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D'ech Messianic Outreach, Albuquerque, NM (2026)

Our outreach is to better the lives of those seeking way beyond a denomination, but seeking John 14:6 The Way (derech) The Truth (Emit) The Life (Hai) in other words D'ech

08/17/2026

Street Ministry are they good or bad?

In Ha'Derech YHVH understanding, Yeshua did not preach like a modern street preacher.
The prophet Yeshayahu gives us the measure for Messiah's manner:

"He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the street." - Isaiah 42:2

That is the Derech of Messiah. Not loudness, but authority.
Did Yeshua yell to be heard?

1. He taught, He did not yell. The Gospels always say
"He sat and taught" or "He opened His mouth and taught them." On the mountain, in the Beit Knesset, by the lake, in a house - people drew near to Him. He lifted His voice so the crowd could hear - (vayikra), to call out -

But it was not angry shouting or coercion.
Even when it says "Yeshua cried out" - like on the last day of Sukkot, John 7:37 - the word is “krazo”, a loud proclamation for all to hear, not loss of self-control.

2. His authority was in His walk, not speech volume.
"For He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." Matthew 7:29.

In Derech YHVH, authority comes from living Torah (instruction), not from speech volume. People listened because His life matched His words. As he obey Our Creator in his throne. He lived Torah, He is Torah.

The one time He did raise His voice in righteous zeal was cleansing the Temple - for the honor of His Father's house. That was not a sermon, that was zeal for YHVH's house.

So how do you show Messiah's redemption plan without yelling in the streets?

This is the heart of Ha'Derech - HaDerech means The Way. You don't shout the Way, you walk it. That walk itself becomes the witness.

Here is how the prophet in Derech teach it:

1. Be a Living Scroll
Let your life show the Redemption plan. Redemption in Derech YHVH is restoration - returning man to walk with YHVH as in Garden, through obedience from the heart.

When you keep Shabbat with joy, To "keep kashrut" means to follow Yeshua’s dietary laws regarding what foods are allowed to be eaten. To "speak lashon ha-Tov" means to use good, positive, and constructive speech, focusing on praise and kindness rather than harmful gossip (lashon hara). Both concepts show mindfulness in a daily Torah Observant lifestyle one controlling what goes into the mouth, and the other controlling what comes out of it.

Guard your household in peace - people ask, "Why do you live this way?" Then you can answer quietly.

2. Teach through Good and Justice, not preaching
Yeshua's redemption plan is lived:

"Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:16

• Invite someone for Shabbat or Havdalah
• Visit the sick, help a widow, feed the hungry - tikkun olam
• Be honest in business. That is Holy in his name.
That is louder than any street corner.
3. Teach in the circle, not the street
Yeshua sent them two by two to homes, not to shout at crowds. In Ha’Derech YHVH we call this chevruta and mishpacha teaching.
Instead of yelling:

• Start a small study in your home
• Share a the Gospel over tea - "Have you ever considered what the blood on the doorpost points to in Pesach?"
• Use questions, like Yeshua did. He taught in parables so the hungry would ask for more.

4. Show the pattern of Redemption
You can show the plan without a sermon by walking people through YHVH's own Appointed:

Creation > Fall > Promise to Avraham > Torah at Sinai > How Messiah suffers to take away sin > Messiah will reign - this is the story told every year in Pesach, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot.

When you celebrate them and explain why you do, you are teaching redemption without ever raising your voice.
The loudest voice in Ha'Derech YHVH is a quiet, consistent life.

People in world are used to people yelling about religion on corners. They are not used to seeing an people walk in peace, mercy, and obedience to YHVH. That stands out.

08/12/2026

INTRODUCTION

WHAT HAPPENED TO TRUTH?
We Are The Light Of The World

This book is Standard First Century Teaching.
It is not Western theology. It is not religion. It is not denomination.
This is how Yeshua taught His Disciples in the First Century. On a mountain. With a shofar. Face to face. With a Hebraic mentality, not Western mindset.
Yeshua didn't need a Torah Scroll. He was and still is The Living Torah.

