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B’nai Avraham
Rabbi Edward Levi Nydle/Levi bar Ido

In this short study we are going to look at the well-known account of the woman at the well. I am going to take you
through the pashat, and then we are going to go to some deeper levels, such as the hint [remez or alluding to] level
and the sod1 level as we study this text. Most people are familiar with this teaching of Yahshua and the woman at the
well, but all they ever seem to get out of it is that Yahshua knew this woman’s mind and told her that she was living
with a man who was not her husband. She believes that He is the Messiah, goes to tell the people, and then she brings
them back to meet Him. That is all they get out of this account! But there is more here concerning the two houses and a
deeper truth.
Yochanan is written on the sod level, or mystical level of Torah interpretation. There are four gospels, so we have the
four different levels of interpretation: pashat, remez, derash, and sod. There are a lot of hidden truths in this short
account in Yochanan. The Torah is like an onion, and we need to peel back the layers of understanding to find the real
meaning that is hidden inside the text.
I will be reading from two different translations. Now, translations are not inspired; translations are what they say
they are -just translations. They are the scholar’s best efforts to bring the original languages into the spoken language
of a people. But, in Hebrew there are certain words that cannot be translated. It is the judgment of the translators of
what word they decide to use in the text by the context. Sometimes they make mistakes. That is why we encourage
everyone to learn Hebrew and then study from the Hebrew.
I will be using the Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha, and I will be using The Scriptures. First let us read of this
account in The Scriptures:

• YOHANAN [John] 4:[1] So when the Master knew that the Pharisees had heard that Yahshua made and
immersed more taught ones than Yochanan – (Yochanan the Immerser) [2] although Yahshua Himself did not
immerse, but His taught ones – [3] He left Yehudah and went away again to Galil. [4] And He had to pass
through Shomeron. [5] So He came to a city of Shomeron, called Shekem, near the piece of land Ya’aqov gave
to his son Yoseph. [6] And Ya’akov’s fountain was there. So Yahshua, being wearied from the journey, was
sitting thus at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour. [7] A woman from Shomeron came to draw water.
Yahshua said to her, “Give Me to drink.” [8] For His taught ones had gone off into the city to buy food. [9]
The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Yehudi, ask a drink from me, a
woman of Shomeron?” For Yehudim do not associate with Shomeronites [Samaritans]. [10] Yahshua
answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’
you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” [11] The woman said to Him,
“Master, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where, then, do You have living water?” [12] “Are
you greater than our father Ya’aqov, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his
cattle?” [13] Yahshua answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water shall thirst again, [14] but
whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never thirst. And the water that I give him shall become
in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” [15] And the woman said to Him, “Master, give
me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.” [16] Yahshua said to her, “Go, call you husband,
and come here.” [17] The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Yahshua said to her, “You have
well said, ‘I have no husband,’ [18] for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not
your husband. What you have said is true.” [19] The woman said to Him, “Master, I see that You are a
prophet. [20] “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that in Yerushalayim is the place
where one needs to worship.” [21] Yahshua said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you
shall neither on this mountain, nor in Yerushalayim, worship the Father. [22] “You worship what you do not
know. We worship what we know, because the deliverance is of the Yehudim. [23] “But the hour is coming,
and now is, when the true worshippers of the Father shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father
also does seek such to worship Him. [24] “Elohim is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in
spirit and truth.” [25] The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, the One who is called
Anointed. When that One comes, He shall announce to us all.” [26] And Yahshua said to her, “I who am
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speaking to you am He.” [27] And upon this His taught ones came, and they were marveling that He was
speaking with a woman, however, no one said, “What do you seek?” or “Why do you speak with her?” [28]
The woman then left her water jug, and went away to the city, and said to the men, [29] “Come, see a Man
who told me all that I have done. Is this not the Messiah?” [30] They went out of the city and were coming to
Him. [31] But in the meantime his taught ones were asking Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” [32] And He said to
them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” [33] Then the taught ones said to each other, “Did
anyone bring Him food to eat?” [34] Yahshua said to them, “My food is to do the desire of Him who sent Me,
and to accomplish His work. [35] “Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and the harvest comes’? See, I
say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvest – already! [36] “He who is
reaping receives a reward, and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that both he who is sowing and he who is
reaping rejoice together. [37] “For in this the word is true, ‘One who sows and another reaps.’ [38] I sent you
to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” [39]
“And many of the Shomeronites [Samaritans] of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman
who witnessed, “He told me all that I have done.”[40] Therefore when the Shomeronites came to Him, they
were asking Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days. [41] And many more believed because of
His word. [42] And they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves
have heard, and we know that this is truly the Messiah, the Savior of the world.” [43] And after two days He
left there and went to Galil.

