Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Behold your God!
You who tell good news to Tziyon, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Yerushalayim, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don't be afraid; say to the cities of Yehudah, Behold, your God! - Yeshayahu/ Isaiah 40:9
Rabonim (rabbis) say that there is a passuk (verse) in Kitvey HaKodesh (Holy
Scriptures) for every person that ever lived, lives and will ever live on earth. I believe that mine is the 9th passuk of Yeshayahu 40. Why? Because I intend with all my heart to fix something that Pilate damaged.
A very long time ago, while reading about Yeshua's trial I got to the part where He was taken by Pilate before the Jews, wearing nothing but a crown of thorns and a purple robe, and Pilate with his limited understanding yelled 'behold the man!' (John 19:5). That's how Jews see Yeshua even today. Nothing but a man. A broken man, vulnerable, weak, pushed around by romans, tortured and powerless. And all that because 2000 years ago a goy took my Lord before the Jews and lifted his voice and said 'Behold the man!' I think that from where Pilate was standing that's all he could see> a man, so he told of what he saw. Pilate was a limited human and he reduced Yeshua to his own stature.
You can only present Yeshua from where you're standing. If you see Him through your humanity then you can only say about Him what Pilate said 'Behold the man!', but if you stand up on the high mountain, which is Adonai, then you can't help but see that Yeshua is Adonai and he is HaElohim shel Tzion (God of Tzion) and then you can't help but lift your voice and shout as much as you can for kol ha yehudim (all the Jews) to hear ”Hineh HaEloheichem!”(Behold, your God!)
If you want to see more than a human in Yeshua you must go up on the high mountain, Adonai. You must go up not for the purpose of being high but to be able to bring good news to Tzion. If that is not the purpose why you went up there, then you're there in vain.
I know Pilate wasn't up on the high mountain when he said 'behold the man!' to the Jews. The Jewish nation is not like other nations. You don't convince them with words and you don't disguise Yeshua in to something He's not, and you don't tell them 'behold the man!' and expect them to fall down on their knees and be convinced. If you want to bring the good news to Tzion you must go up the high mountain and shout with all your strength to all the cities of Yehudah ”Hineh HaEloheichem!” (Behold your God!)
A goy proclaiming 'behold the man!' was enough damage, they don't need to hear that anymore. But the Jews do need to hear the truth proclaimed without fear, without any trace of doubt 'BEHOLD YOUR GOD!' Hineh HaEloheichem!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Rabonim (rabbis) say that there is a passuk (verse) in Kitvey HaKodesh (Holy
Scriptures) for every person that ever lived, lives and will ever live on earth. I believe that mine is the 9th passuk of Yeshayahu 40. Why? Because I intend with all my heart to fix something that Pilate damaged.A very long time ago, while reading about Yeshua's trial I got to the part where He was taken by Pilate before the Jews, wearing nothing but a crown of thorns and a purple robe, and Pilate with his limited understanding yelled 'behold the man!' (John 19:5). That's how Jews see Yeshua even today. Nothing but a man. A broken man, vulnerable, weak, pushed around by romans, tortured and powerless. And all that because 2000 years ago a goy took my Lord before the Jews and lifted his voice and said 'Behold the man!' I think that from where Pilate was standing that's all he could see> a man, so he told of what he saw. Pilate was a limited human and he reduced Yeshua to his own stature.
You can only present Yeshua from where you're standing. If you see Him through your humanity then you can only say about Him what Pilate said 'Behold the man!', but if you stand up on the high mountain, which is Adonai, then you can't help but see that Yeshua is Adonai and he is HaElohim shel Tzion (God of Tzion) and then you can't help but lift your voice and shout as much as you can for kol ha yehudim (all the Jews) to hear ”Hineh HaEloheichem!”(Behold, your God!)
If you want to see more than a human in Yeshua you must go up on the high mountain, Adonai. You must go up not for the purpose of being high but to be able to bring good news to Tzion. If that is not the purpose why you went up there, then you're there in vain.
I know Pilate wasn't up on the high mountain when he said 'behold the man!' to the Jews. The Jewish nation is not like other nations. You don't convince them with words and you don't disguise Yeshua in to something He's not, and you don't tell them 'behold the man!' and expect them to fall down on their knees and be convinced. If you want to bring the good news to Tzion you must go up the high mountain and shout with all your strength to all the cities of Yehudah ”Hineh HaEloheichem!” (Behold your God!)
A goy proclaiming 'behold the man!' was enough damage, they don't need to hear that anymore. But the Jews do need to hear the truth proclaimed without fear, without any trace of doubt 'BEHOLD YOUR GOD!' Hineh HaEloheichem!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Father disciplines those He loves
and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him; For 
whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. -Hebrews 12:5-11
You're considered to be a good citizen of a country if you obey all the laws of that land, and if you disobey one of these laws you are judged according to the laws you broke. But if you are a son, your father has a set of laws in his house that are not included in the legislation of the country you live in, but still he asks you to obey those laws, those rules he established in his house. If you break any of his rules you are punished according to what the father sees fit for what you've done wrong. If you go to a court of law, the judge won't care if you've cleaned your room or not, he cares if you obeyed the laws of the land and he considers you guilty or innocent according to the laws of the land and not to the rules in you father's house.
If you dishonor your father, he doesn't care how good of a citizen you are and how well you've kept all the laws of your country, he will punish you to correct your character, even though you didn't break any law.
