New Videos: Grumbling & Tzitziot

The biblical children of Israel were a bunch of complainers. This sin kept them out of YHVH’s Promised Land. Are we any different today? Better think twice! YHVH doesn’t like hard-hearted, ungrateful grumblers. This video discusses lessons that can be learned from this piece of biblical history, so that you’ll have a more blessed and rewarding life now and in the hereafter.

This video explains how to walk out the biblical law of wearing fringes on one’s garments using show-and-tell examples of various types of clothing and ways to wear fringes or tzitzit.

 

Videos: Tying Tzitzit and the Law of the Fringes

In this video, Natan Lawrence teaches you about the curious biblical law of the fringes from Numbers 15:37–41 and how it relates to you. Learn about the prayer shawl and how it helps to point man to his Creator—YHVH Elohim. A free study guide is available at http://hoshanarabbah.org/blog/2013/03/24/the-law-of-the-fringes/.

In this video, Natan Lawrence shows you how to make your own fringes or tzitzit (plural: tzitziyot). It’s fun and easy to fulfill the biblical command to wear fringes on your garments (Numbers 15:37–41). Free study guide available at http://hoshanarabbah.org/blog/2013/03/24/the-law-of-the-fringes/.

 

Tzitzit — Don’t Leave Home Without Them!

Numbers 15:37–41. Tassels on the corners. The command to wear tzitzits on the corners of one’s garment was to act as a reminder to keep one from committing intentional sins, even as a wedding ring worn on the finger serves to remind one of one’s marriage covenant, and help keep one from committing adultery. This is why this command is placed directly after the warning against committing intentional sin (vv. 30–31), and the example of the man who committed intentional sin by gathering sticks on the Sabbath (vv. 32–36).

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A Brief Study on the Subject of Tzitzits. Shofars, Davidic worship dance, prayer shawls (talit or tallit), a Torah scroll and tzitziyot (plural for ­tzitzit — fringes or tassels) all have something in common: they are hallmark symbols of those who are returning to the Hebrew roots of their faith. When a Christian begins to discover their ancient spiritual roots, it’s like coming home, or like a hand fitting into a glove. It’s not long before they begin acting out their renewed faith in a highly demonstrable manner such as growing beards, wearing fringes, blowing shofars, keeping the Sabbath and biblical feasts. Outsiders may view this as mere religious fanaticism and exhibitionism, but to the saint who truly feels that he has returned to his spiritual roots, these things are symbols of a faith that is more than superficial in nature. They represent a connectedness to his spiritual family tree, to the nation of Israel and eventually to the God of Israel, YHVH Elohim, the originator of that faith, family tree and nation.

As a wedding ring symbolizes the covenantal agreement between spouses, so the blue fringes worn on the corners of one’s garments are an outward symbol of one’s spiritual commitment and devotion to the Elohim of Israel through obedience to his instructions in righteousness as found in the Torah portion of the Scriptures.

Indeed, it is not because of a man-made tradition, but because of a direct command in the Torah that redeemed Israelites wear tzitziyot, for we read in Numbers 15:37–41,

And YHVH spoke unto Moses, saying, “Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes [Heb. tzitziyot] in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue. And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that you may look upon it, and remember all the Continue reading