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Offline James  
#101 Posted : Wednesday, December 16, 2015 8:56:19 AM(UTC)
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W wrote:
Ok, you have my serious attention. I have studied your Paul book and the Introduction to God book and am now working on the Yada Yahowah book, but let me explain.

I've been a normal Christian (??) since 1984, a Messianic since 1988 and I have been trying to keep the Torah entirely as I thought I understood it since 2000. But this material is rattling my cage. I am concerned (frightened even) that I have been doing something wrong. I love Yahowah with all my heart and I figured out a couple years ago that Paul was a liar, but here is what I need.

Without plowing through hundreds of pages (which I am willing to do) of this book, do you have a brief teaching or outline on what you have determined is necessary to follow Torah, keep the Feasts, and please the Almighty? With the accent on BRIEF. I am not getting any younger here.

I am extremely impressed with your scholarship and your humility. Also, if you could answer a few specific questions perhaps...?
Thanks,
W


Yada wrote:
W,

Congratulations. It's tough to walk away from the religion of one's birth. I'm impressed that you are among the few who has been able to figure out the outright dishonesty of Paul.

I have found that most Messianics have blended Pauline Christianity with Rabbinic Judaism and thus are following two errant religions. It's good in the sense that it accepts the Torah rather than rejects it, but on the other hand, with the Pauline appeal, it contradicts what it accepts.

I wrote www.AnIntroductionToGod.com expressly for my youngest son who had asked me for a brief and direct explanation of what I had learned and had come to understand about Yahowah. It is the "briefest" and most direct answer I can muster.

Yahowah does not do "brief." The joy is in the process of discovery and learning. It is what we will be doing for all eternity.

I was 50ish when I came to take Yahowah's words seriously. I'm in my 60s now. Moseh (Moses) was 80. Abram was of a similar age. Age does not matter.

An Intro to God begins by providing you with the tools to verify my translations for yourself and then to do your own translations, which is where the real fun begins. It then presents the Covenant.

So if you want the most direct, most succinct approach to knowing the most important things about Yah, I'd read enough of my intro on http://anintroductiontogod.com/ to know that my thoughts are irrelevant. Then I'd encourage you to read enough of the opening chapter on His Word (http://anintroductiontogod.com/An_Introduction_to_God-01.0-Dabar-His_Word.Torah) to appreciate the process that goes into preparing these translations. Once you are comfortable with the means I'm using to convey Yahowah's words, then jump ahead to His Covenant (http://anintroductiontogod.com/An_Introduction_to_God-04.0-Beryth-His_Covenant.Torah). Nothing is more important than the Covenant. It has 5 conditions and 5 benefits. Once you are right with the Covenant, you have nothing to worry about.

That said, you will have a lifetime of learning ahead of you. And for that, I'd jump back to the Volume on His Teaching and read the Chapter devoted to the 119th Psalm (http://anintroductiontogod.com/An_Introduction_to_God-03.3-Towrah-His_Teaching.Torah). Dowd (David) answers all of our questions on how to properly observe the Towrah (Torah).

There is no one in all of human history that Yah loves more than Dowd, and yet Dowd was a bad boy. So Dowd's life and inspired Mizmowr reveal that being tsadaq- righteous and upright, vindicated and right is based upon what we know, not what we do, on our response to what matters, not on obedience.

Fundamentally, Towrah means "teaching and guidance" not "law," and it is to be understood, not obeyed. Yah's towrah provides directions on how to know God and instructions on how to engage in a relationship with Him. It is really that simple.

Each of the Miqra' exist for a specific purpose. Observe that purpose and celebrate it.

Yada


W wrote:
Hello and thanks for writing back!
My main questions are with the day to day practice of this. I have read all of Introduction to God (I think) and Questioning Paul and am trying to work my through Yada Yahweh.
For example, you seem to spiritualize laying Tefilin. Do you think it is wrong or idolatrous to do it (the customary way as in rabbinical lore)? You see, since much of my understanding of prayer and devotion comes out of the rabbinical stuff (Siddur, etc.) - is all of that evil, or is it just a waste of time?
If the latter, beside studying Torah, how do we spend our devotional time to get more and more set apart for Him?

I would appreciate some insights on this, because these practices have been a part of my life for around 15 years and if they are displeasing to Yah, I would like to know.
Thanks and be blessed!
W


Yada wrote:
Yahowah never asks us to pray to Him. He does not ask us to practice anything, either. He is overtly opposed to religion and religious expression, most keenly that of Rabbinic Judaism. So do not do as they do.

Yahowah asks us repeatedly to listen to Him and to observe (closely examine and carefully consider) what He has to say. The only way to do that is to read and recite His Torah, Prophets, and Psalms. That is how I converse with Him. That is how I demonstrate my love and respect for Him. I rather like what He has to say. I find it enlightening, empowering, liberating, and stimulating. He's brilliant.

I avoid all religious gestures, especially religious dress-up. Even with the instructions on food, I've come to see all of them as guidance regarding what is good and bad for us to consume, having very little to do with meat. Moreover, there are two specific instructions which tell us that we can eat anything so long as we are thoughtful about it - one of which is in the Towrah and the other from Yahowsha'.

That said, so long as you are not doing it to be seen by men, or to express your affinity for Judaism, then there is nothing wrong with wearing a Tefilin. Just don't do it in the custom or manner of the Rabbis. And only do it if you are doing so to express your understanding and appreciation of what it represents. It won't save you. It won't endear you to Yah. Rabbinical Jews wear it and they are estranged from Him.

I not only see the Torah for what it actually is - teaching and guidance - I recognize that Yahowah wants to liberate us, not control us. He is not a "Lord." He does not even have a word to express "obey." These two realizations, combined with an understanding of why Yahowah loves Dowd despite his bad behavior, are key.

Based upon what the Towrah reveals, Yahowah wants us to get to know Him as He reveals His nature in His Towrah. If we like Him, if we respect Him, if we come to love Him based upon who He actually is, then Yahowah wants us to act upon the five terms and conditions of the Covenant. And we do that in part by disassociating from all forms of religion and politics and then by walking to Yahowah along the Miqra'ey path He has provided, celebrating these Invitations with Him for what they represent. Beyond that, He wants us to closely examine and carefully consider the instructions and conditions of the Covenant, which requires us as men to be circumcised, also circumcising our sons as the "sign" of the Covenant.

Beyond that, relax and enjoy the relationship.

The most important things are as follows:
1. Come to know, like, respect, revere, and love Yahowah's nature and name based upon who He is and in accordance with the way He revealed Himself in His Towrah. If you are going to introduce yourself as being something, ditch the Christian and Messianic titles and call yourself Yahowah's.
2. Come to know, understand, and then act upon the five instructions and conditions of the Covenant. Celebrate the Family Relationship thereafter.
3. Answer Yahowah's seven Invitations, doing so by reading and reciting His Towrah instructions regarding these days. This is His one and only path home.
4. Set the Shabat apart from the other six days each week, making it a special time to celebrate your relationship with Yahowah.
5. Explore Yahowah's guidance, closely examining and carefully considering what He has to say.

If you'd like to know more than what I've translated and presented in ITG, YY, and QP, consider listening to the radio archives for YadaYah Radio and Shattering Myths on Richard's www.BlessYahowah.com site. We almost always go well beyond the insights and commentary found in the books.

These are some of the insights and conclusions I've come to know and share based upon observing Yah's Word. You may have others, some different, which is fine so long as they too are based in Yahowah's teaching. I'm routinely impressed with the insights others glean from His Word.

I'm nobody special. I'm flawed like Dowd. I make mistakes. So it is important that you rely on Yahowah, not me. I share what I've learned because I cannot do otherwise, but that does not mean that everything I've come to know is right. I'm learning and growing too.

Yada
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Offline James  
#102 Posted : Friday, April 1, 2016 6:14:46 PM(UTC)
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Dowd wrote:
Hi Yada,

It struck me that Yahowah's protection for those Covenant Family members trumpeting truth and renouncing man's religious, political, military, media, and educational institutions, is rather extraordinary given we are to endure through the dark hours preceding the arrival of the light - aka Yahowah's return on Yowm Kippurym in 2033.

This would infer that we are to be present during the nuclear exchange of the Magog War aftermath, if I am properly understanding the thrust of this wonderful promise.

With America in the frontline of a nuclear attack, and with many Covenant brothers and sisters living in the USA, it would seem Yahowah's protection even extends to nuclear war and nuclear fallout.

I do however, find this somewhat contrary to the Revelation statement that the Covenant Family are to be removed prior to the time of Tribulation, and immediately following the fall of Damascus, the 'peace' treaty that thins Yisra'el at the waist, and the all Muslim Magog attack on Yisra'el as detailed in Yasha'yah.

Could the first twelve months of the Tribulation 2026-27, be the darkness Yahowah is referring to, or are we likely to remain as witnesses right to the mid point of the Tribulation after which all choice is rendered moot following universal acceptance of the mark of the Beast.

Immediately preceding this time will be the asteroid strike and so the world will experience a really dark 2029.

Following the universal acceptance of the Beast's mark, there will still be work to do in leading the relatively few dissenters who refuse the mark, to the truth.

Are Psalm 91, Yahowchanan's Revelation and Yasha'yah's prophecy all speaking of the same thing?

Perhaps those Covenant Family members who are sharing Yahowah's Words with the world and openly renouncing all religions especially and including Islam and Christianity, are the subject of Psalm 91.

We are the useful implements doing the work Yahowah requests we do so perhaps it is the few of us on the frontline who are required to stay, under Yahowah's protection, until the arrival of the light, being welcomed into the new millennial Shabat as old warriors for truth.

I am very happy publicly declaring Yahowah's Towrah and publicly denouncing all religions and especially Islam and Christianity. I am happy to continue doing this through the seven years of the Tribulation if required.


Yahowah's blessings
Dowd ben Yahowah


Yada wrote:
Dowd, my friend,

I think that the best indication of timing for Taruw'ah is found in Yasha'yah 17, when the harvest is positioned between the thinning of Yisra'el and the Muslim onslaught. This could be any time from the forfeiture of the West Bank to the 2027 invasion phase of the Magog War. We have assumed that the treaty marks the start of the Tribulation, but it could come a year or so before, I suppose. In this way Revelation could be read as an early exit, but since the Time of Ya'aqob's Troubles has two phases as you have stated, we could be kept out of the second half and still find the Greek translation of Yahowsha's Hebrew comments to be accurate.

All this known, I think I may have tried to read too much into the opening line of the Psalm. Protecting us through the night could be a reference to our time, because it is plenty dark. I opened the door to a later harvest because I prefer to be open minded and to show why I am not dogmatic. I think it is a good practice to explore the edges of everything and then only pull back when other information requires a limit.

I would be happy to remain. This is a great job. So while I'm open to a longer stay, I still suspect that we will be out of here in 2026 or 2027, but no later than the Muslim invasion of Yisra'el whenever that occurs. But since we have all eternity to be with Yah and with one another, the longer we stay the better it is for others.

I agree, P91 was written for all of us in Yah's Covenant Family. We are all doing our part and Yah is doing His. This is a great time to be engaged in the mission. We are fortunate.

Yada
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#103 Posted : Monday, July 11, 2016 8:14:17 AM(UTC)
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Roy wrote:
Yada,
As I was reading O8, it struck me that there may be a subtlety in the concept of a week that has been staring us in the face. Why are there 7 days in the week? Was it simply from the ‘bible’ that we got that concept? My thoughts which you may find convoluted are:
Six divides very nearly into 365.25 so it would seem reasonable that for ease of determining times, six would have been better chosen as the number of days in a week. There would then have been just under 61 weeks in a year – 60.875. The difference is .015 or one eighth of a week so calendar corrections would only be needed every 8 years exactly for the solar cycle. The sidereal month is 29.3 days and the synodic is 29.53 days. These numbers divide very nearly by 6. Considering the sidereal month, after 12 orbits of the moon around the earth, the error becomes 8.4 days. After 5 years the error becomes 42 days which is 7 weeks for a system with a 6 day week. So a simple way of arranging a calendar with a 6 day week would be to correct the sun cycle by 1 week every 8 years and the moon cycle by 7 weeks every 5 years or 8.4 days annually or just under a day per month. The problem with using the sidereal month is that the sun and moon cycles would no longer be phase locked - they would slowly drift apart. Consider instead the synodic period of 29.53 days. For a 6 day week, the error is now 0.47 days which works out to 5.64 days per year. For a 6 day week this would 0.94 weeks. After 25 years for a 6 day week (error of 141 days exactly over 25 years) the sun and moon phases would again be aligned so that approximations based upon observations of the moon phases would be sufficient most of the time with accurate corrections being made every 25 years or multiples thereof – such as the yowbel. The moon cycle is not as neat as the sun-cycle but both can be accurately reset after 25 and 8 years respectively so the calendars would be accurate without further observations by very simple calculations and by keeping track of the months and years centuries into the future – (neglecting orbital variations of the earth and moon).

I wonder whether the 7 day week with the 7th day ‘hidden’ from most people giving non-covenant members a 6 day week was what Yah intended. Indeed, if you take the ‘one day for a thousand years’ analogy then that is exactly what has/will happen. In Bare’sith there were 6 ‘days’ of creation followed by 1 ‘day’ after the week had ended but that day was only available to covenant members. 6 days were allotted to men and women who are doomed to die, 7 to those whose physical bodies die sometime during the six days but are reborn spiritually on the 7th. Most people think of 7 days of creation but there was really only 6 in that mankind was created to decide whether to be with Yah or not during those 6 ‘days’ Covenant members are also ‘created’ during those 6 days but only the covenant members move on to the seventh day.

Yah is invisible and will always be invisible to most. Only covenant members will be able to see Him on the 7th day – a day hidden to goym. Every yowbel the clocks are reset, debts (material and spiritual) forgiven and slaves freed (material and spiritual slaves) The seventh day is invisible to goym in that even though they pass through it in this existence they don’t know what it is or understand its significance. In other words both Yah and the 7th day are hidden from goym.

This reasoning may be a bit of a stretch. Feel free to disagree.

Roy


Yada wrote:
Roy,

If I'm following you correctly, your argument is that by every standard, six makes more sense for tracking time than seven, therefore the seventh day lies outside the normal approach and understanding of man.

Supporting this, the first religious, scientific, political, and academic civilization to memorialize their thinking in writing was Sumer, of which Ur was the capital. Abram was from Ur. It is what he walked away from. In Sumer, they invented the sixty based counting system, using it to mark time and direction. A clock and a compass are 60 based systems. So, why didn't the Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans use six rather than seven days in a week.

I think you have hit on the answer. It was established by Yahowah for His Covenant Family. It is there for us to see and enjoy, clear and obvious, but remains unknown and misunderstood for all others.

Was this your point?

Yada


Roy wrote:
Yada,
Yes, you have summarized it very well (or should I say Sumer-ised it very nicely). I came at it from the POV that the current system is very cumbersome requiring months of odd lengths, leap years and constant corrections by observation. The Sumerians must have had a great deal of knowledge of the sun and moon phases to be able to come up with a presumptive 6 day week. From the maths it is the obvious solution, and though still a little cumbersome it is easy to correct errors as I have shown. (I suspect the Sumerians came up with the 60 based counting system following the discovery that a 6 day week was the easiest to use following their study of celestial dynamics. The number of seconds in a minute, the number of minutes in an hour would follow and 24 hours would follow because each day is a fixed period of time so 15 degrees is one hour of ‘movement’ of the sun across the sky, something that is easy to measure and is one quarter of 60).

From the POV of an elegant solution Yah would have chosen a 6 day week but He wanted to show that there is more than man’s view of existence as being simply on this earth for a short time and then oblivion.
He needed the extra day to show that there is something to follow if and only if we follow His Torah and become covenant members. Hence the 7 day week which came from Yah via the Hebrew scriptures. (I suspect the 7 day week was actually established from the time of Mosheh when he was given the Torah and wrote down the book of Bare’seyth. Abram may have walked away from the politics and religions of Ur but he probably didn’t walk away from the 6 day week with which he grew up).

So the significance of the 7th day was hidden from most people – and still is. Everybody knows there are 7 days in the week but most behave as if there are 6 for the business of living and the 7th is there for them to enjoy as best they can. People look forward to ‘their’ day when they can enjoy life before they have to return to the drudgery of the 6 day week. Interestingly, the whole of mankind (as far as I’m aware) follows this 7-day week pattern, even those who would vociferously deny they were following Yah’s plan. That would include Islam, Hinduism and of course socialist secular humanism. If I am correct the influence of the chosen people has been spectacular to say the least – another indication of their importance.
Roy


Yada wrote:
Roy,

After a two hour search, my conclusion is the same as yours. The seven day week was introduced to Abraham on his way out of Sumer/Babylon and then confirmed in writing to Moseh in the Towrah. While the world does not understand it, everyone outside of the Covenant has adopted a corruption of it.

I've read a dozen articles on the 7 day week, and they are all inconclusive. There is absolutely no early extant affirmation of a seven day week apart from the Towrah. But it seems that even with their love of 60, and thus 6, Sumer, may have shown an affinity for a 7 day week with, Geuda, a priest/king who was among the first to pronounce himself a god, ruling sometime around 2100 BCE. He is recorded establishing 7 temples for himself with accompanying festivals lasting 7 and 14 days. But it's just a footnote in his history and there is no record of these temples or festivals being used to establish a seven day week. In fact, apart from the Towrah, there is no extant reference to a seven day week, or even a six day week for seven hundred to 1000 years thereafter, and acceptance was spotty and inconsistent around the world.

The first reference to four seven day weeks within a lunar month may have been based upon the moon being a god and the 4 phases, new, first quarter, full, last quarter, each lasting just over 7 days. The poem addressing this is from a Babylonian/Assyrian creation account dating to the 7th century BCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week The Harvard professor who provided a "free" translation of it, epitomizes knowing without understanding.

The seven day week did not become universal even in Rome until Constantine in 400CE. They used 8 days previously. China was even later to arrive at 7 days.

There is a fairly significant intersection between Sumer/Babylon and the shabat. It was a rest day for the gods on the 14th of the month. Each month started with the first day, now known as Sunday, so the 14th and 15th were always full moons. Enoch uses the Babylonian method, which is funny considering the fact that those who promote Enoch accuse those of us who rely instead on the Towrah of being Babylonian.

Every article I read was poorly written, poorly documented, often irrational, and highly opinionated. Some of this relates to the correlation between Gilgamesh and Noah, where the flood story in book 11 only dates back to the 7th century BCE, and yet we are told to believe that the 15th century BCE account in the Towrah was based upon the 7th century story of Gilgamesh. The four surviving Sumerian accounts which date to the 14th century BCE, do not include much of anything found in the standard 12 volume version published today, and in particular, exclude any reference to a flood. Therefore, it is inaccurate to suggest that the flood story recorded in the 7th century BCE was based upon the 14th century BCE account. Also, some versions have the flood narrated on a six day schedule, while others claim 7. I've read the 12 tablets known as the Standard Version, which dates to the 7th century BCE and is 70% complete, and it correlates less than .01% with the Towrah.

While the oldest citation we have from the Towrah dates to the 7th century BCE, beyond the affirmed science of creation and the flood, and of course the fulfilled prophecy, the internal depictions of places and people which have subsequently been shown valid by archaeology are too consistently accurate for it to have been written even as much as a couple of decades after the events it depicts - so it predates everything we have on a seven day week. It is not only the single source in antiquity to specifically establish a 6+1=7 day week, there would not be another written affirmation of a seven day week until after the Hebrew captivity in Babylon, when Babylon was under the influence of Daniel - and even then, it was the Persians, not Babylonians, who established a seven day week. It was later accepted by Greece as part of the Big Dipper having seven stars, or of the five visible planets plus the sun and moon. And the Romans got it from the Greeks, naming each day of the week after their gods, the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1939PA.....47..175C

A more comprehensive review of what has been written and accepted over time is required to be emphatic, but what I read, based upon what we know, seems to affirm your conclusions.

Here are some of the articles I read.

Yada

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1939PA.....47..175C
http://www.calculator.net/time-calculator.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/sumerian.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
http://edhelper.com/Read...omprehension_42_177.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/hlwc/why_seven.htm

History
While the seven-day cycle may have deep historical origins in the Ancient Near East, the "planetary theory" of horoscopy is a development ofBabylonian astrology roughly around 500 BC, with the oldest extant horoscope dated to just before 400 BC.[9]

The seven-day week being approximately a quarter of a lunation has been proposed (e.g. by Friedrich Delitzsch) as the implicit, astronomical origin of the seven-day week,[10] and indeed the Babylonian calendar used intercalary days to synchronize the last week of a month with the new moon.[11]



The seven-day week seems to have been adopted (independently) by the Persian Empire, in Judaism and in Hellenistic astrology, and (viaGreek transmission) in Gupta India and Tang China.[12] The Babylonian system was received by the Greeks in the 4th century BC (notably via Eudoxus of Cnidus). But the designation of the seven days of the week to the seven planets does not seem to have any Babylonian precedent[13] and is rather an original innovation of Hellenistic astrology, probably first conceived in the 2nd century BC.[9] It was widely known throughout the Roman Empire by the 1st century AD, and ultimately replaced the older Roman system of the nundinal cycle during the 4th century.

Ancient Near East
The earliest evidence of an astrological significance of a seven-day period is connected to Gudea, priest-king of Lagash in Sumer during theGutian dynasty, who built a seven-room temple, which he dedicated with a seven-day festival. In the flood story of the Assyro-Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh the storm lasts for seven days, the dove is sent out after seven days, and the Noah-like character of Utnapishtim leaves the ark seven days after it reaches firm ground.[14]

It seems likely that the Hebrew seven-day week is based on the Babylonian tradition, although going through certain adaptations. George Aaron Barton speculated that the seven-day creation account of Genesis is connected to the Babylonian creation epic, Enuma Elish, which is recorded on seven tablets. [15]

Babylonians[year needed] celebrated a holy day every seven days, starting from the new moon, then the first visible crescent of the Moon, but adjusted the number of days of the final "week" in each month so that months would continue to commence on the new moon.[citation needed]

Counting from the new moon, the Babylonians celebrated the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th as "holy-days", also called "evil days" (meaning "unsuitable" for prohibited activities). On these days, officials were prohibited from various activities and common men were forbidden to "make a wish", and at least the 28th was known as a "rest-day".[16] On each of them, offerings were made to a different god and goddess.

