Change of Times
3:1 To every [thing] there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavensהַשָּׁמָיִם
Transliteration: haššāmāyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here:
3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die* Just as he was pure in the hour of his birth, so should be pure in the hour of his death (Midrash). – From the Artscroll English Tanach; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the planted;
3:3 A time to kill* In wartime (Midrash), or in the legal execution of criminals (Michael Yofi). – From the Artscroll English Tanach, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
3:6 A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to discard;
3:7 A time to rend, and a time to mend; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peaceשָׁלוֹם
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, wholeness, prosperity For more info click here.
3:9 What gain then, has the worker by his efforts?
3:10 I have seen the task, that Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here has given to the sons of menהָאָדָם
Transliteration: hā’āḏām man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here to be occupied with it.
The excellency of God’s works
3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time: he has also put an awareness of eternity, so that menהָאָדָם
Transliteration: hā’āḏām man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here can’t fully comprehend what Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here has done from beginning to conclusion.
3:12 So I perceived that there is nothing betterטוֹב
Transliteration: ṭôḇ Pronunciation: tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair. For more info click here for them than to rejoice, and to do goodטוֹב
Transliteration:ṭôḇ Pronunciation:tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair. For more info click here in his life.
3:13 And also that every manהָאָדָם
Transliteration: hā’āḏām man, human being
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Singular Absolute – men, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here who eats and drinks, and enjoys the good of all his labor, is a gift of Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here.
3:14 I know that, whatever Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here does will endure forever: nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it: and Elohimוְהָאֱלֹהִים
and the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here has done it so that people will fear him.
3:15 What has been, already exists; and what is to be, has already been; the Elohimוְהָאֱלֹהִים
and the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here seeks what is pursued.
Judgement of the righteous and the wicked
3:16 And then I observed under the sun. In the place of justiceהַמִּשְׁפָּט
Transliteration: hammišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here, there is wickedness; and in the place of righteousnessהַצֶּדֶק
Transliteration:haṣṣeḏeq the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here, there is wickedness.
3:17 I said to myself, Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here will judgeיִשְׁפֹּט
Transliteration: yišpōṭ; to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extension, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively):— avenge, × that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), × needs, plead, reason, rule. For more info click here the righteousהַצַּדִּיק
Transliteration haṣṣadîq – To do what is right Tzadik is also the root of the word tzedakah (‘charity’, literally ‘righteousness’). Just, justice, rightness just:—just, lawful, righteous (man), righteousness – For more info click here and the wicked: because [there is] a time for every intention and for every action there.
3:18 I said to myself concerning the work of the sons of menהָאָדָם
Transliteration: hā’āḏām man, human being
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Singular Absolute – men, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here, that Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here might test them, so that they will see that by themselves they are just animals.
3:19 Because, he same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing: as one dies, so the other dies; and they have all one breathוְרוּחַ
Transliteration: rûaḥ – Meaning: and wind, and breath, and mind, and spirit For more info click here; so that a man has no advantage over an animal: because all is pointless.
3:20 All go to the same place; all come from the dust, and all will return to dust.
3:21 Who knows the spiritרוּחַ
Transliteration: rûaḥ – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here of mankindהָאָדָם
Transliteration: hā’āḏām – masculine noun Meaning: man, mankind, Adam, first man, city in Jordan valley For more info click here is that ascends on high, while the spiritוְרוּחַ
Transliteration: hayyōreḏeṯ – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here of the animal that descends down into the earth?
3:22 I then concluded that there is nothing betterטוֹב
Transliteration:ṭôḇ Pronunciation:tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair. For more info click here, than that a man should be happy in what he is doing; because that is his share: because who can enable him to see what will happen after him?
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Moshiach as a wisdom k’vanna commandment: time-oriented positive Torah commandment
Prophetic mussar addresses the consequences of the Torah curse of g’lut. King David as Moshiach the death of Uriah defines David’s fallen booth, just as assuredly as king Shaul’s failure to obey the commandment of Shmuel the prophet (Who serves as the enforcer of the Sanhedrin court – in theory; שפטים ושוטרים.), in slaughtering Amalek together with its king and all its av tumah property such as animals. King Shaul, the first anointed Moshiach by Shmuel, erred in the exact same was as did the 2 sons of Aaron who offered up ‘strange fire’ and died (Aaron and his house Moshe anointed as Moshiach; Pinchas in the war against Midian the Talmud refers to as משיח מלחמה), and Cain. The Capital Crime of perverting korbanot unto only קום ועשה and not קום ועשה זמן גרמא commandments.
