Welcome back to Marie Speaks G-d’s Grace Bible Study

Shalom Children of G-d!

This week’s Jewish terminology words are: Friend – yedeed/-ah, Friendliness- yakhas yedeedootee, friendly- yedeedootee, friendship- yedeedoot

This week’s Hebrew and Jewish terminology words is: Family -messp|ah/ahot

Which is a play from our last lesson with the Hebrew and Jewish Word of The Week: Family -messp|ah/ahot; in which was spoke about the Britannica.com defines family as:

Family, a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings.

The family group should be distinguished from a household, which may include boarders and roomers sharing a common residence.

It should also be differentiated from a kindred (which also concerns blood lines), because a kindred may be divided into several households.

Frequently the family-messp|ah/ahot is not differentiated from the marriage pair, but the essence of the family group is the parent-child relationship, which may be absent from many marriage pairs.

During the lesson, we review a bit of history as well as the thought that often times friends can become members of a family. Whether is be through marriage or close relationships and life experiences.

https://mariespeaksgodsgrace.wordpress.com/hebrew-and-jewish-terminology-word-of-the-week-family-messpah-ahot/

In this lesson we will dive a little more into history of how some families came to be( as far as a general over view of my family history), over time. 
I hope everyone enjoys and also if not already, begins to look into their own family history.

How awesome is that!!!!!! 
I love love love researching!!!!!!

I used 3 books to aide me in my research this lesson are from my personal home library:

I truly enjoyed studying and researching this week’s Jewish Terminology Word.

What lead me to research specifically this word?

Last week we spoke about family history, how families are created, used, and destroyed, and hopefully how to protect the family unit from those evil “forces” that seek to destroy it.

Over Shabbat, I was studying and praying and praying and studying. I was reading and kept notices that words family and friends. THis made me want to see if there was any Tehillim that spoke about friends or friendship.

B’H, I found Tehillim 133, of which we will be reviewing in the final lesson for Season 6 of Marie Speaks G-d’s Grace Bible Study.

In this lesson I want to talk about relationships that G’W, might lead to family…… friends.

This being the last video of Season 6 of Marie Speaks G-d’s Grace, I want to say how very much this Bible Study and you wonderful friends and family have meant to me. You all have been and witnessed and lovingly helped and guided me in so many ways. With loving corrections and will words of support.

And although, we may never meet and we may only be virtual family, I want everyone to know truly have very important each and everyone of you are… not only to me, but more importantly to Almighty G-d!

Friends, and friendship, and acting friendly or in kind-ship, is another way or useful human experience that is an essential part of a souls repair and perfection-ing (if that’s a word) process.

After all it is often times of how a family is made…. friendship.

I can’t even tell everyone here how often I have been trying to dig through learning my own family history and found out I am not bloodline related to someone, yet somehow they are family.

I have also found that I might be bloodline related to someone, yet they are a complete stranger.. or just plain…. strange… hahaha that’s a joke..

Moving along with the study….

credit to my study source:

Anyhow, another book I use from my home library, Tehillim Books of Psalms which has commentary from Talmud, Midrash, Kabbalah, classic commentators, and Chasidic Masters has the commentary paragraph by page 133:1 paragraph pg 276a commentary titled When brothers will dwell together and it clarifies:

How good and pleasant it will be when all Jews will dwell in brotherly love upon their land. The will dwell together- the kingdom will no longer be divided into two as it was in the past (Metzudot)

The destruction of the Second Temple occurred because of senseless hatred among the Jewish people. The Psalmist therefore describes the condition that will end the exile and bring about the redemption: brotherly love (Alshich)

Metzudat David on Psalms 133:3

Rabbi Mike Feuer

As the dew of Hermon – Like the dew which descends from Mount Hermon onto the mountains of Zion which are lower than it, so comes the influx by way of the king to the rest of the people.

for there in Zion the Lord commanded the blessing, life forever. That is to say that the inflow comes to Zion and rests first on the king who rules there, and from there it is poured out on the rest of the people. Therefore it is good that they be united.

Soooooo I asked myself…….

Are there stories in the Tanakh or Torah that speak about friends and family relationships?

Yes, of course. The Torah and Tanakh repeatedly review relationships no only of family, but friends and don’t forget enemies that pretend to be friends or friends who become enemies.

First we talk about G-d, talking to Moses as a friend and family member.

Exodus 33:11 And the Lord spoke to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned back to the camp: but his servant Yehoshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart out of the Tent.

Then we have a verse of which we are commanded to loving correct a friend and not aide them in evil, evil lifestyle, or corrupt deeds. The verse as speaks to the consequence of not loving rebuking a friend, that we too could be held accountable for their wickedness.

Leviticus 19:17

You shall not hate your brother in your heart; You shall certainly rebuke your friend; [but] you shall not bear a sin on his account.

In my opinion Deuteronomy Devarim ch 13 : 6-19 explains family friends and duty to our True Friend and Creator HaShem, Blessed be He, the best.

