Greetings and One love,
I just want to remind everyone that you have 3 more days to get anything I make on sale.
My princess also selabrated her 5th earthstrong today at home for sabbath, we had a quiet blessed day. I'm so proud to see how much she has grown and how beautiful and amazing she is! Motherhood truly is a blessed gift!
I just want to remind everyone that you have 3 more days to get anything I make on sale.
My princess also selabrated her 5th earthstrong today at home for sabbath, we had a quiet blessed day. I'm so proud to see how much she has grown and how beautiful and amazing she is! Motherhood truly is a blessed gift!
Continuing with the Mosaic Covenant and Isra'el, here's an overview and list of the Laws or Code of Conduct as detailed in the Penteteuch:
The
Pillars of the Mosaic
Covenant
Overstanding the “You Shall Not” Principle
The
following ensamples of the Law carry an overall theme of being told “no,”
“don't,” “you shall not” and are therefore very restrictive or curbing of the
carnal or egotistical appetite. Because of the authoritative “obey or die”
attitude that comes with Law of any kind (like Hebrew, Caesarean Ethiopian or
Egyptian), many of RasTafari shy away from acknowledging submission to a Law or
Code of Conduct. Instead they may concentrate more on the physical manifestation
of RasTafari like the pan-Afrikan socio-political, musical, aesthetic and
humanitarian aspects of the Rastafari Identity. The concept of Livity somehow
for many avoids a strict law – but in reality that couldn’t be farther from the
truth as our Livity is our Law of Living Right.
I and I must consider that if we
turn to the spiritual side of our Faith, and ask ourselves why we call
ourselves Rastafari, and why I and I Hail and Praise His Imperial
Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, we would find that the Law is the basic
foundation of RasTafari Morality. Furthermore in any Scripture used considers
deeply the Law and ethics: such as the 81- Book Ethiopian Bible, The Gospel of
the Nazarenes, or the Books of Enoch, Jubilees and Jasher;[1] or the Kebra Nagast and
Feta Nagast which detail Ethiopia's Israelite Covenant. These Ethiopian Hebrew
texts all deal with the “you shall not” principles in defining the correct Way
for Isra'el to live.
The Hebrew laws for spiritual and social
cleanliness are a compilation of denials, philosophical principles, and basic
reprimands on inhumanity. In the context of the Hebrew clan, they highlight and
rebuke common mistakes that the Israelites in exile and at home in the East
made and were berated for directly.
Though it may seem hard to imagine
the Biblical time and era as compared to mainstream history knowledge, diligent
study of every text of the Hebrew-Israelite and Gentile Chronicles reveals that
both contain a pattern of emotional, cultural, carnal and social needs and
follow basic patterns that are testaments of human nature. Solomon often said that there was “nothing
new under the sun,” but we are too vain and filled with self-righteousness to
see our true lack of power when it comes to the Word of God and the creational
laws the world was made by.
In order to know what is Right and
Godly, or to be a spiritually grounded, intelligent and mature, formed by the inspiration and loving
kindness of the King of Kings of Ethiopia and His Blessed Wife; Rastafari must
have an overall idea and feel of the atmosphere and the relationship that
existed between the tribes and their Prophet, Priest and God-King which spoke
on behalf of the Living God and dealt justice and goodness. We need to know
what we shall not do.
Our
job is not to repeat the mistakes that men and women have been making for
generations in being violent, hateful, fickle, self-involved, selfish, and
perverse. Babylon is not just a concept or a country of old - it is an
abominable, greedy Western mentality, one whose darkness is so powerful that it
blocks out all the Light shining Truth, and Wisdom in the God-Self that rises
in the East. We are so ingrained in
exile that few of us are able to know the wrong or care to avoid it.
The Ten
Tenets of Jahovah given by Moses
And JAH spoke all these Words saying:
I
am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image: any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down
to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children to the third and fourth generations
of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me
and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.” (Exodus 20:3-17).
