Psalms 23 Verse 1 Miz-mor le David Yehovah ro-ee lo ech-sar A Psalms of David. Yehovah is my Shepherd, I shall not want. A Psalms of David. mem zayin mem yod resh food cut weapon first beginning top Chaos cut off from secures per lamed dalet vav dalet teach yoke toward bind movement hang enter add secure hook movement hang enter Control-Door-Secure-Door (pathway) Authority (control) of the door secures the pathway The Torah Life
The Lord YHVH yod hey vav hey look reveal breath sigh add secure hook look reveal breath sigh Work reveals secure reveals Know in My Deeds Promises and Does what He does I know what Yehovah did, so I know what He promises to do He will do Not an attribute of STATUS but Who He Is! Yehovah Shepherds (verb) Ro i My shepherd resh ayin yod first beginning top watch shade know Per sees s Shepherd sees who I am because He see s what I do
Lo ehsar Not shall I lack lamed aleph aleph chet samech resh teach yoke toward bind outside divide half grab hate protect first beginning top Strong Control- Strength-Separates-Support-Per I ll never be without the resources I need (support/need) Who He is (Shepherd) Who I am (sheep) He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. Verse 2 Binot de-she Yar-bitzeni al-mei menuhot yenahaleni
Binot in pastures nawah to keep at home bet nun aleph vav tav family house in Continue heir add secure hook mark sign signature House-Life-Strength-Secure-Covenant Where do we dwell in the house of His provisions Naweh pasture the place a flock is kept! De-she green dalet shin aleph movement hang enter sharp press eat two Door-Consume\Destroy (Produce) Strength The door that produces strength life giving Consume\Destroy Takes natural resource destroy and to make production No use to take sheep to a brown pasture needs to be Green (Strength) Life giving Covenant Relationship
Yar-bitzeni He makes me lie down yod resh aleph yod tsadik nun yod first beginning top wait chase snare hunt continue heir Work-Per-Strength-Work-Need-Life-Work Root: rabats place to lay down Repetition of interlaced with per, strength, need and life Where is the place of your rest? Sabbath Six days of 7 th day rest 7 th day seals approval for the previous 6 days of Rest after I see the provision of Yeshua Look up when finished meal and pray not for the meal but for the One Who Provides Al-mei beside waters ayin lamed mem yod watch shade know Teach yoke toward bind Experience (Know)-Control-Chaos-Work Chaos under control by Shepherd
Menuhot still waters mem nun chet vav tav continue heir outside divide half add secure hook mark sign signature Chaos-Life-Separate-Secure-Covenant Still waters without and life separated by a secure covenant are signs of overcoming Rest beside the waters that have been calmed Chaos removed from life secured by a covenant Yenahaleni to lead with care yod nun hey lamed nun yod continue heir look reveal breath sigh teach yoke toward bind continue heir Work-Life-Revealed-Control-Life-Work Nahal to lead with care Notice the verb is at the end what is most important? Chiasm in conants Behold! Control-framed by life as or deeds
Rhyming ideas NOT words Deed Life = Bring Life Life Deeds your deeds reflect mine Exodus 34:6-7 And Yehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Yehovah! Yehovah! a Elohim merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth, keeping mercy and lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but Who will by no means clear the guilty(of those who choose to disobey Yehovah), visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children s children, to the third and fourth generation. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name s sake. Verse 3 Nef shi ye sho vev yan chi ni vama tze-dek le-ma-an sh mo Nafshi He restores my soul nun pey shin yod Continue heir blow scatter edge sharp press eat two My Life Life-Word (speech) Consume/Destroy-Work What is your life? Is life found in your words? What makes you human? The speaking being. Nephesh-breath. But made mine by s/deeds What I do makes life mine. You are what you say spoken thoughts become reality Language submission, obedience,contentment Targum Oncolas And man became a speaking being
To be a soul - convert life s words into deeds Yeshovev Shuv to turn back, return Tesuvah yod shin vav bet bet sharp press eat two add secure hook family house in family house in Work-Two-Secure-House-House Return inside the envelope yod - bet, of the house What does it mean to restore turn back to? Production secures the house (family unit) To change the way I do things (and my household) return but back to eden How Important is the Meal in Covenant Remember Jailer Paul you and your household Get Lamb on 10 th day and get attached to innocent lamb then sacrifice so you feel the hurt Both you and the family Restore changes everything within me
Yanheni restores my soul yod nun chet nun yod Work continue heir outside divide half continue heir Work-Life-Separate-Life-Work Constant chiasm The theme repeated: verse 2 yanahaleni What s the difference? Same verbal root. How does Yehovah lead me? separating For life from life of Change view different set of deeds Returned to renewed condition within the envelope
