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Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Shemini Shel Pesach / 8th Day of Passover - this week’s Torah reading

Prophecy 37, 75, 76;
Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17;
Isaiah 10:32-12:6;
John 20:15-20;



Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17

22 “Every year you must take one tenth of everything your seed produces in the field,
23 and eat it in the presence of YAHUVEH your ELOHIM. In the place where he chooses to have his name live you will eat the tenth of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, so that you will learn to fear YAHUVEH your ELOHIM always.
24 But if the distance is too great for you, so that you are unable to transport it, because the place where YAHUVEH chooses to put his name is too far away from you; then, when YAHUVEH your ELOHIM prospers you,
25 you are to convert it into money, take the money with you, go to the place which YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will choose,
26 and exchange the money for anything you want — cattle, sheep, wine, other intoxicating liquor, or anything you please — and you are to eat there in the presence of YAHUVEH your ELOHIM, and enjoy yourselves, you and your household.
27 “But don’t neglect the Levi staying with you, because he has no share or inheritance like yours.
28 At the end of every three years you are to take all the tenths of your produce from that year and store it in your towns.
29 Then the Levi, because he has no share or inheritance like yours, along with the foreigner, the orphan and the widow living in your towns, will come, eat and be satisfied — so that YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will bless you in everything your hands produce.

*~ Deuteronomy Chapter 15 ~*

1 “At the end of every seven years you are to have a sh’mittah.
2 Here is how the sh’mittah is to be done: every creditor is to give up what he has loaned to his fellow member of the community — he is not to force his neighbor or relative to repay it, because YAHUVEH’s time of remission has been proclaimed.
3 You may demand that a foreigner repay his debt, but you are to release your claim on whatever your brother owes you.
4 In spite of this, there will be no one needy among you; because YAHUVEH will certainly bless you in the land which YAHUVEH your ELOHIM is giving you as an inheritance to possess —
5 if only you will listen carefully to what YAHUVEH your ELOHIM says and take care to obey all these mitzvot I am giving you today.
6 Yes, YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will bless you, as he promised you — you will lend money to many nations without having to borrow, and you will rule over many nations without their ruling over you.
7 “If someone among you is needy, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which YAHUVEH your ELOHIM is giving you, you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from giving to your needy brother.
8 No, you must open your hand to him and lend him enough to meet his need and enable him to obtain what he wants.
9 Guard yourself against allowing your heart to entertain the mean-spirited thought that because the seventh year, the year of sh’mittah is at hand, you would be stingy toward your needy brother and not give him anything; for then he may cry out to YAHUVEH against you, and it will be your sin.
10 Rather, you must give to him; and you are not to be grudging when you give to him. If you do this, YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will bless you in all your work, in everything you undertake —
11 for there will always be poor people in the land. That is why I am giving you this order, ‘You must open your hand to your poor and needy brother in your land.’
12 “If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, he is to serve you for six years; but in the seventh year, you are to set him free.
13 Moreover, when you set him free, don’t let him leave empty-handed; 14 but supply him generously from your flock, threshing-floor and winepress; from what YAHUVEH your ELOHIM has blessed you with, you are to give to him.
15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and YAHUVEH your ELOHIM redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this order today.
16 But if he says to you, ‘I don’t want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household, and because his life with you is a good one;
17 then take an awl, and pierce his ear through, right into the door; and he will be your slave forever. Do the same with your female slave.
18 Don’t resent it when you set him free, since during his six years of service he has been worth twice as much as a hired employee. Then YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will bless you in everything you do.
19 “All the firstborn males in your herd of cattle and in your flock you are to set aside for YAHUVEH your ELOHIM; you are not to do any work with a firstborn from your herd or shear a firstborn sheep.
20 Each year you and your household are to eat it in the presence of YAHUVEH your ELOHIM in the place which YAHUVEH will choose.
21 But if it has a defect, is lame or blind, or has some other kind of fault, you are not to sacrifice it to YAHUVEH your ELOHIM;
22 rather, eat it on your own property; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, like the gazelle or the deer. 23 Just don’t eat its blood, but pour it out on the ground like water.