If Adonai relates to you only as a citizen of a country that either keeps the law or breaks it, then you will answer to Him only according to His Law. But if Adonai is your Father (which can only be obtain through Yeshua) then He'll have other expectations from you, greater than only keeping the Law. Keeping the Law is easy compared to being a good son, because the punishment for a son is greater for it is not only according to the Law of the Kingdom, but according to the rules in His house. By punishment I do not mean sickness or curses that come as a result of sin. Punishment of the Father is not for breaking His Law (which is sin) but for things that I need to correct in my character in order to honor my Father's Name.
So if I get it that He holds back certain things from me so that I learn to be better, then I must endure being 'disciplined' as a daughter, knowing that I am not punished for breaking any law but because I need correction to be able to represent Him better, and even if that is grievous for now, it will bring forth a good fruit in time.
Cristina
whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. -Hebrews 12:5-11You're considered to be a good citizen of a country if you obey all the laws of that land, and if you disobey one of these laws you are judged according to the laws you broke. But if you are a son, your father has a set of laws in his house that are not included in the legislation of the country you live in, but still he asks you to obey those laws, those rules he established in his house. If you break any of his rules you are punished according to what the father sees fit for what you've done wrong. If you go to a court of law, the judge won't care if you've cleaned your room or not, he cares if you obeyed the laws of the land and he considers you guilty or innocent according to the laws of the land and not to the rules in you father's house.
If you dishonor your father, he doesn't care how good of a citizen you are and how well you've kept all the laws of your country, he will punish you to correct your character, even though you didn't break any law.
If Adonai relates to you only as a citizen of a country that either keeps the law or breaks it, then you will answer to Him only according to His Law. But if Adonai is your Father (which can only be obtain through Yeshua) then He'll have other expectations from you, greater than only keeping the Law. Keeping the Law is easy compared to being a good son, because the punishment for a son is greater for it is not only according to the Law of the Kingdom, but according to the rules in His house. By punishment I do not mean sickness or curses that come as a result of sin. Punishment of the Father is not for breaking His Law (which is sin) but for things that I need to correct in my character in order to honor my Father's Name.
So if I get it that He holds back certain things from me so that I learn to be better, then I must endure being 'disciplined' as a daughter, knowing that I am not punished for breaking any law but because I need correction to be able to represent Him better, and even if that is grievous for now, it will bring forth a good fruit in time.
Cristina
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Broken vessels
Yeshua answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." - Luke 5:31-32
I use to believe that i
n order to be able to follow Yeshua, one must be a tzadik (righteous) , to stand firm facing death and not be scared, one that is fighting his fears and his shortcomings and no temptation overcomes him, you know...like a super man.
I remember my first lie ... it was then that I understood that I am deeply flawded, that I am not some holy angel but dirty clay that forms this vessel which in time I got to break in every possible way. Now I look more like a piece of pottery from ancient times, not because I'm ancient but because my cracks and cuts are deep.
I've reduced myself to broken pieces, chips and cracks from something that use to be once. Who would ever want that? To do what with these pieces? If someone wants to use a vessel, they use one that is in good condition, and if the one that use to be in a good condition breaks, then they go and buy a new one, but no one... NO ONE starts to glue back together the pieces from a broken vessel, and even if someone would, they would always be aware not to use it too much because it can't hold that well anymore for it use to be broken once. That's what a normal person would think, because that makes sense and that is logical. Anyone would think like that but not Adonai. Normality has nothing to do with Adonai, sense has nothing to do with Adonai and logic even less than that.
He seems to be searching for the most broken vessel and the most impossible one to put together, the cheapest one that no one would even bother to look at, and when He finds it He calls all heaven to come and see His 'project'. I think malachim (angels) look at Him and they're in shock. 'Elohim, we know You can do all things, we've seen You creating the world out of nothing, and if this man that you try to repair would be nothing he would stand more chances than what it is right now. Look at him>HE'S ALL BROKEN!'
But Adonai smiles and starts picking up every little piece and every speck of dust that use to form a whole man once. He washes every piece and while He cleans it he visualizes where each piece should go. He's taking His time. He's really into His work. He first glues together the big parts and the man starts to shape a form ...but that's the easy part. He has to glue in together even pieces that not even angels are able to see that are missing. He knows exactly how this person needs to look like because He knows how He made him in the first place. He doesn't give up until He finishes what He started. Then He takes the vessel and fills it up with Water and the malachim (angels) scream 'no, don't fill it all the way up, it won't hold!', but Adonai smiles and tells them every time the same thing 'it can hold because it's strength doesn't come from itself but from the ONE carrying it and repairing it'.
You're never amazed when you see a perfectly good vessel that holds up water withing itself without breaking or without spilling the water through it's cracks, but you can't help but be amazed when you see a broken vessel, that is so broken you have no idea what's holding it, but it doesn't break nor does it spill water through it's cracks. When you see such a vessel you want to praise the one that glued together it's pieces.
