The Flesh and Blood of
Moshiach
By Rabbi Levi bar Ido / Bnai
Avraham
Rom
5:14 -But death
reigned from Adam even until Moshe, even over those who had not sinned in the
likeness of the transgression of the Torah of Adam, who was the likeness of him
who was to come. HRV
Php 2:7
-8 -but He emptied Himself, having taken the nature of a
slave, having come to be in the likeness of people, and having been found in
appearance as a person, He humbled Himself, having become obedient to the point
of death-even of death of a stake.
This teaching will attempt to give the
Torah student the keys of understanding so they may settle in their own mind the
debated subject that has recently been spreading among the Netzarim. Could Yahshua be tempted?
Could He have transgressed the Torah? Was Yahshua both fully Elohim and fully
man? Later in this study we will
look at an ancient Aramaic text of this passage in Philippians to see the
wording of verses 7-8 in chapter 2. This passage in Aramaic clearly shows the
emptying of the Divine Life Soul or Nefesh of HaMoshiach. Also, we must be aware that
the TaNaK clearly teaches that YHWH
does have a soul (Nefesh).
- Lev
26:11-12 And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul
shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and will be your Elohim, and
ye shall be My people.
- Isa
1:14 Your new
moons and your appointed seasons My soul hateth; they are a burden unto Me; I
am weary to bear them.
These two witnesses from the TaNaK prove that YHWH has a Divine Nefesh in some sort of Divine blood.
Yahshua HaMoshiach emptied His Divine
Nefesh with its Divine blood and
exchanged it for the blood of a man, thus taking on Himself a human nefesh with blood, howbeit perfect
blood. This mirrors the creation of the First Adam, who had innocent /perfect
blood before he transgressed the commandment of YHWH concerning eating from the
fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The man, Yahshua, was the
vessel/tabernacle or container chosen to hold the Soul of HaMoshiach. Even though Yahshua had a
human nefesh as the Word made flesh,
He emptied Himself of His Higher Soul-consisting of the Ruach, Neshamah, Yechidah, and the Chayah. The Word (the
Messiah) then walked in this world through the man Yahshua. His explains why He
had such miraculous powers of healing, prophecy, and knowing the hearts of men.
This was the anointing of the Messiah.
You ask, How then could Yahshua, being
Elohim, be tempted to sin because Yaakov 1:13 teaches that Elohim cannot be tempted by evil, but yet
Ivrim 4:15 teaches Yahshua was tempted in all points like as we
are? Is this a contradiction in Scripture, and how do we reconcile these two
passages?
- Jas 1:13
-15 Let no one say, being tempted--`From Elohim I am
tempted,' for Elohim is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,
and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,
afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin
having been perfected, doth bring forth death.
- Heb 4:15 for we have not a chief priest unable
to sympathize with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like
manner--apart from sin;
The key of understanding
is that Yahshua was not Ayn
Sof .Unfortunately
most people call Ayn Sof by the false title
G-d. Yahshua was not G-d but He was Elohim. Yahshua was made in the image of
Elohim with the Ruach HaMoshiach in Him and upon Him. The
Divine Soul (Nefesh) of HaMoshiach was exchanged for that of a
man and placed into Yahshua through His physical blood because the Torah
teaches:
- Lev
17:11 For the
life of the flesh (Nefesh in Hebrew) is in the blood; and I have given
it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood
that maketh atonement by reason of the life.
This Divine Nefesh of the Messiah gave up the
position of glory in the heavens and willingly took on a human nefesh. When Moshiach emptied Himself of the Divine
Nefesh, He was given the gift of free
will or choice as a man. He could choose good or evil, sin or righteousness, and
also feel and identify with all the weaknesses of mankind. Yahshua had the Nefesh HaMoshiach and physical blood, proving
He had the soul of a man. THIS IS WHAT WAS TAUGHT BY RAV SHAUL AND THE OTHER
TALMIDIM.
- Php
2:5-11 Have this mind in you, which was also in Yahshua
HaMoshiach: who, existing in the form of Elohim, counted not the being on an
equality with Elohim a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking
the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in
fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of
the stake. Wherefore also Elohim highly exalted him, and gave unto him the
name which is above every name; that in the name of Yahshua every knee
should bow, of things in
heaven and things on earth
and things under the
earth, and that every tongue
should confess that Yahshua HaMoshiach is YHWH, to the glory of Elohim the
Father.
