KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
Abraham establishes an eshel (wayside inn) at Be'er Sheva, where he "called the name of G-d, G-d of the world."
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
ITS ON DAY 1 OF ROSH-HASHAN WHENEVER.THAT I BELIEVE THE 7 YEAR FINAL PEACE TREATY WILL BE SIGNED.
Reading for First Day Rosh Hashanah
The Birth of Isaac
Exactly a year after the three angels visited Abraham and Sarah and
delivered G-d's promise that a son shall be born to them (as related in
Genesis 18), G-d remembered
Sarah as He had said, and G-d did to Sarah as He had spoken.Sarah
conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of
which G-d had spoken to him.The boy is named Yitzchak ("will laugh"), because, as Sarah declared, "G-d has made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh with me."Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old,
as G-d had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son
Isaac was born to him.The Torah then tells of a great feast that
Abraham made "on the day that Isaac was weaned."
The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael
Abraham already had a son, Ishmael, born 14 years earlier to Hagar,
the Egyptian maid whom Sarah urged him to marry in her barren years. As
had been predicted, Ishmael grows to become "a wild man, his hand
against every man, and every man's hand against him." Sarah, fearing
Ishmael's negative influence upon her son, urges Abraham to "Banish this
maidservant and her son: for the son of this maidservant shall not be
heir with my son, with Isaac."Abraham is reluctant to do so until G-d intervenes, telling him: "In all that Sarah
says to you, hearken to her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be
called."Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on
her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and
wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva.Their water, however, runs out
quickly in the desert heat, and soon Ishmael is faint with heat and
thirst; Hagar cast the child under one of the shrubs.
And she went off...the distance of a bowshot; for she said, "Let me not
see the death of the child." And she sat over against him, and lifted up
her voice, and wept.And G-d heard the voice of the lad;
and the angel of G-d called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her
"What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for G-d has heard the voice of the lad where he is..."And
G-d opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and
filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.And G-d was with
the lad; and he grew, and
dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he dwelt in the
wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
The Covenant with Avimelech
Avimelech the king of the Philistines, who had earlier driven Abraham
from his country, now comes seeking a covenant of peace with the
Hebrew. "G-d is with you in all that you do," says the king, "let us
swear to each other that neither of us will show hostility to the other
or the other's offspring."Abraham agrees, and gives Avimelech seven
sheep as a testimony to the resolution of a past controversy between
them over a well that Abraham had dug. The place is thus named Be'er Sheva ("Well of the Oath" and "Well of the Seven").Abraham establishes an eshel (wayside inn) at Be'er Sheva, where he "called the name of G-d, G-d of the world."
Reading for Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
The Binding of Isaac
And it came to pass after these things, that G-d did test Abraham. And He said to him: "Abraham!"And he said: "Here I am!"And He said: "Please, take your son, your
only son, the one whom you love, Isaac; and get thee into the land of
Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of."And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his donkey,
and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and broke up
the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of
which G-d had told him.Then on the third day Abraham lifted up
his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said to his young men:
"Stay here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship,
and come again to you."And Abraham took the wood of the burnt
offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his
hand, and the knife; and they went both of them together.And Isaac spoke
to Abraham his father, and said, "My father!" and he said, "Here I am,
my son."And he said: "Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the
lamb for a burnt offering?"And Abraham said: "G-d will provide himself a
lamb for a burnt offering, my son." And they went both of them
together.And they came to the place which G-d had told him of; and
Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound
Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.And Abraham
stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.And an angel
of G-d called to him out of heaven, and said: "Abraham! Abraham!" And he
said, "Here I am!"And he said: "Lay not your hand upon the
lad, neither do anything to him: for now I know that you do fear G-d,
seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."And
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked; and behold, behind him a ram
caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram,
and offered him up for a burnt offering in place of his son.And Abraham called the name of that place
Adonai-Yireh ("G-d will be revealed"); as it is said to this day: "On
the mount G-d will appear."The reading concludes with report of a
granddaughter born to Abraham's brother, Nachor, named Rebecca (destined to become Isaac's wife).
