Begin At His Beginning – B’reshiyt

As mentioned in the last post we are at the start of the annual weekly scripture portions reading through Tanakh comprising the Torah, the Haftorah and the Brit Chadashah/Re New-ed Covenant/Testament.

So we should therefore…

Begin at His Beginning

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית

B’reshiyt

Genesis

בראשית

Strong’s Hebrew: 7307. ר֫וּחַ (ruach) — breath, wind, spirit

Strong’s Hebrew: 430. אֱלֹהִים (elohim) — God, god

Ruach Elohim Chayim

ROO-akh e-lo-HEEM KHAI-yeem

Spirit of the Living God.

2 Cor. 3:3.

Spirit of the LORD God

 RUKh ELHIM.

Transliteration: Ruach Elohim. 

Noun: “Elohim’s directing power”.

Strongs Concordance: H7306 and H430. 

רוּחַ  Ruach

Pronounced: roo’-akh – breath, wind, spirit

אֱלהִים elohim

Pronounced: el-o-heem – God

Ruach ‘Elohiym

fluttering

on the face of the waters…

Genesis 1:2 
HEB: פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת
NAS: of the deep, and the Spirit of God
KJV: of the deep. And the Spirit of God

and God said

Let Light Be and Light was

and God saith, ‘Let light be;’

and light is.

Youngs Literal Translation

The Word was there

B’reshiyt – in the beginning,

at the shaping of the heavens and the earth.

The Word was with God and the Word was God.

Without Him not even one thing existed

for it was through Him He spoke and

all things came into being.

Millennia later that same Word

was made flesh and lived among us.

John 1:14

A translation of

Genesis

B’reshiyt

from the Hebrew words and their meanings:

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית

B’reshiyt

Chapter 1, Verse 1 

in~SUMMIT בְּרֵאשִׁית / bê’rey’shit 

he~did~SHAPE(V) בָּרָא / ba’ra

Elohiym אֱלֹהִים / e’lo’him

AT אֵת / eyt 

the~SKY s~ הַשָּׁמַיִם / ha’sha’ma’yim 

and~AT וְאֵת /wê’eyt

the~LAND הָאָרֶץ / ha’a’rets

Could be read as:

In the summit Elohiym shaped the skies and the land,

Verse 2 

and~the~LAND  וְהָאָרֶץ / wê’ha’a’rets 

she~did~EXIST(V)  הָיְתָה / hai’tah

CONFUSION  תֹהוּ / to’hu 

and~UNFILLED  וָבֹהוּ / wa’vo’hu

and~DARKNESS וְחֹשֶׁךְ /wê’hho’shekh 

UPON עַל / al FACE~s פְּנֵי / pê’ney DEEP.

WATER תְהוֹם /tê’hom

and~WIND וְרוּחַ /wê’ru’ahh

Elohiym אֱלֹהִים /e’lo’him

much~FLUTTER (V)~ing(fs) מְרַחֶפֶת / mê’ra’hhe’phet 

UPON  עַל / al

FACE~s  פְּנֵי / pê’ney 

the~WATER~s הַמָּיִם /ha’ma’yim

Could be read as: and the land had existed in confusion and was unfilled, and darkness was upon the face of the deep water and the wind of Elohiym was fluttering upon the face of the waters,

The fluttering

is significant as we read in 

Mark 1:10

“he (John) saw the heavens torn open, and the Spirit like a dove descending on Him (Jesus).

The wings of a dove are always

fluttering

to stay in the air.

Here was the Son, the Father as He spoke, and His Spirit was present descending in the same way a fluttering dove would hover just as He had overshadowed Mary several decades previously.

Verse 3 

and~he~will~SAY וַיֹּאמֶר / wai’yo’mer

Elohiym אֱלֹהִים / e’lo’him he~will~EXIST(V)

יְהִי / yê’hi) LIGHT אוֹר / or

and

~he~will~EXIST(V) וַיְהִי / wai’hi

LIGHT אוֹר / or

Could be read as:

and Elohiym said,

light will exist,

and

light existed.

For those desiring to do further research

there is an excellent transliteration site

of Hebrew to English is at qbible.com

Emptiness and the deep gave way to substance;

and darkness gave way to light.

Nothingness obeyed the Word

and responded to the authority of His will.

Then creation stumbled in humanity, in us,

when humanity heard the Word,

substance became nothingness

and light reverted to darkness.

It should give us pause for thought when

nothingness can hear and obey!

Then why are we so stubborn?

