12 Days in July

07/07/2008 6:39:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Seek New Wine Anointing A Fresh

12 days in July. The new wine is not to be compared to the old wine.  Wine in its post Adamic state is yet to be revealed with the feast of the bride and bride-groom. Pre Adamic State Adamic state Post Adamic State . The Double Parable of Luke 5:33-39 Re-examined The Emperor’s daughter said to Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananiah: “What beautiful Torah in an ugly vessel!” He replied, “Learn from the house of your father. In what is the wine stored?” “In jars of clay,” she answered. “But all the common people store their wine in jars of clay! You use them too? You should keep your wine in jars of gold and silver!” She went and had the wine placed in vessels of gold and silver, and it turned sour. “Thus,” said he to her, “It is the same with Torah!” She asked, “But are there not handsome people who are learned?” He replied, “If they were ugly they would be even more learned!” (Talmud Bavli Nedarim 50b) No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ (Luke 5:36-39)     New garment = previously uneducated students   Old garment = previously educated students   Patch = teaching   New wineskins = previously uneducated students   Old wineskins = previously educated students   New wine = new teaching   Old wine = previous teaching   Singular Meaning = New teaching requires previously uneducated students in order to be received.   No one takes a lesson meant for a new student and tries to teach it to an old (already educated) student. If he does, he will fail to teach the new student, and the lesson meant for the new student will be rejected by the old student. No one teaches new Torah-teaching to old (previously educated) students. If he does, the new teaching will be rejected, the student will be lost. No. Instead new Torah-teaching must be taught to new students. And no one after receiving old teaching (previous education) wants the new, for he says, “The old teaching is better.”