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Pesach Special for 2013

Chag sameyach everyone! And welcome to the special Pesach edition of Scroll to Scroll. Pesach has always been the most personal of Feasts for me. However, since 2011, I also did a Pesach teaching on GLC. That programcalled Doorways to Wisdomalso has an accompanying Powerpoint that I will share with all of you as well. Also, because of the special nature of Pesach, we will not be doing Study Questions and Answers until the regular parashot schedule resumes with Shemini on sunset on Friday, April 5th. Theres a lot to go through though no matter how we divide it up, so lets get started! I. Pesach in Genesis? Yes, lets read Genesis 19:1-3! II. Torah readings for Pesach, Part 1. (Torah blessing) 1) Exodus 12:21-51 ABAR (12:23) = pass through ( ), from where the word Hebrew (one who crosses over into obedience to YHWH) is derived. PASACH (12:23) = pass over ( ) the action of YHWH passing over to judge Egypt is where PESACH comes from. PATHACH (12:23) = door ( ), is a synonym to DALET, which also means door and the letter looks like a door ( !)The extra repetition of door as in pass over the door when the doorposts are already mentioned, is a hint. When you take YHWH and put the DOOR in between, you get YEHUDAH (Judah)! Yshua said, I am the DOOR! SPECIAL DISCUSSION: 400 OR 430 YEARS (Genesis 15:13 vs. Exodus 12:40)? "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 (literally four MEAH) years. (Genesis 15:13) OR Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. And at the end of 430 years, to the very day, all the hosts of YHWH went out from the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:40-41)

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Is this a contradiction? No it is not, because the key phrase is your DESCENDANTS will be strangers, not Abraham himself. It is also likely that the Septuagint reading of in Egypt and in Canaan for 430 years is correct. The Masoretic Text does NOT contradict this because of the following: "Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete." (Genesis 15:16 NAU) The Amorites sins are completed here: We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of HeshbonThus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan. (Deuteronomy 3:6,8 NAU) So if the Hebrew Masoretic text means a total of 645 years (215 in Canaan from Abraham and then 430), other details in the Hebrew wont match up, such as the destruction of the Amorites being about 40 years after the Exodus! Therefore the Masoretic Text is simply a little more vague in this passage even though the proper chronology is present elsewhere within it. This fact brings the real chronology into alignment with the LXX and the Apostle Paulin other words it meant also in Canaan by these other facts. Also, we see the reason for the 30 year difference. It is exactly 30 years from when Abraham gets this prophecy (aged 85, 16:3) and when it starts counting down, from the time Isaac is weaned at age five (17:24, 18:10). 2) Numbers 28:16-25 MALACHA AVODAH (28:18) Regular work; servant work, which excludes from the ban the preparation of food. Contrast this with the other MALACHA that bans all manner of work including food prep because you are fasting. III. Haftorah readings for Pesach, Part 1. 1) Joshua 3:5-7, 5:2-6:1, then 6:27. Special Teaching: Calendar Secrets of Joshua 4 (Passover Day 1 Haftorah) The Scripture itself gives us four main beloved circles from YHWH, but we will start with the first three for now:

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When He established the heavens, I was there; when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep. (Proverbs 8:27) And a great wonder was seen in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.Revelation 12:1(AENT) He {YHWH} sits enthroned above the circle of the Earth. (Isaiah 40:22) So far then the deep (matter), the stars and the earth have circles! The circle of the face of the deep is both the canvas and general demarcation line drawn by YHWH. It is upon this foundation that the circle/crown of twelve stars is overlaid. The stars job is to point the naked eye to the 30 degree sliver of space that marks 1/12th of the solar year. Furthermore, this imagery is described elsewhere in the book of Job: He {YHWH} has set a seal upon the stars (Job 9:9). 7682 Seal(780b) ( htemet) a signet seal. The basic meaning of this root is "to seal." Various kinds of documents were authenticated by affixing seal impressions from stamp or cylinder seals. The one was stamped into clay or wax while the other was rolled across it, leaving an impression. Brown Driver Briggs By Isaiah in 40:22 calling the earth a circle or a sphere, he becomes the first person in history to recognize the planets true shape. Isaiah does this, beating out the astronomer Erastosthenes who is usually given credit for the discovery by almost 500 yearsYHWH knows what He is doing! Heres more YHWH spoke to Joshua, saying, "Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe, and command them, saying, 'Take up for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet are standing firm, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodging place where you will lodge tonight. Joshua 4:1-3 Our first step in understanding this critical chapter is to see that the priests kept the calendar secrets and proclaimed the Set-Apart occasions to ancient Israel! (Leviticus 23:1-2, Hosea 4:6, Malachi 2:7, Matthew 23:1-2) Now lets see the next few lines: So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe; and Joshua said to them, "Cross again to the ark of the YHWH your Elohim into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel. Let this be a sign among you -Joshua 4:4-6 3|Page