We so often fail to both hear, to listen to His Word and do what He says!

Even nothingness was not rebellious to the Creators voice!

This heart of rebellion in the human soul echoes the words of the slyest beast of the field…

Did God say?

Did He really say?

The voice of doubt, curiosity and rebellion, seeks a compromise of His truth and in the very question, undermines the authority of His Sovereignty in our lives. These doubts attack our convictions and then we consider other things that amount to nothing more than deceptive seducing lies; then we begin to entertain thoughts concerning them…and eventually believe the error.

He has given each of us

the power to choose when we hear His Word.

To listen and obey,

or to ignore,

separation from the Father is the inevitable result.

Sin will always challenge the Word

BUT

the good news is

we have been created anew

and have been given New Life in Messiah

and been granted rulership over sin.

We are new creatures in His image and likeness

and have the power in Yeshua/Jesus

to turn from sin and darkness.

Halleluyah!

In Hebrew Bereshit or B’reshiyt

is the first word of the 1st book of the Bible/Tanakh.

And so the title is its’ beginning.

(His Torah being the first 5 books attributed to Moses).

The very first letter of the 1st word is

B

in the Hebrew alefbet

Bet/Beit/Beyt

and herein is the 1st revelation/revealing

of Adonai/Yehoveh/YHVH.

This letter Bet or Beit means house.

Some scholars point out that the letter itself is composed of

3 x the letter shape of the letter vav

(our letter V as in vine).

Bet is also used for the letter V, vet without the dot.

Vav represents the number 6

which is considered the number of man.

Side note: 3×6! Sounds familiar?

Revelation 13:18 says,

Here is wisdom.

Let him who has understanding

calculate the number of that beast,

for the number is that of a man;

and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

Vav Vav Vav

not to forget a previous post on who has our vav!

https://www.minimannamoments.com/in-times-of-need-and-during-days-of-uncertainty-whos-got-our-vav/

 

 

In the letter B,

is then the sum of 3×6=18

and is the same numerical value

as that of the word for LIFE – Chai.

This could be said as:

the house of creation is then the life of the universe?

The same word Bet

also has another function

in the Hebrew language

and means IN.

This suggests our Creators intention of

living/abiding

withIN this realm He created.

This voice/Kol,

that He spoke,

reveals the glorious power of the creation of the universe

by His spoken Word

and in a way reveals the threefold nature of Yehoveh by the use of the plural ElohIM and the word bara He created; which we noted earlier that all 3 were present at Yeshua/Jesus’ immersion.

Let’s take a moment to remember

our bereshiyt, our beginning,

the day we were forgiven,

redeemed,

cleansed,

delivered from darkness

and brought into His glorious light.

The day we repented of our sin

accepted His free gift of salvation and eternal life;

cleansed and restored to fellowship/relationship with Him.

We are made clean by His redeeming Blood and

the washing of the water of the Word.

This was the moment

Our Heavenly Father

said/spoke

to each of us:

Light Be!

יְהִי / yê’hi) LIGHT אוֹר / or and

His spirit of holiness, His

רוּחַ  Ruach אֱלהִים elohim

Pronounced: roo’-akh -el-o-heem

fluttered over us

much~FLUTTER (V)~ing(fs) מְרַחֶפֶת / mê’ra’hhe’phet, 

and darkness had to flee from us.

Yes, God did say ….

May we have ears to hear and eyes to see

and a heart to obey

the Word that He really and truly spoke.

His plan was and is to give us Life/ Chaim

and the Light was the Life of all humanity

Jesus/Yeshua HaMashiach. The WORD there in the 

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית

He truly is the Genesis, the beginning, the b’reshiyt;

our beginning, our b’reshiyt, …

it is the Truth of us all!

Shalom shalom

‘Mishpachah’

‘Family/Tribe’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa,

friends, visitors and every reader…

Please don’t leave this page before making certain you have

a new b’reshiyt/beginning

and are born from above.

Know of a certainty that Jesus/Yeshua is

your Redeemer, Savior, Lord

and soon returning King

and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

 

Apocalypse of the Trump – Part 3- The Sound Of The Neshamah?

In Part 2 we saw where there was a further

apocalypse/revealing,

in

this trump,

this shofar,

because each of the letters in the Hebrew Alef-bet, also represent numbers.

Part 3 concludes The Apocalypse Of The Trump with the sound of the Neshama, (Neshamah/Neshimah), The Breath of God.

 neshama (נְשָׁמָה nəšâmâh – Hebrew from the root nšm or breath).

