The Side portion

 Gen 32:30  And Yaʽaqoḇ called the name of the place Peni’ĕl, “For I have seen Elohim face to face, and my life is preserved.” 

Gen 32:31  And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penu’ĕl, and he limped on his thigh. 

Gen 32:32  Therefore the children of Yasharal eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the middle/kaph H3709 of the thigh/yarak H3409, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. 

 Yaaqob wrestled with a man until day break and Yaaqob understood that he was the Messenger of Yahuah and wouldn't let him go and hence the Messenger of Yahuah touched the kaph/middle of his yarak/thigh and the muscle of the thigh shrank but Yaaqob wouldn't let Him go until he blessed him, and his name was changed to Yasharal which has the root words 'yashar' which means 'upright/remnant/straight/plenteous, & 'sharah' which means 'prince' and 'Al' which is the short form for 'Alahym'. Hence, Yaaqob as Yasharal of Alahym means 'The upright prince of Alahym'

The wrestling was significant as his thigh/yarak was disjointed and we have Gen 32:32 recording that the children of Yasharal do not eat of the sinew which shrank which is on the middle of the thigh unto this day. Hence, Yasharal is likened to an sacrificial animal or a sheep/lamb/goat which children of Yasharal eat and they do not eat the portion of the middle of the thigh.

In Torah you will not find a single verse which shows that the priests ate of this thigh/yarak portion, instead it says of the right/yamyin H3225 shoulder/H7785 shuq portion reserved for the kohen/priests

Lev 7:31 And the priest shall burn את eth-the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aharon's and his sons'.

Lev 7:32 And את eth-right/yamyin H3225 shoulder/H7785 shuq shall ye give unto the priest for a heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

Lev 7:33 He among the sons of Aharon, that offers את eth-the blood of the peace offerings, and את eth-the fat, shall have the right/yamyin H3225 shoulder/H7785 shuq for his part.

The word 'yarak' which also means 'loins/hip portion down to the thigh, shank/side/shaft' is found in numerous other portions in Torah

The priestly garments were to have linen breeches to cover their nakedness from the waist to the thighs

Exo 28:42  “And make linen trousers for them (Aharon and his sons), to cover their nakedness/aruah H6172 of the flesh/bashar H1320, reaching from the waist to the thighs/yarak H3409. 

We have scriptures recording that Yahusha was placed a scarlet robe after He was stripped off his own garments and His tunic was seamless of one piece woven from the top

Matt 27:28 They stripped Him (Yahusha) of His own garments and put a scarlet robe on Him.

John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Yahusha, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout

Joh 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. (Tehilliym 22:18) These things therefore the soldiers did.

We had understood in the earlier study 'The rod of Aluahym',  that Yahusha was the high priest who presided as a high priest over his own sacrifice as the high priest Caiaphas had torn his garments and was disqualified to be a high priest

Lev 10:6 And Mosheh said to Aharon, and to Elʽazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not unbind your heads nor tear your garments, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brothers, all the house of Yisra’ĕl, bewail the burning which יהוה has kindled.

Lev 21:10 ‘And the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is ordained to wear the garments, does not unbind his head nor tear his garments,

Lev 21:11 nor come near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother,

When Yahusha stood before Caiaphas (Matt 26:62-65) and Caiaphas tears his clothes-he is no longer high priest because now Yahusha is! Also Yahusha's robe could not be torn-it was woven in one piece! A beautiful picture of Messiah as our High Priest!

Mat 26:62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you? Mat 26:63 But YAHUSHA held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure you by the living EL, that you tell us whether you be HA’MASHIACH, the Son of ELOHIYM. Mat 26:64 YAHUSHA said unto him, You have said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of A’dam sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Mat 26:65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

In Yahusha' case, the soldiers rent his outer garment and made 4 parts, but Yahuah didn't allow them to tear his tunic and hence, they cast lots for it.

Heb 9:11 But MASHIACH being come a High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of MASHIACH, who through the eternal RUACH offered himself without spot to את eth-YAHUAH, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living YAH?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the Mediator of the Renewed Covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

The writer of Hebrews confirms to us that Mashiyach entered the Most Set Apart place with his OWN BLOOD which shows us that he presided over his own sacrifice at the summit.

