At the time of this study this week we have gathered and celebrated the most solemn of Feast Days,

Yom HaKippurim, or Day of Coverings, 2012. It has been a significant time of personal inspection, reflection and restoration--creation to Creator, and man to man. Much is to be learned in appreciating and applying YHVH's instruction and to reconciling and being reconciled back to The Father, to one another, and even to ourselves. So in the midst of our celebration of The Day of Coverings we discover this parasha of great import and relevance as it pertains to repentance, and what is required to be reconciled and covered. In one of the suggested Brit readings that correspond to our parsha study found in Pauls book to the qahal in Rome we read specifically of rebellious Israel,

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all

obeyed the gospel.

For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 1 The word we read here in verse 16, obeyed, comes from Strongs #G5219 and is the word hoop-ak-oo'-o which means to hear, that is, to listen attentively; by implication to heed or conform to a command or authority: -hearken, be obedient to, obey. It is also the same word we find in this weeks parasha, the root of Haazinu, Strongs #238, rooted in Strongs #241 or o'-zen. Meaning hear, ear, balance, or to broaden the ear for picking up sounds, pictographically it reveals another deeply profound principle we often gloss but desperately need to understand if we expect to endure and persevere with YHVH. Comprised of an Alef, Vav, Zayin and a Nun, these 4 letters give way to what may be the very key to experiencing the life of victory, that being a life demonstrating YHVHs kingdom here on earth and in our lives and families. Would you like to experience that more today? Could you use a blessing today? Would you like to be able to lay your burdens down and walk in the fullness of The Fathers Love? Here it is then. The two-letter root word Zen, comprised of a Zayin and a Nun, is a
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power-packed root word meaning to harvest the seed. Remember, YHVHs living word often uses agricultural concepts to teach us about life, blessings, death and curses, so the letter Zayin is symbolic of a hoe or mattocks because it uses a very wide blade..hence the widening of the ear. The letter Nun means seed. Now, come harvest time the farmer will use the wide blade of their mattocks or hoe to bring forth the fruit produced by the seed. Nun is also symbolic of life, remember that mishpocha. The front end of our word for ozen, or give ear is comprised of yet another 2-letter root word, Av, or Aw spelled with an Alef and a Vav. Alef means strength. It also means Father. Vav is symbolic of a nail or tent pegs which are used to secure, to add, pierce or join. These two together pictographically mean a strong joining to which is the definition for desire. When we string the two roots of this compound word pictographically we learn that when we desire to harvest the seed (the seed being what? See Lk.8:11) in our lives we are to Give ear unto YHVHs instruction. In fact, to harvest the seed is to offer the life, or an offering. So when we give ear to YHVHs Torah what we are actually doing is offering our life in service to Him daily. This is what we read in another one of our suggested Brit Scriptures in the book of Hebrews where we read

And

this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.2

Heb.12:27-28

Maintaining a life surrendered upon the altar of sacrifice, giving up our ideas and plans and offering ourselves to Him in obedience, this is the result of giving ear unto our Heavenly Father. And in return Moshe says His instruction will drop like the rain, or in Hebrew, maw-tar. This is just a beautiful word. Comprised of a Mem, a Tet, and a Resh, it means rain. Rain is nourishing because it keeps us from drying out, especially when we go through seasons of dryness. If we examine the first two letters, the Mem and the Tet, we get the two letter root word Met. And wouldnt you know that it means Shake, or Branch; the pictograph Mem is a picture of water, the Tet is a picture of a basket which contains objects. Combined these mean liquid contained. A green branch still contains water allowing the branch to be flexible. A green branch can then be bent to the desired shape and left to dry. 3

Yeshua said, I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you cant do a thing. Unless a person remains united with me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire, where they are burned up.4

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Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of The Bible, Benner, A. Jeff, Parent & Child Roots, p.167 A.H.L. #1285. Jn.15:5-6

Beloved, as our lives come against the fires of adversity we should be asking ourselves, Am I united in Yeshua? And if so, then what is the natural outcome of that, especially in the hard times? Because when difficulties come YHVH allows and or purposes them to shape us into the image of His Son who is The Branch5. If we are giving ear to His Torah, then when difficulty comes we will not only produce fruit acceptable to Him, but well remain flexible, shaken, but immovable because we are full of His Living Water6, united to and able to serve Him acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. If our life mirrors something different, then it indicates were failing to receive His nourishing rain. Taw-lal' is the word used in our parasha, verse two for dew. This word means to cover, to strew over. It also means to scatter, or cover over a large area. Interestingly, weve just been celebrating the Day of Atonement, or Day of Coverings. Moshe declares his instruction will distill as the small rain, or saweer'. In Hebrew, this word means small rain, but again a closer look in the Paleo reveals it to mean Hair; goat; from its thick hair used to make tents; II. Raindrop: As the hair from heaven (Benner). Intriguing, as we continue this word too echoes the theme of covering. Did we not study earlier in Shemot that the women wove goats hair into a covering for the wilderness tabernacle? (Ex.26:7) Finally, I want to point out pictographically this word expresses how we should react to YHVHs teaching/covering. If we take each letter, one at a time we again gain even deeper appreciation for YHVHs order. The first letter of saweer', being a Samech meaning to grab a hold of. Ayin means to gain understanding as it is observed. Now, Yod and Resh actually form a two letter root word yar. It means to throw, out of which we get the root for our word for fear, expressing the action of awe or fear where one throws self to the foot of one in authority (Benner). This is the same word we find rooted in the word for Reverence, or yare.
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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:7 Notice the connection again in the testimony of Yeshua, the writer of the book of Hebrews points out that it is through YHVHs grace that we can serve Him in an acceptable way with Reverence, and Godly Fear. Reverence as read here translates back to the Septuagint as the Hebrew word kaw-saf' (Str. #3700), and it literally means to become pale, that is, to pine after; also to fear: - [have] desire, be greedy, long, sore. Godly Fear is rooted in the Hebrew word naw-zar' and it means to hold aloof, that is, (intransitively) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (that is, apostatize)); specifically to set apart (to sacred purposes), that is, devote: - consecrate, separate (Benner).

