Much, much, much there is to share. How do I begin? In recent months, more than ever before, as we have begun looking at the hidden writings, more at the Sohd “secret” level in Scripture, there has been an explosion. I have written dozens and dozens (some finished, some as yet unfinished) of documents that I would love to share. One thing leads to another and, as I’ve said before, it is much like trying to take sips from a fire hose. So, I’ll share a small piece here and then hope to be able soon to move to a next piece. In Blog 105 I shared Doctrine #1 from our headmaster at Yeshiva, The Doctrine of the Road. You may get there by searching “doctrine road,” or from the Table of Contents, Blog 105. I encourage you to read the Doctrine of the Road once again, and I will share a couple of “parables,” if you will, related to that Doctrine. And then I will share one peek at what our title mentions, which hopefully will introduce much more for the future. ((Yeshiva is derived from the root ישב p.111 settle down; dwell in peace. Often ישב is translated as “to sit.”))
My first week at the Yeshiva 10 years ago was very instructive. It was a small school, all students sitting around a single large table, a seminar-type setting. All students of the four-year doctoral program sat together at the table, no matter what year they were in. Instructors taught from a lectern, and there was much interaction, not simply presentations made without discussion. As newer students, we learned as much from the interaction with one another and the exchanges with the instructor as we did from the formal talk. Instructors were from many walks of life. Our students were very diverse, from many different backgrounds, of many different ages and occupations. These were not folks straight from undergraduate schools, but people who had lived life, and brought their experiences with them. This is the road our headmaster describes, a path of many twists and turns. We encounter others on the path. Some are being paid to instruct, but in truth, all are messengers, ones who carry a word from God. Each twist and turn teaches, and when we encounter others, the ideal is that we stop to chat. We remind one another, there is yet much farther to go.
Much like the Yeshiva is the sharing on the website. My great hope is that I am not seen as a teacher, but as a fellow student of life who has been blessed to have been shown certain hidden things that have been made available along the way. I’m stopping to chat with you in hopes that it will help you on your journey. What I share is no end point. What I share has blessed me, and I hope it will, like fellow students around the table of life, be of some benefit to those not quite as far along the path. I am not the teacher, but a fellow sojourner.
Matthew 23:8-10
8 But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Messiah, and you are all brethren. 9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Messiah.
We are so very blessed to have Scripture, the Word of God, to help us to interpret the messages he sends us each day. He is continually speaking to us, and we are frequently not hearing or seeing. (Is6:9-10; Mt13:13-14; Mk4:12; Lk8:10) His Word does speak to us on many levels, at any point along the path. Different levels of meaning in the PaRDeS (and beyond) are each true and each touch us exactly where we are in our lives. I have been blessed to be able to share with you some things learned along the path, the road. But think not that I teach. We are simply chatting along the road. I have much yet to learn and am learning as I go. The important thing for me on the website over the past months is to do my best to testify to what is true, based on what I see in the text as guided by ones who have gone before as condensed in the EDBH (Hirsch and Clark with many contributors). I go first to Scripture itself, to allow it to interpret itself, and then may look for other witnesses. But life brings witnesses very timely. I tend not to go to commentaries because I want the “real thing” written in the words of the Book.
My parents were from what has been dubbed “America’s Greatest Generation.” They were the World War II generation, and my dad did his military service during the war. One thing he taught us as children, when camping, going on trips, whatever, was “Always leave a place better than you found it.” I think that Generation did so. Would that each generation following one before would be “The Greatest Generation.” But it is not so; indeed we go in cycles, just as does Creation. Maybe the Jewish motto of Tikkun Olam, “Heal the World,” is about leaving the place a little better than you found it. Making baby steps. My efforts here are baby steps, taken in the footsteps of great ones that have gone before. I am making an effort to make Scriptural understanding a little better, which may perhaps move closer to a healed world. Scripture includes within itself both revelation of life, but also revelation of how to understand itself. Scripture interprets Scripture, “Analogy of Faith,” Post 04. Interpretation Overview. Our efforts, reaching more thoroughly into what is hidden hopefully will draw all people closer to the Creator. A few baby steps toward a greater generation.
So here we are. I want to share a few simple things with you, but also want you to know these methods I am still researching, as any honest researcher will do, to see if hypotheses prove to be accurate. I’m going to share techniques (still in process of “proving,” though there has been much, much background work done before bringing it to light). There may be things you question, and that is healthy. That is the Messiah path (more on that, shortly). Remain skeptical. Test things. Trust God, not mankind.
