Proverbs Chapter 5

Exhortation to wisdom, content, liberality, and chastity

5:1 Listen up my son, this matters now, and lean in close for my insight:
5:2 That you may guard your thoughts, and let your lips watch over wisdom.
5:3 Because the lips of a forbidden woman* The forbidden woman is a metaphor for heresy (Rashi). – From the Artscroll English Tanach drip [like] a honeycomb, and her word’s slide easier than oil:
5:4 But her end is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5 Her feet go down to death; they walk straight toward the graveשְׁאוֹל
Transliteration: šᵊ’ôl Pronunciation: sheh-ole’ underworld, grave, hell, pit For more info click here
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5:6 She doesn’t keep straight to the path of life, her tracks stagger, so that you can’t know them.
5:7 Hear me now, O [my] sons, and don’t turn away from what I am saying.
5:8 Keep your distance from her, and don’t [even] come near the doorway of her house:
5:9 so you don’t give your strength to others, and your [remaining] years to the merciless:
5:10 so strangers won’t be filled with your strength; and what you worked for go to a foreign house;
5:11 And you’ll be groaning at the end, when your flesh and bones all fail,
5:12 And saying, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despised correction;
5:13 I ignored what my teachers said, and [wouldn’t] listen to those that instructed me!
5:14 I took part in all kinds wickednessרַע
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here
and everybody saw it coming.
5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, and flowing water from your own well.*Instead of seeking happiness with forbidden women i.e. heresy, remain with your own cistern i.e. your wife and your Torah, and enjoy the reward of springs, i.e. children. – From the Artscroll English Tanach
5:16 [Then] your springs will spread outwards, streams of water in the streets.
5:17 They will be only your own, and not for strangers’ with you.
5:18 Let your spring be blessed: and you will rejoice with the wife of your youth.
5:19 Let her be like deer you know by name and pleasant roe;  her breasts will satisfy you at all times; and you’ll always be intoxicated with her love.
5:20 Why then, will you, my son, be intoxicated with a strange woman, and embrace an alien bosom?
5:21 Because the waysדַּרְכֵי
Transliteration:darḵê ways, roads, distances, journeys, manners, paths, directions, towards – For more info click here
of man [are] in front of YAHWEH’s יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
eyes, and He weighs all his paths.
5:22 His own choices will the wickedהָרָשָׁע
Transliteration: rāšāʿ – morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person:— condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong – For more info click here
snag himself, and he will be tied with the ropes of his sinsחַטָּאתוֹ
Transliteration: ḥaṭṭā’ṯô – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Construct – an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering For more info click here
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5:23 He will die from lack of discipline; and in the abundance of his foolishness he will go astray.

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  3. 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.

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