HOW TO READ THIS BOOK:
1. Read with a Hebraic mindset — FROM HIM, I LIVE, not from me.
2. Every chapter ends with a shofar blast to remind you who you are.
3. We do not read to make a name for ourselves. We read to return to HIS altar.
The Apostolic Writings do not start a new way. They confirm Ha'Derech YHVH.

Yeshua said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life," — John 14:6 — not a new religion.
Paul said, "Do we then nullify the Torah through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Torah," — Romans 3:31.

Peter said, "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance," — 1 Peter 1:14.

James said, "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only," — James 1:22.

This book directs our lives in that same Way.

LIKE A SHOFAR BLAST, WE ARE:
WE ARE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, WE ARE THE OR OF THE WORLD

For 22 years I have sat under the shepherding of my Pastor, my Rabbi, my Mentor. For 22 years I have learned one thing: Truth is not an idea you agree with. Truth is a Way you walk.
In Hebrew, that Way is called Ha'Derech YHVH - The Way of LORD.

For the last several years, YHVH has allowed me to write 9 books. Five books are our Ha'Derech YHVH Handbook - A Once A Week Instruction Manual - teaching Torah portion by Torah portion, from Genesis to Deuteronomy, complete with Haftarah (first covenant)and Brit Ha'Dasha (re-newed covenant).

Three books are our Truths To Live By - Living In Truth, More Truths To Live By, When Seeking Truth - showing how to take that once-a-week instruction and live it every day through the teachings of Yeshua.
My Pastor/Rabbi/Mentor looked at these books and has said, "This is straightforward Halacha."

But our students kept asking me one question: "Brother Mike, if this is so straightforward, what happened to it? Why doesn't the world live like this anymore?" This book is the answer to that, and many other questions.

What Happened To Truth?
In the First Century, the Bible - biblios - was not a book you carried. It was a life you lived.
When our Master Yeshua walked the hills of the Galilee, when John the Baptizer immersed in the Jordan, when Paul taught in the synagogues on Shabbat, there was no "New Testament" in their hands. There was a written Torah. There were the Prophets. There were the Writings. And there was the living Halacha a daily practicing walk of how to keep them. They called themselves Ha'Derech - The Way. Acts 24:14.

They were not starting a new religion. They were living the ancient path correctly.
Truth, in Hebrew, is Emet. Emet is not just telling facts. Emet is faithfulness. Stability. A life that matches what the mouth says. That is what we have lost.

Living, Walking, Remembering
YHVH gave us a way to not lose Emet. He gave us the Mikra Kodesh.
The church world translates Mikra Kodesh as "a holy convocation." But in Hebrew, Mikra means a rehearsal. Kodesh means set-apart.
Every Shabbat, every Feast, every Torah portion is a weekly rehearsal. We are not just meeting. We are rehearsing who we are so we don't forget.

That is why we teach once a week, Torah portion by Torah portion. In B'resheet (Genesis 1:1-6:8) we learn that in the beginning God created through order, not chaos. He rested on the seventh day not because He was tired - Does God get tired? No. He rested to give us a Divine Blueprint for life. Six days we work and sanctify the physical realm. One day we remember who created it.
This is Ha'Derech YHVH:

• Sanctify the physical - your body is not sinful, it is the tool your soul uses to serve God.
• Commit to systematic study - Torah is the channel for Divine Light, Shefa, to cleanse the mind.
• Observe the Mitzvot - they are not rules, they are precision instruments to bind our soul to YHVH.
• Cultivate devotion - prayer with Kavanah, with the heart directed.

The Missing Key: A Hebraic Mind vs. A Western Mind
This is what happened to Truth, my brothers. Truth was not lost because people stopped reading the Bible. Truth was lost because people started reading a Hebraic book with a Western, Goyim (nations) mindset.

The Western, Greek mindset asks: "What do I believe? What is the right doctrine?
What religion or denomination am I part of?"

The Hebraic mindset of our forefathers never asked that. It asked:
"Who do I belong to?
What family am I part of?
How do I walk this out today?"

The world, the denominations, the religions of the Goyim gave us a religion about God. Our forefathers gave us an identity in God.
Being Commonwealth of Israel is not joining a new religion. It is remembering a rooted culture. It is not something you convert to on a Sunday.

