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As always, a synopsis of this week’s Torah portion can be found on our website. This week’s Torah portion is Parashah 37: Shlach L'kha (Send on your behalf) Numbers 13:1 through 15:41.
In this Torah portion we discover why the Israelites ended up in the desert for 40 years: They didn't trust YHWH! So, instead of just FOUR years of learning to live under His Divine Guidance, they reaped a sentence of FORTY years!
This portion describes the sin of the spies who entered the Land and brought back a negative report of obstacles they feared could not be overcome. Only Caleb and Joshua returned with the encouraging words; they had complete faith and understood that if God desired Israel, He would give them the Land, and no power could stand in His way.
And so, naturally, YHWH once again becomes angry with his people:
Numbers 14: 10 But just as the whole community were saying they should be stoned to death, the glory of ADONAI appeared in the tent of meeting to all the people of Isra'el. 11 ADONAI said to Moshe, "How much longer is this people going to treat me with contempt? How much longer will they not trust me, especially considering all the signs I have performed among them? 12 I am going to strike them with sickness, destroy them and make from you a nation greater and stronger than they are!" (CJB)
And, as usual, Moshe interceded on their behalf (see Numbers 14: 13-19)....
Please read the synopsis and then read the entire Torah portion, along with the Haftarah (Prophets) and Brit Chadasha (New Testament) portions, in your Bible.
Carmen, Thanks be to our Father for this weeks Torah portion, I have as usual, learned from it ----The Israelites wandered around and around for 40 years, How so like many today , I would include myself , I lived my life for years, just listening to sermons, believing the Sunday ministers -- that they must be right !!! what did I know ???
ReplyDeletewell the Bible was there for me to read and Study !!!! It took years of heartache , sickness , till YHWH led me into the Truth, now I
know the meaning of OBEDIANCE and what happens when I do not obey, I suffer the consequences, Thankfully, we are learning the blessings of entering the promised land as Israel. what a mighty GOD we serve, one who loves us, will punish us severely when we stray, HE keeps us daily in the TORAH for our own good