In a frequently-quoted suggestion going back to the early 20th century[by whom?][17] the Hebrew Sabbath is compared to the Sumerian sa-bat"mid-rest", a term for the full moon. The Sumerian term has been reconstructed as rendered Sapattum or Sabattum in Babylonian, possibly present in the lost fifth tablet of the Enûma Eliš, tentatively reconstructed [according to whom?] "[Sa]bbath shalt thou then encounter, mid[month]ly".[16]

Achaemenid period
The Zoroastrian calendar follows the Babylonian in relating the seventh and other days of the month to Ahura Mazda.[18] The forerunner of all modern Zoroastrian calendars is the system used to reckon dates in the Persian Empire, adopted from the Babylonian calendar by the 4th century BC.

Frank C. Senn in his book Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical points to data suggesting evidence of an early continuous use of a seven-day week; referring to the Jews during the Babylonian Captivity in the 6th century BC,[19] after the destruction of the Temple of Solomon. While the seven-day week in Judaism is tied to Creation account in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (where God creates the heavens and the earth in six days and rests on the seventh; Genesis 1:1–2:3, in the Book of Exodus, the fourth of the Ten Commandments is to rest on the seventh day, Shabbat, which can be seen as implying a socially instituted seven-day week), it is not clear whether the Genesis narrative predates the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews in the 6th century BC. At least since the Second Temple periodunder Persian rule, Judaism relied on the seven-day cycle of recurring Sabbaths[20]

Tablets[citation needed] from the Achaemenid period indicate that the lunation of 29 or 30 days basically contained three seven-day weeks, and a final week of eight or nine days inclusive, breaking the continuous seven-day cycle.[16] The Babylonians additionally celebrated the 19th as a special "evil day", the "day of anger", because it was roughly the 49th day of the (preceding) month, completing a "week of weeks", also with sacrifices and prohibitions.[16]

Difficulties with Friedrich Delitzsch's origin theory connecting Hebrew Shabbat with the Babylonian lunar cycle[21] include reconciling the differences between an unbroken week and a lunar week, and explaining the absence of texts naming the lunar week as Shabbat in any language.[22]

Hellenistic and Roman era
In Jewish sources by the time of the Septuagint, the term "Sabbath" (Greek Sabbaton) by synecdoche also came to refer to an entire seven-day week,[23] the interval between two weekly Sabbaths. Jesus's parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke 18:12) describes the Pharisee as fasting "twice in the week" (Greek δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου dis tou sabbatou).

The ancient Romans traditionally used the eight-day nundinal cycle, but after the Julian calendar had come into effect in 45 BC, the seven-day week came into use. For a while, the week and the nundinal cycle coexisted, but by the time the week was officially adopted byConstantine in AD 321, the nundinal cycle had fallen out of use. The association of the days of the week with the Sun, the Moon and the five planets visible to the naked eye dates to the Roman era (2nd century). [24]

The continuous seven-day cycle of the days of the week can be traced back to the reign of Augustus; the first identifiable date cited complete with day of the week is 6 February 60, identified as a "Sunday" (as viii idus Februarius dies solis "eighth day before the ides of February, day of the Sun") in a Pompeiian graffito. According to the currently-used Julian calendar, 6 February 60 was, however, a Wednesday. This is explained by the existence of two conventions of naming days of the weeks based on the planetary hours system: 6 February was a "Sunday" based on the sunset naming convention, and a "Wednesday" based on the sunrise naming convention.[25]

Adoption in Asia
The earliest known reference in Chinese writings to a seven-day week is attributed to Fan Ning, who lived in the late 4th century in the Jin Dynasty, while diffusions from the Manichaeans are documented with the writings of the Chinese Buddhist monk Yi Jing and the Ceylonese or Central Asian Buddhist monk Bu Kong of the 7th century (Tang Dynasty).

The Chinese variant of the planetary system was soon brought to Japan by the Japanese monk Kobo Daishi. Surviving diaries of the Japanese statesman Fujiwara Michinaga show the seven-day system in use in Heian Japan as early as 1007. In Japan, the seven-day system was kept in use for astrological purposes until its promotion to a full-fledged Western-style calendrical basis during the Meiji era.

The seven-day week was known in India by the 6th century, referenced in the Pañcasiddhāntikā.[citation needed]. Shashi (2000) mentions theGarga Samhita, which he places in the 1st century BC or AD, as a possible earlier reference to a seven-day week in India. He concludes "the above references furnish a terminus ad quem (viz. 1st century) The terminus a quo cannot be stated with certainty".[26][27]

Christian Europe
Further information: Holy Week and Easter Week
The seven-day weekly cycle has remained unbroken in Europe for almost two millennia, despite changes to the Coptic, Julian, and Gregoriancalendars, demonstrated by the date of Easter Sunday having been traced back through numerous computistic tables to an Ethiopic copy of an early Alexandrian table beginning with the Easter of AD 311.[28]

"The Roman context of the spread of Christianity meant that Rome contributed a lot to the structure and calendar of the new faith."[29]

A tradition of divinations arranged for the days of the week on which certain feast days occur develops in the Early Medieval period. There are many later variants of this, including the German Bauern-Praktik and the versions of Erra Pater published in 16th to 17th century England, mocked in Samuel Butler's Hudibras. South and East Slavic versions are known as koliadniki (from koliada, a loan of Latincalendae), with Bulgarian copies dating from the 13th century, and Serbian versions from the 14th century.[30] Medieval Christian traditions associated with the lucky or unlucky nature of certain days of the week survived into the modern period. This concerns primarily Friday, associated with the crucifixion of Jesus. Sunday, sometimes personified as Saint Anastasia, was itself an object of worship in Russia, a practice denounced in a sermon extant in copies going back to the 14th century.[31]

Sunday, in the ecclesiastical numbering system also counted as the feria prima or the first day of the week; yet, at the same time, figures as the "eighth day", and has occasionally been so called in Christian liturgy. [32]

Justin Martyr wrote: "the first day after the Sabbath, remaining the first of all the days, is called, however, the eighth, according to the number of all the days of the cycle, and [yet] remains the first".[33]

A period of eight days, starting and ending on a Sunday, is called an octave, particularly in Roman Catholic liturgy. In German, the phrase in acht Tagen (literally "in eight days") means one week from today.



Richard wrote:
Maybe I'm just too simplistic and ignorant. But didn't Yahowah imply the 7-day week at the creation?


Yada wrote:
Richard,

Your point is valid. No reason to be embarrassed. Creation is the basis of the seven day week. My question, and I think Roy's, was to figure out when and why the world came to accept seven rather than six. So the answer to those questions had to be in the revelation of Yah's plan, that's all.

While He probably told Adam, and Adam may have told others, there are no written histories that far back to know if it was accepted. After the flood, some 5000 years ago, we have a fair amount of history that was written down, so I wanted to see what was known about the number of days in a week promoted by the earliest civilizations. And what I found was that it took the world a long time to accept 7, that it occurred at different times in different places, and that apart from the Towrah and Moseh, there is no other early documentation of a seven day week. Babylonia appears to have accepted it based upon Daniel. But Rome didn't accept a seven day week until Constantine in 350 CE.

This was all just a thought puzzle. We were humoring ourselves because while the reason behind the seven day week is obviously Yahowah's plan, there is no clear or irrefutable proof of how the Towrah's plan was conveyed early on outside of Yisra'el or accepted by mankind in this regard. And since 6 makes more sense than seven considering the moon phase and solar year, Roy was curious as to why man who normally rejects God, accepted this one aspect of His plan and accounting of time. My curiosity centered around Sumer, in that it was Abram's country, and they used 60 based math. The correlation between 6, human government, and Babel (Sumer became part of Babylonia), fascinates me.


Richard wrote:
Wasn't made known to man until later than the creation, you say. Ya know, Yada, sometimes I embarrass myself. Thanks.


Roy wrote:
As Yada said, the Torah is really giving us a ‘flash-back’ in the time line. At first when I realized that nearly everyone on earth uses a 7 day week I thought Yah had finally had a win. But on reflection I don’t think that is so. I think the answer is that ha Shatan needs a 7 day week himself.

His two major religions require it. Islam is supposed to be based on the Torah – hence a 7 day week. A 6 day week is just so yesterday nobody would believe Islam was based on the Torah if that were the case. Likewise with Pauline Christianity which claims the majority of the world’s adherents and it is, of course, supposedly also based on the Torah – or at least Sha’uwl’s version of the Torah.

The Hindus were conquered by two of the adherents of the ‘great’ religions – Islam first and then the Christian British Raj. Socialist secular humanism grew mainly from Christians and Jews so again they have the 7 day week, the first by a combination of ignorance and finding no reason to change the 7 day week to 6 days as they do not recognise the 7th day’s spiritual significance, the latter for obvious reasons. Asia has had signficant western influence more so in the last few centuries. However, apart from the mention of a satanic flood of Asians into Israel in the final days Asians do not figure greatly in the TPP as far as I’m aware.

Even without Asians we have accounted for the relevant parts of the world’s population – all controlled by ha Shatan.
Roy


Yada wrote:
Nice addition, Roy. You are correct. The NT and Q both claim to be based upon the Torah, so they had to accept, and then corrupt, its seven day accounting. Counterfeit requires similarity. Credibility is derived by corrupting the truth, with lies woven into an otherwise accurate tapestry. So the Shabat was replaced by the days on either side of it - day six and day one. Rather than 6+1=7 (man with God), Satan's corrupting counterfeit would have man separated from God - with the Shabat - the promise of seven - dividing them. Islam never gets to the Shabat. Christianity starts without it.

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W wrote:
I hope this is Yada that I'm writing to! If you could indulge me for a moment, I have a couple questions..first, a little of my background. I was raised Episcopalian. Late dad a minister.There was not a great deal of spiritual discussions at home although. I always felt something missing and/or wrong with Christianity and other beliefs. I'm starting my learning and I have been going to your youtube channel. I want to buy a the Torah and I hope you can suggest the best one to purchase. I feel that you are most sincere, there are many deceivers. Which is just about everyone! I want to share my revelation, just a few months ago. Talk about grand deception! many in my family were scientists and I had always been a huge sci-fi fan. I had hope then that "Star Trek" would be a reality one day. Until I find that, like the good book says, the earth is flat mathematically and quite literally. I'm not asking you to discuss this, many already do. Please tell me that you don't believe in the globe lie! Bless you. W


Richard wrote:
W,

I am not Yada. I have a single video on my YouTube channel and it is one in which another brother is mimicking Christian prayer. If that is not the channel to which you're referring, then I am not the owner of the one you're referring to.

I not waste my time participating in discussions of such irrelevant nonsense as "the global lie" and whether or not the earth is flat.

My web site is "The Bless Yahowah Web Site," and on it I post my own writings as well as authorized copies of Yada's (Yada's) books. I also maintain archives of Yada's various Internet audio broadcasts there on my web site. If you would read the entire Home page, you will learn where I stand with regards to pretty much everything worth paying attention to. You will also find on my home page Yada's email address should you still wish to contact him.

Regards,

Richard McCord


Yada wrote:
W,

Answer 1: There isn't any worth buying. I've translated a substantial portion of the Towrah in my books, all of which are free. My first book, Yada Yah is available at BlessYahowah.com or www.YadaYah.com. It opens by translating the beginning of the Towrah through the Covenant. Please begin there with Volume One and read through Volume 7.

If you want more of the Towrah, I provide everything you need to translate and understand it yourself in my third book, which is free on the BlessYahowah.com site or http://anintroductiontogod.com/.

If you need verification that Christianity if false, my third book is free at www.QuestioningPaul.com or on the BlessYahowah.com website. It is irrefutable.

Answer 2: Yahowah never says the earth is flat. The earth is not flat. Yahowah's math is seven dimensional, and thus beyond anything anyone else has conceived.

The first five or six chapter of volume one of Yada Yah provide an accurate presentation of Yahowah's creation account. Read it and let me know what you think.

Yada


W wrote:
Thank you, I will continue. Concerning religion and politics, I have given them up long ago. I seek only truth, as close to it as I can understand and use. I would like the 7 dimensions explained further, I listened to you speak of them on your radio show. Your opinion is plausible to me. I did hear the word "planet", and moon landing mentioned. I have a hard time believing NASA or any government. 99% of what I hear, lies. I will continue reading and I am asking questions. W


Yada wrote:
W,

I cover the seven dimensional implications of Yahowah and His home in heaven throughout the three books and in countless radio programs. This realization ties everything we observe and that God is offering together, making it an important idea to consider.

I am glad you have walked away from religion and politics. This is the first of five steps to Yahowah. Man lies.

I also distrust the US government and for thousands of reasons, but not based upon "planet" or "moon landing." The Earth is a planet and Americans have gone to the moon. I do not know, nor do I care, what you have against either of these realities.

Ultimately, all that will matter for you is whether or not you invest the time to know, understand, and appropriately respond to Yahowah. While it is troubling, I do not think your fondness for a flat earth, if that is what you believe, will stand in your way. But if this is what you believe, I would encourage you to keep these views to yourself because they hinder your credibility.

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T wrote:
DEAR Yada THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO BROADCAST YAHOWAHS WORDS FOR YEARS NOW,,IV BEEN LISTENING AND READING FOR SEVERAL YEARS ,I'M NOT CIRCUMCISED YET , I I'M BOOKED IN TO MY LOCAL HOSPITAL TO GET CIRCUMCISED IN ABOUT 4 WEEKS TIME,,I'M 50 YEARS OLD, DO I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT PASSOVER TO ACCEPT THE COVENANT ,OR CAN I ACCEPT IT ONCE IV HAD MY CIRCUMCISING...JUST WONDERING ,,I WOULD LIKE TO BUY AN INTRODUCTION TO GOD BOOK .. AND CAN YOU RECOMMEND A GOOD HEBREW SCRIPTURE BOOK , I DONT WANT TO SAY BIBLE TERRIBLE NAME HA,,WHATS THE ALTERNATIVE NAME,, , ,CAN I PURCHASE ONE PZ,,AND IF SO HOW ,, I WAS SLOWLY BROUGHT TO NOTHING IN REGARDS TO MY CHRISTIAN LIFE FOR 34 YEARS I WAS AN EVANGELIST SO CALLED HA HA, IV LEFT THE CHURCH 5 YEARS AGO AND NEVER BEEN BACK,, ITS RATHER LONELY OUT HERE SO THANKS TO YAHOWAH FOR YOUR WILLING NESS TO SHARE HIS WORDS AGAIN,,,, THAT'S WHY YOU AND THE GUYS ARE A REAL LIFE LINE TO THOSE OUT IN THE WORLD WHO LOVE YAHOWAHS NAME AND YOU AND THE GUYS PROPER TRANSLATIONS ARE WONDER FULL TO LISTEN TO AND IT CAUSES UNDERSTANDING , I WAS RELAY SHATTERED BUT NOW UNDERSTAND AND I'M WILLING TO OBSERVE, I LISTENED TO YOU AND LARRY AND JB AND KIRK,, YOU ALL ARE SO SO APPRECIATED FOR TELLING YAHOWAHS WORDS AND TRUTH TELLING TO SET MANY FREE, , THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH ,I'M FRIENDS WITH LARRY ON FB,, PZ TELL LARRY HES IS ONE IN A MILLION, AND I LOVE HIS APPROACH , I THINK YOU ALL ARE SO BOLD .KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK,,KIND REGARDS T.FROM THE UK,,


Yada wrote:
T,

Great news! Congratulations.

You have to be circumcised to take advantage of the Passover and the Covenant as you know, but I'm convinced that once you finalize your acceptance of the Covenant's fifth and final condition, since you understand and have accepted Passover as the first step to Yahowah and the Doorway to life, you will be adopted the moment you are clipped. Just celebrate it this coming year, and every year thereafter, because you enjoy Yahowah's company and appreciate what He's done for you.

I was an evangelist too, and left the church and have never looked back.

Yahowah is the lifeline. Guys like me are just holding it to let you know where it is, while encouraging you to grasp hold.

I love Larry too. He's a good man.

I've attached some of my most recent chapters. I've got more if you get through these.

You can buy ITG, YY, and QP from http://claitors.com/yada.htm.

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JL wrote:
Yada,
Hi I'm John.
Truth is paramount to me.
1000% accuracy is an obsession.
There's a myriad of questions I'd like to ask you, but I want to be considerate of your time, therefore I will try not to ask too many questions in any one given exchange.

1. What version (if that's the right word) of the scriptures do you recommend?
I currently use the BYNV (Besorah Yahusha Natsarim Version) from Torah Institute.

2. What is the best resource you can recommend on showing someone the history of the name "Jesus," it's evolution and why it's a distortion etc.?


Yada wrote:
JL,

In the opening chapters of both Yada Yah and An Introduction to God I state that there are no accurate English translations. This remains true. So I will not recommend any.

Personally, I translate the Hebrew text out of the Masoretic Text and then correct it using the Dead Sea Scrolls, careful to undo the influence of the rabbinical diacritical marks. Those translations include the Hebrew words themselves so that readers can verify the translations using online lexicons. Then in An Introduction to God I provide readers with the tools they will need to translate Yahowah's Word for themselves. I also provide thousands of pages of examples.

100% accuracy isn't possible, much less 1000%. Not only is it impossible to perfectly translate one language into another, we don't have a 100% accurate text to begin with. I'd be thrilled if my translations were 90% accurate. We are all flawed and imperfect, and we all make mistakes, so that would be a remarkable achievement.

The name "Jesus" was first used around 1650. It appeared in the third edition of the KJV. The closest name to it is Gesus, the Savior of the Druid religion, where the Horned One is considered God.

God's one and only name is Yahowah. Yahowsha' serves to identify His set apart and diminished manifestation and to describe His purpose. It means Yahowah Saves. I report on the history of the name "Jesus" in An Introduction to God. That name did not evolve, however, but came into being almost immediately after the "J" was incorporated into English in the 17th century. As for the motivation for it, clearly it is a bias of Christians against Yahowah, His Towrah, Yahuwdym/Jews, and all things Hebrew.

All of my books, including Questioning Paul, Yada Yah, and An Introduction to God are available free on line under those names or at www.BlessYahowah.com.

If you are a Christian, start with www.QuestioningPaul.com. If you are an agnostic, begin with www.YadaYah.com. If you are sufficiently motivated to learn on your own, turn to www.AnIntroductionToGod.com. And once you have read them, I'll share my most recent Observations For Our Time.

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#107 Posted : Tuesday, August 30, 2016 9:10:35 AM(UTC)
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W wrote:
If we are to still keep Torah wouldn't that mean we would still be required to make a blood sacrifice for our sins?

Thanks for providing any insight.


Yada wrote:
Your question begs many questions...

Why did you substitute "keep" for shamar - observe and shama' - listen?
Do you then interpret this replacement to mean "obey?" Much of the Towrah cannot be kept or obeyed, but all of the Towrah can be read and recited and thus known and understood.

I ask these questions because Yahowah answered your question, albeit not in a simple or direct manner. A great deal of observation and contemplation is required. The answer is not intended to be simple.

For example, we are not actually sacrificing anything with the Passover lamb. The nourishing parts are eaten and the inedible portions are burned. To call that a "sacrifice" is akin to calling any meal at a steakhouse a sacrifice.

Further, Yahowah asks us to pour the blood out on the ground. He doesn't want it and does not want us to consume it either. And this then leads to the question: who is actually making the sacrifice, when and why?

Do you understand the meaning and purpose of Pesach and Matsah? Do you attend these Invitations and celebrate the benefits? Do you understand how the five conditions and five benefits of the Covenant relate to and are achieve by the first four Mow'ed Miqra'ey?

How much of Yada Yah or An Introduction to God have you read?

The question you asked isn't actually valid. And when it is properly stated, the answer requires knowledge and understanding for which there is no shortcut. So my suggestion would be to read the books listed above, both of which are free online. They strive to present Yahowah's testimony on these subjects in a way that facilitates understanding.

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#108 Posted : Thursday, September 1, 2016 7:50:02 AM(UTC)
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Clement wrote:
Dear Sir

My name is Clement M. Mpofu based in South Africa but originally from Zimbabwe. I just want to say thank you and I thank YAH for you have really opened my eyes. I am still reading Introduction to God and I can't wait to read YadaYah. Continue doing the great work.

Clement


Yada wrote:
Clement,

I was once in Zimbabwe, way back in the time it was Rhodesia. I've also been to RSA. I loved the falls and game reserves.

South Africa is awash in religion and politics so you are a remarkable man to free yourself sufficiently from the norm to seek Yahowah in His own words. I'm pleased to hear the He has opened your eyes as He has mine.

Yada Yah is a much easier read than An Intro To God. I wrote it to prove that Yahowah exists and that He can be known. ITG was written for my son.

Once you have read these, I will have posted my most recent book, Observations for Our Time online. But if you are a fast reader, I'll send the Word docs to you.

Yada


Clement wrote:
Yada,

I am very much pleased that you replied to my email. Thank you so much. The problem with South Africa and Africa as a whole, people still worship ancestral spirits and others have stopped but now their problem is they are being misled by pastors and 'prophets' as I was.

Whenever I try to tell them that we are not supposed to worship Jesus, God, christmas, easter and so on, they look at me with anger as if I am satan myself. Hahahaha. I used to ask myself this question - What is His Name?
Because in the scriptures it always says "Name", "name" like Do not call the name of the Lord in vain" which name?
One thing I want to ask is here in Africa and even in the scriptures people used to marry more than one women, is that right? I am just curious.

Shawlom
Clement


Yada wrote:
Clement,

I suspected as much. You are a remarkable man. Africa is awash in religions new and old and so many people seem susceptible to them, whether its is Animism, Tribal / Ancestral Spiritualism, Orthodox or Pentecostal Christianity, Islam, or now Messianics and Hebrew Roots.

