Happy are the Merciful

HAPPY ARE THE MERCIFUL
By
James Scott Trimm

Our Messiah Yeshua said:

Happy are the merciful,
for they will obtain mercy
(Matthew 5:7 HRV)

Yeshua refers here to the great "wheel" or "cycle" (Heb: GALAL) whereby we bless others and are ourselves blessed in return.

This saying of Yeshua points us to a teaching found in the Talmud concerning blessing the poor:

It was taught, R. Eleazar ha-Kappar said: Let one always pray to be spared this fate [poverty], for if he does not descend [to poverty] his son will, and if not his son, his grandson, for it is said, because that for [bi-gelal] this thing,
[etc.]. The School of R. Ishmael taught: It is a wheel [Hebrew: galal] that revolves in the world. R. Joseph said: We hold [as tradition] that a Rabbinical student will not suffer poverty. But we see that he does suffer poverty. Even if he
suffers poverty, he [nevertheless] does not engage in begging. R. Hiyya said to his wife: When a poor man comes, be quick to offer him bread, so that others may be quick to offer it to your children. You curse them! she exclaimed. A verse is written, he replied: ‘because that for [Hebrew bi-gelal] this thing’ (Deut. 15:10), whereon the School of R. Ishmael taught: It is a wheel that revolves in the world. It was taught R. Gamaliel Beribbi said: And he shall give thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee: he Who is merciful to others, mercy is shown to him by Heaven, while he who is not merciful to others, mercy is not shown to him by Heaven.
(b.Shabbat 151b)

The Talmud here is referring back to the Word of YHWH as found in His Torah:

7 If there be among you a needy man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in
your land, which YHWH your Elohim gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut
your hand from your needy brother.
8 But you shall surely open your hand unto him, and shall surely lend him, sufficient for
his need in that which he wants.
9 Beware that there be not a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the
year of release, is at hand, and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you give
him nought: and he cry unto YHWH against you, and it be sin in you.
10 You shall surely give him. And your heart shall not be grieved when you give unto
him, because that for this thing [Hebrew bi-gelal], YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your work, and
in all that you put your hand unto.
11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you, saying: You
shall surely open your hand unto your poor and needy brother, in your land.
(Deut. 15:7-11 HRV)

The Talmud is saying that the Hebrew term "bi-gelal" is used in Deut. 15:10 to teach us that there is a "wheel" or "cycle" (Hebrew: GALAL) that revloves in the world. as Rabbi Gamaliel Beribbi puts it:

And he shall give thee mercy,
and have compassion upon thee,
and multiply thee:
he Who is merciful to others,
mercy is shown to him by Heaven,
while he who is not merciful to others,
mercy is not shown to him by Heaven.
(b.Shabbat 151b)

Yeshua expresses this same tradition when he instructs us:

Happy are the merciful,
for they will obtain mercy
(Matthew 5:7 HRV)


Yeshua is also teaching us this same "wheel" or "cycle" taught in the Torah and Talmud by which "You shall surely open your hand unto your poor and needy brother" and conversely "YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your work." so that "he Who is merciful to others, mercy is shown to him by Heaven," and thus "Happy are the merciful, for they will obtain mercy".

When we bless others, we will be blessed by YHWH in return. This is the Message of Torah and Messiah and the tradition of our fathers.

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