TORAH PORTION FROM SEPT 21 - 27, 2008

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM SEPT 21, 2008 6PM TO SEPT 27,2008

Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy NITZOVIM


DEUTORONOMY 29:09 - 30:20
Chapter 29
Verse 9: You stand, this day all of you before Ad-noy, your G-d; your tribal chieftains, your elders and your law officers, every man of Yisroel.
Verse 10: Your young, your wives, and your convert who is within your camps; from your wood cutters to the water drawers.
Verse 11: For your passage into the covenant of Ad-noy, your G-d, and His oath-curse, that Ad-noy, your G-d, is making with you today,

Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 12: In order to sustain you today as His people, and He will be for you a G-d as He promished you and as He promised your forefathers Avrohom, Yitzchok, and Yaakov.
Verse 13: And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath-curse.
Verse 14: But with whoever is here with us standing today in the presence of Ad-noy, our G-d, and with those who are not here with us today.

Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 15: For you are aware how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the nations whom you passed through.
Verse 16: Where you observed their abominations and their loathsomeness [idols], wood and stone, silver and gold, that they owned.
Verse 17: Perhaps there is among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose thoughts stray today from [being] with Ad-noy, our G-d, to go serve the gods of those nations; lest there is within you a root producing gall and bitter fruit.
Verse 18: When he hears the statements of this oath-curse, he will imagine self-blessings, saying, Peace will be my lot when I shall follow what my thoughts envision, so that the unintentional may be added to the sinful.
Verse 19: Ad-noy will be unwilling to forgive him, because then Ad-noy's nostrils will fume and His vengeful fury enflame against that man, and there will cling to him the entire oath-curse written in this book; and Ad-noy will eliminate his name from beneath the sky.
Verse 20: And Ad-noy will seperate him for harm from all the tribes of Yisroel, in accord with all the oath-curses of the covenant inscribed in this Torah scroll.
Verse 21: The latter generation will say--- your children who will arise after you and the stranger who will come from a distant land; and they will see the plagues of that land and its illnesses that Ad-noy has harmed it with.
Verse 22: Sulfur and salt, all its land, will be burnt, it will not be seeded, and it will not sprout, and no grass will grow there; like the overturning of Sodom and Amoroh, Admoh and Tzevoyim, which Ad-noy overturned in His anger and His wrath.
Verse 23: And all the nations will say, For what did Ad-noy do so to this land? Why the vigor of this great anger?
Verse 24: And they will reply, Because they forsook the covenant of Ad-noy, the G-d of their forefathers, which He made with them when He took them out of the land of Egypt.
Verse 25: And they went and served other gods and prostrated themselves to them; gods unknown to them and [which] He had not apportioned to them.
Verse 26: And Ad-noy became furious with that land, [causing Him] to bring on it the entire curse written in this book.
Verse 27: And Ad-noy forced them away from their land with anger and wrath and great fury; and He cast them into another land like this day.
Verse 28: The hidden [matters] are Ad-noy's, our G-d's, and the revealed [matters] are ours and our children's forever, to perform all the statements of this Torah.

Chapter 30
Verse 1: When it happens that there come upon you all these statements, the blessing and the curse that I have set before you; and you will restore to your perception amid all the nations where Ad-noy, your G-d, has exiled you.
Verse 2: You will return to Ad-noy, your G-d, and obey Him exactly as I am commanding you today, you and your sons, wholeheartedly and with your whole being.
Verse 3: Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring back your returnees and will be merciful toward you; and He will return and gather you from all the peoples that Ad-noy, your G-d, has dispersed you there.
Verse 4: If your exiled one will be at the edge of the heavens, from there will Ad-noy, your G-d, gather you and from there will He take you.
Verse 5: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring you to the land that your forefathers inherited and you will inherit it; and He will benefit you and multiply you more than your forefathers.
Verse 6: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love Ad-noy, your G-d, wholeheartedly and with all your being in order that you live.
Verse 7: Ad-noy, your G-d, will place all these oath-curses upon your enemies and upon your foes who chased you.
Verse 8: And you will turn back and obey Ad-noy; and you will perform all His commandments that I am commanding you today.
Verse 9: Ad-noy, your G-d, will give you surplus in all your endeavors, in the fruit of your belly, and in the offspring of your animals, and in the produce of your soil--- for benefit; for Ad-noy will return to rejoice over you for benefit as He rejoiced over your forefathers.
Verse 10: When you obey Ad-noy, your G-d, to guard His commandments and His statutes, written in this Torah scroll; when you turn back to Ad-noy, your G-d, wholeheartedly and with all your being.

Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 11: For this mitzvah that I am commanding you today; it is not abstruse to you nor is it distant.
Verse 12: It is not in heaven, [for you] to say, Who will go up to heaven for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?
Verse 13: Nor is it overseas, [for you] to say, Who will travel overseas for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?
Verse 14: For the matter is extremely close to you; in your mouth and in your mind to fulfill it.
Verse 15: See, I have placed before you today life and good, and death and bad.
Verse 16: For which I command you this day, to love Ad-noy, your G-d, to go in His ways and to guard His commandments and His statutes and His laws; and you will live and you will flourish, and Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you in the land that you are coming there to inherit.
Verse 17: But if your heart strays and you do not listen, and you are misled, and you prostrate yourself to other gods and worship them.
Verse 18: I tell you today that you shall certainly perish; you will not remain long on the land that you are crossing the Yardein to come there to inherit.
Verse 19: I invoke, as witnesses against you this day, heaven and earth: Life and death have I placed before you, blessing and curse; you choose life in order that you live, you and your descendants,
Verse 20: To love Ad-noy, your G-d, to obey Him and to cling to Him; for He is your life and your longevity, to live on the soil that Ad-noy swore to your forefathers---to Avrohom, to Yitzchok, and to Yaakov--- to give them.

PROPHETS PORTION

ISAIAH 61:10 - 63:09
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

ISAIAH 62:1-12
1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

ISAIAH 63:1-9
1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

ROMANS 9:30 - 10:13
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

ROMANS 10:1-13
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

HEBREWS 12:14-15
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;