Day of the Holy Name of Jesus 5772/5773 2011/2012

click on pictures to enlarge them in your browser




The three other climbers who summitted Mt. President 8/25/95
Paul from Maine, a friend, and his wife.

Blessings of this Holiday season:

Jewish and Christian Blessing
“May the eternal light and good energy in the Lord Bless you, protect you, and keep you,
May he lift up his face upon you while being gracious unto you,
May he uphold you and that which you value, and give you peace. ”


May the Light of God surround you.
May the Love of God enfold you.
May the knowledge of God grow inside of you this holiday season.
May the realization that God dwells in us help,strengthen and support you
May the Power of God protect you.
May the Presence of God overwatch you



1st day of Hannukah, think about Being Kind
2nd day Giving Joy
3rd day about Being good
4th day Giving Love
5th day about Living long
6th day about Loving Life
7th day about Being True
8th day about Prospering

Another wondelful meditation is to pray each day until a realization comes about how practicing one of Jesus’ beatitudes can bring you happiness in some part of your life.



Some thoughts on the fundamentals of Mystic Christianity:

What is the best way to be saved, redeemed, justified, sanctified?
What is the best way to have God's Presence dwell in us?

As for God's Presence:

In one sense it is better to be saved than to save, better to be redeemed, justified, sanctify than to redeem, justify, sanctify. This is the sense in which God's Son Jesus Christ went to the Cross in order to do this for us.
Hopefully this does not have to happen and happen again to us. Once is enough.
The Bible teaches this. But, also in another sense it does happen again. Today, Christ is born in us as an angel from Heaven to Earth. Tomorrow He will come again… as a human angel on Earth. But, not without human beings continuing to do their part.




4 views in 4 directions from the top of Mt. President
clockwise from the upper left:
1) East
2) North showing the mountain Diny was so inclined on that day to name as Gordon
3) West
4) South
"May he or she who places Peace in high places in us,
place Peace in you." Jewish Prayer/Blessing

"Under certain circumstances, truth can be considered as invariance under change of notation." teaching in philosophy and mathematical logic


As for God's Power:

Is it better to love than to be loved. This we know from St. Francis' wonderful prayer.
But, as for faith and hope: it is better to first have and hold hope and faith in ourselves if we are to share it and give it to others. To be faith and hope you have to be able to give faith and hope. But, first to be it you must have it already. The Good News is that we all have faith and hope already inside of us. For, God has put it there through His own life that He lived already here on earth for us.

Again, we thank God for a good prayer year that we have
experienced in Christ.
And, we pray that the day may soon come
that we all may be One in God's name. We pray that
this year the Christ Jesus we experience during
the Christmas season will find a permanent home
in all our hearts during the whole year ahead.
Partners in God, partners in Christ, we are one family.
John 17:21



Vista up the river valley from top of canyon rim overlooking Mt. Zion National Park, Western US
Yearly Prayer Calendar:


View from above of part of the Angel’s Landing rock formation from lunch stop at the top of the eastern canyon rim. Christmas vacation hiking trip to Zion National Park 2005




Water Flowing down the rocks into Petroglyph Canyon Mt. Zion National Park, US

Holy Days 5772-5773/2012

Confession of St. Peter (January 18) Psalm 23, Conversion day of St. Paul (January 25) Psalm 67, International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Tu B’Shvat Festival of the Trees (February 8),
Ash Wednesday (February 22), Saint Benedict’s day (March 2), Purim (March 8), Ash Wednesday (March 9), Saint Gregory’s day (March 12), Saint Patrick’s day (March 17), Saint George’s day (March 23),

Holocaust Remembrance Day, [inside of Israel April 31, outside May 2], Passover (April 7), Easter (April 8), St. Mark (April 25) Psalm 2, Lag B’Omer (May 10), Shavuot (May 27), Pentecost (May 27),
St. Peter and St. Paul’s day (June 29) Psalms 66, 87,97,138,

(July 4) Independence Day U.S.A., St. Mary Magalene (July 21) Psalms 30,42,116,149, St. James day (July 25) Psalms 7, 33,34,Tisha B'Av (9th of Av, July 29),Tu B'Av (August 3), St. Ignatius Loyola Saint Bernard’s day (August 20), Saint Barthomew’s /Nathaniel’s day (August 24) Psalms 15,67,86, 91, World Peace Day (September 21), Rosh Hashanah (September 17), Yom Kippur (September 26), Gabriel, Michael, Ariel, Raphael and All Angels day (Sept. 29),

Sukkoth (October 1) Saint Francis of Assisi’s day (October 4), St. Luke (October 18) Psalm 103, Shemini Atzeret October 20, Saint James of Jerusalem day (October 23) Psalm 1, All Souls/All Saints Day (Psalms 111,112,148,149,150), Veteran’s Day (November 11) St. Martin's day, Saint Margaret’s day (November 16), Thanksgiving day (November 22), Saint Andrew’s day (Psalms 19,24,96,100), Hanukah (December 9), St. Thomas’s day (Dec. 21) Psalms 23,27,121,126, Christmas, St. John’s day (Dec. 27) Psalm 92,97,98,145, Holy Innocent’s day (Dec. 28) Psalms 2,26,19,126, Day of the Holy Name of Jesus (Dec. 31) Psalm 8.



[For Bible readings and Psalms that go with these Holy Days see the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (both the two year daily office
and the two year lectionary readings) or the three year revised common lectionary at http:\\divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary . (S
The revised common lectionary was created for the occasions of common prayer and worship services among Protestants, Catholics and Jews.
It has more readings from the Old Testament than the ordinary episcopal or catholic lectionary.
Using these two or three year daily offices is an excellent way to keep track of an intention for reading most of the Bible in two years.
The best translation of the Bible I have found is “The Amplified Bible” published by Zondervan.
It has cross-references in the text to related passages and prophecies which make this translation even more of a “Tree of Life” than others.]



New Moons of Shevet (January 25), Adar (February 24) , Nissan (March 24), Iyar (April 28) Sivan (May 22 ) , Tammuz (June 21), Av (July 20), Elul (August 19), Tishrei / Rosh Hashanah (September 17),Yom Kippur (September 26), Succot (October 1), Hoshana Rabba (October 7),. Shimini Atzeres (October 8), Simchas Torah (October 9),Chesvan (October 17), Kislev (November 15),Tevet (December 14) (months of correct eating, laughter, speaking, thought, movement, seeing, hearing, action, feeling, smell, relaxation, judgement) tribes of Asher (Psalm 100 ), Naphtali (Psalm 98) Judah (Psalm 92),Issachar (Psalm 95), Zebulun (Psalm 96), Reuben (Psalm 90), Simeon, Gad (Psalm 94), Ephraim (Psalm 97), Menashah (Psalm 97) , Benjamin (Psalm 93), Dan (Psalm 99))


Vista overlook, Zion Canyon Christmas vacation 2005


[According to Jewish tradition, Moses gave the eleven psalms 90-100 to eleven of the tribes of Israel., the tribe of Simeon was excluded because of the events in Numbers 25-1:15. Psalm 91 was given to the tribe of Levi. Psalms 95 to 99 have been called the “Coronation Psalms” and are used in the Jewish Saturday Morning Kabbala Shabbat service. For some Baptist Christian Hymns related to the Messianic age see “The Coronation Hymnal”, by A.J. Gordon and A.T. Pierson, Revell and Co., N.Y., Boston, Chicago.( which is now out of print, but copies are available in several University
libraries). Also, the complete series of Watchword Articles from the 1880s and 1980s, along with its wondelful teachings on Christian prophecy and Christian Jewish prophecy by A.J. Gordon. There are also some very good Baptist Sunday School lessons and teachings from other contributers. Just google: Watchword A.J. Gordon.





