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Through the Book of Enoch Lesson 7

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Nazarene Isaiah Pesher (Isaiah 8:14)

In a recent blog I told you I was working on a project to restore five fragments of an ancient Nazarene Commentary on Isaiah, from five Latin fragments preserved in quotations in Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah.

Here is the first of the five fragments (On Isaiah 8:14) restored to Hebrew with an English translation:

והיה למקדש ולאבן נגף ולצור מכשול לשני בתי ישראל לפח ולמוקש ליושב ירושלם

פשרו שני הבתים הם בית שמאי ובית הלל מהם ירדו הסופרים והפרושים. עקיבא קיבל את ביתהם. הוא נקרא רבה של עֲקִילַס הגר. ואחריו בא מאיר. אחרי הלל ירשו יוחנן בן זכאי ואחריו אליעזר וטרפון ויוסף הגליל וישוע עד לכיבושה של ירושלים. אז שמאי והלל נולדו ביהודה ובזמן קצר לפני האדון. שמו של הראשון מתפרש שמם. והשני מתפרש חלל. הוא השם וחלל את מצוות התורה ביד גזרתו ומשנה. ואלה שני הבתים שלא קיבלו את המושיע שהפך להם נגף ומכשול.

And He shall be for a sanctuary,
but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense
to both the houses of Yisra’el:
for a gin and for a snare
to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
(Isaiah 8:14 HRV)

Its interpretation (pesher):

The two houses are Beit Shamai and Beit Hillel from which the scribes and Pharisees descended. Akiva took over their school, he is called the master of Aquila the proselyte. And after him came Meir. (Hillel having been succeeded by Yochanan Ben Zakkai and after him Eliezer and Tarphon, and Yosef HaGalil and Yeshua up to the capture of Jerusalem.) Shammai then and Hillel were born not long before the Lord; and they originated in Judah. The name of the first means “scatterer” and of the second “profane”, because he scattered and defiled the precepts of the Torah by his decrees and Mishnah. And these are the two houses who did not accept the Savior who has become to them stumbling and offense.

Some restoration/translation notes:

First of all it was necessary to make minor corrections to the list of sages as given by Jerome. Some names were slightly mangled, but easily restored. For example Jerome’s “Telphon” was obviously Tarphon. Also Jerome, not knowing the successions of various Rabbinic sages, mistook the entire list as a straight list of succession. In fact there are effectively two lists here. The first is the line from Akiba to his student Aquila to his student Meir. The second is the line from Yochanan Ben Zakkai to his students and contemporaries (which Jerome mistook as a continuous line).

There is a wordplay in the Hebrew between הלל (Hillel) and חלל (profane) and between שמאי (Shamai) and שמם (scatter). This is similar to the wordplay between Midrash Halacah and דּוֹרְשֵׁי חֲלָקוֹת, doreshei ḥalakot(seekers of smooth things) was used by the Essenes of Qumran in their polemics against the Pharisees.

A word is necessary about the word which I have translated “Mishnah”. In the Latin this appears as “deuterosis” a transliteration of the Greek word δευτερωσεις which has the same literal meaning in Greek as the Hebrew Mishnah (a repetition).

The word “decrees” in the Latin is traditiones which I have rendered in Hebrew with גזרתו literally “decree, sentence, determination, decision”. This is the Hebrew word used in the DuTillet/Munster text of Matthew 15 where Jerome, in his Latin Vulgate uses traditiones.

This text is no intended as an attack on Hillel and Shamai themselves, but on Akiva’s taking over of their school. The commentary seems focused on Akiva. “Akiva took over their school, he is called the master of Aquila the proselyte.” The precepts of the Torah were profaned and scattered by his decrees and Mishnah.

Epiphanius refers to The δευτερώσεις τοῦ καλουμένου Ραββὶ Ακιβά (Mishnah of the one called “Rabbi Akiva”) (Pan. 33:9, 15) and the Mishnah and halachic Midrashim as we have them all descend from the School of Akiva and his taking over of the Houses of Hillel and Shamai.

