Prison Weekly Sabbath Elul 13, 5768
The Hebrew month is Elul These Parashahs HaShavuah are for Sabbath Elul 13, 5768
Torah Parashahs HaShavuah Ki Tetse " When you Go out " Deuteronomy 21:10- 25:19
Haftarah Isaiah 54:1-10 & Brit Hadasha Luke 20:27-38
Next Weeks Readings are Torah Ki Tavo "When you enter in "
Haftarah Isaiah 60:1-22 & Brit Hadasha Romans 11:1-15
Topics in this week's portion include: Women Captives, First-Born's Share, The Rebellious Son, Hanging and Burial, Returning Lost Articles, The Fallen Animal, Transvestitism, The Bird's Nest, Guard-Rails, Mixed Agriculture, Forbidden Combinations, Bound Tassels, Defamed Wife, Penalty for Adultery, Betrothed Maiden, Rape, Unmarried Girl, Mutilated Genitals, Mamzer, Ammonites & Moabites, Edomites & Egyptians, The Army Camp, Sheltering Slaves, Prostitution, Deducted Interest, Keeping Vows, Worker in a Vineyard, Field Worker, Divorce and Remarriage, New Bridegroom, Kidnapping, Leprosy, Security for Loans, Paying Wages on Time, Testimony of Close Relatives, Widows and Orphans, Forgotten Sheaves, Leftover Fruit, Flogging, The Childless Brother-in-Law, Weights and Measures, Remembering What Amalek Did to Us.
Dvar Torah
based on Growth Through Torah by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
The Torah commands us to assist others physically in their time of need:
"You shall not see the donkey or the ox of your brother stumble on the way and hide yourself from them. Rather, you shall lift them up with him" (Deut. 22:4).
Why does the Torah specify the words "with him"?
The Sages clarify in the Talmud that if a person who needs help tells you, "I'm going to rest right now. You have a mitzvah to help me, so help me all by yourself," then you are not obligated to help him for the Torah states "with him." You need not allow someone to take advantage of you just because you want to do kindness and he is lazy.
It is important to understand the Torah's definition of what constitutes being taken advantage of. If a person always refuses to lend you his things, but then one day he comes to request that you lend him something, what is your obligation? Here the Torah position is very clear that you are obligated to help him and to refuse is a violation of the commandment, "Do not take revenge" (Leviticus 19:18). What is the difference between this and the above?
The principle is that whenever a person sincerely needs your help you should help him - even if he does not reciprocate by helping you in return. This is true even if he will never help you. As a matter of fact, the highest level of kindness, chesed shel emes (true kindness), is to do a kindness when you know you will receive nothing in return. (Preparing a person for burial and burying him is the usual example; there is no way the individual can return the kindness.)
Therefore, if a person has a valid reason that he is unable to work with you, then you should help him in any event - and focus on the pleasure of helping without any resentment! by Rabbi Kalman Packouz
Mission Updates:
Greetings Saints, Just a short note of clarification or new update since have been blessed by being able to get into the food bank and to answer some questions to new people on our lists. We have been giving the people more snacks and things to drink like being able to give them energy drinks or canned tea to go or with their meals. It has been a blessing to be able to give them even 6 packs to go. We have been putting things like peanuts on the table things that are normal to us but a real blessing to the people. Also we have gotten meat to put on sandwiches and really I do not know what all, but it has been a blessing. The food-bank does have some things for food boxes we buy and mom went to aldi's to make up the rest. We had not been able to give out food boxes until we go into the food bank and now they are made up as they are asked for. No I do not know how many but as I am not Kitchen help, yuk yuk....but I did see them make up to 4 at once the other day for people waiting. We also had the question come up to us where we got money to buy food? Okay we have three sources for funding; Our mail out newsletter, people who read about us on the net, a few people, very few in Wichita or very close, and people who listen to us on radio. Some people as far away as say the Netherlands has donated funds. Sometimes we have money donated for certain reasons like the awning out back, that $1,000 is still in what we call the building account waiting on the blueprint to be bought off. Sometimes money is donated to the food account for food and that is separate, mostly people donate and leave it to our judgment. Sometimes people send us boxes of things like coats, blankets, clothing, toiletries, etc. More than once I have woke up to my yard full of boxes of this or that. How long have we been doing this, okay we have been feeding the people since June of 2000, and I have been an ordained minister for many years. Mission updates, PNS, and the mail out newsletter is how we put the ministry needs out this is how we keep in touch with supporters or others that want to know what is up, oh yes also radio which brings in much of our support, speaking of which radio needs paid. Anyway I pray this helps you new people and those that are curious about the foodbank since we got in as I do not think I have spoken much about it. We are very thankful to the Christians who helped us get into the food bank. Right now I am praying in support and blankets because it looks like the temperatures outside will drop before the over-flow shelters open so I need to get caught up on bills and have something for the people to sleep on because if they are not open when it get's below 39% at night I will open, the Good Lord Yeshua willing.... In His Perfect Peace, PD