Area north of the Angel’s Landing rock formation.

Please pray with us assisted and helped by the prayers at
http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/prayers
(you may register there and post your own prayers if this is helpful to you)

Irish Prayer and Blessing
“May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind be always at your back.
May the Sun(Son) shine warm on your face, And the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And May God hold you in palm of his hands.”
(Until we talk and pray together again and he blesses you again through us

6/6/2011
Contemplations, Images, and Prayers Teachings
of the 2011 Pentecost/Shavuous season.
Take Us to the River....

Pictures from the great flood at Vicksburg, MS 2011
(The areas of Warren, Issaquena,Yazoo, Sharkey counties
got baptized by “old man river” during Pentecost 2011)

Our prayers are with the flood victims and also
The tornado victims and the more serious disasters in Tuscaloosa,AL
And Joplin, MO.



Figure 1 Yazoo river backwater flooded areas north of Redwood, MS 4/1/2011



Figure 4 Flooded areas north of Vicksburg around the HWY 61/HWY3 interesection and the redwood Elementary school. May 14,2011






Figure 13 Yazoo river flooded areas around Sartaria, MS. For some other pictures backwater floods in this area see the blog posting from two years ago.



Figure 14 More backwater flooded farm fields north of Redwood, MS.


Figure 15 Flooded areas around Sartaria.

Figure 18 Flooded areas of Delta National Forest northwest of Redwood, 4/1/2011.




Figure 24 Steele Bayou, Yazoo river control structure which is located just east of Eagle Lake MS, north of Vicksburg.


Figure 25 May 14 photo of Steele Bayou control structure


Figure 26 May 14 photos of backwater levees south of the Steele Bayou structure which protect the area going toward Rolling Fork. The north side of the levees have been reinforced with vinyl covers (looked like for about 1 mile).
Figure 27 Backwater area of the Yazoo between Redwood and Yazoo city west of state HWY 3 4/1/2011
Figure 36 On the west side of the Ms river from Vicksburg at Delta La is where a large number of concrete mats used to stabilized the Ms river banks are stored.



Figure 37 Flooded areas around Letourneau, MS May 14,2011.



Figure 38 Another photo of the same area


Figure 39 Ms river banks on its east side just north of where the Yazoo river diversion canal enters the river south of the city of Vicksburg.



Figure 40 Vicksburg waterfront from 2000’ May 14 without telephoto lens, another photo of this area before the floods and some photos of the Vicksburg area with the telephoto lens see the web site:
http;www.ourprayergroupnews.blogspot.com





Figure 41 East side of MS river looking south from the downtown area toward the Interstate bridge and the railroad bridge.4/1/2011



Figure 42 May 14 photo of same area
Along with some
Kabbalah teachings related to the Torah reading for the week after Shavuous 2011
And resurrection of some books by my great-grandfather Adoniram Gordon,
Son of John Calvin Gordon


The floods caused the Yazoo river backwater areas north of town to flood.
This farmland grows mainly cotton,soybeans,corn,
Farmers who did not have crop insurance lost large amounts of money.

Booklist of some of the titles authored by A.J.Gordon

Congregation Worship, Boston 1874
Ecce Venit, New Yor, Revell, 1889
Elements of Christian Character, Am. Baptist Pub. Soc, (ABPS) 1895
The Holy Spirit in Missions, Revell 1893
How Christ Came to the Church, (ABPS), 1895
In Christ, or the Believer’s Union with His Lord. Boston 1872
The Ministry of Healing, Revell 1883
The Ministry of the Spirit (ABPS) 1894
Reasons of Total Abstinence. New York, National Temperance Society and Pub. House n.d
Rest in Christ London 1902
The Ship Jesus AB Missionary Union, n.d.
Twofold Life, Boston 1882
Who Shall Come After the King? ABPS, n.d.
Coronation Hymnal, ABPS 1894

Biographies
A.J. Gordon, A Biography by his son Ernest B. Gordon, Revell 1896
A.J. Gordon, American Premillennialist by Scott Gibson

Sermons
The Book A.J. Gordon with an introduction by Nathan Wood was republished
by Baker Book House, Grand Rapids Michigan in 1951 from an earlier edition Fleming Revell in the Great Pulpit Masters Series.

I agree with most of the theology in these sermons except the position stated
in sermon #15, "The Ordinance of Silence" that the Jewish Sabbath is "outdated".
Obviously, it is not "outdated" for the millions of Jews still practicing it
today. It seems rather egoistical to me for someone to state that the Christian way
of worshiping God is the "only way" that is pleasing to God.


Related work by a friend
The City Without a Church by Henry Drummond
(see other earlier postings on this blog for a discussion of some
Parts of this book).

35th day of the Omer count
(Chol Hamoad)

Malkuth of Hod (Kingship of obedience)

Song and praise

Bible verses corresponding to the Holy Spirit’s 13 corrections to the 13
attributes of the long face of the name of God (the Father) Micah 7:18-20 and
Exodus 34:6-7
Note: these corrections (tikkuns) have to do with our human faith and hope in
God (as exemplified in Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, the Messiah Ben
Joseph) as opposed to our human love of God as exemplified in King David and
his Son the Messiah Ben David the short face of the name of God (Zeir Anpin)
Corrective verse || original verse || Hebrew

1) “Who, is a God(El) who is like unto You ?|| “YHWH, YHWH, El”|| YHWH,YHWH,El
2)”Who pardons iniquity” || “Merciful” || Rachom
3)”and overlooks transgressions”|| “and Compassionate”|| v’chanon
4)”for the remnant of his heritage?” ||“slow” || erech
5)”who has not retained his wrath eternally”|| “to anger” || apaym
6)”for He desires kindness*!”|| “and abundant in kindness” ||v’ rav chesed
7)”He will again be merciful** to us;”|| “and Truth” ||v’emet
8)”He will suppress our iniquities***”|| “preserve of kindness”|| notzer chesed
9)”and cast into the depths of the sea all their sins****.”|| “for thousands ofgenerations”|| l’elpaym
10)”Grant Truth to Jacob”|| “forgiver of iniquity”|| naso aon
11)”kindness to Abraham*****”|| “transgression” || v’pasha
12)”As you swore to our father******” ||“and sin” ||v’chatah
13)”from ancient times*******”|| “but not all”|| v’naqah

(erasing them with oneness)
*and delights in mercy
**compassionate, for he is like the apple tree among the trees of the wood R.
Shimon Zohar
***cancel the judgements of fate,karma,bad luck against us. R.
Elazer Zohar
****where only the sea turtle (turtledove) and the trident of Neptune can
retrieve them R. Aba Zohar
***** and to all those who love the Messiah and fear the Lord God there is no
love longer than its neighbor R. Jehuda Zohar
****** for we all live in the same world and share the same air and have
equal right and ability to breath it R. Shimon Zohar
******* “Be ye perfect, even as our Father in Heaven is perfect” Jesus
Christ





Figure 6 First of a series of backwater flooding areas west of HWY 3 south of the Hearn farm and north of the Simrall’s planation. 5/20/2011




Figure 7 Second photo in the series flying west of HWY 3 and south toward Redwood, MS 5/20/2011


Figure 10 Fifth in the series showing the Steele Bayou flood control structures. As of the date of this photo 5/20/2011 they had not overtopped as predicted by the Corps a week earlier. Definitely good news for the people farming from here up toward Rolling Fork, MS .

What does it mean to be a "real Jew"? According to many Jews it means to
have a Jewish mother and to meditate on the Hebrew Letters in the Torah,
by use of whichGod created the Universe.

According to Saint Paul, Romans 2:28-29 "For the real Jew is not
the person who is one outwardly, nor is circumision that
which outwardly evident in the flesh. But, the real Jew is one who is
so in secret,and real circumcision is one which is of the heart, wrougth
by the Spirit, and not the letter, and the communications
such a person receives comes not from human beings, but from God."

Thus, in this famous passage St. Paul has redefined what it means to
meditate on God inwardly (ie, one doesn't receive the revelation from
the Torah by mediating on the Hebrew letters of the Kabbalah, but from
meditating on love and truth within the human heart.

I believe God supports St. Paul's definition of what a Jew is as truthful. But I also believe that there is not just one definition of what a Jew is (just like there
is not just one definition of what a Chrsitian is). Therefore, I do not consider
the Jewish Sabbath to be "outdated" as most Christians do. But, I have received
much benefit from practicing the Jewish Law as a Christian and I think many
other Christians can also receive these benefits.

So, below the Biblical teachings refer to the original Hebrew letters,assuming
this will provide us with wisdom, undrstanding,blessing just as the later
Christian/Greek translation can.


Bible verses corresponding to the Holy Spirit’s 9 corrections to the 9
attributes of the short face of the name of God (the Father) Psalms 118:5-9
and Numbers 14:18
Note: these corrections (tikkuns) have to do with our human faith and hope in
God (as exemplified in Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, the Messiah Ben
Joseph) as opposed to our human love of God as exemplified in King David and
his Son the Messiah Ben David the short face of the name of God (Zeir Anpin)

Corrective verse ||original verse || Hebrew

1) “In distress, I called upon YAH?”|| YHWH,slow || YHWH Erech
2)”With abounding relief YAH answered me"|| “to anger” || Apaym
3)”YHWH is with me” || “abundant in kindness” || v’rav chesed
4)”I do not fear.” || “bearer of iniquity” || notzer avn
5)”What can man do to me” || “and transgression” || v’pasha
6)”YHWH is for me through my helpers” || “he erases” || v’ nkach
7)”So I shall see the downfall of my enemies.” ||“and he does not erase” ||lo ynkach
8)”It is better to take refuge in YHWH” || “he accounts the iniquity of the fathers” || poker aonabot al’bnaym
Than to rely on man
9”It is better to take refuge in YHWH.”|| “to the third generation and fourth generations” || al shaloshaym than to rely on nobles || v’al rbaym

According to the Kabbalah (Zohar) taking both of these blessings/corrections
together we have the mysterious 22 letter form of the name of God.
The order of the meditations and comtemplations contained in this name comes
from the Aaronic Priestly benediction given in the book of numbers as
explained (only partially) in the Zohar passage corresponding to the Torah
reading of Naso. It is a threefold-contemplation of the passage of God’s
grace three times from the heavens downward to earth. Each passage
corresponding to one of the three sections in the blessing as the name of God
YHWH is written and directed through 22 letters (the mystery is what are
these 22 letters?) that are referred to in the Torah passage. The
word “letters” when it is mentioned in Jewish writings usually refers to the
22 consonants, not the vowels, in the Hebrew language. So, I assume what we
are to think about as placed inside our fingers are 22 consonants that are
contained in this passage. There are twelve consonants corresponding to the 3
times the name of God YHWH occurs in the passage so that , just as we have
ten fingers on our two hands, the passage means that we being men of God are
to look for ten other consonants that these twelve consonants which refer to
God, refer to in the passage. We see that the occurances of the consonants
aleph, vav and yod (which are important in Old Testament Kabbalistic
interpretation… the aleph being important as representing a beginning in an
end…a letter which contains the vav and yod inside of inside and generates
recursively a tree of meaning. yod being important as representing the ten-
fold subjective heavenly form of biblical realization of truth or reality in
the objective world we live in, and the vav being important as representing
the six-fold throne or Son of God inside of the lower earthly realms and also
being capable of recursively and mathematically generating itself fruitfully
as a metaphysical comptemplation of itself*) count up to ten (three in the
first verse, four in the second, and three in the third verse). So, for
myself this is how I interpret these teachings.





Figure 8 Third in the series taken from 2000’ flying south toward Vicksburg while still north of Redwood.




Figure 9 Backwater levees south of Redwood, north of Vicksburg east of Eagle Lake


Another possible approach to understanding what the mysterious 22-letter name
of God inside of the priestly blessing means which also follow the above
interpretation about the point of the 12 consonants of YHWH is to take these
twelve consonants in the three verses as the root letters of the blessing and
then pair them up which each of the remaining consonants of the Hebrew
alphabet as they occur multiplying in the three verses.
see the Jewish Christian prayer posting at:
http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/prayers/message.cgi?105
for more details on this.



Figure 11 Next in the series flying south toward Vicksburg and the Port of Vicksburg area. The west sides of these levees are covered/reinforced by rubber sheets (for about 5 miles according to the Corps press release).




Figure 12 Final photo in the series showing the Port of Vicksburg area in the upper right.


So, considering the 12 consonant letters of YHWH occurring in this blessing
and the 30 consonant letters which YHWH blesses we have a total of 42
blessing letters in the 42 letter blessing of the name of God in the Bible
verses above. Thus, combining these thoughts with those from the ana b’korach
prayer in this Shavuous omer count, this meditation is a new unification of
the 22 letter name of God with the 42 letter name of God. May it help both
Christians to understand Messianic Judaism and Messianic Jews to understand
Christianity.

In the Naso chapter of the Zohar which explains how the three-fold in three-
fold Aaronic priestly benediction is to be meditated on using YHWH the four-
letter name of God there is also the explanation of how the name of God YHWH
with the vowels of a..o...ai (Adonai which is written as Yod Yod…reality
inside of reality in the Amidah prayerbooks is to be contemplated:

One considers the four-letter name of God YHWH with the vowels and consonants
Yud-Vav-Dalet, Hei-Yud, Vav-Aleph-Vav,Hei-Yud while saying and contemplating
the first verse (May YHWH bless you and keep you). The thought process here
is held in the spiritual body of the priest in the right shoulder region
(compassionate side of the mercy of God) aligned to the right of the third
Yogic throat chakra center. Then, contemplating the second verse (May YHWH
illuminate his countenance toward you and endow you with grace) one
contemplates the name of God YHWH as being Eheyeh, Eheyeh, Eheyeh (I AM who I
AM, I will be who I AM, I AM that I AM)…this the redemptive part of the
righteousness of God expressing itself as its Holy Spirit of Truth manifests
inside and around the spiritual body of the believer passing before us all as
a second redemptive time around the throne of God (the second coming of
Christ), Then, contemplating the third verse one gazes downward toward the
4th Yogic heart chakra (collective realm of God’s Truth inside the priest’s
spiritual body) and mentally pronounces and meditates on the name of God YHWH
with the vowels and consonants Yud-Vav-Dalet,Hei-Aleph,Vav-Aleph-Vav,Hei-
Aleph. The uniting of the name of God expressed in the first and third verse
(May YHWH lift His countenance to you and establish Peace inside of you)
through it being expressed inside of real person in the second verse is the
how the name of God Adonai participates in the blessing of Aaronic priestly
benediction.

In orthodox Judaism, these blessings also are given by the Aaronic priest
during the Tashlich service which occurs before Rosh Hashanah every year. At
this time of the year, as we stand near a body of water to say them, the
emphasis is more on correction through the casting away of our sins instead
of the creation occurring during the festival of the “end of the world”
(tantric olam) and the laying out of the boundaries of the new one. This
festival of “first fruits”of new creation in Christ is mentioned both in the
Old and New Testaments as an important one.

For all those Christians and Jews who have understood the highest and best
teachings referred to above about the Aaronic blessing

Be still and know that: “I AM He who is living, but was dead” Book of
Revelations

welcome to our world of a new creation which is:

the concept of a concept:

An end (or purpose) inside of a beginning,
A beginning (or meaing of a purpose) inside of an end (or purpose).

“An end of the eternity (of the necessity of our future hope),
Which occurs in us at the end of our own faithful thoughts from a world of
desire in our past.”

I AM He who is living, but was dead
* see elsewhere in the ourpraygroup.blogspot.com blog for a discussion about
some interpretations and thought relative to considering the forms of the
Hebrew consonants as ‘autiots” when they occur in the first chapter of
Genesis

Day of the Holy Name of Jesus 5771/5772 2010/2011

We thank God for a good prayer year that we have
experienced in Christ.
And, we pray that the day may soon come
that we all may be One in God's name. We pray that
this year the Christ Jesus we experience during
the Christmas season will find a permanent home
in all our hearts during the whole year ahead.
Partners in God, partners in Christ, we are one family.
John 17:21


Vista up the river valley from top of canyon rim overlooking Mt. Zion National Park, Western US
Yearly Prayer Calendar:


View from above of part of the Angel’s Landing rock formation from lunch stop at the top of the eastern canyon rim. Christmas vacation hiking trip to Zion National Park 2005




Water Flowing down the rocks into Petroglyph Canyon Mt. Zion National Park, US

Holy Days 5771-5772/2011 Confession of St. Peter (Jan 18 Psalm 23), Conversion day of St. Paul (Jan. 25 Psalm 67), ,Tu B’Shvat (Festival of the Trees January 20), International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27)
, Saint Benedict’s day (March 2), Ash Wednesday (March 9), Saint Gregory’s day (March 12), Saint Patrick’s day (March 17), Purim (March 20), Saint George’s day(March 23), Holoacaust Remembrance Day,(inside of Israel April 31) (outside May 2)
Passover (April 18), Easter (April 24), ,St. Mark (April 25 Psalm 2), Lag B’Omer (May 22), Shavuot (Jume 8), Pentecost (June 16),
St. Peter and St. Paul’s day (June 29 Psalms 66, 87,97,138), Independence Day U.S.A.,St. Mary Magalene (July 21 Psalms 30,42,116,149),
St. James day (July 25, Psalms 7, 33,34), St. Ignatius Loyola'Saint Bernard’s day (August 20), Saint Barthomew’s (Nathaniel’s ) day (August 24 Psalms 15,67,86, 91),
World Peace Day (September 21), Rosh Hashanah (September 28), Yom Kippur October 7,Sukkos October 13,Gabriel, Michael, Ariel, Raphael and All Angels day (Sept. 29), Saint Francis of Assisi’s day Oct. 4 , St. Luke (Oct 18 Psalm 103)
Shemini Atzeret October 20, Saint James of Jerusalem day (Oct 23 Psalm 1),
All Souls/All Saints Day (Psalms 111,112,148,149,150), Veteran’s Day(Nov. 11) St. Martin's day, Saint Margaret’s day (Nov. 16), Thanksgiving day November 24,
Saint Andrew’s day (Psalms 19,24,96,100), Channukah (December 20), St. Thomas’s day (Dec. 21 Psalms 23,27,121,126),
Christmas,St. John’s day (Dec. 27 Psalm 92,97,98,145), Holy Innocent’s day (Dec. 28, Psalms 2,26,19,126), Day of the Holy Name of Jesus (Dec. 31, Psalm 8).



[For Bible readings and Psalms that go with these Holy Days see the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (both the two year daily office
and the two year lectionary readings) or the three year revised common lectionary at http:\\divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary .
The revised common lectionary was created for the occasions of common prayer and worship services among Protestants, Catholics and Jews.
It has more readings from the Old Testament than the ordinary episcopal or catholic lectionary.
Using these two or three year daily offices is an excellent way to keep track of an intention for reading most of the Bible in two years.
The best translation of the Bible I have found is “The Amplified Bible” published by Zondervan.
It has cross-references in the text to related passages and prophecies which make this translation even more of a “Tree of Life” than others.]