Where else is yarak/thigh mentioned in Torah?

Num 5:13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her man, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken
with the manner;
Num 5:14 And the ruach/spirit H7307 of jealousy/qanah H7068 come upon him, and he be jealous of את eth-his woman, and she be defiled: or if the ruach (spirit) of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of את eth-his woman, and she be not defiled:
Num 5:15 Then shall the man bring את eth-his woman unto the priest, and he shall bring את eth-her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Num 5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before YAHUAH:
Num 5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the Tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
Num 5:18 And the priest shall set את eth-the woman before YAHUAH, and uncover את eth-the woman's head, and put את eth the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse:
Num 5:19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your man, be free from this bitter water that causes the curse:
Num 5:20 But את eth if you have gone aside to another instead of your man, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain את eth-with you beside your man:
Num 5:21 Then the priest shall charge את eth-the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, YAHUAH make you a curse and an oath among your people, when YAHUAH makes את eth-your thigh/yarak H3409 to rot, and את eth-your belly to swell;

Num 5:22 And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh/yarak H3409 to rot: And the woman shall say, Amein, Amein.

The Torah portion says If man with a ruach/spirit of jealousy suspects his wife of adultery, he would bring her to the priest with an offering and the priest would put her under an oath of curse and make her drink the bitter water that causes the curse which would make her belly swell and her yarak/thigh to rot if she had committed adultery. The woman in spiritual adultery was Yasharal who whored away from Yahuah. We have scripture recording that Yahusha took the ruach of qanah/jealously of His wife upon Himself

Mark15:10 For he (Pilate) knew that it was only out of their jealousy/qanah that the chief priests had handed Him over.

He was made to drink the bitter water of curse instead of us. We have Matthew recording that before he was impaled they offered him vinegar mingled with gall and he would not drink

Mat 27:33 And when they were come unto a place called Gulgoleth, that is to say, a place of a skull, Mat 27:34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

Mat 27:35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled את eth which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. (Tehilliym 22:18)

And when he was impaled and in the final hours of his sacrifice, He called out to Aluahym ''Alay Alay lamah shabaqtani'' and he was offered the vinegar again, while Matthew still doesn't record of Mashiyach having the bitter water, we have Yahuchanan in his basharah recording Him saying '' I thirst'' to fulfill scripture. Which scripture? Its the bitter water of jealousy Torah portion He fulfilled, by taking his wife's spirit of jealously upon Himself. For Yahuah had said that He is an Aluahym of jealousy.

Mat 27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

Joh 19:28 After this, YAHUSHA knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.

Joh 19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

Joh 19:30 When YAHUSHA therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his ruach (spirit).

Zec 8:1 And the word of יהוה of hosts came, saying, Zec 8:2 “Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘I shall be jealous/H7065 qana for Tsiyon with great jealousy, with great wrath I shall be jealous/H7065 qana for her.’

Yahusha's belly didn't swell nor his thigh rot for He endured the ruach of jealously/qanah on Himself and the woman was found innocent in Him for we were quickened together with Him in His death. The woman was already saved in childbearing as she had brought forth the man child Mashiyach. Chauah/Eve was the mother of all living and was a type of the wife of Mashiyach

Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all transgressions; Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of dogma that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his stake; Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Num 5:27 ‘And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that brings the curse shall enter her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh or loins/yarak shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people. Num 5:28 ‘But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be clear and shall conceive children. Num 5:29 ‘This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her husband’s authority and defiles herself, Num 5:30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife. Then he shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and the priest shall do to her all this Torah. Num 5:31 ‘And the man shall be clear from crookedness, but the woman bear her crookedness.’ ”

The thigh/yarak here is in relation to childbearing

1Ti 2:13  Because Aḏam was formed first, then Ḥawwah. 

1Ti 2:14  And Aḏam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, fell into transgression. 

1Ti 2:15  But she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in belief, and love, and set-apartness, with sensibleness. 

While the scripture was fulfilled when Yahusha actually drank the bitter water of jealousy in place of His wife, it is evident that Yahuah had forgiven the sin of adultery His wife had committed based on His sacrifice for His wife for she was saved in her childbearing.

Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.

