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Thursday, August 24, 2017

The Law of the Messiah - V'ahavta (...and you shall love...") - Hadassah from Jerusalem

Hadassah

Jerusalem, Israel

V’ahavta

וְאָהַבְתָּ ‘…And you shall love…’

The Law of the Messiah

Hadassah from Jerusalem, Israel

To know and to do God’s will. This seems to be the question on most true Believer’s hearts: LORD what is your will? God has made His will clear in the Word that He has given us- His commandments, His Laws. But especially through His Son Y’shua’s words and example did He reveal Himself and His heart towards us and His will.

With so many decrees and laws to know and follow we can get bogged down- overwhelmed. Even in His day, an observant Jewish man asked Y’shua which Law is the greatest. Recorded in three of the Gospels (Mt 22:37, Mk 12:30, Lk 10:27), Y’shua quotes to him from the well-known daily prayer the Sh’ma (Deut. 6:5): “And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”

In Mark, Y’shua continues: "The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

The second commandment is actually the ‘how to’ live out the first commandment. How do we love God so completely- by loving the Family of Faith.

“If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.” (I John 4:20)

And the LORD tells us that the world will know we are His- by our love for one another!

“A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

(John 13:34,35)

In Galatians 6:2 we read a practical application: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."

In this verse we see the specific fulfilling of the Law of Christ is done by bearing each other’s burdens. How do we show this love for one another in the Body of Messiah? Taking care of the widows and orphans, praying for those who are hurt and sick, sharing physical provision…. The list is endless.

When a Body member is going thru a major illness or crisis- one that seems to have no solution or end in sight- can we come to them in their suffering and walk with them? Can we listen without judgement and unasked-for advice? Will we ‘carry’ them on our shoulders in prayer? Are we able to lay down our lives for them in acts of loving kindness and service?

To bear one another’s burdens IS to FULFILL the Law of our Messiah. It is the maximum of His example when He came and ultimately carried our burden of sin and suffering.

It is not easy to consistently walk with someone who is suffering. To keep them encouraged. To hold them in your heart before the Throne. To not get weary in well-doing. We must remember- that we are yoked with the Messiah in this walk and He says that His burden is easy (Mt 11:30).

Continually go to Him and ask for the Grace to endure WITH your Brother. To weep with your Sister. Being very realistic about your personal limitations- do not let those be and excuse to not be ‘present’. We each have a part we can play and with the Grace of Y’shua we can answer His passionate garden question: ‘Will you not tarry with me one hour?’

We can choose to love one another and ‘tarry’ with one another and so fulfill the Law of our Messiah.

Nissim & Hadassah

Jerusalem, Israel

Hadassah and Nissim, her accountant husband, live in a settlement just outside Jerusalem with their dog Molly. After making Aliyah (immigrating) from the U.S. with their five children in 1989, they are now semi-retired and open their home to guests and those wishing to make Aliyah. When not busy with their 16 'GrandWonders', they enjoy a quiet life of study, prayer and learning to serve the LORD.

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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Israel on Sunday, April 30

Landing in Israel this afternoon. Wish my good wife Laurie was with me!

Blessings on her head!

Steve Martin
Love For His People

Sunday, March 22, 2015

"The Servant Took Ten Camels" ✡ Great Hebrew Lesson

And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; having all goodly things of his master's in his hand; and he arose, and went to Aram-naharaim, unto the city of Nahor.

GENESIS (24:10)

וַיִּקַּח הָעֶבֶד עֲשָׂרָה גְמַלִּים מִגְּמַלֵּי אֲדֹנָיו וַיֵּלֶךְ וְכָל טוּב אֲדֹנָיו בְּיָדוֹ וַיָּקָם וַיֵּלֶךְ אֶל אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם אֶל עִיר נָחוֹר

בראשית כד:י

va-yi-kakh ha-e-ved a-sa-ra g'-ma-leem mi-g'-ma-lay a-do-nav va-yay-lekh v'-khol tuv a-do-nav b'-ya-do va-ya-kom va-yay-lekh el a-ram na-ha-ra-yim el eer na-khor

Today's Israel Inspiration

The Hebrew word for camel is גמל, 'gamal,' which also means “to be independent,” as seen here: “And the boy grew up, and was weaned (vayigamal)” (Genesis 21:8). The name describes the camel's ability to survive without water for many months. (Rabbi Natan Slifkin). It is fitting that the independent camel journeyed with Abraham's servant, bringing back a wife for Isaac, as Rebecca made the independent choice to leave her family and join Isaac in the Land of Israel. This Passover, help the 70 Jewish families who have bravely and independently chosen to reside in holy Hebron, amongst 97% Arabs, in order to safeguard the city's holy sites, including the tombs of Isaac and Rebecca.

