{"id":2867,"date":"2025-07-27T06:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2025-07-27T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:59:33","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-matot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cMatot\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&#8217;s annual cycle Torah reading is parsha &#8220;Pinchas,&#8221; Numbers 30:2 through chapter 32) and &#8211; in part at least &#8211; it wraps up one of the mysteries in the Torah, how can a people so blessed of YHVH fall so quickly into idolatry, and beset by &#8216;plague?&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is far more, and the issue of &#8220;vows&#8221; literally envelops the narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it still does today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SSM-7-25-25-Matot-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day midrash is at attempt to connect a collection of dots that range from broken vows and lying prophets to bioweaponry and ELE asteroid impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prophet Bilaam really wanted to curse the mixed multitude of Israel, but was explicitly forbidden to do so, on pain of death &#8211; as he learned &#8220;the hard way.&#8221; Only &#8220;the word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.&#8221; And yet, like so many ancient popes and modern traitors in politics, he thought he was smarter than God Himself, and could find a &#8220;workaround.&#8221; It cost him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we don&#8217;t have a Moses to &#8220;hang &#8217;em high,&#8221; or a Pinchas to literally run them through, &#8216;en flagrante delecto,&#8217; with a spear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which only makes the potential consequences all the more deadly. And imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Matot: From Vows and Oaths to Lying Prophets and then Treason &#8211; to Plagues and Planet X&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WT-CooH-7-26-25-Matot-Broken-Vows-Lying-Prophets-Treason-and-Planet-X-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-matot\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-matot\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2025 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Matot&#8221; (Numbers 30-32) and related Scripture. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,69,151,35,9,11,1739,12],"tags":[2145,1242,46,2158,88,2157,63,2155,2156,104,263,2153,2152,2140,2147,2151,110,2149,2146,2150,2144,212,1153,876,2143,2142,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}