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Part Three ~ Tova ~ Precious
& Costly.
To this day I remember the
details how Precious Oils was named in 1991 and set me on the path of studying
about the oils and the plants of the Bible in greater detail. With the
enhancement of using pure, essential oils along with my studies has allowed me
to share bits and pieces through the years while my husband and I raised our family of six children (now ages 21 to 31). In 1991 when Precious Oils was named I had been studying on the two anointing’s
of Yeshua (Jesus) which lead me into a deeper study of anointing’s and oil,
which took me to Psalm 133. (I wrote about the 2 anointing’s in my book Precious Oils ~ A Study of the Fragrances of
the Bible.)
There are seven Hebrew words for
Precious, but only four times is the Hebrew word “Tov” defined as the word “Precious”,
each time it is linked to “precious ointment”. (II King’s 20:13, Psalm 133:2
and twice in Isaiah 39:1&2.)
Tova begins with the Hebrew
letter Tet. J This is a very
interesting letter as the picture is a serpent; the letter has dual meanings
representing evil, the serpent, and judgment. The dual meaning of Tet is seen
in God's objective goodness working through the permissive will of sinful
men. I have a visionary, Messianic
Jewish friend whose life has been devoted to sharing the Gospel through the
Hebrew language. She taught me that the dual nature of the Tet represents the
judgment of God that rested upon Yeshua when he bore our sin, and the sin of
the world. Yes, the serpent represents evil but the redemptive purpose of God
was fulfilled. Remember when Moses raised his pole in the desert in Numbers 21?
In John 3:14-17 Yeshua brings teaching using the story of the Children of
Israel and how they could look at the serpent, and live.
The Tet also begins the word
tikvah, which is hope found numerous times in Scripture. Tikvah can also be
found in Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says
the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected (tikvah)
end.”
Precious, essential oils often
are a good, (tov) healing modality for those who need hope and encouragement.
Each person has their own health profiles, while we encourage essential oil
therapy as a natural remedy please be sure to explore other health modalities
that fit your lifestyle.
As we continue with the ancient
keys found in the Hebrew of Shemen Tova™ we find vav, the sixth letter of the
Hebrew alphabet. Interestingly it ties in with Shemen Tova™ in its own unique
way as it was on the sixth day of creation when the physical world was
completed, man was made in His image, and the blessing of herbs, trees and
fruits was given. (Day three is the creation of plants; day six is the blessing
to consume herb bearing seeds, and fruit trees from the earth as food.) Each
Day of creation ended with God telling us that what he created that day “was
good”, except for the sixth day when he tells us that it was “very good”.
The vav is a “connector”
connecting heaven and earth, and the past to the future. The picture of a vav
is a hook, tent peg or a nail. Think of vav as “and” to make a thought
complete. You can’t write a book without words and phrases that form sentences,
paragraphs and chapters.
There is one more important
characteristic of vav that must be included as we learn the preciousness of
Shemen Tova™, it’s in the hand written Torah Scrolls that are read weekly in
synagogues around the world.
Torah Scrolls are written on
kosher parchment paper. If you ever have
a chance to closely examine a Torah Scroll you will find some interesting
features that are common in nearly every Torah Scroll ever written. Scrolls
consist of 245 ruled columns and each column contains 42 lines. There are no
chapter or verse markings, and no capitalization or punctuation. The only way
one knows they have ended one of the five books of Torah is that there is a
space of four blank lines to indicate where one book ends, and another begins.
Alfred J. Kolatch’s book, This is the Torah, shares an insight of vav that is exciting to
me as I’ve created Shemen Tova ~ Precious Oils™. He shares how nearly every column of a Torah
Scroll (with the exception of five columns) begins with a vav. As the Scribes
write each letter they understand the importance of vav and how it points to the
significance of the instructions of God to Moses in the details of constructing
Tabernacle in the Wilderness (a/k/a The Tent of Meeting). While the meaning may seem hidden, it really
isn’t when you look at the instructions of the Tabernacle’s curtains found in
Exodus 26 and the “hanging of the curtains”. The word “curtains” (yerı̂y‛âh) in this Scripture passage is
interesting as it also is the same word for “parchment”. As each curtain was
hung, it was “hooked” onto a pillar (column), thus bringing understanding how
the Vav begins nearly every column of a Torah Scroll.
