דף ארבעים ושש
Now we are in in parashah Vayikra (Leviticus)
Vayikra: Verse 29
ד”א בָּאתִי לְגַנִּי, דָּא גַּן עֵדֶן דִּלְעֵילָּא. אֲחוֹתִי כַלָּה, דָּא כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, דִּבְהַהוּא יוֹמָא אִזְדַּוְּוגוּ זִוּוּגִין בְּכֹלָּא, אִזְדַּוְּוגוּ זִוּוּגִין בְּהַהוּא גַּן עֵדֶן, בְּגִין דְּאִתְבָּרְכוּ כֻּלְּהוּ מִשַּׁקְיוּ דְּנַחֲלָא, וְאִתְקַשָּׁרוּ כָּל חַד בְּחַבְרֵיהּ, הֲדָא הוּא דִּכְתִּיב אָרִיתִי מוֹרִי עִם בְּשָׂמִי אָכַלְתִּי יַעְרִי עִם דִּבְשִׁי שָׁתִיתִי יֵינִי עִם חֲלָבִי כֻּלְּהוֹן אִתְשַׁקְיָין וְאִתְרַוּוּ מִמַּבּוּעָא דְּנַחֲלָא.
Another explanation: “I came to my garden” refers to the upper Garden of Eden. “My sister, my bride” refers to the Congregation of Yisrael. On the day , pairs were coupled in all Pairs were also coupled in that UPPER Garden of Eden , for all of them were blessed from the flow of the river, and each bonded with its fellow. Thus, it is written, “I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk” (Ibid.), for they were all irrigated and saturated from the fountain spring of the river.
Revelation 21
21:1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
Here is Revelation 22
17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.
Both in the Book of Revelation and this passage in the Zohar we see a Correlation with God’s true followers being God’s Bride along with the Garden of Eden and also water.And it shows that nothing changed theologically from the Old to New Testament but that the Messiah Jesus brought the word to flesh as John chapter 1 explains.
Now we come to a fun subject everyone loves ,Lilit or better known as Lillith לִילִית ,the female demon of the night.
Vayikra: Verse 316
תָּא חֲזֵי, מִנוּקְבָּא דִּתְהוֹמָא רַבָּא עִלָּאָה, אִשְׁתְּכַּחַת חַד נוּקְבָּא רוּחָא דְּכָל רוּחִין, וְהָא אוֹקִימְנָא לִילִית שְׁמָהּ. וְהִיא אִשְׁתְּכַּחַת בְּקַדְמֵיתָא לְגַבֵּי אָדָם. וּבְשַׁעֲתָא דְּאִתְבְּרֵי אָדָם, וְאִשְׁתְּלִים גּוּפֵיהּ, אִזְדְּמָנוּ עַל הַהוּא גּוּפָא אֶלֶף רוּחִין מִסִּטְרָא דִּשְׂמָאלָא. דָּא בְּדָא לְאַעֲלָא בֵּיהּ, וְדָא בָּעָא לְאַעֲלָא בֵּיהּ, וְלָא הֲווֹ יַכְלֵי, עַד דְּגָעַר בְּהוּ קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא, וְאָדָם הֲוָה שָׁכִיב גּוּפָא בְּלָא רוּחָא, וְחֵיזוּ דִּילֵיהּ יְרוֹקָא הֲוָה, וְכָל אִינּוּן רוּחִין סָחֲרָן עָלֵיהּ.
Come and see: In a hole by the great, supernal abyss, there is a certain female, a spirit above all spirits. We have explained that its name is Lilit. She was first with Adam. When Adam was created and his body perfected, a thousand spirits came on the body from the left side. This one wanted to enter it and that one wanted to enter it, but they could not.The Holy One, blessed be He, scolded them. Thus, Adam lay down spiritless, green in appearance, with all those spirits around him.
דף ארבעים ושבע
Ok so the story of Lillith is not from the Zohar or Talmud and the famous story is not from the Bible at all.Although the Bible in Isaiah does mention Lillith Here is Isaiah 34:14
וּפָֽגְשׁ֚וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת־אִיִּ֔ים וְשָׂעִ֖יר עַל־רֵעֵ֣הוּ יִקְרָ֑א אַךְ־שָׁם֙ הִרְגִּ֣יעָה לִּילִ֔ית וּמָֽצְאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ מָנֽוֹחַ
And they shall meet ,wild beast’s of the desert , jackals ,wild goats all of their companions and they shall cry out there and will rest the night creature (lillith לִּילִ֔ית meaning in Hebrew from or of the night) and will find for herself a resting place.
So you see what Yeshayahu or Isaiah says here that a night creature lives with desert beasts,jackals and wild goats. And it is a she because this pronoun here lah לָ֖הּ means “she” and so from scripture we do have a female night creature.However the Bible never mentions her as Adams first wife who rebelled and became a demon who snatched children and was blamed for pre medical SIDS or crib death in early times.
So where is the Lillith legend from ? The Alef-Beit (Alpha-Bet) of Ben Sirach.So you then ask ,what is the Alpha Bet of Ben Sirach? It was a book of proberbs written in Medieval Babylon or Arabia maybe (not fully known) around 700-1000 CE.It contained 44 proverbs ,one each from the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alef Beit or Alpha Bet.1 proverb for each letter in Hebrew and one for each letter in Judeo Babylonian Aramaic,so 44 proverbs in total.The first mention of the tale of Lillith as Adams first wife and becoming a baby snatcher.
So Lillith is mentioned in the Talmud a few times “Niddah 24b” and “Shabbat 151b” and maybe a couple other places.Shabbat 151 B-10 simply says if a man sleeps alone Lillith with pounce and cause nocturnal ommisions.And here is what Tractate Niddah 24b-10 says:
§ Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: In the case of a woman who discharges a fetus that has the form of a lilith, a female demon with wings and a human face, its mother is impure with the impurity of a woman after childbirth, as it is a viable offspring, only it has wings. This is also taught in a baraita: Rabbi Yosei said: An incident occurred in Simoni involving a certain woman who discharged a fetus that had the form of a lilith, and the incident was brought before the Sages; and they said that it is a viable offspring, only it has wings.
So neither the Bible or Talmud say Lillith was Adams first wife and as far as Lillith or Lilit being a female demon or night creature we do not know really ,the Bible hints at it but nothing clear on it.I would would strongly believe the first wife of Adam thing is legend but could female night creatures exist? Maybe or maybe not ,Revelation talks about the ghost of Izibel or Jezebel as she is often known.But for now it is simply a myth or a legend and the Zohar addresses her as a mystical text so it is not a scriptural thing.
Here is more Zohar on Lillith but again likely more myth.
Vayikra: Verse 323
מַאן דְּיַנְקָא לְרַבְיָּא, לָא תִּזְדַּוֵּוג לְבַר נָשׁ, אֶלָּא בְּשַׁעֲתָא דְּרַבְיָא נָאִים. וּלְבָתַר לָא תָּנִיק לֵיהּ, עַד שַׁעֲתָא חֲדָא, כִּתְרֵין מִילִּין, אוֹ חַד מִיל, אִי לָא יַכְלָא בְּגִין צַעֲרָא דְּרַבְיָא, בְּזִמְנָא דְּאִיהוּ בָּכֵי. וּבְדָא לָא מִסְתָּפֵי מִנָּהּ לְעָלְמִין.
A woman who suckles her child must not have intercourse with her husband unless the child is asleep. She should not afterwards suckle her baby for an hour, two mile , or one mile, if she cannot , so as not to distress the baby, if the baby cries! If she does this, she will never have anything to fear her.