Neshemah chayyim – breath of life.

Chayyim/Chaim is plural (literally lives/lifes, not life) Elohim is also plural.

The breath of our spirit and soul is combined with the wind, or breath that comes out from our inner selves. That wind or breath is then released out from our bodies.

In reality it is in part, the expelling of the breath of God’s life(chaim) in us. This same breath of God that was breathed into Adam.

God breathed lives/chaim/Chayyim into Adam.

For us as believers, our born again spirit, is further infused by the Ruach/Spirit of God.

The life-force is not a result of organic material, it is from God. The scripture says that spirit returns to Him when it leaves these physical bodies.

Following this thought…… Is it His indwelling Ruach/Spirit/Breath/Life/Chaim, that flows out through us and transferring along the shofar as it it blown/sounded; then it ascends to the realms of the heavens? The chaim, the lifes of God, issuing forth as Ruach/Spirit into the Shamayim/heavens.

Let’s look a little further…

As His presence was there at Sinai, at the Akedah/the binding of Isaac, and as the 2 shofars were ready to step in at the sacrifice and intervene/save/resurrect, the son.

That since God could raise him from the dead to perform his promises, he would sacrifice him to obey God’s command. Heb. 11:9

This faith grew from what God had done, in giving him Isaac from his own dead body, and Sarah’s dead womb.

The Covenant mandate was met; and God Who was the bodily fulfillment of the promise, eventually came. God will provide HIMSELF the Lamb.

He was to become the Lamb and prophetically declared it ahead of time.

Another mystical property of the sounds of the shofar, is the amazing ability to express the inner human neshama in the form of sound. (The shofar is not classed as a musical instrument.) 

Neshimah

Breath: Psalms 150:6

Nun/Noon – Shin/Sheen – Mem – Hey/Heh

Some Sages teach that the sound made by the shofar, IS the sound of the human neshama, the soul itself to which the 5 physical senses are connected.

Hearing is an essential part of the well known Hebrew prayer called the Shema.

Long before Messiahs day, the Israelites recited a daily prayer called the Shema. The prayer comes directly from Deut. 6 and is a way for them to commit themselves to listening to God’s word and obeying it.

Strongs # 8086 shama/shema שְׁמַע Pronounced: shem-ah’

 

Just as there is no single Hebrew word meaning obey, there also is no specific English word for shema. While this Hebrew verb translates as, hear or listen, it means much more than just hearing or listening. It is an excellent example of the mindset difference between Hebrew, which stresses physical action and Greek and Western culture that stresses mental activity.

SHEMA: means HEAR and OBEY or LISTEN and DO.

In Mark 4:9, Jesus/Yeshua said, he who has ears to hear let him hear. And this would have included the understanding of action the same as believe it is an active participation not a mental assent or agreement. If we do not act on what we believe and hear we are not accomplishing what is required of us as believers.

Be a doer not a hearer only!

The individual who has ears to hear is the one who diligently attends to the words of Messiah, that he may ponder and OBEY them. Many heard Him out of curiosity, that they might bear something new, not that they might lay to heart the things which they heard, and endeavor to practice them in their lives.

This indeed is the true meaning of faith without works being dead and James 2:18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

Good works are obeying and doing. The action of doing the gospel message.

Blowing the shofar is possibly the raw sound of the neshama.

The bend of the shofar is said to be the transition between this world and the next; like a bridge, a joining, a vav, a portal, a dalet, a door; Jesus/Yeshua of course is THE door!

It is an entering in, through the veil. It’s a point of access into the heavenly places, joining the realm of His throne, to where we are situated, by the power of His Ruach flowing through us. Which is the voice/the kol of God.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-voice-kol

Is the shofar the depth of, or somehow at the root of speech with its’ connection to the voice of God?

Teshuvah, means to go back, to return.

Look behold return to the cross!

Teshuvah is a compound word consisting of the Hebrew Tashan, meaning Return, and Hey, the last letter of the JHVH/YHWH name for God, also represents the Shekinah/Glory, or manifest presence of God. Thus, Teshuvah is a time to return to the presence of God.

So, in a way, are we (spiritually), going back to the moment of creation, to go back into the womb of eternity, to the moment of conception when everything began?

Do we return to our fetal state, our moment of creation; which is why we say we are born again! and in turn experiencing the understanding of CHAIM/lives?