A good example can be found in Akiba’s גזר (decision) regarding divorce:

The House of Shamai say,
“A man should divorce his wife only because
he has found grounds for it
in unchastity (davar ervah)
, since it is said,
“Because he has found in her
an unclean matter (ervat davar) in anything (Dt. 24:1)”
And the House of Hillel say,
“Even if she spoiled his dish, since it is said,
“Because he has found in her
an unclean matter in anything (Dt. 24:1)”
Rabbi Akiba says,
“Even if he found someone else prettier than she,
since it is said,
“And it shall be if she find no favor in his eyes (Dt. 24:1)”
(m.Gittin 9:10)

Akiva had profaned and scattered the Torah by decreeing that a man could divorce his wife simply because he found a prettier girl.

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Restoring an Ancient Nazarene Commentary on Isaiah Part 1

Shalom Chaverim,

As many of you may know, there are five fragments of an ancient Nazarene commentary which survive only in Latin as quoted by the fourth Century Latin “Church Father” Jerome, in his own Commentary on Isaiah. Jerome was also famously the translator of the Latin Vulgate, the standardized Latin version of the Bible.

The commentary itself takes the form of a combination of a Targum and a Qumran-style Pesherim Commentary.

The Targums were Aramaic paraphrases of the books of the Tanak, often so paraphrased as to contain interpretations that would rise to the level of commentary.

The Qumran style “Pesherim Commentaries“. There are well described in The Dead Sea Scrolls, a New Translation by Wise, Abegg and Cook:

Very characteristic of the Dead Sea sect was the view that the Bible was a puzzle to be solved or an enigma to be unraveled. Its characteristic word for the activity of interpretation was pesher, which as a rule refers to the interpretation of dreams. The biblical Daniel serves as the ideal interpreter of this type: he interprets dreams (Dan. 2,4) and visions (the “handwriting on the wall,” Dan. 5) not through native ability, but because God has revealed the secrets to him. The Qumran scribes understood their task in the same way: to penetrate the secrets of Scripture not through reflection on the textitself, but through openness to the revelation of God.
(The Dead Sea Scrolls; A New Translation; Wise, Abegg and Cook, First Edition, 1996, p. 114)

Since the Isaiah Commentary only exists as excerpts quoted in Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah, it is impossible to know whether its original form was a flowing text parallel to that of Isaiah (like the format of a Targum), or like that of the “Continuous Pesherim“, in which a book of Scripture is interrupted at intervals with a phrase like “The Pesher (interpretation) is:”

The Messianic Karaites will certainly find opportunity to misunderstand and misapply the Nazarene Commentary on Isaiah. However there was no such thing as Karaite Judaism in the first century, nor at the time the commentary was written. The Nazarene Commentary taken as a whole, and in context of Second Temple Era Judaism, reveals not that the Nazarenes rejected tradition of the concept of Halacha. Instead, the Commentary reveals that the Nazarenes, like the Essenes as Qumran, rejected Rabbinic traditions and halacha, in favor of their own traditions and halacha.

English versions of the fragments of the Nazarene Commentary on Isaiah have circulated for years, even decades. However these translations are fraught with error an inaccuracies. The modern restoration of Nazarene Judaism requires a restoration of this ancient Nazarene Commentary, into its original Hebrew or Aramaic. Hebrew was more likely if it was a Pesher Commentary and Aramaic was the likely language of it was a Targum. All things being considered, I believe the Commentary is best preserved as a Continuous Pesher Commentary in Hebrew with an English translation. However restoring the original Hebrew cannot adequately be done from an English translation of a Jerome’s Latin translation of whatever source Jerome had. Fortunately I have obtained Jerome’s Latin for each of these five fragments, and am now restoring the original Hebrew behind the Latin. There are several surprises that this process has uncovered, and I will be revealing these in this series. Suffice it to say, that the English translations of the Latin we have been using, are woefully inadequate.

Not only do I feel this reconstruction is a necessarily part of the restoration of Nazarene Judaism, but I also wanted to have this restored material available for use in my own online commentary on Isaiah that I will be filling in here a little and there a little in my own online commentary on the Scriptures.

I will be sharing the restored text of The Naazarene Isaiah Persher to Isaiah 8:14 soon, with the other four fragments following that. These are the days of restoration!

These are the days of Elijah
Declaring the word of the Lord:
And these are the days of Your servant Moses
Righteousness being restored.
And though these are days of great trial
Of famine and darkness and sword
Still, we are the voice in the desert crying
‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord!’

Behold He comes riding on the clouds
Shining like the sun at the trumpet call
Lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee
And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes.