דף ארבעים ושמונה
The Faithful Shepard is back in verse 335
Vayikra: Verse 335
(רעיא מהימנא) פִּקּוּדָא דָּא לְהָבִיא קָרְבָּן עַל סַנְהֶדְּרֵי גְּדוֹלָה שֶׁטָּעוּ, תָּנָאִין וַאֲמוֹרָאִין ע’ סַנְהֶדְּרֵי גְּדוֹלָה הָיוּ, וּמֹשֶׁה עָלַיְיהוּ. וְע’ סַנְהֶדְּרֵי קְטַנָּה הֲווֹ, וְאַהֲרֹן עָלַיְיהוּ. וּבְגִין דָּא אָמְרוּ מָארֵי מַתְנִיתִין, מֹשֶׁה שׁוּשְׁבִינָא דְּמַלְכָּא הֲוָה, וְדָא תִּפְאֶרֶת, מִתַּמָּן סַנְהֶדְּרֵי גְּדוֹלָה. אַהֲרֹן שׁוּשְׁבִינָא דְּמַטְרוֹנִיתָא, וְדָא מַלְכוּת, הֵ”א זְעֵירָא קָרֵינָן לֵיהּ, כְּגוֹן אֶעֱבָדְךָ שֶׁבַע שָׁנִים בְּרָחֵל בִּתְּךָ הַקְּטַנָּה. וְעַל שְׁמָהּ אִתְקְרֵי סַנְהֶדְּרֵי קְטַנָּה.
Ra’aya Meheimna (the Faithful Shepherd). It is a precept to bring an offering for the greater Sanhedrin if they erred. Tannaim and Amoraim, there were seventy members in the greater Sanhedrin when Moses was over them and seventy in the smaller Sanhedrin when Aaron was over them. The sages therefore said that Moses was the best man of the King, Tiferet. There from is the Sanhedrin great. Aaron was the best man of the Queen, Malchut, whom we call the small Hei, as in: “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger (lit. ‘smaller’) daughter” (Beresheet 29:18).And they are called the smaller Sanhedrin after her.
I know this is far from literal but I see this as Jesus the Good Shepherd or Faithful Shepherd. He is the sacrifice in the Sanhendrei gadolah or the Great court.Allegorically here it means his sacrifice of his body satisfied every shortcoming of man in the Court of Heaven “it is finished” every sin paid for once and for all.
Let us in verse 336 talk about the Tower of Babel for a minute.
Vayikra: Verse 336
וּמִתַּמָּן הֲווֹ יַדְעִין סַנְהֶדְרִין שִׁבְעִין לָשׁוֹן, דְּאִינּוּן שִׁבְעִים פָּנִים לַתּוֹרָה, דְּאִית שִׁבְעִים לָשׁוֹן מִסִּטְרָא דְּמַלְכוּת הָרְשָׁעָה וְכוּ,’ כֹּלָּא בְּפֵרוּדָא. הה”ד מֵאֵלֶּה נִפְרְדוּ אִיֵּי הַגּוֹיִם בְּאַרְצוֹתָם לִלְשׁוֹנוֹתָם כֻּלְּהוּ שִׁבְעִין לָשׁוֹן בְּפֵרוּדָא דָּא מִן דָּא.
From there the Sanhedrin drew their knowledge of seventy languages, the seventy aspects of the Torah. For there are seventy languages on the side of the evil kingdom, all of which are different. Hence, “By these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands; everyone after his language” (Beresheet 10:5), since all these seventy languages are different from each other.
So if you want to follow along please read Genesis chapter’s 8-11 ok for purposes of space I will not directly quote them.So we know that the Ark of Noach landed in the mountains of Ararat and the text does say at least in Hebrew mountains plural.So here the Bible makes clear people first settled central Asia near eastern Turkey or Armenia or northeastern Iran which is where the Ararat mountain range sets.So also all the oldest human made structures are in Turkey not far from Noach’s Ark’s landing.For instance Çatalhöyük a decent size settlement in modern day Turkey dating to 7500 BCE.Also Gobekli Tepe dating to 9500 BCE and Karahan Tepe dating to 10,500 BCE.Now of course we as Bible believers question the accuracy of carbon dating but this shows though that relatively speaking these sites are older by science then any other man made structures.
דף ארבעים תשע
As the Bible says people came from the east and settled in Shinar (which is Hebrew for Sumer or Kengir as they called themselves ,Sumer is Akkadian) In any case southern Iraq which is where all modern historian’s say all human civilization started and you can research that.Yes its clear from the above paragraph that people first lived in central Asia but in small hunting oriented settlements and not large cities like Ur,Uruk etc.. in southern Iraq.
Looking for an easier life as Gen.11 says people traveled from the east and settled in the valley that Genesis/Breishit calls Shinar but was likely what is commonly known as Sumer as the Akkadians called it but they called the land “Kengir” meaning, place of nobles.The Kengir called their language Emegir and often referred to themselves as “The black headed people” as did the Akkadians who later conquered Sumer/Kengir.There is not an absolute concensus on where the Kengir came from but I believe(my opinion) the central Asian steppe makes more sense than Egypt,with the flood of the nile and it’s prosperity why leave Egypt.(Of in Biblical theory the Egyptions came from Sumer ,but for arguments sake I’m saying is does not make sense the the Kengir came from Egypt)
1.Ancient Sumer is the oldest evidence large scale civilization and large cities and a agricultural based society.Cities like Ur,Uruk and Nippur were large scale cities not yet seen before.
2.Sumer has no known language connection ,it’s not PIE related and it’s not Afro-Asiatic (semitic/middle eastern) ,so Sumer/Kengir does not have a known origin.No linguist and you can look all of this up as fact that Sumerian (Emigir) does not link to any modern language family and so it would make sense a language catostrophe happened at Bavel or Babel (which means confused in Hebrew)
So now we know that Noach’s son’s repopulated the earth and if we suppose that from Shem came the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family including Akkadian,Aramaic,Hebrew and Arabic.Most people agree African end of the Afro-Asiatic language family mainly came from the Chamitic side ,the sons of Cham or Ham.Mitzraim being Egypt ,a Fut or Put being the Berbers like Libya,Algeria,Tunisia and Morocco.And Kush being the Father of Sub-Saharan Africa.And Chadic languages being a mix and I’m sure over time there were other mixes also but this is a hypothetical outline.
Now for a long overdue discussion on the Afro-Asiatic family and not that it has not been important but has not been relevant to the settlement od ancient Sumer.
1.Berber
Has northern and eastern branches but as one would assume it pertains to areas in Morroco,Algeria,Niger,parts of Egypt and of coarse Lybia and any places Berbers may have lived in northern Africa.
2.Chadic
Mostly Chad but has dialects in parts of Nigeria and Cameroon and that being so could have influenced Sub-Saharan languages further showing a one language origin of the world.
3.Kushitic (associated with Bible charactor Kush/Cush/כוש
The brother of Mitzraim who settled Egypt and Kush is associated with neighboring Sudan and Ethiopia and as far south as Somalia.
Spoken in Ethiopia,Somalia (some what Sudan although Arabic has taken hold there).There is also Kushetic languages spoken on the Rift of Tanzania further connecting to the Sub-Saharan giving more credence to a one language origin.
“The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with half a million speakers. These languages are believed to have been originally spoken by Southern Cushitic agro-pastoralists from Ethiopia, who began migrating southward into the Great Rift Valley in the third millennium BC” (from Wikipedia)
4.Omotic ; Mostly Ethiopia,not widespread.