Lets stop here for a moment and analyze the sign among you. This same word is used in conjunction with the stars, sun and moon bringing in the seasons (Genesis 1:14-19). 208 [ 208] (Hebrew) (page 16) (Strong 226) signs, tokens of changes of weather & times Gn 1:14 of heavenly luminaries signs, memorials, stones fr. Jordan Jos 4:6.-Brown Driver Briggs Now look at this so that when your children ask later, saying, 'What do these stones mean to you? then you shall say to them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of YHWH; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.' So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever."-Joshua 4:6-7 So this is clearly an allusion or remembrance of the parting of the waters at the time of the Exodus! Lets see this key fact confirmed For YHWH your Elohim dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as YHWH your Elohim had done to the Sea of Reeds, which He dried up before us until we had crossed; that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of YHWH is mighty, so that you may fear YHWH your Elohim forever."-Joshua 4:23-24 (Gilgal) (sacred) circle of stones; cf. Di on Jos 5:9, where word-play on roll away, off)c. art. exc. Jos 5:9, 12:23; 1. place E. of Jericho, where Isr. lay encamped Jos 4:19, 4:20, 5:9, 5:10, 9:6, 10:7, 10:9, 14:6 cf. also Mi 6:5 & Ju 3:19 ;? mod. Brown Driver Briggs Then YHWH said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away [ vb. roll, roll away] the reproach of Egypt from you." So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. Joshua 5:9 And just to make sure we didnt miss the point, we have one more circle covenant that is given at the place named stone circle where a stone circle was laid at the feet of the priests: At that time YHWH said to Joshua, "Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time. So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. (Joshua 5:2-3) Are we seeing the pattern yet? And theres more circles to see still, because this goes straight back to the start, at Mount Sinai

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Now YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, "The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting at a distance.Numbers 2:1-2 Again the word for banners is owt ( )which designates the signs that bring in the seasons and the sign of the 12 stones from the Jordan we just saw. Furthermore, for those stones, this sign is also a circle because of this other word in the passage 6433 [sabib] Hebrew Strong 5439,4036,5437 :336 subst., used mostly as adv. and prep., circuit, round about: Ex 16:13, 40:33, Nu 1:50, 1:53, 2:2.-Brown Driver Briggs And finally, 1 Chronicles 27 also assists us here because it assigns 12 divisions, one for each month of the year. In a luni-solar or intercalated calendar like the Rabbinic, you have to occasionally add a 13th month to keep lunar and solar years synchronized. But 1 Chronicles 27 assumes there will only be 12 months from spring to spring, so this must be a 12 month solar year! 2) 2 Kings 23:1-9, 21-25 (extemporaneous commentary) IV. Renewed Covenant readings for Pesach, Part 1. 1) Luke 2:41-52
(Luk 2:41) And every year his people would go to Urishlim during the feast of Paskha. (Luk 2:42) Then when he was twelve years old they went up as they were accustomed to the feast. (Luk 2:43) And after the days of the feast were completed, they returned. But the boy Y'shua remained in Urishlim and Yosip and his mother did not know. (Luk 2:44) For they were hoping that he was with the people in their company. And after they had gone on a one day journey, they searched for him among their relatives and among anyone who knew them. (Luk 2:45) And they did not find him, and they returned to Urishlim and were seeking him. (Luk 2:46) And after three days, they found him in the temple while sitting in the midst of the teachers. And he was listening to them and questioning them. (Luk 2:47) All those who were listening to him were amazed by his wisdom and by his answers. (Luk 2:48) And when they saw him they were amazed and his mother said to him, "My son, why have you acted such towards us, for behold I and your father were searching for you with much anxiety?" (Luk 2:49) He said to them, "Why were you searching for me? Did you not realize it is necessary for me to be in the House of my Father?" (Luk 2:50)

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But they did not understand the saying that he had told them. (Luk 2:51) And he went down with them and came to Nasrath and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart. (Luk 2:52) And Y'shua would grow in his stature and in his wisdom and in favor with Elohim and man.