These are the days of Ezekiel
The dry bones becoming as flesh
And these are the days of Your servant David
Rebuilding a temple of praise.
These are the days of the harvest
The fields are as white in Your world
And we are the labourers in Your vineyard
Declaring the word of the Lord!

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My Online Scripture Commentaries

You will notice on the home page for my Nazarene Space Blog there is a new link titled “Online Scripture Commentaries”

This new link leads to a menu (which will grow over the years) of books of Scripture. Each active book link will lead to a menu of chapter links, for example the page for Bereshit (Genesis)

I have so far written commentary to Bereshit (Genesis) Chapter 1 verse 1.

I started with Bershit Chapter 1, but will be moving around and populating the commentary over time, not secondarily in chronological order.

I expect I will be concentrating, starting out primarily, with the Torah, Isaiah, Daniel and books of the Ketuvim Netzarim.

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My Commentary on the Torah

I have begun to slowly write down and share my commentary on the Torah. I have begun by posting my comprehensive commentary on Genesis 1:1

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The Deity of Messiah in the Targums

The Deity of Messiah in the Targums
By
James Scott Trimm

The Targums were authoritative Aramaic paraphrases of the books of the Tanak which were read in the synagogues in ancient times, along with the Hebrew of the Torah and Haftorah readings. We read in the Targum to Isaiah:

1 Behold, my servant, the Messiah, whom I bring,
my chosen in whom one delights:
as for my Word [MEMRA], I will put my Holy Spirit upon Him;
He shall reveal my judgment unto the nations.
2 He shall not cry aloud, nor raise a clamor,
and He shall not lift up His voice in the street.
3 The meek who are like a bruised reed He shall not break,
and the poor who are as a glimmering wick with Him, He will not quench:
He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
4 He shall not faint nor be weary,
till He have established judgment in the earth;
and the isles shall wait for His Torah.
(Targum Jonathan to Isaiah 42:1-4)

Notice that were the Masoretic Text says:

Behold My servant, whom I uphold;
My chosen, in whom My soul delights;
I have put My spirit upon him,
he shall make the right to go forth to the nations.
(Is. 42:1)

The Targum reads:

It is clear in Isaiah 42:1 that the chosen one in whom YHWH has delight in this verse is the same as the one whom has YHWH’s Spirit upon Him. In the Targum it is the Messiah who is identified as this chosen one in whom YHWH delights, and it is the MEMRA (“Word”) who has YHWH’s Spirit upon Him. Therefore the Targum identifies the Messiah as one and the same with the MEMRA.

The eminent Kabbalah Scholar Gershom Scholem writes of the Memra:

…the memra– the paraphrase used in the Targumim, the Aramaic Bible translations, to refer to God’s word. The memra is not merely a linguistic device for overcoming the problem of biblical anthropomorphisms; it has theological significance in its own right. The memra… is… a world-permeating force, a reality in the world of matter or mind, the immanent aspect of Elohim, holding all things under its omnipresent sway.
(On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah, by Gershom Scholem pg 181-182)

Whenever the Targums come to passages where YHWH is anthropomorphisised or seen, or where two or more YHWHs are indicated by the text, the Targums will often substitute “The Word [Memra] of YHWH” for YHWH. For example in Gen. 19:4 the Tanak has:

And YHWH rained brimstone and fire
upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah,
from YHWH, from the heavens.

The Hebrew grammar here indicates that one YHWH rains fire from another YHWH) But Targum Jonathan substitutes “The Word of YHWH/the LORD” for the first of the two YHWHs as follows:

And the Word of the YHWH caused to descend
upon the peoples of Sodom and Gommorah,
brimstone and fire from the YHWH in heaven.

In another example the Torah has in Ex. 24:1a (YHWH is the speaker, see Ex. 20:1-2)

Now He [YHWH] said to Moses, “come up to YHWH…”

But Targum Jonathan paraphrases the speaker in Ex. 20:1 with the substitution “the Word [Memra] of YHWH” in place of “YHWH.”

