elohim.
Key Points/questions With regard to which
enemies fall under this rule, there is a
disagreement among the Sages. According to Rashi
and Raavad, this applies only to optional wars
against enemies other than the seven Canaanite
nationsRambam and Ramban interpret that all
nations had to be given the opportunity to make
peace, including the Canaanites.
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Halakhah for War
Devarim 2016-18 (ISR) 16 Only, of the cities of
these peoples which ????  your Elohim gives you
as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that
breathe, 17 but you shall certainly put them
under the ban the H?ittite and the Amorite and
the Kenaanite and the Perizzite and the H?iwwite
and the Yeb_usite, as ????  your Elohim has
commanded you, 18 lest they teach you to do
according to all their abominations which they
have done for their mighty ones, and you sin
against ????  your Elohim.
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Halakhah for War Trees

• Key Points/questions
• No need for unnecessary collateral damage to
  fruit trees.
• A new fruit tree takes 4 full years before its
  fruit may be eaten in the 5th year
  (Vayiqra/Leviticus 1923).
• Allegorically, fruit and deeds are linked
  Yeshayahu/Isaiah (ISR) 310 Say to the righteous
  it is well, for they eat the fruit of their
  doings.

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Whodunit?
Re-Read Devarim 211-9

• Key Points/questions
• The elders are not accused of murder, but have a
  duty to judge justly and protect the people..and
  they failed to do so since a murder has occurred.
  

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Mitzvot in the PortionDo the Scriptures Say What
the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 540 Devarim 1618 Appoint Judges and
  Officers of the Court
• Commandment 52 Devarim 1621 Do not plant trees
  in the Temple Courtyard
• Commandment 50 Devarim 1622 Do not erect a
  pillar in a place of worship

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 341 Devarim 171 Do not sacrifice an
  animal with a temporary blemish upon the Altar
• Commandment 578 Devarim 1710 Act in accordance
  with the law of the Torah as the High Court
  declares it
• Commandment 579 Devarim 1711 Do not deviate
  from the word of the Sanhedrin

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 591 Devarim 1715 Appoint a King
  from Israel
• Commandment 592 Devarim 1715 Do not appoint a
  proselyte as King
• Commandment 594 Devarim 1716a The King shall
  not have too many horses
• Commandment 601Devarim 1716b Do not settle in
  the land of Egypt

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 593 Devarim 1717aThe King shall not
  have too many wives
• Commandment 595 Devarim 1717b The King shall
  not have too much gold and silver
• Commandment 83 Devarim 1718 The King shall
  write a separate Sefer Torah for himself

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 297 Devarim 181 The Levi may not
  take a share of Eretz Israel
• Commandment 274 Devarim 183 Give the foreleg,
  the jaw, and the stomach to the Kohen
• Commandment 252 Devarim 184 Torah of the
  Terumah Gedolah
• Commandment 275 Devarim 184 Give the first
  fleece to the Kohen

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 317 Devarim 186-8 The Kohen are to
  minister in equal portion watches
• Commandment 61 Devarim 1810 Do not practice
  Kesem Occult
• Commandment 67 Devarim 1810b Do not practice
  Ka'shaph
• Commandment 63 Devarim 1811a Do not practice
  the art of a Chaber Cheber

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 65 Devarim 1811b Do not inquire of a
  Shaal Ov
• Commandment 66 Devarim 1811c Do not inquire of
  Yidoni
• Commandment 64 Devarim 1811d Do not seek
  information from the Darash Muth

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 9 Devarim 1815 Heed the prophets
  who speak in the Name of HASHEM
• Commandment 44 Devarim 1820 Do not prophesy
  falsely in the Name of HASHEM
• Commandment 42 Devarim 1820 Do not prophesy in
  the name of idols

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 45 Devarim 1822 Do not fear a false
  prophet
• Commandment 490 Devarim 192-3 Set aside cities
  of refuge for those who commit accidental
  homicide
• Commandment 557Devarim 1913 Do not to show pity
  for one who kills another person or injures him

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 472 Devarim 1914 Do not move a
  landmark
• Commandment 573 Devarim 1915 Do not make any
  ruling based on the testimony of only one witness
• Commandment 577 Devarim 1919 Punish a false
  witness as he had plotted to do to the accused

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 607 Devarim 202 Appoint a Kohen to
  speak with the soldiers during the war
• Commandment 610 Devarim 203 Do not to be
  frightened nor retreat in time of war
• Commandment 602Dvarim 2010-15 Torah of
  Non-Obligatory War

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 597 Devarim 2016 Do not let anyone
  of the Seven Canaanite Nations remain alive
• Commandment 596 Devarim 2017-18 Torah of the
  Seven Nations
• Commandment 604 Devarim 2019-20 Do not destroy
  fruit trees in time of siege

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Mitzvot in the Portion Do the Scriptures Say
What the Rabbis Say They Say?