Praise the Lord Yeshua We found the last thing needed for the walk in cooler, the hinges and lapse. Cost the woman that work's at ABC restaurant supply said $100. So we really need to pray this in as she called me and is wanting me to come over Friday. The electric guy was supposed to do the final fix Wed or Thursday, I will find out when I get there. This will allow us to do things like buy eggs when they are on sale like 200 dozen at once. So please lift this to prayer, also the people that wait on us are getting wet I can buy temepory awnings for the tables outs side at $100 a peace. This will work until they buy off our blue print... Lift these things to prayer Well got to go radio time..Shalom, PD
Greetings, Today as I have just a short time before radio today, I thought I would write and update. Think for a moment that what would happen if you became disabled, also add that you are an American barely making it or just out of poverty. The First thing that happens is you lose your job of course, then for most people if they had medical at all you would lose this. If you do not have a wife and children or just children then no help from welfare, maybe some food stamps.Very soon your bank account if you had any money in it is gone, with no way to pay rent and soon you are homeless. Now think about that, maybe with a terrible disk problem or some other reason you have no way to see a doctor other than the emergency room or a free clinic. When you become mental and most do from living homeless than you can get some help from a mental agency. In this age generally family and friends drift away from you. You go to social security only to find that you must have a doctor saying you cannot work, most free clinic will not jump in and say you cannot work so somehow you have to find a doctor.In Wichita if you are a woman there is no shelter for you, some beds are there but very few and they are full most of the time. Men can go to an overcrowded rescue mission that has 69 beds and the rest get floor space. This even get's full and if you do get in it is very easy to be kicked out for things such as forgetting to turn in your insulin or other medications when you come in. Some very hard rules and it takes a lot to live in this place. Very hard and very scary place to most people, yes it is dangerous.Many men chose to just live outside, or have to due to no room or being kicked out, women have no choices really it is then prostitute yourself or live under the bride or shack up with anyone who will give you a place to sleep, really!
Finally you somehow get a doctor and a letter for social security. Only to find they can take up to 3 to 4 years to go all the way through the process. And for get back pay you get only two year's worth and not all at once, welfare gets what if any they spent on first, then the attorney, so you might get a small amount of back pay.But what have you turned into? Many once hitting the streets that are disabled turn to drugs and alcohol in order to deal with their lives and by the time they do get money they are generally unable to then handle it after being the street 3 to 4 years…If you are going to help a homeless person get out of the street you need to get them with in the first 3-6 months before they get into the circle of disaster. Better yet we need programs like welfare used to help before a person is kicked to the curb.So they act different than you or I and some live in delusions, but would you know in given the same circumstances?And you do not have to be disabled to get stuck in the street, loose your job, loose your home or rental, car insurance goes un paid, lose your car and then you are in big trouble as no transportation to a job. Try going to look for a job with no clean clothing and your address is the Douglas Bridge.Anyway at the bottom I am going to post a short article that inspired me to write this one. The people we help many are disabled, some are not, some are women, so many cry to me about having lost their children because they lost their job….terrible. They come to me looking for blankets, coats, toiletries, and prayers among other things. They are in such despair..We need your help to stay open, last months bills mostly are unpaid and this month's are in, I have electric doubled and they will send shut off's after the 16th of this month! So please lift this to prayer and we need to do the Work The Lord Yeshua placed us in. And if you read your Bibles it is a book about great persecution for your faith, the closer you get to doing the right thing the harder the world fights against you because you are not part of this world. The Word Church means " called out ones" we are called out of this world and made different. We suffer this world so we gain the next and eternal life with Yeshua.Really we need bailed out, I believe if you really pray and ask The Father about it, he will lead you into supporting what we do, without your kind donations we will cease to exist.