(In Hebrew thinking it is believed that this teshuvah/return is what is meant by memory/zichronotor remembering as a connecting function of Rosh HaShanah; when the blowing of trumpet/Shofar is sounded. The time of remembering when the Voice of God boomed out from Sinai’s summit.

Meaning of zichronot briefly explained:

There are 3 Basic Prayers said during Rosh HaShanah: Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot. Celebrating God as the incomparable King of The Universe.

These thoughts are inspired by the letters shin, fey/fay, and resh/reysh.

 The goal here, is to enjoy the silence that follows the shofar blast. To forget everything that is not urgently pressing for our immediate attention and to echo and reverberate with the vibrating air of the Shin, fey, resh/reysh which spells shofar. 

Sh f r, the ram’s horn, is a figure of speech for the sound, however is it more than air and breath?

It’s the shofar blower’s own vibrations, those buzzing lips that make the sound.

Is there anything else contained in the sound and in the letters that make up the word for shofar?

Other words with the same letters;

Shin/sheen, pey/pay/fey/fay, resh/reysh are:

shafar שָׁפַר  – to be good, pleasing
shiper שִׁפֵּר – to improve, to beautify
hishtaper הִשְׁתַפֵּר – to become better
shefer שֶׁפֶר – beauty 

This suggests the sound of the shofar may be pleasing to our ears, and have the effect of motivating self-improvement and change. Also that the echoes of the shofar uncover beauty throughout this coming year.
Truly the sounds of the shofar are unsettling and knock things out of kilter, and when placed in a different order, spell other words and different meanings.

Shin, resh, fay –sin, resh, fay or
Saraph שָֹרַף – a troublesome thought, a fiery serpent or angel
Sereipha שְֹרֵפָה – burning, fire, conflagration

Resh, shin, fay
Resheph רֶשֶׁף  – flame, spark, fever

Here we could say that the vibrations of the shofar stir up troublesome thoughts and the friction becomes fire. Our souls are burned by feverish minds and hot headed actions. However, the flames can also have a purifying effect too and burn away that which holds us down, the sin that so easily besets us and becomes a burden.

What happens next?
Rearrange the letters and we get more words:

What’s left after the fire? Is there a new spark bringing illumination to a new angle/aspect of our lives?

Resh, fay, shin
Rephesh רֶפֶשׁ  – mud, dirt, mire
Raphash רָפַשׁ – to trample, to pollute

Pay, shin, resh
Pashar פָּשַׁר – to melt, to be lukewarm

We must also see that the shofar itself is of this world and that the horn came from an animal. It’s not an instrument made in heaven.
In one way we are hearing our own human effort. While in this world we all get muddy, because our way of life tramples on beings around us whether we are aware of it or not.
This gives rise to the question we should regularly ask ourselves. Are we only lukewarm in our desire to change?

Turning the same letters around one last time gives us hope:
Pay, shin, resh
Pisher פִּשֵׁר – to compromise, arbitrate
Pesher פֵּשֶׁר – interpretation, solution

Just as the vibrations of the shofars sounds are unsettling, let us pray that they may reveal to us new perspectives and understanding that will lead to solutions for balance in our spiritual walk embracing only Godly, healthy compromise, which will always bring us full circle back to shefer, beauty and goodness.

So it seems, shofarot may be connected to malchuyot biblically, (blowing of the shofar as part of the coronation at 1 Kings 1:34, 39, 41) even if it isn’t necessarily connected with Rosh Hashanah in the biblical text.

Malchuyot is a means to reaffirm the coronation of The Lord as King of the Universe, on the day that commemorates the beginning, the world’s creation where participants try to capture something of the awe-inspiring nature of the Lord God.

As we teshuvah, do we in some way return to the moment when the memories or seeds, of the parents are given to us?

This same Hebrew concept postulates that the sound heard by Adam HaRishon/the first human, on wakening from his creation, was the sound of a shofar. The sound made by his neshama as it entered him; that is, the presence of the spirit of God flowing into Him.

Was Hearing the 1st of the 5 physical senses activated in Adam?

When we wake someone it’s by sound, by speaking their name or the sound of an alarm clock.

The name Adam originated from the Hebrew word, אָדָם . Pronounced: aw-dawm, which means human, as a species, male and female. The Scriptures use this literal meaning for Adam, meaning simply humans. 

These thoughts suggests that the shofar can also take us back to the very moment when our neshama entered us. 

