Parasha Ki Teitzei 5784
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This week we read Parasha Ki Teitzei, which is Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19. Ki Teitzei opens and closes with war… But, in between these two stark realities we find 74 mitzvot addressing a wide array of issues that B’nei Yisrael might face in their walk. Now, keep in mind, most of what we find in Deuteronomy is repetition from previous Torah discussions as a refresher before crossing the Jordan, and this is the case with a lot of what we find in this week’s Parasha. As we process through Ki Teitzei we see that the primary focus of this Parasha is two part: 1) V’ahavta L’reicha Kamocha—Love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18). And 2) Righteousness of the camp before our Holy God. And pretty much everything found in Parasha Ki Teitzei covers one of these two issues that are both independent yet very much intertwined.
This week’s Parasha, in connection with the focus on how we live righteous lives by how we interact and treat others, we also see a reiteration of the command from Numbers 15 to wear Tzitziyot in Deuteronomy 22:12.
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Principle: The tent pegs of the Tabernacle are expanded through Yeshua uniting Jew and Gentile as the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit.
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“Sing, barren one, who has not given birth. burst into singing and shout, you who have not travailed. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married one,” says Adonai.
“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch out your tabernacle curtains. Do not hold back— lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
For you will spread out to the right hand and to the left. Your offspring will possess the nations and will resettle the desolate cities.
Fear not, for you will not be ashamed. Nor cringe, for you will not be disgraced. For you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.
For your Maker is your husband —Adonai-Tzva’ot is His Name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called God of all the earth.
“For Adonai has called you back like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of one’s youth that is rejected,” says your God.
“For a brief moment I deserted you, but I will regather you with great compassion.
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says Adonai your Redeemer.
“For this is like the waters of Noah to Me: for as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more cover the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor will I rebuke you.
Though the mountains depart and the hills be shaken, My love will not depart from you, nor will My covenant of peace be shaken, says Adonai who has compassion on you.
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Behold, you will summon a nation you do not know, and a nation that did not know you will run to you, because of Adonai your God and the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.”
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Thus says Adonai: “Preserve justice, do righteousness. For My salvation is about to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
Blessed is the one who does this, the son of man who takes hold of it, who keeps from profaning Shabbat, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
Do not let a son of a foreigner who has joined himself to Adonai say, ‘Adonai will surely exclude me from His people.” Nor let the eunuch say, ‘Behold, I am a dry tree.’ ”
For thus says Adonai, “To the eunuchs who keep My Shabbatot, who choose what pleases Me, and hold fast My covenant:
I will give to them in My House and within My walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
Also the foreigners who join themselves to Adonai, to minister to Him, and to love the Name of Adonai, and to be His servants— all who keep from profaning Shabbat, and hold fast to My covenant—
these I will bring to My holy mountain, and let them rejoice in My House of Prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar. For My House will be called a House of Prayer for all nations.”
Parasha Ki Teitzei
Principle: The tent pegs of the Tabernacle are expanded through Yeshua uniting Jew and Gentile as the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit.
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Again the word of Adonai-Tzva’ot came saying:
“Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth month will become joy, gladness and cheerful moadim. Therefore, love truth and shalom!’
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “Peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will again come.
The inhabitants of one city will go to another saying ‘Let us go to entreat the favor of Adonai and to seek Adonai-Tzva’ot. I also am going.’
Indeed, many peoples and powerful nations will come to seek Adonai-Tzva’ot in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Adonai.”
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “In those days it will come to pass that ten men from every language of the nations will grasp the corner of the garment of a Jew saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”
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Mention Acts 10 — Cornelius and Peter’s vision
In Acts 11 Peter goes back to Jerusalem and is accused of going to the uncircumcised and eating with them… Then he shares what G-d revealed to him in Acts 10 and the Ruach falling on Cornelius’ house
Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us after we put our trust in the Lord Messiah Yeshua, who was I to stand in God’s way?”
When they heard this they became quiet, and they glorified God, saying, “Then even to the Gentiles God has granted repentance leading to life!”
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Interestingly, Peter is then later called out by Paul in Galatians for being afraid of being seen eating with Gentiles…
Therefore, keep in mind that once you—Gentiles in the flesh—were called “uncircumcision” by those called “circumcision” (which is performed on flesh by hand).
At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
But now in Messiah Yeshua, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
For He is our shalom, the One who made the two into one and broke down the middle wall of separation. Within His flesh He made powerless the hostility—
the law code of mitzvot contained in regulations. He did this in order to create within Himself one new man from the two groups, making shalom,
and to reconcile both to God in one body through the cross—by which He put the hostility to death.
And He came and proclaimed shalom to you who were far away and shalom to those who were near—
for through Him we both have access to the Father by the same Ruach.
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.
You have been built on the foundation made up of the emissaries and prophets, with Messiah Yeshua Himself being the cornerstone.
In Him the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple for the Lord.
In Him, you also are being built together into God’s dwelling place in the Ruach.
Parasha Ki Teitzei
Principle: The tent pegs of the Tabernacle are expanded through Yeshua uniting Jew and Gentile as the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit.
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