It is an identity you return to, a family you are grafted back into - as Shaul says, "you were once without citizenship in Israel... but now in Messiah Yeshua you who were far away have been brought near." Ephesians 2:12-13.

• Religion says: Believe the right things and you will go to heaven someday.
• Identity says: Remember who you are, and bring heaven down to earth today.
• Religion says: The Torah is old law.
• Identity says: The Torah is our family instructions - our covenant, our marriage to God.

When you read B'resheet with a Western mind, you argue about how old the earth is.

When you read B'resheet with a Hebraic mind, you hear YHVH saying, "I made you in My image - Tzelem Elohim - now go and represent Me."

We must set our minds. Romans 12:2 says "be transformed by the renewing of your mind." That means taking off the Greek glasses and putting on the Hebraic glasses of our forefathers.
This book is not an invitation to a better denomination. There is no better denomination. This is an invitation to come home to your identity. Why God created you in the first place.

Our Identity: We Are Or Goyim
In our B'resheet study, we read the Haftarah from Isaiah 42:5-43:10. Isaiah echoes Genesis: The God who "created the heavens and stretched them out" and breathed into Adam, is the same God who now breathes into a people. And He gives that people a mission statement:
"I have called you in righteousness... and given you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations - Or Goyim - to open blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison house." Isaiah 42:6-7

The connection is clear. In B'resheet, God created physical light. In Isaiah, He creates spiritual light - and that light is us.
In the Brit Ha'Dasha, Yeshua takes that same Isaiah promise and places it on our shoulders:
"You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." Matthew 5:14

This is our identity. This is our Halacha. We are not beggars searching for truth in the dark. We are the lampstand YHVH placed on the hill to show the world what Truth looks like when it is walked. A light cannot shine if it does not know it is a light.

This book is a call to remember. To return to the First Century biblios way. To live it, to walk it, to rehearse it every Shabbat in our Mikra Kodesh, with a Hebraic mind, so that when the world looks at us, they don't see a religion. They see The Way.

Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu, Melech HaOlam, asher natan lanu et binato.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who has given to us His understanding.

08/08/2026

Re’eh
(see)
(Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17)

Torah Portion Re’eh opens with a stark, binary command: “Re’eh (See), I set before you today a blessing and a curse.”

From a Ha’Derech YHVH perspective, this portion marks the definitive transition from an external, geographic religion to an internalized, Spirit-led reality focused entirely on the Ha’Makom (the designated Place of God's presence). It provides the exact structural bridge for our thesis on the "Renewed Temple" and the indwelling of the Ruach HaKodesh.

The Prophetic Imperative of Re’eh (To See)

The portion begins in the singular imperative (Re’eh - "See" or "Behold") but immediately addresses the corporate community in the plural (Lifneichem - "before you all").

From
External Vision Seeing physical blessings/curses on Mt. Ebal (curses) & Mt. Gerizim (blessings)
Giving us a transformation of Internal Sight

To
Spiritual discernment through the Holy Spirit (John 9)

The Spiritual Mechanics of Sight

The Mosaic Context:
Israel is commanded to look at Mount Gerizim (blessing) and Mount Ebal (curse). Their obedience was bound to external, visible cues in the landscape.

Ha’Derech YHVH Reality: Yeshua transforms the definition of "seeing." In John 9:39, He states,

"For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see."

True sight is no longer evaluating external performance; it is the spiritual discernment given by the Ruach HaKodesh to recognize Ha'Derech (The Way) inside the heart.

HaMakom: The Evolution of the Chosen Place

A repeating structural phrase in Re’eh is "the place (HaMakom) which YHVH your God will choose to cause His Name to dwell there" (Deut 12:5, 12:11, 12:14).

Israel is strictly forbidden from offering sacrifices wherever they please.

The Shift from Geography to Personhood

From
The Tabernacle/Jerusalem Temple:
Initially, this referred to a localized geographic coordinate where the Shekinah glory rested.