2) Yochanan 18:28-40 (Joh 18:28) And they brought Y'shua from the presence of Qayapa into the Praetorium, and it was morning and they did not enter into the Praetorium, that they not be defiled before they had eaten the Paskha.211 211) As the Mishnah details in Pesahim 6:4: "A festal offering derives from the flock of the sheep or from the herd of oxen, from lambs or from goats, from males or from females. And it is eaten for two days and the intervening night [to the night of the fifteenth of Nisan]." The second night's eating then of what is also called the chagigah, or obligatory burnt offering that the Pharisees must consume, and this chagigah is "the Paskha" that they are afraid they will not be able to eat if they are defiled. Otherwise it seems John's timeline is contradicting the Synoptics and is a day behind. If the Paschal lamb that is slaughtered on the 14th is meant here, this clearly contradicts the Synoptics accounts that the Passover Seder had happened already when Y'shua was arrested, as opposed to here in John where the Pharisees are waiting to do this the next morning. (All Mishnah quotes are from the Jacob Neusner edition published in 1992 by Yale University Press.) For more information, please see When Was the Crucifixion in Appendix. (Joh 18:29) And Peelatos went outside to them and said to them, "What accusation do you have against this man?" (Joh 18:30) They answered and said to him, "If he was not a doer of evil, we would not even have delivered him to you." (Joh 18:31) Peelatos said to them, "You take him and judge him according to your own Torah." The Yehudeans said to him, "It is not Lawful for us to kill a man." (Joh 18:32) That the word might be fulfilled that Y'shua said when he made known by what death he was about to die. (Joh 18:33) Now Peelatos entered into the Praetorium and called Y'shua and said to him, "Are you their King, of the Yehudeans?" (Joh 18:34) Y'shua said to him, "Have you yourself212 spoken this, or have others told you concerning me?"

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212) Literally "from your souls." (PY). (Joh 18:35) Peelatos said to him, "Why, am I a Yehudean? The sons of your people and the High Priest have delivered you to me. What have you done?" (Joh 18:36) Y'shua said to him, "My Kingdom is not of this world.213 This my Kingdom, if it was of the world, my servants would have fought or else I would be delivered to the Yehudeans now. But my Kingdom is not from here." 213) Alma can also mean "age." (PY) (Joh 18:37) Peelatos214 said to him, "Therefore you are a King." Y'shua said to him, "You have said that I am a King. For this I was born and for this I have come into the world that I might testify concerning truth. Everyone who is of truth hears my voice." 214) Pilate is viewed as a hero by many Christians, yet they forget that as these NT events unfolded, Christianity was punishable by death under Roman law. According to Philo (De Legatione ad Caium, ed. Mangey, ii. 590), Pilate ruled by corruption, violence, robberies, and continuous executions without trial. He brought pagan images into Jerusalem causing riots and the slaughter of many Jews until he realized that Jews would rather die than let Jerusalem to be desecrated. Pilate stole cash from the Temple treasury, he tried to stop those riots by sending disguised soldiers into the crowds with concealed daggers, slaughtering rioters and bystanders alike. Pilates last wicked deed was the Samaritan massacre that made Vitellius, legate of Syria, bring him back to Rome. Josephus not only echoes this assessment but expands and confirms Philos account, in one place saying: He (Pilate) moved the army from Caesarea to Jerusalem in order to abolish the Jewish laws (Antiquities, 18.55). Pilate was indeed judge over Yshua; the King of the Jews. Most Christians imagine a mob of Jews yelling, Crucify him, and Pilate trying to pull strings to release him. No, Pilates power was absolute, if he cared to free Yshua he would have. Jews had no power to force a crucifixion on someone that Pilate may have had the slightest intrigue. Christians convinced Rome that Jesus was good for the Roman Empire and would not have been crucified except that the Jews put Pilate up to it. It was from such sentiments and other wicked perversions that Christians labeled the Jews as the Christ killers. Pilate was no saint, according to Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. ii. 7), he was banished to Vienna (Vienne) in Gaul, where he committed suicide. Please see New Testament Anti-Semitism in Appendix. (Joh 18:38) Peelatos said to him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Yehudeans and said to them, "I do not find even one cause against him!"