As for that prophet or dream-diviner, such a one shall be put to death for having urged disloyalty to your God יהוה —who freed you from the land of Egypt and who redeemed you from the house of bondage—to make you stray from the path that your God יהוה commanded you to follow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
If your brother, your own mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your closest friend entices you in secret, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”—whom neither you nor your ancestors have experienced —
from among the gods of the peoples around you, either near to you or distant, anywhere from one end of the earth to the other:
do not assent or give heed to any of them. Show no pity or compassion, and do not cover up the matter;
but take that person’s life. Let your hand be the first to put that person to death, followed by the hand of the rest of the people.
Stone that person to death for having sought to make you stray from your God יהוה, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not be done again in your midst.
If you hear it said, of one of the towns that your God יהוה is giving you to dwell in,
that some scoundrels from among you have gone and subverted the inhabitants of their town, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”—whom you have not experienced—
you shall investigate and inquire and interrogate thoroughly. If it is true, the fact is established—that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in your midst—
put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and put its cattle to the sword. Doom it and all that is in it to destruction:
gather all its spoil into the open square, and burn the town and all its spoil as a holocaust to your God יהוה. And it shall remain an everlasting ruin, never to be rebuilt.
Let nothing that has been doomed stick to your hand, in order that יהוה may turn from a blazing anger and show you compassion, and in compassion increase you as promised on oath to your fathers—
for you will be heeding your God יהוה, obeying all the divine commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, doing what is right in the sight of your God יהוה.

Are the great saying or advice from our Sages of Blessed memory or of today, that speak about friendship or friends and so on?

Pirkei Avot 1:6
Yehoshua ben Perachia says, “Make for yourself a mentor, acquire for yourself a friend and judge every person as meritorious.”

Pirkei Avot 2:4
[For Yochanan Cohein Gadol served as high-priest for eighty years, and, in the end, became a Sadducee ], and do not judge your friend until you arrive at his place [i.e., if you see your friend being tested

Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5
And also, to promote peace among the creations, that no man would say to his friend, “My ancestors are greater than yours.”…But the King, the King of Kings, The Holy One [blessed be He] strikes every man from the die of the First Man, and yet no man is quite like his friend.

How can we build or create a community(world) of different peoples who are different yet friends or friendly?

Zohar, Achrei Mot 1, Sefaria Community Translation

In the same fashion, “the song of songs which is Solomon’s” (Shir Hashirim 1:1), a song that stands above all other songs. “A song, a psalm”. It is a song describing the Holy One, blessed be He, which the sons of Korach were singing about those who were dwelling in the doorway of Gehenom. Who were (the sons of Korach)? They were the brothers of those residing at the gates of Geheno.

As a result, this song was recited on Monday (in the Temple). I approached them and said to them: What are you doing in this place? They replied: We are merchants, but twice weekly we leave our community to study Torah here because (in the settlement we are disturbed) by people and they do not allow us (to study Torah). I replied to them: How fortunate is your lot.

Furthermore, they said: Every time that the righteous depart this world, there is likewise annulled from this world all the harsh decrees, and the death of the righteous brings forgiveness for the sins of the generation. Therefore, we read the portion dealing with the sons of Aaron on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) to bring forgiveness for the sins of Yisrael.

The Holy One, blessed be He, says, ‘Contemplate the death of these pious ones, and it will be accredited for you, as if you offered sacrifice this day to attain forgiveness.’ We have learned that as long as Yisrael will be in exile and neither be able to offer offerings on this day nor will they be able to offer the two goats, they will at least have the memory of the two sons of Aaron. Thus, it will serve as atonement for them.

Now,

before some get into the incorrect thought that some how the Nation of Israel believe in virgin or human sacrifice, no we do not! The canaanite belief is all Rome 325.

The Judaism thought behind why the righteous die young or unexpectedly, is that due to the sinful or greatly wicked state of a society or city; the righteous are removed. Thus, leaving the wicked to kind of fend for themselves, because they rejected or bore great hatred of the righteous. That’s a basic level explanation, hope that helps.

Now, Old Dictionary Time!

I have a wonderful old falling about dictionary in my home library : Library of Universal Knowledge@1948, 1954 published by Consolidated Book Publishers printed in the god old US of A. It in my opinion is a wonderful old book! The kind of which are so very difficult to find now a days.

Anyhow, this book define friend as – to love, freund and friend are similar in form. Fiend. Free.

One who is attached to another by affection; one who has esteem and regard for another and love his society; one not hostile; one of the the same nation, party, or kin; one who looks with favour upon a cause, institution, or the like;

also a term of salutation or familiar address- Society of Friends, the name assumed be the society of dissenters commonly called Quakers, – to be friends with- to feel as a friend toward; to be friendly towards: may be used when a single person is the friend of another.

So we have family, friend let's look at the definition of genealogy:

genealogy

noun

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; an enumeration of ancestors and their descendants in the natural order of succession.
In biology, a similar tracing of the lines of descent of animals or plants from ancestral forms. See evolution.
Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor.

#funfact there is a song that is commonly sung on the Shabbat about a friendship of sorts

LEKAH DODI ( = “Come, my friend” [to meet the bride])

jewishencycolpedia.com explains this about

LEKAH DODI ( = “Come, my friend” [to meet the bride]):

By: Cyrus Adler, Francis L. Cohen

The initial words of the refrain of a hymn for the service of inauguration of the Sabbath, written about the middle of the sixteenth century by Solomon ha-Levi Alḳabiẓ, who signed eight of its nine verses with his acrostic. The author draws much of his phraseology from Isaiah’s prophecy of Israel’s restoration, and six of his verses are full of the thoughts to which his vision of Israel as the bride on the great Sabbath of Messianic deliverance gives rise. It is practically the latest of the Hebrew poems regularly accepted into the liturgy, both in the southern use, which the author followed, and in the more distant northern rite.

English Translation translated on chabad.org: