I am just a little afire about the whole culture and beliefs of Israel, their long history, the truths hidden in the Torah and the stories, that only the trees and stones could tell--long lost in the walls of the catacombs. I will never know or completely understand all I heard and saw while in Israel, but I want too. I try. In another sense, some things won't leave me. Like the ring of a tree, they are in me and have become a part of me--part of who I am. Like this story.
Baal Shem Tov - Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer, founder of the Hasidic movement started a tradition that on your birthday, you begin to study the psalm corresponding to the year you're living. I am turning 64 years old so, since the Jewish New Year already started (September 29-30) I am reading Psalm 65. [To clarify, If you could read when you’re a few months old, i.e. zero years old, you’d read Ps 1. Thus, you’re always a year ahead of your age.] This is just one of the many things I learned which in turn, lit my fire to study and learn more. I am having the time of my life.
Baal Shem Tov - Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer, founder of the Hasidic movement started a tradition that on your birthday, you begin to study the psalm corresponding to the year you're living. I am turning 64 years old so, since the Jewish New Year already started (September 29-30) I am reading Psalm 65. [To clarify, If you could read when you’re a few months old, i.e. zero years old, you’d read Ps 1. Thus, you’re always a year ahead of your age.] This is just one of the many things I learned which in turn, lit my fire to study and learn more. I am having the time of my life.
For example, this last decade from 2010 to 2019 has been all about “seeing” what God is saying about you, about your life, about the plans he has for you and for the world around us. It is not so coincidentally conjoined with the Hebrew Letter “Ayin” a picture symbol of an eye and characterized modernly in the number 70. Every year in the Ayin Decade coincides with another letter in the Hebrew Alphabet which was revealed in the early Jewish Talmud as having Heavenly significance, just as the instituted feasts (Rosh Chodesh, Yom Kippur, Passover, the Feast of Weeks. etc.) and appointed times of the Old Testament.
This coming year, 2020 in the Greco-Roman calendar, coincides with the Hebrew year 5780, 80 being part of the “Pey” (rhymes with “pay”) decade that will begin at Rosh HaShana this September 30, 2019. Just as 2019/5779 was a continuation of the last ten years in the “Ayin” decade of the seeing eye where God invited us to “see” what He is saying, this year and the nine years to follow will be an invitation to “speak” what God has shown us in the last decade. “Pey” is the Hebrew letter for the number 80, a picture symbol of a mouth. Discerning when to speak and when to be quiet will be a critical component during the next decade if we are to see the Kingdom of God growing in our lives and our world through our declarations of faith. “Ayin” gives insight, but it is the “Pey” (mouth) that gives insight expression. Wisdom is the key.
This coming year, 2020 in the Greco-Roman calendar, coincides with the Hebrew year 5780, 80 being part of the “Pey” (rhymes with “pay”) decade that will begin at Rosh HaShana this September 30, 2019. Just as 2019/5779 was a continuation of the last ten years in the “Ayin” decade of the seeing eye where God invited us to “see” what He is saying, this year and the nine years to follow will be an invitation to “speak” what God has shown us in the last decade. “Pey” is the Hebrew letter for the number 80, a picture symbol of a mouth. Discerning when to speak and when to be quiet will be a critical component during the next decade if we are to see the Kingdom of God growing in our lives and our world through our declarations of faith. “Ayin” gives insight, but it is the “Pey” (mouth) that gives insight expression. Wisdom is the key.
The mouth is the expression of the breath. Through our mouths the breath becomes vocalized. The main channel through which breath is exchanged is through the mouth, thus the mouth becomes a powerful expression of the Breath of the Holy Spirit. It can also become a powerful expression of our own breath. In the Hebrew alphabet “Pey” follows “Ayin,” which emphasizes that sight precedes expression. Those who have spent a great deal of time seeing what God is saying should have no difficulty in the next decade also expressing His thoughts in word and deed. Conversely, because the eyes are more emphasized than the mouth, those who are blind will speak blindly, an unceasing mindless chatter due to blind consumption.
ACTION STEP: Stay tuned all next week and tell your friends to subscribe. I will be sharing on this new year. Do not be deceived as many it is not a year of 2020 Vision as the deceiver would want us to believe, so we watch and say nothing! This is the year to SAY what we have already been shown by God! Say what God has shown you that will come to pass. Align your mouth with with the wisdom of the sons of Issachar. More next week. Pass it on. Say something!
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