I don't want to sound like Paul and proclaim myself 'the chief of sinners' but I'm not that far off either. Adonai had to work a looooooooooooooooot to repair me and then pour WATER in me. I still break sometimes. I don't do it often, but when I do break I break in such a way that no human can endure the sight of me...But Adonai doesn't go away, He's not scared or impressed by my words nor by my rebellion when I yell 'but it's not fair!'... He waits until I finish breaking and then He comes and puts me back together. Sometimes it makes no sense why He does it, other times I ask Him while He glues me together 'why don't You give up?' He smiles 'the sick need a physician, the sinners need righteousness, and ruins need a Builder'
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
I use to believe that i
n order to be able to follow Yeshua, one must be a tzadik (righteous) , to stand firm facing death and not be scared, one that is fighting his fears and his shortcomings and no temptation overcomes him, you know...like a super man.I remember my first lie ... it was then that I understood that I am deeply flawded, that I am not some holy angel but dirty clay that forms this vessel which in time I got to break in every possible way. Now I look more like a piece of pottery from ancient times, not because I'm ancient but because my cracks and cuts are deep.
I've reduced myself to broken pieces, chips and cracks from something that use to be once. Who would ever want that? To do what with these pieces? If someone wants to use a vessel, they use one that is in good condition, and if the one that use to be in a good condition breaks, then they go and buy a new one, but no one... NO ONE starts to glue back together the pieces from a broken vessel, and even if someone would, they would always be aware not to use it too much because it can't hold that well anymore for it use to be broken once. That's what a normal person would think, because that makes sense and that is logical. Anyone would think like that but not Adonai. Normality has nothing to do with Adonai, sense has nothing to do with Adonai and logic even less than that.
He seems to be searching for the most broken vessel and the most impossible one to put together, the cheapest one that no one would even bother to look at, and when He finds it He calls all heaven to come and see His 'project'. I think malachim (angels) look at Him and they're in shock. 'Elohim, we know You can do all things, we've seen You creating the world out of nothing, and if this man that you try to repair would be nothing he would stand more chances than what it is right now. Look at him>HE'S ALL BROKEN!'
But Adonai smiles and starts picking up every little piece and every speck of dust that use to form a whole man once. He washes every piece and while He cleans it he visualizes where each piece should go. He's taking His time. He's really into His work. He first glues together the big parts and the man starts to shape a form ...but that's the easy part. He has to glue in together even pieces that not even angels are able to see that are missing. He knows exactly how this person needs to look like because He knows how He made him in the first place. He doesn't give up until He finishes what He started. Then He takes the vessel and fills it up with Water and the malachim (angels) scream 'no, don't fill it all the way up, it won't hold!', but Adonai smiles and tells them every time the same thing 'it can hold because it's strength doesn't come from itself but from the ONE carrying it and repairing it'.
You're never amazed when you see a perfectly good vessel that holds up water withing itself without breaking or without spilling the water through it's cracks, but you can't help but be amazed when you see a broken vessel, that is so broken you have no idea what's holding it, but it doesn't break nor does it spill water through it's cracks. When you see such a vessel you want to praise the one that glued together it's pieces.
I don't want to sound like Paul and proclaim myself 'the chief of sinners' but I'm not that far off either. Adonai had to work a looooooooooooooooot to repair me and then pour WATER in me. I still break sometimes. I don't do it often, but when I do break I break in such a way that no human can endure the sight of me...But Adonai doesn't go away, He's not scared or impressed by my words nor by my rebellion when I yell 'but it's not fair!'... He waits until I finish breaking and then He comes and puts me back together. Sometimes it makes no sense why He does it, other times I ask Him while He glues me together 'why don't You give up?' He smiles 'the sick need a physician, the sinners need righteousness, and ruins need a Builder'
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Mechitza
For he is our shalom, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having ab
olished in the flesh the hostility, the law of mitzvot contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making shalom; and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. He came and preached shalom to you who were far off and to those who were near. For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. - Ephesians 2:14-18
Jews have this 'wall of partition' called Mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish wedding, you'll see there is a drape or a wall separating the men from the women> that is mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish concert you'll find a mechitza again that will separate women from men. If you go to Ha Kotel (The western wall) you'll find a mechitza that separates men from women. When there was a Beit haMikdash (Temple) there was a mechitza that separated men from women and then another mechitza that separated Jews from goyim (non Jews).
When Paul is talking about the middle wall of partition he is referring to the mechitza that was in the Beit HaMikdash.
Yeshua came to brake down the mechitza that separated men from women and Jews from goyim, He didn't come to break down the mechitza that separates us from sin, because He made that one even stronger. Yeshua didn't come to break down the limits within we must stay in order to be holy, He just broke down the mechitza within the Beit HaMikdash that made a difference between men and women and between Jews and goyim. That's why it's written in Galatians 3:28 'There is neither Yehudi nor Yevanit (Greek), there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Massiach Yeshua. '
Mechitza that was taken away is now allowing the goyim to be together with the Jews and worship the same God, but it doesn't mean in any way assimilation of the Jews. It was grace that goyim were allowed in the same place as Jews but somehow goyim got it into their head that they were allowed in the place where only Jews were allowed to take away the Jewishness of the Jews. That is wrong on every level. Taking away the mechitza was meant to give freedom to those that had no freedom to come close to a place that they didn't have access before, not to go in there and kick out the Jews and 'decorate' the holy places as if they always belonged to the goyim. Goyim were allowed in to give up the worshiping of their gods and worship the God of Israel, they were allowed in the holy place to worship, not to change the ways of the Jews that were already in there to which Adonai gave these things to be an eternal law (Ex 12:17, Ex 27:21, Ex 29:9, Lev 3:17, Lev 16:29, etc.).