This is a long Scriptural reading, but we need to study it in depth because there are hidden truths in it, and there is a lot
more going on here than what is on the pashat. We learn to read through the text, or look deeper into the text to
understand what is being written. Sometimes we can tell what is really going on by what is not being.
Let us look at the Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha. Let’s start here in verse 4:

• YOHANAN 4: [4] and it was necessary for Him to pass through Shomeron (Samaria).

The Scriptures says He had to pass through Shomeron (Samaria). In the original text, we have to understand the idea
that He had to go there. He did not have an option about this trip; He was being led by the Ruach into Samaria for a
very specific purpose.

• [5] Therefore He comes into the city of Shomeron (Samaria) being called Shekhem near the field which
Ya’akov Avinu had given to Yosef ben Ya’akov. [BERESHIT 33:19; 48:22; YEHOSHUA 34:22]

Let us go to Bereshith [Genesis] 33.18-19, page 36, of The Scriptures.

• BERESHITH [Genesis] 33: [18] And Ya’aqov came safely to the city of Shekem, which is in the land of
Kena’an, when he came from Padan Aram. And he pitched his tent before the city. [19] And he bought the
portion of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Hamor, Shekem’s father, for one
hundred qesitah. [20] And he set up an altar there and called it El Elohe Yisra’el.

El the Elohim of Yisra’el he called the place at Shekem.

Let us look at 48:21-22 in Bereshith, page 54:

• BERESHITH 48: [21] And Yisra’el said to Yoseph, “See, I am dying, but Elohim shall be with you and bring
you back to the land of your fathers. [22] “And I, I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I
took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

We understand that Shekem, which was in Samaria, was in the area of land that belonged to Yoseph. NOTE: It is not
in Judea, but it is in the land that Yisra’el had given to Yoseph. And it is situated in a valley between two mountains.
The Scriptures do a very good job in the verse 6 translation, ‘And Ya’akov’s fountain was there,’ because in the
Hebrew it is not a well, but rather it is a fountain, a spring of bubbling water. That is very important that you
understand that there was a spring or a fountain at Shekem.

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• [6] Now a be’er (well) [fountain or spring] of Ya’akov was there. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having
become weary from His journey was sitting there at the be’er (well).

The text reads ‘He was sitting on the well,’ NOTE. He was sitting on the well about the sixth hour [noon-time].

• [7] An isha [woman] comes to draw mayim (water).

The talmidim leave the Master to go to buy some food. Let us go to the conversation here in verse 9:

• [9] Therefore the isha (woman) of Shomeron (Samaria) says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How can you,
being a Yehudi, ask to be given a drink from me, an isha (woman) from Shomeron (Samaria)? (For those who
are Yehudim do not associate with those of Shomeron) [EZRA 4:3-6; 9:1-10:44].

That statement is true, however we see the talmidim went into a Samaritan town to buy food. If you go into the Oral
Tradition in the Talmud, you will find that they were allowed to buy food from the Samaritans. The Yehudim were
allowed to associate with the Samaritans in a limited manner.