• Commandment 492 Devarim 214 Do not plow or sow
  the valley where Eglah Arufah was performed
• Commandment 491Devarim 214 Torah of the Eglah
  Arufah

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The Traditional Blessing Before the Haftorah
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher bachar binviyiym tovim veratzah
vedivreyhem hagaemariym beemet Blessed are You
Adonai our Elohim, King of the Universe, who
has chosen good prophets and was pleased with
their words that they spoke in truth.
Baruch atah Adonay, habocher batorah uvMosheh
avdo uvYisrael amo uvineviyey haemet
vatzedeq. Blessed are You - Adonai, who chose
Torah, and Moshe His servant, and Yisrael His
people, and prophets of the truth and
righteousness.
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The Traditional Blessing After the Haftorah(1 of
2)
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam, tzur
kal haolamim, tzaddiq bekhol hadorot, haEl
haneeman haomer veoseh hamdaber umeqayyem
devarav emet vtzadeq. Blessed are You Adonai
our Elohim, King of the Universe, Rock of all
ages, righteous in all generations, the faithful
El, who says and does, who speaks and fulfills,
all of his words are true and righteous.
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The Traditional Blessing After the Haftorah(2 of
2)
Neeman atah Adonay Eloheynu veneemanim
devareykha vedavar. echad midevareykha achor lo
yashuv reyqam ki El Melekh neeman verahaman
atah. Faithful are you, Adonai our Elohim, and
faithful are your words. Not one of your words
turns back unfulfilled, for you, El, are a
faithful King and compassionate king. Baruch
atah Adonay haEl haneeman bekhal
devarav. Blessed are you Adonai, the El who is
faithful in all his words.
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The Blessing Before the Brit Chadashah is Read
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher natan lanu et Yeshua binkha kimeshicheynu
golaenu moshienu kapporatenu vadonen, vet
sifrei Brit Chadashah lemanu ulekhal haamin.
Blessed are You Adonai our Elohim, King of
the Universe, who has given us your son as our
Messiah, our redeemer, our saviour, our
atonement, and our Master, and the books of the
Renewed Covenant to our people and to all the
peoples.
Baruch atah Adonay noten yeshuah bYeshua
HaMashiach. Blessed are You - Adonai, giver of
salvation in Yeshua the Messiah.
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Isaiah 53 Refers to the Messiah

• Babylonian Talmud "The Messiah --what is his
  name?...The Rabbis say, The Leper Scholar, as it
  is said, surely he has borne our griefs and
  carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him a
  leper, smitten of God and afflicted...'"
  (Sanhedrin 98b)

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Isaiah 53 Refers to the Messiah

• Targum Jonathan "Behold my servant Messiah shall
  prosper he shall be high and increase and be
  exceedingly strong..."

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Isaiah 53 Refers to the Messiah

• Rabbi Moses Maimonides "What is the manner of
  Messiah's advent....there shall rise up one of
  whom none have known before, and signs and
  wonders which they shall see performed by him
  will be the proofs of his true origin for the
  Almighty, where he declares to us his mind upon
  this matter, says, Behold a man whose name is
  the Branch, and he shall branch forth out of his
  place' (Zech. 612). And Isaiah speaks similarly
  of the time when he shall appear, without father
  or mother or family being known, He came up as a
  sucker before him, and as a root out of dry
  earth, etc....in the words of Isaiah, when
  describing the manner in which kings will harken
  to him, At him kings will shut their mouth for
  that which had not been told them have they seen,
  and that which they had not heard they have
  perceived." (From the Letter to the South
  (Yemen), quoted in The Fifty-third Chapter of
  Isaiah According to the Jewish Interpreters, Ktav
  Publishing House, 1969, Volume 2, pages 374-5)

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The Blessing After the Brit Chadashah is Read
Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam,
asher natan et devarkha haTanakh vBrit Chadasha
lekhol bney-adam. Barukh atah Adonai mevi et
hagoel Yeshua lmaan shemo bahavah. Blessed
are You Adonai our Elohim, King of the
Universe, who has given your Word, the Tanakh,
and the Renewed Covenant to all the children of
Adam. Blessed are you, Adonai, who for His own
Names sake, in love, has brought Yeshua the
Redeemer.
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The Aharonic Blessing
"Speak to Aharon and his sons, and tell them that
this is how you are to bless the people of
Isra'el you are to say to them, 'Y'varekh'kha
ADONAI v'yishmerekha. Ya'er ADONAI panav
eleikha vichunekka. Yissa ADONAI panav eleikha
v'yasem l'kha shalom. May ADONAI bless you and
keep you. May ADONAI make his face shine on you
and show you his favor. May ADONAI lift up his
face toward you and give you peace.' "In this
way they are to put my Name on the people of
Isra'el, so that I will bless them."
Hebrew ????