Yarak/H3409 in the Lampstand:

Ex25:31 Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand and its base/yarak H3409 and its branch shall be made of hammered work; its cones, its spheres and its buds shall be from it.

Ex25:32 Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.

The beauty of the fulfillment of the menorah branch which had the almond bowls which stood before the veil was fulfilled when Yahusha was impaled to the tree of almonds which grew from the rod of Masha which Dawid hid in the mount of Olives. The two zealot's were impaled on the same tree one on the right and one on the left of Yahusha, while Yahusha Himself being on the center of the tree. Yahusha's body on the tree stood as the center branch of the menorah and his two hands and the two hands each of the zealot's make six branches coming out of the center.

Mat 27:44 And also the robbers/charapu who were impaled with Him reviled Him, saying the same.

At that time zealot's were called bandits, He was numbered with the transgressors shows that Yahusha was likened by the accusation to be a zealot/rebel. If zealots were simple robbers they wouldn't have been impaled to the tree. Only those rebelling against the authority of the Roman government went through the punishment of impaling to a tree until death. For Yahusha the punishment was different than these zealot's, they had accused him of rebellion as well as blasphemy, that's why probably he died earlier than the two zealot's as he was stoned after being impaled to the tree.

Pilate marveled if Yahusha was already dead, why would he marvel if impaling would kill someone immediately? It is clear from the zealot's hung along with Yahusha that they were still alive and their legs were broken so that they should die of not being able to breathe, while Yahusha was impaled and then stoned to death. This shows the difference of punishment meted out, one for blasphemy and the other two for rebellion but not blasphemy.

Mar 15:44 And Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

The table of shew bread:

Exo 40:22 And he put את eth-the table in the tent of the assembly, upon the side/yarak H3409 of the Tabernacle northward, without the veil. Exo 40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before YAHUAH; as YAHUAH had com manded את eth-Mosheh. Exo 40:24 And he put את eth-the menorah in the tent of the assembly, over against the table, on the side/yarak H3409 of the Tabernacle southward.

The shew bread table had 12 loaves, in rows of 6 each representing the 12 tribes of Yasharal. The table was placed north of the side/yarak of the Tabernacle and menorah/lampstand was placed of the side of the south of the Tabernacle, in the Set-Apart place (outside the veil)

Lev 24:5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

Lev 24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before YAHUAH.

Lev 24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto YAHUAH.

Heb 9:1 Now the first covenant indeed had regulations of worship and the earthly set-apart place. Heb 9:2 For a Tent was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread, which is called the Set-apart Place. Heb 9:3 And after the second veil, the part of the Tent which is called Most Set-apart, Heb 9:4 to which belonged the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aharon that budded, and the tablets of the covenant, Heb 9:5 and above it the keruḇim of esteem were overshadowing the place of atonement – about which we do not now speak in detail.

The north of the Tabernacle was significant of Yasharal, while the lampstand seems to be southward, it was southward of the shew bread table, still pointing to the north facing the veil.

Psa 48:1 Great is יהוה, and greatly to be praised In the city of our Elohim, His set-apart mountain. Psa 48:2 Pretty on high, The joy of all the earth, Is Mount Tsiyon on the sides of the north, The city of the great Sovereign.

All burnt offerings were killed on the side/yarak of the altar northward before Yahuah. Yahusha ha Mashiyach is the Yasharal of Aluahym and we are engrafted into Yahuah in Him.

Lev 1:11 And he shall kill it on the side/yarak H3409 of the altar northward before YAHUAH: and the priests, Aharon's sons, shall sprinkle את eth-his blood round about upon the altar.

Speaking of Mashiyach it is said he will gird his sword upon His yarak/thigh, and on His robe and His thigh He has a name written 'Melek hamalakim, Adon ha adonim' (King of kings and Master of masters)

Psa 45:3 Gird your sword upon your thigh/yarak H3409, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.

Rev19:16 And on His robe and on His thigh/yarak He has a name written, King of the kings, and Adon of the masters.