If indeed the sound of the shofar is the voice of God, why wouldn’t it be able to do so?

neshaMah

nun shin mem hey

 נֶשַׁמַה 

(Strong’s #5397) means: breath and is sometimes used in place of nephesh or rûach, it is derived from: נָשַׁם nâsham meaning: to pant or blow away (Strong’s #5395).

Nefesh, neshama and ruach are Hebrew words for soul… The first is the air, as it is still in the trumpet blower’s cheeks; and this corresponds to the neshamah.

The soul, or neshamah, is the self, the I, that inhabits the body and acts through it. It is believed that everything has a Soul, not just human beings, but every created entity has one also.

Creatures have a voice too.

The understanding is that animals also have souls, as do plants and even inanimate objects;

every blade of grass has a soul, and every grain of sand as part of creation as a whole, has the breath of God’s life in it.

The diagram shows a little of how it is viewed by some.

These concepts are unfamiliar to our western mindset.

We have also limited ourselves by the restrictions of translated texts, which fogs the pictures contained within the Hebrew alef-bet. However, it is revealed to those willing to dig into the very roots of the original language of the God of creation; whose very act of speaking brought forth all that is.

This same conceptual thinking, will help us to understand why a ram was found at the very moment of sacrifice.

There is even an understanding among some scholars that Isaac expired and was resurrected?!

What is certain is at that precise moment a shofar became available. Two rams horns to be exact.

In Hebrew thought:
Just as earthly kings have horns and shofarot blown to celebrate the anniversary of their coronation, so The Lord wants the shofar blown on the anniversary of the Creation- when there came to be a world that God could rule over, as it is said:
In the same way as earthly kings have horns and shofarot blown to announce their decrees – and only after this warning actually enforce the decree, so The Lord wants the shofar blown to announce the beginning of the 10 Days of Return, when all are commanded to turn their lives around.
Just as the shofar blew when The Lord gave the Torah at Mount Sinai, so it blows to remind us each year to do as our forebears said at Sinai.
Just as Yehezekel (Ezekiel) compared the words of the Prophets, calling for the people to change their ways, to a shofar, so we must know that those who hear the shofar and do not take warning and change their lives will be responsible for their own destruction, as it is said: Because the shofar was blown as a war-alarm when the Temple was destroyed, it should remind us of the destruction of the Temple, the disaster that we brought upon ourselves, and thus should warn us to abandon our misdeeds in order to avert disaster, as it is said:
Because The Lord used a ram as a substitute sacrifice for Isaac, the ram’s horn should remind us how Isaac and Abraham were prepared to give up all their hopes and dreams for The Lord’s sake. Bereshit (Genesis) 22.
Since the blowing of a horn causes cities to tremble, so the shofar will make us tremble and fear our Creator, as it is said: Since the shofar will be blown on the great day of the Lord.
Since the shofar will be blown when the tempest-tossed of The Lord ’s people are gathered in harmony to the Land of Israel, we should hear the shofar to stir our longings for that day, as it is said: (Yeshayahu) Isaiah18:3
This reminds us of:
(Matityahu) Matthew 24:29-31
Since the shofar will be blown when Mashiach revives the dead, we hear the shofar in order to revive our faith in that supernatural transformation, the final victory of life and freedom over death, the ultimate oppressor, as it is said: and of another event at Yom Teruah  (Yehezekel) Ezekiel 37:1-14

Another use of the shofar is to bring about the will of The Lord. This instrument is capable of breaking down the greatest of barriers: (Yehoshua) Joshua 6:4-9
The shofar is used to gather the people: (Shoftim) Judges 3:27
The shofar is capable of bringing fear to the heart of even the most hardened man: (Shoftim) Judges 7:16 And he divided the 300  [into] 3 companies,
The shofar can be used to halt actions that are not helpful: (2 Shmuel) Samuel 2:28

The shofar is used to announce the new moon and the Jubilee year.

The Torah provides for the blast of the shofar on Yom Kipppur to mark the start of yovel, Lev. 25:9

In this next verse we see, again, that the shofar is used to indicate the presence of The Lord: (2 Shmuel) Samuel 6:15
The shofar is also used to alert us and to call us to battle against our enemies: Ezra-Nechemiah 4:18

The shofar is used to call all of The Lord’s people to repentance on Yom Teruah Rosh HaShanah Tehillim  Ps.81:3
As a call to return in repentance before The Lord, the shofar has no equal: Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 58:1

 

There are 4 different sounds associated with the blowing of the shofar during the Yom Teruah service:

 

These sounds are interpreted as follows:

TEKIAH – ‫תקיעה

The tekiah is a long blast.