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(Joh 18:39) But you have a custom that I release one person to you during Paskha. Therefore, do you want me to release this King of the Yehudeans to you?" (Joh 18:40) All of them cried out and said, "Not this man, but Bar Abba!"215 Now this Bar Abba was a robber. 215) Ironically, Bar Abba in Aramaic means "Son of the Father." (PY) V. Torah readings for Pesach, Part 2. 1) Leviticus 22:26-23:44 SHABBAT SHABBATON (23:1) = Shabbat of Shabbats, double amplifiers of seven and rest mean complete sabbath of total rest. MOEDIM (23:4) = meeting as well as appointed times. YHWH will allow you to enter into His presence if you do these correctly. You get to meet with Him. MIMOCHORAT HA SHABAT (23:11) = the MORROW after the Shabbat. It is important to note that the word YOM (day) does not appear here. Nor does the word morning in the sense of dawn, sunrise (boker, shachrit, etc). However, because the Hebrew day runs sunset to sunset and therefore includes a morning that is attached to said day, that next morning can NOT be MOCHAROTH. This important term, which is in my view greatly misunderstood, actually means the day AFTER the morning attached to the previous Hebrew day. So that is TWO mornings later, not one. In terms of the timing of Shavuot, those who think it must always be after the weekly Shabbat seem to not emphasize enough the fact that a phrase like this only becomes necessary BECAUSE the day FLOATS. In other words, bearing in mind the fact that Torah gives us very specific days for the moedimthe 14th day for Pesach, the 10th for Yom Kippur, the 15th for Sukkot, etc.it seems highly unlikely that Shavuot must always be on Sunday when the text does NOT say, the first day of the week following the start of Pesach which would totally cover that timing. That is why it is the Feast of WEEKS, not the Feast of Sabbaths because the weeks must be TAMIM (complete) from when the 16th hits, which implies it must be that which can hit any day of the week. VELECHEM VEKALI VECHARMEL LO TOCHLU AD-ETSEM HAYOM HAZEH AD HAVIACHEM ET-KORBAN ELOHEYCHEM (23:14) = Until the day you bring this sacrifice to your Elohim, you may not eat bread, roasted grain or fresh grain. This rule applies to NEW grain that 8|Page

cannot be eaten before the 16th of Abib. The Israelites can eat the OLD grain as long as there is no leavening once Pesach starts. This also is key to understanding the timing in Joshua 5:10-12 that at the time of the Jericho campaign the use of MACHARATH twice indicates that there was a Shabbat on the 17th of Abib that coincides with the time the manna stopped falling (see Exodus 16). The Israelites could eat OLD roasted grain on the 16th, but not the new. Furthermore, that Shabbat on Abib 17 is confirmed by following the Biblical data that points to the right year for the Exodus and therefore the end of the wandering in the wilderness and the Jericho campaign. The year of this campaign1405 BCEmatches the Biblical data EXACTLY for which days in Abib fell on a given day of the week! AD MIMOCHORAT HASHABAT HASHIVIIT TISPERU CHAMISHIM YOM VEHIKRAVTEM MINCHAH CHADASHAH LYAHWEH (23:16) = Until the MORNING day after the 7th week, when there will be a total of 50 days, on that day you may (now) present new grain as an offering unto Yahweh. So the Israelites are eating the old grain up until this time, and old bread after Pesach, until the day of Shavuot. MIKRA (23:21) = convocation. A time to call out to YHWH in prayer but also, to read. Rabbis call Torah MIKRA, the called out text. Read the Mikra twice and the Targums once. AVODAH and MELAKA (23:21) = Avodah means to work as a servant or to do menial work. MELAKA addressed the payment you get because you did that work. MELAKA work will vary depending on what you do to make a living. ANAH (23:27) = humble/bow down, to fast on Yom Kippur to be in submission to YHWHs will. EZRACH (23:43) = native born. Related to seed (zera) means one who came up from our soil. 2) Exodus 33:12-34:26 Vayomar panay yelechu vahanichoti lach (33:14) = My Presence will go before you. Now the Messenger (Yshua) is withdrawn and YHWH Himself is going before Moshe directly. Vayomar har'eni na et-kvodecha (33:18) = And he [Moshe] said, Let me have a vision of Your glory. The word KVOD can mean to be heavy or to give weight. It is used with respect to the 5th commandment to HONOR our fathers and mothers, meaning to give weight to their wishes, 9|Page

