Spirit not Mechanics

'Learning' Hebrew is not like learning any other language and it's NOT memorization. It's truly immersing your spirit in this heavenly language - awakening the Holy language within your spirit. So it is spirit not mechanics.

Gen 1:1-3 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, 'Let there be Light' and there was Light."

Hebrew is the language Adonai spoke when He created the heavens and the earth…powerfully displaying the creative power of the Word. Hebrew is the language He spoke to Adam – who partnered in naming animals, spoke to Eve (Chavah, referred to as mother of all living, lifegiver), Noah and others in those generations… unlike any other ‘religion’ the Torah alone shows that every Jewish man, woman, and child alive in 1312 B.C.E. — about three million people, according to the Torah — heard God speak at Mount Sinai and survived to teach their descendants about the event. As Yeshua is the Word (Torah) made flesh...we are becoming the same and so immersing in Torah, in Hebrew, is the L-rd transforming our physical flesh into Torah flesh.

A great site to glean from: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/

Print this: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Aleph-Bet/Alphabet.pdf

then these: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Alphabet_Practice.pdf

and write each letter over and over...that is part of how you can flesh out those Holy letters that are written on your heart - hand, heart, eyes all being involved in the process.

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Immersing in Hebrew: deep calls unto deep, Psalm 42

Psalm 42: 8-9
"Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me. The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me—A prayer to the God of my life."

The word translated here as 'waterfalls' is actually צִנּוֹרֶיךָ tzinoreeka which means 'cataracts' : a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, esp.one of considerable size; any furious rush or downpour of water; deluge.

deep to deep calls

תְּהוֹם-אֶל-תְּהוֹם קוֹרֵא

tehome el tehome koreh

of the sound Your cataracts

לְקוֹל צִנּוֹרֶיךָ

l'kole tzinoreeka

The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me— A prayer to the God of my life.

יוֹמָם, יְצַוֶּה יְהוָה חַסְדּוֹ, וּבַלַּיְלָה, שִׁירֹה עִמִּי
תְּפִלָּה, לְאֵל חַיָּי
yo·v·mam ye·tzav·veh ha·shem chas·dov u·val·lay·lah ch shi·rah k shi·rov im·mi te·fil·lah le·'el chai·yai.

Immersing in Hebrew...Parshah Yitro: Shabbat

Even if you 'know' only a few words in the passage below...with the English/Hebrew and transliteration, you will probably be able to figure out word meanings and that is one of the best ways to awaken Hebrew in your spirit...just dive in.

Exodus 20:8-11 from Parashah Yitro (Torah Portion Jethro)

⁸ “ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. ¹¹ For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
זָכוֹר אֶת-יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת, לְקַדְּשׁוֹ.

za·cho·vr et-yo·vm ha·shab·bat le·kad·de·shov

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work

שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים תַּעֲבֹד, וְעָשִׂיתָ כָּל-מְלַאכְתֶּךָ.

she·shet ya·mim ta·'a·vod ve·'a·si·ta kol-me·lach·te·cha.

10. but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

וְיוֹם, הַשְּׁבִיעִי--שַׁבָּת, לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ: לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה כָל-מְלָאכָה אַתָּה וּבִנְךָ וּבִתֶּךָ, עַבְדְּךָ וַאֲמָתְךָ וּבְהֶמְתֶּךָ, וְגֵרְךָ, אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ.

ve·yo·vm ha·she·vi·'i shab·bat la·shem e·lo·hei·cha lo-ta·'a·seh chol-me·la·chah at·tah u·vin·cha-u·vit·te·cha av·de·cha* va·'a·ma·te·cha* u·ve·hem·te·cha ve·ge·re·cha a·sher bish·'a·rei·cha.

11. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

כי שֵׁשֶׁת-יָמִים עָשָׂה יְהוָה אֶת-הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֶת-הָאָרֶץ, אֶת-הַיָּם וְאֶת-כָּל-אֲשֶׁר-בָּם, וַיָּנַח, בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי; עַל-כֵּן, בֵּרַךְ יְהוָה אֶת-יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת--וַיְקַדְּשֵׁהוּ.
ki she·shet-ya·mim a·sah ha·shem et-ha·sha·ma·yim ve·'et-ha·'a·retz et-hai·yam ve·'et-kol-a·sher-bam vai·ya·nach bai·yo·vm ha·she·vi·'i al-ken be·rach ha·shem et-yo·vm ha·shab·bat vay·kad·de·she·hu.

immersing in Hebrew: Yitro - 2 verses

This week's Torah portion: Yitro

Here are the first two verses - If you are learning Hebrew, a beautiful way to learn is sound out the Hebrew words, compare to the transliteration and then often figuring out the meaning is easy. Meaning or not...the language itself will course through your soul.

Exodus 18: 1
And Yitro, the priest of Midyan, Moshe's father-in-law, heard of all that G-d had done for Moshe and for Yisrael His people--that HASHEM had brought Yisrael out of Egypt.

א וַיִּשְׁמַע יִתְרוֹ כֹהֵן מִדְיָן, חֹתֵן מֹשֶׁה, אֵת כָּל-אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה אֱלֹהִים לְמֹשֶׁה, וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵל עַמּוֹ: כִּי-הוֹצִיא יְהוָה אֶת-יִשְׂרָאֵל, מִמִּצְרָיִם.

Vayishma Yitro chohen Midyan choten Moshe et kol-asher asah Elokim le-Moshe ule-Yisrael amo ki-hotzi HASHEM et-Yisrael miMitzrayim.

2. Moshe's father-in-law, Yitro took Moshe's wife, Tziporah, after he had sent her back [home],

ב וַיִּקַּח, יִתְרוֹ חֹתֵן מֹשֶׁה, אֶת-צִפֹּרָה, אֵשֶׁת מֹשֶׁה--אַחַר, שִׁלּוּחֶיהָ.