A pure unbroken sound that calls man to search his heart/lev, turn from his wrong ways, and to seek forgiveness through repentance.

In an: It is finished! Proclamation of Gods’ sovereignty, hailing Him as ruler of the world. We, like the heralds trumpets, announce that the authority of the King has come; and at the Name of the Messiah, every knee shall bow.

The object of Yom Teruah/Rosh HaShana is to crown The Lord as our King. Tekiah, the long, straight shofar blast, is the sound of the King’s coronation. In the Garden of Eden/Gan Eden, Adam’s first act was to proclaim God as King; and now, the shofar proclaims to ourselves and to the world: God is our King.

We set our values straight and return to the reality, of God as the One Who runs the world; guiding history, moving mountains, and caring for each and every human being individually and personally.

SHEBARIM – ‫שברים

A broken, staccato, trembling sound. It  typifies the sorrow that comes to man when he realizes his misconduct and desires to change his ways. The shebarim or shevarim is 3 shorter blasts. It is said that Shebarim/Shevarim is the sobbing cry of a Hebrew heart yearning to connect, to grow, to achieve.

TERUAH – ‫תרועה

A wave-like sound of alarm calling upon man to stand by the banner of Ha shem. The teruah is 10 (some say 9) very quick short blasts. The Teruah sound resembles an alarm clock, waking us from our spiritual slumber. Num. 10 (Also in 2Chron., Jer., Joel and Zeph.)

This shofar sound brings clarity, alertness, and focus, to fix what’s broken, open our eyes.

TEKIAH GEDOLAH .  גדולה ‫תקיעה

The prolonged, unbroken sound typifying a final appeal to sincere repentance and atonement. This note concludes each set of blowing during the Rosh HaShanah ceremony. It has been described it as a sign of divine withdrawal, based on the verse: “When the Shofar sounds long, they [the people] shall come up to the mountain…” (Shemot 19:13).

Please click link below to hear the sounds described above: Shofar begins at 00:11 mark.

It has been said that the tekiah blast represents joy, whereas the blasts of the shebarim/shevarim and teruah represent pain and affliction.

Short Hebrew statement spoken as a prayer:

Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kidishanu bemitzvotav vetzivanu lazman hazeh.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this season.

When we blow the Shofar we are accepting the Kingship of the Master of the World.

‫היום הרת עולם

Hayom harat olam

This day is the birthday of the world !

 

Why is Rosh HaSahanah called the birth-day of the world?

 

Hebrew texts tell us that this life is a corridor to the next life.

Death is a birth to a new existence.

 

This is in line with the meaning of chaim meaning lifes, not just one life, as the IM of chaim means a plural, more than one life.

Just as emergence from the womb/racham constitutes physical birth, and detachment from that body is the birth of the soul into the physical realm of earth. In the same way as the 8 or 9 months in the womb is the time period preceding the earthly birth, the 70 or 80 years on earth are the preparation or gestation period preceding Birth into the heavenly realm.

(Click link bellow to see in the season of our hiding the full apocalypse/revealing)

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It could be said that Rosh HaShananah, is the birth canal of the new year!

 

It is very significant that a shofar with its narrow mouthpiece and wider opening somewhat resembles a birth canal?

In fact, the Bible mentions a great woman with a name of the same etymology/meaning: Shifrah. She was one of 2 named out of the many midwives of the ancient Hebrews who left Egypt.

Apparently the name Shifra comes from a Hebrew root word meaning: the capacity to make something better, or to improve its quality.

And that is what she did: In keeping with this characteristic, and contrary to Pharaoh’s orders, Shifrah ensured that the babies would emerge healthy and viable, then swaddled and massaged them to foster their strength and beauty.

 

The shofar is repleat with birth imagery:

It can be viewed as the birth canal, the air rushing through it to create a plaintive cry, is the breath of life, and the sound that we hear recalls the cries of labor.

Traditionally, we hear 100 blasts of the shofar during Rosh Hashanah. It has been said that the first 99 are the cries of a woman in labor, and the final one, equal to the tekiah gedolah, is the responding cry of the newborn child.

This day is the birthday of the world, or more accurately, this day is the pregnancy of the world.

On Rosh HaShanah our world becomes pregnant with Gods’ presence, and in a way He is pregnant with us, (carrying us).

It is a time of mutual awareness and understanding. It is the time when we enter the inner world, the world of the womb, in order to be reborn into change.