Ve-ma aglei tzedek In the paths of righteousness aleph mem ayin gimel lamed yod watch shade know gather walk carry teach yoke toward bind Strength-Chaos-Experience-Lift Up-Control-Work In the paths path ( gl with silent ayin) experience lifting up control What are the paths? To experience lifting up control of over the of Of righteousness Tzadik (Paleo Hebrew Word) tsaddik dalet qoof wait chase snare hunt movement hang enter condense circle time Desire (Need)-Door-Behind What is righteousness? the door to desire (need) in the future. Righteous Door-Desire what behind you Enter in place of rest leads me where I m going Follow shepherd stay on path into future rest Yehovah maintains around us Will happen as long as I stay on path
Walk in path/footsteps of Yeshua Desire to be at rest. Le ma an in order that a response, to testify, to speak lamed mem ayin nun teach yoke toward bind watch shade know continue heir Control-Chaos-Experience-Life The repeated theme of control of The righteousness of rest not going to read if don t follow shephead Prespective About sheep who are obedient assuming all obedient Herd together and bump into each other Sh mo Name shin mem vav sharp press eat two add secure hook Consume/Destroy-Chaos-Secure How is secured, rendered impotent? The name naming in Hebrew order
Is Yehovah the greatest desire of your life not anything that He provides or gives but HIM!!! Anything else becomes Idolatry Any other desire Rest in the Name Essentially Who Yehovah Is! The risk Yehovah took is not to finish His (Us) we have a part of the end result have to listen to the whisper of the foreman on the construction site Verse 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Gamki-e-lech be-gei tzalmevet lo-eera-ra ra ki-ata ee-ma-di shiv-te-cha oo-mish-anteka hema yenahamooni Gam ki-elek Even though I walk gimel mem kaf yod aleph lamed kaf gather walk carry bend open allow tame teach yoke toward bind bend open allow tame Lift Up-Chaos-Open Hand/Allow-Work-Strength-Control-Allow (Open Hand) What is walking? What controlling strength allows Yetzer ha ra verses Yetzer ha tov Evil Inclination Good Inclination Bend Yetzer ha ra and use it to serve Yehovah and be subservient to the Yetzer ha tov Greek weakness in character/defect Greek What is beautiful is holy
Yehovah uses our defects and to Him what is Holy is beautiful Be-gei in valley bet gimel yod aleph family house in gather walk carry House-Lift Up (Pride)-Work-Strength What kind of valley? A dwelling place where pride is associated with the strength of Ego It s my need to be what I want to be Tzalmevet of the shadow of death tsadik lamed mem vav tav wait chase snare hunt teach yoke toward bind add secure hook mark sign signature Desire-Control-Chaos-Secure-Sign Deep darkness mine shaft emotional anguish est word for darkness in Hebrew Yeshua comments outer darkness A sign that desire for control is secure
Genesis 4:6-7 So the LORD said to Cain, Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it. Examples of thick darkness Life has no meaning the valley of ego ok, I m in charge Without the light death. World despises the light it wants to be hidden All around me is thick darkness The Beast is crouching at the door and wants to possess you You must master it!!! Cannot pray and remove it you must master it! No residue or nature of sin within us Living in your Zone book energy good objective wrong Lo eera ra not shall I fear aleph yod resh aleph first beginning top Strength-Work(Deed)-Per-Strength Lamed-Aleph Strong control What is fear? Strong or deed of the per Yeshua unless you bind the man I will take control of the of the man so that he no longer presents a threat to me Quick to move man over to faith What I m afraid of binds me have to put man under control Identify what you are afraid of and let Yehovah guide me away from shepherd
Like Peter walking on the water as long as focus on Yeshua he was fine Ra Evil resh first beginning top ayin watch shade know Peral-Experience Evil is a peral experience. This is yetzer ha ra, a per who is controlled by desire rather than the liberator Return to Genesis 3 what controls? What is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil about? The Hebrew thought, evil is not an abstract idea. It is a very peral experience of unrest, uncontrolled desire, rejection of the speaking of Yehovah. To know evil is to experience what it means to be out of control. I experience evil within me! Fig Leave Babylonian word for pride drive is not the problem, but the direction can be the problem
Ki-ata for you kaf yod aleph tav hey mark sign signature bend open allow tame look reveal breath sigh Open Hand of Work (Deed)-Strength-Seal-Reveal for indicates welcoming gesture seen in deed you demonstrate the revealing of a sign of strength. Eemadi with ayin mem dalet yod watch shade know movement hang enter Experience (Know)-Chaos-Door-Work (Deed) To be with is to share the experience of the door to deeds () over Can there be true community without common purpose? What is the purpose of Yehovah s community? Gives Hope together Abraham/Isaac/Jacob without community it becomes a wish and not hope Do not despise the chastisement of Yehovah
Shivtek your rod shin aleph tet kaf sharp press eat two surround contain mud bend open allow tame Consume/Destroy-Strength-Surround-Open Hand The strength of the open hand surrounds my production What is the purpose of disciple? Of protection? Keep us on the path Oomishanteka your staff vav mem shin ayin nun tav kaf watch continue mark shade heir sign know signature add secure hook sharp press eat two bend open allow tame Secure-Chaos-Production-Experience-Life-Sign-Open Hand (Allow) What is the purpose of the staff? Restrain (secure) in order that the experience of production demonstrates the sign of life with an open hand.
