RR Psalm 56:10 Part 7

Shalom {{firstName}}, 

Rabbi Trail: Pro-Israel Americans are not “monsters!”  700 rabbis, including yours truly, from a spectrum of expressions of Jewish faith, including Messianic Judaism, have endorsed a letter expressing their opposition to anti-Semitism.  (Nothing unites people more than a common opponent.) https://jewishmajority.org/open-letter-from-rabbis You can add your name to this open letter by using the link provided.

In a political speech last week, New York Mayor Mamdani called AIPAC (America Israel Public Affairs Committee, an organization that lobbies both sides of the isle for Israel.) and its supporters, “monsters.”  In his anti-Semitic rant, he used familiar anti-Semitic tropes.  For instance, mayor Mamdani accused AIPAC of moving “millions in dark money” to “preserve their power” and “turn us against one another.”  If you’re not familiar with these kinds of lies (anti-Semitic tropes), please click here… https://gnasherjew.com/the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-and-kalergi-plan-the-jewish-plan-for-global-domination-conspiracies/ 

Mr. Mayor, who is “us?” (Which also makes me ask, “Who is them?”)  I thought you were elected to represent all the people of New York City.  Jewish people are a significant minority of your New York constituency.  You should also be aware that 80% of Jewish people support having Israel as a Jewish state.  

People of God, may we unite over this commitment, when we hear anti-Jewish talk, we won’t sit quietly and squirm.  Let’s commit to say something such as, “Stop, I don’t agree with that.”

There’s probably more tomorrow, but that’s all for today.  End RT.
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Psalms
Psalm 56:10(9) – Part 7

Psalm 56:10(9) Then my enemies will turn back in the day I call. This I know—that God is for me.

Let’s focus on three Hebrew phrases in this verse.  The first is “my enemies” which is Oy’vai.  In Yiddish, we know it as the familiar expression of exasperation, “Oy-vey.”  The derivation is that “my enemies must have brought this calamity upon me.”  Here, King David uses it as a victory call.  He is saying, “My enemies will change direction when I call out (to God).  

And that’s the second Hebrew phrase today, “B’Yom Ek’rah,” meaning “on the day in which I call.”  This is not new… Psalm 18:4(3) I called upon Adonai, worthy of praise, and I was rescued from my enemies.  The same thought is also found near the end of the book of Psalms.  Psalm 145:18 Adonai is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.

The finally, we have “Elohim Li,” meaning, “God is mine.”  Here it is translated as “God is for me.”  Could we ask for a better advocate?  1John 2:1 My children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Intercessor with the Father—the righteous Messiah Yeshua.  We should all feel secure with Yeshua seated with us (really, we are seated with Him) standing up in our defense before the accuser.  Satan is the accuser of the brethren.
 
Rev 12:10  Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Anointed One, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters—the one who accuses them before our God day and night—has been thrown out.

Finally let’s finish with this encouraging word for today… Romans 8:31  What then shall we say in view of these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  Shalom shalom.

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Rabbi Trail:  You might notice below that today is labeled “Tzom Tamuz” or the “Fast of Tamuz.”  This is always on the 17th of Tamuz, exactly 3 weeks before Tisha B’Av, the fast of the 9th of Av.  These fasts are held to memorialize the destruction of the Temple.  On the 17th of Tamuz, the walls of Jerusalem were breached.  Three weeks later, the Temple was destroyed.  End RT.

Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Thu2-July 202617th of Tamuz, 5786 Tzom Tamuz
Nu 28:1-15Ez 10-11Neh 7Gal 6 (Lk 12:35-59)
Ex 32:11-14; 34:1-10; Isa 55:6-56:8 (afternoon)