God intervened in the wombs of the matriarchs Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah and made them pregnant. Their stories are punctuated by an act of divine intervention:

God remembers [ז-כ-ר] or takes note [פ-ק-ד] of them; connecting the mysterious name of the day, called a memorial of trumpet blasts [זכרון תרועה; zikhron teruah] (Lev. 23:24),

to God’s remembering these women:

שָׂרָה saw-raw’. Sarah. Gen. 21:1

חַנָּה khan-naw’. Channah. 1 Sam. 1:19

רָחֵל  RAY-chel. Rachel. Gen. 30:22

On Rosh HaShanah, the stories of Sarah, Hannah, and Rachel are read to remind the listeners of the hope for new life.

In the same way He added the Heh/Hey into Abram and Sarai’s physical names.

Heh or Hey means: behold! look!

There is an understanding that Sarah, the mother of the Jewish people, herself was born on this day.

The story of the Akedah, the binding of Isaac, is also read. It describes the moment when Isaac is offered up as a sacrifice by his father Abraham, to let us know that this time of year also signals radical change, a part of us, the self life in enmity with God must die, in order to be reborn into the power of the resurrected life for another year.

We are the ones who inscribe ourselves for life or death by living our lives throughout the year the way we do. We are the ones who give birth to ourselves.

In the next world our birth and the nature of our experience will reflect the choices we, and we alone, made.

In this life we were born into circumstances beyond our control, but in the next life we will emerge from the womb/racham of circumstances we shaped with our daily life choices and actions.

If we are true to our soul here, then our soul will experience a happy birth in the next world. If we succumb to the low impulses of the material body, will we be confused and dismayed when we emerge into the wide space of eternity?

It is true to say that the shofar sounds like a child wailing.

Already mentioned is that Shofar is a Hebrew word that comes from a root meaning BEAUTY.

שָׁפַר

means: to beautify, alluding to the beautification of our ways as we turn to God in teshuvah. In this month (i.e., the seventh month of Tishrei) you shall amend (shapperu) your deeds.

Doing teshuva means getting to the root of the problem and deepening our awareness of God.

The Inner Voice

שׁוֹפָר

Rosh HaShanah is possibly linked to the word shofar to the verse:

Iyov (Job) 26:13 “By His breath the Shamayim/Heavens are spread (shifra).”

This verse refers to the dispersing of the clouds to reveal/apocalypse of the clear blue sky.

That which was clouded over and concealed becomes revealed.

The root of the word shifra also means to beautify,

and true beauty is to see the essence of something, the purpose for which it was created.

Shifra is also the root of the word shofar.

שׁוֹפָר

handsome; trumpet; that does good,

shiphrah, brightness, Ex. 1:15 

שִׁפְרָה

The 11th century Jewish commentary on the passage from Exodus identifies Shiphrah with Jochebed, the mother of Moses, and Puah with Miriam, Moses’ sister, making the 2 midwives mother and daughter respectively. 

As a countermeasure, Pharaoh sent for the midwives named Shifra and Puah, and commanded them to kill every baby boy that was born. 3. The midwives feared God and did not obey. 

Shifra/Shiphrah – from the Hebrew meaning: to beautify or to be beautiful, or translates as improvement, a reference to the way that Yocheved would improve the newborns by cleaning them and straightening their limbs. Puah, means cooing, a reference to how Miriam would make cooing sounds to the babies which soothed them.

The fact is, that all language needs a voice, an utterance, and that requires sound and frequency as its carrier, by which it is expressed. Another language sounds completely foreign and unintelligible to one who cannot speak it, just a jumble of sounds. However to the one who knows that language, it makes perfect sense. This is true of animals, birds and sea creatures, who communicate in their own way and combination of sounds. So why would we not think the sound of the shofar could communicate something to the listener as expelled by the blower?

 Each has its nuances and subtleties, that when we understand them, adds a richness to the Word of God and to the overall meaning of the Appointed Time(s) of the Lord.

The shofar gives us a clarity to see beyond the clouds, to see to the blue sky beyond. It is this clarity that results in fear and trembling:

 

Amos 3:6 “Can the shofar be sounded in the city and the people not tremble?”

 

The shofar is said to be the midwife of the new year. Into its piercing cry, we squeeze all our heartfelt prayers, all our tears. Our whole being resonates with its call until it reaches the very beginning, the cosmic womb and there it touches a kind of switch as the Divine Presence shifts from the strict judgment of Yom ha Din (day of judgment) to the compassion of Rachamim/Mercies.