I’ve shared of late the ways I have been exploring the cognate permutations in various passages of Scripture. This is what I have used, I who want to try to replicate it, to test it, to be another witness. Clark’s book has hinted at many things. His quoted verses have taught much more, but in the end, there are still some “judgment calls” that have to be made. I may have made wrong calls. I do my best, but I am fallible. Only One is good.
I have been using as “rules” for prioritizing in the groupings of letters in the passages to form the “hidden words:”
1.) Single words given priority and are a “stop point.” Restart after that.2.) Proximity (fewest number of intervening words)3.) Order (earlier in the verse if proximity is the same)4.) As we have stated before יהוה is never “dissected” as a part of the cognate permutation formation, but is not a “stop point,” that is, the formation can “bridge” HaShem’s name.
So, a few things I want to share today from my studies and from what is written above, and then a bit more.
CORRECTION: since posting this, I have done quite a bit more work in using these methods. I am recommending switching order and proximity, dropping the parenthetical phrase after order. You will notice in a few entries after this, I have shown some alternatives. Still, I may be in error, as an investigator, but as of today, 15 May, 2023, I recommend the following:
1.) Single words given priority and are a “stop point.” Restart after that.
2.) Order of appearance of letters
3.) Proximity (fewest number of intervening words)
4.) As we have stated before יהוה is never “dissected” as a part of the cognate permutation formation, but is not a “stop point,” that is, the formation can “bridge” HaShem’s name.
Any Blog after Blog 137 should be clearly using this new priority.
First two words from the verses above, though in Hebrew, Messiah and brethren. The first is Messiah. Recall we have been using מ reflecting נ as a guide in interpretation (much on that previously). There is much substantiation for this in Hebrew and Greek Scripture. For our purposes here today,
Tanakh (10 results)
1. Shemot 4:3 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַיֹּאמֶר הַשְׁלִיכֵהוּ אַרְצָה וַיַּשְׁלִכֵהוּ אַרְצָה וַיְהִי לְנָחָשׁ וַיָּנׇס מֹשֶׁה מִפָּנָיו.
2. Shemot 14:27 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַיֵּט מֹשֶׁה אֶת יָדוֹ עַל הַיָּם וַיָּשׇׁב הַיָּם לִפְנוֹת בֹּקֶר לְאֵיתָנוֹ וּמִצְרַיִם נָסִים לִקְרָאתוֹ וַיְנַעֵר י״י אֶת מִצְרַיִםבְּתוֹךְ הַיָּם.
3. Shemot 17:2 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַיָּרֶב הָעָם עִם מֹשֶׁה וַיֹּאמְרוּ תְּנוּ לָנוּ מַיִם וְנִשְׁתֶּה וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם מֹשֶׁה מַה תְּרִיבוּן עִמָּדִי מַה תְּנַסּוּן אֶת י״י.
4. Shemot 17:15 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַיִּבֶן מֹשֶׁה מִזְבֵּחַ וַיִּקְרָא שְׁמוֹ י״י נִסִּי.
5. Shemot 20:16 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל הָעָם אַל תִּירָאוּ כִּי לְבַעֲבוּר נַסּוֹת אֶתְכֶם בָּא הָאֱלֹהִים וּבַעֲבוּר תִּהְיֶה יִרְאָתוֹ עַל פְּנֵיכֶםלְבִלְתִּי תֶחֱטָאוּ.
6. Bemidbar 10:35 (Mikraot Gedolot)
׆ וַיְהִי בִּנְסֹעַ הָאָרֹן וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה קוּמָה י״י וְיָפֻצוּ אֹיְבֶיךָ וְיָנֻסוּ מְשַׂנְאֶיךָ מִפָּנֶיךָ.
7. Bemidbar 21:8 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַיֹּאמֶר י״י אֶל מֹשֶׁה עֲשֵׂה לְךָ שָׂרָף וְשִׂים אֹתוֹ עַל נֵס וְהָיָה כׇּל הַנָּשׁוּךְ וְרָאָה אֹתוֹ וָחָי.
8. Bemidbar 21:9 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַיַּעַשׂ מֹשֶׁה נְחַשׁ נְחֹשֶׁת וַיְשִׂמֵהוּ עַל הַנֵּס וְהָיָה אִם נָשַׁךְ הַנָּחָשׁ אֶת אִישׁ וְהִבִּיט אֶל נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת וָחָי.
9. Devarim 34:7 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וּמֹשֶׁה בֶּן מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה בְּמֹתוֹ לֹא כָהֲתָה עֵינוֹ וְלֹא נָס לֵחֹה.