New Moons of Shevet (January 6), Adar I (February 5) , Adar II (March 7)Nissan (April 5), Iyar (May 5) Sivan (June 3) , Tammuz (July 2), Av (August 1), Elul (August 31), Tishrei / Rosh Hashanah (September 28),Yom Kippur (October 7), Succot (October13), Hoshana Rabba October 19,. Shimini Atzeres October 20, Simchas Torah October 21,Chesvan (October 29), Kislev (November 27),Tevet (December 27) (months of correct eating, laughter, speaking, thought, movement, seeing, hearing, action, feeling, smell, relaxation, judgement) tribes of Asher (Psalm 100 ), Naphtali (Psalm 98) Judah (Psalm 92),Issachar (Psalm 95), Zebulun (Psalm 96), Reuben (Psalm 90), Simeon, Gad (Psalm 94), Ephraim (Psalm 97), Menashah (Psalm 97) , Benjamin (Psalm 93), Dan (Psalm 99))


Vista overlook, Zion Canyon Christmas vacation 2005


[According to Jewish tradition, Moses gave the eleven psalms 90-100 to eleven of the tribes of Israel., the tribe of Simeon was excluded because of the events in Numbers 25-1:15. Psalm 91 was given to the tribe of Levi. Psalms 95 to 99 have been called the “Coronation Psalms” and are used in the Jewish Saturday Morning Kabbala Shabbat service. For some Baptist Christian Hymns related to the Messianic age see “The Coronation Hymnal”, by A.J. Gordon and A.T. Pierson, Revell and Co., N.Y., Boston, Chicago.( which is now out of print, but copies are available in several University
libraries)



Jewish and Christian Blessing
“May the eternal light and good energy in the Lord Bless you, protect you, and keep you,
May he lift up his face upon you while being gracious unto you,
May he uphold you and that which you value, and give you peace. ”




Area north of the Angel’s Landing rock formation.

Please pray with us assisted and helped by the prayers at
http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/prayers
(you may register there and post your own prayers if this is helpful to you)

Irish Prayer and Blessing
“May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind be always at your back.
May the Sun(Son) shine warm on your face, And the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And May God hold you in palm of his hands.”
(Until we talk and pray together again and he blesses you again through us

2nd Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur/Succos 2010 Posting
(Our 2010 Christian/Jewish 9/11 thought for would be Quran burners is “Sometimes it is better to save lives than make a point.”)

Containing the specific correspondences of the Hebrew Genesis Code for the Christian/Jewish “seed syllables” referred to in earlier postings. Also included, some explanations and comments on “Hannah’s Song”, one of the traditional prophetic readings for this Holy day.



Table of Hebrew Alphabetic correspondences with numbers.

From the “Code of Genesis”, Chapter 3, by Carlo Suares:

“The first nine letters are the archetypes of numbers from 1 to 9.
Aleph, no. 1, is the unthinkable life-death, abstract principle of all that is and all that is not.
Bayt (or Vayt), no. 2, is the archetype of all “dwellings”, of all containers: the physical support without which nothing is.
Ghimel, no. 3, is the organic movement of every Bayt animated by Aleph.
Dallet, no. 4, is physical existence, as response to life, of that, in nature, is organically active with Ghimel. Where the structure is inorganic Callet is its own resistance to destruction.
Hay, no. 5, is the archetype of universal life. When it is conferred upon Dalle, it allows it to play the game of existence, in partnership with the intermittent life-death process.
Vav (or Waw), no. 6, expresses the fertilizing agent, that which impregnates. It is the direct result of Hay upon Dallet.
Zayn, no. 7, is the achievement of every vital impregnation: this number opens the field of every possible possibility.
Hhayt, no. 8 is the sphere of storae of all undifferentiated energy, or unstructured substance. It expresses the most unevolved state of energy, as opposed to its achieved freedom in Zayn.
Tayt, no. 9, as archetype of the primeval female energy, draws its life from Hhayt and builtds it gradually into structures.

The following nine letters, from Yod no.10, to Tsadde no. 90,
Yod, Kaf, Lammed, Mem,Noun,Sammekh,Ayn,Pay,Tsadde
Describe the process of the nine archetypes n their factual condtitioned existence:their projections in manifestation are always multiples of 10.


The nine multiples of 100:
Qof,Raysh,Seen or Sheen, Tav,final Khaf,final Mem,final Noun,final Phay,final Tsadde
express the exalted archetypes in their cosmic states.

Such is the fundamental equation set developed in Genesis.

“A sower went out to sow seed: and as he sowed, some fell along the travelled path and was trodden (


“He who goes forth bearing seed and weeping[at needing his precious supply of grain for sowing] shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him” Psalm 126

“For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.” Isaiah 55:10




Below are given some creative mediations on some of the seed syllables and phrases which appear in Genesis chapter 1.
All the material on suggested meditations for the autiot (thought expansion of the seed letters in the seed syllables) below the figures in quotes is from the “Code of Genesis”, Chapter 4-14 by Carlo Suares:
Comments below on the tetragrammaton and after the pictures on Hannah’s Song are my own. Also I have added my own meditation on the seed syllables “L’Shanah Tovah” and a few hopefully helpful thoughts on how Mr. Suares transliterations of the letters and vowels from Hebrew to English relate to the one I have use in previous prayer postings on this blog.
Metaphsical definitions, preceeded by their names in bold face, are from a February 2007 posting on this blog. Some of the parts of these definitions are taken from the book “Metaphysical Dictionary” by Charles Fillmore..


God the Father—A part of oneself and ourselves which is non-contingent and good. He created the Universe by himself, with his Son, and also with our help. He sustains and nourishes the creation of all things in the Universe.
God the Son--- A part of oneself and ourselves that reveals oneself and ourself to us. He is both contingent and non-contingent and he is himself good. He existed in the beginning with the Father and all things were created in him, with his help, and through him and God and us.
God the Holy Spirit---The Lord the giver of life. He (It) is a part of oneself and ourselves that is the expression of God the Father and God the Son in us. He enters the Spirits and Souls of those who call upon him.
God's Name--- That part of God's being which defines that which God is. It tells us that the three parts of the Trinity are co-existent but different and different but co-existent.


YHWH (Yod-Heh-Waw-Heh 10.5.6.5) The ineffable four-letter name of God which is the root syllable in our scheme of concepts of concepts. Ineffable means unpronounable, but not necessarily lacking in understanding or meaning. There is a prohibition against uttering this name, not because it hurts God for us to do this, or because we should worry that He will lose His Self-Generated, Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnipotence nature if we do. But it is because He doesn’t want us to unnecessarily miss the mark and misunderstand Him (or Her) the outcome of which can lead us to further and more serious problems. He (or She) is often very subtle and hard to understand, but not always. He (She) is Grace (primary Love which gives…both incarnated and without incarnation) as well as impersonal Divine Principle and Divine Law. In the scheme given above the translation of the letters becomes Existence-Life-Copulation-Life. This combination thought expresses in existence the two lives (that of the container or shell or physical support, and that of the contained or germ or inner life) that fertilize each other (as two birds in God’s tree of life, the human and divine parts of our soul help each other and supporting and dwelling in each other alternately as male and female**).. This double impregnation can only occur in Man and as long as it does not occur YHWH is immanent but unborn.
Those who have studied Mantra Yoga**** for a long time know that when the Word of God expresses itself in vowels and consonants through a human being the vowels represent the energy of movement and realization and the consonants the constrictions of the energy flowing through the thought being expressed my the means of the breath of God (or His Holy Spirit) in us.
The short and long vowels a and aa are expressed from the back of our throat, o and oo from the forward upper mouth and nasal areas, i and ii comes from the top of the palate. Then the vowel letters a and combine (or sandhi as we say in Sanskrit) to form a combination sound as e (which usually is thought of as proceeding inward downward in the human/divine spiritual body, especially when it is combined with the consonant h to form ‘eh’) and a and o combine to form u (which usually is thought of as proceeding outward and upward). The consonant h is the root consonant along with a expressing soundless energy in the center of our spine. The Hebrew letter Yod being both a vowel and a consonant thus has the unique ability to be at a mental balance coming down from the top of our brain inside of a prior mental realization of the Heh’s soundless h sound from the topmost 7th chakra (‘sahasara’) to 1st root chakra (‘muladhara’)***. It is no coincidence that the name of both the Father (YHWH) and His Son (Jesus) start with this letter.




