Eikev 2021

(16) Cut away, the thickening (circumcise the foreskin) of your hearts and stiffen your necks no more.

(10) You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you shall bless the The Holy One your G*d for the good land which G8d has given you.

(1) Ben Zoma said:...Who is rich? He who rejoices in his lot, as it is said: “You shall eat from labor of your hands, you shall be happy and goodness shall be yours” (Psalms 128:2)

(14) And your heart will exalt itself and you forget the The Holy One your God—who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage;

(1) ומלתם את ערלת לבבכם, therefore, it is appropriate that you remove the “foreskin,” prejudices with which your intelligence is afflicted, so that you will realize the errors you have made in your world outlook based on false premises. (2) וערפכם לא תקשו עוד, so that you will no longer be stiff-necked, a condition which prevents you from truly recognizing your Creator....

(5) And your God יהוה will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and [God] will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your ancestors. (6) Then your God יהוה will circumcise

your heart and the hearts of your offspring—to love your God יהוה with all your heart and soul, in order that you may live.

(10) For the land that you are about to enter and possess, she is not like the land of Egypt from which you have been sent out. There the seed you sowed had to be watered by your footsteps, like a vegetable garden; (11) but the land you are about to cross into and possess, a land of hills and valleys, drinks up its water from the rains of heaven. (12) It is a land which the Breath of Life YHVH** your G8d looks after, on which the Breath of Life your G8d always keeps their eye, from year’s beginning to year’s end. (13) If you surely listen to the Mitzvot that I command you this day and love the Breath of Life your G8d and serving the Holy One with all your heart and soul, (14) I will give the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil— (15) I will give grass in the fields for your cattle—and thus you shall eat and be satisfied. (16) Guard your hearts, do not open them and turn aside toward other gods and bow to them. (17) For the Holy One's anger will flare up against you, and G8d will shut up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that the G8d is giving to you.

**YHVH: the letters of the unpronounceable name of G8d make the sound of breathing, so translating YHVH as the interbreathing Breath of Live as per ~Rabbi Arthur Waskow *G8d is God, with the 8 of infinity and of one more than the completion/ perfection of 7

(18) Place these My words upon your hearts: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol between your eyes, (19) and teach them to your children, speak of them when you sit in your home and when you walk on your path, when you lie down and when you rise up; (20) and write them on the mezuzot of your house and on your gates—

(11) Third: Water from Wind. He engraved and carved in Them chaos and void, mud and clay, engraved them like a kind of garden, carved them like a kind of wall, wove Them like a kind of ceiling.