You are to be admired for having recognized these as corrupt and invalid and then for having come to accept the truth about Yahowah. You are one in a million!

Yes, Yahowah's name is paramount. Until we come to know it, we do not know Him. And speaking of names, there is no "Jesus." Moreover, Yahowah does not want to be worshipped and Yahowsha' always pointed our attention to the Father, not Himself.

By the way, "the Lord" is Satan's title, not Yahowah's. So one of the things you are going to want to do over time is stop using it in reference to the one and only God. He wants to be your Covenant Father, not lord over you.

While the Covenant is based upon family, home, and marriage, and while there is only one Covenant, and while Yahowah will not tolerate a rival for His affection, He is remarkably tolerant of our less-than-ideal behavior. Dowd / David remains Yahowah's favorite person of all time, and he had more wives and concubines than he could count, and yet Yahowah called him "tsadaq - right, vindicated, and righteous."

As for me, one is enough. I would never want two, much less three or four.

It is the programmed reaction of the faithful to dispense with those who they cannot by calling them "satanic." The fallacy is ad hominem - against the man rather than the message.

I've attached the first ten chapters of my most recent book because they deal with the issues you are facing and the question you are asking. And as you know, Yada Yah, An Introduction to God, Questioning Paul, and Prophet of Doom are available to you free in their entirety online.

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S wrote:
Good afternoon Yada,
I had a friend give me a book called "Jesus words only " by Douglas Tondo claiming that I am wrong and Jesus is the correct name of gods son. I just don't understand his explanation of the name Jesus and why he can't see that Yahowsha is the true name which means Yah saves. It's sad that I feel like I am in a loosing battle daily with Christians who do not understand nor are willing to try.
Thanks for all your hard work on your research, I am half way through Intro To God and love it

S


Yada wrote:
S,

Yahowsha' couldn't get them to use His name either. And Yahowsha' was unable to convince a single religious person that they should observe the Towrah just as He was doing. So why do you think you are going to prevail when He failed? I don't mean this critically, of course, but instead as a way of sharing that we should not expect success in this regard. It's not your fault, either. No matter how comprehensive or irrefutable your argument, it will fall on deaf ears and blind eyes.

Until and unless your Christian friends start questioning the absurdity of their religion and distance themselves from it, Yahowah, Himself, cannot reason with them. For example, the corruption of Yahowsha' to "Jesus" is so obvious and errant, so well documented, that anyone who actively promotes "Jesus" as correct and Yahowsha' as wrong is way too ignorant and irrational to help.

Don't waste your time. Continue to spend it as you are doing: getting to know Yahowah better each day.

I appreciate your note, S.

Thank you,

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Clement from post 108 continues

Clement wrote:
Yada
At times when YAH reveals the truth to me like this I cry. How can we be so deceived? Worse my fellow Africans! I really thank YAH for you. I used to wonder why HE doesn't answer our prayers or why HE is silent on us, now I can see why.

Thank you so much for the articles. When I read your articles most of my questions are always answered. The gaps are getting filled day by day. My other question is why do you use "God" because I understand it's satanic as well?
May YAH continue unveiling the truth to you and those who believe and are seeking the truth.


Yada wrote:
Clement,

The aversion to "God" is one of many rabbinic lies. It's just a word. It's not Yahowah's name. Even Yahowah used it, because it was the name of His prophet during Dowd's / David's life - Gad. And those who insist on 'el don't acknowledge that 'El was the name of the chief pagan deity of the Canaanites. I answer this question in An Introduction to God and in Yada Yah, proving the point.

At the initiation of the process of shedding man's religious lies while gradually embracing the truth, we are all emotional. You and I, and indeed most of us, are similar in this regard.

As for those still lost, at first I was perplexed as to why those I trusted deliberately deceived me. Then as I shared Yahowah's Word with them and they mocked it, I became disappointed and then angry. I originally had sympathy for the deceived because I was once counted among them. But after having dealt with them for 15 years, I've come to see them as ignorant, irrational, immoral, and un-salvageable.

Your willingness to let go of the lies and embrace the truth makes you one in a million, Clement. And while we are witnessing a wonderful acceleration in Covenant acceptance worldwide, we are still just thousands among billions. And that is never going to change. The truth, while wonderful, will never be popular.

Enjoy your new life with Yahowah and share what you are coming to know and experience with those who are receptive.

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#111 Posted : Friday, October 7, 2016 6:24:14 PM(UTC)
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JG wrote:
Shalowm Yada,

I hope that you and your family had a wonderful Teru'wah.

Do you have an amplification of 2 Ch. 7:14?
If the word 'pray' was not inspired by Yah, what word/term was?

Thank you.

JG


Yada wrote:
JG,

I haven't translated much of Yah's conversations with Solomon because, unlike his father, I don't find Solomon insightful or appealing. But in 2 Chronicles 7:12 "prayer" was derived from tapilah and in 7:14 it was from palal.

These are the two Hebrew words most often rendered prayer, and they share a common root. Tapilah is a "manner of speaking which can include a request or petition." A "petition" is a "formal declaration of rights and liberties," which in the context of Yah's relationship with Yisra'el would reflect the people speaking to God to accept the Covenant.

While tapilah is based upon palah, the same Hebrew word, at least prior to the Masorete vocalizations, tiplah is "repulsive and wrong." So much of Hebrew has a dark and light side. In this case, what we request of Yah matters.

Palal means "to assess, judge, and reason," which is to determine what is right and wrong, truthful or deceitful." It can be translated "to mediate justly and to thoughtfully intervene." When it is used between Yah and His people, a thoughtful individual after exercising good judgment will request Yah's just means of intervention to make the wrong right. Palal and its cognates all speak of exercising good judgment to render a reasonable assessment of the evidence.



Here is a Dowd conversation in which the same Hebrew word was used...

“Your name (wa shem – Your reputation and renown) will endure, verified and true (‘aman – confirmed and enduring, reliable and dependable, established and lasting), and also (wa), it will be revered as great (gadal – honored and promoted) throughout eternity (‘ad ‘owlam – forevermore, for all time) by saying (la ‘amar – on account of affirming), ‘Yahowah (efei) of the spiritual implements (tsaba’ – of the divisions of heavenly envoys and vast array of messengers) is the God (‘elohym) of Yisra’el (Yisra’el – individuals who engage and endure with God), a God (‘elohym) for Yisra’el (Yisra’el).’ And (wa) the family of Dowd (beyth Dowd), Your implement (‘ebed – Your associate, coworker, servant, and assistant), will be established and sustained (kuwn – will be prepared, steadfast, ready, and supportive) by Your presence (la paneh ‘atah – before and facing You).” (Dabry ha Yowmym / Words of the Time / 1 Chronicles 17:24)
While this is not true at the moment, in that Ha Shem is the g-d of Israel and of Judaism, it will ring true again seventeen years from now. And it will remain so for all time thereafter.
“Because indeed (ky), You (‘atah), my God (‘elowah), have revealed and made known by opening the ears (galah ‘eth ‘ozen – have audibly and vocally communicated so as to clearly hear) of Your partner (‘ebed – associate and coworker, implement and servant) to build a home for him (la banah la huw’ – to construct a home and procreate a family for him to approach). Therefore, and for this reason (‘alken), Your implement (‘ebed – Your servant and coworker) can continue to investigate, approach by anticipating intervention, and render thoughtful decisions (la palal – can come near and ask questions, exercise good judgment, request mediation and intercession, speaking out regarding (hitpael infinitive – Dowd is acting on his own initiative to deliver all of the verb’s implications, becoming the living embodiment of palal)) about coming into Your presence (la paneh ‘atah – arriving face to face).” (Dabry ha Yowmym / Words of the Time / 1 Chronicles 17:25)
Palal is almost always rendered as “pray” in bibles published by religious institutions, but that is not what it means. It actually speaks of “exercising good judgment by making comparisons, thereby discriminating fact from fiction after a thorough investigation.” It is “to decide by cutting through the evidence that is observed so as to discern what is trustworthy.” Palal is not only a “thinking” verb, it addresses the idea of “asking questions, receiving answers, then requesting intervention.” As a result of what is understood, to palal is “to speak favorably, intelligently, knowledgably, and persuasively about the expected reconciliation of a relationship, making declarations which advocate and promote a particular and anticipated consequence based upon the circumstance.”
Dowd had come to realize that his bad behavior was not being held against him, that Yahowah had forgiven him, and more importantly, that God was devoted to honoring the great contributions he had made to help all humankind understand the Towrah and its Covenant. His statement reflects the overwhelming sense of confidence he had in the liberty we all experience as children of the Covenant. It conveys our overwhelming desire to share what we have come to know. Palal is the catalyst, the means to excite our passion to speak out in favor of Yahowah. Nothing is more satisfying than encouraging those whose eyes, ears, and minds are open to exercise good judgment in favor of accepting the conditions established to become part of God’s family. Our response is not only active, informed, thoughtful, and rational, it is one of advocacy, using sound arguments to persuade others into accepting the truth based upon the insights that have been derived from being observant.
As it is with Dowd, my relationship with Yahowah is palal – I investigate His Word and learn by exercising good judgment by making reasonable connections, thereby forming a proper perspective from which to know and approach Yah. As a result, I’m passionate and make every attempt to be persuasive, encouraging others to take advantage of the greatest offer ever made.
“So (wa) now (‘atah), Yahowah (efei), You, as God (‘atah huw’ ha ‘elohym), have spoken (dabar – declared and promised, communicating) about Your coworker (‘al ‘ebed ‘atah – concerning Your associate, partner, and implement) regarding these good and generous, pleasing and joyful things (ha towb ha zo’th – these valuable, moral, festive, beautiful, productive, favorable, and enjoyable things).” (Dabry ha Yowmym / Words of the Time / 1 Chronicles 17:26)
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#112 Posted : Tuesday, October 11, 2016 7:54:37 AM(UTC)
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J wrote:
Hebrew word "Google Translate" says is "obey."

How would you translate the Hebrew word below?

לציית


Yada wrote:
JM,

I am glad that you were listening but I am wondering why you looked this up or sent it to me - especially without comment. Were you seeking some justification for obedience? Was this a legacy of Pauline Christianity's ironic and hypocritical requirement for obedience in their mythical realm of grace? I realize that it is sometimes hard to let go of the things that once guided our lives and made us comfortable.

But did you check to see if this word, written l-ts-y-y-t using English lettering, was among those used in the Towrah, Prophets, or Psalms? Did you look at any of the scores of lexicon references following the Google entry and notice that all of them referred to shama'?

The fact is, there are only two Hebrew words found in the TP&P which begin with L TS and they are "latsown - to brag while scorning" and "latsats - to speak arrogantly and scornfully." Therefore, l-ts-y-y-t isn't in Yahowah's vocabulary. It is part of man's vocabulary. And there is a reason for that, which was my point. Yahowah does not have laws and He does not seek obedience. Man uses one to require the other.

As for shama', it is one of Yah's favorite verbs. It however means "listen," not obey. But the religious deceivers promoting Pauline Christianity needed to justify Paul's ruthless attack on the Towrah, so they misrepresented Towrah as Law rather than Teaching and shama' as Obey rather than listen. Had they not done so, even a fool would readily have recognized that Paul's attack on the Torah was ignorant and irrational. Christianity literally requires this deceitful corruption to beguile the foolish into believing that the mean god of the old testament was a cosmic kill joy with a long list of arcane laws that had to be obeyed or you were condemned to hell. By comparison to this misrepresentation, their religion looked good - that is until you actually take the time to look.

I don't claim to have any interest or proficiency in modern secular or religious Hebrew. Man's vocabulary isn't useful. My comments are limited to what Yahowah revealed - and thus to His words. That is why I said that there is no Hebrew word for obey.

Stripped of their Masoretic diacritical markings, there are 7,000 different words (8700 with their differentiating vocalizations) among the 6000 total words found in the Towrah, Naby' wa Mizmowr. There is no word even remotely akin to "obey" among them. There is a reason for that.

Similarly, there is no word whose original and primary definition meant prayer, religion, holy, or bible, as they are interpreted today.

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Roy wrote:
Hi Yada,
I was a bit confused by this passage in OT10: If I am right, and this testimony seems to suggest that I am, then their first meeting was similar to my own. I heard God but did not see Him. Yahowah did not introduce Himself by name, but I knew who was speaking to me, as was the case with ‘Abram. I understand from this that you actually heard Yah’s voice. If so, that is absolutely great but I suspect you may have ‘heard’ Him through the Torah. Is that the case?
Roy


Yada wrote:
When He first approached me some 15 years ago, I did not know His name and my understanding of the Towrah was from the perspective of a once devout but now wavering and questioning Christian. So I heard a voice. At the time, the only reference to Yah's Word was to the copy of Psalm 91 that was in my pocket. I did not start studying the Towrah until a year or so after the introduction.


Roy wrote:
Thanks Yada,
I’ve often wondered why more of the family don’t have a more direct communication with Yah such as we find in the TPP, particularly at this important time of the end. I would love to hear Him so I think you are very lucky. On the other hand I believe He has directed me to important fields of endeavour so that I could share what I found with other family members. I’ll just have to be content with that until the harvest.
You have been critical to the advancement of so many family members. So many have come to know Yah through your logical and reasoned dissection of His word that I’m sure Yah recognised you as immensely important even before you commenced your labour of love.
I know your are sensitive to praise but the truth is the truth and you should wear your position in Yah’s love with pride. You will I’m sure feature greatly in heaven.
Roy


Yada wrote:
Roy,

I am certain that Yahowah speaks to everyone who is willing to listen to Him. When we open His Towrah, Naby', wa Mizmowr and start studying His words we hear Him speaking to us, teaching us, guiding us, inspiring us, and empowering us - effectively leading us to Him. The more we study, the more we understand - especially if we approach His testimony from the right perspective, think logically, and seek to make connections.

The only difference between me and you is that I've been at it a little longer and I probably spend a little more time at it. And while your mind brilliantly and rationally races to answer a wide spectrum of questions, I tend to focus on those which pertain to knowing Yah and engaging in a relationship with Him. Your tools are found in science. Mine are found in lexicons. Yah communicates through both.

Truthfully, Roy, I'm a bit like an old record. I then to screech and produce copious amounts of static as I go round and round in the same song with the same words. It's a big, beautiful song, to be sure, one whose refrain extends beyond what I could hope to learn in a lifetime. And it's an uplifting and inspiring song whose lyrics lead to the Composer. So since it is the most interesting song in the universe, I'm so enamored with it, I seldom get very far away from that melody. I may be an centimeter wide and a meter deep.

What's amazing to me is that I've spent 15 years devoted to these lyrics and I am always learning something new - even today as I translate Shemowth 12. The more I read, the more carefully I listen, the more I come to appreciate the message. I just love the way everything fits together and tells the same story. It is masterfully written.

What's also amazing is how few of us there are who genuinely love these words. As revealing and empowering as they are, you'd think we'd be in the vast majority rather than a tiny minority. After all, the Author is God. So the biggest surprise of all is why aren't there millions of me and you? Yah's testimony isn't hidden. It isn't hard to understand. And there is no question whatsoever that the Creator authored these texts. And by comparison, man's religious and political doctrines are filled with errors and contradictions.

While I may be reading too much into these stories, I like to think that I am a blend of people. I'm a little like Dowd, a flawed guy who is passionate and strives to be rational. I'm a little like Moseh in that I'm an unqualified linguist. I'm a little like Abraham, in that at times I'm slow to discard myths in favor of the truth. And I suspect I've got a little of Noach in me, in that I'm willing to act upon Yah's instructions and cannot wait to jump aboard His ship and set sail with Him.

I suspect that there is some of each of these fellows in each of us, which is why they were chosen and why they were presented, warts and all. While there is an infinite delta between ordinary humans and the Covenant family, in the family we are all the same apart from our personalities.

Lucky for me, and probably for a lot of us, Yah likes rascals, people who know their limitations and yet don't let them get in the way. Yah seems to enjoy engaging with those who like to work and who are not afraid to try. He understands that we make mistakes. He is only disappointed when we are unwilling to engage.

But I cannot see myself as special in any way. In Yah's home, I'm just going to be one of the guys, maybe a little more curious, a little more impulsive, a little more willing to give new things a try. But that's it. I'll be delighted to sit in the back of the room and be the last in line. Just being in the same place with you, our brothers and sisters, and with Yah will be extraordinary - more than enough for eternity.

As for your initial thought, what would Yahowah tell us now that would be any different than what He has already said? Beyond inspiring us to understand what He is offering and wants in return, what else is important? Sure, there are some questions about dimensions and creation that I'd love to have answered, but they are just curiosities. All of the important questions have been answered and my curiosities will be resolved in due time. Moreover, Yahowah has provided an overwhelmingly thorough accounting of the last days. We know what is going to happen and when it is going to occur. So He has told us everything we need to know, and more.

One of the great things about being reliable and unchanging is that you only have to present your plan once. There is one Covenant and one Towrah for all of us.

On your last thought, if by simply sharing what I'm learning, others have come to learn, then we are all beneficiaries of His Word. It is the nature of Yah and the purpose of His family. While reading a book to one's family inside of one's home is an enjoyable undertaking, if the book benefits all of those who listen, then it's the Author, not reader, who deserves the credit.

Yada

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#114 Posted : Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:31:41 PM(UTC)
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CR wrote:
Hello Yada,

I am looking for information about the poisoning of the water under the temple. Could you recommend a site or book? Thanks a lot , I am having trouble finding this account in my google searches.

CR


Yada wrote:
I'm afraid I won't be of much help either. I found the site that my friend Ken Power used to make that case but I did not find their research credible. So I am no longer referencing the idea. If something occurred in 1033 CE then it was so small as to be essentially irrelevant.


CR wrote:
Hello again,

One more question please Yada. The big thing I am hearing among Christians is that 2028 is the next Yowbel year. I think they are going by Rabbinical information via Jonathan Cahn who actually preceded Haggee on the dreadful bloodmoons! He talked alot about the sabbatical year of rest and aligned events to 7 year cycles. So the question is what point of reference are you using to time this next yowbel?

CR


Yada wrote:
Hell no to 2028.

They were completely, totally, and utterly wrong on the blood moons, so why would anyone trust either of them now? If you are sane, you will reject whatever they have to say. I devoted many hours of radio in advance of the blood moons refuting all of their claims. They are religious idiots.

It is absolutely certain that Yahowsha' fulfilled the first four Miqra'ey in year 4000 Yah, 33 CE on the Roman Catholic Imperial Rome calendar - just as was predicted by Dany'el. So I ask you, what date is derived from multiplying 40 Yowbel and adding it to 33 CE?

Or do you suppose that Yahowah got it wrong and missed the Yowbel year of 4000 Yah by 5 years and fulfilled the first four Miqra'ey early? And if He blew his timing there, why would anyone think He'd get it right this time through.

The idiots who say such things don't know what the Yowbel represent or why the Miqra'ey were fulfilled during them. Hell, they don't even know what the Miqra'ey represent. They are also clueless to Yah's 6+1=7 plan.

Yahowah will return on Yowm Kippurym in year 6000 Yah. It begins at 6.22 PM in Yaruwshalaim at sundown on October 2, 2033 on the Roman Pagan Calendar. 2028 will be two years into the 7 year Tribulation. I'm sure Hagee will be writing books about it.

I won't be here.

Yada

By the way, if Yahowah does not return on this day, please tell the world that I'm an idiot.


Fred wrote:
There are calendars on the internet that let you project backwards and forwards to extended periods of time just by putting in dates. And knowing Yahowsha went to the upright pole on a Friday (Passover) around 3pm according to Mattanyah, we can put in the years and see what those dates are from what the shyster Cahn has said, to what is the actual date (truth.)

Wednesday, April 28, CE
Monday, April 18, 29 CE
Friday, April 7, 30 CE
Tuesday, March 27, 31 CE
Monday, April 14, 32 CE
Friday, April 3, 33 CE
Wednesday, March 24, 34 CE
Tuesday, April 12, 35 CE
Saturday, March 31, 36 CE

As we look at what the vipers did in Yahowcanon 18: 28,29 we know they were there at the beginning of Passover when they brought Yahowsha before Pilate.

So we can determine pretty quickly Kahn is a deceiver much like Haggee is..Cahn is a con and getting rich by duping so many.
33 CE times 40 Yowbel equals 2033.

Fred


Yada wrote:
Yep, based upon the eyewitnesses the only day of the week that works is Friday, eliminating 28 CE and all but 30 CE.

But then there is the NASA site which presents moon phases back to 1 CE. The only one of these dates which also coincides with Passover is Friday, April 3, 33CE. And it just so happens to be exactly 1000 years from Dowd/Solomon laying the cornerstone of Yah's House, 2000 years from the affirmation of the Covenant on Mowryah with Abraham, 3000 years after the flood, and 4000 years after the expulsion from the Garden. And, oh yes, Matsah fell on a Shabat in 4000 Yah and Sukah will occur on a blood moon Shabat in 6000 Yah - 2033.

If the Cahns and Hagees knew Yah, they'd know better. It isn't difficult.

Yada
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#115 Posted : Friday, October 21, 2016 12:09:34 PM(UTC)
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E wrote:
Hello.

I have some questions for you pertaining to your faith, and am writing to ask if you would be (briefly) willing to assist me with some answers? I have not found the answers on your site, yet, and I do not think they shall be, given the unique nature of the questions I have.

Thanks.
Regards,
E


Yada wrote:
E,

You obviously haven't read what I've written.

I have no interest in "faith" and have no faith, so I am unable to answer any question regarding my faith. That reality is clearly stated in the prologue of each of the books presented on the Yada Yah site. And if I had a faith, my beliefs would be irrelevant and thus of no assistance to you.

I translate and explain Yahowah's testimony. And I apply what He has to say to our world, past, present, and future. My entire focus is on what can be known and understood. And thus faith would be a liability.