Vayikach Yitro choten Moshe et-Tziporah eshet Moshe achar shilucheiha.

Aaronic Benediction & Spock's Vulcan Salute

Numbers 6: 22-27

22 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

23 'Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying: On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel; ye shall say unto them:

24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee;

יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה, וְיִשְׁמְרֶךָ.
Y’-varechecha Adonai v’yish-marechah.

25 The LORD make His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee;

יָאֵר יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וִיחֻנֶּךָּ.

Ya-air Adonai panav alechah veechu-nechah.

26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

יִשָּׂא יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וְיָשֵׂם לְךָ שָׁלוֹם.
Yisah Adonai panav alechah v’ya-sem l’chah shalom.

27 So shall they put My name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.'

audio and more details about the blessing

Ted Pearce, Aaronic Benediction

a great song to learn the blessing - visit Ted's site

So yes Spock got his vulcan salute from the priestly blessing

Hebrew Links

To help to awaken Hebrew within your heart...Hebrew posts on this blog

Hebrew4Christians

Printable alephbet flash cards & for ipod

http://translate.google.com/ actually a pretty good, basic translator, if accuracy is importance, don't rely on this however

www.interlinearbible.org/ an ok English/Hebrew/transliterated Bible - for vav uses ‘w’ sound instead of ‘v’

Hebrew words are based on 2 or 3 letter root words
Hebrew Word Roots: http://www.jewfaq.org/root.htm

More roots: http://www.hebrewatmilah.org/maskilon1/index.htm

find out your Hebrew day of birth and Torah portion

News Alert!

I know horrific murders, suicides, beatings & rapes have continuously plagued the world since humans first wandered the earth...Maybe it's because I have gotten in the habit of reading google compiled news stories a few times a day but violence seems so disturbingly elevated right now, kind of like one of the many wake up calls that are sounding. Have you heard them? And even if such crimes aren't actually increasing, have you heard the wake up call that's been sounding since Cain's brother's blood cried out from the ground?

the beautiful 5 year old, Shaniya, killed...her mother arrested for sex trafficing...

a 35 year old man kills his wife, their two teenage boys and himself...

a woman, who just an hour or so after being brought home by police after filing a domestic complaint against her boyfriend, stabbed to death by him while cops were posted outside her apartment building...he was shot and killed as police came in on the stabbing...too late...

an army major & psychatrist murders 14 innocent men & women at Fort Hood...

the 16 year old Richmond High School girl repeatedly raped and viciously beaten by at least 4 young males while up to 20 others looked on...for over 2 hours...there are no words...

and the list goes on and on and on...

What causes people to lash out at someone they love? Or to rape and beat a 4 year old girl, a 16 year old sophomore, a 70 year old grandmother they know nothing about? A husband to shoot his family while they are sleeping?

Hopelessness? Maybe. Many are without hope or they hope in things that are hopeless, evil. Consumed by the wrong things? With stuff of the world, addictions, twisted ideologies, themselves. They are full of stuff and empty at the same time. Tormented by their own hurt? They seek to hurt others as a perverted way to avenge those who have damaged them. And that is the truth. They, themselves, are damaged people. They were not born killers, abusers, rapists...they were once innocent newborns, blank slates, full of the potential to love and be loved. Lies are planted. Then...walls are erected. Many are self-built. Walls to protect, to numb, to confuse, to distract, to blame, to excuse, to hide behind. With those walls in tact, any human being is capable of despicable things, things no one would have thought that newborn, reaching for his first cookie, would ever do.

And how desensitized are 'we' to tragedies that happen minute by minute? Do we look away from truths that hurt us? Is it too hard to read about a little girl being sold into sex trade, being raped, dismembered? A woman raped, fingernails ripped from her hands, then burned to death? If it were a movie: much easier. Sadly so, even entertaining to some degree. But in real life isn't it just easier to turn the other way? And try to convince ourselves that we aren't ignorant, callous, self-absorbed?

Why is there so little rage when violence like this happens? Not outward rage but an inward crying out from those not personally related to the tragedy, a renewed sobering revelation that we live in a lost, sad, sick, hopeless world...And yet it seems that there is more rage, inner and outer, about how long she had to wait at the registry. If he stepped in something while walking the dog. If they hit a pothole and damaged rim and tire. If traffic is heavy on the way to work then later find out there was a car accident that killed 3 people as they were on the their way to school and work...

Are we so damaged, so walled off by our own hurts and fears, that we turn away from others' hurts much like those 20 who allowed the rape and beating of a 16 year old girl to go on and on and on...watching yet walled off, desensitized from what really matters: loving another human being? "I have my own pain, I don't need to deal with others' pain." Or worse yet, is our wall: "I am ok and that's what matters." Someone behind that wall might even say "Thank God this isn't happening to me or my family..." Others behind their wall of denial will say, "The world's always been a mess. Sad but that's just the way it is." And what they don't say (or maybe they do) is "so I will keep at a distance from all that bad news. I need to hear the good news."

Hours before they found Shaniya's little body, the TV news kept replaying a security camera video of a guy holding her, waiting for the elevator in a Comfort Inn...carrying her to her death & she was just resting in his arms, alert yet unaware...seems unreal but true and so completely heartbreaking...

Our hearts need to break. And as crazy as it seems, when that happens, we will truly have hope. And others will see that hope in us.

Don't miss the news...sadly, there's more every day...
Richmond Highschool gang rape

Husband kills sons, wife, himself

Police: Body is that of North Carolina girl, Shaniya

Shaniya's story reveals widespread sex trafficking in black community

Hundreds say goodbye to Bolingbrook soldier killed at Ft. Hood

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