counsel, etc. In this context, Moshe is asking to see YHWHs full majesty, or at least as much of that vision that he can stand without being killed. That is why YHWH responds in 33:20, lir'ot et-panay ki lo-yir'ani ha'adam vachay, or you cannot as man have a full vision of My Face and live. 33:19 also has the interesting phrase, I will make MY GOODNESS pass before your face, as if to say, If you really see Me, you can only see goodness for I am perfect. Vayomer YAHWEH el-Moshe psol-lecha shney-luchot avanim karishonim vechatavti al-haluchot et-hadevarim asher hayu al-haluchot harishonim asher shibarta (34:1) = Yahweh said to Moses, 'Carve out two tablets for yourself, just like the first ones. I will write on those tablets the same words that were on the first tablets that you broke. The Rabbis believe that this was on 1 Elul. 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain later and Moshe comes down 10 Tishri, Yom Kippur. See Seder Olam 6, Exodus 34:28 and Deuteronomy 10:10. Vayered YAHWEH be'anan vayityatsev imo sham vayikra veshem YAHWEH (34:5) = And Yahweh descended in a cloud and stood with Moshe and he [Moshe] proclaimed the Name of Yahweh. YHWH had initially descended on 3 Sivan in the year of the Exodus (Exodus 19) to all of Israel. Now YHWH is doing this just for Moshe and Moshe is worshipping Him by calling on His real Name! See 34:6 where Moshe proclaims Yahweh, Yahweh! VeChag Shavu'ot ta'aseh lecha bikurey ktsir chitim vechag ha'asif tkufat Hashanah (34:22) = The Harvest Festival, a.k.a. the Feast of Ingathering or Sukkot. At this time, the Feast had not taken on the significance of also commemorating the wandering in the wilderness for 40 years and living in booths for a week. As such there WAS a harvest festival well before Moshe in the fall. The other key phrase is TKUFAT HASHANA which literally means TURN OF THE YEAR, not end as some pre-suppose. The year TURNS twice, once in spring and now here in fall. Today we call these EQUINOXES, and they are described also by the word TESHUVAH, completing a circuit/return of the sun. For a beautiful description of the solar tropical year, see Psalm 19. Reshit bikurey admatecha tavi Beyt YAHWEH Eloheycha lo-tevashel gedi bachalev imo (34:26) = Bring the first fruits of your land to the Temple of Yahweh your Elohim. Do not [eat] goats meat cooked in milk of its own mother. Notice the prohibition is only with respect 10 | P a g e

to goats meat, not all forms of meat. The chances of any meat though being boiled in the same milk of its mother today is almost impossible for those of us who buy food at supermarkets. The Rabbis ignore the fact that Abraham served milk and meat to YHWH and two messengers in Genesis 18 and there is no way around the fact that Abraham brought both the milk and the meat at the same time. Bible.ort.org deliberately ignored GEDI (goat) in their translation to make it sound that all meat could not be prepared in this manner. 3) Deuteronomy 15:19-16:17 (extemporaneous commentary) Chapter 16Discussion on the Feasts. From Stone Chumash, p. 1020: Verse 16:1 speaks of Pesach as being in the month of SPRINGTIME and admonishes the people that they must observe this month. From this, the Sages derive one of the primary rules of the Jewish calendar: The month of Nisan must fall in the spring and the Sanhedrin has the responsibility to add a thirteenth month to the year from time to time to prevent Nisan from moving up to the winter. Now of course the rabbis also have extensive justifications about how this leads to the Rabbinic calendar, but ultimately history proves that assertion wrong. The 19 year cycle that is at the most ancient heart of their system was not discovered until 1000 years after Moshe died. But we can figure out, based on what we know about the ancient Egyptian civilization that Moshe grew up in for 40 years and other ancient testimonies that harmonize with Scripture. VI. 1) Haftorah reading for Pesach, Part 2. Ezekiel 36:37-37:14 (for Shabbat during the Middle Days, but included here as well) TZON (36:37) = is spelled similarly to TZIYON, so when YHWH promises to increase the FLOCK (tzon) of His people Israel, it seems intentional that the place He will do that is in Tziyon. BEN ADAM (37:3) = Son of Man. Obviously Ezekiel is not called this as Messiah-title, but, on the other hand, the Valley of Dry Bones is a great symbol for resurrection done by the Son of Man later! How interesting then the Rabbis were inspired to read this at Pesach, the time Yshua was resurrected. In fact, this is fixed to the MIDDLE SHABBAT readings, which is exactly when Yshua rose. Pesach began Wednesday night at sunset and he rose Sunday AM, right at the half point of the week. 11 | P a g e