- Who as He was in the likeness of Eloah, did not
consider it presumptuous to be an equal of Eloah .But He emptied His nefesh and took on the
likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of the sons of men and was
found in fashion like a son of
man. And He humbled His nefesh and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the gallows. Because of this, Eloah also highly
exalted Him, and gave Him a Name which is greater than all names. HRV Version-Dr .James
Trimm
As stated above, the First Adam had
perfect blood because he was formed from the perfect dust of the earth, which is
called the womb of Malchut. Yahshua
HaMoshiach (the Second Adam) also had
perfect blood like the First Adam. IF HE DID NOT HAVE THE BLOOD OF A MAN HE
COULD NOT ATONE FOR THE SIN OF THE FIRST ADAM.IF HIS BLOOD WAS TAINTED WITH THE
FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THEN MOSHIACH COULD NOT OFFER
THOSE WHO HAVE INHERITED THE TAINTED BLOOD OF THE FIRST ADAM AFTER HE SINNED.
The sin of man (Adam), require someone to enter this world without the tainted
blood of the rebellion. THE ONLY SOLUTION IS THE FORMATION OF A PERFECT SOUL
WITHIN A CLOSED WOMB (BARREN) PROTECTED FROM THE SIN OF
ADAM.
The Messianic prophecy in Yeshayahu 9:7 contains this
mystery in the Hebrew text.
- Isa
9:7 To the
increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the
throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In
judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, the zeal of YHWH
of Hosts doth this.
The Masoretic text took the Hebrew word
Lmarbeh (to increase) and
interpolated it in the Targum Yeshayahu as great
pride. In trying to protect a hidden mystery in this word, they covered up the
closed MEM ( ,) in the Hebrew word h b r , l and placed a regular MEM (
m
) in its
place. The original text used a closed MEM in the middle of the word Lmarbeh (a closed MEM is only used at
the end of a word). The closed MEM represents a closed womb or belly filled with
waters and the powers of reproduction. The closed MEM is the fountain of Life
for the fetus. The closed MEM also speaks of the arrival of the
Messiah.It alludes to the part of the rule of Elohim which is
concealed to man. It also can mean the first Word of Bereshith In the
Beginning.
This secret is revealed in the name Makom (place) , vqm (notice it contains both the open and
closed MEM). YHWH is called Makom
because He fills all Creation yet no one knows His Dwelling Place, it is
concealed. It also refers to Moshe and the Messiah. The open m refers to hs m (Moshe) because he revealed
the Torah on a level that man could perceive and understand. The concealed Torah
is revealed by the Messiah ( k y s m ) who is represented by the
closed MEM - , .
In a discussion concerning whether
Yechezyahu was the Messiah spoken of in this verse, the Talmud records the
following:
- Of the increase 5 of his government and peace there
shall be no end.6 R. Tanhum said: Bar Kappara expounded in Sepphoris, Why is
every mem in the middle of a word open, whilst this is closed? 7 The Holy
One, blessed be He, wished to appoint Hezekiah as the Messiah, and Sennacherib
as Gog and Magog; 8 whereupon the Attribute of Justice 9 said before the Holy
One, blessed be He: Sovereign of the Universe! If Thou didst not make David
the Messiah, who uttered so many hymns and psalms before Thee, wilt Thou
appoint Hezekiah as such, who did not hymn Thee in spite of all these miracles
which Thou wroughtest for him? Therefore it [sc. the mem] was closed.10
Straightway the earth exclaimed: Sovereign of the Universe! Let me utter song
before Thee instead of this righteous man [Hezekiah], and make him the
Messiah. So it broke into song before Him, as it is written, From the
uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the
righteous.11 Then the Prince of the Universe12 said to Him: Sovereign of the
Universe! It [the earth] hath fulfilled Thy desire [for songs of praise] on
behalf of this righteous man.13 But a heavenly Voice cried out, It is my secret, it is my
secret.14 To which the prophet rejoined, Woe is me, woe is me:15 how
long [must we wait]? Talmud
Sanhedrin 94a
The profound secrets of the Torah are
kept in the womb above and in the womb of the earth below. It follows the
pattern of the new creation that is conceived in the upper womb of the heavens
and grown in the womb below.
- Psa
139:14-16 I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right
well. My frame was not
hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest
parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy
book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained
for me, When as yet there was
none of them.
Blood does not come from the mother. The
mother never exchanges her physical blood with the fetus in her womb. Her blood
brings all the nutrition to the baby and also takes away the waste material. It
is the mother who provides the red color to the blood as she is the one who
oxygenates the cells. So, the blood of the mother has no other connection to the
soul within her womb. The growth of blood cells begins when the white part of
the bone marrow and the structure of the bones come from the fathers genes. It
is the sperm of the father that creates the bone, and from the bone, stem cells
are created. In Hebrew there is an interesting wording in Shemot
24:10:
- And they saw the Elohim of Yisrael; and supporting His
feet with great stability and strength thee appeared to be a brilliant white
sephirah attribute, and standing above it, a pillar of strength as a BONE or a
very strong body with its substance or essence like limbs, as ritually pure as
heaven.[ amplified wording from Hebrew]
The Memra (Word) of the Messiah is the
Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life. It appears as the bone of
heaven.