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
olished in the flesh the hostility, the law of mitzvot contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making shalom; and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. He came and preached shalom to you who were far off and to those who were near. For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. - Ephesians 2:14-18Jews have this 'wall of partition' called Mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish wedding, you'll see there is a drape or a wall separating the men from the women> that is mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish concert you'll find a mechitza again that will separate women from men. If you go to Ha Kotel (The western wall) you'll find a mechitza that separates men from women. When there was a Beit haMikdash (Temple) there was a mechitza that separated men from women and then another mechitza that separated Jews from goyim (non Jews).
When Paul is talking about the middle wall of partition he is referring to the mechitza that was in the Beit HaMikdash.
Yeshua came to brake down the mechitza that separated men from women and Jews from goyim, He didn't come to break down the mechitza that separates us from sin, because He made that one even stronger. Yeshua didn't come to break down the limits within we must stay in order to be holy, He just broke down the mechitza within the Beit HaMikdash that made a difference between men and women and between Jews and goyim. That's why it's written in Galatians 3:28 'There is neither Yehudi nor Yevanit (Greek), there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Massiach Yeshua. '
Mechitza that was taken away is now allowing the goyim to be together with the Jews and worship the same God, but it doesn't mean in any way assimilation of the Jews. It was grace that goyim were allowed in the same place as Jews but somehow goyim got it into their head that they were allowed in the place where only Jews were allowed to take away the Jewishness of the Jews. That is wrong on every level. Taking away the mechitza was meant to give freedom to those that had no freedom to come close to a place that they didn't have access before, not to go in there and kick out the Jews and 'decorate' the holy places as if they always belonged to the goyim. Goyim were allowed in to give up the worshiping of their gods and worship the God of Israel, they were allowed in the holy place to worship, not to change the ways of the Jews that were already in there to which Adonai gave these things to be an eternal law (Ex 12:17, Ex 27:21, Ex 29:9, Lev 3:17, Lev 16:29, etc.).
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Monday, June 21, 2010
The death of Yeshua - Murder or Self sacrifice?
Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I 
have power to take it again. I received this mitzvah (commandment) from my Father."- Yochanan/ John 10:17-18
I know that many like to justify their antisemitism by the expired excuse "Jews killed Jesus''.
Yeshua wasn't a victim of anyone, not of the Jews nor of the Romans, that actually killed Him. How could God be killed against His will?
Both Jews and Christians alike killed many righteous people, and if Yeshua's death was just one of the many innocent people that were killed, it would be horrible indeed, but it would have no power to redeem anyone or anything. Christians make Yeshua seem like this really frail blond guy with blue eyes, almost sickly, that was abused by the mean Jews and killed by the even meaner Romans. He was a victim of bad people and if the mean Jews wouldn't have killed the poor Jesus they portray, He would have lived a long long life. GIVE ME A BREAK!
Yeshua was in full control of everything. He came on earth for the only reason of dying and redeeming the world of it's sin. He sacrificed His own life for the sake of the world. Do you know what self sacrifice means?
The giving up of personal wants and needs, either from a sense of duty or in order to benefit others.
The giving up is not a forceful action. No one could take His life away unless He gave it. He gave up His life in order to give life to everyone that believes in Him!
If Yeshua was murdered by the Jews, then the Jews have paid under that excuse that in full (and for that I suggest you research the Holocaust), so God has nothing to demand from them, for they have payed their debt. But if Yeshua, being God and not the victim of a scattered people under Roman ocuppation, gave up His own life, as a sacrifice to save the world from sin (first the Jews then the goyim) then the responsibility for His death comes to everyone that sinned, for it was our sins that took Him to the cross, not the Jews.
I don't believe in a sickly Christ that was pushed around by the mean Jews and then murdered by them. I believe in Yeshua that came on earth to die for my sin and it was my sin that killed Him. I believe in Yeshua that was God and that death couldn't hold Him (let alone a weak nation) and that He resurrected and gave life to everyone that believed in Him, first to the Jews and then to the gentiles. I don't believe in a victim of the Jewish people, I believe the the Lamb of God, a pure Lamb, whose only purpose was to come and die for me, so that I may live for Him. That is my Mashiach. That is my Rabbi. That is my God.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
have power to take it again. I received this mitzvah (commandment) from my Father."- Yochanan/ John 10:17-18I know that many like to justify their antisemitism by the expired excuse "Jews killed Jesus''.
Yeshua wasn't a victim of anyone, not of the Jews nor of the Romans, that actually killed Him. How could God be killed against His will?
Both Jews and Christians alike killed many righteous people, and if Yeshua's death was just one of the many innocent people that were killed, it would be horrible indeed, but it would have no power to redeem anyone or anything. Christians make Yeshua seem like this really frail blond guy with blue eyes, almost sickly, that was abused by the mean Jews and killed by the even meaner Romans. He was a victim of bad people and if the mean Jews wouldn't have killed the poor Jesus they portray, He would have lived a long long life. GIVE ME A BREAK!
Yeshua was in full control of everything. He came on earth for the only reason of dying and redeeming the world of it's sin. He sacrificed His own life for the sake of the world. Do you know what self sacrifice means?
The giving up of personal wants and needs, either from a sense of duty or in order to benefit others.
The giving up is not a forceful action. No one could take His life away unless He gave it. He gave up His life in order to give life to everyone that believes in Him!
If Yeshua was murdered by the Jews, then the Jews have paid under that excuse that in full (and for that I suggest you research the Holocaust), so God has nothing to demand from them, for they have payed their debt. But if Yeshua, being God and not the victim of a scattered people under Roman ocuppation, gave up His own life, as a sacrifice to save the world from sin (first the Jews then the goyim) then the responsibility for His death comes to everyone that sinned, for it was our sins that took Him to the cross, not the Jews.