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. The word for corrupted is shaw-khath' and it means to decay, to ruin, to cast off, to corrupt, destroy, lose, mar, spoil, or waste. Comprised of a Shin, a Chet, and a Tav. The Shin-Chet two letter root word means to sink, down. In pictographic meaning the Shin means teeth and the Chet means walls, literally sharp walls one sinks down into and maintains a variety of uses in both the negative and the positive. This is one such occasion and is poignantly clear as we isolate the two letter root here. The word shaw-khath means to decay, corrupt, to spoil or waste and if we explore the word just by the letters it means to destroy literally by placing a wall between us and
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YHVHs seal. Shin being to destroy, Chet being a wall that divides and place one on the outside of, and the Tav meaning two sticks, seal, sign, covenant. The following verses after verse 5 in Devarim chapter 32 details how Yisrael will excuse themselves from YHVHs banquet tabl e to explore others. Their apostasy will be recorded in this timeless portion. They corrupt themselves because they elected to pursue things contrary to the good word YHVH gave them through Moshe. They sank down into a pit of their own making, and thereby cut themselves off from Yehovah, the one who established them there in the first place. On the other side of this record is none other than our worship. Because we read in verse 36 that when Israel has come to the end of themselves that YHVH will repent Himself or naw-kham which means to sigh, to breathe strongly, that is to pity, regret, to console and comfort. This 3 letter Hebrew word shares a famous 2-letter rootthe Nun and the Chet. Do you know who that is? Thats right! Noah! This also meansRest! When we stop chasing after unprofitable thoughts, pursuits, baseless worry and anxiety, and begin to simply trust in YHVH for our protection and deliverance, He will! The word that is the opposite of corruption is Worshipor Shawkhaw.

For s ometh ing to fall , it has t o die .

When corruption is introduced, death is the natural progression. It falls like a branch broken from the vine. But worship, when it is done right, its more than just bowing and prostrating ourselves humbly before The Father. It symbolizes our dying to selfand results in a powerful infilling of His Ruach! Worship in Hebrew is a Shin, Chet and a Heh. In Hebraic thought, the letter Heh symbolizes the breath of YHVH. Psalm 33:6 says

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
The word used here for breath is the word Ruach. It speaks of the creative force YHVH used to bring His Creation into existence. In the Amidah, or Standing Prayer read every morning and evening we read the blessings, of which one is titled Gods Might. In it we read faithfully,

You are eternally mighty my LORD, the Resuscitator of the dead are you; abundantly able to save, who makes the dew (theres the dew again!) descend; Who sustains the living with kindness, resuscitates the dead with abundant mercy, supports the fallen, heals the sick, releases the confined and maintains His faith to those asleep in the dust. Who is like You, O Master of Mighty deeds, and who is comparable to You, O King Who causes death and restores life and makes salvation sprout! What an amazing prayer! It also is significant in names. When Abram committed himself faithfully to YHVH his name was changed from Abram, to Avraham with a Heh placed in the middle, to symbolize the breath of God upon him and his life. Same with Sarai, Avrahams wife as her name was changed as she took the matriarchal status becoming Sarah. This now brings us to the Testimony of Yeshua where the writer of Hebrew declares in chapter 12

And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have

grace, whereby we may serve God

acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.
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Grace: to have affection for, to seize, to stay with, become strengthened by, to become a master of, to cling to or follow hard after, to become, to see or behold, to be joined to and fascinated by, to be used to strengthen and heal others, to distribute, to yield to, to establish, to prescribe to another by engraving it in yourself, to wear as a garment, to carry with you wherever you go, to be used to release or to rescue, to make it easily seen, to lift others up who have fallen, to be used as a cover, to be given in abundance, to rest in, to put it where it's needed, to be used to establish safety, welfare and peace. Do we wear grace as a garment beloved? Having grace, means understanding that we must cling to YHVHs instruction. It means giving others the benefit of the doubt and choosing to be an example when examples are hard to find. We must Haazinu, or give ear to His teaching if our lives are going to count for Him so that they are not spent in vain For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it8. Before climbing mount Avarim (plural for Eber, (Moses gives final instruction to Israel. He tells them to Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day and he instructs them to command your children to observe to do, all the words of this Torah. He tells them this because Israel is already set on a collision course with rebellion, but he knows that if they will commit their hearts to YHVHs wordand do it, then they will prolong their lives and days in the land and those of their children. This season, as we prepare our hearts for Sukkot, the Feast of Ingathering, let us cling to the grace YHVH has given us, let it inspire us with humility, reverence and holy fear. And let it remind us that YHVH has given us life because He gave His only Son so that we can be restored, and called to a life
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set apart; lives not to be bound, but to be filled with the glory of His Ruach! May His mighty Name be Praised! To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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