5.Semitic/middle eastern
Akkadian(Iraq)Aramaic(Syiac/Assyrian)Hebrew(The Jews),Arabic(Bedouin)Languages of Yemen,Amharic and Ge’ez(Ethiopia) and Ancient Egyptian.
Most likely Akkadian in the east,Egyptian in the west and Kushitic in the south were the first semetic branches.Hebrew most likely came via proto-Sinaitic via the Egyptian captivity in the later bronze age,later influenced by Aramaic.
Akkadian likely evolved into Aramaic over time or Aramaic took over Akkadian speaking areas where they further mixed.Then Syriac Aramaic influenced Bedouin languages becoming modern Arabic and the modern Arabic Alif-Ba clearly came from the Syriac Aramaic Alpha bet.The term Semitic came from the son of Noah ,Shem although we can’t assume every Semitic language and nation came from Shem there like anything over time was some mixing.And although there are clearly some Chamitic connections to some of Africa I don’t believe all of Sub Saharan Africa came from Cham/Ham because DNA has found clear Semitic ancestry and even Jewish ancestry in far southern Africa.The curse Noah put on Canaan his grandson is more about the Jewish conquest of Canaan and not a curse on all of Africa.We know there was a language diversion in Sumer in neolithic times but we don’t fully know all of what later happened.
דף חמישים
I think it is from a Biblical perspective that Proto Indo-European languages came of Yafet or also known as Japheth.Being most people likely already know it I’m not going to put out a language chart.There is also evidence of a connection with Russian and Native American Languages.
Dené–Caucasian is a discredited language family proposal that includes widely-separated language groups spoken in the Northern Hemisphere: Sino-Tibetan languages, Yeniseian languages and Burushaski in Asia; Na-Dené languages in North America; as well as Vasconic languages (including Basque) and North Caucasian languages from Europe.
Although I understand that this does not prove a connection with Proto Indo European and East Asian and Native American languages it offers a possibility .I think we can agree that all languages came from a single source.We easily and plainly see that the Middle East,Central Asia,Africa and Europe are obviously connected to one source.With Biblical patriarch’s behind them and the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis may or may not be right but there is no question there is a connector somewhere.Some suggest a Bible Character names Syn from Isaiah 49:12 is China and maybe the east Asian connection. And some Tibetan languages connect with European ones.There is also the Borean Language theory that connects many languages together.I’m not going put out a chart but it is easy to look up.One closing point on the Tower of Babel is that although not all language families have a proven connection to other language families it only takes one language in a family to make a connection.The Dene-Caucasian theory is not proven it would make sense that something like it is probable being it is likely people travelled east from central Asia.According the science there may also have been a time when Africa and Asia connected (at one time all continents connected) and the reason that east Asian languages do not connect as simply as Africa,Europe and the Middle East is lack of contact between them.The more separate people are the more different they develop.Even though we have not yet found a connection to all families of languages every language but one connects to something else.And only one language has no known connection to any other? Sumerian has no known connection to any other language and Sumer was precisely where the language catastrophe happened in the Bible.
Here we have Tzav chapter 5 verse 42
Tzav: Verse 42
שֶׂה אִיהוּ לְעוֹלָה, דִּכְתִּיב וְאַיֵּה הַשֶּׂה לְעוֹלָה. וְאִתְּמַר בֵּיהּ שֶׂה תָמִים זָכָר, הה”ד אִישׁ תָּמִים. וְהָא צָרִיךְ לְמִשְׁאַל, דְּהָא שֶׂה אִיהוּ לִימִינָא, שָׂעִיר אִיהוּ לִשְׂמָאלָא, דְּהַיְינוּ שְׂעִיר עִזִּים אֶחָד לְחַטָּאת, וְאִית שָׂעִיר, וְאִית שָׂעִיר. שָׂעִיר אֶחָד לַיְיָ,’ וּשְׂעִיר אֶחָד לַעֲזָאזֵל. וְהַיְינוּ דִּכְתִּיב, וְנָתַן אַהֲרֹן עַל שְׁנֵי הַשְּׁעִירִים גּוֹרָלוֹת גּוֹרָל אֶחָד לַיְיָ’ וְגוֹרָל אֶחָד לַעֲזָאזֵל. וּבְהַהוּא שֵׂעִיר, אִתְּמַר בְּעֵשָׂו, אִישׁ שָׂעִיר. וְדָא כָּבֵד. דְּנָטִיל כָּל אִינּוּן שְׁמָרִים דְּדָם. שְׁחִין אֲבַעְבּוּעוֹת פּוֹרְחוֹת, סַפָּחֹת, וְכָל מִינֵי צָרַעַת. וְהַיְינוּ דִּכְתִּיב, וְנָשָׁא הַשָּׂעִיר עָלָיו אֶת כָּל עֲוֹנוֹתָם אֶל אֶרֶץ גְּזֵרָה. וְאִינּוּן עֲוֹנוֹת תָּם, דְּאִיהוּ לִבָּא, וּכְדֵין אִתְפְּרַשׁ מִלְּעָרְבָא בְּלִבָּא, וּכְדֵין אִתְבְּסָם, וְאִיהוּ כָּבֵד בְּאִלֵּין חוֹבִין, וְלָא קָל לְסַלְּקָא לְגַבֵּי יַעֲקֹב אִישׁ תָּם. חֲדוּ מָארֵי מַתְנִיתִין דִּמְתִיבְתָּאן, דְּקָא נַחְתֵּי עִם תָּנָאִין וְאָמוֹרָאִין.
A lamb is sacrificed as a burnt offering, as written: “But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” (Beresheet 22:7). It says of it: “Your lamb shall be without blemish (Heb. tamim), a male,” (Shemot 12:5) as, “a plain (Heb. tamim) man,” (Beresheet 25:27). The lamb is to the right and a he-goat is to the left, namely, “and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. There is a he-goat and there is a he-goat,one he-goat for Hashem and one he-goat for Azazel, as written: “And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for Hashem and the other lot for Azazel” (Vayikra 16:8). It was concerning this he-goat (Heb. seir) that it says of Esav, that he is “a hairy (Heb. sair) man” (Beresheet 27:11). This is THE ASPECT OF the liver (Heb. kaved lit. ‘heavy’), which receives AND ABSORBS all the yeast in the blood, WHICH ARE boils, smallpox, skin sores and all kinds of leprosy. Hence, it is written: “And the goat shall bear upon itself all their sins (Heb. avonotam) to a barren land” (Vayikra 16:22). Avonot-tam, the sins of the perfect, that is, the heart, It then stops being a part of the heart, which is then perfumed, and is made heavy with those sins and is not light enough to rise to Jacob, the perfect man. The sages of the Mishnah and the heads of the Yeshivah, who came down with the Tannaim and the Amoraim, rejoiced.
דף חמישים ואחת
Here from Matthew 25
The Sheep and the Goats
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
Here is parashah Shmini
Shmini: Verse 2
וּבְאוֹרַיְיתָא אִתְבְּרֵי ב”נ, הה”ד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם. אָמַר קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא לְאוֹרַיְיתָא, בָּעֵינָא לְמִבְרֵי אָדָם. אָמְרָה קַמֵּיהּ, הַאי ב”נ זַמִּין לְמֶחֱטֵי וּלְאַרְגְזָא קַמָּךְ, אִי לָא תַּאֲרִיךְ רוּגְזָךְ עָלֵיהּ, הֵיךְ יְקוּם בְּעָלְמָא. אָמַר לָהּ, אֲנָא וְאַתְּ נוֹקִים לֵיהּ בְּעָלְמָא, דְּהָא לָאו לְמַגָּנָא אִתְקָרֵינָא אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם.