Thank all of you so much! In His perfect peace, Pastor Dan
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008
Sick and homeless, man gets SSI benefits Days before dying By Bryan Denson
The Oregonian
Bobby Rutherford was a casualty of Social Security's other disability program. The native Oklahoman, homeless and mentally ill, was one of the roughly 1 million people who apply each year for Social Security's Supplemental Security Income. Those benefits, known as SSI, provide 5.4 million aged, blind or otherwise disabled adults an average of $493 a month. Beneficiaries of that program -- separate from the Social Security Disability Insurance program that American workers pay into paycheck by paycheck -- come from a swelling underclass of citizens too disabled to start or keep a job. Money of any kind would have greatly helped Rutherford, who had lifelong trouble holding a job. In 1970, when he was 22, the Marine Corps discharged him after diagnosing him with a "character and behavior disorder." Later diagnoses included schizoaffective disorder, hepatitis C, depression, anxiety and alcoholism. Rutherford lost jobs as a laborer and construction flagger because of his delusions and heavy drinking, says longtime girlfriend Debbie Williams. He was sick and penniless by the time he moved into the Klamath Falls Gospel Mission. He applied for disability benefits in January 2005, but Social Security denied his claims time and again. Then, in October 2006, one of the agency's administrative law judges ruled that Rutherford had been disabled since June 2004.
Rutherford had been sober for more than a year. But hepatitis savaged his liver. He was pale and losing weight. Still, he was thrilled when his first SSI check reached the mission Dec. 18, 2006, says Beverly Leigh, a homeless advocate who befriended him. He hoped the $545.50 check -- and the $13,248.88 in unpaid benefits heading his way -- would move him into an apartment of his own and help him get treatment for his hepatitis, Leigh says. But four days after his check arrived, a friend found Rutherford dead in his Gospel Mission bed. He was 58. Social Security officials identified no next of kin to whom to award his benefits. The agency kept his money. Do you have a story about dealing with the Social Security disability system? We'd like to hear from you by e-mail at disability@news.oregonian.com or by phone at 503-294-5013. This two-part series is the first installment of an ongoing investigation by The Oregonian into Social Security's unprecedented backlog of disability claims.
Greetings, Today I am in thought about all the various things that could happen if it is on the Father's timetable. I have been warning of these things for some years and now it amazes how so many think or act as if this is new information. Then I see people trying to first save their lives without first looking at their spiritual lives. Below I posted something from Isaiah, it is about why this is coming, but alas most people do not even know what the everlasting covenant is or what The Father's laws are..... I know the Father will deliver us as He always has, I still am trying to work while their is still light while so many are worried about themselves we are called to worry about others that lack salvation as well as physical need, you see that is the Father's work not hiding our lights under baskets where no man can see it and the light goes out. I know some of you are called to help so I ask you to really take this ministry to prayer as we indeed need your help. So many people have it in their heads if you do not have all the money you need for the ministry then you must be not doing His will. But The Word of The Father says that we are to be under persecution as His son Yeshua was, or even more so. No servant is greater than His master so I will work until I have no more breath or until He comes. Lift us in prayer and help if you can, In His Perfect Peace, PD
Isaiah 24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Hi Pastor Dan and all, I needed to tell you what the Lord did for me during the fast and prayer days. First of all He filled me up with so much joy i was about to explode. For many days. Gustav was coming, and i also prayed for people to know if they should leave or not for that. During that time, the Lord reminded me to buy a giant bag of cat food for the wild cats that i feed.
It was during the Gustav weather, that i realized that He had led me to do this, and because of that , i knew that He was with me, and that He was letting me know that i would be here till next month when cat food time was here again. It is really simple and sounds silly. But, that is how the Lord let me know, also thru the joy, that i would be ok. And i also feel that i do not have to worry about any more hurricanes coming this month. I want to thank you for calling for the fast and prayer time. It was a great blessing for me, in every way. Sept first was also my birthday, i am 60 now. I think it was because i was thinking of someone besides myself that He did this for me.
God bless you, Name with-held by PD
Philippians 2:10,11 That at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Yeshua Messiah is Lord, to the glory of Yahweh the Father. Colossians 3:23,24 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Messiah Yeshua.
We managed to get the newsletter out on Tuesday so most of you should be recieving it by today. I've made several food boxes, we've averaged four ta five both days we're open everyweek. The food supplies for both the meals and boxes need replenished.
I haven't been able to pay many bills and I need 1000 just for the electric bills the shut offs are HERE and the turn OFF date is the 16th.
Together with all the other bills here now we need 1900 to get caught up and ready for October. I believe there may be a few more September bills come but they should be small ones.
Bless all of you who continue to support this ministry EVERY little bit helps. I believe if there is a need Yahweh will send what it takes to meet it. He will supply our EVERY need as these are HIS APPOINTED WORKS! HE WILL NEVER LEAVE NOR FAIL US! Will you be a part of HIS WORKS ?
We Love you Shabbat Shalom sisterlinda & family
Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach
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