Yada
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It never ceases to amaze me how stupid most people are, and I mean really stupid. Like so stupid that I am really having trouble figuring out how this guy functions on a daily basis. This fellow "E" came to a website that is obviously presenting Yah's word, which is the opposite of faith, and yet without hesitation proceeded to ask about faith. Really, all this idiot wanted was the "brief" cliffs notes version of Yadas faith so that he/she could use their "brief" boiler plate religious mumbo jumbo sound bytes. Most people like "E" are incapable of waking up. They will continue to sleep walk through life until death, wasting their one opportunity to actually understand instead of believe.
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#117 Posted : Tuesday, November 1, 2016 8:04:18 AM(UTC)
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V wrote:
Hi

I have read your book Introduction to God.

There are 2 points I feel uncomfortable with :

First
Souls, you say there are only 3 ways a soul can go, 1 to heaven, 2 to hell and 3 just cease but u the book of Enoch, he talks about souls on the death of a person being taken to a mountain with 4 chambers, where they reside until the coming. Enoch also provides signs and time lines to the end times.
This.might be a book to translate correctly as well. Enoch was also a prophet and taken I to heaven without dying on earth and Enoch was told to instruct his children as to the teachings before being taken I to heaven.

Second
Adultery is derived from the Latin word adulterare - which means to mix with baser ingredients.
In the word it is written about a race of people born with no conscience /soul. They have the ability to learn, love and have compassion etc. It is said that one can have set with them and even have children but those children will never sit in the community of YHWH.
If all the other statements were made pertaining to the covenant, why not this one? Could it not perhaps mean that we are not to adulterate the word and the covenant. Not. Mix in our own special mix to make things more convenient?
Adultery meaning was changed to mean sleeping around to suit Christianity and this is a duplication of coveting in essence, I don't think YHWH would repeat himself like that.
Mixing with baser ingredients can also be the mixing of races to warn Yisrael to remain pure, often mixed marriages bring about the change in beliefs and worship and gods, so this may be a warning not to take a wife or husband is not on the same path so as not to be mislead? Not to mix the covenant with other beliefs and practices? Not to mix with people who may cause to mix the covenant with other beliefs and practices?

I agree that the incorrect translations are a major concern but now where do I find a correctly translated Dabar to read write and contemplate for the steps to the covenant.

Where do I find the correct dates for the feasts every year.

Where do I find a calendar that I can download and pin up to ensure I keep the feasts and now that I understand what pesach is about I want to keep it and really need to keep it. I want to be healed and cleansed by YHWH.

Regards

V


Yada wrote:
I'm sorry, V, but the moment your referenced Enoch as if that rubbish was from Yahowah you lost me. So, if you have a question and can avoid frauds like the book of Enoch I'll do my best to answer them. The book falsely attributed to Enoch is as poorly written and as false as the Qur'an. It is so stupid it hurts to even think about it.

However, the proof of three destinations is so overwhelming and prolific in Yah's Word, and so essential for Him to be fair and just, you may want to read www.YadaYah.com to resolve this issue in your mind.

Lastly, the derivation of English words seldom helps us understand Yah's words. And when Yahowah references "adultery" He is not talking about sex, husbands, or wives. Yah does not want us to engage in affairs with false gods, and therefore, religions.


V wrote:
Hi

Thank you for your response.

I have looked into the word adultery. It is derivative of the Latin word adulatare. Therefore it is the mixing of the baser ingredients. I cannot think that whilst you have listed all other of the so called 10 commandments that this one is out our tune with what Yahohwa expects from us, it does not make sense.
Look at how you have laid out everything else except for this statement.
Is it perhaps that you aren't purebred that you ignored this and flowered over it?
If you are going to do this translation thing, do it right and do it all the way even if if it excludes you (so to speak) but do it right you you are as false as all those just like Paul. Then we can call you a new Paul?
It is either right or wrong!!!!!!
Cut out the grey!!!!!

Regards

V


Yada wrote:
Dearest V,

Sweetheart with the endearing prose who loves the book of Enoch as if it were sane and who seems to believe that Yahowah's Word can be translated more effectively by dissecting Latin rather than Hebrew, why don't you create a more accurate translation of the Ten Statements and then the Towrah? Then write a commentary on what you have learned by analyzing the Hebrew. Because it is rude, not to mention ignorant, to cast aspersions without basis.

Try looking up one of the many Hebrew words for adultery and then compare that to what I wrote. If your research into the Hebrew differs, explain why, and then explain why that makes a difference relative to our understanding. But don't bring up Latin again. It isn't even remotely pertinent.

What you have written "does not make sense." I translated all Ten Statements and laid out commentary based upon those translations, so your criticism is invalid.

And what does "purebred" have to do with anything? Are you a racist too? Moreover, who is Yahohwa? It does not make sense based upon the spelling He has provided. It is YHWH not YHHWA

If I'm the new Paul, then I owe Paul an apology - so does Yahowah.

I don't know you apart from your two letters, but based upon them you ought not be stating your opinion to anyone. Cut it out!!!!!!!!!!!

Yada

This is my translation and commentary on the Statement you claim that I ignored and failed to lay out...

This next Instruction, the Fourth of Seven, also compels us to consider its deeper spiritual insights. Like the previous Instruction, it was scribed in the qal stem and imperfect conjunction. Yahowah is establishing a pattern – one which reveals that our prior indiscretions, if not ongoing, no longer plague our relationship with our Heavenly Father. This explains how Dowd could slip up from time to time and still have God put it behind them and move on. It is, at least for those of us with a checkered past, a tremendous relief.

It is amazing how big a difference something as simple as a conjugation can make as we assess our standing with God. He is far from the disciplinarian that He is cast as being in Paul’s letters. He isn’t asking nor expecting us to be perfect but, instead, knows that we are imperfect. So He’s focusing on our attitude, encouraging us to act better, to think more clearly, to respond more appropriately to get in the habit of becoming more like Him.

“You should not continue to commit adultery (lo’ na’ap – you should not make a habit of being unfaithful nor consistently have relations with more than one marriage partner).” (Shemowth / Names / Exodus 20:14)

“Na’ap – adultery” differs from “zana – illicit heterosexual relations” only in that the former speaks of violating the “beryth – covenant marriage vow” upon which the whole of Scripture is based. The Covenant, therefore, continues to reign supreme throughout these Instructions. It remains the prime directive. It is the means to form a familial relationship with God and thus the way to life eternal. That is what each of these instructions have consistently underscored with their focus on our Heavenly Father and Spiritual Mother and with the admonitions that we should neither take the life of another nor be unfaithful.

This is in fact the fourth familial reference Yahowah has made. He has spoken of His concern that fathers fail to protect their children, of sons and daughters observing the Shabat, of children considering the full significance of our Heavenly Father and Spiritual Mother so that we might live forever in the place God has provided for us and, now, of being faithful in marriage. These references underscore our Heavenly Father’s affinity for His beryth Covenant – a word which is based upon beyth, meaning “family, home, and household.” Yahowah’s “beryth – Covenant” is therefore accurately defined as a “family-oriented relationship based upon a monogamous marriage vow and protective home environment where God’s children live.”

God’s lone objective in creating the universe was to enjoy a loving family. As proof, in the end, when the existing universe is destroyed, only the children of His Covenant will survive.

The reason this Instruction is important is because by committing adultery we shatter symbols dear to Yahowah’s heart: husbands and wives becoming fathers and mothers in faithful monogamous relationships akin to a marriage vow to conceive loving families, providing for their children in protective homes, nourishing them.

Once again, by using the qal stem and imperfect conjunction, God is not only telling us not to associate with infidelity but, also, is encouraging us to refrain from doing anything which would cause others to be unfaithful. To this the imperfect adds an enduring perspective. There is an ongoing and unfolding consequence of adultery that Yahowah wants us to avoid because it is lethal to building a loving family. So, in the imperfect, then, lo’ na’ap says that we “should not continue to be unfaithful.”

Again, before we press on, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the fact it was adultery, not homosexuality, that was addressed here. That is not to say that God is supportive of homosexual behavior; He isn’t. But it is to say that adultery is of far greater concern to Him. Christians, encapsulated in Pauline Doctrine, are prone to view homosexuality more harshly than adultery and, therefore, lash out at homosexuals while ignoring their own behavior. In so doing, they miss the message God is conveying.
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J wrote:
I'm not sure if this is Larry's or Yada's email.

I'm looking for Yada...

I've been listening to a ton of your content. I want to know more about becoming a covenant believer. Albeit I've listened to the steps on by which this is achieved, I still have many questions. What would it take to do a 101 with me over the phone. It would have to be layman, as I'm a baby in my understanding. Christianity has indoctrinated me with a lot of fodder, so I'm a little - a lot slow at getting this :)


J


Yada wrote:
J,

Everything I know and understand regarding the Covenant is based upon Yahowah's testimony and is presented free for your consideration at www.YadaYah.com, www.AnIntroductionToGod.com, www.QuestioningPaul.com, and at www.BlessYahowah.com and www.YahowahBeryth.com. On the last two sites you will also find the audio from Shattering Myths and Yada Yah Radio which address the contents of these books. Also, on both of these sights you will find my most recent book: Observations for Our Time. It also addresses Covenant membership.

You will be better served if you read them than anything I could add in summary via the phone.

We are all infants compared to Yah. We are all learning. We were all indoctrinated at one time or another with religious and political lies. And we are all show at getting this. But there are no shortcuts. The Towrah provides a foundation that must be viewed and understood as a collective whole.

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יְהֹושֻׁעַ . You speak the name of the Most High well. How do you pronounce the name of the Priest in Zechariah 3:8 or 3:9. Please, how do you, a man who searches and looks for truth, speak this name and the transliteration of greek Ἰησοῦ name to Hebrew, which would be (waw)יהשע , what I believe is YahhShIWaw. Maybe you can respond to this, please. I have attempted to send you a question.

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J,

YHWShA isn't the name of the "Most High," so I do not speak of it as such. That isn't what Zechariah 3:8 claims. Y-H-W-Sh-A, transliterated Yahowsha' in English, is the name of the one who succeeded Moseh, and is used to describe Yahowah's purpose in Zechariah 2 and 3. It means Yahowah Saves. As a name, Yahowsha' is presented 222 times in the Towrah, Naby', wa Mizmowr. Yahowah interjected His name 7000 times in His Word.

The Most High has only one name, YHWH, pronounced Yahowah. His name, like the name He selected to convey His purpose and identity through Yahowsha' is Hebrew so the Greek transliteration Iesou is completely irrelevant. Proving this, neither the Septuagint nor any of the more than 70 manuscripts of the Christian New Testament dating prior to the end of the fourth-century CE present the name in Greek. Placeholders are used throughout. Moreover, the ou ending changes the Hebrew name to comply with Greek rules of grammar and to make it masculine. Yahowsha' was not Greek, did not have a Greek name, and did not speak Greek.

Whoever led you to believe that YHWShA is the Most High's name or that it is pronounced YahhShIWaw should be rejected for having done so. They are wrong on both accounts.

The answer to the question you asked was answered throughout each of the books presented on the site you used to contact me. If you had read them, you would not have asked it.

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Hello, yada. Forgive me if I seem ignorant in this. I am about to begin a biblical Hebrew reading course to learn Hebrew so that I can read the scripture more clearly. At this point I can't say that I know anything for certain. I have been a christian for the past two or three years, and of course I'm quite distraught to learn just how far I've been led astray. I have even been a stumbling block to those around me, through my misunderstanding. The reading course begins in February and lasts about 7 months, I think. I'm concerned, though, if there will be enough time to come to know Yah for who He really is. I'm told we have less than a couple decades before it's all over. And to learn the invalidity of the "death on the cross" narrative, I'm scared to think this may mean that I may be irredeemable. But my concern is more for the people around me. Every single person I've met in my life is either Mormon, or totally secular. Is there time for me to come to know Him, and what can I do for them until then, if anything? I do not know the Torah yet, my job is graveyards sunday night through thursday night, and I'm so confused on the truth about shabbat . I know it's not sunday, I've heard saturday, but wouldn't it be based on a biblical calendar?
Forgive me, for coming to you with all this. I suppose the only thing I can do is wait to learn Hebrew and find out for myself. I'm just so confused.

JJ


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JJ,

You do not need a course to read Hebrew. All you need to do is use one of the many free Hebrew - English Interlinears available online. Then use one of the many free sites which provide Hebrew dictionaries. By combining these tools anyone can know what God revealed. It just takes time. And while we are less than 20 years away from Yahowah's return, that's more than enough time to come to know Him.

I wrote www.AnIntroductionToGod.com to teach people like you how to translate Yahowah's Word for themselves. Every tool and explanation is provided for you and then they are deployed translating Yahowah's statements regarding things He most wants us to understand.

If you primary aim is to know Yahowah, then read www.YadaYah.com first. If you want absolute proof that Christianity is false, as is the notion of god dying, read www.QuestioningPaul.com. If you are trying to become proficient in translating, read www.AnIntroductionToGod.com as mentioned previously. And if you still have questions, read Observations from either www.BlessYahowah.com or YahowahBeryth.com.

Forget about saving anyone else. Come to know Yahowah first. Accept His offer. Then prepare. Once you are ready, share what you have learned with open minded secular friends. Don't bother with the Mormons. They are too lost, too irrational, too indoctrinated to help.

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JJ wrote:
Thank you for your speedy reply. I'm about halfway through the preface to an Introduction to God. I do appreciate the referral to the interlinears, and I will be utilizing them, as well as your resources. However I still plan to study Hebrew, if only out of love for His language.

I must say, the pain of being separated from friends and family has been the most feared obstacle, though I trust Yahowah to see me through. It seems to be fear of rejection by loved ones, which is of course irrelevant if God's will is the desire, but I suppose I fear punishment for forsaking anybody, for letting people go their own way and be lost. The story of the watchman on the wall comes to mind. But as you've said, free will can't be infringed, and all I can do is share what I might learn to anyone willing to listen, and in the end point them to Towrah.

As for Shabbat, Ive seen various claims of when it should be observed. Is there a scripturally sound calendar out there that you might know of that can be used to pinpoint the proper dates for Shabbat and the holy days? I so badly want to be aligned with Yahowah in all these things, and I don't know where to begin.

Thanks again,

J


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JJ,

Yahowah / Yahowsha' is vastly more capable than you or I. He did not try to "save" everyone who was lost. And most who have listened to Him have rejected Him. So why would you think that you would have to perform better to avoid punishment?

Yahowah does not judge or punish His children. Dowd / David did a lot or bad stuff and yet Yahowah declared him "tsadaq - right / righteous."

If you choose to reject religion and accept the Covenant, you will find that all of your religious "friends" will reject you. If your family is religious, they will reject you as well. But Yahowah's acceptance is far more enjoyable and beneficial. It is the basis and purpose of the Covenant.

The shabat is the seventh day. On the Roman calendar in use today, it occurs beginning Friday at sunset and continues through sundown on Saturday. Do not be fooled by either the lunar shabat promoters or those who rely on the fraudulent book of Enoch. Similarly, if you read the Invitations Volume of Yada Yah you will not only come to know Yahowah's calendar, but will also know the timing of the seven Miqra'ey.

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About two years ago I started to take Christianity seriously. I thought I got saved by my trust in Christ. But as I studied the bible and read many commentaries I stared to become hopelessly confused. I consider myself a pretty rational guy but the more I sought understanding from the bible the more cast down I became. It got to the point where I just felt like I was driving myself insane trying to understand things about God. In the midst of my insanity I stumbled across one of the shattering myths youtube videos about the corruption of KJV. After watching many of the shattering myth videos and reading from the yadayah website I have without a doubt come to the conclusion that christianity is false. I want to know Yahowah! I have so many questions. My only fear is that I’m not intellectually capable of understanding the Torah. I am the worst at grammar, but I’ll spend every moment of my life that I can learning hebrew if thats what it takes. I guess my main question is, what tools do I need to get to understand Yahowah? Like what lexicons? Where do I get the reliable hebrew text of the Torah? I have many more questions I'll send your way soon.


Thank you so much

BJ


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BJ,

Since I was once where you are, I understand how seductive Christianity can be, right up to the point that you begin to study it openly and consider it rationally. Then it all falls apart - every jot and tittle.

I was once an evangelist, so I was guilty of this, but nonetheless it's telling that Christians are indoctrinated into believe that "getting saved" comes first. Saved to what, by whom, for what reason? Why would a rational deity want to save someone he does not know, someone who does not know him either, someone who does not listen or respond to what he has to say? It would be like you and me saving random people, no matter what they were like from a variety of places - and then deciding to ignore others. Worse, Christians want to be saved by "Jesus Christ," an individual they know absolutely nothing about, including his actual name and purpose.

As for being confused, there is no other informed or rational response to the preposterous notion that the Pauline letters comprising half of the Christian New Testament were inspired by the same god who provided us with the Torah and Prophets. One is at war with the other. Then, recognizing that there is no evidence whatsoever to validate the authenticity of Paul's letters and overwhelming and irrefutable proof that the Torah and Prophets were Divinely authored based upon the history, science, and prophecies contained in them, the only rational conclusion is to reject Paul's letters, and in so doing, toss away the sole basis for Christianity. And yet billions believe the obvious lie and a few thousand embrace the truth. If you are still at the point that you would benefit from additional proof that Paul was a false prophet, please consider www.QuestioningPaul.com. It's free.

Incidentally, bible is based upon babel, which means "to confuse by intermixing."

There are a number of people who are taking the Shattering Myths, Observations, and Yada Yah radio programs and either archiving the audio files by topic or adding visuals to them to make videos. And while many people such as yourself have been introduced to Yahowah through them and come to learn from them, if you are as serious as you claim to be, you'd be bettered served to read the books upon which they are based. These include: www.YadaYah.com, www.AnIntroductionToGod.com, www.QuestioningPaul.com, and Observations (available at www.BlessYahowah.com and www.YahowahBeryth.com - which also feature the archived audio files). These books are similar in that they begin by attempting to accurately translate Yahowah's testimony and then evaluate it so that we can better understand it.

An Intro to God will provide all of the tools you'll need to begin verifying my translations and then doing your own. There are so many effective tools between interlinears and dictionaries, many of them free on line, it isn't difficult to translate the written word.

All of your questions are answered in the Word chapter of ITG, but the best place to start if your goal is to know Yahowah is the place you are currently reading, Yada Yah. My favorite is Observations, which is why I've attached a few chapters for your consideration, one of which covers the SM subject that kindled your interest.

After you have read Volumes One and Two of Yada Yah (http://yadayah.com/), Volumes One through Four of An Introduction to God (http://anintroductiontogod.com/An_Introduction_to_God-01.0-Dabar-His_Word.Torah), and Observations (http://yahowahberyth.com/), you will not only know Yahowah, you will understand precisely what He is offering and expects in return. If you need any additional help along the way, let me know.

While the books are all free online, should you prefef printed versions, they are available at: http://claitors.com/yada.htm.

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M wrote:
Is Yahowah the same person as Yahowsha?


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"Is Yahowah the same person as Yahowsha'" is akin to asking are you the same person as a toenail clipped off of your right foot? "Yes," but "not entirely." Said another way, is the ocean the same as a cup of water?

Yahowsha' is a substantially diminished part of Yahowah set apart from Yahowah. Yahowah is a 7 dimensional spiritual being with light serving as the closest analog to His nature. A 7 dimensional being cannot enter a 3 dimensional world, just as Walt Disney cannot enter the 2D world of his creation and live with Mickey Mouse. He must use implements to interact with his characters. Yahowah interacts using His Set-Apart Spirit, on occasion, Yahowsha', His Word, and His mala'k - messengers. Unlike the Set-Apart Spirit who remains spiritual, and thus energy, Yahowsha's manifestation is material and thus subject to e=mc2. There is a required diminishing calibrated at the speed of light squared to transition from energy to matter.

Our focus, as Yahowsha' affirmed, ought to be on Yahowah, not Yahowsha'. And even then, if we wish to understand Yahowsha' we need to read the Towrah, Prophets, and Psalms where His life, words, deeds, and purpose are properly explained. Apart from portions of Mattanyah, even less of Yahowchanan, and some of Revelation (all once corrected for dual translation and scribal error), most of the Christian New Testament (especially Paul's 13 letters) is between horribly unreliable and deadly.


M wrote:
Yada,

Thank you for your kindness in responding.

I just came to understand and believe a few days ago the "apostle" Paul is false along with his entire message and teachings. Liars use truth to ensnare.

I then stumbled upon your website a short time afterward.

I will review and think more deeply about your reply. At first glance I have to intellectually disagree. The soul of Yahowsha is Yahowah as I currently understand it making HIM even the Towrah itself which He said He fulfilled to the letter. He became righteousness itself.

I am in agreement with the lord, cross vs pole, and more importantly His name information and will correct myself accordingly.

The toe nail and cup of ocean for me is not part of the premise. If the premise is flawed the deduction is flawed. The premise I am supposing is YAHOWAH become human. Currently I believe the Father (divine) is the Son (human) and what proceeds is the Spirit (action).

I am sharing your website with others as I agree with everything on it except for some doctrinal/prophetic information. I am not saying you are wrong but that I just don't understand yet.


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M,

How did you come to know that Paul was a false prophet? While it is obvious and undeniable, that is the ultimate challenge for Christians. Have you considered reading www.QuestioningPaul.com? I would also recommend Observations which you can find at www.YahowahBeryth.com.

The first step toward Yahowah is away from religion. So you are now prepared to know Him. The next step requires that we observe, closely examining and carefully considering, Yahowah's towrah - guidance. There are five terms and conditions for the covenant and there is only one path to God - both of which are presented in the Towrah.

If I were you, and I've been where you are, I'd focus on knowing and understanding Yahowah rather than focus on the relationship between Yahowah and Yahowsha'. One is vital, the other interesting. The books www.YadaYah.com, www.AnIntroductionToGod.com, and Observations for Our Time will help you along that path.

While I encourage thoughtful, informed, and rational disagreement, based upon Yahowah's testimony, I am certain that the key to understanding the relationship between Yahowah and Yahowsha' is qodesh - set apart. In addition, understanding the nature of light and the relationship between energy and matter is helpful - as well as appreciating the unique nature of Hebrew and prophecy as they relate to light. So is an appreciation of dimensions - especially 3, 4, and 7. You will learn to appreciate all of this and thus come to understand how Yahowah fulfilled Pesach, Matsah, Bikuwrym, and Shabuw'ah in due time if you read Yada Yah, Intro to God, and Observations. More importantly, you will come to understand the connection between the Miqra'ey and the Beryth.

