The Goad leading to Dedication
29th Tishrei 5784 THE YEAR OF THE DOOR 10.14.23
Is there a difference between LEARNING and TRAINING?
WHICH is more important? If you are the Hebrew student, you will shout an unequivocal YES!
Spiritual Education for the mind: TEACHING/LEARNING (Lamad)
Spiritual Bootcamp for the soul: TRAINING/PRACTICING (Chanak)
One is about LEARNING INFORMATION giving ‘the entire mind’.
The other is about EXPERIENCING TRANSFORMATION giving ‘the entire soul’.
LAMAD – Goading, Instructing, Directing – Being instructed, goaded, directed (86Xs)
CHANAK – To Dedicate, Dedication, to Experience, Experienced, Training (5Xs)
Learning (Lamad)
Practicing – (Chanak)
The TREE OF LIFE – The MENORAH and GIVING OF OUR WHOLE SELVES
Mussar LIFE involves both LAMAD (Levavkha) and its supernatural progression of CHANAK (Naphshekha). Together, these lead to the MEODEKHA which complete the COUNSEL/STRENGTH of The Holy Menorah of G-D’s Ruach of Emet.
THE HOLY MENORAH is the Divine Vision of The Tree of LIFE that produces HEALING LIFE.
The TREE OF LIFE is mentioned 11 x’s in Scripture from Genesis to Revelation:
THE LIVING WORD begins with the Tree of Life (Etz Chaim) in Genesis and ends with the Tree of Life in Yeshua’s Revelation to John, the last chapter of our Bibles.
“22:1 Next the angel showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 Between the main street and the river was the Tree of Life producing twelve kinds of fruit, a different kind every month; and the leaves of the tree were for healing the nations — 3 no longer will there be any curses.”
Eating from THE TREE OF LIFES (chayim is plural) is our healing. It is what causes us to ‘live eternally’ – THAT MEANS LIFE ABUNDANT NOW…as well as LIFE ABUNDANT THEN. There is NO CEASING OF LIFE, in other words – whether it be HERE AND NOW or THEN AND THERE!
We are PREDESTINED TO LIVE ABUNDANTLY HERE. And that very predestination will involve CONTINUAL EDUCATION AND DEDICATION TO SPIRITUAL THINGS. THIS IS ‘Salvation’ (Deliverance)! Yeshua’s Name literally means SALVATION/DELIVERANCE. FROM WHAT?
THE DIVIDED MIND…
The Holy Menorah AND The SHEMA reveals to us that IT WILL BE OUR *CONTINUAL ‘GIVING ENTIRELY THE MIND AND THE BEHAVIORS/APPETITES’ whereby we achieve THE UNITY WITHIN (the GOOD EYE that is no longer divided).
Yeshua HaMashiach IS our TREE OF LIFE. And to eat from THE TREE OF LIFE AND LIVE means we ‘take in’ LAMAD and ‘produce much fruit’ CHANAK. This IS EVIDENCE (witness: ‘ed’) or the AYIN-DALET
עֵד
that we are WALKING IN THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT: THE SHEMA.
The Year of the Door 5784
The year 5784 is also the year of THE OPEN DOOR. The Open Door means we ‘walk through’ The Door HE Opens and *close the doors HE has not (our patterns/choices devoid of His Instruction). If you look at the AYIN and the DALET above which means WITNESS/EVIDENCE. The Ayin is THE EYE and the Dalet is THE DOOR. IF we learn and train in GIVING OUR EYE TO THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, we can walk THROUGH THE DOOR OF LIFE & BLESSING!! *Understand John 10
May it be so in the Power and Presence of THE DOOR HIMSELF!
