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Yeshayahu 58

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58:1

Module 11: The Judicial Protocol of the True Fasting Frequency

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a shophar, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Ya'aqob their sins.
58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the justice of their Elohim: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to Elohim.
58:3

The Indictment of Legalistic Fasting

Wherefore have we fasted (tzuwm), say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
58:4
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
58:5
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄?
58:6

The Restoration of the True Fasting Frequency

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
58:7
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
58:8
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness (tzedaqah) shall go before thee; the glory (kabod) of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall be thy rereward.
58:9
Then shalt thou call, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
58:10
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
58:11
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
58:12

The Repairing of the Breach and Restoration of Paths

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach (Goder Peretz), The restorer of paths to dwell in.
58:13

The Sanctity and Delight of the Shabbath

If thou turn away thy foot from the Shabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Shabbath a delight, the holy of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
58:14
Then shalt thou delight thyself in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Ya'aqob thy father: for the mouth of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath spoken it.