10. Yehoshua 20:6 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וְיָשַׁב בָּעִיר הַהִיא עַד עׇמְדוֹ לִפְנֵי הָעֵדָה לַמִּשְׁפָּט עַד מוֹת הַכֹּהֵן הַגָּדוֹל אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶה בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם אָז יָשׁוּבהָרוֹצֵחַ וּבָא אֶל עִירוֹ וְאֶל בֵּיתוֹ אֶל הָעִיר אֲשֶׁר נָס מִשָּׁם.
you may want to look them all up – some are more “hidden” than others. Look particularly at numbers 1, 4, and 6.
Also in the Greek, John3:14, 12:32, for example.
As you look at the roots below and the cognates, see משה which is the root for Moses/Moshe, which means ”drawn from water.” See how that will tie into discussion below.
As you can see, there are many cognates for these words, and there would be even more with permutations included. Look carefully in the brackets []. The point, of course, first, is FOR GOD. The Messiah Path may well be to separate and move in opposition, as long as one is focused on God’s will and not “my will.” That is the kicker, of course, to be able to step aside from what is “my will” (LogAndSpeck).
BRETHREN – briefly, the Hebrew word is אח:
See that the two cognates אהה p.4 express pain and ההה p.57 express pain are about pain. When we are able to recognize the hidden things in another that have brought them to the level of pain in which they live, this is unity; bringing together. If we look at their life, if we look in their eyes, if we allow ourselves to recognize, then they become our brethren. And both are lifted up by the experience. The Messiah Path.
Just a couple more things I’d like to cover today. I have focused recently in my background work on looking at cognate permutations for three words, which you can see are related. This is tied in, obviously, to the sharing before about דם and דמים, doing a deeper dive. I helps me understand more, and I hope it will for you. The three words I’ve been looking at are דמים and מים and ים. I already shared some on דמים, and hopefully will more later. Here a little glimpse into מים and ים.
Most often מים is translated as water or waters (מים is also found in שמים meaning heaven or skies – not for today). Most often ים is translated as sea. These two are obviously related. We have seen many times here previously that water is symbolic of teaching. The first step for me was to do some cognate permutation exercises, finding all the related roots (and some associated words). These are the cognate permutation definitions distilled fro the listing of the cognate meanings. As is often the case, there may be a spectrum.
ים cognate permutations (strengthen/weaken)
מים cognate permutations (established in hiding)
This was huge for me. What it meant to me (please test these out) is that the real teaching is done, established “in hiding.” You will note above I put the word “hidden” in bold because that is a huge theme. The reason the Teacher in the first four books of the Greek Scriptures taught in Parables, was that his teaching was “hidden,” so that many could not see (though those knowing his voice could ‘follow’ – John20:27). He did give a very clear example of the hidden teaching in the Parable of the Sower, with explanation after. There are other places of “hiding,” one of which is what we are exploring. Remember we are to eat of all the trees but the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Read the “hidden things” which are highlighted in color.
And see this passage from Proverbs I will not fully dissect, but show you one word:
Proverbs 2:1-5 NKJV
1 My son, if you receive my words,
And treasure my commands within you,
2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
And apply your heart to understanding;
3 Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
And lift up your voice for understanding,
4 If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
5 Then you will understand the fear of the LORD,
And find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:1-5
1 בְּ֭נִי אִם־תִּקַּ֣ח אֲמָרָ֑י וּ֝מִצְוֹתַ֗י תִּצְפֹּ֥ן אִתָּֽךְ׃
2 לְהַקְשִׁ֣יב לַֽחָכְמָ֣ה אָזְנֶ֑ךָ תַּטֶּ֥ה לִ֝בְּךָ֗ לַתְּבוּנָֽה׃
3 כִּ֤י אִ֣ם לַבִּינָ֣ה תִקְרָ֑א לַ֝תְּבוּנָ֗ה תִּתֵּ֥ן קוֹלֶֽךָ׃
4 אִם־תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥נָּה כַכָּ֑סֶף וְֽכַמַּטְמוֹנִ֥ים תַּחְפְּשֶֽׂנָּה׃
5 אָ֗ז תָּ֭בִין יִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת אֱלֹהִ֣ים תִּמְצָֽא׃
- But (more in the future, hopefully) there is always a caution with Solomon. Though the wisest man ever, he did not follow the repeated instructions, as seen in 1S12:14-25; 1K2:3-4; 1Chr22:12-13.
Really read this passage. See that the word in bold includes ים and מים. It also “happens to” include a cognate permutation of דמים which we have understood as “excess,” going beyond the determined limits (more another time). Perhaps that was the issue?
We will delve much more, I expect, but I will call it a wrap for today. Tikkun olam. Make our world a little better place with your efforts, using the gifts and talents you have been given. Listen to God’s voice. Share with others on the road. Lift others up.
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