{"id":1464,"date":"2020-10-01T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2021-06-02T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:20:25","slug":"wholehearted-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wholehearted-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Wholehearted with God…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In the Torah we read, “Keep yourselves away from a false matter” (Exod. 23:7). In this connection note that the Hebrew word for falsehood (or lie) is sheker (\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e7\u05b6\u05e8), which can be rearranged to spell kesher (\u05e7\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8), meaning a band, gang, or group of people… The power of the lie is often found in the “group” rather than in the individual, and if enough people in a group repeat something untrue, eventually the individual’s conscience will be overruled and the truth will be lost… This is a common methodology regularly employed by mass media for purposes of political propaganda.<\/p>\n

Regarding this commandment Abraham Twerski comments that it means we should act in a way that will not move us to \u201chide,\u201d and that includes hiding within the anonymity of the crowd. \u201cThink about what you are about to do. Is there a possibility that you may at some time have to deny that you did it? If so, then do not do it\u201d (Twerski on Chumash).<\/p>\n

Each of us must individually strive to be yashar (\u05d9\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05e8) – upright and honest, and free from the complications and devious speech that attends to lies. We are to be “simple” (\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05de\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd) with the LORD our God (Deut. 18:13), which requires that we are first willing to be rigorously honest with ourselves. A favorite quote of mine: “No person is saved except by grace; but there is one sin that makes grace impossible, and that is dishonesty; and there is one thing God must forever and unconditionally require, and that is honesty” (Kierkegaard).<\/p>\n

Deut. 18:3 Hebrew reading lesson (click):<\/p>\n

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In the Torah we read, “Keep yourselves away from a false matter” (Exod. 23:7). In this connection note that the Hebrew word for falsehood (or lie) is sheker (\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e7\u05b6\u05e8), which can be rearranged to spell kesher (\u05e7\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8), meaning a band, gang, or group of people… The power of the lie is often found in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dvar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4296,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}