** Mundaka Upanishad
*** In the preceeding thoughts I am speaking faithfully about my own Christian, Jewish, Hindu personal understandings and experiences. You may have an entirely different understanding or even several different ones as you progress toward enlightment inside of your own belief scheme..
*** See eg. Meditation and Mantra by myself Swami Vishnudevananda.




Figure 1
Pictures from an early morning flight Thursday 9/1/10 (7:45am to 8:15 am). Showing an ocean of morning ground fog. It usually burns off by 9am. The photos were taken from 9500’ along a line 40 to 50 nm from ;31 deg. 41 min. to 90 deg 15 min south to New Orleans Lakefront airport. Blue sky on top below dappled, rippled waves of wispy low altitude clouds (less than 1000’ high) On right of flight line are some larger puffy cumulus clouds. The flight takes about 1 hr and ½ Along the way we communicate with Memphis center 132.5 mhz, Houston center, 126.8 mhz. The aircraft flys about 125 knots for 133 nm. About the 5000’ above the lower layers, barely visible in the East a layer of light haze. Some of the lower altitude clouds are arrayed in cross-hatched patterns (due to different wind directions at different altitudes).

L’Shanah Tovah (Lammed-Sheen-Noun-Aleph ---Tav-Waw-Vayt:30:300:50 –9.6.2) The two three letter numbers and noun express a movement of progressive enlargement from the controlled connecting agent Lammed to the universal Sheen to life condensed in individual existences. Tov is the sempiternal (eternal and unchanging, everlasting, having beginning but no end*) function of nature indefinitely repeating its prototypes




Figure 2

..

“Bereshyt (Bayt-Raysh-Aleph-Sheen-Yod-Tav:2.200.1.300.10.40) says Bayt:”Everything that exists is the conditioning of life and the life of conditioning. Everything that is exists both internally and externally. Each germ of life has an envelope which derives its movement from the great cosmic force of interstellar space… Aleph “ creative immanence, spontaneous, always fresh and new…Sheen “Prodigious cosmic motion. Motion of everything that exists”…Yod “projection of Aleph confers reality upon all that tends to bury Aleph…the finite which
never rejoins the infinite.” Tav “Cosmic resistence to the life breath that animates it.””

Heaven---A primary realm of creation where God exists and lives.

“Shamaim (Sheen-Aleph-Mem-Yod-Mem: 300.1.40.10.40) Contains a Yod between two Mems. This sequence indicaes the cosmic movement of Sheen acting against mayim, the so-called waters: the two Mem (4) between which Yod is playing against its partner Aleph in the game of existence versus life.”

“Va-Yomer (Vav-Yod-Aleph-Mem Raysh: 6.10.1.40.200 appears elsewhere in Gen. Chapter One in verses 3,6,9,22,25,20,24,26,28,29), expresses an emanation (6) which projects Yod (10) and Aleph(1) in the basic attribute of matter, Mem(40) included in the universal container Raysh (
(200).”



Figure 3

“Yehy (Yod-Hay-Yod:10.5.10) can only be translated “existence-life-existence’. It expresses the coming into life (5) of a double existence (10 and 10) and thus describes the distinctive mark of organic life which is always a double process, inner and outer, of germ and shell or psyche and body.”

.




Figure 4
“Awr (Aleph-Waw-Raysh:1.6.200) expresses the copulation of Aleph and its physical support Raysh.”




Figure 5

“Veyarey (Vav-Yod-Raysh-Aleph : 6.10.200.1…can also be transliterated as v’yar’ah appears elsewhere in Gen. Chapter One in verses 4,10,12,18,21,25) says that the impregnation (6) of the existence (10) in the universe (200) allows Aleph(1) to s”pring forth. “

“Et(Aleh-Tav:1.400) equivalent to our expression “from A to Z””

Earth---A fundamental realm of the realization of creation where things are as they are in heaven.
God has hidden wisdom and spiritual understanding inside of his heavenly earth in us. Both the beginning and the end of it he has placed as a basis of his truth in us. He placed it as the certain circumstances of a precious cornerstone of truth inside of the way his eternal (the past and the future) present moment dwells in us.


“Eretz(Aleph-Raysh-Aleph-Tsadde:1.200.1.900) “This is earth, the third element created (after air and water).
Fire, Esh will appear much later in Gen. 2 when women Esha is formed.” Notice that God is ‘forming ‘*(his two-fold creation) these elements*.
“Explanation of how Eretz is formed (Genesis 1,9-10):
From the waters above, Shamaym: Maym (40.10.40), as explained above, is held between two biological resistances thrust into motion by Sheen(300) as expressed by the schema Shamaym. Those were the waters “above”,or the biosphere.
From the inorganic waters “below”. The Hebrew text says that they Iqaoo(Yod-Qof-Waw-Waw:10.100.6.6) El Maqom Ehhad. Iqaooo is the most rational and intelligent schema that can be constructed in the circumstance. Let us imagine symbolically the energy called Aleph falling into a Yod far below the organized life of the biosphere and yet proceeding along in a loop,upwards. The junctiln between Yod and Aleph is Qof, as already stated. Qof (100) is the most difficult symbol to understand. It includes Aleph exalted in its principle yet acting through its projection, against itself, and therby being cosmically deathless. It is best seen in Qaheen (Cain) that mythical destroyer of illusions. It appears in the one of the ten seed syllables given in the table or cipher of the numerial values of the consonants: Aleph-Yod-Qof (1.10.100). In this seed syllable Aleph (1) is the beat, or pulsation life-death-life –death. So Yod (in Hebrew:the hand), is the opposit4e of Aleph, its partner playing against it the game without which nothing would be. So Qof is called for, appears, and with it the double Waw which eventually will be double fruitful. The second schema El (Aleph-Lammed: 1.30) need hardly be explained: Aleph is born again here bearing its active qualiy, Lammed (30). With the next schema Maqom (Mem-Qof-Waw-Mem: 40.1000.6.40) we see Qof alive and fruitful taking the place of the dead Yod of Maym (100.6. in the place of 10).
The last schema “Ehhad= (Aleph-Hhayt-Dallet:1.8.4) means one. It is the name of no. 1 and it expresses in a stupendous way the metaphysical disappearance from our sight of Aleph, as it actually is projected into 8 and 4. “ Torah = a tree of tov raah (good and bad). Interested in Oneness? You might also want to read our discussion postings at http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/discussionboard Science and Philosophy of Religion forum on “How do you define the Number One.” And also the one about what the “Concept of a Concept” might be?