VAYOMER ELAY HINAVE EL-HARUACH HINAVE VEN-ADAM (37:9) = Then He said to me: Prophesy to the wind Son of Man. While it is clear from context that WIND is intended, the word Ruach also can of course mean spirit and may suggest prophesying TO/BY the spirit. 2) 2 Samuel 22:1-51 (7th day) (My Bar Mitzvah Haftorahthe chanting of this first line burned into my head) VAYEDABER DAVID LUHYAHWEH ET-DIVREY HASHIRAH HA ZOT BEYOM. HITSIL YAHWEH OTO. MIKAF KOL OYEVAV, UMEKAF SHA-OO-O-L (22:1) = And spoke David to Yahweh these words on the day when Elohim delivered him from the hands of his enemies, including the hand of Saul. YHWHs hand here is implied as being the same as what delivered Israel out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm (Exodus 6:6). This is contrasted with the weakness and uncertainty of mans arm. SALIMITZUDATIPALATIMAGINI (22:3-4) = My Rock, my Fortress, my Savior, my Shield. Each of these terms is special. SALI (my rock) is spelled the same at root level as SELAHthe line from the Psalms which means to exalt, lift up. MITZUDATI (my fortress) is where we get the name MASADA, though that wasnt built in Tanakh times. PALATI (My Savior) is of course a synonym for YESHUATI from where we get Yshua. MAGINI (My shield) is where we get Magen David or star/shield of David. MINOGHA NEGDO BAARU GACHALEY-ESH (22:13) = Through brightness before Him, the coals of fire were kindled. This word NOGHA, may be responsible for one of the biggest translation problems in the NT. The Hebrew here has a near-exclusive meaning of brightness. However, in Yshuas Aramaic dialect NEGHA (spelled the same way) also can mean to put to bed or close down. As a result, the Greek redactor thought the Aramaic was saying that the Sabbath was DAWNING/SHINING. This is reflected by different Greek words, including EPIPHOSKO (growing light, dawning). However it was really saying in Aramaic that the ANNUAL SABBATH (the 15th of Abib, when Yshua died) was GOING TO BED, ending, which it was on that late Thursday afternoon. This is one reason among several that explains why Greek believers were so convinced Yshua died on a Friday when his own statement in Matthew 12:38-40 said he couldnt have. 12 | P a g e

TAMIM (22:30) = Literally means complete but in this context means His way is sound/blameless. MIGDOL YESHUAT MALKO (22:51) = He is a Tower of Salvation for His king. Beautiful imagery. YESHUAT = Yshua, who is MALKA (king). As for tower that is the name of the place Mary Magdalene (of Migdol) is from. 3) Isaiah 10:32-12:6 (8th day) VENACHAH ALAV RUACH YAHWEHRUACH CHOCHMAH, UVINAH RUACH ETSAH UGEVURAH, RUACH DAAT YIRAT YAHWEH (11:2) = The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: A spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and fear of Yahweh. Some of these spirits are masculine form and others feminine. This is the inspiration I think for Yochanan in his Aramaic to mix two masculine verbs with one feminine noun. This happens in 1:1, BERESHIT AYTOHI HWA MILTHA, in the beginning there was the Miltha (Word). The words for THERE and WAS are masculine verbs and MILTHA is a feminine noun. This makes no sense in Aramaic, unless we realize that Yochanan is thinking of this verse in Isaiah where masculine and feminine spirits that are from Yahweh and are Yahweh rest upon or inside Messiah! HANA EL YESHUATI (12:1) = Behold El is My Salvation. Els salvation is of course Yshua, the same word and verb in Hebrew that becomes his proper name. The only difference is that his name is YAH is Salvation, as opposed to El, but the name YAH is in the word for salvation even though it is El who is doing the saving. VII. Renewed Covenant readings for Pesach, Part 2 (with commentary and footnote readings, where applicable). 1) Luke 23:55-56
(Luk 23:55) And those women who came with him from Galeela were drawing near, and they saw the tomb, and how his body had been placed. (Luk 23:56) And they returned and prepared spices and perfume and rested on the (weekly)164 Shabbat as was commanded. 164) This refers to the weekly Shabbat, from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, which is the only one tied to one of the Ten Commandments, as in commandment #4, "Remember the Shabbat day to keep it Set-Apart." (Exo_20:8).

