Batya's Space

 

  I have lived several lives and Ima (mother) of six souls,11 grandchildren,3  great-grands,and as I watch them struggle

 

   Up date:

Arriving on the 24th during the Passover,Days of Unleaven Bread,14 days on roof-top of Hostel in Jerusalem,then to my apt ,I am renting. Yes,yes the pathway is opened and I will be living in the land.really not hard to do when the doors are opened....

I plan to paint and eat of the land its spiritual food, and await Mashiach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What it is to be a Jew?
Current mood: grateful

What is a Jew? What makes anyone a Jew,and  how Torah calls you back! 

The word Jew (Yehudi in the Hebrew) is a derivative of the name Judah (Yehudah), Jacob's fourth son; hence calling someone by this name would seemingly imply that the person is a descendant of that particular tribe. However, as is well known, Jacob had twelve sons, progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, all of whom comprise our great nation. Why, then, is the entire Israelite nation known as "Jews"?

(The conventional answer to this question is that the majority of Jews today are descendant from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin-—the two tribes which comprised the "Kingdom of Judea." The other ten tribes, the members of the "Northern Kingdom," were exiled to unknown lands. There must, however, be a deeper reason for the fact that the Chosen Nation has been called by this name for close to 2500 years!)
 Perhaps this question can be cleared up by analyzing the very first individual to be dubbed "Jew." The first instance of this word appears in the biblical Book of Esther, which chronicles the story of Purim: "There was a Jewish man in Shushan the capital, whose name was Mordechai the son of Yair... a Benjaminite" (Esther 2:5).

That's right: the first "Jew" was actually from the tribe of Benjamin!
 
I have been question lately, if I were a real Jew, and what makes a person a covenant Jew? Is it one born into a nation? Well, I find that there are many who live with out the laws, they live as gentiles ,yet Jewish by blood. They have no religion ,no g-d, no idea who Elohim is.We all have to find out who we are in any religion, but what makes a real covenant Jew.

It is a question we must ask our selves, do we know the Might One of Creation?

Lately , I was told I wasn't Jewish by a Jew, seems he lives in Israel and born into his covenant, I found my way back not knowing ,yet I was found. No one in my family sought after this covenant, how and why I found my way back wasn't  up to me. I wasn't looking but I was called back into a covenant and after 33 years of keeping Torah living each day in service and in faith was my calling. Surely these years weren't a mistake, these years were my new birth and a new life. 

There is one G-d, one faith ,one covenant , and only Elohim YHVH ,calls. I heard that call 33 years ago; born again, which the scriptures only speak of(Jewish scriptures), yes, this is not a Christian teaching. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg says that when ones knows he is called they must convert change their names (take a Hebrew name) keep Torah and take hold of the covenant.I did these task without knowing his teachings ,taught by the most high Elohim YHVH , hearing his call, I answered. The Torah became my guide to Him from the light of scriptures...and I am still growing up unto YHVH 's image.

At anytime, anyone could take hold of this wonderful covenant, and when they did , they were as one born into the land. YHVH is calling back a people for his name sake, and these are Israelites ,a people that is separated from this world by His covenant of love, His Torah. If kept, it teaches about his love for his people(Israel) they are a peculiar people who keep the laws and with ahava (love). If we can't show the world love,what do we have, and if we think we are better than our brothers and sisters who are in darkness what love is there? There is darkness still with in and we are no better then they, we become blind and proud.

Love is mercy and is kind, full of peace ,gentle ,forgiving ,never boast, never accuses ,gives and gives until it hurts. The first commandment is to love YHVH with all your heart and soul and sums up to love your neighbor as your self. Can we do this in this world? Yes, it is possible but with much good works and forgiveness allows the light in.

The Light is with in all of us ,we have to bring out the sparks ,so that we reach a higher level of our spirits .

(quote from a rightious rebbe)

Kabbalah has much more to say about the Light and the Vessel, and kabbalists over the centuries have delved deeply into the permutations of this very elegant formulation. Today, few people who encounter this beautiful metaphor fail to be moved by it. The interesting thing is, however, that it's not just a metaphor. According to Kabbalah, the Light and the Vessel are the literal form and substance of the world we live in - and not just the world, but even the physical bodies in which our souls now reside. The primordial sequence - desire to receive for the self alone, followed by bread of shame and resistance, followed by shattering and reconstituting as desire to receive for the purpose of sharing -- is played out not only over the whole course of our lives, but in every action and every encounter. Once we understand this, we become aware that we are not distant from God in the sense that the Greeks were distant from Zeus(JESUS) and Athena in their palace on Mount Olympus. Instead, we are enacting what the Creator enacted. We are experiencing what the Creator experiences. We are our finite selves, and we are also the infinite Light of the Creator.

There is much to study and to learn and there are many rightous teachers( tzaddik rebbes) who understood the Holy Word, in what way we find our paths is up to us, and by searching out our salvations with fear and trembling we will find our way back home.

There is so much to being a called out one ,a true Jew knows who they are with no questions asked,we are mark,and in His hands, and brought back to Elohim through the light of Torah's and looking for Mashiach with-in...

I was again asked by Chabad Rabbi,if my Mother was Jewish, after I answered, "No",he just dropped me like a hot bun in hand? I wanted to tell him my long jounrey to the kingdom and how Torah has lead my way,but he never called me back?Yes, it seems if not mother,then why is in the lines of the tribes all men's names, not one woman? 

Pious Jews will never see the remant seed that YHVH is calling, nor  will they know who they are truly. By the Ru Ha Kodesh was I brought this long way into the truth and not by my will but by Abba's YHVH as 33 years living in Torah's Light has made me as one living in the land and I am .

My mother never knew who she was,why me,I do know ,but who called me was through teh light of Torah instructions and I found myself . Torah is what I  was  born for,and  a time of Mashiach's return!

I look back and see no one in my family hs taken hold of Torah,yet I live for more and more of it's wonderful ways into YHVH's kingdom...now may my daughters find out who they are and from whom they came through,IMA, mother of Avraham, they came from >>>ME>>their Jewish Mother,yes, they have a Jewish mother, yet need to find themselves and will .

Life is through this long journey,and in time as I found it sometimes takes time....as they were given the truths and the Torah was done before them as a wittness for Israel and may they find the road that leads to eternal life.

ahavah (love)

a woman of faith  

Batya