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B’chukotai
"In My Statutes"
21 MAY
2011
Leviticus 26:3-27:34
Jeremiah
16:19-17:14
2 Cor.
6:14-18
Luke
14:1-15:32
We now
have reached the end of the book of Vayikra/Leviticus. B’chukotai
means, “In My Statutes,” or to inscribe or engrave. Last week we
studied about the Sh'mittah / Sabbatical Year. It was commanded to
allow the land rest every seven years. On the seventh-seventh, or
forty-ninth year, the land is released to its original owners.
B’chukotai consists of commandments stating there are blessings to be
had as we walk in GOD’s statutes and curses if we do not. As we have
seen in history, the first dispersion occurred because the children of
Israel did not keep GOD’s commandments. Therefore they were sent into
Babylon for seventy years, representing all the years they did not keep
the Sabbatical year. Therefore we need to be committed to His statutes
and ordinances. Blessings will come according to the promises He has
given. We must remain faithful, as He is faithful to us. As this
Parashah states, if we are faithful to follow His statutes, He will
bless us.
Let’s
remember this:
Joshua
1:8 states, “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but
you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way
prosperous, and then you will have success.” (ESV)
Ps 1:
“The man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked is like a tree
planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose
leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” (ESV)
Chazak!
Chazak! Venitchazeik! (Be strong! Be strong! May we be strengthened)
Shavua
Tov
Rabbi Z.
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