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Yochanan 20:26-31
(Joh 20:26) And after eight days the disciples were again inside. And Tooma was with them and Y'shua came while the doors were locked and stood in the midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." (Joh 20:27) And he said to Tooma, "Place your finger here and see my hands and place your hand and stretch it in my side and do not be an unbeliever, but a believer." (Joh 20:28) And Tooma answered and said to him, "My Master and my Elohim!" (Joh 20:29) Y'shua said to him, "Now that you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who do not see me and believe." (Joh 20:30) Now Y'shua did many other miracles before his disciples that are not written in this book. (Joh 20:31) Indeed, these things are but written that you might believe that Y'shua is the Mashiyach, the Son of Elohim, and when you believe you might have in his name life that is eternal.

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Yochanan 21:1-25

(Joh 21:1) After these things Y'shua revealed himself again to his disciples by the sea of Tiberius. Now he appeared in this way: (Joh 21:2) There were together Shimon Keefa and Tooma, who is called the Twin,236 and Nathaniel (Bar-Tulmay), who was from Qatneh of Galeela, and the sons of Zawdee, and two others of the disciples. 236) Taama means "Twin," and sounds similar to tooma; this wordplay is absent in Greek translations. (PY) (Joh 21:3) Shimon Keefa said to them, "I go to catch fish." They said to him, "We will also come with you." And they departed and embarked into a ship. And during that night they did not catch anything. (Joh 21:4) And when it became morning, Y'shua stood at the edge of the sea, and the disciples did not realize that it was Y'shua. (Joh 21:5) And Y'shua said to them, "Children, do you have something to eat?" They said "No!" to him. (Joh 21:6) He said to them, "Cast your net from the right side of the ship and you will find." And they cast it and they were not able to drag the net in from the multitude of fish that it had caught. (Joh 21:7) And that disciple whom Y'shua had loved said to Keefa, "This man is

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our Master!" And when Shimon heard237 that it was our Master, he took his garment and girded his loins, because he was naked, and threw himself into the sea that he might come to Y'shua. 237) Wordplay between "Shimon" (Keefa) and "shema" (hear), appearing very close to one another. (PY) (Joh 21:8) But the other disciples came by boat for they were not very far from the land, only but about two hundred cubits, and they were dragging that net of fish. (Joh 21:9) When they had come up onto the land they saw burning coals, and placed fish and placed bread upon them. (Joh 21:10) Y'shua said to them, "Bring some of those, now that you have caught fish!" (Joh 21:11) And Shimon Keefa embarked and dragged the net to land, being full of one hundred and fifty and three great fish.238 And with all this weight, that net was not torn. 238) How significant is 153 great fish? Each Hebrew letter has a corresponding number (gematriya value), for example 153 is the gematria, the numeric value of the word Betzelel, the name of the man who built the Ark of the Covenant and whose name means in the shadow of El. HaPesach (the Passover) also adds up to 153. The 17th triangular number adds up to 153 (start a pyramid at the top with number 1, next level 1 and 2, next level 1, 2, and 3, and so on until your base has 17 units and the total for all those units is 153), some then view this symbolically as 10 (Commandments) and 7 (Shabbat or Completion) signifying those who keep the Commandments and have entered into Shabbat according to the completed work of Mashiyach, and there are plenty more ideas and variations. However, the context of Yochanan 21 is salvation and redemption of YHWHs people, there are beautiful, tender and convicting verses in this chapter that speak of loving and tending to YHWHs people, those who are pressing into the Kingdom of Heaven. Far beyond the scope of our religious identities of Judaism, or Christianity, or Messianic, or Hebraic denominationalism, or YHWHs Jewish or Greek or Aramean or black or white peoples, is His universal Kingdom of Heaven and the redemption He has brought through Mashiyach. The number of 153 great fish, points to the greatest of redemptions, in an elegant and profound way it points to, you, who are reading and studying this Aramaic English New Testament Bible. A massive amount of research has uncovered the sequence of the ancient Hebrew calendar and priesthood as they relate to our modern times, 153 is the story of the final generation before the return of Mashiyach the details of which are recorded in the publication Wheel of Stars. (Joh 21:12) Y'shua said to them, "Come dine." Not one of the disciples did dare to ask him who he was, for they had known that he was our Master. (Joh 21:13) And Y'shua drew near and took the bread and fish and gave to them.