Hema They, also these who, etc hey mem hey look reveal breath sigh look reveal breath sigh Behold! Massive Behold! Yenahamooni Comfort Me yod nun chet mem nun yod continue outside continue heir divide heir half Work Work-Life-Separate-Chaos-Life-Work Comfort separation of the and deeds of life and deeds of I am emotionally, relationally, physically and spiritually conforted when I know that what I do separates me from the potential of Verse 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Ta-a-rock le-fa-nai school chan ne-ged tzore-rai si-shan-tu va-she-men ro-shi ko-si r va-ya
Ta arok you lay out, prepare, set out tav ayin resh kaf watch first shade beginning know top mark sign signature bend open allow tame Sign-Experience-Per-Open Hand Engineering life wisdom also prepares a table. Le-fanai Before me literally before my face lamed pey nun yod teach yoke toward bind blow scatter edge continue heir Control-Speak (Word)- Life Work Notice the association of speaking with life Face is understood in terms of life in spoken word Term saving face
Shoolhar a table shin lamed chet nun sharp press eat two teach yoke toward bind outside divide half continue heir Consume/Destroy-Control-Separate-Life What is a table? Do you see any indication of Kosher here? Neged to place nun gimel dalet gather walk carry continue heir movement hang enter To place a matter conspicuously, revealing in the presence of is not simply locations. This kosher table is a demonstration of what is set apart for life is conspicuously presented as a challenge a statement of confidence.
Tzore-rai my enemies tsadik resh resh yod wait chase snare hunt first beginning top first beginning top Desire (Need) Per-Per-Work Enemy Tzadik-Resh-Resh Who is enemy? Desire of the double per From the root verb tsarar to bind, be narrow, cause distress, anything that cause confinement or narrow way How does desire contribute to confinement? Why repeated Resh? Enemy someone who wants it my or their way therefore you are in my or their way
Dishanta you anoint dalet shin nun tav sharp continue press heir eat two movement hang enter mark sign signature Door-Consume/Destroy-Life-Sign You anoint notice the suffix you is a tav Dashen to become fat, prosperous connected to ashes of sacrificial animal A sign of the door to production for life Requires sacrifice Va-Shemen with oil bet shin mem nun sharp press eat two family house in continue heir House-Consume/Destroy-Chaos-Life What is the sign of oil Prosperity
Ro shi my head resh aleph shin yod first beginning top sharp press eat two Per-First-Consume\Destroy-Work My head roshin from rosh-head, top, summit, chief Per as the first consumer producer What makes the concept peral is what is my unique task in the world Ko si my cup kaf vav samech yod add grab secure hate hook protect bend open allow tame Open Hand-Secure-Support-Work What does the cup certify? Once again, notice the peralization.
R va ya Runs overflows resh vav yod hey add secure hook first beginning top look reveal breath sigh Per-Secure-Work-Reveal From verb rawa to be satisfied How do I know Yehovah s goodness falls on me? Are you sasiated? Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever and ever. Verse 6 Ach tov va chesed yir de fooni kol-ye-mei cha yay ve shavti be veit Adonia le o rech ya-mim
Ak tov Surely goodness aleph kaf tet vav aleph bend open allow tame surround contain mud add secure hook Strength-Open Hand-Surround-Secure-Strength The affirmative ak an expression of emphasis Tov (the vav acts as a vowel) What is good what surrounds secure strength Where does Yehovah draw the line? Vahesed and mercy vav chet samech dalet outside grab divide hate half protect add secure hook movement hang enter Secure-Separate-Surround-Door and mercy but we know this is not mercy dependence on the LXX translation eleos What is Hesed? A house separate from something Covenant Inclusive Door/Entry Separate Remove myself from Surrounds me
Influence in everything I do/community Not something of as one labors for wages. Ha yay of my life chet yod yod outside divide half Separate-Work-Work/Separate-Deeds-Deeds How is your life described? What does it look like? What summarizes your life? Ve shauti and I shall dwell vav shin bet tav yod sharp family mark press house sign eat in signature two add secure hook Secure-Consume/Destroy-House-Seal-Work Deeds (s) as a sign that the production of the house is secure.
Beveit YHVH in the house of YHVH bet bet yod tav yod hey vav hey family mark add house sign secure in signature hook family house in look reveal breath sigh look reveal breath sigh House-House-Work-Sign Work-Reveals-Secure-Reveals YHVH s house is the place where we see His deeds revealed But why double the bet? The covenant sign of Double Emphasis it is this place! Leorek Forever lamed aleph resh kaf teach yoke toward bind first beginning top bend open allow tame Control-Strength-Per-Open Hand Arak to be long Intended longevity Strong control of the per with an open hand What does it mean to live a long life? You keep what you give away
Yamin and ever yod mem yod mem Work-Chaos-Work-Chaos Days the continuing process The Hebrew view of eternal is tied to doing, not retiring