And Now…
Yeshua as the Ultimate Ha’Makom:
In John 2:19-21, Yeshua reframes the Temple concept entirely, stating that His own body is the true Temple. He is the ultimate HaMakom where the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily (Colossians 2:9).

Colossians 2:9
In him, in bodily form, lives The Godhead (Elo’üt) in all its fullness,

Corporate and Individual Dwellings:
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6:19 that our physical bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.

The Re’eh Connection:
The command in Re’eh to "bring your offerings to the place He chooses" translates today into offering our lives, bodies, and actions as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1) right where we stand.

Mobile Sanctuary:
We are no longer required to travel to a single geographic coordinate to find Ha'Makom. Because we are in Messiah, Ha'Makom dwells inside us, making every believer a walking sanctuary of the Living God.

The Renewed Temple of the Believer:
Because Yeshua sent the Comforter, the HaMakom has undergone a final prophetic expansion. Your body is now the micro-sanctuary where the Name and the Spirit dwell. You do not travel to an external mountain to worship; the altar is now internal. We Are The Place (Ha’Makom).

The Blood Prohibition and the Fleshly Life

Deuteronomy 12:23 contains a strict, unyielding dietary commandment: "Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the flesh."

A Ha’Derech YHVH Inversion

This standard Torah instruction encounters a profound, calculated shift in John 6:53-54, when Yeshua declares: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you."

From
Animal Blood (Leviticus/Deuteronomy Strictly Forbidden External, Temporary bandage for sin
Today’s Ha’Derech YHVH Substitution

To
Yeshua's Blood (New Covenant) Intentionally Imbibed Internal, Eternal Life

The Transformation from "Bandage" to "Remedy"

"bandage" is linguistically precise in Hebrew theology.
The Hebrew word for atonement is Kippur (כִּפּוּר), which literally means to cover over or to coat (like pitch covering Noah’s Ark).

Animal blood never deleted sin; it acted as a holy, temporary bandage that covered the wound from God's sight.

Yeshua's blood does not merely coat the surface of the heart; it is spiritually digested, washing the inner sanctuary of your "Renewed Temple

The Internalization:
Under the Levitical system, animal blood could only cover external sins because animal life can never merge with human spirit.

The Living Connection: Yeshua reverses this restriction for His own blood because His life is eternal and sinless. By spiritually drinking His blood, His divine life-force is injected directly into your internal "Renewed Temple," empowering you via the Ruach to walk out the true intent of the instruction.

The Navi Sheker (False Prophet) and Internal Alignment

Deuteronomy 13 warns against a prophet or dreamer who performs actual, verifiable signs and wonders but uses them to say, "Let us go after other gods." God states this is a direct test to see if you love Him with all your heart.

The Pointer (Yad) of the Spirit

The Vulnerability of Signs: External miracles can deceive the physical eyes (the wrong kind of "seeing"). A false prophet can mimic external spiritual mechanics.

The Defense Mechanism: How does the believer survive this test? By relying on the internal Moreh (the Pointer/Teacher). The Ruach HaKodesh living within you provides the internal witness (Anointing) that checks every external voice against the living character of Yeshua. If an external sign points away from Ha'Derech YHVH, the internal Guide sounds the alarm. When the blood of Yeshua cleanses the "Renewed Temple" from the inside, the Ruach is able to move in and activate what Paul calls spiritual discernment (Anakrino).

In 1 Corinthians 2:14-15, Paul explicitly maps out why external instruction fails without this internal engine:

"The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God... neither can he know them, because they are

The Cycle of Release (Shmitat Kesafim) and Ultimate Charity

Deuteronomy 15 mandates the erasure of all debts every seven years and commands an open, radical generosity toward the poor: "You shall open your hand wide to him" (Deut 15:8).

The Heart Circumcision in Giving

Moses warns against having an evil, begrudging thoughts in your heart when the year of release approaches (Deut 15:9).

The Instruction's Bound:
The external letter of the law can force you to legally cancel a debt, but it cannot force you to be genuinely happy about losing your money.