• [10] In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to here, If you knew the matanah (gift) of HaShem and who it
is saying to you, Give me a drink, [BERESHIT 26:19] you would have asked him and he would have given
you Mayim Chayim (Living Water). [YESHAYAHU 44:3’ 55:1; YIRMEYAH 2:13; 17:13; ZECHARYAH
14:8]. [11] The isha says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni (my Master), you have no bucket and the
be’er is deep. From where then do you have the Mayim Chayim? [BERESHIT 21:19] [12] Surely you are not
greater than Ya’akov Avinu who gave the matanah to us of the be’er (well) and drank from it himself as did
his banim (sons) and his tzon (flock)? [13] In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Everyone drinking from
this mayim (water) will thirst again, [14] but whoever drinks of the mayim (water) which I will give to him
will never thirst again, but the mayim (water) which I will give him will become in him a makor (fountain,
TEHILLIM 36:10 [9]) of mayim (water, YESHAYAH 12:3; 58:11) springing up unto Chayyei Olam
[everlasting life].

Let us gain some understanding of the Samaritans. Let us understand the context by studying about the Samaritans
first.
The Samaritans

There was an enmity between the Yehudim (the Jewish people) and the residents of Samaria. A lot of people without
proper understanding do not understand the reason for this long standing conflict. This quarrel goes back to the return
of the southern tribes of Yehudah from the Babylonian exile in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. But it goes back
even further than that! It goes back to around 721-722 BCE when the ten northern tribes of Yisra’el were invaded by
Assyria in what is called the Assyrian captivity. And Shekem, which lies within Samaria, was in that part of Yisra’el
that Assyria invaded and took the ten northern tribes into captivity. Therefore the Yehudim, who did not go into
captivity for about another hundred years, remained faithful to Yahweh and the Torah. But something happened within
the Northern Kingdom. When they split from Yehudah [in the South] the king of Yisra’el [in the North] set up false
worship, a false priesthood, and false feast days. This was the beginning of antagonism between the Northern
Kingdom2 and the Southern Kingdom3.
We see in the text that the Southern Kingdom of Yehudah, consisting of the tribes of Yehudah, Benjamin, and Levi,
with some faithful from Ephraim, continued to worship in Yerushalayim at the Beit HaMikdash [the Temple]. But the
Northern Kingdom worshipped at Dan and Bethel where there were golden calves set up for worship. So this conflict
at the time of Yahshua is at least seven hundred years old, and it goes back further than the Babylonian captivity.
Now when Assyria conquered the northern part of Yisra’el, which is called Ephraim, we are speaking of the
Northern Kingdom of Yisra’el. Ephraim was the largest and dominant tribe. Not only that, when they split from the
son of King Solomon the king of Yisra’el was from the tribe of Ephraim, so therefore they were called by the name
Ephraim. Also, when you hear Yehudah think of the Southern Kingdom.

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We have a nation that is torn in two, which is very similar to our Civil War between the Northern States and the
Southern States with two different kings and two different ways of worship.
Now when Assyria conquered the northern kingdom it took some of people into captivity. But what Assyria liked to
do was to inter-marry, and assimilate the people. That is what they did in the Northern Kingdom of Yisra’el. Assyria
brought in their own people who then inter-married with the Ephraimites [or Yisraelites] .This union produced the
people called the Samaritans.
The Samaritans, since they are a part of the Northern Kingdom of Yisra’el denied Yerushalayim as the place of
worship. Instead we read that they worshipped on Mount Gerizim, which in the Torah is called the Mount of
Blessing.Also, there was Mount Ebal, the Mount of Cursing. Samaria was the land that lay between those two
mountains: on one side they had the mountain of blessing and [on the other side] the mountain of cursing. The
Samaritans worshipped on the Mountain of Blessing. At one time they even built a temple there to in which to
worship. That explains why in the book of Nehemiah they (Samaritans) tried to stop Nehemiah from rebuilding the
Temple in Jerusalem.
From the Jewish Encyclopedia we read that within the Seven Feasts of Yahweh there are three sholesh regulim
(three pilgrimage feasts).During these every male Yisraelite was commanded to go up to Jerusalem. These three Feasts
were: Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot. However, at the sholesh regulim, rather than going to Jerusalem, the Samaritans
went to Mount Gerizim.
Let me give you a little background on Mount Gerizim [pashat level]. After crossing the Jordan River the children of
Yisra’el were commanded to build an altar at Mount Ebal, and to engrave upon it all the words of this Torah. They
were to set the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal. According to Yehoshua [Joshua] 8.30
this was Yehoshua’s first act after the conquest of Ai. HarGerizim is the present day Jebel Atour. Mount Gerizim and
Mount Ebal rise above the city of Shekhem, - one in the south and one in the north. This is why we are speaking of
Shekhem.

