Weekly E-mail Reminder

	HIDDEN LDS/JEWISH INSIGHTS Lesson #07 New Testament Gospel Doctrine supplement by Daniel Rona Weekly E-mail Reminder << [HE] TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES, AND BARE OUR SICKNESS >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (1.) Do You Believe in Miracles? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The late Israeli General and statesman, Moshe Dyan, was asked if he believed in miracles. He said, "No, we just count on them!" "It is this thought which is vocalized in the thanksgiving prayer which is part of the daily Amidah: "We thank You for Your miracles which are daily with us, and for Your wonders and benefits, which are wrought at all times, evening, morning and night." (Encyclopedia Judaica Jr.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (2.) Miracles, Personal or for the Public? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jesus was a "Whole-istic" healer. For example, a palsied man was told that his sins were forgiven. Consider the man with his withered hand. What happened to the rest of his soul? Consider the blood issue of the woman, unclean for twelve years (untouchable under Mosaic law) she was told that she was whole, to go in peace and then, be healed of her "plague." Is it possible that Jesus knew that her distress of bleeding was in fact the lesser of her challenges in life? She may not have had a hug, a touch or caress in twelve years! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (3.) Too Sacred to be Told to Everyone: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sometimes we are sick one way so that the Lord can bless us another way. Often, the Lord sent the multitude away and asked that the miracle be kept private. It was his nature to ask that "no one know;" it was his way of showing the personal nature of His salvation. Viewing miracles in their private context will give us a greater insight to His mission--of saving each and every one of us, individually. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (4.) Touching His Garment: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Of the children at Capernaum, I recall the account of a twelve-year-old girl who was ill. Her father, the leader of the synagogue, begged Jesus to come and heal her. On the way to bless her, Jesus noted that a woman had touched his garment. She was healed . . . in more ways than one. Religious Jews today wear a garment of wool called a talith. A female lamb is called "talitha." The hem or the strings of the talith are customarily touched during Jewish religious services. (The four sets of strings are knotted so that the sum of knots and strings equals 613—the number of laws and covenants including the Ten Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.) Modern Jews touch the strings and knots of the talith garment to remind and commit themselves to keeping the laws and thereby being blessed of God. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (5.) Talitha Cumi—A Child Back to Life: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By the time Jesus arrived to bless the daughter of the leader of the synagogue, she had died. ". . . he taketh . . . . the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi . . ." (Mark 5:40-41) The endearing term Talitha may have been Jesus' way of saying "my little lamb," or "curly locks" (a nickname)—and cumi in Hebrew means "get up." Jesus brought their family together again. Yet what He was really teaching was that "Families can be together, forever."
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