And man was created by the Torah, as it is written: “And Elohim said: ‘Let us make man’” (Beresheet 1:26). The Holy One, blessed be He, said to the Torah: ‘I wish to create man.’ She replied: ‘This man is destined to sin and provoke You. Unless You are long-suffering with him, how then shall he endure? And He replied to her: you and I shall maintain him in the world, for I am not called ‘long-suffering’ for no reason.
What is the Torah ,it is the word or literally it is instruction or teaching from the word yarah meaning shooting.The Torah was the first Judeo-Christian Holy book before the whole Bible was completed.
Here is John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Yeshua/Jesus was the word made flesh and through him all things were created.
This might be a good time to talk about the Torah and what it is.
It is not the full Old Testament ,that is the Tanakh an acronym for Torah (teachings) Nevi’im (prophets) Ketuvim (writings).
The Torah is the first five books of the Bible also known as the five books of Moses or the Pentateuch or the chumash (meaning five of five in Hebrew) and has the books of:
Genesis-B’reishit בראשית
Exodus-Sh’mot שמות
Leviticus-Vayikra ויקרא
Numbers-Bamidbar במדבר
Deuteronomy-Devarim דברים
Both Genesis and B’reishit mean in the beginning ,Sh’mot means names and Vayikra means and he called and bamidbar means in the desert or wilderness.Deuteronomy means second law and Devarim means words so the Greek and Hebrew only coincide on Genesis for whatever reason.
So before I give a true believers explanation on the writing of the Bible’s oldest section let me give you what mainstream history says just for context.
דף חמישים ושתיים
Did Moses take the whole Torah on Mt Sinai or was it written in the Davidic era by several authors.I think most people have heard of the J,E,P,D test theory with the oldest thread being likely a female from the court of Somomon/Shlomo which would dates to the 10th century(900’s) BCE.This is the J text which stands for the text using JHVH or YHVH as the name for God.
The E or Elohist text which dates to an unknown author in the 9th century(800’s) BCE.For the single use of Elohim for God.
The P or priestly text which is believed to have been written by Levitical priests in Judah before and maybe just after the Babylonian exile ,so we are looking at late 7th early 6th century BCE.
D text is for Deuteronomy(Devarim) ,Deuteronomy means second law or said again and the Hebrew Devarim means words or matters/issues.The D text is believed to be the books of Deuteronomy,Joshua,Judges and maybe Kings.Some believe the lost scroll found by King Josiah was Deuteronomy.
This is the belief by most modern secular scholars have that the Torah had 5 basic threads that were woven together by scribes that created a Torah in the fourth century in the era of Ezra.Those of faith do not dispute that Ezra was the first to call the 5 most important scrolls “Torah” meaning teachings and make them 5 parts of one book.Those who truly believe the Bible does go back to Moses believe the 5 scrolls existed as 5 different books going back to about 1450-1350 BCE.But all accept that it was Ezra who took the ancient 5 scrolls and called them one book called Torah or Chumash (Greek,Pentateuch) Chumash mean of 5 or 5 of (5 books)
The difference is that secular scholars believe it took from the 10th century BCE to the era of Ezra for the Torah to evolve,whereas I believe the Pentateuch existed since Moses but Ezra simply organized it.
What is the J text,it’s a thread that people feel was part of scribes weaving the books of the early Torah and is called J for the use of the Holiest name for God(YHVH)to refer to God in certain parts of the early Bible
People I know who are super shrewed in human language grammar can tell or feel a scribal change in the Hebrew text(I’m not that clever with semantics LOL)has happened.Many people feel J was a woman not just by a more feminine tone in grammar but in the female hero stories like Rivkah,Leah or Sarah for instance.A theory is that the J was written in the court of Solomon ,maybe a concubine or something.I don’t doubt female scribes may have copied the Bible and before the printing press at times slight tweeks may have been made in texts and also don’t feel that scribal error rules out divine inspiration,scribal error may have been part of divine inspiration.God may have used scribal tweeks and scribal error over time as a means to improve the Bible.So yes changes in text maybe improved the hard copy source Moses first took in stone in 1350 BCE.Remember the J text is not a physical scroll but a theory of a written thread that wove scrolls over time.The J text is hypothetical not actual.
דף חמישים ושלוש
So what do I think? I think Moses or Moshe had contact with God on Mt Sinai and took a simply for of the Torah likely from mid Exodus (Sh’mot) through Numbers(Bamidbar).So why did Moses likely not take Genesis or Deuteronomy on Sinai.He most likely did not take Genesis because there was no reason to.Genesis had early history accounts everyone knew ,no one knew the Ten Commandments or Priestly codes until God told it to them but from creation through the flood and Abraham every already knew.And also early Exodus would have been known because Israel experienced it all so why would God need to tell them that.Moses was dying as Deuteronomy unfolded and I would guess with scribal help Joshua wrote most of Deuteronomy most likely.Also much of Deuteronomy repeats much of the rest of the Torah so why would God need to say it twice which is what Deuteronomy means “second law” in Greek.And the Hebrew Devarim is plural for words so maybe “said twice”.
So the oldest Torah was written by Moses and Joshua in Proto-Sinaitic script a primitive Semitic Alpha bet and the Mt Ebal curse tablets found by Dr Stripling prove that.Then this is where the J,E,P,D theory may have some validity ok.Being that in those days language is simple and as you read the Tanakh or Old Testament in Hebrew as the books progress the grammar gets more complex.For instance Psalms are grammatically light years ahead of Exodus and Isaiah is even more complex in grammar than Psalms ,so you get the idea.If you recall the story of the Ethiopian Eunach in Acts chapter 8,he was having trouble understanding it.Those who do not know Hebrew would think it was the theology he was not understanding but those who know Hebrew would think it was the language itself he did not understand.I have read Isaiah/Yeshayahu in Hebrew and it is by far the most difficult book in the Hebrew Bible ,it is brutal,trust me! I do believe over time scribes did improve on the grammar and make a touch up here and a touch up there.And that could explain the The “JEDP theory,” also known as the Documentary Hypothesis.However they did not write the Torah ,Moses did on Sinai but they improved the Grammar and modernized the language because likely Moses-Joshua Hebrew would have been hard to understand to those in later times.
Here is sort of a Hebrew timeline
1500-1000 Pre Biblical Hebrew (Proto Sinaitic script)
1000-530 BCE Early Biblical Hebrew (Phoenician script or also called Paleo Hebrew script)
530-300 BCE Late Biblical Hebrew (Phoenician script)
300 BCE-1 CE A transition time this is when the Dead Sea scrolls were written and the transition from the Phoencian script to the modern square script used today as found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
1 CE to 500 CE Mishnaic Hebrew (The language of the Mishnah)
500-1947 Medieval or late Rabbinical Hebrew
1948 Modern Hebrew
So although the Torah existed in scrolls from ancient times it was in the time of Ezra when the Torah was five full scrolls and called the Torah and the Chumash in about 400 or so BCE.The rest of Tanakh or the Old Testament existed also in scrolls but was not formally organized until about 100 CE Which is confirmed by the late Biblical scholar Michael S. Heiser.Containing book’s consistent with the Protestant Old Testament.
דף חמישים וארבע
Now into parashah Tazria chapter 9 verse 37
Tazria: Verse 37
אִשָּׁה כִּי תַזְרִיעַ וְיָלְדָה זָכָר וְגוֹ.’ ר’ יְהוּדָה פָּתַח, אֵין קָדוֹשׁ כַּיְיָ’ כִּי אֵין בִּלְתֶּךָ וְאֵין צוּר כֵּאלֹהֵינוּ, הַאי קְרָא קַשְׁיָא, אֵין קָדוֹשׁ כַּיְיָ,’ מַשְׁמַע דְּאִיכָּא קָדוֹשׁ אָחֳרָא, בְּגִין דִּכְתִּיב כַּיְיָ,’ וְאֵין צוּר כֵּאלֹהֵינוּ, מַשְׁמַע דְּאִיכָּא צוּר אָחֳרָא.