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A camel in the Negev Desert by Boruch Len. Camels have been an important part of the Holy Land’s landscape from Biblical times as described by Isaiah, “they carry their wealth...and riches upon the camels’ hump” (30:6).

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

World War I in the Middle East - I'd Walk 100 Miles with My Camel

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World War I in the Middle East - I'd Walk 100 Miles with My Camel

Posted: 29 Sep 2014

Volunteer Arab Camel Corps led by Turkish officers leaving Jerusalem (circa (1915)

The scope of the World War I battles in Palestine are simply not understood by most students of the Middle East today. The Turkish, German, Austrian, British, ANZAC and Indian forces numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

Mounted troops from the Australian, British, New Zealand and Indian battalions of the Imperial Camel Corps

To provide some perspective, we present pictures of one of the most utilized tools of that war -- the camel. Tens of thousands were used in the war in Palestine.

Australian camel corps hat pin

The difficult terrain of the Sinai, the Jordan Valley, and the Samarian/Judean hills required extensive use of the sturdy and powerful four-legged "supply truck."

Consider this report by a New Zealand officer in his book With the Cameliers in Palestine:

In the advance up the coastal plain in Palestine, in November, 1917, General Allenby used thirty thousand (30,000) camels for carrying food, water and ammunition to the troops of one portion of the eastern force of his army.

A Turkish account of the war, and specifically the 1914-1915 campaign against the British on the Suez Canal, describes the forces and the logistical nightmare of crossing the Sinai desert:

Turkish Camel Corps in Be'er Sheva, 1915

The gathering point for the VIII Corps was Beersheba, which was inland, well away from the reach of British naval artillery. From there, 25,000 men would march 300 kilometres across the desert and reach Ismailia. However, this was nothing but a mission impossible. Moreover, every man was allowed one kilogram of food and drink water per day and this meant that they needed 15,000 camels. But what they had was just 2,000 animals. [Commander] Cemil Paşa mentioned this problem in his memoirs as follows: “I think there are many people who are wandering why we couldn't find the required 15,000 camels in a place like Syria and Hejaz. We had to find 14,000 camels within one month.” Five kilograms of barley and 18 kilograms of water were allowed per horse and three kilograms of barley and five kilograms of water was allowed per camel.

British Imperial Camel Corps outside of Be'er Sheva on November 1,

1917, during the critical battle to capture the Turkish outpost and wells

The Turkish account continues, describing the Turkish army's strength after difficult battles in Gaza and prior to the British General Allenby's move north into Palestine: As of May 1917, the Ottoman Fourth Army was consisting of 174,908 men, 36,225 animals, 5,351 camels, 145,840 rifles, 187 machine guns and 282 artillery pieces.

Click on pictures to enlarge. Click on captions to view the original pictures.

World War I combat ambulances. Camels carrying wounded Turkish soldiers -- two per camel

on a litter called a "kankalah" or "cacolet." (1917, Ottoman Imperial Archives) See also here

Wounded Australian cavalrymen on their way to

medical attention (Australian War Memorial)

The following description is from
"With the Cameliers in Palestine:"

The field ambulance, instead of using wheeled vehicles, transported the sick and wounded in "caco-lets," on the backs of camels. These consisted of two canvas stretchers balanced horizontally, one on each side of a specially constructed saddle. In these the wounded men could either sit or lie at full length, and were shaded from the sun by a small canvas hood. The jolting

Indian army's camel ambulances

motion of the camel frequently was most trying to the badly wounded men, but it was sometimes a case of this kind of carriage, or death, and these camel cacolets, going as they did where wheeled transport was impossible, undoubtedly were the means of saving the lives of many wounded men who otherwise would have had a poor chance of being carried back to safety.

Only male camels were used in the

German soldiers loading wounded onto an "ambulance," 1918

Camel Brigade. It would have been an unworkable system to have mixed the sexes, as in the East no mutilation of male animals, either horses, donkeys or camels for sterilisation purposes, is ever practised by the Mohammedans.

British Imperial Camel Corps "ambulances" in action, 1916

Horses generally have a strong dislike for camels, but this dislike can be overcome by daily contact. Some of the officers of higher rank of each battalion used horses during part of the campaign, and these soon grew quite accustomed to the company of their more ungainly associates.

Turkish army camel convoy, 1917. The caption in the Harvard University places the picture near the modern

northern Israeli town of Afula in the Jezreel Valley. The body of water, however, suggests it was taken near the

Hula Valley swamps which was sparsely populated by a Bedouin tribe living in reed huts, likely pictured here.

Turkish officers at David's Citadel in Jerusalem

Turkish camel corps in Jerusalem

Original caption: The Camel Transport of the Australian Light Horse at the railhead dump, on the Philistine Plain (near Ashkelon). The camels are seen on their way to the forward area, loaded with Australian frozen mutton for the troops. In the background can be seen the tent camp.