Yah has provided the information we need to know Him. All I've done is try to translate His words as accurately and completely as possible while at the same time, pondering the implications. Neither my translations nor my conclusions are perfect, so by all means, challenge and test them.

Yada


M wrote:
Wanted to ponder more about your stating the Father greater than Son.

I guess for me it is a matter of perspective. While Yahowsha Son was in the process of manifesting Yahowah Father He acknowledged the Divine was greater than the Human. That was not acknowledged after He was glorified and sitting at the right hand of the Father (meaning now the human was divine - the son was the father completely. All authority on heaven and earth was now His and He was to be honored as the Father because He WAS the Father.
The GOD MAN. John 5:23.

Though Mary supposed HE was the gardener I believe HE "hid" His face from her and she didn't recognize Him. HE had the same body that was crucified because of the nail prints that Thomas saw and touched.

I have always had a distaste for the name "Jesus" and I now know why. It is refreshing to be able to call HIM by HIS real name. The lord information was astounding and rang true.

I will continue to read and study your website.


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M,

I understand that you are inquisitive, and that's good. And while I could address your questions and comments, it's best that you set your assessments of Yahowsha' aside until you come to know Yahowah. Ultimately, if you take the time to build a foundation for understanding based upon the Towrah, and if your perspective is framed by the Towrah instead of the Christian NT, you'll come to know exactly who Yahowsha' is and what He represents. The truth is knowable, verifiable, enlightening, empowering, and satisfying.

M, there is no way to know Yahowsha' without first coming to know Yahowah. You cannot understand Yahowsha' without first coming to understand Yahowah. I could set the truth before you on a silver platter and it wouldn't do you any good at this point. You are not yet prepared to hear it. The Christian fixation on their "Jesus" prevents them from knowing God. You have freed yourself from their false prophet, so now free yourself from their false viewpoint.

By rejecting "Jesus" and acknowledging "Yahowsha'" you are already well beyond where any Christian will ever go. Yahowsha' means "Yahowah Saves." It's an identity and mission statement.

The "study" that I have composed by more accurately translating Yahowah's Word from the oldest sources is 8,000 pages long. There is much to learn from Yah and all of it is exciting. Start at the beginning and read the first Volume of Yada Yah. If you are a multitasker read all four books at the same time. They all point in the same direction and tell the same story because the testimony being translated is presented by the same Author.

There are profound insights that can be derived from each of the issues you have raised regarding Yahowsha'. So it isn't out of ignorance that I am encouraging you to set this aside for a while. I understand the implications of each of the ideas you have raised, and if you become Towrah observant and read YY, ITG, O, and QP, so will you.

Please, come to know Yahowah first. Consider His Towrah.

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Yada,

Hmm. I find it interesting that you have passed judgement on me - in violation of the Towrah - by stating I don't know Yahowah. I will turn the other cheek in obedience to Towrah. 👍

For the sake of this discussion I am not going to deal with anything other than the Towrah - no New Testament etc.

The reason you have passed judgement on me is because of your understanding of the Towrah. As you so aptly put it clarifying passages can reach a point of no return where the message gets lost in the delivery so to speak.

"God" spoke to Moses and gave him the Towrah. In it "God" gave information about a number of things - His name, covenant, instruction, etc.

Why? HE didn't have to did HE? Why then? You probably ( I have to be careful here so that I don't judge) will say HE choose to. That's always the answer from anyone with the perspective of TRUTH alone.

Tell me Yada who worships the Towrah, if during the Passover a man was mentally raping a woman in the building they were huddled in and the blood was posted outside on the door lentils as required by the Towrah, would he live?

To quote "We have arrived at our destination; the reason we turned to this passage. The Word of God endures forever. So, if rather than withering and decaying, you want your soul to endure forever, to be established, restored, and to be lifted up to heaven (which by the way is a state of consciousness/being, not a "place"), TRUST and RELY upon the eternal Word of "God"-- the Torah, prophets, and Psalms.

Trust and rely are our conditions of the covenant. Trust and rely on the "idol of Towrah" - Towrah saves, Towrah saves, which is EXACTLY the same as Jesus saves, Jesus saves. Why? Because the delivery is the focus and not the message. What is the message of the Torah? "GOD" is a PERSON and desires us to love HIM back.

Love is of the will (heart) and saves and truth is of the mind and damns. What a man loves determines his destiny, not what a man believes.

"GOD" gives us a mind/truth so that we may "see" that unless we will that which is love/good we will perish.

To quote: Yahowsha is the corporeal manifestation of Yahowah. "He" first person, is "one" (whatever that means), with "Him", second person, in that "He" first person, is set-apart from "Him" second person. Nothing more. Nothing less.

My words: If I say I am a donut, does that mean I am a donut?

So now instead of the trinity of persons God, we now have the dual persons God. To work around the truth of GOD IS ONE you to quote: He is PART of Yahowah, set-apart from Him. Also interesting, as Yahowsha', Yahowah set apart PART of Himself to become human. This diminished manifestation of GOD, known as the Son of God, was not only part of God's family, but also embraced the limitations of grass, and became one with the grass for a time.

Part of me is NOT me. As soon as a part of me is removed from me it is alien (not me) to me. It is DEAD and has no life.

The reason why "God" spoke to Moses is because HE HAD TO and could not chose to do otherwise. That is the QUALITY/CHARACTER OF TRUE LOVE - it had to save. "God" was acting from HIS heart/will. "God is good, reveals it in truth, and gives life to it in action.

You are a learned man but like you said you DON'T have all the answers.

You are big on the "name" of "God". The "name" can become an idol which is by trusting and relying on the letter of the instruction rather than the spirit of the instruction. A name is the QUALITY of the person, a person' CHARACTER. One can obey the TOWRAH outwardly and still despise it inwardly.

To trust and rely that YAHOWSHA is YAHOWAH HIMSELF cannot come from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (self) it can only be imparted by YAHOWSHA acknowledging HIS TRUE PERSON.

You can understand and know all the Hebrew, Greek, Latin in the world and still reject YAHOWSHA'S claim - I AM.

R,

M


Yada wrote:
M,

The Towrah encourages us to be judgmental - to exercise good judgment. It's the New Testament that tells people not to judge.

My conclusion was based upon the statements you made and the questions you asked regarding Yahowsha'. Then recognizing that you did not understand the answers I provided to your initial question, I tried twice to change your perspective and focus from Yahowsha' to Yahowah. Simply stated: if you know Yahowah you know Yahowsha'.

I'm sorry that I took the time to respond to your email. I'll not make the mistake again. This is the last you will hear from me, M.

So that you know, I stopped reading after the sixth or seventh paragraph. I could not make sense of what you are trying to covey.

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Good morning,

Last night while reading from the book of Yob 1, verses 6 and 7 sort of stuck out to me simply because Noach had sent the black raven, and it went "to and fro." We know ravens will literally land on anything dead.
So I think the symbolism here is paramount. When Yahowah asked the adversary in the book of Yob where he had been, his simple statement was, "going to and fro."


Noach sending out these two (raven and dove) has to be symbolic of a much larger lesson and I think it leads to us recognizing good over evil. The raven being symbolic of the adversary and the dove being symbolic of Yahs spirit..The dark black bird went to and fro without coming back without even a little aid of any sort. So it did nothing useful for Noach, while the dove, symbolic of Yahs spirit, we find it returns with life and hope.

After looking up the hebrew word for black, it says that word is derived from, "shachar," which means as well, "dusky / black." In the beginning when the earth was without form that "darkness" was over the surface of the deep, could as well be symbolic that hasatan was there in the beginning to see the entire plan while Yahs spirit hovered OVER all the waters. So just after that it says " God brought light and it was good." Could this light be symbolic of the day the Torah was given to obliterate darkness and thus everyone had a chance at it from the very beginning?

Regards,
FS

P.S. I think the message is so simple with the proper perspective, but man does it go deep when you see the pieces coming together. It wouldn't surprise me to know there might be so much symbolism no matter how far it takes you, you only scratch the surface. Thanks!


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The "to and fro" or back and forth without direction, is the perfect contrast to walking the straightforward and unwavering path to Yah. I'm sure that the comparative wording is deliberate. Good catch. The other logical connection is shachar, darkness, which is a blend of black and white, and Halal's name and nature, especially as it relates to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This also ties into babel and Babylon, where truth and lies are commingled to confuse.

Adam and Noach had the opportunity to know and engage with Yah. We are all given that opportunity.

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FS wrote:
Happy Passover!

Yada, would you mind giving your assessment on this 1:39 second video and see if you agree or disagree with the timing.

Errant names are used but I'm looking more at the timing the "claimed" science reports to find, or if the claim can be brushed

aside. I'm sure they would have taken into account the calendar changes for this time to that time, presumably...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgcvnQQNzQ4


Regards,

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I don't know, Fred. I cannot answer your question.

While I discount any claim that begins "scientists say," this is different because they cited their source. If you can find a copy of the Hebrew journal being referenced translated out of modern Hebrew into English, let's go to it and read what they found. Also, let's deal with the Oct 30, 1207 BCE date. I wonder if this battle could have occurred that recently since this is being waged by Yahowsha' - Moseh's successor.

It is possible that I may have the date of the Exodus wrong, making this time plausible, or there may have been an earlier solar eclipse. And while the solar eclipse is a reasonable explanation in the context of the sun and the moon, it does not fit the reference to a "whole day."

I am not of the belief that the earth's rotation was stopped for a day and then resumed, but that would be the only way for this to occur. Therefore, I suspect that there is an error here that has come either through not properly understanding the ancient vocabulary, trying to convey a scientific idea without the capacity to do so, or later scribal error.

Here is a rough idea of what was written...

Then Yahowsha' spoke to Yahowah in the day when Yahowah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Yisra'el, and he said in the sight of Yisra'el: Sun, stand still over Gibeon; and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon. So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hastened to go down for about a whole day. And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that Yahowah heeded a voice of a man; for Yahowah fought for Yisra'el (Yahowsha' 10:12-14).

It is interesting that the DSS have most of Yahowsha' 10:3-11, but noting after that. The reasonable story ends in 4QJosh before this unreasonable story begins.

I have never understood it, and without a DSS reference to validate the account, I've not tried to figure it out. That is not to say that we shouldn't try.

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S wrote:
Good afternoon,
I am having an issue with the dates of Passover. I look at hebcal.com and yada yah book but I am confused. Do we celebrate Pecach, Matsah and Bikuwrym from April 11-13th and that's it? If so why do the Jews celebrate for seven days? My family and I want to do it the right way as was intended by Yahowah.

Thanks

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Yada wrote:
S,

The Invitation Volume begins here: http://yadayah.com/Yada_...tation_to_Meet_God.YHWH. To better understand what Yahowah is offering and asking in return, you'd benefit from reading it. It concludes with a chapter that allows you to consider the evidence and determine when you are going to celebrate Pesach: http://yadayah.com/Yada_...ations_to_Meet_God.YHWH.

Hebcal is strictly a mathematical formula with a rabbinical fudge factor to avoid Easter. It is neither observational or astronomical. As such, some years all three sources of information lead to the same day. Sometimes, they indicate different days.

Pesach/Matsah/Bikuwrym is comprised of 3 specific and related feasts celebrated over 7 days.

Jews celebrate Matsah for seven days because this is what Yahowah asked of us.

Doing it right is far less important than understanding what these days represent so that you can accept their benefits in relation to the Covenant.

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R wrote:
Hi Yada!

Happy Pesach, Matsah and Bikuwrym!

Trust you are having a wonderful Chag!!

Well, I started Pesach on the astronomical date and did it again on the observational date of the 4/11 at sunset, doing it two days in a row just because we can and it is a chag.

The problem I have is that I discovered today 4/15 that making my matsah with egg beaters is that egg beaters have yeast extract in them.

My girlfriend who is also Torah observant also didnt know that egg beaters have yeast extract in them.

We feel really bad. We threw out what matsah we still had that were made with egg beaters and have started a new batch, but still feel bad.

We thought we might just start Pesach, Matsah all over again? Or just chalk it up to not being perfect and complet the 7-8 days celebration starting today?

What say you Yada?

Thank you for the continued BTR Towrah study and Observations. I also agree that credibility is important when proposing the Torah to the people as well as walking out of babylon. Many of the conspiracy theories are loony theories and I fall into the context of babble. I keep abreast on what is happening in the world and US but listen with a very skeptical ear.

Blessings Yada,

R


Yada wrote:
R,

Your intent is what matters to Yah, not the ingredients in an egg substitute. I buy matsah in the store just because I like the taste. So you and your girlfriend put in far more effort than I did, which pleases Yah. And truth be known, the matsah I buy was probably manufactured by somewhat religious Jews so it's tainted with the actual yeast Yahowah wants removed.

By all means, if you guys want to start over, Yahowah will celebrate Matsah Part Two with you. He's affirmed His willingness to do so in the past and He isn't about to change.

So, either way, since what you have done and want to do is to respond to Yahowah's invitation and celebrate with Him, you are going to receive the promised benefits.

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#129 Posted : Thursday, April 27, 2017 10:41:25 AM(UTC)
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Roy wrote:
Yada,

Do you have any remembrance of any occurrence before you were born? I certainly don’t and I’ll bet most people don’t either.
Did we have another existence before we were born to our earthly mothers? If we did we cannot access it at all. If we did there is a clear dividing line between ‘then’ and now.
The reason for asking this question relates to our eternal existence with Yah, our heavenly father. When we are born anew in our spiritual bodies will we have any remembrance of today’s world?
I think the answer is a definite no.
One reason is that if we can remember anything at all it is likely to be bad and make us sad. If we could remember certain events then we could remember all events in a life that was full of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ things. We could remember our parents, sisters and brothers and other loved ones who didn’t make it to eternity.
That would make us sad and perpetually so since we could never forget them.
I suspect that the only thing that will be taken as our soul into eternity is our personalities – how we think and how we relate to others. I have previously noted that family members all have an enquiring mind. Some may be better at it than others but all want to know the truth and will not be deviated from that search. And a willingness to admit mistakes.
We all interact with others at a subliminal level. We take instant likes and dislikes according to the personalities and the attitudes of others. Because we as family members have a similar outlook on life we will generally come to like most of the other family members. At least the torah will help us in this regard.
Family members who like one another more than others will tend to join together but meet the others at the miqrae festivals, if not at other times. We can enjoy companionship and discussions and indeed arguments – but good humored arguments that don’t lead to bitterness and reproach. A bit like a good-natured dig at one another’s personality foibles.
The Set-apart Spirit cloaks us so that Yah cannot see our flaws while we exist here on earth. That is obviously necessary so He can carry out His plan to allow us into His family in heaven.
However, once we are in heaven with Him there will be no need for a ‘cloaking’ device such as the Set-apart Spirit. Our old bodies will be gone. Our transgressions we suffered during this life will be gone and forgotten with them.
We will be a wholly new creation, made of light with our personalities – the only carry-over from our existence on earth – being the basis of our thoughts and actions when combined with the torah. We will not want to stray from the standard and though we will be similar we will be sufficiently different to be separate individuals that can make up an interesting family that isn’t simply a collection of ‘yes-men’ robots.
So I don’t think in eternity we will need to cloak ourselves in the Set-apart Spirit as if we still had some sinful core that is being hidden by Her light. We will be wholly new but we will still be guided by Her. The whole thing could be boiled down a process in which certain personalities are selected from others to enable each new ‘light’ body to be inhabited by a unique personality. Everything else is discarded.
The destruction of the universe and the creation of a new universe(s) fits this hypothesis very well.
And, yes, Yahowsha’s sacrifice was necessary to make Yah consistent and trustworthy and hence a person of renown, who can be honored, revered and loved.
Roy


Yada wrote:
Roy,

This is something I think about fairly often, and for many reasons. And while I concur with most of what you have written, I am at best extrapolating from what we currently know - so I could be wrong, even in those cases where we both agree.

I suspect that there is a reason Yahowah hasn't directly revealed these answers. We don't need to know them to choose Him, and we may not have the capacity to fully appreciate what will occur from our current perspective. Moreover, the truth is likely so favorable, that if it were presented directly, few would turn it down, there for choosing Yahowah for the wrong reasons. And yet, since these questions are important to us, I'm comfortable discussing my thoughts.

We agree that we will not remember much of this life, but I'm not yet convinced that we will be unaware of all of it. I see Yah's light eliminating all of the darkness which would make us sad, while making our best moments available as a way to increase our happiness. I am hopeful that we remember some of our current relationships and then have the opportunity to build off of them, even at times laugh at some of what we shared. This selective memory, however, comes with some problems. How, for example, could I remember that my second born was my son while being unaware that my wife and eldest son chose a different path?

Therefore, relative to memory, we are in 95% agreement, maybe even 99.9%, depending on how little we have experienced that would bring us enjoyment in heaven. The difference could be insignificant.

We agree that we will be taking our personalities with us, our attitudes and aptitudes, although these will all be dramatically improved.

In this regard, we agree that we will be more attracted to certain souls more than others. While we will enjoy everyone and spend time with everyone, I strongly suspect that we will form small groups and explore along with those with similar personalities and shared interests. And since there is no reason to assume that we will all be the same, in that it would defeat the purpose of having a family and of there being anyone beyond Adam, while also being relatively boring, wouldn't it reasonable to extrapolate from there and conclude that we will have different abilities? Some may be funnier, some smarter, some more adventurous, and some more loving. I think Yah will continue to love Dowd most of all because of the attitude and aptitude that caused him to be beloved so long ago.

I concur with your assessment that we will not need the Set-Apart Spirit to make us appear perfect in the spiritual realm, but I still suspect that much of the "light" which empowers, enriches, enlightens, and guides us will come from Yahowah, either from our Father or through our Spiritual Mother. This distinction is relatively minor, however, in that the Father and Mother aspects of Yahowah's nature may become indistinguishable in the spiritual realm.

The purpose of the Spirit, as you have stated, will be markedly different in that we would be perfect. So the way we experience Yahowah then as He strives to empower, enrich, enlighten, and guide us as His children will differ from what we currently experience. That is part of the transition from the Towrah to His ongoing towrah.

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Roy wrote:
Yada,

If you define a conspiracy/conspiracy theory as something either wholly or partially false that is promoted as true or likely to be true but unprovable then nearly all that mankind has created is a conspiracy theory.

You may care to extend this definition.

Ranging from the obvious such as 9/11 and the global warming scam through the covert yet just as deadly conspiracy theories promoted by politicians against their enemies and network shows such as InfoWars of Alex Jones to the various religions – all of which fit the definition of conspiracy theories - we are left with precious little we can trust.
As a species we seem to have a predilection for favouring fiction stories over reality. Consider the number of fiction novels consumed by those who still read to the frequently ridiculous fiction that is presented at the movies and on the TV.
In Hollywood you have a whole industry making conspiracy theories.
In my experience the only things of man that can be trusted are the hard sciences where the lies of those with an agenda do not get a look in. All that is not a conspiracy is found in Yah’s word.

Lisa wanted a logic course. If you want such a course I would suggest a long exposure to pure mathematics. I do not mean arithmetic. That is just being the organ grinder’s monkey. The hard logic behind abstract mathematical ideas is like a refreshing dip into a deep pool of logic. Even as a callow school child I was fascinated by the unrelenting logic of Euclidian geometry – surely one of the driest subjects you are likely to meet but still the basis of even simple occupations such as building.

Some time ago T asked the question as to why our behaviour is collectively so evil. To some extent I think Lisa has answered the question indirectly but my view is that it all swings around the neshamah. I suspect the one thing that caused Satan to rebel against Yah was that He gave mankind – mortal and frail vessels – a gift that ’Satan the Great’ himself desired above all else so that he could be like god.

Below is my (delayed) response.


Why does mankind embrace all the evils we see around us? Why do men and women kill and deceive one another to get what they want in this world? Why do we believe what we do?
When you lock your house up at night is it to keep out animals that would do us harm or is it to keep other humans out?
Do animals have the same awareness of their mortality as we do of ours?

The neshamah is a powerful gift. It enables us to have the ability to reason and use logic to develop abstract mathematical models that through the resulting technology enable us to transcend to some degree the limitations upon our existence imposed by natural law. Using the neshamah we have removed ourselves from the daily grind of individually finding food and shelter and instead we have come together as a group recognising that by doing so we can prosper more than when we are alone.

The neshamah gives us an awareness of our mortality that animals do not possess. I do not say animals do not fight to survive, to find food and to reproduce. Those instincts are literally built in to their DNA just as it is in ours for without those basic drives, life on earth would cease to exist. We, on the other hand, have those drives as well but we also know from a very early age that we are destined to die – with no exceptions. Animals do not possess that knowledge; they simply react according to their innate programming living from day to day.

The neshamah also gives us the knowledge that there is a higher intelligence, a creator. Ever since Adam we have a built-in Yah-shaped space that cries out to be filled. I do not mean a literal hole in the brain to be filled by Yah. I mean that part of the information provided like read-only memory from our DNA given as the neshamah to Adam and through him to Chavvah comprises this void. We seek to fill that void.

The neshamah is bequeathed to us via our DNA. This may seem a preposterous statement. Yet our nephesh is given to us through our DNA. Why not the neshamah? We can only have acquired a neshamah following Adam via two methods: a malak was present at every copulation resulting in a fertilised egg or it was given to Adam in his (and Chavvah’s) DNA and was then transmitted through the rules of inheritance to subsequent generations.

I think the latter is a more likely and elegant solution. Whether there are humanoids without a neshamah still in existence is a moot point. Perhaps some PNG natives may be.
Prior to Adam there was no knowledge of Yah. Mankind then with only a nephesh was just like all the other animals.