The Ruach's Fulfillment:
This is the pinnacle of Ha’Derech YHVH thesis. The internal submission to the Ruach takes this instruction and makes it a natural desire. When the Spirit rules the Renewed Temple, the believer doesn't calculate compliance; they mirror the radical self-giving nature of Yeshua, who erased our ultimate debt on the tree.

Haftarah

The Haftarah for Torah Portion Re’eh is Isaiah 54:11–55:5. It serves as the third of the seven Haftarot of Consolation read between Tisha B'Av and Rosh Hashanah. From a Messianic perspective, this text transitions Israel from the brokenness of exile into the Renewed Covenant reality established by Messiah Yeshua, utilizing the structural foundations laid out in the preceding suffering servant passage of Isaiah 53.

THE FOUNDATION: ISAIAH 53 The Suffering Servant (Yeshua)

THE EXPANSION: ISAIAH 54 The Gem-Built, Righteous Jerusalem

THE INVITATION: ISAIAH 55 │ │ Free Spiritual Water & Davidic King

The Contextual Link to Isaiah 53

In the standard biblical text, chapters 54 and 55 directly succeed the graphic portrayal of the suffering, death, and resurrection of the Messiah in Isaiah 53.

The Cause and Effect:
Isaiah 53 provides the atonement; Isaiah 54 and 55 outline the inheritance.

The physical and spiritual restoration promised to the "storm-tossed" city is only legally possible because the Servant bore the chastisement that brought us peace (Isaiah 53:5).

Isaiah 53:5
Whereas he was being wounded for our rebellions, crushed because of our guilt; the punishment reconciling us fell on him, and we have been healed by his bruises.

2. Rebuilding with Precious Stones (Isaiah 54:11-12)

Isaiah describes a future Jerusalem built with antimony, sapphires, rubies, and precious stones.

Ha’Derech YHVH Fulfillment:
This physical description serves as the prophetic blueprint for the New Jerusalem seen in Revelation 21:18-21.

Spiritual Reality:
In the Ha’Derech YHVH perspective, these gems are not merely structural elements but signify the transformed inner character of God's people. Through Yeshua, believers are fashioned into "living stones" built up as a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:5).

1 Peter 2:5
So that you, too, may be living stones making a spiritual house as a holy priesthood to offer the spiritual sacrifices made acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Disciples of the Lord and Righteousness (Isaiah 54:13-14)

The text promises: "All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established..."

Yeshua’s Direct Citation:
In John 6:45, Yeshua directly quotes Isaiah 54:13 to validate His ministry, stating: "It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me."

John 6:45
It is written in the prophets: They will all be taught by God; everyone who has listened to the Father, and learnt from him, comes to me.

The Renewed Covenant:
This matches the promise of Jeremiah 31:34, where the Torah is written on human hearts. Divine teaching is no longer external legalism but an internal relationship via the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh).

The Invitation to Free Water and Food (Isaiah 55:1-3)

The Prophet cries out: "Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat!"

The Price of Grace:
This reveals the core mechanics of Ha’Derech YHVH grace system (Chesed). Spiritual nourishment is bought "without money and without price" because the debt was completely settled by the Messiah's blood.

Yeshua’s Echo:
This invitation directly anchors Yeshua’s declarations in the Gospels. In John 7:37, He stood up at the Temple during Sukkot and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink."

The Everlasting Davidic Covenant (Isaiah 55:3-5)

The passage culminates in a renewal of the Davidic Covenant: "I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples."

The Ultimate Davidic King:
This is an explicit Ha’Derech YHVH designation. While historical King David was already dead in Isaiah’s timeframe, Isaiah wrote this, therefore the text points directly to Yeshua the Messiah, the ultimate Son of David.

The Apostolic Application:
In Acts 13:34, the Apostle Paul quotes this exact phrase ("the holy and sure blessings of David") to prove that Yeshua’s resurrection fulfilled God’s unshakeable promises to Israel's monarchy. Through the resurrected Messiah, Israel's global mission is realized as Gentile nations run to recognize the Holy One of Israel.