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Shafir in Hebrew means fine, but mey shafir means the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus (ubbar) in the womb. (Think mem and waters and the paleo pictograph.)

‫שופר : In the original sense of incising

From the root שפר which means: to be pleasing, be beautiful, be fair, be comely, be bright, glisten, to be beautiful, to improve and to develop.

שפור – Shipur also means: to elevate to a new level,

Messianic Connections

Notice in the following verses that Gabriel is sent in the 6th month of Elul. It’s possible that this is Elul 29 and that Miryam will be remembered on Rosh HaShana, the 1st day of the seventh month:

Luqas/Luke 1:26 And in the 6th month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Yeshua.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the 6th month with her, who was called barren.
Gen. 22:8 is another example of His goodness, in the ascent of Abraham and Isaac up Mt. Moriah vrs, 13-14

So not only in the paleo letters but also in the numbers does each one represent and tell the good news of the gospel message of redemption and salvation. And it is also declared in the sound of the shofar every time it is blown as representing the voice of God announcing His presence and His whole plan of redemption and restoration and reconciliation, being released into the air waves with a

breath…. 

the Shin/sheen, sh from shaddai

the pey of the mouth and

the reysh from the head of the person…

blowing – declaring – the end from the beginning…

the alef to the tav

Yeshua/Jesus our Messiah typified in the shofar the rams horn of the sacricifial offering of the son.

The WORD is living and breathing and should be viewed as life not as a story.

We walk in the footsteps of the Hebrews, the meaning of their name: those who have crossed over and their life/chaim walk is cyclical.

It is an annual rehearsal for a forthcoming marriage and likewise our lives/chaim are to be as well. 

By blowing the shofar, we remember the faith of the Matriarchs/Patriarchs and our own capacity for self-sacrifice.

Blowing the shofar declares that the LORD God is the King of the universe, as it says in Psalm 98:6,

“With trumpets and the sound of the shofar (וְקוֹל שׁוֹפָר), shout for joy before the King ADONAI (הַמֶּלֶךְ יְהוָה).”

The Day of Trumpets truly is a rehearsal and celebration of that soon coming day of the Messiah’s return from heaven at the sounding of the great SHOFAR trumpet!

From Part 2…

Salpini is the Greek word for the trumpet

Saino is also associated with another primary Greek root verb, which is seio, meaning to rock or vibrate to and fro, to cause to tremble, or to cause to shake or quake. One of the important uses of this verb in the New Testament includes: Matt. 27:51 Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom!

 

The silver trumpets referred to in part 1

Silver – Kesef – כסף

Kesaph Strongs #3702 כְּסַף    
Phonetic Spelling: (kes-af’)

KAF SAMECH PEI

The Hebrew word for silver can be spelled: Kesaph/kasaph/kessef/kesef.

KAF = lines to follow the pattern and instructions, order, conduct, prescribe, establish, uprightness.

SAMECH = support, structure, the vine, the source, life, code, ideal, model, example,

PEI = open, opening, mouth, declaration-breath.

Meaning: The pattern – lines to follow,the Kodesh instructions of God our ALAHIM;

they are His order of conduct to teach uprightness, the source of our life support, the structure that trains us, according to the model – the ideal; our example is the One who declared it. God/YHVH, who is our deliverer, redeemer and our soon returning King, Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

The cleansing of the earthly temple on the Day of Atonement was only a rehearsal of that Great Day of Atonement when Elohim will cleanse the earth of all sin. 

This great Judgment Day will see all sin eradicated and HaSatan/Adversary judged and bound.

And lastly, the 1st and 8th days of the Festival of Booths (or Tabernacles) are sacred references, depicting the kingdom age and

rehearsing when the Messiah will tabernacle with His BRIDE after He has wiped sin from all the earth.

Finally

God is interested in the relationship HE has with the user and not the shofar itself.

The shofars have a great purpose.  They were given to keep God’s children in the true memory and worship of Him, by keeping us constantly in the understanding of His great plan of redemption. The annual appointed days are all about the Messiah. 

May this be our prayer today:

we want to be like a shofar in the hand of God, totally emptied out on the inside, emptied of ourselves and our ways of being and doing. We desire to be filled with His Ruach HaKodesh in mind and spirit giving Him the freedom to flow through us and entering in to the ears of the hearers.

May the sounds of the song of our lifes/chaim be music to His hearing.

Shalom shalom!

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Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

You are now Born Again by the Holy Spirit of the Living God and you are part of the ever growing family of believers. You will never be the same again!