Image via Wikipedia"It once happened that due to the great demand the price of pairs of birds rose in Jerusalem until it stood at the level of gold dinars. Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel declared, 'I shall not sleep until pairs of birds are sold for silver dinars. I swear it by the Temple.'
Thereupon he entered the court and taught the following law: A woman who was liable to bring pairs of birds for five definite cases of childbirth or five definite cases of zivah must bring one pair of birds for a sacrifice and may thereafter eat of offerings, and the remaining four offerings are not incumbent upon her. And that very day the price of pairs of birds dropped and stood at a quarter of a silver dinar, which, some say, was one hundredth of the original price." [Adapted from ArtScroll Schottenstein ed. BT Bava Basra 166a]
Now understand this as a ruling of Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel on bleeding. In this he testified that the tears of the daughters of Israel should yet be dried for the kingdom of heaven was at hand. How can this be known?
To Adam it was said: "In the day that you eat thereof..." Thus, in that it was said, "in the day," there was time given for bleeding, and time given for bleeding is time given for prayer. And the offerings of the Temple are the offerings prescribed by the Torah for the prayer of Israel in this day of bleeding. Therefore if through inflation prayer and offerings were being brought to nothing the bleeding also of the daughters of Israel was for nothing.
If the bleeding of the daughters of Israel was for nothing then we can see by means of a holiness of spirit through the ruling of Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel that all hope in the word of G-d was gone. We see that for this reason with the sword of his ruling he slew the dragon of inflation.
And we have learned from the texts of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah which are hidden in plain sight:
"As Yahoshua went, the people pressed around him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased.
And Yahoshua said, 'Who was it that touched me?' When all denied it, Kefa said, 'Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!' But Yahoshua said, 'Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me'.
And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. And he said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace'." [From Luke 8]
Now I speak to those who know the Torah. Here is the light of understanding that radiates from this story when we place it in the setting of the story of Rabban Shimon Gamliel's ruling concerning the price of two birds in Jerusalem:
In Yahoshua the shedding of the blood of the daughters of Israel is consummated. Through him the eternal prayer of Israel is heard.
Thereupon he entered the court and taught the following law: A woman who was liable to bring pairs of birds for five definite cases of childbirth or five definite cases of zivah must bring one pair of birds for a sacrifice and may thereafter eat of offerings, and the remaining four offerings are not incumbent upon her. And that very day the price of pairs of birds dropped and stood at a quarter of a silver dinar, which, some say, was one hundredth of the original price." [Adapted from ArtScroll Schottenstein ed. BT Bava Basra 166a]
Now understand this as a ruling of Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel on bleeding. In this he testified that the tears of the daughters of Israel should yet be dried for the kingdom of heaven was at hand. How can this be known?
To Adam it was said: "In the day that you eat thereof..." Thus, in that it was said, "in the day," there was time given for bleeding, and time given for bleeding is time given for prayer. And the offerings of the Temple are the offerings prescribed by the Torah for the prayer of Israel in this day of bleeding. Therefore if through inflation prayer and offerings were being brought to nothing the bleeding also of the daughters of Israel was for nothing.
If the bleeding of the daughters of Israel was for nothing then we can see by means of a holiness of spirit through the ruling of Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel that all hope in the word of G-d was gone. We see that for this reason with the sword of his ruling he slew the dragon of inflation.
And we have learned from the texts of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah which are hidden in plain sight:
"As Yahoshua went, the people pressed around him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased.
And Yahoshua said, 'Who was it that touched me?' When all denied it, Kefa said, 'Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!' But Yahoshua said, 'Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me'.
And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. And he said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace'." [From Luke 8]
Now I speak to those who know the Torah. Here is the light of understanding that radiates from this story when we place it in the setting of the story of Rabban Shimon Gamliel's ruling concerning the price of two birds in Jerusalem:
In Yahoshua the shedding of the blood of the daughters of Israel is consummated. Through him the eternal prayer of Israel is heard.