Summary Connection to Torah Portion Re'eh

While Torah Portion Re'eh gives Israel a physical choice between blessing and curse based on legal obedience (Deuteronomy 11:26)

The Haftarah provides the prophetic remedy for when Israel fails that standard. It reveals that the ultimate "blessing" is a gift of unmerited grace, transformation, and covenant renewal executed by the Davidic Messiah. In this aspect Grace was, Grace is, and Grace shall always be.

Ha’Derech YHVH suggested text perfectly highlights the eternal nature of God's grace as the ultimate, unmerited blessing and prophetic remedy in the Haftarah,

Contrasting with the legal obedience required in Re'eh. It beautifully frames this grace through past covenantal choices, present spiritual refreshment, and future everlasting security.

Brit'Ha'Desha

The Brit Hadashah (Renewed Covenant) readings for Torah Portion Re’eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17) traditionally include 1 John 4:1–6 and John 7:37–52. This commentary explores how these Renewed Covenant texts structurally answer, fulfill, and apply the radical legal and physical realities established in Torah Portion Re’eh.

Torah Portion
See" (Re'eh) the choice: Blessing vs Curse │ │ Centralization of Worship ("The Place") Guard against False Prophets &

FULFILLED IN

Brihadesha

1 John 4:
Testing the Spirits (Truth vs Error) 1 John 7: Yeshua is "The Place" of Living Water│ │ The Internalized Choice: Messiah in You

Theological Synergy: Vision and Discernment

The name of the Torah portion, Re’eh, means "See!". Moshe commands Israel to use spiritual sight to distinguish between the blessing of obedience and the curse of idolatry.

The Apostolic Parallel:
1 John 4:1–6 moves this concept from physical sight to spiritual discernment. Yochanan (John) commands: "Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God..."

Deuteronomy 13 Connection:
In Re'eh, Israel is warned against the "false prophet" who performs signs but leads the people away to other gods. 1 John 4 provides the ultimate Messianic litmus test for this warning: any spirit that confesses that Yeshua the Messiah has come in the flesh is from God. The choice to "see" the blessing is fundamentally tied to recognizing the true identity of Yeshua.

The "Before Your Eyes" (לְעֵינֶיךָ) Counter-System
In Deuteronomy, Moses does not present abstract philosophy. He demands immediate, visual evaluation: "See (Re'eh), I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse" (Deut 11:26). Because the deception of a false prophet is highly visible manifesting as actual miracles, signs, and wonders performed "before your eyes" God establishes an immediate, objective counter-system to evaluate reality.

The Deuteronomy 13 Warning

The Threat:
A prophet performs a supernatural sign that successfully comes to pass right before your eyes.

The Anti-System:
Moses instructs Israel to look past the immediate visual miracle and test the directionof the message. If the prophet says, "Let us go after other gods," the supernatural sign is instantly classified as a test of loyalty rather than divine truth. The visual marvel is countered by covenantal history.

The 1 John 4 Incarnational Litmus Test

The Threat:
Spirits and false prophets emerge with highly convincing, charismatic, or worldly-appealing messages.

The Anti-System:
Yochanan (John) updates this "before your eyes" evaluation system for the Renewed Covenant community. The ultimate defensive filter is the explicit confession of Yeshua the Messiah coming in the flesh

The Centralized Place of Worship vs. The Living Water

A massive structural theme in Re’eh is the strict command to worship only at (Hamakom) "the place that the Lord your God will choose" to put His Name (Deuteronomy 12:5). Israel is forbidden from offering sacrifices wherever they please.

The Fulfillment in John 7:
In John 7:37–39, Yeshua stands up in the Temple during the water libation ceremony of Sukkot (a festival explicitly commanded at the end of Re'eh in Deut 16:13). He cries out: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink."

The True Temple:
Yeshua reveals that He Himself is the ultimate realization of "The Place/Hamakom." God’s localized Presence (Shekinah) is no longer confined to a geographic building of stone but is concentrated in the Messiah. Furthermore, through the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), those who believe in Him become extensions of "The Place/Hamakom," pout of whose hearts flow rivers of living water.

Food Laws and Spiritual Purity

Deuteronomy 14 restates the dietary laws (Kashrut), drawing a hard line between the clean and the unclean to set Israel apart as a holy people.

