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I Have a Dream #211

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B’nai AvrahamRabbi Edward ‘Levi’ Nydle, Levi bar Ido – Revised 9-16-03

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IYOB [Job] 33:

[page777 [14] For El does speak once, or twice –

though

one does not notice it – [15] in adream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on a bed, [16] then Heopens the ears of men,The ‘ears’ here in this verse are not the physical ears. When

Moshiach

Yahshua says, “He who has ears to hear let himhear,” He did not mean, “Clean out your ears.” He is saying, “Clean out your spiritual ears in order to hear the truth.”If we insist on the

pashat

level of this it gets ridiculous, because people say, “Well, you can’t disagree; you can’tnegate the

pashat

level.” Well, you better on this second teaching on dreams and their interpretation.

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[16] then He opens the ears of men

(all men, all people)

, and seals their instruction,Why does YHWH open our ears? It is so we may do

teshuvah

, to return to Him.

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[17] To turn man from his deed, and conceal pride from man. [18] He keeps back his being from thePit, and his life from passing away by the sword. [19] And he is reproved with pain on his bed, andwith unceasing distress in his bones,Elohim uses dreams to speak to us, and he prays that our ears are open to hear what He is trying to communicate tous. Unfortunately, because of our rational Greek thinking, all the things we have been taught and programmed bythinking like the nations [

goyim

]; we try to interpret our dreams in the light of what we know by our rational/logicalinterpretations.Therefore we take the symbols hidden within the dream, ancient archetypal symbols – which are knownto all people and come before all creation, and attempt to interpret them by worldly wisdom .Dream interpretation willnot work that way. It’s the same way when you take the prophetic utterances of the

Nevi’im

in the

TaNaK

, or the

Brit

Chadashah

, and attempt to interpret what they are saying in light of what you have knowledge of in this world. Youend up with crazy prophetic teachings that have nothing to do with the Scriptures but the teachings of men. You cannotplot prophetic utterances on linear time lines. In dreams, visions, and prophetic utterances, as we have seen with theteaching on Yeshayahu about a ‘virgin conceives’, time is all mixed up. The past and the present and the future are allone.When we dream ,have visions, or prophetic utterances we cannot put them in the box of linear time, because in adream it could be psychological and you are seeing things concerning your past, or something in the present. But weknow that your conscious mind cannot know the future, so if it is dealing with the future it is dealing with theunconscious mind. Something is being revealed to you in the dream but not on a conscious level. As a result of logicalinterpretations of symbols we have people believing in a rapture, a physical marking of the beast, ten headed monsters,seven headed monsters and other nonsense, when these are all symbolic.The

Hasidim

[the Orthodox] put more emphasis on dreams and their meanings than do the other sects withinJudaism, and even more so than the X-tians, because they understand that these are messages.In the

Zohar Bereshith 83

it says This:

The righteous are assured that Yahweh will communicate to themthrough dreams.

The

Zohar

is a

sod

level commentary on the

TaN

KIn a commentary upon Yirmeyahu [Jeremiah] 26.9, page 493,where it says:

YIRMEYAHU [Jeremiah] 26:[9

] “Why have you prophesied in the Name of Yahweh, saying, ‘This house shall belike Shiloh, and this city dried up, with not an inhabitant’?”

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Yirmeyahu was stating that there were false prophets in Yisrael. Not all prophesies, all visions, and all dreams comefrom Elohim. They may come from the heavens, but remember in dreams you may encounter other beings from theother side because you are in their realm.In

the Zohar

it also says :With my soul I have desired thee in the night; yea, with my Spirit within Me I will seek thee Early.

The innermeaning of this verse is as follows: When a man lies down in bed his vital spirit [nephesh] leaves him andbegins to mount on high leaving with the body only the impression of a receptacle that contains theheartbeat. The rest of it tries to soar from grade to grade, and in doing so encounters certain bright butunclean essences. If it is pure and has not defiled itself by the day it rises above them; but if not, it becomesdefiled among them and cleaves to them and does not rise any further.As the

nephesh

leaves the body during sleep, in the lower realms of the heavens it may encounter someunclean spirits; and if it has defiled itself during the day it will become attached to them; if it has not it willcontinue to rise.

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And there they are shown certain things which are going to happen in the near future; andsometimes they delude her and show her false things. Thus she goes about the whole night untilthe man wakes up, and when she returns to her place. Happy are the righteous to whom Elohimreveals His secrets in dreams so that they may be on their guard against sin.

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Woe to the sinners who defile their bodies and their souls. As for those who have not defiledthemselves during the day, when they fall asleep at night their souls begin to ascend and firstenter those reigns which we have mentioned, but they do not cleave to them and continue tomount further. The soul with this privilege, thus to rise, finally appears before the gate of thecelestial palace,

We read in Dani’el, because he was filled with wisdom and understanding and knowledge he was able to stand in theking’s palace. In the

Shir HaShirim

– Song of Songs - it says that the king brings me into his inner rooms.Scripturally during sleep you can come to the gate of the celestial palace.

