ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE WEDDING DANCE – CHADOTHA חדותא  Cheth Daleth Vav Taw Aleph

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – WIND, SPIRIT, BREATHE OF LIFE – RAUCHA   רוחא

John 3:8:  “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

It was very windy today in the Windy City of Chicago. I mean this was the wind that blew Piglet away in the Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood.  I was waiting for one of the passengers on my disability bus to come out when I noticed the wind picked up a plastic bag, the type you get in the grocery store. For almost the whole five minutes that I waited for my passenger, I watched the wind pick up that bag and blow it where the wind wanted to blow it.  It landed on a fire hydrate, where I thought it was would stay, but the wind blew another gust and up away goes that metaphor that I felt the Holy Spirit was comparing me to. It blew up into a tree where it rests for a moment until another gust blew it out of the tree and brought it down to the ground only to be boosted up in the air again.

When my passenger came out I immediately got out of my bus to assist and was hit by a gust of wind.  I stood firm and resisted the wind as it tried to blow me around like Piglet or that plastic bag. My spirit was immediately quickened as I thought of John 3:8. The first chance I had I looked up that verse in my Aramaic Bible and like a light shining on my Bible I saw two words the one for wind and the one for Spirit, but both were the same word raucha.

I realized like a good Rabbi, even talking to the chief of the Pharisees Jesus still responded as a good rabbi would do.  He played little word games to get His point across.  “The Raucha blows where it wants….so is everyone born of the Raucha.

To be sure the context of this is a reference to being born again as the phrase born of the Spirit was very common to the Jews, it was an idiomatic expression for Redemption, restoration or reconciliation with God.  Nicodemus did not understand this born again thing.  Oh, he had the term born again in his vocabulary but that was used when a person got married and entered a new life as a married person or when a gentile converted to Judaism and started a new life as a Jew, but Nicodemus knew that this was not what Jesus meant, again Jesus was playing the rabbi using familiar terms for an unfamiliar topic.

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The context is teaching that we cannot understand this born again process any more than we can understand where the wind comes from or where it ends up.  We know it is real, we can feel it and hear it blow through trees, but we have no idea where it came from or where it is going, so is everyone born of the Spirit, they just lay back and accept it by faith, they don’t try to figure it out.

However, as I examined this verse in my Aramaic Bible I felt my spirit further quickened. God was reminding me that His Word is like a gemstone.  When you take it out to the light, there are many colors that show.  God was showing me another color.  He wanted me to be like that plastic bag and not resist the wind like I was doing as I waited outside my bus.  I realized that lately, I had been resisting that inner raucha prompting me to just go with whatever subject I felt comfortable with during my daily study.  I was resisting it because I felt my readers would not be interested in that subject and I searched for topics which would wow my readers. If some famous writer and speaker claiming knowledge of Hebrew and the Torah can sell a half million books comparing Ahab and Jezebel to Bill and Hillary Clinton, will I could do that and much more.  In one month I could write a book comparing the United States to Ancient Judah or Israel and hint at what the future of America would be.  Yet, I found when I determined to do this, I found the words would not come, they would not flow like they usually do when I just allow myself be like Piglet and let the Raucha blow me in the direction it wills.

Raucha also means breathe and without the Raucha breathing His message into me, there would be no life in that message. Oh, I am sure the brethren would eat it up and I might sell more books than my mere word study books, but it would not have the life.  I might do live streaming for our Full Access people but that live streaming would have no life. 

Relax, just let the Raucha blow where it may and let it bring Raucha life to others.

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