And the Word of YHWH spoke all these glorious words…

So it would seem that one of these entities called “YHWH” in these Torah passages was actually understood by the Targumists as being the “Word of YHWH.” It was, according to Targum Onkelos, this Word of YHWH that Abraham trusted in:

And Abraham trusted in the Word [Memra] of YHWH,
and He counted it to him for righteousness.
(Targum Onkelos Gen. 15:6)

Moreover Abraham prayed in the name of the Word of YHWH:

And Abraham worshipped and prayed
in the name of the Word [Memra] of YHWH,
and said, “You are YHWH who does see, but You cannot be seen.”
(Jerusalem Targum Gen. 22:14)

Note that here Abraham prays “in the name of the Word of YHWH” to the YHWH who “cannot be seen.” Here two YHWHs are very apparent. Abraham is praying in the name of the Word of YHWH but is praying to the YHWH who cannot be seen. This idea is reinforced elsewhere as follows:

And Hagar praised and prayed

in the name of the Word [Memra] Of YHWH
who had revealed Himself to her…
(Jerusalem Targum Gen. 16:3)

It was this Word of YHWH that Jacob also trusted in:

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying,
“If the Word [Memra] of YHWH will be my support,
and will keep me in the way that I go,
and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
so that I come again to my father’s house in peace;
then shall the Word [Memra] of YHWH be my God.
(Targum Onkelos on Gen. 28:20-21)

King David also urged Israel to trust in the Word of Yah as the Targum of Psalm 62 reads:

Trust in the Word of Yah at all times,
O people of the house of Israel!
Pour out before Him the sighings of your heart;
Say, God is our trust forever.
(Targum on Psalm 62:9)

This “Word of YHWH” was, according to Targum Jonathan, the Creator:

And the Word [Memra] of YHWH
created man in his likeness,
in the likeness of YHWH, YHWH created,
male and female created He them.
(Targ. Jonathan Gen. 1:27)

This idea is also put forward in the Jerusalem Targum:

And the Word [Memra] of YHWH said to Moses:
“I am He who said unto the world ‘Be!’ and it was:
and who in the future shall say to it ‘Be!’ and it shall be.”
And He said: “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel:
‘I Am’ has sent me to you.”
(Jerusalem Targum Ex. 3:14)

The Fragmentary Targum of the Torah also expresses that the Word of YHWH was the Creator:

The first night, when the “Word of YHWH”
was revealed to the world in order to create it,
the world was desolate and void,
and darkness spread over the face of the abyss
and the “Word of the Lord” was bright and illuminating
and He called it the first night.
(Fragmentary Targum Ex. 12:42)

That the Word of YHWH was the Creator can also be seen in the Tanak itself:

By the Word of YHWH were the heavens made,
And all the hosts of them by the Spirit of His mouth.
(Ps. 33:6)

The Word was also the covenant maker. For example the Noachdic covenant was between the Word and all mankind:

And YHWH said to Noah,
“This is the token of the covenant
which I have established between My Word [Memra]
and between all flesh that is upon the earth.
(Targum Onkelos Gen. 9:17)

The Word also made the Abrahamic covenant as Targum Onkelos also paraphrases:

And I will establish my covenant
between My Word [Memra] and between you…
(Targum Onkelos Gen. 17:7)

The Word of YHWH was also the giver of the Mosaic Covenant and the Torah as the Jerusalem Targum (as quoted above) makes the Torah giver “the Word of YHWH” in Ex. 20:1. It was to th e Word that Jacob turned to for salvation:

Our father Jacob said: “My soul does not wait for salvation
such as that wrought by Gideon, the son of Joash,
for that was but temporal; neither for a salvation
like that of Samson, which was only transitory;
but for that salvation which You have promised to come,
through Your Word unto Your people, the children of Israel;
for your salvation my soul hopes.”
(Targum Jonathan Gen. 49:18)

That the Word of YHWH is the savior is expressed elsewhere:

But Israel shall be saved by the Word of YHWH
with an everlasting salvation…
By the Word of YHWH shall all the seed of Israel be justified…
(Targum Jonathan Is. 45:17, 25)

But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah,
and I will save them by the Word of YHWH, their God.
(Targum Jonathan Hosea 1:7)

There is no doubt that the Targums identify the MEMRA as a manifestation of YHWH Himself, often substituting the word MEMRA or the phrase “MEMRA of YHWH” for YHWH.

Since the Targums identify the Messiah as the MEMRA and the MEMRA as YHWH and as the Creator, it is very clear that the Targums teach the deity of Messiah!