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and yearns with all its might to behold the beauty of the king and to visit His sanctuary. Thisis the man who ever has a portion in the world to come, and this is the soul who is yearning whenshe ascends for the Holy One, Blessed Be He; and who does not cling to those other brightessences that seeks out the holy essence in the place from which she originally issued. Thereforeit is written: “With my soul I desired thee in the night.”

Now that is a deep verse right there – “With my soul I have desired thee in the night.”

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To pursue actively and not to be enticed away with false power, “With my soul I have desiredthee.”

If you have defiled yourself during the day it will be reflected in your dreams, and you are exposing yourself to theother side. There is a chance, because of that defilement of the daytime hours, that you will encounter beings from theother side that may deceive you or give you false information. Without true discernment you may interpret it ascoming from Elohim. This is where we get a lot of people being led astray by dreams or visions.

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In the same way, every night when a man retires to his bed his soul leaves him in a sense to be judged before the king’s tribunal.

The Zohar says that in our sleep we are being judged on a daily basis.

Yeshayahu 26.9-10

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If she is found deserving to continue in her present state she is allowed to return to this world.In judgment in their evil actions are not weighed in the same way. No account is taken of evildeeds, which a man is likely to perpetuate in the future, for it is written: “For Elohim has heardthe voice of the lad where he is.” [Bereshith 21.17].

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But in regard to good actions only those already performed in the past are taken intoconsideration; but also those which a man is going to perform in the future, so that even if thepresent account would prove a man guilty, the Holy One in His bounty towards His creaturesputs to his credit all his future good deeds, and the man is thus wholly saved.

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Yonah was cast forth into the sea; the Sea of Reeds stood still while raging. This means thesupernal sea, which is said to stand still, and its wrath is allowed. For the heavenly tribunal atthe time when the world is under judgment is like a pregnant woman….

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…like a pregnant woman who is convulsed with the pain in childbirth which ceases, however, assoon as she is delivered a child. Similarly the heavenly tribunal at the time of judgment isagitated and convulsed, but once judgment is executed becomes pacified and resumes???? Thusit is written in Mishle [Proverbs] 11.10

] “When the wicked perish there is joy.” There is indeed apassive contrary saying, “Have I any pleasure at all the wicked should die,” [Yechezqel 18.23

].This passage however, speaks of those sinners who have not yet gone to the limit of provocation,whereas the previous passage speaks of the sinner whose measure is full.

Let’s read from the Zohar about some of these spirits.

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On the fourth day the lights were created, but the moon was created without light, she diminishedherself.

And those that are familiar with the Zohar know that the moon chose to be diminished.

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As a result of the moon’s diminution occasion was granted to all spirits and demons and hurricanes anddevils to exercise sway so that all unclean spirits rise up and traverse the world seeking whom to seduce.

Kepha wrote something like that in the

Brit

Chadashah

, that

hasatan

is like a lion roaming about the earth to seek whom he can destroy. That is what happens at the night, the unclean spirits are seeking whom they can seduce. Theyhaunt ruined places, thick forests and deserts in the wilderness. These are all from the side of the unclean spirit, whichhas been said, issues from the crooked serpent who is indeed the veritable unclean spirit, and his mission is to seduceman after him. That is exactly what we read in the

Brit

Chadashah

.People are asking me, “Why are you reading from the Zohar?” The reason I do this is because is to show that thethings written in the Zohar go hand in hand with the things in the

TaNaK

and

Brit

Chadashah

and that there is not anycontradictions. I believe the Zohar could possibly be the lost teachings of Yahshua that have been recorded for us.The Zohar is nothing to be afraid of; there is nothing to contradict what has already been taught in the inspiredScriptures. It is giving us a commentary for what was known at the time, and I find them going together like a handand glove. And if we follow this we know that

hasatan

, whether it be a fallen angel, a fallen being,

(I believe it isboth),

and your

yetzer

harah

–the evil inclination, are seeking to seduce you. It is

rah

– evil.

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In the same way that he seduced Adam and brought death into the world, so does he ever seduce menand cause them to defile themselves. And whoever allows himself to be defiled draws upon himself theunclean spirit and clings unto him, and lures the unclean in him that are at hand to defile him so that heremains polluted in this world and in the world to come. Contrary wise, should a man strive to purifyhimself the unclean spirit is foiled and can no longer dominate him.

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Romans 6

, ‘You are a servant unto whom you serve.’

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Thus it is written: “No evil shall befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.” [Tehillim 91].

We all know that it is conditional! “He who abides in the secret place is under the wings of The Almighty.”