We have cave-man drawings and their artefacts from before Adam that seem to indicate the presence of a neshamah but these paintings do not indicate abstract thought. They are depictions of the life and environment around primitive man and may well have been nothing more than aids to teaching his offspring just as birds teach their chicks to fly. A quick search of the net shows there are a multitude of opinions from the very limited evidence we possess. None of it is reliable.

The neshamah is a two-edged sword. If you just regard it as a tool to greater ability and understanding, this tool does not give directions for its use. It can be used for good or for evil. Yah wanted it to be used to allow his creation to covenant with Him. Satan saw the opportunity to use the neshama to thwart much of Yah’s plan. I believe he influenced Mohammad and Sha’uwl for the dark side of the force – sorry, neshamah. These two reprobates were crucial to his plan for developing religions that worship him. He could influence any number of people through the neshamah but doing so would not help him. Most people are too irrelevant to be used as he wanted.

From the time of Adam onwards more and more folk were exposed to satanic doctrine. Yes, there was knowledge of Yah and the covenant but fewer and fewer had access to this knowledge. To most, life was short, full or pain, suffering and disease. Yet the neshama still provided the need to seek a creator.

And here we come to the conundrum faced by most people in their lives: If god exists why did he create the world without some transcendent purpose? Why allow such suffering?

Early man worshipped inanimate objects ranging from the moon to trees. Each object embodied its own spirit which had to be propitiated in some way. Of course a priest class was needed to explain what the spirits wanted and to perform sacrifices on their part.

But as more people cottoned on to the con a new form of religion was required.

Then along came monotheism in its various flavours. Here, now, was an explanation that was plausible and enticing. It purported to come from the pages of the TPP but unknown to most it was twisted out of all recognition to suit Satan’s agenda.

Here at last was both an explanation for our existence and a way out of the death that was inevitable. But the neshama was still there allowing more and more technological advances while the primitive mind of the nepesh still cried out for survival, food and sex now within the relative security of society converted to sex, power and wealth.
Sex to promulgate your own genes in preference to the next man, power to obtain the women for sex and to control those who would take the sex and the wealth from you.
All controlled by a priest class now obscenely corrupted and bloated with wealth and pushing Satan’s agenda.

Nearly everyone grew from birth to adulthood trained to believe what the rulers and priests told them god wanted of them. They still do and in spite of the recent rise of another religion – socialist secular humanism – there remains the deadly combination of a neshamah bent towards evil enabling technological development and a nepesh pulling each person towards self, disregarding everyone else.

Socialist secular humanism is in many ways an even worse doctrine of Satan than his previous incarnations. Here we now have a morality anchored in nothing at all apart from a self-serving lip service to the traditional morality represented by the major religions.
Each person’s morality is good as any other and all in conflict. No god exists so why should we try to obtain entrance to heaven? There is no eternal afterlife so why not trample everyone else under foot openly and with utter disregard for any form of traditional morality to obtain the temporary and illusory comfort of sex power and wealth before death takes each of us?

Modern science has shown the universe does not have infinite energy and even though the sun provides, in principle, more than we can ever need, we do not as yet have the ability to harness its power with any efficiency. So human life, built and maintained as it is on energy, must fight for survival. There is not enough energy to allow everyone to live like kings so inevitably most miss out.

So what we see are people killing one another for personal gain, psychopaths and liars misusing their neshamas elevated to positions of absolute power who live in magnificent splendour on the taxes extorted from their subjects and enforced at the point of a gun or by the edge of a sword.
Want sex with a particular woman? No problem, just rape her.
Want money? No problem. Just rob someone or rob a corrupt financial system for eye-watering amounts.
Hate somebody? No problem. Just kill him.
Like children? Well sex slavery is not so bad after all. They are just children anyway. Plenty more where they came from.

Laws are made to enrich the rulers and to suppress the rest of the population and universally these laws are broken or ignored when it is convenient for those in power as well as those without power.
All of it is maintained and enhanced by a rapidly increasing technology that spies on and controls every aspect of every person’s lives and armed men and women who desire the ego trip that the power over life and death has given them.

In all of this discussion the neshama plays a pivotal role for without it mankind would be like any other animal in limited numbers seeking to survive in any way he can.

Does this make the neshama evil?
No, but like any tool it can be turned to evil when the knowledge of Yah’s covenant is suppressed and when this gift from Yah to bring us to a higher plane is misused.

Roy


Yada wrote:
Roy,

I suspect that we both see Christianity, Islam, and Socialist Secular Humanism as conspiracies. The right of kings to rule is a conspiracy. The unification of church and state is a conspiracy. Pagan religions are conspiracies. Rome was a conspiracy. The superiority of democracy is a conspiracy. Central banks and fiat money are conspiracies. Man-made Global Warming is a conspiracy. Patriotism is a conspiracy. Political correctness is a conspiracy.

Conspiracy is the fabric of the social customs Yahowah asked us to walk away from. They are pervasive.

I agree that the tool which is used to create all conspiracies is the neshama. There is nothing wrong with the tool, only the way it is used. Every point you made regarding our conscience is consistent with my understanding.

The only place where there is no conspiracy is with Yahowah and His Word. We can choose Yahowah or conspiracy.

I concur with the first part of your definition - with one minor exception. All conspiracies promote something that is partially or mostly, false. Very few things which are widely accepted are wholly false. But a half truth is far more dangerous and destructive than an outright lie.

I concur with the second part of your definition, that the deception is promoted as being true. And while no conspiracy can be proved using evidence or reason, they are accepted on faith and thus become part of a belief system. That is why it is impossible to reason with the conspiracy advocate.

I concur with the third part of your statement which is your conclusion. Deceptions have been promoted and accepted as true at far greater a rate than actual truth. Popularity is evidence that something is false, not true.

To this definition, I would add that a classic conspiracy has the beneficiaries secretly scheming against their victims and misleading them for their own enrichment or empowerment.

Beyond this, today a cult of conspiracy has emerged. In many of today's conspiracies, the lies are promoted to garner a following and to create a sense of belonging. The 9/11, Chem Trails, Lizard Aliens, Pizzagate, Vaccine, GMO, and False Flag conspiracies fall into this camp. A few bloggers, radio hosts, and website creators are enriched and gain popularity, but only 5% of the people are beguiled. To a significant degree, the modern conspiracy is more akin to fake news.

There are still big classic conspiracies, like manipulating gold and fiat currency, like creating Scientology, and like creating the myth that America's military is a force for good. Russia being responsible for the failures in the Ukraine is a large, classic, and modern conspiracy. These appeal to a much larger group of people and provide all of the usual benefits to the perpetrators.

I found rhetoric, logic, probability, statistics, geometry, algebra, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and debate among my favorite subjects. I've always had an affinity for these things. The failure, which I suspect is deliberate, to remove rhetoric, logic, and debate from high school and college curriculum is largely to blame for the popularity of fake news.

I enjoyed your analysis Roy. Thanks for weighing in on this.

Yada


T wrote:
Yada,

One thing I have learned through all of this is, it does not matter. Whether or not the conspiracies are true, it does not change a thing. I was solely trying to understand our temporal world and to be as prepared as possible for any unsavory future events that might transpire. I was looking to see the exact plan for the future so that I could ease any pain it might inflict on my children. That is where my infatuation lies. I felt like if I fully understood Halal, I might know the exact plans for the next 9 + years, and if I was able to understand the agenda, down to the minutiae, I would more effectively protect my babies. It's as simple as that. I wasn't lost or in a religious setting with conspiracies, I only strive for the truth. I want any and all knowledge, any truths, because like Yah, I want my children with me for eternity.

I truly appreciate the emails and shared opinions from everyone else, so please, continue to share others opinions and their emails with me.

I wish I had more time to reply, but know that I am reading everyone's responses and it is definitely beneficial to me.

Thank you.


Yada wrote:
T,

If I may be blunt, it does matter. And that is the point that seems to have been missed. The conspiracies are not true. So the problem with conspiracy and fake news is that they condition those who consider them to suspend reason and believe in lies. They are a very serious form of babel, of confusion, of intermixing truth with deliberate deceptions to lead people astray. And once lured in, they become an addiction. Those who continue to pursue them for insights and answers will eventually destroy their neshama - ability to reason.

Yahowah's instructions are blunt on this issue. Don't go there. I'll share His position on conspiracies and fake news at the conclusion of this reply. He is uncompromising, unrelenting, and unambiguous in this regard.

And yet in spite of Yahowah's teaching, way too many people have sought out and believed deceivers. That's not good for anyone or for their children. Believing in conspiracies and fake news is a serious problem with potentially catastrophic consequences. The "I was just looking to see..." justification isn't going to prevail.

The fact is, there is no "exact plan." There is no unifying or grand "agenda." The conspiracy theories which purport otherwise are wrong. The "minutiae" is unknown to Yah, and most certainly isn't published or revealed anywhere. It is all a pile of lies promoted to confuse and deceive.

And yet, many continue to consider websites and blogs that falsely claim to know these things, and the irrational believe them.

The only thing we need to know about religion, politics, the military, and conspiracy theories and fake news is to realize that they are untrue and unreliable - deliberately designed to mislead. The conspiracy advocates draw you in, not away.

Credible evidence used against man's schemes has merit when rationally presented, but only for those who have not yet disassociated from human schemes. For those who have rejected religion, politics, militarism, and conspiracy theories, there is only one reason to study these deceptions, and that is to help those who are not yet in the Covenant so that they start to question man's way and walk away. None of this has any value for a Covenant member.

Here is Yahowah's position on fake news and conspiracy.

“Choose to be in an association with fear mongers, yourself (ra’ah – attend to and become friendly with that which is wrong and perverts reality yourself, develop common interests with those displaying an anxious attitude over impending doom yourself, congregate with those who lack self-control regarding potentially troublesome situations and who use fake news as a vice to lead sheeple astray (qal imperative – genuinely choose of your own volition to actually associate with those who misled by feeding false interpretations of imminent calamities and ruinous situations)), you people (‘am – those of you in a social group sharing common interests, even you who are part of the family), and (wa) you are choosing to become confused and broken, even paranoid (chathath – you are making a decision of your own freewill to be dismayed and discouraged, psychotic and distrustful, frightened and anxious, scattered and destroyed, and you are opting to fail and be annihilated, subjecting yourself to something dreadful and destructive (qal imperative – you are actually choosing to be bewildered, stupefied, disillusioned, and destroyed).

So then (wa) elect of your own freewill to listen, think about what you hear, and then respond thoughtfully (‘azan – choose to hear what is being said so that you are properly informed, give ear to this news and try to understand this message by carefully considering it, pay attention and be perceptive, and then reply to this communication in a rational way (hifil imperative – the subject enables the object to participate in the action should they choose to do so)) everyone (kol) in distant places and faraway lands (merchaq ‘erets – separated, removed, and away from the Land in other countries). Choose to be free of all outside influences as the means to protect yourself from harm (‘azar – gird yourself by preparing yourself to keep yourself safe of your own volition by refusing to be influenced by the impetus of others, choose to become stronger in preparation for the impending battle by not allowing others to influence you (hitpael imperative – with the hitpael stem clearly establishes a condition whereby the subject is not being acted upon or influenced by any anyone else while the imperative mood expressed second person volition, making this decision to gird oneself subject to one’s own freewill, whereby a decision is made to be prepared and to protect yourself from being influenced by others)) or (wa) become confused and paranoid (chathath – you are making a decision of your own freewill to become dismayed and discouraged, psychotic and distrustful, frightened and anxious, scattered and destroyed, and you are opting to fail and be annihilated, subjecting yourself to something dreadful and destructive (qal imperative – you are actually choosing to be bewildered, stupefied, disillusioned, and destroyed [this sentence is considerably different in the DSS 1QIsa than it is in the MT]).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 8:9)

“Choose to contemplate the motivations for a course of action (‘uwts – elect to propose the reasons behind plans and agendas in association with others, collectively devising schemes which proport to present the actual purpose behind things (qal imperative – of your own freewill, decide to congregate with others to form, consider, accept, or advance counsel regarding the motives for plans which are devised) based upon someone’s interpretation and advice in feigned defiance of authority (‘etsah – formulated by someone providing their view on how these things should be understood and how you should respond after consulting with them who is in malicious opposition while encouraging open resistance to authority, even revolt, while pretending to tell the truth, winking while deceiving and misleading with their evil advice) and (wa) it will come to nullify the relationship, thereby harming you by distancing you (parar – it will lead to disassociation, breaking and revoking the covenant agreement, and lead to nothing, continuously thwarting you, leaving you without recourse, unable to avoid the injurious consequences (hofal imperfect passive – depicts the object losing control on an ongoing basis and being continuously acted upon, unable to do anything about it)).

Decide to make such statements (dabar dabar – elect to express these words, choose to speak such things, promise that your accounts will occur, engage in this discourse and you’ll suffer the effects of your words (piel imperative – the object chooses of their own volition to suffer the effect of the verb)) and (wa) it will not actually stand up (lo’ quwm – it will not be accomplished or fulfilled, it will not be affirmed (qal imperfect – it will not genuinely occur at any time)), because of (ky – for the express and valid reason, showing a contrast) ‘Im’anuw’el / God Is With Us (‘Im’anuw’el – With Us is God [written as a single descriptive title in 1QIsa rather than as three distinct words in the MT]).” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 8:10)

“Therefore (ky – to the contrary, for this reason, and to emphasize this point), this is what (koh – thusly and in this manner) Yahowah (efei) said (‘amar – declared and promised) to me (‘el ‘any – as God on my behalf) in the manner of (ka – like, similar to, in connection with) a strong and strengthening hand (chezqah yad – a forceful and empowering influence and capability), correcting me and instructing me (yacar ‘any – warning me by teaching me, thereby strengthening me by guiding me (piel perfect qal imperfect – admonished me at this time to make me more disciplined on an ongoing basis through actual instruction that caused me to learn from the teaching)) from walking (min halak – from following or traveling through life (qal infinitive infinitive construct – a verbal noun depicting an actual course of conduct regardless of place or time)) in the way (ba derek – by conducting yourself in the same manner, treading in the path, engaging in business) of these kinds of people (ha ‘am ha zeh – of these individuals, following such groups), by saying (la ‘amar – approaching and stating (qal infinitive infinitive construct – a verbal noun depicting an actual statement which is true regardless of place or time)), (8:11)

‘Do not make a habit of conveying (lo’ ‘amar – choose not to communicate or express in words on an ongoing basis, never decide to speak of, declare, or suggest so as to continually infer, do not routinely designate something as or improperly promote (qal imperfect paragogic nun active – actually and habitually under the auspices of freewill expressed in the second person)) as a conspiracy (qesher – anything related to tying things together in a closely associated thread to show people conspiring together and united in an attempt to bind and harm others, any act of consciously joining together as a planned scheme of defiance in an attempt to restore a political system, establish a new government, as a treasonist act, or to impose a religion, thereby trying to demonstrate the illegal and inappropriate motivation and intent of a coordinated group of conspirators; from qashar – to bind and tie things together in a conspiratorial plot perpetrated by an alliance), therefore (la -for this reason), everything (kol – anything) that (‘asher – which for their own benefit to try to reveal the way) they continually refer to (‘amar – they routinely declare to show the intent of, they actually promote as am explanation of (qal imperfect)) as one of these conspiracies (ha zeh qesher – as an attempt to tie things together in a closely associated thread to show people conspiring together, purporting that they are united in an evil plan to bind and harm others by their malignant scheme to influence religion or politics in an inappropriate or illegal fashion) so as to (wa ‘eth) wonder about them or be inspired by them (mowra’ huw’ – showing anxiety over them). You should neither respect nor fear them (lo’ yare’ – you should not venerate nor be frightened) and not be shaken (wa lo’ ‘arats – nor be concerned that they will prevail).’” (Yasha’yah / Salvation is from Yahowah / Isaiah 8:12)

That is sufficiently clear.

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JK wrote:
It's funny, I wasn't fully getting the unique nature of Dowd and his contribution to understanding the Towrah. Mental block I guess. Last night it hit me that he was a very special prophet. Then I listened to BTR and you talked more about him.

I was thinking about the question posed to Yahowsha concerning what we "must do to enter the Kingdom of Heaven". The $64 million dollar question so to speak. He responded with Words to the effect, "Do the will of the father."

Well, who demonstrated for us what doing the will of the Father entails? Certainly Abraham, certainly Noah, certainly Yahowsha. Then Dowd. The man who exemplified this aspect so lovingly that Yahowah called him a beloved son and would model his kingdom after his example.

So in characteristic understatement, what could be more enlightening in all of human history, than to thoroughly understand and value the attitude of the man unconditionally loved by Yahowah!

Sometimes it just has to smack you square on the jaw, but here is the answer that explains so much about Yahowah's purpose and design for mankind. Mental block dissolved. Good show.

I look forward to hearing Dowd's music.


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JK,

I concur with your conclusion. Dowd is the most interesting, enlightening, empowering, and enriching man in human history - and the most intelligent and articulate. And we know more about him, his words and deeds, his thinking and approach to life, than anyone in ancient history. Dowd is Tsyown - the Sign Posted Along the Way.

We don't know enough about Noach's thoughts, Abraham's thinking, or even Yahowsha's, especially their perspective and attitude toward Yahowah, to study them as an overall example or how to observe the Towrah. They never wrote anything down for us to study. But with Dowd, we have a hundred Psalms and twenty-five Proverbs, that he, himself, composed, and much of the text of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles to study. We know Dowd from shepherd boy to aging king. We know what he thought about Yah and what Yah thought about Him. We know the good and the bad from both perspectives. And we have hundreds of prophecies from him that prove that his lyrics were inspired by Yahowah. We even have them in the language he spoke.

Dowd is the guide to follow. Dowd is the branch. Dowd is tsyown. Dowd is anointed. Dowd is the son of God. And Dowd is someone we can emulate. His example is within our reach. And while I recognize that he was both prophet and king, even hero and general, and was the richest man in the world, lived in the nicest home in the best location, and had the largest harem, it's not Dowd's life that matters so much as it is his songs, his perspective, thinking, attitude, and instruction regarding his relationship with Yahowah.

Dowd teaches us that being good may be nice but it is essentially irrelevant when it comes to God. Being right matters. And he taught us how to be right.

I hope there is time for me to translate everything he wrote and everything that was said about him.

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FI wrote:
I made a post recently in my new Facebook group Miqra Family regarding the seven instructions. CB who is a member says he worked with you in some capacity with Questioning Paul. Chuck commented on your translation "Don't make a habit of" and I'm just wondering how you might handle his objection.

Here are his comments:

Imperfect tense is an incomplete ACTION. Because don't murdered, don't lied, don't stolen...etc...would be stupid (perfect tense)

"Don't make a habit" seems an unjustifiable invention ( imperfect tense

I just told him I think the point is if we have ever desired are neighbor's house there's still hope for us.

Really looking forward to the show tomorrow.

Thanks Yada


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FI
What CB is doing is good. It's an ideal use of your site. I applaud him.

The best way to encourage members of the Covenant Family to translate passages on their own is to avoid criticizing their results. Likewise, if I want readers to verify my translations on their own, it's inappropriate for me to challenge them when they do so. Therefore, I'm not going to do either here.

While I could respond, explaining why my renderings are acceptable, it's actually better if there are some disagreements. As a result of his conclusions, if you are interested in perusing this, study the two Hebrew conjugations, the completed action in the past, present, or future of the perfect and the ongoing and unfinished aspects of the imperfect through time, on your own and come to your own conclusion. But be careful not to use a single aspect of something as the entire purpose of it. Examine several different grammatical resources prior to presenting your conclusions. Think it through. And try to convey renderings that are consistent with Yah's nature and intent.

Always keep in mind, it's often possible for multiple interpretations to be valid. Further, it's better when we disagree. It encourages us to think.

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DT wrote:
Hi Yada,

Long time since I have sent an email you way. I find it best to try and work out questions with others on FB now residing in Shamar Towrah or by simply by shamar towrah on my own.

I posted a question to the group and have received no comments. My question; Leviticus 23:11: On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it
After reading this verse concerning when Bikuwrym /FirstFruits is to be observed. It would seem to me the festival is not necessarily always just after Matsah, or counting 1, 2, and 3 if you will. Would it not make sense that Bikuwrym might need to be on the day Yahowah specified as after the Shabat which would happen during the 7 days?
We naturally look to the fulfillment dates of Yahowsha as a guide. From the first of the month we count 14 days in effect Passover is a Shabat, so the next day would be First Fruits, we know that makes no sense as Yah teaches it is Matsah. This leaves First Fruits two days after Shabat, thinking here the next day after an actual Shabat should be First Fruits. Maybe I’m over thinking this, I have a tendency to overthink things.


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DT,

The Shabatown is Matsah, not Pesach. Based upon my understanding, at sunset at the conclusion of the 13th day of 'Abyb, the beginning of the 14th day, is Passover. At sunset on the 14th day begins Matsah, It was both a Shabatown and a Shabat in Year 4000 Yah, 33CE. The next day is Firstborn Children, which was the first day of the week during Yahowsha's fulfillment.

That is my understanding, but I'm open to a different interpretation. In my view, the exact timing is less important than the purpose.

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#134 Posted : Tuesday, July 11, 2017 9:13:23 AM(UTC)
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RM wrote:
What Bible (Word) or Holy book (scroll) do you use? Can you get the Towrah in the form you have written?

Sincerely,
RM

P.s. this is going to be a wild journey… “An introduction to God”


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RM,

I haven't found a translation that is remotely accurate. I use the same terms Yahowah used for His testimony: Yah's Word, Yah's Towrah Teaching, Yah's Naby Prophetic Pronouncements, Yah's Mizmowr Song Lyrics and Writings.

As you are discovering by reading ITG, I do my own translations from the oldest manuscripts. However, in ITG I provide you with all of the tools needed to do your own and then some examples that should serve to help you along the way.

After reading ITG, I have more translations in YY, QP, and Observations. There is plenty to read and consider.

Yada


RM wrote:
Can you help me pronounce the name correctly… Yahowsha and Yahowah? Is it pronounced Ya-how-ah, Yah-o-wah, or Yah-ow-ah. The same question with Yahowsha? Maybe I missed it somewhere or haven’t go to it yet.