I don't believe in a sickly Christ that was pushed around by the mean Jews and then murdered by them. I believe in Yeshua that came on earth to die for my sin and it was my sin that killed Him. I believe in Yeshua that was God and that death couldn't hold Him (let alone a weak nation) and that He resurrected and gave life to everyone that believed in Him, first to the Jews and then to the gentiles. I don't believe in a victim of the Jewish people, I believe the the Lamb of God, a pure Lamb, whose only purpose was to come and die for me, so that I may live for Him. That is my Mashiach. That is my Rabbi. That is my God.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
fish live in the water
In the Talmud there is a Moshel (parable) told by Rabbi Akiva, while the Roman Empire decreed that all the Rabbis that were teaching Torah, would be killed. Rabbi Akiva was teaching the Torah in public places without the fear of being killed. A Jew saw Akiva
doing this and asked him 'Rabbi, aren't you scared that the Romans will catch you and kill you? Then what would you have gained from standing up against the Empire and didn't give up your faith?' Rabbi Akiva answers the man with this Moshel:
There was a fox walking on the shore of a river. While walking she sees all the fish swimming scared and as fast as they could. The fox asks them 'what are you running from?' the fish answer 'we run away from the nets they set to trap us'. The fox looks at them amused and says 'stop swimming away. Just jump from the water on the ground because there are no nets here' The fish answer 'you should be wiser than us for you are greater. If we are in danger in our own environment where we can swim and breath, how much more will we be in danger in an environment that is not our natural habitat?'
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
doing this and asked him 'Rabbi, aren't you scared that the Romans will catch you and kill you? Then what would you have gained from standing up against the Empire and didn't give up your faith?' Rabbi Akiva answers the man with this Moshel:There was a fox walking on the shore of a river. While walking she sees all the fish swimming scared and as fast as they could. The fox asks them 'what are you running from?' the fish answer 'we run away from the nets they set to trap us'. The fox looks at them amused and says 'stop swimming away. Just jump from the water on the ground because there are no nets here' The fish answer 'you should be wiser than us for you are greater. If we are in danger in our own environment where we can swim and breath, how much more will we be in danger in an environment that is not our natural habitat?'
Rabbi Akiva goes on to say...'if we, the Jews, are in danger in our own environment which is Torah, how much more will we be in danger if we give up Torah?'
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
just wheat
There is a Moshel (parable) about a man that use to live in a village up in the mountains, isolated from the rest of the world. This village was really blessed 
with a lot of wheat, but people use to eat the wheat just as it was on the field because they didn't know how to prepare it. The man that lived in this village is forced by circumstances to go to a different village, and when he gets there he sees the people eating bread. He doesn't know what bread is so he asks one of the villagers 'what is this?' the villager answered 'well, it's bread, don't you know what bread is?' the man answers 'no', so the villagers gives him a piece of bread to taste it. The man is amazed ' this tastes really good, what is it made of?' The villager answers 'from wheat, mixed with water, and salt and yeast, then it's cooked in the oven.' The man is in shock. Then he is offered a piece of cake and when he hears that again the main ingredient is wheat he shouts with joy 'surely I am the master of all these for I have the main ingredient which is wheat'.
Some people know the basics of the Scriptures, or only the main ingredient and they feel superior to all the rest that 'break their heads' to know more and always their reply is I KNOW ALL I NEED TO KNOW. From time to time they taste the thoughts of people that do break their heads about the Word of Adonai, and they feel great and they even say that it tastes good, but because what they hear have in essence the same basic truth they know, they feel like they are the masters of Scriptures for they know that 'Jesus loves me, yes, I know, for the Bible tells me so' . They feel that they can go on forever eating rough wheat and never bother to make flour out of wheat and to prepare it and make bread and if anyone comes along and challenges them to do more, they are bothered beyond repair.
Yeshua said I am the bread of life, not the wheat of life. Bread doesn't grow on the field, bread is prepared by people. To have Yeshua is not enough to pray the prayer of salvation (whatever that is) but it means to live a life according to His will.
The man in this Moshel wouldn't have died if he continued his whole life to eat wheat, he could have lived his entire life healthy but never enjoying more than that. People that don't search to know more won't burn in hell, but their existence is without any real joy, and by joy I so don't mean the fake smile and the happy clappy Christians that pretend so much that they even pretend that they don't know they pretend their Christianity.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
with a lot of wheat, but people use to eat the wheat just as it was on the field because they didn't know how to prepare it. The man that lived in this village is forced by circumstances to go to a different village, and when he gets there he sees the people eating bread. He doesn't know what bread is so he asks one of the villagers 'what is this?' the villager answered 'well, it's bread, don't you know what bread is?' the man answers 'no', so the villagers gives him a piece of bread to taste it. The man is amazed ' this tastes really good, what is it made of?' The villager answers 'from wheat, mixed with water, and salt and yeast, then it's cooked in the oven.' The man is in shock. Then he is offered a piece of cake and when he hears that again the main ingredient is wheat he shouts with joy 'surely I am the master of all these for I have the main ingredient which is wheat'.Some people know the basics of the Scriptures, or only the main ingredient and they feel superior to all the rest that 'break their heads' to know more and always their reply is I KNOW ALL I NEED TO KNOW. From time to time they taste the thoughts of people that do break their heads about the Word of Adonai, and they feel great and they even say that it tastes good, but because what they hear have in essence the same basic truth they know, they feel like they are the masters of Scriptures for they know that 'Jesus loves me, yes, I know, for the Bible tells me so' . They feel that they can go on forever eating rough wheat and never bother to make flour out of wheat and to prepare it and make bread and if anyone comes along and challenges them to do more, they are bothered beyond repair.