“If a woman has conceived seed, and gave birth to a male child” (Vayikra 12:2). Rabbi Yehuda opened with, “There is none holy as Hashem. For there is none beside You. Neither is there a rock like our Elohim” (I Shmuel 2:2). This is a difficult verse. There is none holy as Hashem” it would mean there is something else holy , as it says, “as Hashem.” “Neither is there a rock like our Elohim” means there is another rock .
This again is alluding a second power in heaven (the Messiah before incarnation) and also notice the term “the rock” here also and see:
1 Corinthians 10:4
4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
So not only alluding to the Trinity but a name Jesus would be known by (the rock)!
So now to a modern controversy Isaiah 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
A lot of people with some Hebrew education who are not big fans of Jesus are taking issue with this as a prediction of the virgin birth.Why you ask ? Let us look here at the Hebrew text in Isaiah 7:14 and what it says.
לָ֠כֵן יִתֵּ֨ן אֲדֹנָ֥י ה֛וּא לָכֶ֖ם א֑וֹת הִנֵּ֣ה הָֽעַלְמָ֗ה הָרָה֙ וְיֹלֶ֣דֶת בֵּ֔ן וְקָרָ֥את שְׁמ֖וֹ עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל
Thus,The Lord himself will give you a sign,behold a virgin/young woman is pregnant with a male child and his name is called God is with us (Emanuel)
So whats the problem ,well people point out that the word here used to indicate virgin actually means young woman.The word used is Almah עַלְמָ֗ה which means a young woman or maiden.The Hebrew word for a female virgin is betulah בתולה which comes from the word betulin meaning hymen in a women בתולים.So people say this cannot mean virgin at all but simply a young woman virgin or not.So what does the Zohar say about this?
Here is Acharei Mot chapter 6 verse 47
Acharei Mot: Verse 47
וּכְדֵין אִתְרַק מִשְׁחָא מִדַּרְגָּא לְדַרְגָּא, בְּאִינּוּן דַּרְגִּין דְּאִקְרוּן שְׁמָא קַדִּישָׁא, הה”ד, שֶׁמֶן תּוּרַק שְׁמֶךָ עַל כֵּן עֲלָמוֹת אֲהֵבוּךָ. מַאי עֲלָמוֹת. כְּמָה דְּאוֹקִימְנָא עוֹלָמוֹת, עוֹלָמוֹת מַמָּשׁ, ד”א עַל כֵּן עֲלָמוֹת אֲהֵבוּךָ. כד”א, עַל עֲלָמוֹת שִׁיר. וְכֺלָּא חַד.
The oil was then poured from level to level among the levels that are called the Holy Name, and the verse then reads, “For your flowing oil you are renowned: therefore do the virgins love you” (Ibid.). What is meant by “virgins” (Heb. alamot)? It is worlds (Heb. olamot), as we mentioned, actual worlds. Another explanation for alamot is as it is written, “A song to Alamot” (Tehilim 46:1), . It all comes to the same thing.
Here we have Hebrew and Aramaic speaking Rabbi’s refering to a virgin or in this case plural “virgins” as alamot which is plural of almah “עֲלָמוֹת” the plural of this word עַלְמָ֗ה.
So although it is true betulah is a more common word for virgin but almah can mean virgin also.If you hear this argument about Isaiah 7:14 being not about the virgin birth don’t buy into it ! This has been a major Biblical controversy because in Isaiah 7:14 has traditionally predicted the virgin birth of Jesus.Skeptics argue that the word for virgin is not actually used in this text below of Isaiah 7:14.
לָ֠כֵן יִתֵּ֨ן אֲדֹנָ֥י ה֛וּא לָכֶ֖ם א֑וֹת הִנֵּ֣ה הָֽעַלְמָ֗ה הָרָה֙ וְיֹלֶ֣דֶת בֵּ֔ן וְקָרָ֥את שְׁמ֖וֹ עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל
Thus,the Lord he shall give you a sign,behold,the young woman (or the virgin) is with a child and will bear a son and his name shall be called Imanu-El (more common written in English, Emanuel)
The discrepancy here is that the word used is almah עַלְמָ֗ה most common as meaning young woman and the common word for virgin is betulah which is a word related to a Hebrew word for the hymen in female anatomy.It is true that the word betulah is more common as a word meaning virgin.And people argue the use of the word almah disproves a reference to the virgin birth.Here we have definitive proof that in some context Hebrew speakers would use the word almah to mean virgin.In more slangy cases almah has meant prostitute but there is no context here for that ,Hebrew words are very broad and abstract.You hear this often argued online as a counter apologetic but do not be fooled by this and into believing that the use of the word almah excludes a reference to the virgin birth.
דף חמישים וחמש
Here in Acharei Mot chapter 41 verse 244
Acharei Mot: Verse 244
וְעַד לָא בָּרָא קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא עָלְמָא, בָּרָא תְּשׁוּבָה, אָמַר לָהּ לִתְשׁוּבָה, אֲנָא בָּעֵינָא לְמִבְרֵי בַּר נָשׁ בְּעָלְמָא, עַל מְנָת דְּכַד יְתוּבוּן לָךְ מֵחוֹבֵיהוֹן, דְּתֶהֱוֵי זְמִינָא לְמִשְׁבַּק חוֹבֵיהוֹן, וּלְכַפְּרָא עָלַיְיהוּ. וּבְכָל שַׁעֲתָא וְשַׁעֲתָא תְּשׁוּבָה זְמִינָא לְגַבֵּי בְּנֵי נָשָׁא, וְכַד בְּנֵי נָשָׁא תַּיְיבִין מֵחוֹבַיְיהוּ, הַאי תְּשׁוּבָה תָּבַת לְגַבֵּי קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא, וְכִפֵּר עַל כֺּלָּא, וְדִינִין אִתְכַּפְיָין, וּמִתְבַּסְּמָן כֻּלְּהוּ, וּבַר נָשׁ אִתְדָּכֵי מֵחוֹבֵיהּ.
Before He created the world, He created repentance. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to repentance. ‘I wish to create man in the world on the condition if they turn to you from their sins, you will be ready to forgive their sins and render atonement.’ At every hour, repentance is available for mankind. When mankind repents from their iniquities, this repentance returns to the Holy One, blessed be He,and atones for all. The Judgments are all subdued and mitigated, and man is purified of his sins.
Here is states that teshuvah or repentance was created before the world. I found this compelling because it says repentance was there before the world.
Here is Ephesians 1:4
4 “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love”
This show that Rabbinical thinking was that the forgiven (those who would repent) were known before the creation of the world.Remember the aim of this book is not to make the Zohar scripture but to show where the Jewish mystical minds were at then and that even if they did not know it they supported Jesus.
Let us now talk about Seth or Sheit שת which means appointed.