ISRAELI COMMENTARY ON THE SCRIPTURES OF ROSH-HASHANA
G-d remembered Sarah (Genesis 21:1)
"Remembrance" is one of the three primary themes of Rosh Hashanah (the other two being "Kingship" and "Shofarot"). For it is the day on which "the remembrance of all of existence comes before You." In the words of the U'nesaneh Tokef prayer:"On this day... You will remember all that was forgotten. You will open the Book of Memory--it will read itself, and everyone's signature is in it... and all mankind will pass before You like sheep. Like a shepherd inspecting his flock, making his sheep pass under his staff, so shall You run by, count, calculate, and consider the soul of all the living; You will apportion the fixed needs of all Your creatures, and inscribe their verdict."On Rosh Hashanah it will be inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it will be sealed: How many shall pass on, and how many shall be born; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by storm, who by plague, who by strangulation, and who by stoning; who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried; who will enjoy tranquility and who will suffer; who will be impoverished and who will be enriched; who will be degraded and who will be exalted..."
And Sarah said: G-d has made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh (yitz'chak) with me (21:6)
The concept of Rosh Hashanah as the day of G-d's "coronation" as king of the universe explains a most puzzling paradox in the nature of the day. On the one hand, Rosh Hashanah is when we stand before the Supreme King and tremulously accept the "yoke of His sovereignty." On the other hand, it is a festival (yom tov), celebrated amidst much feasting and rejoicing--a day on which we are enjoined to "Eat sumptuous foods and drink sweet beverages, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared, for the day is holy to our L-rd; do not be distressed, for the joy of the L-rd is your strength" (Nehemiah 8:10).But such is the nature of a coronation: it is an event that combines trepidation and joy, awe and celebration. For true kingship, as opposed to mere rulership, derives from the willful submission of a people to their sovereign. So the coronation of a king includes a display of reverence and awe on the part of the people, conveying their submission to the king; as well as the joy that affirms that their submission is willful and desirous.
This teaches us that Sarah was superior to Abraham in prophecy.
This teaches us that a person's prayer for himself is preferable to others praying for him, and is sooner to be accepted. (For though the verse speaks of Hagar's weeping, it tells us that it was Ishmael's cry which G-d heard).
The ministering angels hastened to indict him, exclaiming: "Sovereign of the Universe! Would You bring up a well for one who will one day slay Your children with thirst?" "What is he now?" asked G-d. "Righteous," said the angels. Said G-d: "I judge man only as he is at the moment."
Said Rabbi Yitzchak: Throw a stick into the air, and it will fall back to its place of origin (the ground). It is written, "And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar" (Genesis 16:1); therefore, "his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt."
Abraham established an eshel at Beer Sheva; there he called the name of G-d, G-d of the world (21:33)
When Abraham's guests wished to bless him for his generosity, he would say to them: "Has the food you have eaten been provided by myself? You should thank, praise and bless He who spoke the world into being!"If they refused Abraham would demand payment for the food they had eaten. "How much do I owe you?" they would ask. "A jug of wine is one furlin," Abraham would say; "a pound of meat, one furlin; a loaf of bread, one furlin." When the guest would protest these exorbitant prices, Abraham would counter: "Who supplies you with wine in the middle of the desert? Who supplies you with meat in the desert? Who supplies you with bread in the desert?" When the guest would realize the predicament he was in he would relent and proclaim: "Blessed be the G-d of the world, from whose providence we have eaten."
Abraham understood that no human acknowledgment of G-d can ever be "hypocritical." On the contrary: a denial of G-d is the ultimate hypocrisy, for it is at variance with the person's quintessential being. When a creature of G-d proclaims "Blessed be the G-d of the world from whose providence we have eaten," nothing can be more consistent with his or her innermost self.
Said Rabbi Jonathan: A potter does not examine defective vessels, because he cannot give them a single blow without breaking them. What then does he examine? Only the sound vessels, for he will not break them even with many blows. Similarly, the Holy One, blessed be He, tests not the wicked but the righteous.
