A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
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A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
To the biblical mind, "being" cannot be distinct from "doing." In Hebrew, unlike English and other European languages, there is less emphasis on being and more emphasis on doing. We could read the multitude of verses that command us to "be holy" as saying something like: "do these holy things." Despite the wrong-headed theology that says that G-d proves our depravity by commanding the impossible, the Almighty never commands us to do something that He does not enable us to do. Read that again. When the Creator tells His people to be holy as He is holy, He is commanding us to act like Him. There is only one way to act like Him - and it is to do the things that He commands us to do. This is Peter's marvelous commentary on Leviticus 19:2:
...but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear... 1Peter 1:15-17
Notice Peter's emphasis on doing? The only way we can reflect the glory of the Infinite One, is to engage in the acts of chesed [loving kindness] that He commands us to do. The only way we can do those things, is if we study them in order to do them. The commandments are not merely ethereal axioms, full of sentimentality. "Love your neighbor as yourself" only means something if you know the verses and the commandments that accompany that phrase. People reading Messiah Yeshua's words in Matthew 22:37-40 cannot understand their meaning if they refuse to read the context of Yeshua's words. The context is not a "New Testament" thing… it is an Torah thing. Without the Torah, the "New Testament" has no place in the Scriptures. It is only the context of the Torah that can define the holy writings of the first disciples of Yeshua. If those writings are independent of the Torah, they must be the writings of another religion – apart from the Bible.
Do you want to be holy as He is holy? Obey Him. Without the Torah, you cannot even begin to know how. Dig in and learn. Dig in, and do.
Ruminations from PaRDeS
A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