Also what is the best reading plan, path, etc. I seem to all over the place… reading some of the beast, Paul, His Word, etc. I need to start in the beginning and proceed correctly.

Thanks,
RM


Yada wrote:
There are four vowels: Y aH oW aH.

The best reading path is based upon you. If you are a Christian, read QP first. If you are an agnostic, read YY first. If you are a studious individual who prefers to learn on their own, read ITG. If you are more interested in what I currently writing and speaking about during the shows, you may want to try Observations for Our Time. If you are a secular humanist, you may actually want to read Prophet of Doom.

I wrote it ITG, TwT, PoD, first 6 volumes of YY, QP, ITG, the revised QP, V7 of YY, and now the first 13 chapters of Observations. Along the way I rewrote YY 7 times, and ITG 2 times.

Yada


RM wrote:
Thank you Yada,
I’m am a Christian, albeit one that sees what you’re saying and teaching about the name of Yahweh, or Yahowha, and the Sabbath, etc. It has bothered me for quite some time (over 30 years) why Christianity has strayed so far from the Torah and even the teachings of Yahowsha. The spirit of Babylon (religious apostacy if that’s the right word) has so permeated throughout the Christian world that it is so far removed from any resemblance of Torah, it’s frightening. Your dedication is awesome to learning and knowing what the Word of Yahowha says and I can’t wait to study with you. I just wish I had seen this years ago.

One more question if you don’t mind? Do you have anything on healing, and receiving healing, etc.? My wife deals with acute insomnia, Crohns, or Sialic, and thyroid issues. We have been blessed by Yahowha with many things and answered prayer throughout our life, but this one thing we never receive an answer on or her healing. It’s sometimes the hardest thing to go through for her, and she questions God and herself quite often because she is not receiving her healing…. Anyway, God bless and thank you again for all you do.

RM


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RM,

Based upon where you currently are, I'd strongly recommend reading Questioning Paul first. Then you can read Observations, Yada Yah, or an Introduction to God in whatever order you like based upon your interests. Observations is focused on the reasons Yahowah wants us to disassociate ourselves from religion and politics. Yada Yah proves Yahowah's existence and focuses on His story from beginning to end. An Introduction to God provides you with the tools to do your own translations and to verify the accuracy of those I've provided.

To become part of Yahowah's family, you will have to walk away from Christianity. The first step along that path is the recognition that the Christian NT is in conflict with Yahowah's Torah, Prophets, and Psalms.

The best remedy for insomnia is being wholly content in our relationship with Yahowah by knowing the truth. I am always a good sleeper, although that most assuredly was not the case before I came to know Yah.

Yahowah does not and cannot intervene in normal life occurrences without making a mockery of freewill. Yahowsha' only did them to focus people's attention on the more important source of healing, that of restoring the soul. So, while Yah promises to have His mal'ak messengers protect those who engage doing what He wants done, essentially keeping us from being harmed or killed by religious and political zealots, He very seldom if ever intervenes to cure human ailments. The god of miracle cures, personal success and well-being who assists with winning lotteries, hitting home runs, succeeding on tests and dates, and guiding a nation's leaders is imaginary.

We all have our aches and pains. Life is a challenge. This is what makes the Covenant so inviting.

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#135 Posted : Wednesday, August 9, 2017 12:57:51 PM(UTC)
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BJ wrote:
Hello,

I'm having trouble understanding if Yahowah disapproves of my job or not. I'm a janitor for a high school. Public education is a national institution, does that make it part of something Yahowah hates? I'm currently living at home with my parents, I have school loans I'm still paying off. My parents are Christians but I obviously have stopped participating in the religion altogether. I haven't told them I have abandoned religion to pursue a relationship with Yahowah. I have read much of Yada's books but I still feel a lack understanding on certain things. I missed my chance to start participating in Yahowah's invitations this spring, so I know Yahowah's eyes are probably far from me and thus his helping hand is also far from me. I just don't know what to do. Tell my parents now before I'm even close to being part of the covenant and risk getting kicked out? Quit my job and remain in debt? I just wish I had a better understanding of what Yahowah would want me to do.

Thank you for all your help

Bj


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Bj

It sounds like you are a thoughtful and responsible person with a great approach to life, attitude, and work ethic. You are capable of making your own decisions. It's your choices that matter in your life.

While I don't want to intervene in your situation by providing personal advice, since you asked I will offer some generic conclusions that may put your mind at ease. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a janitor anywhere, especially at a public school. In a lot of ways it's like cleaning up after sheep and you know how much Yah loves shepherds. There is absolutely nothing wrong with paying off your debts. It is the upright and honorable thing to do. There is absolutely nothing wrong about not disclosing your relationship with Yahowah, even your parents. It is between you and God. I don't share with anyone who isn't receptive or who did not approach me regarding this topic.

You will not find advice on "what Yahowah would want me to do" regarding the mundane things of life, such as where you live and work. His "will" for your life is explained primarily in the context of observing His testimony, answering His invitations, and accepting the conditions of His covenant.

Keep reading. Keep learning. Stay open minded and receptive regarding what God is revealing to you. Enjoy your relationship, your work, and your family.

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#136 Posted : Saturday, October 7, 2017 10:35:19 AM(UTC)
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AB wrote:
Good morning Yada,

My name is AB and I live in Suffolk, Virginia. My daughter, NA who is a member of the covenant, lead me to your site and others. I beleive she is also helping to translate.

I am a former Christian pastor (associate) who walked away from the church a few months ago to take a sort of "sabbatical" in an atempt to find out the truth. I just could not get any solid answers from my leadership and peers on why they think Paul would be contadicting the Massiah other than that I was walking on shaky and heretical ground. When I mentioned that I thought Paul may be a false apostle/prophet, well that didn't go over well.

Last night I purchased an online course from a Jeff Benner at the AHRC on how to do a hebrew word study and will get the resources necessary to start translating it all myself. I'm in a bit of freak out mode thinking that just a short time ago I was confident of my, my wife's and my children's salvation and now, not so much. Also, don't know what is happening is because I cancelled Christmas and the rest of the "holidays".

I'm trying to wrap my brain around how all this now affects ones salvation. Does someone have to take part in the set apart meetings to be Saved? If so, once we determine this is what we need to do, can we just start participating anywhere during the year?

Also, how does this affect any "deathbed confessions"?

Please let me know your thoughts and any supporting scriptures, if possible.

Any information you can provide in helping me uncover the truth would be greatly appreciated.

AB


Yada wrote:
AB,

There are no rational answers for Paul. That's why Christian pastors won't discuss his continual contradictions of God. If you want overwhelming proof, turn to the 1200 pages of www.QuestioningPaul.com. It's free online. No one anywhere in the world has read it and remained a Christian. It is irrefutable.

My other books are also free online and they will answer your questions. If you want proof that God exists, that His one and only name is Yahowah, and that He inspired the Towrah, Prophets, and Psalms read www.YadaYah.com. It is seven volumes and 3500 pages.

If you want to learn how to translate Hebrew and what texts to use, read www.AnIntroductionToGod.com. It is also free. It is five volumes and just over 1500 pages.

If you want to read what Yahowah said that is especially relevant today, my most recent book is Observations for Our Time. It is free at www.YahowahBeryth.com. I've attached the first five chapters in Word and would be happy to supply it through the 16th chapter should you want more.

Christians are freaked out over salvation, and yet no Christian has ever been saved. Yahowah does not want us to focus on salvation. It's logical if you think about it. Come to know Yahowah first. Decide if you like Him. Consider what He is asking of you and what He is offering in return. Then act based upon what you learn.

Yahowah does not want any of this to be easy. He wants you to invest them time with an open mind to consider what He has said, what He is asking, and what He is offering. He did not provide a shortcut, nor will I.

But this I will tell you. The one and only Covenant holds all of the answers. It is what Yahowah is offering and what He wants. Period. A byproduct of the Covenant includes salvation, but it is a minor part of the benefit package. And yes, the seven annual Miqra'ey meetings are important. The first four provide the Covenant's benefits. That is all explained in Yada Yah.

Feel free to write me as you read. There is a forum at www.YadaYah.com that you can participate in. It is free. We do two radio shows a week. The archives are posted on a friend's site, www.YahowahBeryth.com and on YouTube. If you want to listen live, the Shabat show airs on BTR under Yada Yah Radio at 7.30 to 9.00 PM Friday EST.

I've been to JB's site. His fonts have merit. But based upon what I've read, he does not know Yahowah and is not part of the Covenant.

The good news is that you are among the rare souls who have thought their way out of Christianity. The bad news is that your journey to Yahowah has just begun and it will require you to keep an open mind, to be willing to go where the words lead, to reject most of what you have been led to believe, and a whole lot of time. But the best news of all is that learning about Yahowah is exhilarating. He's fun to be around. And He is offering more than you can possibly imagine.

My guess is that many in the Covenant family know your daughter. I've sent this to Jacki, who edits all of my books, and I'm sure that she either knows her or knows someone who does.

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AB wrote:
Hi Yada,
Thanks for getting back to me and I have been going through all the resources that you have suggested. I'm just now putting together the translation resources.

I read Pagan Christianity by Viola and Barna a while back and thought, "what in the world are we doing celebrating all this stuff and why am I just learning about it?" I have walked away from it all.

Perhaps when I wrote my email to you I was (still am) thinking a bit religiously and not relationally when I asked about the salvation issue. (I listened to your response on the last Shabbat show as my daughter, Nichelle had forwarded it to me) I think you are correct about many people being focused on a "check the box" type of belief. You certainly made an impression on me to readjust my thinking.

I will get a little personal here and tell you that years ago I had one of those "experiences". The kind that now after listening to Observations and Shabatt and reading your books and others, I can't be certain it was from Yahweh or not.

The years of alcoholism, addiction, anger stuff just fell away never to return after crying out to Him that "if anything good was going to come out of my life, He was going to be the one that needed to do it becuase I was at the end of my life".

Something interesting in regards to names, I used to be know as "Vinny" for many years. A nickname I acquired in the Navy back in the 80's when the TV show Welcome Back Cotter was popular, (after "Vinny Barbarino" becuase of my last name and I am from New York.)

Several years ago I was praying and something came over me and I just started weeping uncontrollably and a "voice" said "I never named you Vinny. Your name is Arnold and it means something. I took your name away becuase you did not deserve it but now I am giving it back." That name means "brave or strong as an eagle". Since that time I go by Arnold.

I can only imagine, if this was from the Father, was He gearing me up for what was to come? Something I needed strength for or to be brave about. And by the way, all hell has been breaking out against me since my decision to step away from it all.

Since then I became very aware that names mean something so I just couldn't imagine why we weren't using our Father's real name but now it is has become obvious.

I also had a similar experience involving Judges 6:12 that I will not go into detail but to a point where I had a poster made and put up on my garage wall. Perhaps Yahweh was telling me I needed to pull down the pagan stuff in my life and that there was going to be resistance? Who knows.

Well, in any case I thank you again for responding and it was encouraging. I can only imagine how busy your life is and to take the time to respond, I'm grateful. I will continue reading, listening, studying, translating and seeking.

All the best,
AB


Yada wrote:
AB,

I've just read the Ras Shamra texts of the Canaanites as a result of a reference to Shachar, a.k.a., Satan, in Yasha'yah / Isaiah 8:20. I mention this because the presentation of Ba'al established the basis of Christianity. It's all pagan.

I am glad that I assessed your position correctly, including the fact that you would recognize the desire to be saved as a legacy of Christianity. The benefits of the Covenant far exceed salvation.

It is certainly possible that one of Yahowah's mal'ak intervened in your life anticipating that someday you would come to know Him and do something valuable. But, I'd be careful interpreting anything you have felt or experienced in the past as being the hand of God until you come to know Him and are prepared to engage, sharing His Word in a meaningful way. I have had similar experiences and now, only after devoting fifteen years to translating and sharing insights regarding Yah's Word, I now see some of them as intervention. But on most of the things I attributed to God while I was a Christian, I now see them as an over active imagination and the power of positive thinking.

If I may make a suggestion, use the translation resources initially to verify that those I've provided are accurate. Next use them to expand on what I've done, amplifying the words further. Then find related passages and translate them on your own.

Translation is very time consuming and is a skill that has to be developed to be effective. You have so much to unlearn and then learn as a former Christian, I don't want that process to slow you down this early on in your growth. You may want to get your footing first.

You seem like a bright man who is open to the truth and willing to invest the time. But even so, you have a thousand things to dispose of and another thousand to assimilate into your life. Even it this becomes your top priority, and even with the help of your daughter and these books, it will be two years before you are ready to share what you're learning.

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#138 Posted : Monday, October 23, 2017 2:57:13 PM(UTC)
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JO wrote:
Dear Yada,
Not for nuthin’ (Brooklyn talk LOL) I have read the first 2 chapters of your research and I have to say that 1) I am STUNNED by the changes I have to make in my life. I was in the Army (Ranger) for 12 years and implicit in that is the fact that patriotism and love of country were literally ingrained into my genes. To add to that, I am heavily involved in political (conservative) issues. What is easy for me is to turn my back on religion—all religions, as I was schooled by nuns, brothers, and had some unpleasant incidents with priests as an altar boy—I guess you know how that went. But these hypocrites taught me the 10 Commandments (I know, Yada, they were teachings) and every time I walked into a church there were so many saints and idols that I lost track of them. I always believed that I was meant to have a personal relationship with our creator.
The hard part is seeing the country I love and bled for go down the toilet, and I fought back by finding like-minded people on Face Book. I will do this—our military and government is corrupt to the core—I see that now, and Yahowah is the only answer. I have always had an innate feeling of unease, that something in my life was missing—that there weren’t enough medals or stripes on my arm to take that feeling away. The Army drilled into me that IT was my family. Ironically, in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the Drill sergeant told his marine recruits, on Christmas Day (I know, I know) that “you can give your hearts to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps”—Well, my DI told me the exact same thing--and I fell for it for a long time.
I wrote to say this—what I need to do is so much easier than what I’m doing now. But I’m angry—at Paul—because, as you know-he is Christianity—and it was all lies from a possessed man—ala Muhammed. Your POD caused me to create several pages on FB to expose Islam, and I’d like to say these pages actually educated people about probably the most evil man ever to walk the Earth (Flat Earth, in Mecca) This won’t be easy, but I do claim to love God—now I need to hear what He’s got to say, and follow his teachings. And I want to spread the message—I tested it with a friend and said “What would you think if I told you St. Paul was a liar, and is leading you down the wrong path?” She said, I’m going to church now and pray for you—then she “unfriended me” What did you calculate? 1 in a million? I’m a believer in that.
This would have never happened if I didn’t run into a guy named Yada on the net. I want to be part of His covenant, learn the Towrah by heart, and let HIM guide me through the rest of my life. I’ve already dropped out of the politics, I’m no longer in the military—but my wife is sooo proud of my military service—and I want her to hear the truth about God the way I did, but she’s so stubborn. Thank you for the attachments you sent me—I’m well into them now. The POD was easy, because I could d/l them onto my mp3. But I like to read. I erased all music from my IPOD, and it’s full of Observations and Shabbat Towrah from You-Tube.
I want to thank you for all the work you did—years and years, which is no small feat. Maybe I’m a little jealous, because I’m not THERE yet, but without your work, I’d still be calling myself a Christian. So, if nobody said “Thank You”, I’m saying it. What is more important than your soul?
Yours truly,
JO


Yada wrote:
Good morning, JO.

Even deep into the indoctrination of the Roman Catholic Church as an altar boy, the US Army as a Ranger, and Social Media on behalf of conservative politics, in your core you knew that religion, the military, and American politics were all rotten to the core - wrong, counterproductive, and irresolvable. The perverted priests proved it, so did the idols, as did your "superior" officers, along with the political and patriotic propaganda. There is a reason 600,000 vets are being prescribed mind-altering drugs for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. The stress comes from tying to cope with the lies, with the disconnect between what they were told and what they experienced. It is all irrational, even stupefying. And yet America is going deeper into her trance.

I was once an ordained ruling elder, an evangelist, and knee deep in conservative politics. I had to fight local politicians to erect a giant flagpole in my front yard. I flew flags that had been hoisted above the USS Arizona. But there were cracks in the facade along the way, including the realization that Vietnam was a colossal waste of lives and that Republicans were more responsible for the deficit than Democrats. Then, of course, there were the irresolvable Christian questions, many of which are now listed in the opening chapter of Questioning Paul.

Looking back on it now, my perspective is similar to yours. I'm angry, not just at the likes of Paul and Muhammad, but at a host of political and religious leaders. And I'm disappointed in myself for not disgorging the deceptions when the first cracks appeared. How is it that I was fooled by Paul for so long? How is it that most people are still fooled by him when it is so obvious he was a demon-possessed liar? Why is it that no one wants to hold Muhammad accountable for Islamic terrorism? It is all so obvious, and yet almost everyone remains oblivious.

It all comes down to this: in every society man is conditioned to respect political, religious, and military institutions and listen to those who speak for them - and regard or listen to Yahowah. Lies become popular and the truth is discarded.

If I or others in the Covenant can help you complete your journey away from man and to God, let us know.

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#139 Posted : Sunday, January 14, 2018 1:50:03 PM(UTC)
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S wrote:
Good morning Yada,

Hope you and your family are doing well and survived all the pagan holidays which I am glad is over. Looking forward to Passover. Great work on your new book, Observations, love the translations. Yada I need your help if there is an answer to my question, it is one that has always bothered me and my wife. I remember when you wrote Profit Of Doom and you partnered up with Yah to write that book and you asked for his protection. The issue I struggle with is, why doesn't he protect all of his children, such as his chosen people. Why didn't he step in and stop them from being tortured and brutalized or protect the Apostles. As a father I would do everything in my power to stop my children form harm. I do understand Freewill and children need to be punished but tortured and raped is another thing. The only answer that I can think of is that he is not here anymore but if that is the case he still would know what would happen to them since he has witnessed the end. I know he steps in to stop the waves of muslims and allies from completely destroying his people and land during tribulation. There may be no answer but I was hoping you may have an insight. If I have overlooked it in one of your books please point me to the chapter.



Thanks as always for your time



S


Yada wrote:
S,

I would be surprised if the number of Yahowah's children exceeded 1000 people today - and it could be one third to half that amount. Yisra'el and Yahuwdah are still under the declaration in Hosea "you are not my children." They will not become His children again until late in the Tribulation. And as for the 300 to one thousand or so who are His children, where do you think He should draw the line relative to suffering: kidnap, torture, rape, or murder, all of which I suspect are covered by Psalm 91 for those who are engaged doing what He wants done, or should He include cancer, heart attack, and stroke, perhaps even disease, pain, or infirmity? I'm having knee surgery this week and have suffered for the past two months, but I never asked Him to heal me. Dealing with pain builds character. Recognizing that our physical bodies are weak and fail is essential to discounting the myth of bodily resurrection.

Yahowah has seldom if ever intervened in human affairs to stop any crime perpetrated against those who are not part of His family, whether it be murder or rape. If He did, people would choose the Covenant just to prevent abuse. That would be like Christians and Muslims using the threat of torture in hell to compel submission. And for that to occur, God would have to subject Himself to watching every human atrocity, something that would be too painful to endure.

We have no idea what happened to most of Yahowsha's Disciples. All we know for sure is that Yahowchanan lived a long and productive life. For all we know, the same is true for Shim'own, Mattanyah, and Ya'aqob. You cannot trust Acts or any Christian historian. We do not know if the others devoted themselves to conveying Yah's message.

I did not ask for my own protection, just for my family. I received both. I wrote TwT and POD under my real name and did 3000 radio interviews under my name in conjunction with it. I've received many thousands of death threats, many by those who used the web to learn my address, and yet I've never been physically approached or assaulted. What more proof would anyone need?

The protection of the Covenant is against death being the end of life. It is for spiritual empowerment, not physical prowess. It is about enduring and eternal enlightenment and enrichment, not something as trivial as physical health or money. The Covenant conveys the promise of an eternity with Yah, living with Him in His home, not a perfect life here on earth.

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#140 Posted : Tuesday, February 20, 2018 8:45:14 AM(UTC)
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AH wrote:
realized something I cannot be more thankful for.
When I was struggling to understand God as a christian, was getting so mad at God for not ever answering a single prayer I would ask of Him.

I was never a guy who ask for hardly anything, but thanked him over everything.
But the few times I had asked him to help me out were very serious things to me back then.

Well none of my idiot prayers were ever answered....

Looking back now I am more thankful for God not hearing, or answering my requests.

If just one of my prayers were answered, I might have been encouraged to be pastor like my earth bound dad, or worse.

I am tearfully thankful now that God did not allow ha satan to answer any of my requests.
So very thankful.

I believe that prayer is designed to help out the adversary. Prayers broadcast the requests of man, giving satans minions a strategic advantage.



Another thought I have been thinking over is, I don't think Yahs' malak
can read our minds.
I believe it would be more logical if malak observe, listen, to what we say, and what we do.

All a malak needs to hear or observe of us and to report to Ab Yah, is if they heard us using religious term, or acting out pagan traditions.

Our actions tell Yahowah everything.

Thank you so much for leading me to the right path.
I will have a tearful, joyous, galactic hug for you what we meet.

Thank you.


Yada wrote:
Wow. Brilliant observation and admission. I've never thought of it that way. But you are right.

Indeed, our actions tell Yah everything He needs to know about us.

Yah has led you down the right path. I just pointed out what He had to say.

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#141 Posted : Monday, April 30, 2018 3:32:47 PM(UTC)
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JM wrote:
C,

Good morning.



I’d like to share another thought regarding the sign of the Covenant – Malal – which I’ve been contemplating for several years.



In a healthy person, the only flesh that can be cut off and discarded and benefit the family is the male foreskin.