This is the very same donkey which Moses Rode to Egypt (cf. Exodus 4:20); and this is the very same donkey upon which the Messiah will arrive (cf. Zechariah 9:9).
Can one bind a man thirty-seven years old without his consent?
But when Abraham made to sacrifice his son Isaac, Isaac said to him: Father, I am a young man and am afraid that my body may tremble through fear of the knife and I will grieve you, whereby the slaughter may be rendered unfit and this will not count as a real sacrifice; therefore bind me very firmly."
And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-Yireh (22:14)
Shem (the son of Noah) called it Salem, as it is written "And Melchizedek king of Salem" (Genesis 14: 18). Said the Holy One, blessed be He: If I call it Yireh as did Abraham, then Shem, a righteous man, will resent it; while if I call it Salem as did Shem, Abraham, the righteous man, will resent it. Hence I will call it Jerusalem, including both names, Yireh Salem.-(Midrash Rabbah)
ISRAELI COMMENTARY ON THE SCRIPTURES OF ROSH-HASHANA
G-d remembered Sarah (Genesis 21:1)
"Remembrance" is one of the three primary themes of Rosh Hashanah (the other two being "Kingship" and "Shofarot"). For it is the day on which "the remembrance of all of existence comes before You." In the words of the U'nesaneh Tokef prayer:"On this day... You will remember all that was forgotten. You will open the Book of Memory--it will read itself, and everyone's signature is in it... and all mankind will pass before You like sheep. Like a shepherd inspecting his flock, making his sheep pass under his staff, so shall You run by, count, calculate, and consider the soul of all the living; You will apportion the fixed needs of all Your creatures, and inscribe their verdict."On Rosh Hashanah it will be inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it will be sealed: How many shall pass on, and how many shall be born; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by storm, who by plague, who by strangulation, and who by stoning; who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried; who will enjoy tranquility and who will suffer; who will be impoverished and who will be enriched; who will be degraded and who will be exalted..."
And Sarah said: G-d has made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh (yitz'chak) with me (21:6)
The concept of Rosh Hashanah as the day of G-d's "coronation" as king of the universe explains a most puzzling paradox in the nature of the day. On the one hand, Rosh Hashanah is when we stand before the Supreme King and tremulously accept the "yoke of His sovereignty." On the other hand, it is a festival (yom tov), celebrated amidst much feasting and rejoicing--a day on which we are enjoined to "Eat sumptuous foods and drink sweet beverages, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared, for the day is holy to our L-rd; do not be distressed, for the joy of the L-rd is your strength" (Nehemiah 8:10).But such is the nature of a coronation: it is an event that combines trepidation and joy, awe and celebration. For true kingship, as opposed to mere rulership, derives from the willful submission of a people to their sovereign. So the coronation of a king includes a display of reverence and awe on the part of the people, conveying their submission to the king; as well as the joy that affirms that their submission is willful and desirous.
(From the Chassidic Masters)
This teaches us that Sarah was superior to Abraham in prophecy.
(Rashi)
This teaches us that a person's prayer for himself is preferable to others praying for him, and is sooner to be accepted. (For though the verse speaks of Hagar's weeping, it tells us that it was Ishmael's cry which G-d heard).
(Midrash Rabbah; Rashi)
The ministering angels hastened to indict him, exclaiming: "Sovereign of the Universe! Would You bring up a well for one who will one day slay Your children with thirst?" "What is he now?" asked G-d. "Righteous," said the angels. Said G-d: "I judge man only as he is at the moment."
(Midrash Rabbah; Rashi)
Said Rabbi Yitzchak: Throw a stick into the air, and it will fall back to its place of origin (the ground). It is written, "And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar" (Genesis 16:1); therefore, "his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt."