Yeshua said I am the bread of life, not the wheat of life. Bread doesn't grow on the field, bread is prepared by people. To have Yeshua is not enough to pray the prayer of salvation (whatever that is) but it means to live a life according to His will.
The man in this Moshel wouldn't have died if he continued his whole life to eat wheat, he could have lived his entire life healthy but never enjoying more than that. People that don't search to know more won't burn in hell, but their existence is without any real joy, and by joy I so don't mean the fake smile and the happy clappy Christians that pretend so much that they even pretend that they don't know they pretend their Christianity.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Sunday, June 20, 2010
How many prayers do I need to pray?
So Ach'av went up to eat and to drink. Eliyah went up to the top of Karmel; and he bowed himself down on the eretz, and put his face between his knees. He sa
id to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. It happened at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. He said, Go up, tell Ach'av, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you. - Melachim Alef/ 1 Kings 18:42-44
Rabbi Nachman of Uman, use to say that you don't receive the things you want for only two reasons, either you haven't prayed, either you haven't prayed enough.
Elyahu (Elijah) went to pray before Adonai for rain. There was a drought in the land for 3 years now, so he goes up to mount Karmel, sits down with his face between his knees and starts praying. He prays once...nothing. He prays again. It was starting to be a bit awkward for his servant to come back every time and tell him 'there is nothing'. But Elyahu's heart was set to pray as many times as he needed until he got an answer.
Maybe I need to pray my soul out 7 times until I get an answer, and maybe I need to pray my soul out once, or maybe I need to do it for years, but I need to pray as many times as I need to until I get my answer.
It's not easy to get off your knees and hear 'there's nothing' and maybe you get this answer years in a row, but be sure that one day the answer will be 'Behold, there arises a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand'. When you receive that answer don't stay there and wait for the whole sky to get cloudy, because all it takes is a small cloud to believe for a storm!
Elyahu sends his servant to tell Ach'av to go so that the rain won't stop him. He had a small cloud on the sky and he was so sure that that little cloud will bring a heavy rain that send his servant to tell the king to run so that the rain won't stop him! Can you imagine Ach'av's face? Probably thought Elyahu was insane. But all it took was a little cloud, not bigger than a man's hand, for Elyahu to believe for the storm. But to have that kind of faith you need to know the One you pray to, You need to know that what He starts, He will finish. You need to know His heart in order to believe that a little cloud is not just a cloud. In Adonai's world, nothing is what it seems to be.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
id to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. It happened at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. He said, Go up, tell Ach'av, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you. - Melachim Alef/ 1 Kings 18:42-44Rabbi Nachman of Uman, use to say that you don't receive the things you want for only two reasons, either you haven't prayed, either you haven't prayed enough.
Elyahu (Elijah) went to pray before Adonai for rain. There was a drought in the land for 3 years now, so he goes up to mount Karmel, sits down with his face between his knees and starts praying. He prays once...nothing. He prays again. It was starting to be a bit awkward for his servant to come back every time and tell him 'there is nothing'. But Elyahu's heart was set to pray as many times as he needed until he got an answer.
Maybe I need to pray my soul out 7 times until I get an answer, and maybe I need to pray my soul out once, or maybe I need to do it for years, but I need to pray as many times as I need to until I get my answer.
It's not easy to get off your knees and hear 'there's nothing' and maybe you get this answer years in a row, but be sure that one day the answer will be 'Behold, there arises a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand'. When you receive that answer don't stay there and wait for the whole sky to get cloudy, because all it takes is a small cloud to believe for a storm!
Elyahu sends his servant to tell Ach'av to go so that the rain won't stop him. He had a small cloud on the sky and he was so sure that that little cloud will bring a heavy rain that send his servant to tell the king to run so that the rain won't stop him! Can you imagine Ach'av's face? Probably thought Elyahu was insane. But all it took was a little cloud, not bigger than a man's hand, for Elyahu to believe for the storm. But to have that kind of faith you need to know the One you pray to, You need to know that what He starts, He will finish. You need to know His heart in order to believe that a little cloud is not just a cloud. In Adonai's world, nothing is what it seems to be.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Saturday, June 19, 2010
seriously?
I read somewhere that there are more people in the world dying of obesity than people that die from starvation.
We are so weird... Rather than 
sharing our food with others we eat until we become obese and then we want others to feel sorry for us because we turned into monsters that can't be moved even with a truck. I try to feel sorry, but somehow I fail. I can only conclude that obesity is the result of selfishness.
We reverse God's principles and we mistake greed with
blessing, forgetting that you've been blessed to 
bless others.
We care more about pets than for humans. We are concerned with 'world peace' and we forget to have peace in our homes, we are more scared of financial crisis than we fear The One that provides for us... Adonai have mercy!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
We are so weird... Rather than 
sharing our food with others we eat until we become obese and then we want others to feel sorry for us because we turned into monsters that can't be moved even with a truck. I try to feel sorry, but somehow I fail. I can only conclude that obesity is the result of selfishness.We reverse God's principles and we mistake greed with
blessing, forgetting that you've been blessed to 
bless others.We care more about pets than for humans. We are concerned with 'world peace' and we forget to have peace in our homes, we are more scared of financial crisis than we fear The One that provides for us... Adonai have mercy!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Greatness Unlimited
To some, G-d is great because He makes the wind blow. For others, it is how He projects an entire c
osmos, space and time, matter and energy out of the void. The intellectuals laugh and say He is far beyond any of this, for His Oneness transcends all things and remains unaltered even by the event of Creation.