As we continue to study “tova” we
can learn how the connection of the vav joins the next letter, beit. Beit is
the first letter of the Hebrew Bible ("In" the beginning) although it is the second Hebrew letter in
the alphabet. The beit is a house or tabernacle and it symbolizes family. In
Hebrew a son is “ben” בּן and daughter is “bayt” בּת. Also take note, and
don’t be confused that the beit can be transliterated into English as “b” or a “v”,
and I will often write Abraham as Avraham. The connection of vav to the beit is amazing
when we think of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness and how the vav hooked the
curtains of the tabernacle.
The beit b begins the word beracha (blessing). In Jewish tradition blessings over every
aspect of our lives is found in the Siddur (Jewish prayer book) from the time
we open our eyes, to asking the Lord to give us restful sleep. In my Precious
Oils Study book I give you the “Blessing
over the Fragrances”. It is important to me to take a moment to acknowledge
the Creator of the Universe for his blessings of the fragrant plant world each
time I blend, bottle, write and use my essential oils. I do this in the same
manner as I thank God for blessing me with my family, home, daily sustenance of
clean water and healthy food, my Precious Oils ministry, the freedoms that we
have in America and my new opportunity to plant the “Garden of the Ages” in the
desert of Israel. As the Apothecary of Shemen Tova ~ Precious Oils™ I pray that
our essential oils are a blessing to you and your family and that you find
healing and health as you use them, even daily.
The final Hebrew letter of Tova
is the hey h. The word for good (as in the days of
creation) is written “tov”. Adding the hey to my essential oil name to make it
Tova with the knowledge of the spiritual significance and power that the Hebrew
letters bring to understanding the Oils and Plants of the Bible in a new, and exciting way.
The hey’s Hebrew word picture is a
window, and the hey symbolizes the “breath of God” or His spirit.
To better explain how the breath
of God is in the hey let’s look into the story of Avraham and Sarah.
When we are first introduced to the Bible characters we find that their names are Abram and Sarai, until Genesis 17 when God changes their names; Abram אברם becomes Abraham אברהם, and Sarai שׂרי becomes Sarah שׂרה (The letter hey, the breath of God, is added to both names). We read the story
and find that their names were changed at the same time that God was telling
Abraham that he was going to be a father to the nations, and that his wife was
going to bear him a son who would be named Isaac.
Biblical commentators agree that
it was when the hey was added to Avram and Sarai it was the breath of life, God’s
spirit that allowed them a new identity. It allowed them strength to consummate
and bring forth the promise given that his wife would bear him a son. Hey is a
soft-sounding letter and when applied at the end of a name or word it adds
femininity as we see in Sarai becoming Sarah, from a barren woman to the Matriarch
of the entire world.
As we take the word tov, and
change it to tova, we are praying that you will experience every aspect of pure,
Shemen Tova™ essential oils. This includes healing of the emotions and of
physical body as many people experience when they use unadulterated essential
oils.
To end our introduction of the Hebrew letters of
Shemen Tova we must look at one more facet of the hey; it says “Behold” which
is an amazing Word study in itself. In a nutshell “behold” is “Hey, Look, See;
the root word adds in “with surprise”. God told us many things in the opening chapters of the Bible. In Genesis 1:29 we read
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every
herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in
the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
He tells us in Psalm 133 why the hey is important in the name
of Precious Oils ~ Shemen Tova™.
A Song of degrees of David.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity! It is like the precious ointment (tov shemen) upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aaron's beard: that
went down to the skirts of his garments; as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew
that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the
blessing, even life for evermore.
Psalms 133:1-3
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