The Deepening in the Gospels:
The BriHadashah does not eliminate the call to holiness but internalizes it. While Re'eh focuses on what enters the physical mouth to maintain ritual purity, Yeshua and the Apostles emphasize guarding the spiritual intake.

1 John 4:5
Notes that the false teachers "are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them." Consuming false doctrine and worldly ideologies is framed as the ultimate form of spiritual uncleanliness, echoing the prohibition against consuming defiled things in the Torah.

Generosity, Debt Cancellation, and the Heart

Re’eh introduces the laws of Shemitah (the seventh-year debt cancellation) and commands Israel not to harden their hearts or shut their hands against the poor (Deuteronomy 15:7–8). [1, 2, 3]

Ha’Derech YHVH Ex*****on:
This directly mirrors the self-sacrificial love demanded in the BriHadashah. In 1 John 4:4, Yochanan reminds believers, "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world."

Because the Messiah lives inside the believer, the natural result is an open hand. The legal requirement of debt cancellation and tithing in Re'eh becomes a baseline for the spontaneous, love-driven generosity of the Renewed Covenant community.

The BriHadashah readings transform the external boundaries of Torah Portion Re’eh into an internal, relational reality. Re'eh sets up the framework of physical choices, sacred spaces, and strict boundaries; the Renewed Covenant reveals that Yeshua is the true focal point of our spiritual vision, the ultimate "Place" (Hamakom) of God's presence, and the empowerer of our obedience

Baruch Atah Adonai Elujenu
notein lanu
et binato

Blessed are You, Lord God
who gives to us”
His understanding”

08/07/2026

Circumcision, Baptism, And Identity

A foundational answer is given to us in Torah Portion Ekev (because you have heard)

The key that most denominational teaching misses. Since everything has a beginning and an end, let’s go back to the beginning, so we can find out the end…
Ekev — "because you have heard" as in as a result of hearing and doing. The “Ekev” is also a heel the end, the final part, the footprint that comes after.

And Torah principle is:
You can't understand the heel unless you trace it back to the head.
The Beginning Explains The End.
So Moshe in Ekev is not inventing circumcision. He is reminding them of the beginning to explain the end:
Genesis 17:7 — The Beginning:
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you... for an everlasting covenant"
Deuteronomy 10:16 The Middle The

Problem:
“You circumcise the fo****in of your heart"
Deuteronomy 30:6 — The End — The Solution:
"YHVH your Elohim will circumcise your heart"

This was first century Ha'Derech YHVH teaching — let Torah interpret Torah. Start at the beginning, follow the path to the end, and the denominational confusion about baptism replacing circumcision disappears.
"Since everything has a beginning and an end, let's go back to the beginning, then we can find the end..."
The Ekev Foundation answers the

Circumcision directly:
The Command that exposes the dilemma - Deuteronomy 10:16
U'maltem et orlat levavchem — "Circumcise the fo****in of your heart"
As Torah is written, Moshe commands Israel to do what they cannot do themselves. A man can circumcise flesh on the 8th day, that's avodat ha'horim, (the obedience of the parents) to bring the son into Avraham's covenant.
But no man can circumcise his own heart. There are two covenants (we will be talking about baptism later on in this teaching) DO NOT CONFUSE THE BOTH….

Circumcision of flesh:
Done TO an infant. Sign of Avraham's covenant. No repentance required from the infant.
• Circumcision of heart: Must be done IN the adult. This requires teshuvah and emunah. No one can do it for you.

2. The Prophetic Resolution Ha’Derech YHVH points to – Deuteronomy 30:6
U'mal YHVH Eloheicha et levavcha
YHVH Himself will circumcise your heart. How? This is where Ha’Derech YHVH second point comes in.

The connection is precise:
Torah is not "law" — it's instruction that must be eaten. Deuteronomy 8:3 — man lives by every word proceeding from the mouth of YHVH. Not from a burrito….
An infant cannot eat it. An infant cannot repent (burrito). An infant cannot believe in the resurrection.