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(Joh 21:14) This was the third time that Y'shua had appeared to his disciples after he had risen from the grave. (Joh 21:15) Now after they had dined, Y'shua said to Shimon Keefa, "Shimon, son of Yonah, do you love me more than these?"239 239) Aramaic word rakhem (love) can refer to all forms of love and affection, from friend, to brother, and all the way up to loving obedience to a master or king. Y'shua asks this question of Keefa three times in part to "counteract" the three denials, but also to ensure that Keefa understands the kind of love Y'shua is looking for: "Will you Keefa follow me no matter what, when it is hard and painful and regardless of personal sacrifice?" The rakhem of loving obedience is what is meant here moreso than casual friendship. He said to him, "Yes my Master you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my lambs for me."240 240) Khabouris includes Y'shua's name directly as the speaker whereas 1905 does not, but it is not in doubt there either. Khabouris reading is retained in the Aramaic. (Joh 21:16) He said again to him the second time, "Shimon son of Yonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes my Master. You know that I love you." Y'shua said to him, "Tend my sheep for me." (Joh 21:17) He said the third time to him, "Shimon son of Yonah, do you love me?" And Keefa was sad that he said the third time241 to him, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "My Master, you understand everything. You know that I love you." Y'shua said to him, "Tend my ewes242 for me. 241) Khabouris has "again the third" rather than 1905's "the third." Khabouris reading is adopted in the Aramaic. 242) Aramaic says "ewes" (female sheep) rather than the Greek's male sheep twice or a mixed un-differentiated group of sheep (probaton). The message in Aramaic is that Y'shua clearly wants both his male and female followers nurtured by the leaders who come after him. (Joh 21:18) Amen, amen I say to you that when you were a boy, you had girded your loins yourself and had walked to wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you stretch out your hands and another will dress you (as a servant),243 and will conduct you to where you do not want." (Joh 21:19) And this he said that he might show by what death he would glorify Elohim. And after he said these things to him, "Come follow me." (Joh 21:20) And Shimon Keefa turned and saw the disciple who followed him whom Y'shua had loved, the one who had fallen upon the breast of Y'shua during the supper, and said, "My Master, who will betray you?" (Joh 21:21) This man he saw when Keefa said to Y'shua, "My Master, and what of this man?"

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(Joh 21:22) Y'shua said to him, "What is it to you if I desire that this man remain until I return? You come and follow me!" (Joh 21:23) And this saying went out among the Brothers that that disciple would not die. But Y'shua did not say that he would not die; rather, "If I desire that this man remain until I return, what is it to you?" (Joh 21:24) This is the disciple who testified about all these things and wrote them and we know that his testimony is true. (Joh 21:25) And there are many other things that Y'shua did, which if those were written one by one, not even the world as I suppose would be sufficiently large enough for the books that would be written.

VIII. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) IX.

Calendar observations about Pesach. 1 Kings 6:1 and 2 Chronicles 3:1 tells us the year, month and day. Understanding the real rule for finding Abib. Finding the day of the Exodus. All about the sevens. How one calendar hands off to another.

Understanding the timings of Pesach and Passion Week. (Commentary supplemented with When Did Yshua Die? PowerPoint notes.)

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