(Midrash Rabbah)
Abraham established an eshel at Beer Sheva; there he called the name of G-d, G-d of the world (21:33)
When Abraham's guests wished to bless him for his generosity, he would say to them: "Has the food you have eaten been provided by myself? You should thank, praise and bless He who spoke the world into being!"If they refused Abraham would demand payment for the food they had eaten. "How much do I owe you?" they would ask. "A jug of wine is one furlin," Abraham would say; "a pound of meat, one furlin; a loaf of bread, one furlin." When the guest would protest these exorbitant prices, Abraham would counter: "Who supplies you with wine in the middle of the desert? Who supplies you with meat in the desert? Who supplies you with bread in the desert?" When the guest would realize the predicament he was in he would relent and proclaim: "Blessed be the G-d of the world, from whose providence we have eaten."
(Midrash Rabbah; Tosofot Shantz on Sotah 10)
What value, we might ask, was there in such an unwilling
proclamation, extracted under duress? Was this not a mere mouthing of
words, devoid of any conviction as to the truth of the One G-d or any
desire to thank Him for His providence? But Abraham had a vision of humanity which convinced him that every
positive deed, word or thought does have value, no matter how
"superficial" or "hypocritical" it might seem to a less discerning eye.
When Abraham looked at his guests, he did not see pagans and idolaters;
he saw creatures of G-d, men and women who had been created in the
Divine image and possessed a potential, inherent to the very essence of
their being, to recognize their Creator and serve His will.Most often, a kind word and a helping hand will bring to light this
inner potential. At times, however, a soul might be so encrusted by
negative influences and a corrupted character that a certain degree of
"pressure" must be applied to quell its resistance to a G-dly deed. (Of
course, any use of such "pressure" must conform to the dictates of G-d's
Torah, whose "ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its pathways are
peace"--as in the case of Abraham's fully legitimate demand for
payment.)Abraham understood that no human acknowledgment of G-d can ever be "hypocritical." On the contrary: a denial of G-d is the ultimate hypocrisy, for it is at variance with the person's quintessential being. When a creature of G-d proclaims "Blessed be the G-d of the world from whose providence we have eaten," nothing can be more consistent with his or her innermost self.
(From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)
Said Rabbi Jonathan: A potter does not examine defective vessels, because he cannot give them a single blow without breaking them. What then does he examine? Only the sound vessels, for he will not break them even with many blows. Similarly, the Holy One, blessed be He, tests not the wicked but the righteous.
(Midrash Rabbah)
Isaac and Ishmael were
engaged in a controversy. Said Ishmael to Isaac: "I am more beloved to
G-d than you, since I was circumcised at the age of thirteen, but you
were circumcised as a baby and could not refuse." Isaac retorted: "All
that you gave up to G-d was three drops of blood. But lo, I am now
thirty-seven years old, yet if G-d desired of me that I be slaughtered, I
would not refuse. Said the Holy One, blessed be He: "This is the
moment!"
(Midrash Rabbah)
Jewishness is not a matter of historical conscious, outlook, ethics,
or even behavior; it is a state of being. This is the deeper
significance of the debate between Ishmael and Isaac. When the Jew is
circumcised on the eighth day of life, he is completely unaware of the
significance of what has occurred. But this "non-experience" is
precisely what circumcision means. With circumcision the Jew says: I
define my relationship with G-d not by what I think, feel or do, but by
the fact of my Jewishness--a fact which equally applies to an infant of eight days and a sage of eighty years.
(From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)
This is the very same donkey which Moses Rode to Egypt (cf. Exodus 4:20); and this is the very same donkey upon which the Messiah will arrive (cf. Zechariah 9:9).
(Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer, ch. 25)
Can one bind a man thirty-seven years old without his consent?
But when Abraham made to sacrifice his son Isaac, Isaac said to him: Father, I am a young man and am afraid that my body may tremble through fear of the knife and I will grieve you, whereby the slaughter may be rendered unfit and this will not count as a real sacrifice; therefore bind me very firmly."
(Midrash Rabbah)
And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-Yireh (22:14)
Shem (the son of Noah) called it Salem, as it is written "And Melchizedek king of Salem" (Genesis 14: 18). Said the Holy One, blessed be He: If I call it Yireh as did Abraham, then Shem, a righteous man, will resent it; while if I call it Salem as did Shem, Abraham, the righteous man, will resent it. Hence I will call it Jerusalem, including both names, Yireh Salem.-(Midrash Rabbah)