We Jews, what we have always said, is that G-d is so great He stoops down to listen to the prayer of a small child. He paints the petals of each wildflower and awaits us there to catch Him doing so. He plays with the rules of the world He has made to comfort the oppressed and support those who champion justice and goodness.
He transcends the bounds of higher and lower. He transcends all bounds.
Tzvi Freeman
osmos, space and time, matter and energy out of the void. The intellectuals laugh and say He is far beyond any of this, for His Oneness transcends all things and remains unaltered even by the event of Creation.We Jews, what we have always said, is that G-d is so great He stoops down to listen to the prayer of a small child. He paints the petals of each wildflower and awaits us there to catch Him doing so. He plays with the rules of the world He has made to comfort the oppressed and support those who champion justice and goodness.
He transcends the bounds of higher and lower. He transcends all bounds.
Tzvi Freeman
Yeshua ben David - Yeshua son of David
In Judaism, to be someone's son it doesn't necessarily mean to have the same DNA as the father, but it also means to have the same spiritual 
DNA, meaning to have the same way of thinking, of acting and of interpreting Torah. When Paul called Timothy his son, it doesn't mean Timothy was his son, but that Timothy was of the same spiritual DNA as Paul. Yeshua said "if you were Avraham's children, you would do Avraham's deeds", meaning to call yourself the son of someone implies to do the same deeds as the person you call 'father'.
All through the New Covenant, Yeshua is called 'Son of David' (Mathew 15:22, Mat. 20:31, etc), and that doesn't just mean He was from the davidic lineage, which He was, but it also means He had many characteristics as David.
There are many similarities between the two of them and I won't focus on all, but only on a few.
1. None of them had the right apparence to be Mashiach (Anointed). David was the last person Samuel would have picked to be anointed king and it's written about Yeshua 'when we saw him, there was no beauty that we should desire him.' Yeshayahu/ Isaiah 53:2b
2. They both had to leave Israel temporary and live among goyim (gentiles).
David had to leave Israel because Saul was chasing him, so he went in the land of the Philistines, and served king Akhish. (1 Samuel 27). While he was there he pretended he has nothing to do with Israel anymore and Akhish believed him as it's written in 1 Samuel 27:12 'Akhish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.'
Goyim think the same about Yeshua, because they don't know The God of Israel, just like Akish didn't know David.
When David ran to Akish, Saul stopped chasing him and in the same way Jews have stopped searching for Yeshua because they know He's in the land of goyim.
Akish wanted David because he saw David was strong so he named David his keeper forever (1 Samuel 28:2).
Goyim act as if Yeshua is at their disposal, working for them, that they can make Yeshua do whatever they want just because temporary He is giving them grace.
Akish wanted to go to war against Israel so he summons David to come and protect him. -- Don't start a war against Israel and expect Yeshua to come and protect you.
David doesn't answer 'I won't go' but as a true Jew, he answers 'you shall see what your servant will do'. David went with his men but they "passed on in the rearward with Akhish' and when the Philistines see them they start yelling "What are these Hebrews doing here?"(1 Sam. 29:2) and they ask Akish to send the Jews back.
Goyim can't accept a Jewish Jesus. If somehow they see such a Jesus they make sure to send Him 'home' and they would rather believe that Yeshua is a Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes that was walking through Israel because He planned to let Himself be killed by Jews so He could blame them forever for it, and nothing else.
David couldn't fight against Israel although he couldn't live in Israel for that time, and Yeshua being ben David, meaning the Son of David, would never be against His own people, even though He is more known to the goyim, but doesn't mean He belongs in the lands of goyim, that's why when He'll return he won't live in Washington, nor London, nor Paris, nor Tokyo, but He will live in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).
Not long after being sent back home, David returned to his home and became king over all Israel, bringing Aaron HaBrit (Ark of the Covenant) to Yerushalayim, ark that represented the Shekinah (glory) of Adonai.
It won't be long and Yeshua will return to His people Israel, He will return to Yerushalayim and He will bring HaShekinah there where it belongs. With Israel. And from there the whole earth will know that Adonai is One, His Name is One and He calls Himself The King of the Jews, The King of Israel.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
DNA, meaning to have the same way of thinking, of acting and of interpreting Torah. When Paul called Timothy his son, it doesn't mean Timothy was his son, but that Timothy was of the same spiritual DNA as Paul. Yeshua said "if you were Avraham's children, you would do Avraham's deeds", meaning to call yourself the son of someone implies to do the same deeds as the person you call 'father'.All through the New Covenant, Yeshua is called 'Son of David' (Mathew 15:22, Mat. 20:31, etc), and that doesn't just mean He was from the davidic lineage, which He was, but it also means He had many characteristics as David.
There are many similarities between the two of them and I won't focus on all, but only on a few.