Here is Acharei Mot chapter 61 verse 369
Acharei Mot: Verse 369
תָּאנָא, בָּתַר דְּאִסְתָּלָקוּ קַיִן וְהֶבֶל, אִתְהַדָּר אָדָם לְאִנְתְּתֵיהּ, וְאִתְלָבָּשׁ בְּרוּחָא אָחֳרָא, וְאוֹלִיד לְשֵׁת. מִכָּאן אִתְיַיחֲסוּ דָּרֵי דְּצַדִּיקַיָּיא בְּעָלְמָא. וְאַסְגֵּי קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא חֶסֶד בְּעָלְמָא, וּבְכָל חַד אִתְיְילִידַת נוּקְבָּא עִמֵּיהּ, לְאִתְיַישְּׁבָא עָלְמָא. כְּגַוְונָא דִּלְעֵילָּא. וְהָא אוּקְמוּהָ חַבְרַיָּיא בִּסְתִּימָאָה דְּמַתְנִיתִין, דִּכְתִּיב וְאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִקַּח אֶת אֲחוֹתוֹ בַּת אָבִיו אוֹ בַת אִמּוֹ וְגוֹ,’ חֶסֶד הוּא. חֶסֶד הוּא וַדַּאי, וּבָתַר דְּשָׁארִי חֶסֶד, גִּזְעִין וְשָׁרָשִׁין נָפְקִין מִתְּחוֹת לְעֵילָּא, וְאִתְפָּרְשָׁן עַנְפִּין, וְקָרִיב אִתְרְחַק. כְּדֵין עַנְפָּא אַסְגֵּי, וְאָתֵי לְאִתְחַבְּרָא בְּזִוּוּגָא חַד בְּאִילָנָא. הַאי בְּקַדְמֵיתָא, הַאי בִּסְתִּימָא דְּעָלְמָא. בְּגִין דִּכְתִּיב אָמַרְתִּי עוֹלָם חֶסֶד יִבָּנֶה. אֲבָל מִכָּאן וּלְהָלְאָה בְּנֵי נָשָׁא דְּיִשְׁתַּכְחוּן בֵּיהּ, וְנִכְרְתוּ לְעֵינֵי בְּנֵי עַמָּם.
We have learned that after the passing of Cain and Abel, Adam returned to his wife. A different spirit enveloped him and he begot Seth. From this lineage, the righteous trace their line in the world. The Holy One, blessed be He, increased Chesed in the world, and with each was also born a female to populate the world, just as above. The friends have established in the general Mishnah that it is written , “And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness… It is a disgraceful (Heb. chesed, it is confusing but the word chesed can mean disgraceful or kindness) deed” (Vayikra 20:17). Assuredly it is Chesed, for after Chesed rests, offspring and roots come out underneath upwards, and branches spread. What was near moved away. Then the branches grew, and came to join into one in a tree. This was in the beginning, in the concealed state of the world. It is written, “For I have said, the world is built by love (chesed)” (Tehilim 89:3). from now on, people in this situation “shall be cut off in the sight of their people” (Vayikra 20:17).
דף חמישים ושש
I do think there was DNA from both Seth And Cain post flood and Seth may also have been worshiped because he was an Egyptian god also known as Seti or Sheit ,he was a god of anger and war. And also remember Genesis 6 says that there were giants on those days and afterwards.So this also indicates that Nephilim DNA survived the flood also.However I do not see evidence for nations or races before Babel.
I also do not believe Seth was righteous ,yes Cain had been more wicked but that does not make Seth righteous or why did the ancient Egyptians see him as a god of war then? Seth’s line was also cursed for he begot Enosh who’s name meant “wounded” or “fatal”. And although it says that in the days of Enosh they begain to call on the name of the Lord but other people suggest it meant they started profaning the name of the lord. This is based on a possible scribal error in Genesis 4:26 although this theory is not proven. But regardless from Enosh we still know the Sethian line was cursed as well and the idea the Children of God in Genesis 6 were noble or kingly humans was wrong but the Children of God were demonic angels!
So was Seth worshipped the the Egyptians as a God ,one thing that almost every Biblical scholar believes is that important pre flood characters became post diluvian Gods.Like the Book of the Giants found among the Dead Sea Scrolls says that the famous Sumerian King Gilgamesh was actually a giant killed in Noah’s flood.
Set, also known as Seth and Suetekh, was the Egyptian god of war, chaos, and storms, brother of Osiris, Isis, and Horus the Elder, uncle to Horus the Younger, and brother-husband to Nephthys. His other consort was the goddess Tawaret, a hippo-headed deity who presided over fertility and childbirth.
He is one of the first five gods created by the union of Geb (earth) and Nut (sky) after the creation of the world. His name is usually translated as “instigator of confusion” and “destroyer” and he was associated with disorder, foreign lands and people, and the color red.
Here is a list of Egyptian Pharoah’s names Seth:
Seth-Peribsen 2700 BCE ,maybe a pre flood king
Meribre Seth about 1750 BCE – Seti I Merneptah about 1290
Seti Merneptah 1200.
This shows again the accuracy of the Bible and the influence Seth would have on generations to come proving Biblical history right.This is not uncommon from Gilgamesh to Achilies to Zeus many pagan gods after the flood where either giants from the mating of angels and human women or people of great prominence like Seth.
דף חמישים ושבע
Here is more on the Anti-Diluvian Adamic period
This will be about simply Adam to before Noah ,things after Noah have been thoroughly covered in Babel and the flood blogs.
Adam ,the first human creation of God and his name means “Of the red soil” ,Adam comes from adamah meaning soil/clay/dirt from the word “adom” meaning red because the soil was red ,so Adam means from the red soil.He lived 930 years in total.
Chavah חוה better known as Eve ,in modern Hebrew chavah means a farm,cattle ranch in particular “חווה farming would be more likely written with two vav letters.
The name Chavah/Eve comes from the word Chai meaning “to live” so Chavah/Eve really means “experience” ,so Eve means experience.
Hevel/Abel means vain,lost or wasted ,not likely his true name but given later by scribes for his tragic death.
Kayin/Cain meaning Acquired from the word Kanah meaning to buy,procure or acquire.Eve said “with the help of the Lord I have acquired a son” and we all know the story so we won’t go there.
Sheit/Seth meant appointed or granted
He may have settled Egypt and North Africa in pre flood times because Seth/Set/Seti was a ancient Egyptian god of war and many many Pharaoh’s took the name Set or names rooted in Set.Also ancient Egyptians called what is modern day Libya “Set”
I believe Sheit/Seth/Seti settled in North Africa in pre flood times and like many killed in the flood was later revered as a god.
Enosh (often mispronounced as Ee-nash but is actually supposed to short E like pet and O like boat) means mortal,fatal,wounded but in modern Hebrew is a word for man and likely the root for Ish meaning man and Ishah meaning woman.
It is likely that from the sins of those before him he was the worlds first child born sick or diseased or disabled and was more frail than anyone before him.Remember that Exodus 20 ,”the sins of the father remembered on the third and fourth generations” and Enosh is third from Adam who sinned first.
Keinan קֵינָֽן: sometimes Kenen ,meaning really unknown may have been related to Cain (Acquired) or may have meant fixed.
Mahale’el meaning God praised or praise of God.
Yered/Jared/Yarid in the Quran meaning to descend ,go down or go forth ,likely a traveler and wanderer.
Chanokh/Enoch חֲנֽוֹךְ meaning to teach and was the first truly righteous man to live and follow God.Lived 365 years and was taken to paradise without ever dying.4 books of Enoch/Chanokh were written by Ethiopian Jews in the Ge’ez language and they are much studied but are only official scripture in the “Ethiopian orthodox Christian Bible” And there were two Enoch’s also another from Cain’s line.
Metushelach/Methuselah meaning death will send or in others death by sword or javelin ,the longest living person in the Bible 969 years total.Some have suggested his life was so cursed he begged for death ,hence send death or death will send.