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My wife in pre-op for her October 2020 surgery

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Thru the Book of Enoch Lesson 6

Enoch Lesson 6 Handouts

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Update on My Wife’s Kidney Problems

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The Heel of Esau and the Stone that the Builders Rejected

The Heel of Esau and the Stone that the Builders Rejected
By
James Scott Trimm

We read in Matthew:

38 Behold, your house is forsaken; to you desolate.
39 And I tell you, that you will not see Me here after,
until you say,
Blessed is He that comes in the Name of YHWH!
(Matt. 23:38-39)

Of course this is quoting Ps. 118:26:

“Blessed be he that comes in the Name of YHWH; we bless you out of the House of YHWH.” (Ps. 118:26).

Above this is the phrase “the stone the builders rejected is become the chief corner-stone” (Ps. 118:22)

Now we read in the Zohar concerning the stone that the builders rejected:

David, indeed, was king in this world and will be king in the time to come; hence “the stone the builders rejected is become the chief corner-stone”. For, when the sun turns away his face from the moon, and does not shine upon her, she has no light whatever and so does not shine, but is poverty-stricken and dark on all sides; but when the sun turns towards her and radiates his light upon her, then her face is illumined and she adorns herself for him as a woman for a man. She thus is then invested with the dominion of the world. So David adorned himself after this very manner. Now he would appear poor and dejected, but then again he would be revelling in riches. Hence David’s declaration, “I am small and despised, yet have I not forgotten thy precepts.” It behoves, indeed, every man to follow this example and to humble himself in every respect so as to become a vessel in which the Holy One, blessed be He, may find delight. This lesson has also been expounded in connection with the phrase, “with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit’ (Isa. LVII, 15).’
(Zohar 2:232b)

The Zohar says that when this stone is rejected “the sun turns away his face from the moon, and does not shine upon her.”

Earlier the Zohar says:

So it says: AND HIS HAND HAD HOLD ON ESAU’S HEEL , i.e he put his hand on Esau’s heel in order thereby to force him down. According to another explanation, the words “and his hand had hold” imply that he could not escape him entirely, but his hand was still clinging to his brother’s heel. Esoterically speaking, the moon was obscured through the heel of Esau; hence it was necessary to deal with him cunningly, so as to thrust him downwards and make him adhere to the region assigned to him.’
(Zohar 1:138a)

The moon is obscured “through the heel of Esau”, and therefore the stone is rejected “through the heel of Esau” because the sun “turns away his face”.

And to whom does the sun refer:

Moses asked: ‘ Shall they remain in pledge for ever?’ God replied: ‘No, only Until the sun appears’ that is, till the coming of the Messiah; for it says, But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings (Mal.3:20).
(Midrash Rabba Ex. 31:10)

So what does this mean?

It points us to Gen. 25:26 which reads:

And after that, came forth his brother. And his hand had hold on Esav’s heel, and his name was called Ya’akov. And Yitz’chak was threescore years old when she bore them.

ואחרי־כן יצא אחיו וידו אחזת בעקב עשו ויקרא שמו יעקב ויצחק בן־ששים שנה בלדת אתם

If we take the first letter of each word (a process called Notarikon) starting with the name Ya’akov (Jacob) and ending with Esav (Esau) going backwards we spell the name YESHUA (ישוע), and if we continue through the next two words we read “Yeshua comes.” (ישוע בא)

So the moon is obscured in shining the light of Messiah by the heal of Esau.

Now the last letter in YESHUA (ישוע) in the Hebrew is an AYIN (ע) and that is the initial letter of the name ESAU in “Esau’s heel”. So if the heal of “Esau” is taken from YESHUA we have “YESHU” (ישו).

“Yeshu” is a name used in Rabbinic Judaism which refers to the anathema Rabbinic Judaism associates with Yeshua.

For Rabbinic Jews is is a acronym for a curse on the name of Yeshua meaning “may the name be blotted out forever”.

But Yeshua said:

38 Behold, your house is forsaken; to you desolate.
39 And I tell you, that you will not see Me here after,
until you say,
Blessed is He that comes in the Name of YHWH!
(Matt. 23:38-39)

They will say “Blessed is He that comes in the Name of YHWH!” (Ps. 118:26) when they accept the “stone that the builder rejected” (Ps. 118:22). This happens when the AYIN is restored to the name YESHUA, the reversal of the anathema, thus the Messiah, the Sun of Righteousness, will shine his light on the moon, which was obscured by the “heel of Esau”. And when the “heel of Esau” no longer obscures the “Sun of Righteousness” and YESHU is restored to YESHUA, then we can clearly see that “Yeshua comes”!

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