Matt. 23

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Akhi Dawid,

I have not read the Kabbalah per se. I have read extracts and a history of Bible codes (Cracking The Bible Code-Jeffrey Satinover,M.D.), going back to Maimonides, The Rambam and other Medieval Rabbis who searched the Torah for coded information and Gematria patterns, the Fibonacci sequence of numbers, The letters of fire, Atbash encryption, The All sufficiency of Torah: The 18th century Lithuanian Rabbi, Vilna Gaon said, "All that was, is, and will be unto the end of time is included in The Torah, the first five books of The Bible." I have also seen the movie, "The Chosen", which is about a young man, David?, the son of a Hassidic Rabbi who was also apparently very heavily invested in certain Kabbalah teachings, including hidden Gematria codes in Hebrew scripture. An excellent biography! I believe I read the book also.
I certainly agree with Albion's warning about Kabbalah. It is a mix of truth and error, which makes it all the more intriguing, subtle & seductive. I certainly would not use it as a source for doctrine about The Messiah as the second Sephirah. Scripture plainly says He is YHWH, not merely a part or parts of him.

It is equally inaccurate to say the hand did it, not the man, and to say that the hand is a part of the man, therefore the hand is the man

We are discussing God, not a man; however, we do use this same kind of metaphor to express human activity or attributes. "He is a loud mouth." The man is called a mouth to express what stands out about the man, so in this case, the mouth is the man. "He is a hothead". The head is the man. "He is a Fat ass."; you get the idea.

Yeshua is called the Arm of YHWH; He is also named YHWH, so we cannot limit Him to a body part of YHWH. The Arm represents The entire Person, but particularly with reference to His power-(Meshikha,Khayla d'Alaha, "The Messiah,The Power of God") 1 Cor. 1:24

Yeshua Himself referred to Messiah as YHWH, as I pointed out, in Matthew 22:42-45.

Shlama,

Dave