Lemekh son of Metushelach and there is also another by that name.The name seems mean “to become impoverished” rooted in the word makh meaning low ,so Lemekh means sort to become low or poor.
Noach from the word Nach (rest) so Noah/Noach meant rested.
That ends the line of Adam and we will talk about Cain/Kayin next.
So Cain had a son Enoch/Chanokh but no relation to the Sethian Enoch
Irad ,the meaning likely from” ir” meaning city ,think about the Hebrew word for city “ir” עיר and the earliest cities like Ur,Uruk(Erekh) and Eridu .After Cain’s descendent’s could not farm Irad started the first city ,most likely Eridu because Ur and Erekh were post flood but Eridu was pre flood.
M’chu’ya’el (Mehuyael) hard to pronounce ,meaning is tricky may have meant “God made interesting” the Cain line was cursed but gave gave this guy a little mercy.
M’tusha’el (Methushael) little known on him may have meant champion of God
Lemekh but not the same as the Sethian Lemekh but will will delve into his offspring next.
Adah meaning wittness Lemekh’s first wife gave birth to Yaval/Jabal meaning stream or flowing.He was said to live in tents and provide livestock as food.She also bore Yuval/Jubal possibly meaning Ram’s horn and is the father of all musicians.
Tzilah (Zillah) meaning shade or protection and she had a son named Tuval Kayin(Tubal Cain) who was the first to fashion metal tools ,and a daughter named Na’amah which meant delightful or pleasant.
Of coarse Lemekh was cursed for using tools or knives to wound and kill someone.
So who was Cain’s wife ,did he sleep with a sister or were there other humans around as some suggest.As far as humanoids not mentioned in Genesis who were not the spawn of Adam like Neandertal’s or something.For that answer we don’t know,maybe but no evidence of that really.No extra Biblical texts mention it like the books of Enoch,Talmud,Zohar or Alpha bet of Ben Sirach.Nothing gives any evidence of humanoid species unless you are talking about the spawn of the benei Elohim who mated with human women but in this part of the book is not dealing with that era.
The Quran says Cain married a twin sister named Aklima.The book of Jubilees another like Enoch, a Ge’ez language Ethiopic text says Cain had a sister named Avan who he married.Avan interestingly in Hebrew means sin/inequity.As far as Aklima ,in the Islamic tradition both Abel and Cain wanted to marry Aklima and the murder of Abel was over Aklima essentially although it’s more complex than that but that’s the gist of it.
דף חמישים ושמונה
Some believe there was a Old World age or Pre-Adamic era ,meaning God created a world before Adam but had previously destroyed it.
Has anyone heard the claim of a world before Adam or the pre Adamite world theory.So a Jurassic world era where dinosaurs lived and angels lived in the earth with the dinosaurs.But then the war heaven as per Revelation 12:7 happened at that point and so the Jurassic world was destroyed in a pre flood flood.Then the the earth became void and choatic as per Genesis 1:1-2 and creation began anew.
I would site the scripture these people use to base their theory on but I can’t do that because there is absolutely no scripture to base any pre Adamite world on.One person said that because in a King James translation it said in Gen 1:28 to replenish the earth and it does say that.So they said by the use of replenish that it means a world was previously destroyed.Meaning the world was once full and was destroyed in the pre Adamite flood.
Genesis 1:28 KJV
28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” KJV
Here is the ESV (English standard version)
28 “And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
The ESV does not say replenish nor does even the use of the word replenish imply a pre existing world either.
Lets talk Hebrew:
וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹתָם֘ אֱלֹהִים֒ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר לָהֶ֜ם אֱלֹהִ֗ים פְּר֥וּ
רְב֛וּ וּמִלְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְכִבְשֻׁ֑הָ וּרְד֞וּ בִּדְגַ֤ת הַיָּם֙
וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּבְכָל־חַיָּ֖ה הָֽרֹמֶ֥שֶׂת עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ
“And God blessed them and God said to them: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and go and rule over the fish of the sea’s and the birds of the sky and all living things that creep upon the earth”
That is the original text there is nothing about replenishing at all,it says to fill the earth which does not prove that a previously destroyed earth ever existed.I respect the King James but language was different in 17th century England and a lot of words in the that era do not have the same meanings as today.Example “thou shalt not kill” and people say it should say murder and not kill.One because they think it’s hypocritical because of all the death in the Bible and also the Hebrew text and the Hebrew text said “Tirtzach” meaning to murder not kill, which kill is harag.In 17th century England the word kill meant premeditated murder ,kill meant murder ,the term kill did not mean any type of taking life animal or human justified or not.In that time the word “kill” meant murder with intent.In those times in England an accidental death was not even a crime but a civil offense.Also no other English translation yields replenish in that injunction and I checked several.Can we agree that using Gen 1:28 to assert that there was a pre Adamite world is wrong and total nonsense.
So the same guy calls upon Yechezkel/Ezekiel 28:13-15 and says the Garden of Eden in Ezekiel 28 is about a pre Adamite paradise and not the Garden of Eden in Genesis.I’m not bothering to quote Ezekiel 28:13-15 because it’s just to rediculous,read Ezekiel 28 if you and see if you like and if you think it’s talking about a pre Adamite Eden and not the Genesis Eden.I’m 100% certain that Ezekiel 28 is about the Genesis Eden ok.
Also the same person says that the lost city of Atlantis was from a pre Adamite era.I will admitt it’s been a while since read my Greek stuff so I may be rusty. However as far as I remember Atlantis was never meant to have been in Plato’s writings a historical city.Atlantis was a metaphor it was a example of how a city rose by it’s virtue but then was lost because people became corrupt.I could be wrong but I don’t think Atlantis was meant to be real but a lesson like C.S Lewis and Narnia.I don’t believe Plato thought Atlantis was real himself but used it as a example.
There is also a notion that that a old earth age world view explains why science dates the universe as so old and arguing and old earth era makes the Bible more hip.This is not true ,there are many ways to explain why science doesn’t disprove the Bible and I have talked about those things in my blog on the big bang. For instance that If that nature of the forces of nature at earlier points in creation were different then the way the react to matter is different.So if in todays world if it takes 20,000 years for the elements to say wear down a mountain from 10K feet to 5K feet.If at a different time the forces of nature were more intense then that could happen faster.Also the speed of light changes and is now actually slowing down and time is related to speed and the speed of light especially.So if the nature of time was different in a different era then that also throws of scientific calculations of the earths age.You do not need to believe in a fantasy JRR Tolkien Dungeons and Dragons nonsense land to explain the earths age in a Biblical context.
You would think if something so dramatic as a old earth pre Adamite world existed and then was destroyed that scripture would at least deal with it.There is no mention of it anywhere in Tanakh nor the New Testament nor any of the Catholic Appocrypha texts.And nor is it mentioned In Enoch or any other Ethiopic text nor in Rabbinical literature like the Talmud and all that.So I think that this is all nonsense and Gandor and Bilbo Baggins were fantasy afterall.
דף חמישים ותשע
Here we are on parashah Emor chapter 29 verse 162
Emor: Verse 162
רִבִּי אַבָּא וְרִבִּי חִיָּיא הֲווֹ אָזְלֵי בְּאוֹרְחָא, אָמַר ר’ חִיָּיא, כְּתִיב, וּסְפַרְתֶּם לָכֶם מִמָּחֳרָת הַשַּׁבָּת מִיּוֹם הֲבִיאֲכֶם אֶת עֹמֶר הַתְּנוּפָה. מַאי קָא מַיְירֵי. אָ”ל, הָא אוּקְמוּהָ חַבְרַיָּיא. אֲבָל ת”ח, יִשְׂרָאֵל כַּד הֲווֹ בְּמִצְרַיִם, הֲווֹ בִּרְשׁוּתָא אָחֳרָא, וַהֲווֹ אֲחִידָן בִּמְסָאֲבוּתָא, כְּאִתְּתָא דָּא, כַּד הִיא יָתְבָא בְּיוֹמֵי דִּמְסָאֲבוּתָא. בָּתַר דְּאִתְגְּזָרוּ, עָאלוּ בְּחוּלָקָא קַדִּישָׁא, דְּאִקְרֵי בְּרִית. כֵּיוָן דְּאִתְאֲחָדוּ בֵּיהּ, פְּסַק מְסַאֲבוּתָא מִנַּיְיהוּ, כְּדָּא אִתְּתָא כַּד פַּסְקוּ מִנָּהּ דְּמֵי מְסַאֲבוּתָא. בָּתַר דְּאִתְפְּסָקוּ מִנָּהּ, מַה כְּתִיב. וְסָפְרָה לָּהּ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים. אוּף הָכָא, כֵּיוָן דְּעָאלוּ בְּחוּלָקָא קַדִּישָׁא, פָּסְקָא מְסָאֲבוּ מִנַּיְיהוּ, וְאָמַר קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא, מִכָּאן וּלְהָלְאָה חוּשְׁבָּנָא לְדַכְיוּתָא.
Rabbi Aba and Rabbi Chiya were walking along the way. Rabbi Chiya said, It is written, “And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day that you brought the Omer of the wave offering” (Vayikra 23:15). What does this mean? He said to him, Come and see. When Yisrael were in Egypt, they were under another power, and were attached to impurity as a woman sitting in her days of uncleanness. After they were circumcised, they entered the holy portion called covenant. Once they were attached to her, impurity stopped from among them, as a woman whose blood of uncleanness stopped from her. After stopped in her, it is written, “then she shall number to herself seven days” (Vayikra 15:28). Here too, once they came in the holy portion, their impurity stopped and the Holy One, blessed be He, said, ‘From now on it is a reckoning for purity.’
This is talking about counting the omer עמר a Jewish tradition of counting the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.In the rabbinic chronology, the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai happened on Shavuot. Thus, the omer period is one of preparation and anticipation for the giving of the Torah.If you are curious omer is a measurement for grain in the Bible.So what is the significance of this in a Christian world view.The counting of the omer is from Passover to Shavuot and Jesus died on Passover eve.Now Shavuot (called Pentecost by most Christians) was the holiday in the book of Acts where the Holy spirit returned after the death of Jesus.
Acts 2
The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost (Pentecost is Shavuot)
2 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
The Faithful Shepherd introduces the explanation of the Biblical New Year Rosh Hashanah רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה also known as Yom Truah יוֹם תְּרוּעָה in the Bible.
Emor: Chapter 33 Verse 206
(רעיא מהימנא) בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ וְגוֹ.’ פִּקּוּדָא דָּא, לִתְקוֹעַ שׁוֹפָר בְּרֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, דְּהוּא יוֹמָא דְּדִינָא לְעָלְמָא, כְּמָה דְּאוֹקִימְנָא. וְהָא אוּקְמוּהָ דִּכְתִּיב, תִּקְעוּ בַחֹדֶשׁ שׁוֹפָר בַּכֶּסֶה לְיוֹם חַגֵּנוּ. וְהָא אִתְּמַר. דְּהַאי אִיהוּ יוֹמָא דְּסִיהֲרָא אִתְכַּסֵּי בֵּיהּ, וְקָאֵים עָלְמָא בִּידָנָא בְּגִין, דְּהַהוּא מְקַטְרְגָא, חָפֵי וְכַסֵּי וְאַנְעָל פִּתְחָא עַל מַלְכָּא, אֲתַר דְּדִינָא שַׁרְיָא, לְמִתְבַּע דִּינָא עַל עָלְמָא.
Ra’aya Meheimna (the Faithful Shepherd). “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month” (Vayikra 23:24). This commandment is to blow the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah, which is Judgment day to the world as we explained. We explained the words, “Blow a Shofar at the new moon, at the full moon (or: ‘covering’) on our feast day” (Tehilim 81:4). We learned that this day is a day when the moon, MALCHUT, is covered and the world is under Judgment. For the prosecutor covers and hides and locks the entrance to the King, WHO IS ZEIR ANPIN, AND THE MOON IS a place where Judgment abides to demand justice from the world.
In Jewish oral tradition The Satan brings your sins against you on the Day of Rosh Hashanah or Yom Truah (day of the shofar blowing) and if you repent on Yom Kipur which is 9 days later your sins are excused in the court of heaven.Of course we even if that lore was true before Mashiach came when Mashiach died and rose from the dead all our sins past,present and future are all forgiven.And it is also believed by many the dead will rise on this day as well.
Rosh Hashanah is important for another reason ,the birth of the Mashiach (Messiah/Christ) .The late Biblical scholar Dr Michael S. Heiser proposed based on things in Revelation 12 which I cannot explain myself or fully understand.That Jesus ,Yeshua was born on Rosh Hashanah on (Roman year) Tuesday September 11th 3 BCE based on Revelation 12 (look up Michael Heiser online to find the video explaining all this).
דף שישים
Here we are in Bechukotai chapter 8 verse 30
Bechukotai: Verse 30
וְנָתַתִּי מִשְׁכָּנִי בְּתוֹכְכֶם וְגוֹ.’ וְנָתַתִּי מִשְׁכָּנִי, דָּא שְׁכִינְתָּא. מִשְׁכָּנִי: מַשְׁכּוֹנָא דִּילִי. דְּהִיא אִתְמַשְׁכְּנָא בְּחוֹבַיְיהוּ דְּיִשְׂרָאֵל. וְנָתַתִּי מִשְׁכָּנִי, מַשְׁכּוֹנִי וַדַּאי. מְתַל לב”נ דַּהֲוָה רְחִימָא לְאָחֳרָא, אָ”ל וַדַּאי בִּרְחִימוּתָא עִלָּאָה דְּאִית לִי גַּבָּךְ, בָּעֵינָא לְדַיְּירָא עִמָּךְ. אָמַר הֵיךְ אֶנְדַּע דְּתֵידוּר גַּבַּאי, נָטַל כָּל כִּסּוּפָא דְּבֵיתֵיהּ, וְאַיְיתֵי לְגַבֵּיהּ, אָמַר הָא מַשְׁכּוֹנָא לְגַבָּךְ, דְּלָא אִתְפְּרַשׁ מִנָךְ לְעָלְמִין.
“And I will set My Tabernacle among you” (Vayikra 26:11). The Tabernacle is the Shechinah. “My Tabernacle,” means My pledge, as THE SHECHINAH was pledged because of the sins of Yisrael AND WENT INTO EXILE WITH THEM. “And I will set My Tabernacle,” My pledge, surely. This is like the fable about a man who loved his neighbor. He said to him: ‘I have the highest regard for you and wish to dwell with you.’ HIS FRIEND said: ‘How can I be sure you shall live with me?’ He took all the delightful objects of his house and brought them to him. He said: ‘Here is my pledge that I will never part from you.’
This here it is again talking about Acts 2 and the Holy Spirit (Sh’khinah) and making your body his Tabernacle.Which is what Sh’khinah means to indwell from the word shakhan meaning to dwell.And the Hebrew word for Tabernacle is mishkhan also a related word.The Sh’khinah is not so much the Holy Spirit but the Holy Spirit when indwelling the saved believer or in other words the concept of the Holy Spirit indwelling a person.
Truth in Mikra 
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