- John
6:54-55 he who
is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will
raise him up in the last day; for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly
is drink;
Since blood is produced in the bone, and
the Bone of heaven is the Word, and the Word was made flesh, the above
teaching from our Master makes sense. We are to eat His words (the Torah) and
drink His blood, which is His Nefesh,
thus exchanging our Adamic blood with fresh blood that comes from Moshiach, which originates from the
Bone of heaven. We become part of His mystical Body in this world which has a
spine (the bone that supports the skeleton) and its limbs or
branches.
- Gen
2:23 And the man said: 'This is now bone of
my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man.'
This saying by Adam alludes
to the Bride of Moshiach.
- Eph
5:30 because we are members of His body, from His flesh
and from His bones.
Adam
Kadmon fashioned Himself an image
made in His likeness. However, this formation of Adam did not come through the
physical conjunction of male and female. Adam is cognate to adom (red), the least broken ray of the
spectrum of the pure ray of Light; which means man (Adam) is the nearest
revelation of Elohim on earth. Adam is also related to domeh, likeness. Adam is actually the
representative or alter ego of the Creator. It is very interesting that when we
add up the sum of the spelling of the Hebrew letters of YHWH
a h v
a v a h d v y the sum of the 10 Hebrew letters of the Name in its milut form (alluding to the 10 Sefirot)
is 45, which is the exact sum of the word Adam - , d a .
- Luke
3:38; the son of Enosh, the son of Shet, the son of
Adam, the son of Eloah
In the minds of the ancient Jewish sages,
the ruach of Adam existed before the
creation of the earthly Adam and was preexistent to the whole creation. Philo spoke of the Logos:
- According to this there is a double form
of mans existence: for Elohim created a heavenly Adam in the spiritual world
and an earthly one of clay for the material world. the earthly Adam came first
into view, although created last. The first Adam was of flesh and blood and
therefore subject to death-merely a living soul; the second Adam was a
life-giving spirit-a spirit whose body, like the heavenly beings in general,
was only of a spiritual nature
Messiah, as the Midrash remarks is, on one and,
the First Adam, the original man who existed before creation, his spirit being
already present. On the other hand, he is also the Second Adam in so far as
his bodily appearance followed creation, and inasmuch as, according to the
flesh, he is the posterity of Adam
With Philo the original man is an idea:
with Paul he is the personality of Yahshua. Jewish Encyclopedia,
Vol.p.181-182.
This quote from Philo holds a key to what
Rav Shaul wrote concerning the resurrection.
- 1Co
15:45
-49: So also it is written, `The first son of man (Adam)
became a living nefesh, and the last Adam, a quickening spirit. But the
spiritual was not first, but the natural and then the spiritual. The first son
of man was dust that was from the earth. The second man was YHWH from heaven.
As that one of dust is, so also are those from dust. And as that one who is
from heaven is, so also are those from heaven. And as we have worn the
likeness of that one who is from dust, thus we will wear the likeness of that
one who is from heaven. HRV
- Rev.1:17-18:
Fear not;
I am the first and the last. Even he who is alive and was dead,
and behold I am alive forever and ever. Amen.
We read further in the Jewish
Encyclopedia from a section quoting from the Clementine Homilies and
Recognitions:
-
he (the man who accepts the concept that the ruach
of Moshiach was the First Adam) would act most piously if he should say that
He alone has it who has changed His form and His name from the beginning of
the world, and so appeared again and again in the world until, coming into his
own times
He shall enjoy rest forever. Jewish Encyclopedia ,Vol. 1,pg.182
If the
First Adam was made a living soul brought forth from the womb of Malchut without the help of any physical
seed of man, could it be that the Second Adam would follow in the same pattern?
I believe this truth answers all the controversy concerning the conception of
the Messiah.
Since the need for perfect blood to
perform the tikkun olam, only a
virgin birth could make sense that Yahshua was the embodiment of Adam Kadmon who had come into the world.
The Word made flesh would not need the intervention of a human sperm since its
conception would come from the Ruach.