Torah defines “FAITH” through צדק צדק תרדוף. Neither King Shaul nor King David obeyed the precedent first set by the prophet Yehoshua – Keep the Pesach to set the Yovel foundation of Liberty and sanctify brit melah as the sign of the brit sworn to Avram at the brit cut between the pieces. Both men failed to bring “shalom to the land” through the establishment of the Institutions of the Great/Small Sanhedrin Federal common law court system where the “Mishkan” (משל) permanently teaches the (נמשל) k’vanna that the spirit of HaShem’s tohor middot live within the hearts of the chosen Cohen nation, according to the mussar of the prophet Yermia’s ברית חדש.
All NaCH Meshiachim have failed to sanctify the Torah commandment of Moshiach – to establish the Yovel and faith: the Federal Sanhedrin court system/בית המקדש – משל. The prophet Natan rebuked David for confusing building a copy-cat Cathedral house of avoda zara with the Torah obligation to establish justice through Sanhedrin courtrooms within the borders of conquered Canaan. From Isaiah’s king Cyrus, to Shmuel’s king Shaul and David; to post Babylonian g’lut of Bar Kochba and JeZeus and Sabbatai Zevi and Yaacov Frank and even last Chabad rebbe – all false messiahs.
The Book of Shmuel specifically addresses the mitzva of Moshiach based upon the Book of Yehoshua and Book of Shofim where Yovel liberty did not prevail in the land and the people worshipped the Gods of Canaan.
All Torah commandments dependent upon the first Sinai commandment. Isaiah’s moshiach reference to king Cyrus the Great clearly only a משל. Torah commandments do not apply to Goyim who worship other Gods.
The closing blessing curse brit of Moshe stands upon the first two Sinai commandments. G’lut Jews live under the Torah 2nd commandment curse. When David fled from Shaul unto g’lut he too validate this Torah first commandment vision: “I have been forced to worship other Gods”. G’lut Jews living in curse g’lut “Egypt” (לאו דוקא) cannot obey Torah faith לשמה. Hence the Talmud instructs better to do mitzvot לא לשמה – to later do mitzvot לשמה. Failure to discern the contrast between blessing/Canaan\Yovel from the curse\g’lut-slavery. The fundamental proof that the NT a false messiah book of avoda zarah.
Torah common law/משנה תורה NOT Roman statute law. The Talmud states just as clearly as does the NaCH that the Yovel never kept as a Torah דאורייתא commandment. The kingdom of Yechuda “tabernacle fell” when the king of Yechuda failed to keep the Yovel. The Book of Yermia teaches this clearly – like the Sun on a cloudless summer day.
Attempts to change the clear Nach texts therefore “highly non-tranditional theological framework which ignores Moshe Rabbeinu building 3 of the 6 Cities of Refuge/Small Sanhedrin courts and Yehoshua doing the same! Torah rejects the av tuma avoda zarah which worships a God in the Heavens! The Book of D’varim explicitly states: תורה לא בשמים היא.
Torah faith – צדק צדק תרדוף – clearly never observed not in king David’s life (He failed to judge Uriah before a Sanhedrin court!) and equally clear no Non Jew can sanctify the mitzva of Moshiach in foreign countries. The oath brit lands sworn to the Avot as specific as the lands promised to both Moav Ammon and Esav. Observance of Torah commandments in Egypt (לאו דוקא) by definition according to all the Reshonim לא לשמה. No king of David or the 10 Tribes of Israel in Samaria ever once established the Written Torah as the constitution of the Republic which mandates Sanhedrin courts based upon the judicial oppression of Paro’s court in Egypt and the rebuke of Yetro Moshe his son-in-law.
Torah neither a theology nor a religion. Moshe validated Tribal land and rights. RambaN ויקרא יח:כה wrote in his Chumash commentary that mitzvot observed in g’lut only a “remembrance” for the time when Jews can observe mitzvot לשמה in ארץ ישראל. G’lut has its consequences. Just as the Oct 7th 2023 surprise attack upon Israel by UNWRA and Hamas resulted in the total destruction of Gaza no different from the 1000 plane fire-bombing of Japanese and German cities consequent to the Nazi invasion of Poland.