1. None of them had the right apparence to be Mashiach (Anointed). David was the last person Samuel would have picked to be anointed king and it's written about Yeshua 'when we saw him, there was no beauty that we should desire him.' Yeshayahu/ Isaiah 53:2b
2. They both had to leave Israel temporary and live among goyim (gentiles).
David had to leave Israel because Saul was chasing him, so he went in the land of the Philistines, and served king Akhish. (1 Samuel 27). While he was there he pretended he has nothing to do with Israel anymore and Akhish believed him as it's written in 1 Samuel 27:12 'Akhish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.'
Goyim think the same about Yeshua, because they don't know The God of Israel, just like Akish didn't know David.
When David ran to Akish, Saul stopped chasing him and in the same way Jews have stopped searching for Yeshua because they know He's in the land of goyim.
Akish wanted David because he saw David was strong so he named David his keeper forever (1 Samuel 28:2).
Goyim act as if Yeshua is at their disposal, working for them, that they can make Yeshua do whatever they want just because temporary He is giving them grace.
Akish wanted to go to war against Israel so he summons David to come and protect him. -- Don't start a war against Israel and expect Yeshua to come and protect you.
David doesn't answer 'I won't go' but as a true Jew, he answers 'you shall see what your servant will do'. David went with his men but they "passed on in the rearward with Akhish' and when the Philistines see them they start yelling "What are these Hebrews doing here?"(1 Sam. 29:2) and they ask Akish to send the Jews back.
Goyim can't accept a Jewish Jesus. If somehow they see such a Jesus they make sure to send Him 'home' and they would rather believe that Yeshua is a Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes that was walking through Israel because He planned to let Himself be killed by Jews so He could blame them forever for it, and nothing else.
David couldn't fight against Israel although he couldn't live in Israel for that time, and Yeshua being ben David, meaning the Son of David, would never be against His own people, even though He is more known to the goyim, but doesn't mean He belongs in the lands of goyim, that's why when He'll return he won't live in Washington, nor London, nor Paris, nor Tokyo, but He will live in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).
Not long after being sent back home, David returned to his home and became king over all Israel, bringing Aaron HaBrit (Ark of the Covenant) to Yerushalayim, ark that represented the Shekinah (glory) of Adonai.
It won't be long and Yeshua will return to His people Israel, He will return to Yerushalayim and He will bring HaShekinah there where it belongs. With Israel. And from there the whole earth will know that Adonai is One, His Name is One and He calls Himself The King of the Jews, The King of Israel.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
About me
I don't know yet if life is wonderful or life just is. I haven't got to know anything extraordinary, but here's what I know:
I haven't been through pains greater than others and I haven't been rejoicing more than others have. I haven't run nor walked more than others. I cried a lot, but I am sure there are people that cry more than I. I laughed a lot, but I am sure there are people that laugh more than I, so there is nothing special about my tears or my laughter.
I am not tall nor short, I am not a genius but I am not retarded either, I am not pretty nor ugly. I think I could continue for days about how ordinary I am through everything that I appear to be.
But although I haven't made any scientific discovery that would make me more special than others, I found out in all my 28 years on this earth what it's like to live LIFE, what it's like to die and what it feels like to be resurrected.
Although I haven't shook hands with any president nor did I ever meet anyone famous, I shook hands with many, many smiling old people. I've seen the sea only once in my life, but I've seen many mountains. I've been through situations that I could never believe one can experience and still live, but now, when I look back and I know that all those situations that left me with deep scars have turned me in to who I am today. I've lived 19 years without HaShem and it has been too long. I've loved Israel since I didn't know how to love anything else, but that doesn't make me special either, because maybe there are people that love it more (only maybe).
I am not the one that discovered that the earth is round, but I did discover it was made for me. I haven't discovered any of the physics laws, but I did discover on my own that although the gravity can pull a falling object towards it's mass, if the falling object is me, then I can get back up. I am not special in any way, and maybe I don't have the greatest life in history, but I will do everything in my power to live great. I will live as if the Earth revolves around me, because I know that the One that made it revolves around me and even though scientists haven't found out that yet, they still have time.
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I haven't been through pains greater than others and I haven't been rejoicing more than others have. I haven't run nor walked more than others. I cried a lot, but I am sure there are people that cry more than I. I laughed a lot, but I am sure there are people that laugh more than I, so there is nothing special about my tears or my laughter.
I am not tall nor short, I am not a genius but I am not retarded either, I am not pretty nor ugly. I think I could continue for days about how ordinary I am through everything that I appear to be.
But although I haven't made any scientific discovery that would make me more special than others, I found out in all my 28 years on this earth what it's like to live LIFE, what it's like to die and what it feels like to be resurrected.
Although I haven't shook hands with any president nor did I ever meet anyone famous, I shook hands with many, many smiling old people. I've seen the sea only once in my life, but I've seen many mountains. I've been through situations that I could never believe one can experience and still live, but now, when I look back and I know that all those situations that left me with deep scars have turned me in to who I am today. I've lived 19 years without HaShem and it has been too long. I've loved Israel since I didn't know how to love anything else, but that doesn't make me special either, because maybe there are people that love it more (only maybe).
I am not the one that discovered that the earth is round, but I did discover it was made for me. I haven't discovered any of the physics laws, but I did discover on my own that although the gravity can pull a falling object towards it's mass, if the falling object is me, then I can get back up. I am not special in any way, and maybe I don't have the greatest life in history, but I will do everything in my power to live great. I will live as if the Earth revolves around me, because I know that the One that made it revolves around me and even though scientists haven't found out that yet, they still have time.
IM Flash Smiley
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Cristina
Humility
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz
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