According to Kabbalah the Ruach is in Tiferet (the Middle Column) Who then
impregnates Malchut through Yesod (the Tzaddik) which is the organ that
delivers the seed (the Word).If the Ruach of Tiferet (male) enters the womb of Malchut (female) through Yesod (the male organ), then there is no
reason why Miryam could not have been the physical womb of Malchut. The reality is that the
impregnation was heavenly not earthly. It happened on a mystical level between
Adam Kadmon above and His Bride. The
virgin birth could explained as a newly conceive spiritual life made physical
and implanted in a womans physical womb. This technique would guarantee the
transfer of the perfect blood from the Soul of Elohim to the Soul of the Word,
made flesh. The virgin birth could take place in this manner and not violate the
Torah.
Further proof of the virgin birth of the
Messiah can be found in the Zohar in a discussion on the
formation of Adam, who was both male and female when he was created. Read the
following excerpt from the Zohar concerning the formation of
Adam.
- Herein is a profound mystery, viz. that the Archetypal
Adam took shape and form without the co- operation of the Female, but a second
Man was engraved and formed from the seed and energy of the first within a
female. Archetypal Adam took shape and bodily image out of the substance of
the Future World without the conjunction of male and female [see Matt.22:30].
Certain letters materialized within a measured outline, and the mystery of
Adam was formed and shaped in them[ Yochanan 1:14], these letters having
proceeded in a direct line in their proper order from the mystery of primeval
light [ I Am the Alef and the Tav]. Only when the Female came to him with her
adornments, and they turned face to face, was a desire conceived whereby
within the Female [Malchut] a likeness of Adam was conceived and shaped. This
was within the Female [Malchut], but not so the first Adam, who was formed
within the measured outline, as already said. A corresponding process took
place on earth. We read: And Adam knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and
bare Cain (Gen. IV, I). Together with Adam's energy it was that which had
been left of the ape element in her that produced Cain. Therefore of Cain's
birth it does not say, And he begat but she bare a son. The reason for its
saying of Abel also, And she again bare his brother Abel, is that, although
he was conceived of the Masculine side, yet the Accuser weakened Adam's power
and energy. Shemot,
Sec.2,167b
Adam
Kadmon fashioned for himself an image,
made in His likeness. The formation of Adam did not come about through the
physical joining of a male and female-thus the First Adam was made a Living Soul
brought out of the womb of Malchut
without the need of a fathers physical seed. Why couldnt the Second Adam
follow the exact same pattern?
The virgin birth makes sense since
perfect blood was needed for the Tikkun
Olam .Yahshua was the incarnation of the Archetypal Adam Kadmon who had come into this
world. The Word made flesh would not need any human sperm from a human male to
be conceived. The conception would be from the Ruach. The Ruach is in Tiferet Who impregnates Malchut through Yesod, which is the organ the delivers
the Seed of the Word. We can know see that Miryam could be the physical womb of
Malchut. This impregnation took place
on a higher spiritual plane between Adam
Kadmon and His Bride. The virgin birth then would be a newly conceived
spiritual life made physical and implanted in the womb of a maiden. This would
guarantee the perfect blood from the Soul of Elohim to the Soul of the Word made
flesh.
Thus, the Logos, the Memra, or the Dvar is a manifestation of the Ten
Sefirot, which is also known as Elohim. The Word comes alive because of Adam Kadmon, the Heavenly Man, or the
Original Man. The Ten Sefirot is the original image of Adam and from this
archetype of Adam there was a mirror image in the earthly
Adam.
Yahshua , as the Second Adam, had his
feet in Malchut and His head in Keter .He began the process of Tikkun Olam that the First Adam damaged by his fall.
Yahshua reconnected earthly Man with Adam
Kadmon, the Adam Below with the Adam Above (Elohim). Yahshua grew in stature
into the same spiritual dimension that was enjoyed by the First Adam before he
fell.
The Second Adam atoned for the sin of the
First Adam. The First Adams transgression contaminated the blood of all
mankind. Because Yahshua was faithful in fulfilling His role as HaMoshiach, He was made the Mediator
between man and Elohim (1 Tim.
2:5).
The man Yahshua was the earthly garment
of the Torah (Word).Yahshua was the expression of the Nefesh Tiferet, the Son of Yah. We do
not worship the garment so we do not worship or pray to the man Yahshua. We
distinguish between the garment and the Soul Life within the garment, between
the Image and the Essence. We pray to our Father in the Heavens, Who has a Nefesh, and that Nefesh is the Will of Ayn Sof, called Adam Kadmon. The body is in subjection
to the head, so the Nefesh is subject
to the Will. We honor the Soul by respecting the Body of Messiah and showing
reverence to Yahshua, the Garment of the Soul.
- Since through Man (Adam) death, and through Man (Adam)
resurrection of dead. As for in Adam all die, so also in Messiah all will be
made alive.1
Cor.15:21-22
- The Torah, however, contains in all its words supernal
truths and sublime mysteries. Rabbi R.
Simeon