*~ Deuteronomy Chapter 16 ~*
1 “Observe the month of Aviv, and keep Pesach to YAHUVEH your ELOHIM; for in the month of Aviv, YAHUVEH your ELOHIM brought you out of Egypt at night.
2 You are to sacrifice the Pesach offering from flock and herd to YAHUVEH your ELOHIM in the place where YAHUVEH will choose to have his name live.
3 You are not to eat any hametz with it; for seven days you are to eat with it matzah, the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste. Thus you will remember the day you left the land of Egypt as long as you live.
4 No leaven is to be seen with you anywhere in your territory for seven days. None of the meat from your sacrifice on the first day in the evening is to remain all night until morning.
5 You may not sacrifice the Pesach offering in just any of the towns that YAHUVEH your ELOHIM is giving you;
6 but at the place where YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will choose to have his name live — there is where you are to sacrifice the Pesach offering, in the evening, when the sun sets, at the time of year that you came out of Egypt. 7 You are to roast it and eat it in the place YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will choose; in the morning you will return and go to your tents.
8 For six days you are to eat matzah; on the seventh day there is to be a festive assembly for YAHUVEH your ELOHIM; do not do any kind of work.
9 “You are to count seven weeks; you are to begin counting seven weeks from the time you first put your sickle to the standing grain.
10 You are to observe the festival of Shavu‘ot [weeks] for YAHUVEH your ELOHIM with a voluntary offering, which you are to give in accordance with the degree to which YAHUVEH your ELOHIM has prospered you.
11 You are to rejoice in the presence of YAHUVEH your ELOHIM — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, the L’vi’im living in your towns, and the foreigners, orphans and widows living among you — in the place where YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will choose to have his name live.
12 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt; then you will keep and obey these laws.
13 “You are to keep the festival of Sukkot for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing-floor and winepress.
14 Rejoice at your festival — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, the L’vi’im, and the foreigners, orphans and widows living among you.
15 Seven days you are to keep the festival for YAHUVEH your ELOHIM in the place YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will choose, because YAHUVEH your ELOHIM will bless you in all your crops and in all your work, so you are to be full of joy!
16 “Three times a year all your men are to appear in the presence of YAHUVEH your ELOHIM in the place which he will choose — at the festival of matzah, at the festival of Shavu‘ot and at the festival of Sukkot. They are not to show up before YAHUVEH empty-handed, 17 but every man is to give what he can, in accordance with the blessing YAHUVEH your ELOHIM has given you.

*~ Isaiah 10:32-12:6 ~*

32 Yet he remains in Nob today; he will shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Master, YAHUVEH of Hosts, shall lop the bough of terror! And the lofty ones shall be cut down, and the proud shall be humbled.
34 And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

*~ Isaiah Chapter 11 ~*

1 And a Shoot goes out from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch will bear fruit out of his roots.
2 And the Spirit of YAHUVEH shall rest on Him; He will have the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and power, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of YAHUVEH.
3 And He is made to breathe in the fear of YAHUVEH. But He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
4 But He shall judge the poor in righteousness, and shall decide rightly for the meek of the earth. And He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and He shall cause the wicked to die with the breath of His lip.
5 And righteousness shall be the encircler of His loins, and faithfulness the encircler of His loins.
6 And the wolf shall live with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little boy shall lead them.
7The cow and the bear shall feed, their young shall lie together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the infant shall play on the hole of the asp; yea, the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's den1 .
9 They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all My holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of YAHUVEH, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And it shall be in that day, the Root of Jesse stands as a banner of His people; nations shall seek to Him; and His resting place shall be glorious.
11 And it shall be in that day, YAHUVEH shall again set His hand, the second time, to recover the remnant of His people that remains, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the coasts of the sea.
12 And He shall lift up a banner for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel, and gather those dispersed from Judah, from the four wings of the earth.
13 And the envy of Ephraim shall turn off; and Judah's foes shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not trouble Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly onto the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they shall plunder the sons of the east, the stretching of the hand on Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon; they will obey them.
15 And YAHUVEH shall utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and with His scorching wind He shall wave His hand over the River, and shall strike it into seven torrents, and make one tread it with shoes.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Assyria, as it was to Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.

*~ Isaiah Chapter 12 ~*

1 And in that day you shall say, O YAHUVEH, I will thank You. Though You were angry with me, turn away Your anger and You shall comfort me.
2 Behold, El is YAHUSHUA ! I will trust and not be afraid, for my strength and song is Yah YAHUVEH10; yea, He has become to me YAHUSHUA.
3 And you shall draw waters out of the wells of salvation with joy.
4 And in that day you shall say, Praise YAHUVEH! Call on His name; declare His doings among the peoples; make mention that His name is exalted.
5 Sing to YAHUVEH, for He has done majestically; this is known in all the earth.
6 Cry and shout, O dweller of Zion! For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.