* see discussion in earlier posting about the four type of creation God using in the 1st chapter of Genesis




Figure 6
Goodness---What is desirable for its own sake. Love exists for another, but goodness exists because of itself. When goodness in us is guided by the Love in us, then divine order is established in us. Reality both exists for its own sake and also for other’s sake (for it is always an objective truth). Therefore reality is something more than just goodness…it is consciousness, love, good will, action, knowledge existing subjectively as well as objectively.



“Tov (Tayt-Waw-Vayt:9.6.2) describes the female character (9) of proliferation (6) of bodies or containers (2). Tov is the sempiternal* function of nature indefinitely repeating its prototypes.”

The light that is good (Tov) is different from the light that is life. The light that is life is God’s Son only Son Jesus Christ being the “Light of the World” inside of what the Yogi’s call the tantric chain of seed syllable sounds and the universal creation through vowel and consonant seed syllables or matrika. This is the light that Jesus Christ referred to in the 1st chapter of Gospel of John and later when he said “I AM the light of the World.” The light that is Tov is the light inside of light which is the light of God’s tantric Holy Spirit inside of his creation inside of our individual souls and spirits. First God decided for himself that this light was good inside of himself, then He decided that it was also good for us. For He has created the world out of nothing but ourselves out of something (Himself). See elsewhere in our discussion board postings at the website address below for more meditations and comments on the differences between these two lights.

“Yom-day (Yod-Waw-Mem) is a projection in existence (into a container of objects) of Awr (light)” “Likewise Hhoshekkh (the absence of light) becomes Layla-night (Lammed-Yod-Lammed-Hay:30:10:30.5) becomes a container of emptiness.” I think of the seed syllable Yom as respresenting something similar to what mathematicians call “the concept of a set of objects”. Mathematicians like Stephen Hawking (who has a recent book out reprinting some of the most important mathematical papers of the last several centuries using part of this phrase as its title) and I like to say the sentence due to Leopold Kronecker, “God created the integers and all else is the work of man.” . But how did God create the integers? First He created the concept of what a set or collection of objects are by a series of definitions and axioms. Then He created the idea of a “successor function” and the principle of induction. Then He starts the process off by defining the number or set of objects called zero (the empty set…or the collection of objects with no objects in it) and one. But, how did he define the number One? There were several different proposals among mathematical logicians for how to do this in the early part of the last century.
Goffried Frege had one way, John Von Neumann (who later became one of the main inventors of the modern day digital computer) another.

But, before Von Neumann or Frege the author of the book of Genesis, Chapter one already put forth a way in terms of definitions, rules of thought, and axioms to define the number One in terms of the meanings of the Hebrew seed letters used in the Hebrew word for One:
.
“Ehhad= (Aleph-Hhayt-Dallet:1.8.4) means one. It is the name of no. 1 and it expresses in a stupendous way the metaphysical disappearance from our sight of Aleph, as it actually is projected into 8 and 4. “ Torah = a tree of tov raah (good and bad). Interested in Oneness? You might also want to read our discussion posting at http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/discussionboard Science and Philosophy of Religion forum on “How do you define the Number One.”

* Word of the Day: In all the works on view, Mariani conjures a sempiternal realm that exists parallel to mundane reality and which is accessible through art, reverie and the imagination.
-- Gerard Mccarthy, "Carlo Maria Mariani at Hackett-Freedman", Art in America , September 1999



Figure 7


“Genesis 1,22 In this verse Elohim blesses the “great whales”, all the creatures that move in the waters and every “winged fowl”. The blessing is:

Yebarekh translated here as blessed (can also be translated as bought into awareness…appears elsewhere in Gen. Chapter One in verses 22,24) (Yod-Bayt-Raysh-Kaf:10.2.200.500)

The whales are Tanynym (Tav-Noun-Yod-Noun-Mem:400.50.10.50.40) and the winged birds are Oof-Kanaf (Ayn-Waw-Phay—Kaf-Noun-Phay: 70.6.800 -- 20.50.800).

That blessing is the bestowal of cosmic life (500) to all that lives in the waters. The particular spelling of the schema Tanynym expresses a double life (50 and 50) born out of the exaltation of the entire cosmic existence in its utmost capacity to resist to life-death (400) and Oof-Kanaf (literally the bird-wing) expresses a fleeting uncertainity born out of the primordial substance, the unfathomed reserve of undifferentiated, unstructured energy (800), and alive in (800).”






Figure 8



“Elohim (Aleph-Lammed-hay-yod-Mem:1.30.5.10.40) is the process through which Aleph(1) by initiating a physiological movement (30) in life (5) comes into existence (10) and acquires the appearance of an metamorphois (40) which offers resistence to life and therefore gives birth to living beings.”






Figure 9
“Yavdel (translated divided, can also be translated as distinguished and transliterated as v’yabh’day…appears elsewhere in Gen. Chapter One in verses 4,7,14) Yod-Vayt-Dallet-Lammed(10.2.4.30) introduces in the existence (10) of containers (2) the necessary resistance to life (4) which allows them to become organic (30). The schema Beyn or Veyn (2.10.700) does not mean “divide” in Hebrew, but “between” or rather “among”, and according to the code it has a far greater significance.”





Figure 10
As you look at the light patterns in the pictures you should notice a moving line of reflected sun light (it moves as the plane progresses forward and the angle of reflection of sun changes. If you study the three-diamond ocean wave/shore meditation in the previous blog posting you will see the focal points of "three-diamonds" of light have shifted here from the oceans to the earth.

In the 2nd Chapter of Genesis does the creation
(YHWH-Elohim:10.5.6.10-1:30.5.10.40 see discussion above of the individual words referred to here)

“Our human life is created by Him initiating a physiological movement (30) in life (5) comes into existence (10) and acquires the appearance of an metamorphois (40) which offers resistence to life and therefore gives birth to living beings.”

In a couple of other places in the Bible we find this divine name expanded further into one of the forms it appears as a part of the Lord God of Hosts (YHWH Saboath)

YHWH-Adonai-Elohim

Or YHWH-Elohim-Adonai.

In my opinion, the explanation of the differences of these two Biblical forms of God’s name has to do with our understanding of the right and left, forward and backward, up and down part of God’s Holy Spirit as it realizes itself in our own everyday world time and space. Because I believe in a five-dimensional metaphysical world of creation there are enough degrees of freedom room for this (that is for God to manifest Himself inside of us in this way) inside of our own spirits and souls.






