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Please do NOT visit this site on שַׁבָּת - Shabbat or on the מוֹעֲדִים - Mo’a’dim - Feasts!
Re Tanakh versions:
Throughout this site I may use any of
three versions of the Tanakh: 1. “Jewish Publication Society” (JPS-1917), 2. “Mechon-Mamre.org” (MEC), and 3. “Sefaria.org” (SEF), three brilliant versions, However, the
JPS-1917 is my preferred version!
Colour coded details of
our beloved TaNaKh:
1. Torah =
History & Law, 2. Nevi’im = The Prophets. 3. *Ketuvim = all other Writings.
*The Ketuvim - Includes, Poetical books -
Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Megillot, or Scrolls - Song of Solomon, Ruth,
Lamentations of Jeremiah, Ecclesiastes, and Esther, prophecy of
Daniel, and history of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles I & II.
Please
Note: Some alterations or
(additions) have been made relating to ‘Names’ and ‘Attributes’ of אֱלֹהִים - Elohim (God),
having been corrected like it once was pre the “Masoretic Text”.
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Remember the
following truth from our beloved Torah!
“Ye
shall NOT ADD
TO THE WORD which I command
you, NEITHER SHALL YE DIMINISH FROM IT,
that ye may keep the commandments of אֱלֹהֵיכֶם יְהוָה - the LORD your Eloleichem, which I command you”. Davarim -
Deuteronomy 4:2. (JPS-1917).
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All other writings are 100% man-made!.
With Rabbi, Dr. Reuven
Ben Avraham-Goossens, PhD.
Our beloved Tanakh lies at the heart and soul of our beloved faith, and it has an unparalleled collection of 24 remarkable books. The Tanakh is accessible and enjoyable for us of the ‘Hebraic Community’ world wide, as well as the most sophisticated of ‘scholars’ and ‘deep thinkers’. It is a singular privilege to encounter its Sacred words, to engage with its eternal “Messages”, and to be galvanized to greater ‘ethical’ and ‘social action’ and ‘spiritual growth’ as a result of our studying our wonderful Tanakh!
From the perspective of religious
students of Tanakh, we have remarkable opportunities today. For we have
available to us Scriptural study in areas including, but not limited to, ‘literary
analysis’, ‘archaeology’ and ‘history’, and ‘linguistics’. The information we
really need is readily available from our beloved Tanakh and there is no doubt
that it is breathtaking!
I have been asked once, “How do we
balance this flood of thoughts and methodology with the fact that many rabbis having
brought their own ‘assumptions’ and ‘biases’ into our faith and sadly they have
greatly messed things up? Are there means for sorting through which ‘information’
and ‘methodology’ is beneficial for our growth in faith? Yes stick only to our beloved
Tanakh! The truth is that so much of the rabbinic errors must be at large discarded!
Ultimately, the ‘litmus test of success’ for our study of the Tanakh is that it
deepens our commitments to אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה - the
LORD Elohim and inspires us to greater ethical behaviour, and with ‘intellectual
honesty’ and ‘integrity’?
When we learn and share and teach from
the Tanakh correctly, we convey a sense of ‘holiness’ and ‘reverence’, coupled
with ‘respect for individuality’ and intellectual struggle’ with some of our ‘most
sacred texts’ and scriptural ‘traditions’. Our Tanakh has the singular ability
to ‘inspire’ and ‘edify people of all ages’ and ‘backgrounds’. Our Tanakh
enables our ‘minds’, ‘hearts’, and ‘souls’ to complement one another into a ‘blessed
spiritual and intellectual experience’. The maturation of our sophisticated
Tanakh study provides us with a system with which to navigate the complicated
contours of scholarship and religious growth. Yes, I am a rabbi, thus a teacher,
but there have been rabbis and educators in the past who
had a immense responsibility to sort through available ‘information’, ‘commentaries’,
and ‘methodologies’ in order to steer the discussion for the benefit of the
community. However, that simply did not happen, for they, as we should know by
now that the so-called Sages completely messed up, as they concocted (invented)
new laws and they claimed that they were actually from אֱלֹהִים - Elohim, but was not,
for that evil 2nd century mystical book the ‘Zohar’, that much later
entered into the occultic ‘Kabbalah’ as well as into the Talmud, each of these
being wholly man made material, and it is not scriptural in any way!
Scholarly conclusions we know off, has made a direct impact on our lives and our religious life, but sadly rabbis were adding their own thing into our Torah laws, with countless man-made laws, pretending they were ‘oral’. The truth is that no human can remember for well over a thousand plus years, those thousands of their created new laws! I will stick with the blessed 613 Mitzvoth we were given, and then not all of these laws will relate to us as individuals, it depends who and what we are.