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.” (Exodus 20:3-17).
You
Shall Not
Some of the ancient laws Moses had
to add to the Ten Commandments in order to give Isra’el a chance to right
themselves; are listed here for reference and familiarity sake. You shall not:
1) Make
any graven image, worship or serve them
2) Take
the Name of JAH in vain
3) Do
any work during the Sabbath/ defile it (Exodus 31:14-15, 35:2)
4) *Kill
(or smite, Exodus 21:12, 15, Leviticus 24:17, 21)
5) *Commit
adultery
6) *Steal
7) Bear
false witness against your neighbour's
8) Covet
your neighbour's wife or possessions - Exodus 20:4-17
9) Vex
or oppress a stranger (anyone) - Exodus
22:21, 23:9
10) Afflict
any widow or fatherless child – Exodus 22:22
11) Be a moneylender and charge interest to the
poor you lend to – Exodus 22:25
12) Revile the gods or curse the ruler of your
people – Exodus 22:28, Acts 23:5
13) Delay to offer first fruits, and first-born
sons to JAH (Nazirite) – Exodus 22:29
14) Raise a false report or be an unrighteous
witness
15) Follow a multitude to do evil
16) Show partiality to a poor man in his dispute
17) Take
any bribe – Exodus 23:1-8
18) Worship the enemy's gods or do after their
works – Exodus 23:24
19) Make any Covenant with the enemy or their gods
– Exodus 23:32
20) Kindle any fire in your house on the Sabbath –
Exodus 35:3
21) Eat any manner of fat – Leviticus 7:23
22) Eat any manner of blood – Leviticus 7:26,
17:14, 19:26
23) *Uncover the nakedness of your kin or lay
with your kin (Leviticus 20:11-12)
24) Uncover the nakedness of a woman's kin
25) Uncover
the nakedness of an unfree (menstruating) woman
26) Lie carnally with your neighbour's wife
27) *Commit human/child sacrifice to gods
28) *Lie with mankind as with womankind
29) *Lie with beasts or animals – Leviticus 18:
6-23
30) Steal, deal falsely or lie to one another
31) *Swear by JAH's name falsely or profane it
32) Defraud or rob your neighbour
33) Curse the deaf, but a stumbling block before
the blind
34) Do any unrighteous judgement
35) Be a talebearer or stand against the life of
your neighbour
36) Hate your brother in your heart
37) Avenge
or bear grudges against your fellow man
38) Let your livestock
breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor
shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.
39) Eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or
soothsaying.
40) Round
the corners of your heads, mark the corners of your beard.
41) Many
any cuttings in flesh or print marks in flesh in grieving or in memory of the
dead
42) Prostitute
your daughter – Leviticus 19: 11-29
43) Wear
that pertaining to the opposite sex – Deuteronomy 22:5
44) *Listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams,
for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul – Deuteronomy 13:3
45) Add or diminish words of the law in order to keep God's
commandments – Deuteronomy 4:2.
46) *Rebel against Commandments – Joshua 1:18
47) *Plead for Baal – Judges 6:31
48) *Fail to seek the Lord of
Israel – 2 Chronicles 15:13
49) *Curse your parents – Exodus 21:17, Leviticus 20:9, Matthew 16:
28, Mark 9:1
50) Spill your seed outside the womb - Genesis 38:9
50) Spill your seed outside the womb - Genesis 38:9
* Are acts said
to be worthy of death. Because we all do some or many of these sins and behave
unjustly towards one another, it should not be surprising that our world has a
very high mortality rate. We cause one another to die, and we by our unclean,
Anti-Christ hearts, kill ourselves. The need of the Law or some form or Code of
Conduct to prevent our deaths and wickedness can therefore never be down-played
or overlooked. Our honourable standing in the courts of Zion is an important
and daily meditation every Rastafari soul must consider and embrace.
Guidance,
Ila Addis