Figure 11
Also, some pictures from the return flight from Lakefront Airport to Jackson Hawkins Field. This flight went up to 10,500’ in order to pass over some high stratus clouds over the area along the route from Mandeville to McComb. The firsts pictures show the reflected morning sunlight highlighting the wetlands on the North shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Also shown are pictures of the Pearl River from 10,500’, see an earlier blog from a picture of it from a lower altitude taken along the route during another flight. Five or six shots are from showing the angel mist like formations and blue sky over the top layer of the stratus clouds (they were only about 500’ in depth).




Figure 12 Shot of the Pearl River from 10,500’ flowing south into Lake Pontchartrain and the New Orleans area.

“Yom (Yod-Waw-Mem), When Aleph becomes Yod, Awr (Aleph, Waw,Raysh) Yom, day, becomes the projection of Awr (existence as light).”















Figure 13

This shot shows an interesting, unexpected and surprising (indeed it seemed almost miraculous) rainbow formation the pilot experienced that morning. It was formed of the shadow of the plane 8189G inside of a circular rainbow which was made up of light reflected through the mist of the clouds below as one looks in that particular angle with respect to the rays of the sun coming down from the mostly clear blue sky above.





Figure 14


This last photo show the destination of the return flight from Lakefront: Jacob’s Aviation at Hawkins field in Jackson, MS.


Haftarah (prophetic) teaching for 1st day of Rosh Hashanah
Hannah’s Song
1 Samuel 1:1-2:10

This portion from our Holy Scriptures (which starts the Old Testament story of the Kings of Israel) is set aside for the reading of the morning service of Rosh Hashanah. So, it must contain wondelful and important teachings. What are these teachings? Because the Torah portion for Rosh Hashanah speaks of how Abraham was required by God to offer up his son Isaac for possible sacrifice to God it is possible that these prophetic verses were provided to us to record how God can give help to those of us who have dedicated our lives to God and are faced with the situation that, our prayers for the salvation of our sons and daughters don’t seem to have been answered like Abraham’s were. The portion speaks about the experiences of God’s maid servant Hannah (somehow the name gets transferred to the term “hand servant” in the New Testament when Saint Mary’s story is told). Hannah’s name means the grace of God, the Love of God that gives. What are these experiences? Like Sarah who bore Abraham children when he was 100 years old, and Mary(the Mother of God) who bore God His Son Jesus, Hannah bore God inside of Elkanah Son of ELIHU. His wife Peninah gave him Chafni and Phineas as sons but Hannah gave her husband ten spiritual children(see * which correspond to the 10 uses of the divine name YHWH in these passages. The divine names of these children are contained in these verses as she calls upon the Lord of Hosts for help. Firstly, according to Jewish tradition in one significant verse Hannah was the first to call God the Lord of Hosts, “She made a vow and said, “ YHWH Saboath, if You take of the suffering of Your maidservant, and You remember and do not forget Your maidservant, and give Your maidservant a male offspring, then I shall give him to YHWH all the days of his life, and a razor will not come upon his head (she vowed that here Son would be a Nazarine the Old Testament judge Samson and like Jesus Christ God’s only Son).
Also in this portion Hannah calls upon God’s name in the ways.” What are the ways she prayed to fulfill this vow to God and the basis upon which she has a right to expect a reply or answer to her prayers?:
Since Mary and Joseph were practicing Jews it is possible that both of them had studied these prayers in this passage many times during New Year services in those days, at those times. Mary’s song in passages familiar to us from the Gospel of Luke contains similar expressions of petition and thankfulness to God for answering her prayer to be given a Son to be called (named) according to Isaiah’s prophecy Immanuel (Jesus Christ).





View from a Cessna 172 (5416E), climbing to 5500 ft.in the warm summer air, beginning a flight from San Antonio Texas to Waco to Dallas... The pilot followed a fast moving line of thunderstorms until he was forced to land at Rusten LA, then the next day the flight continued from Monroe LA back to Jackson, MS...picture taken August 1986




* as well as the five of her own human sons with him and the two of Peninah that survived 1Samuel 2:21

(1) confession of previous mistakes and prayer for unmerited help…I have poured out my soul before YHWH
( v’ ehsh’ph’ach et n’ph’shay l’ph’nay YHWH)
(2) prayer for overall awareness and individual in )becoming aware…YHWH remembered
(l’chay Shalom v’ELOHAY Israel y’tayn et shelteach or in English ELI answered ‘Go towards peace. The God of Israel will grant your request)…
V’yeezach’reeh YHWH)
(3) prayer for purposefulness…we shall appear before YHWH,
(l’ph’nayach YHWH) a
(4) prayer of petition…may YHWH fulfill His word
(af y’kam YHWH et dabaru or alternatively the phrase means---but, may YHWH fulfill his word)
Because I have asked Him of YHWH
(Me’YHWH sh’altayav .. the name Samuel comes from a shorten version of the Hebrew words Shaaol Me El.. requested of God)
(5) prayer for integrity in all her actions and henceforth God’s actions….she brought him to the house of YHWH (Beth YHWH)
YHWH is a God of knowledge (alternatively, of thoughts)
(v’lo neet’chanu ayleelot: kehshet geboraum chataym)
Deeds are counted by Him, the bow of the mighty is broken
(El Daat YHWH)
(Ayn Kadosh chay YHWH chay ayn bhayaayn bheel’tehach v’ayn tzor chay Elohaynu)
(For there is none as Holy as the LORD and none beside YOU, and there is no Rock life Our God)
(6) prayer for thankfulness….For this child did I pray; YHWH granted me my request that I asked of Him
( Khay l’YHWH m’tzaykay Eretz for the LORD YHWH’s are the pillars of the earth…refers to two columns of righteousness that the archangels Gabriel and Michael stand guard with flaming swords of Truth in front of the Northern and Southern entrance to the garden of Eden and also the Ark of the Covenant inside of the Holy temple in the Holy Land wherever God dwelss with us on earth)
(7) prayer of thankfulness… my pride was raised through YHWH and my mouth opened wide against my antagonists, for I rejoiced in Your salvation
(8) prayer for fulfillment of the prayer through understanding of the mind of Christ….YHWH is the God of thoughts (El Daat YHWH)
(9) prayer for expectation of an answer because God has a right to our universal submission to His will and hence we have a right to expect each other’s help in being His instruments of peace and fulfillment among us all …YHWH brings death and gives life, lowers to the pit and elevates. Impoverishes and makes rich, humbles and exalts, raise the needly from the dust)
He humbles and exalts.
(YHWH maymyt v’m’chyehh morayd Sh’aol vyayl: YHWH moraysh v’maashyr moshphyl af moroman: maykym maafar dal mayash’pot yrym ehbyot )
(10) prayer for final judgement and justice for us all and removal of obstacles and the neutralization and rendering ineffective of those who have continually hurt (in ways that seems to be illrecoverable) or are contining to hurt the fulfillment of our just aspirations in accord with God’s will….O YHWH, may those that contend with Him be shattered,…and may YHWH judge to the ends of the earth (y’din YHWH aph’may eretz
v’y’ten az l’malachu v’y’ram kdeem meshiach), may He give power to His king and raise the pride of His anointed