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Let us now prove what has been written above:
The Jewish Publication Society 1917 (JPS-1917) the Torah explicitly states that אֱלֹהִים - Elohim’s commandments given in the Torah are complete and final, prohibiting any addition or subtraction in two main passages in the Torah (in the book of Deuteronomy):
Deuteronomy
4:2.
לֹא תֹסִפוּ, עַל-הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם, וְלֹא תִגְרְעוּ, מִמֶּנּוּ-לִשְׁמֹר, אֶת-מִצְוֹת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי, מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם
“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם - the LORD your Eloheichem which I command you”.
But let
us now look at Deuteronomy 13:1.
אֵת
כָּל-הַדָּבָר,
אֲשֶׁר
אָנֹכִי
מְצַוֶּה
אֶתְכֶם-אֹתוֹ
תִשְׁמְרוּ, לַעֲשׂוֹת:
לֹא-תֹסֵף
עָלָיו, וְלֹא
תִגְרַע
מִמֶּנּוּ
“Et kol-hadavar, asher anokhi metzaveh etkhem - oto tishmeru,
la’asot: lo-tosef alav, ve-lo tigra mimenu”.
“All this
word which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor
diminish from it”.
Below
is a Word-by-Word Breakdown:
אֵת כָּל-הַדָּבָר (Et kol-hadavar): Everything / every word.
אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם (asher anokhi metzaveh etkhem): that I command you.
אֹתוֹ תִשְׁמְרוּ, לַעֲשׂוֹת (oto tishmeru, la'asot): it you shall take care to do.
לֹא-תֹסֵף עָלָיו (lo-tosef alav): you shall not add to it.
וְלֹא תִגְרַע מִמֶּנּוּ (ve-lo tigra mimenu): and you shall not subtract from it.
In Deuteronomy’s two powerful verses
above, we read these amazingly powerful messages from אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה - the LORD
Elohim Himself? Was there ever a tiny mention whatsoever in the Torah regarding
an ‘oral law? That is a massive NO, for there is not even the smallest of hints
within the entire Torah about their wholly man-made (rabbinic additions), for
it was all just rabbinic lies!
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Prohibition Against Change: The directive ‘לֹא-תֹסֵף
עָלָיו - ‘lo-tosef alav’ is (shall not add), and לֹא
תִגְרַע -
‘lo tigra’ (do not subtract) serves as a
foundational Scriptural boundary ensuring that there is no ‘human authority’, ‘leader’,
or that a ‘subsequent text is permitted to enter and alter the foundational
laws’ as given by אֱלֹהִים - Elohim to Israel within the Torah alone!
Key
Context:
Completion of the Law (Deuteronomy 31:24):
וַיְהִי
כְּכַלּוֹת
מֹשֶׁה, לִכְתֹּב
אֶת-דִּבְרֵי
הַתּוֹרָה-הַזֹּאת-עַל-סֵפֶר:
עַד, תֻּמָּם
“And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished”.
Towards the very end of Deuteronomy,
Moses completes writing the entire Law into a scroll (“when Moses had made an end of writing the
words of this law in a book, until they were finished”) this was kept alongside the “Ark of the Covenant”, establishing
the textual Torah as being 100% complete!
Knowing
that, are you going to uphold the rubbish our past rabbis have concocted, for
our blessed Scriptures actually tells us they are FAKE: just like the mystical
and occultist ‘Zohar” and the occultist ‘Kabbalah, with their fake Talmud being
filed with that ‘Zohar’ rubbish! All the mystical works are thanks to the
Synagogue in Tzfat - Safed,
It is time we return to the faith as was given to us by our loving, יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ - the LORD our Eloheinu, בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם קָדוֹשׁוֹ - ‘Baruch Shem Kadosho’ - ‘Blessed be His Holy Name!’
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This site was originally created, for those
who desired to return to our blessed and wonderful faith. Thus be wise and work
on your faith and pray at least two or three times a day (if possible) and
always seek our beloved אֱלֹהִים - Elohim’s guidance,
for His love is always with us, especially when we seek Him, blessed be He!
However this site has become very much a teaching site with hundreds of
studies!
Remember what אֱלֹהִים - Elohim, blessed be He, said the following through a number of
our prophets...
“The More Torah,
the More Life”,
For Elohim is the One who gave us our ... “Life!”
May the שָׁלוֹם - Shalom =
Peace of צְבָאוֹת- יְהוָה= the LORD
of hosts, be with you, and please always uphold our blessed שַׁבָּת - Shabbat,
as well as the מוֹעֲדִים - Mo’a’dim - Feasts, and
continue saying your daily תְּפִלָּה - Tefeelah’s - Prayers and
regular בְּרָכָה - Be’ra’chah’s - blessings before
food and drinks, etc!
שָׁלוֹם
עֲלֵיכֶם - Shalom Aleichem - Peace be with you!
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