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    Mezuzah

    Posted by Lev/Christopher on July 14, 2008 at 12:37am
    in Torah Studies

    Q: Did the Ancient Hebrews use a Mezuzah similar to those used today?

    A: The modern Mezuzah is a piece of paper or parchment with Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21 written on it and placed in a box. This box is then attached to the doorpost of the house. This 'Mezuzah' is to fulfill the Torah requirement of Deuteronomy 6:6-9:

    "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."

    The first question that needs to be answered is "What are "these words" that are to be taught and written?" According to modern Judaism it is Deuteronomy 6 as they are what is written on the Mezuzah, but I contend that it is the commands given prior to Deuteronomy 6 – the '10 commandments' found in Deuteronomy 5.

    The second question is "Is the modern Mezuzah the correct application of the command in Deuteronomy 6?" If you read the passage above literally, it says that you are to write "these words' on the "doorposts." The Hebrew word for a doorpost is "mezuzah"(literally a mezuzah is 'not' the paper or the box which are today identified as a mezuzah). The command is not stating that a Mezuzah is to be placed on a doorpost but that "these words" are to be written on the doorpost (the mezuzah).

    I am of the opinion that the Ancient Hebrews wrote the 10 commandments directly on their doorposts (Mezuzah).

    http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/emagazine/040.pdf


    Shalom Brother, Someone that agrees with me I wrote the ten commands with a sharpie felt pen on the doorpost of my house a few years ago, my fence and gate are chainlink, so I wrote them on a peice of plywood and attached it to the gate for all to see.
    In addition to that I fully support the Pesach Slaughtering as being valid for all of us today. The first time we did it about 5 years ago I took the hyssop and dipped it in the blood and painted the doorpost and door header, the residue is still there. I know alot of you don't agree with this ,but its commanded and the Ruach has led me to this understanding.

    Great to find someone with a similar understanding - there are others but most follow the rabbinical tradition. I'm redecorating the outside of my house currently but when it's done I am going to inscribe the 10 commands on the lintel - can't decide what language to use yet (as we're in Sweden) so it may be in more than one so that visitors can understand it.

    My view of "blood on the doorposts" is as you supposed. The blood of animals no longer saves, protects or cleanses. The only blood that matters is that of the Lamb of Elohim. Since the blood of Messiah is cosmic and could only be spilled once (e.g. 1 Pet.3:18; Heb.9:28) there cannot - and must not - be any further ritual shedding of dahm/blood. The type of Pesach is already fulfilled so that which has been fulfilled cannot be used literally any more. I know some Messianics who apply red washable paint or even tomato sauce on the doorposts which I think is ok since it is symbolic and a potent reminder of the price Yah'shua paid for our sins. In the practical, efficacious realm, I have discovered (as a deliverance minister principally) that anointing the doorposts and window frames of a house with consectrated olive oil keeps the demonic out, the oil representing the Ruach which was sent at Shavu'ot to show how that festival has been elevated into its new spiritual positioning in Yisrael/Israel. It is by means of the Ruach that the New Covenant is delivered and applied so oil seems to be a most fitting symbol.

    I view Pesach in exactly the same light. If we are not offering sacrifices anymore (as nearly all messianics universally recognise) then the blood of a sacrificed animal isn't required either. Personally I would see it as a mockery of the blood of Messiah to use animal's blood in any way during the moedim because Messiah's blood is all-sufficient. I can understand, and relate to, powerful emotional ties to what was in the past in reliving a procedure of old but I would view the emotional response as the nefesh, not the ruach (recognising that there are three categories of 'spiritual' witness - nefesh, ruach and neshamah). I actually know another person like you who does something similar.

    I am thinking next year of symbolically daubing the lintels with something red (but not literal blood) as a reminder of how Yah'shua's blood guards our hearts and minds when we apply Him as Master and Deliverer of our souls. Pesach reminds me of the day I was reborn in Him and commenced my own journey out of Egypt.

    Thanks for sharing!

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