Ephrayim is interchangeably used for Yasharal and speaking of Yasharal returning back to Yahuah, Yahuah prophesies of Ephrayim lamenting and striking his yarak/thigh being ashamed of the whoredoms done against Yahuah

Jer 31:18 “I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are יהוה my Elohim. Jer 31:19 ‘For after my turning back, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh/yarak H3409. I was ashamed, even humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’ Jer 31:20 “Is Ephrayim a precious son to Me, a child of delights? For though I spoke against him, I still remembered him. That is why My affections were deeply moved for him. I have great compassion for him,” declares יהוה.

Eze 21:12 Cry and howl, son of A’dam: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Yashar’el: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon את eth-my people: smite therefore upon your thigh/yarak H3409.

Eze 21:13  “For it is a trier, and what if it even despises the ROD or SCEPTRE/SHEBET H7626? Shall it not be?” declares the Master יהוה. 

Yahuah tells Ezekiel to smite his yarak/thigh for the sword of His judgement upon His people Yasharal for they despised the ROD/SHEBET i.e. Mashiyach

This rod termed as matah/rod of chastisement or rod of support or branch is called maqalah which means to germinate/shoot forth pointing to Mashiyach whose everlasting priesthood would shoot forth as the blossoms/tsyists from it bringing forth life. This same rod is called as shebet as well as ets in scripture

Gen 49:10 The sceptre/shebet H7626 shall not depart from Yahudah, nor a Torah giver from between his feet, until Shiyloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

The sceptre/shebet that sprung from the tribe of Yahudah is Mashiyach.

shebet H7626 From an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, that is, (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan: - X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.

Num 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Sceptre/shebet H7626 shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy all the sons of Shĕth.

Eze 37:16 “And you, son of man, take a stick/ets H6086 for yourself and write on it, ‘For Yehuḏah and for the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Then take another stick/ets H6086 and write on it, ‘For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’

Eze 37:17 “Then bring them together for yourself into one stick, and they shall become one in your hand.

Eze 37:18 “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’

Eze 37:19 say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick of Yehuḏah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.” ’

Eze 37:20 “And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.

Eze 37:21 “And speak to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the children of Yisra’ĕl from among the gentiles, wherever they have gone, and shall gather them from all around, and I shall bring them into their land.

Eze 37:22 “And I shall make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. And one sovereign shall be sovereign over them all, and let them no longer be two nations, and let them no longer be divided into two reigns.

Eze 37:23 “And they shall no longer defile themselves with their idols, nor with their disgusting matters, nor with any of their transgressions. And I shall save them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I shall cleanse them. And they shall be My people, and I be their Elohim,

Eze 37:24 while Dawiḏ My servant is sovereign over them. And they shall all have one shepherd and walk in My right-rulings and guard My laws, and shall do them.

Eze 37:25 “And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Yaʽaqoḇ My servant, where your fathers dwelt. And they shall dwell in it, they and their children and their children’s children, forever, and My servant Dawiḏ be their prince forever.

Yahuah uses the word ets H6086 translated here as 'stick'. Ets also means 'tree'

ets H6086 a tree (from its firmness); hence wood (plural sticks): - + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.

The picture is of a rod which is a matah/maqalah/shebet/ets in the hands of Yahudah and Yahusaph whose seed represent the One Malchitsedeq priesthood of Yahusha who will spring forth in bringing and making both these rods/staff as ONE in his hand.

Gen 49:10 “The sceptre/shebet H7626 shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples.

The sceptre/tribe/stick/rod/staff wouldn't turn aside from Yahudah until Mashiyach represented by the name Shiloh, whose name means 'that which belongs to him' would come.

Gen 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes/shebet H7626 of Yashar’el: and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; everyone according to his blessing he blessed them.

Hence, we see the smiting of Yaaqob's thigh/yarak significant of his seed smiting their thigh in in shame for rejecting the ROD of Aluahym who is Yahusha, and the children of Yasharal not eating the thigh portion and Torah not mentioning any of the sacrifices where the kaph/middle of the thigh/yarak was offered in burnt offerings for the yarak/thigh of Yahusha was put to test by Aluahym Himself when He drank the bitter water of jealously and his loins did not rot, nor his belly swell and Yahuah shows and exposes His thigh where His name is written 'Melek hamalakim, Adon ha adonim' for He overcame the written dogma of curses by turning them into barakha for us. Shalum!