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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).

However, what have both priests and rabbis of the past done, they purposely made grave and ridiculous changes! Thus, they would have already been severely punished!

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The Ten Commandments

With Rabbi, Dr. Reuven Ben Avraham-Goossens, PhD.

The ‘Ten Commandments (Mitzvoth)’ continue to speak daily to our lives, as well as to millions of people. Of course, the Ten Commandments appear twice in our beloved Torah; in Exodus 20:1-17 and again in Deuteronomy 5:6-21.

When אֱלֹהִים - Elohim revealed Himself to us, He did not give us a systematic ‘theology’, ‘creeds’, ‘recipes’, or ‘diagrams’. He gave us a legal code consisting of covenant ‘terms’ and ‘obligations’. He gave us laws, and each law brings a fresh revelation of who He is!

He did not give the laws of the Torah just to tidy up human society. Each commandment communicates a piece of Divine revelation, a piece of Holiness. More than just rules for governing human behaviour, the laws of the Torah reflect the אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה - the LORD Elohim.

Our Heavenly Father told us that “out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” When אֱלֹהִים - Elohim broke the silence and spoke to His creation at Mount Horeb, He spoke from the fullness of His heart. Each law and commandment, no matter how small or seemingly irrelevant, communicates a piece of revelation from אֱלֹהִים - Elohim, an overflowing of His heart!

The Ten Commandments are moral absolutes. They were spoken aloud by God, and everyone heard them. They require no further justification. They are non-negotiable.

The Ten Commandments are well known. Even non-believers and people from other faiths are more-or-less familiar with the concept of the ‘Ten Commandments’. Throughout the world, political and social battles continue to be waged about whether or not it is appropriate to display the ‘Ten Commandments’ on public property. The popular culture sadly abounds with jokes about breaking the ‘Ten Commandments’, yet most people reflexively accept their moral authority.

In Hebrew, they are called the “Aseret HaDebarim”, which literally means the “ten words” but it could more loosely be translated as “the ten matters”.

The ‘Ten Commandments’ were spoken aloud by אֱלֹהִים - Elohim (Exodus 20), written in stone by His own finger (Exodus 31:18), and chiselled into a second set of stone tablets by Moses (Exodus 34:28). Moses repeats the ten words to the assembly of Israel in Deuteronomy 5:6–21.

The “ten matters” summarize the 613 commandments of the Torah, but they cannot be separated from the Torah or from each other. The Tanakh makes no distinction between the commands of the Decalogue and the imperatives and prohibitions that follow in the rest of the Torah. The same אֱלֹהִים - Elohim spoke both. He bound them upon His Hebrew people with equal measure.

A person should not imagine that the ‘Ten Commandments’ in the Decalogue are the only Commandments; of course there are another 603 Mitzvoth. And these are in truth the only Commandments which אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה - the LORD Elohim has given, for all others are 100% rabbinic who made the rest up, and these fake laws have greatly hampered our beloved faith, so much of it came from the evil, mystical and occultic Kabbalah. Rabbis made up their own ideologies! Check your Siddur’s, for much of it is sadly Kabbalah based, thus from the occult!

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Remember what אֱלֹהִים - Elohim, blessed be He, said the following through a number of our prophets...

Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith צְבָאוֹת- יְהוָה- the LORD of hosts” Mal’a’chi - Malachi 3:7. (JPS).

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For Elohim is the One who gave us our ... Life!”

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שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם Shalom Aleichem - Peace be with you!

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