Yahowsha’, the set-apart, diminished, corporeal implement of Yahowah, as the Pesach lamb, was cut off (in the flesh), opening the only door to eternal life. Only then could Yahowah’s soul descend into She’owl to cleanse His heirs (from the diseases of religion, politics, and militarism) resulting in us being born anew by our Spiritual Mother into His Covenant family home. Yah’s only plan for life in His home is symbolically explained in malal…and it begins with Pesach.
The Covenant heirs n are depicted as sperm. As you’ve mentioned many times, the beginning of life.
Yahowah, as our Father, is the Source of Life / Existence. He set apart the Ruwach Qodesh from Himself and Yahowsha’, He set apart set apart from Himself. Each, although one, representing the makeup of the Covenant family, for our further understanding of His desire.


Shabat Shalowm,

j





What are the benefits of circumcision?
A decreased risk of urinary tract infections.
A reduced risk of some sexually transmitted diseases in men.
Protection against penile cancer and a reduced risk of cervical cancer in female sex partners.
Prevention of balanitis (inflammation of the glans) and balanoposthitis (inflammation of the glans and foreskin).
Prevention of phimosis (the inability to retract the foreskin) and paraphimosis (the inability to return the foreskin to its original location).
Circumcision also makes it easier to keep the end of the penis clean.



The benefits of medical male circumcision have been proven to also extend to women. It has been shown that female partners of men who are circumcised have a less risk of contracting the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.


Yada wrote:
J,

Thank you. I agree with all of this. I'll use it on the next Shabat YYR program.

It ties it all together symbolically.
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#142 Posted : Monday, April 30, 2018 3:56:49 PM(UTC)
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BJ wrote:
Hello

I’ve sent a few emails before so I’ll recap on my past and present situation. Awhile back I discovered an audio segment on YouTube, Yada was explaining the corruption of King James Bible. At the time I was a Christian but was massively struggling with the confusion I was experiencing trying to understand doctrine and conflicting bible passages. It didn’t take long after listening to Yada and reading his work before I abandoned religion altogether. I’ve been slowly and randomly reading through Yada’s books for quite some time now, I still have much to finish. I’ve also listened to many hours of Oberservations and Yada Yah radio. I’ve gained some knowledge of Yahowah, Yahowsha, and the Torah. I’m aware of the 5 terms and conditions of the Covenant, and Yahowah’s seven-step plan for Salvation. I have accepted and acted upon the 5 terms and conditions of the covenant, and this year I am doing my best to attend and celebrate Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits. I understand what was done on those days and how it’s representative of what there purpose is. I have a question and perhaps it’s an impossible question to answer, I think that’s why it bothers me so deeply. How will I know if my understanding, efforts, and participation have been deemed adequate and acceptable In Yahowahs eyes? After First Fruits how will I actually KNOW that Yahowah has accepted me into his family? When can my mind be at ease knowing I belong to Yah? Is such confidence attainable without COMPLETE understanding of Hebrew and the Torah? Is such confidence attainable at all? I’m always second guessing myself as to what I think I should know and understand and have done in terms of the conditions and the parties. Any answers, advice or insight to my questions/concerns would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Bj


Yada wrote:
BJ,

Since we never stop learning, never stop growing, nor ever cease gaining insights which lead to understanding, we will never arrive at a place without questions. And that's a wonderful thing because it enables eternal growth. But, somewhere along the way we all gain confidence in the answers to the most important questions, those regarding our relationship with Yah.

As for me, it was never a concern. He told us what He was offering and what He expected in return. There is nothing complicated about the 5 conditions of the Covenant. Moreover, it's not only an open book test, our Teacher isn't expecting us to turn in a perfect paper. His answers are perfect, not ours.

Reliance isn't difficult.. It's being relied upon that is challenging. Our part is easy. His is hard.

I'd stop worrying and start enjoying your relationship with Him. And as part of that enjoyment, continue to be observant, closely examining and carefully considering Yah's guidance. With every moment, He will expand your knowledge, develop your understanding, and affirm that He can be trusted to care for His children.

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#143 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2018 8:36:49 AM(UTC)
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MK wrote:
Hello Yada,

I'm very sorry to hear of your unfortunate encounters during these past few weeks in Florida. Thankfully, you were not injured.

I have a question/concern about Shabat. I want to spend Shabat quietly, going on walks, etc, but first and foremost listening to the Archive, and to read some during the day on Saturday. My partner seems to be less enthusiastic than I am to spend Shabat that way, and it is beginning to cause problems between us.

I have informed him previously that Yah comes first, then him, and today I have really had to fight to stand my ground. I'm only asking your opinion in how I handled the situation. He wanted me to watch a video on you tube while I was listening (with headphones) to the Archive. I told him I would rather not as I was listening to you. He got angry and left for a drive. He is covenant, but for some reason is not that interested in celebrating Shabat like I do; however during the early stage of our relationship he did.

I will not back down on my loyalty to Yah and my belief on how it's best for me to celebrate Shabat, even if it means we part ways. Am I thinking correctly? I would appreciate your opinion.

Thank you,

MK


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Yada Yahweh
Dec 11, 2018, 4:37 PM (14 hours ago)
to Mary, bcc: me

MK,

You are doing what Yah loves. There is nothing better.

Hopefully, you are at peace with your decision and you are enjoying the time you are investing to enhance your relationship with our Heavenly Father. As for your significant other, I've been in a far worst situation where my ex wanted nothing whatsoever to do with Yahowah or His Word.

We are not told what we should do on the shabat, only what we should not do, which is to make it ordinary by doing our jobs during it. We are free to interpret how it becomes special to our relationship with Yah however we see fit based upon what we know of God. That is why I asked you if your choices were beneficial and fulfilling, because I think that is what God wants most of all.

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#144 Posted : Wednesday, January 16, 2019 3:48:02 PM(UTC)
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BJ wrote:
What are the seven steps that I must do to to be in the will of Yahowah?


Yada wrote:
BJ,

There is not an answer if given briefly will achieve your goal. It is one you should pursue in the context of Yahowah's testimony on His Covenant and Invitations. I would encourage you to read Yada Yah, beginning with Volume 1. By the time you've completed reading Volume 2, you'll know the answer and better yet, you'll be prepared to capitalize upon it.

But even if I'm wrong, by reading the first two volumes of www.YadaYah.com, you'll be sufficiently equipped that I'll be able to share the answer in a way that will be beneficial for you.

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#145 Posted : Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:19:14 AM(UTC)
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HG wrote:
I'm having a very difficult time right now , I do know Yahowah , I do know and believe that I am a child of God I member of his covenant , I have come to know him for the introduction to God but I feel I don't feel right , I don't know what it is but I know I cannot give up is there anything that you can do or send me or to help me ? I know that I am all alone in this thing because I can talk to no one or trust anyone either .


Yada wrote:
HJ,

I'm more of a thinker than feeler, so I may not be the right person to ask. Everything Yahowah says makes sense to me. All I can say is that Yahowah isn't expecting you to be perfect, or to feel jubilant, all the time. And knowing is always more reassuring than believing and feeling.

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#146 Posted : Friday, February 15, 2019 8:36:25 AM(UTC)
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JW wrote:
Hi there,

My name is JW and I found your email address from the Bless Yahoway website (Richard McCord's website). From the sound of it, you came out of Babylon a long time ago and I have been working my way out for about four years now. I started in the Church of Christ and thought I knew something. I guess I did know something about the man made religion of Paul. Little did I know, not only was I ignorant of the Dabar/Word, but taken with a cult and this was endowed to me by my parents. I started to read the scriptures for myself and found that the "OT" wasn't so old and that it was the"teaching" of Yahowah and was meant for all people, every where and at all times. That (learning I was fooled my whole life) was a hard thing to acknowledge but through reason and critical thinking, I managed to come to the conclusion that all in the Torah was indeed, still dear and true to our Creators heart and should be in mine as well. So, I started searching more and was trying to find out how the "NT" Church was so off base and found it in Paul. Realizing he was a false prophet, it helped me understand why the "gospel of grace" and Pual had created Christianity/Paulianity, not Yahusha. I then realized I was in a very small minority and was seeking fellowship from those who observed the Miqra/Moedim and found it with a Hebrew roots group but was not 100% on board with the direction they were going (they still believe Paul) in as well and did not want to go from one sinking ship to another. I then ended up on the Yada Yah website. Started reading Yada Yah but very shortly afterwards, your recommendation to read Intro to God first was made so I started my journey on that and am about half way through. I then found the Bless Yahoway website and found Shattering Myths. All I can say is that your work has been a blessing to me. Your writings and radio show make so much sense. I can see how most religious folk would dismiss it before ever reading/hearing enough to have their minds changed. Like you said, they are emotional about their religion and do not use reason in their thinking. Anyway, I wanted to take a moment to thank you personally for all you have done for all of us coming out of "Her". May Yah bless your paths and keep you safe so that the few can be encouraged and enriched by your way of seeing and explaining the Torah the way you do. I have so many questions but figure I will keep reading and listening to try to answer some of my own questions. I do have one question for you. With the body of believers being so small, how do you find people to fellowship with? The spring Miqra are coming up and I would really like to have someone to fellowship with of like mind. Do you have any thoughts on the best way to find fellowship for these set apart convocations to meet? Also, I have been utterly befuddled on the whole timing thing and wanted to get your perspective on the way you choose the appropriate set apart days for the moedim. There are different views on when the new moon is and this causes a difference in when many observe the seven "feasts". Thanks again Yada!


JW


Yada wrote:
JW,

Thanks for sharing your journey. You are among the few who has not only found your way out of Christianity, but also discovered that the Towrah remains relevant and that Paul is the prime source of confusion. Well done.

Between now and our time in Heaven with Yahowah, most of us will celebrate the Miqra'ey either alone with Yah and His Word, or with a handful of family and friends. I prefer the latter, but have grown comfortable eating Passover enjoying the company of its Author.

You are correct about Hebrew Roots, too.


JK wrote:
JW,

This is wonderful news and I’m grateful that I’m one of a few who had this message shared with me. I also don’t have any friends or acquaintances on the path, or even close friends who can relate to me despite my sometimes eloquent logical arguments. Like Yada, I find company with Yahowah and the Set Apart Spirit more than enough to make it a grand celebration, whether it be the seven Set Apart meetings or the weekly Shabats.

As to the proper timing, I’m sure that if we put enough human power to the task we can come up with the answer. Perhaps we can behead a chicken and see if it runs in circles or a straight line...sorry, couldn’t help myself. Yahowah answered this question so brilliantly for me that I can know for sure that when I celebrate the Mowed it is the appropriate time. That’s because He didn’t specify exactly when it should be done. When Hezekiah’s alliances failed him, when tribute of gold and silver could not sway the Assyrians from surrounding Jerusalem for their final crushing assault, he turned to the Torah. After destroying the pagan religious alters and relics polluting the land, after rediscovering the Torah guidance, he realized the time for the Pesach celebration had passed.

Hezekiah appealed to Yahowah to celebrate it after the fact. Yahowah did not respond with, “Sorry Charlie, you blew the date, better luck next year, if you survive”. No indeed, Yahowah told Hezekiah, of course, celebrate the Miqra’ey. Not only did he do so, he reported that the people were so enriched by the experience that he requested to extend it further. Yahowah again, pleased by the request, responded with approval. Meanwhile the massive Assyrian army was wiped out by one of Yahowah’s vast array of spiritual envoys and messengers.

Given all that, do you suppose Yahowah is fixated on the exact timing? Whether we rely on the astronomical, observational or Hebcal dates, we can be assured that it is close enough to the proper perspective of timing - probably more so than even Hezekiah and his people observed. Is it therefore more important to understand and observe the significance of the eternal memorial to one of the most amazing events in human history? I would say so.

Forgive me for droning on. Before I was mature enough in my walk, I got into a discussion with a colleague about his assertion that his “holy bible” was the inerrant Word of God. My response should have been, “You think God would never allow His Words to be corrupted? How about this: ‘Surely He never said you couldn’t eat from any tree in the Garden.’”

Consider just that one phrase, that one-liner from the Torah. If you thoughtfully think it through and carefully examine its implications, those dozen or so words open up a universe of understanding.

I can’t adequately express the thrill I feel for you. Thank you for sharing your experience.

JK


Yada wrote:
JK,

I've read a hundred thousand emails, maybe more, but I cannot remember one I enjoyed more than yours. Thank you for sharing this with JW and with me. It not only reflects my understanding, I love the humor and personal expressions.

It is, after all, a relationship, a fun, mutually enjoyable, and uplifting experience.

Your explanations regarding timing and of Yahowah allowing His words to be corrupted are brilliant.

Yada


JW wrote:
JK and Yada,,

I so much appreciate what you have said and am comforted and encouraged. Comforted that there are others who believe as I now do, even though we are few. I remember the day I shut the Torah and went into the living room and set down on the couch, my wife asked, what's wrong. I said, no one is going to believe what I now believe, nobody! I felt so alone (besides knowing that Yahowah was leading me out of a barren land). Finding common ground in this day and age is next to impossible and especially on such topics as these. I am very happy and elated to learn there are others. Actually, these responses have seriously made my day. To know I am not alone is truly and awesome feeling. Thanks again brothers in MesseYah!!!

BTW-Please feel free to keep in touch, pass along thoughts, relevant teachings etc... (not that Intro to God, Yada Yah, Questioning Paul and years of Shattering Myths is not enough). Have a great Shabbat!

JW

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#147 Posted : Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:38:58 AM(UTC)
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M wrote:
Shalom!

I have a question..sometimes im feeling so worried that maybe my walk with Him is not enough...
Cant explain this feeling!
Yes.my hope is in Him..i dont believe Him..i trust Him..His word..sometimes i just start laughing out loud if i discovered something and think of how good He is too me..but then..
Like nowadays..i have start rebuilding my car..and simedays im scared that i spent too much time with it..
How do u do this *separation* in ur walk with Him..or do i have something wrong?
Please help!!
M from south africa
Shalom


Yada wrote:
Hello M from South Africa. I was there many, many years ago. I enjoyed Capetown and the game reserves - also the people.

Understanding is always valid. Feelings are capricious. Your understanding is sound. The fact that you are laughing at some of the insights you are gleaning from His Word about how good He is to us is sufficient to reveal that you understand who Yah is and what He is offering.

We all have material distractions. We are all pulled in many directions. You are no different than Dowd, Yah's Beloved.

All Yah is asking in separation is for us to trust and rely on Him instead of politics or religion. He wants us to choose His family and choose to live with Him rather than wallow in the muck of man.

Based upon what you have written, M, continue to do what you are doing. Observe Yah's towrah - teaching and live your life accordingly. With each day, with each new insight, with each additional affirmation, your trust and confidence will grow.

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#148 Posted : Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:55:12 AM(UTC)
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M wrote:
Hello, my name is M im from Australia and have been getting through the volumes of yada'yah and introduction to God (slowly) over the last 6 months or so. I have a long way to go and at times get concerned that i havnt "done enough". How do you follow all the requirements and "rules" without making it religious when there are certain things that must be adhered to? Where is there lee-way and where is there not? I seem to read a lot of people saying they accidently ate leavened bread or did something wrong but at what point is this seen as instant cutoff or just an accident that can be brushed off? If it wasnt important and we all make mistakes, why would Yahowah have such dire consequences to it?

This is my first time observing the miqra' and have received substantial insight and advice from my good friend Dowd in NZ. I have tried to follow all the rules by eating lamb, unleavened bread, wine, bitter herbs and olive oil, i have been reading and listening to your books and torah studies all day and evening including the chapters about the miqra' and psalms 22, 88 and isaiah 53. It may be a stupid question but How do i know if i have done it "right" and become acceptable to Yahowah? I dont want to just follow the steps without meaning, i want to understand and know Yah and i dont want to get caught up on details and forget the meaning, but arent the details what is so important?

What is meant by the night vigil? I hadnt heard of this before and afraid i havnt included it in my celebrations this time.

My husband is desperate to celebrate with me and know Yahowah on a deeper level but is not yet circumsized due to his severe health issues. It is something we are very concerned about and he very much wants to have it done but cannot lay still due to his condition so we havnt found anyone able to do it yet. I do not have children so no sons to circumsise, what is my sign of the covenant?

I run my own business and after reading more about the Shabbat i am now committed to stop working Friday nights and Saturdays but may take some time to let all my clients know or find a replacement for these days before i can cease this. What is meant by normal work, is it just the work we are paid for? What about looking after our animals or family? I am a carer for my husband and while i assume Yahowah doesn't mean i should stop caring for him on this day, what should i be not doing?

One more question about marriage - when i was married, it was a "christian" wedding married under god and christ so what does that mean for our relationship? What is meant by yahowah when he talks of marriage? How would one get married on this earth as a covenant child?

Thank you for your time and knowledge on these topics.

M


Yada wrote:
Hello, M.

Please say hello to Dowd for me. He's a wonderful man and good friend.

We are all capable of observing Yah's Towrah instructions for ourselves and drawing our own conclusions. And I would encourage you to do so as I do everyone. It's rewarding. But I understand, as does Yah, that our lives are full of responsibilities and we don't all have the time to devote to studying, especially on our own. So that is why I translate, do the research, provide insights, and share. You are capitalizing on these books as they were intended.

Since you've asked, most everything I "do" regarding the Miqra'ey is a result of appreciating the symbolic meaning. I don't worry about doing them right, but instead I relax and enjoy them because I'm a guest at Yah's party. He's the Host. We are invitees.

I think that the fastest and easiest way to understanding is reading Yada Yah, where in the 2nd Volume all seven Invitations to Meet with God are explained - as you already know. You have also discovered that the very purpose of the UnYeasted Bread is to show a willingness to reject and remove religion, politics, conspiracy, patriotism, support for one's military, and societal customs from our lives. If you are celebrating it, chances are you have made those decisions, which means by partaking you are seen as perfect. Yah would not have seen the inadvertent slip up through the light of His Spirit. His only issue is that we walk away from man's way before we walk to Him.

Take a deep breath, think about our loving Heavenly Father and supportive Spiritual Mother, and smile. Through the Son and Spirit Yah did everything perfectly so that you would not have to. You are perfect because of what Yah has done for you.

Much of what we read in the Towrah we cannot and should not actually do, but we can learn from every aspect of it. So I don't fret over the "dos," but instead celebrate the insights gleaned from knowing.

Being observant all night encourages us to observe the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the underlying promise and purpose of Pesach, Matsah, and Bikuwrym. It's a lot to learn, to think about, to understand, to accept, to enjoy, and to share. This is what the tile Miqra' means: ma - ponder the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the qara' - invitations to meet by reading and reciting Yah's Word.

The only actual rules are depicted in the Ten Statements and Five Conditions of the Covenant and the only expectations are to respond to the Invitations. All the rest is instructive.

I hope your husband is able to be circumcised soon and that he returns to health. And keep in mind, there is no specific requirement of how much, when, or by whom, only that we actually accept this Condition of the Covenant.

The "sign" for parents is to do what we can to raise our children such that they are set-apart unto Yah. This includes circumcision of sons, but not daughters. If you have daughters, live your life such that they want what you have and then be ready to share the Covenant with them. Being different, set apart, confident and exuberant, loving and supportive, disgusted by religion and politics and delighting over Yah's Teaching will be sign enough for you.

Every Covenant member I know, including myself, "works" at home on the Shabat in the sense of supporting home and family. Most of us also take time to read Yah's Word and relax. We do not, however, do what we do to earn a living on Shabat.

There is no Towrah wedding ceremony, but rather examples of good and bad marriages. So rather than being a religious affair it is all about relationship, freewill, attitude, and effort. It's simply about the choices we make and how our lives mesh with those we love. Divorce is also a simple choice. All Yah wants us to do is to write a letter to our spouses. That said, we all live within civil societies where being married has a legal standing. That status is meaningless to God as was the church or vows made therein. I have found that the most important and enduring aspect of marriage is children, which keeps us focused on what the Covenant is all about.

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#149 Posted : Saturday, April 27, 2019 9:28:12 AM(UTC)
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Yada wrote:

Every Covenant member I know, including myself, "works" at home on the Shabat in the sense of supporting home and family. Most of us also take time to read Yah's Word and relax. We do not, however, do what we do to earn a living on Shabat.


Hi Yada,
What is to be done when one has a job that requires working on the Shabat? My teenaged daughter has a job working weekends and she needs this job to learn what it takes to live in this world.

How do we handle this and how do I explain this to her?

Thanks for all that you do and have done to help us all better understand Yah's Towrah,
Paul
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JH wrote:
Yada,
I was listening to your show from May 17th. Some interesting insights about Moabites but there’s something else in Deuteronomy that concerns me. In particular Deut 23:3. I can’t tell if it’s truly extant but if it is then the obvious concern is that Ruth was a moabite, a mere 3 generations prior to Dowd, (being one of his grandparents) thereby excluding him. Your research seems to point to moabites, much like Babylon, being a bit more metaphorical if you will. While Deut 23:3 would seem to say there may be some kind of genetic component involved. Did you take 23:3 into consideration or have other thoughts where that is concerned?

Thanks,
JH

P.S. Have you ever translated Lev 19? I think he has a few hidden gems.


Yada wrote:
The Dabarym rule was applied to men, not women. Further, in Dabarym 5.9-10 Ruth would have been excluded because she came to love Yah and Towrah more than most any Yahuwdy. Also, the extent was to the 3rd generation and Lowt's son, Mow'ab, was far more than 3 generations removed from Ruth. Also, Mow'ab, as the offspring of Abraham's nephew and his daughter, was ethnically very closely related to Abraham, as was Ya'aqob.

Yes, Ruth considered herself a Mow'abite by nationality, who walked away and completely rejected Mow'ab, then transformed herself in every way into Yisra'el. And her ethnicity would have been very similar to Yisra'el. My statements regarding Mow'ab is that the kingdom was destroyed by Yisra'el circa 950 BCE. Some ethnic Mow'abites survived, but not the kingdom, to around the time of the Assyrian conquest of Yisra'el, when ethnic Mow'ab and Yisra'el were taken off into captivity, never to return. Some of the Yisra'elites married mostly among themselves since Persians, Jordanians, and Syrians exhibit "Jewish" DNA. We would have no reason to suspect that the same holds true with Mow'abites since they would have no reason to do so. So since Mow'ab as a kingdom no longer exists, the prophecies in Yasha'yah and Yirma'yah pertain to their modern incarnation.

I hope this helps.
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