That is why baptism in the first century Ha’Derech was NEVER done to infants.
Here Is Where The Renewed Covenant Kicks In….
The Renewed Temple — This is the killer point for this study
Ha’Derech YHVH insight on Deuteronomy 10:1-5 is perfect example:
Moshe puts the second set of tablets INSIDE the Aron (ark of the Covenant).
Jeremiah 31:33 promises:

I will put My Torah within them and write it on their hearts.
Ezekiel 36:26-27:
I will give you a new heart... and I will put My Ruach (Holy Spirit) within you.
This is the mindset:
The Torah model:
Instruction outside on stone
Inside a physical ark of the covenant
Inside a physical Temple

Today Same Model Better Features.
Renewed Torah model:
Instruction inside on heart
The flesh is the ark
The body is the Temple.
As Rabbi Paul confirms to the Corinthians:
Your body is a temple of the Ruach HaKodesh in you — 1 Cor 6:19.

And Here Now We Go To Another Feature And Benefit …

Baptism is not the sign of entering Avraham's physical family. Baptism is the outward declaration that your heart (then the ark) has been circumcised, your now temple has been cleansed, and you are now indwelt by The Holy Spirit.

This is the requirement that Peter spoke about on Shavuot (Pentecost):
Book of Acts 2:38
Repent, and be immersed, every one of you.
An infant cannot fulfill the prerequisite. He can’t least even in the physical can’t walk into a baptistery.
Note to Self:

In first century water baptism:
John was only a testimony of baptism. The individual would immerse himself, and John stood only to witness and confirm . We see this in Yeshua’s no need baptism (cause Yeshua was sinless) not born from corruption.

Yeshua had no need for a repentance baptism He was sinless no corruption. Matthew 3:15
He went into the water not to repent, but "to fulfill all righteousness" to be identified, to be witnessed as the One who would be the Renewed Temple, the High Priest going through the “baptistery” before His ministry. Which by the way, has to be recirculating water…
Leviticus 8:6
"And Moshe brought Aharon and his sons and washed them with water."

Just as the High Priest cannot begin ministry without a full baptism in living water. Not a church baptistery with still water as we’ve said it has to be mayim chayim, (living, recirculating water). Connected to a source.
Because it's about life (chayim).

So Yeshua, our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, goes into the Yarden (living water, flowing) and is witnessed by John before He begins His public ministry. This is classic perfect Torah pattern.

Covenant of flesh = identification with Avraham by birth. Parents' faith.
Water Baptisim + Circumcision of heart = identification with the Resurrected One by re-birth.

Personal Faith — exactly as written in Torah Portion Ekev
Action Faith (emunah) in the resurrection.
This Now Becomes Covenant Living, Not Covenant Entering

Baptism is not how you join the family — Circumcision did that.
Baptism is how you say: "I am now choosing to DIE to my old owner, be buried, and walk out as a new priest for YHVH to live in."
One is your parent's faith bringing you IN.
The other is your faith bringing Him IN you.

That's why Paul could say in Galatians — Circumcision profits if you keep Torah. But without heart circumcision, you have the sign on flesh and lawlessness in heart, no Temple for Ruach.
So another words you have all the features of your new car, but the benefits are useless with out following the instruction

You can have a brand new truck sitting in the driveway —
• Feature: 4x4
• Feature: New engine
• Feature: Full tank
• Feature: Navigation system
But if you never read the Owner's Manual (The Bible) the instruction book and you put diesel in a gas engine, never change the oil, and drive it in reverse on I-25 The benefits are useless. You will destroy the truck.

That's exactly what the Renewed Covenant is:
YHVH gave you all the Features:
• New heart
• Forgiveness
• Ruach HaKodesh inside — the power engine
• Torah written inside — the navigation
But Deuteronomy 8:3 says:
Man lives by EVERY Word. Torah is not "law" to earn the truck.

Torah is the Owner's Instruction Manual so you can actually drive the new life without wrecking it.

Paul says it this way:
Are we freed from instruction? Never! We establish the instruction —
Romans 3:31.
Circumcision of flesh put you in the Avraham’s driveway.
Circumcision of heart + Baptism gave you the keys to the new truck.

The Promise the Holy Spirit is the engine.
But Torah is how you drive it in covenant living.

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