• Jewish Encyclopedia: Gerizim became the main point of divergence between the Samaritans and the Jews.
When they rejected……

There is a saying in the Talmud: At what point can the Samaritans be accepted into Judaism? And the reply was:
When they reject their belief in Mount Gerizim.
In Shekhem, which lies in Samaria or the land of Ephraim, there is Ya’akov’s well. It is not really a well; it is more
of a fountain according to the Hebrew

1. Where was the woman from? She was from Samaria. [NOTICE THAT]
2. We have Yahshua who is from Yehudah, He is a Jew.
3. We have Yehudah and Ephraim at Ya’akov’s well [or fountain].

This is why Yahshua said, “I must go through Samaria,” He is about to reveal Himself to the northern tribes of Yisra’el
as the Moshiach. He was looking for the Lost Sheep of the House of Yisra’el. The Samaritans did not accept the
Nevi’im (The Prophets) or the ketuvim (The Writings) as Scripture. They only accepted the five books of Moshe as
Scripture. But yet, this woman at the well (a Samaritan) said she knew about the Messiah. This tells us that through the
Torah alone one should be able to know who the Moshiach is.

The Blessing

Let us turn to Bereshith 49 when Yisra’el is blessing each of his children. It is very interesting; so pay very close
attention to the wording. As we study, we have to know that in the Torah every letter, word, and sentence is important.

• BERESHITH [Genesis] 49: [22] “Yoseph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-
bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall. [23] “And the archers have bitterly grieved him,
shot at him and hated him. [24] “But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made
strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya’aqov – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’el -- [25]
from the El of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the heavens
above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. [26] “The blessings of

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your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on
the head of Yoseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

Yoseph was separated from his brothers in Mitzrayim (a tight place). Mitzrayim is a type of the world, or a type of
bondage. Yoseph, the representative of the ten northern tribes of Ephraim was separated from his brothers in a place of
bondage. Yosef is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain (or well). On the hint level we are given a hint of
what is taking place in Yochanan chapter 4.What is taking place in the conversation between Yahshua and this
woman? Where is it? It is in the land of Yoseph, or the land of Ephraim. Something is happening here deeper than just
what is on the surface of the text. Where would Yoseph be found? He can be found by a well.

The Well

Another name for Shekhem was a Hebrew word that means drunkenness. Yoseph’s offspring, or his fruit-bearing
tree, would be increased in the Northern Kingdom, or the Kingdom of Jeroboam.
This word “well” in this verse is very interesting. In The Orthodox Brit Chadasha they translate it a be’er. But that is
not what it is in the Hebrew this text. In the blessing given to Yoseph the word for well is ayin – the same Hebrew
word for eye. It is an ayin, a yud, and a nun – and it means a physical eye; showing mental qualities, of mental and
spiritual faculty. It is also called a spring or a fountain.
Yoseph represented by the isha (woman) from Samaria, and this conversation with the Moshiach4 takes place at a
place where mental and spiritual faculties are flowing freely. Ayin can also mean presence, pleased, or to think about.
When we add up – this Gematria on the sod level – the Hebraic letters of the word “ayin” we get 360 – 320 + 40 =
360. It is the same Gematria as the Hebrew word mishi, which means ‘as wives of’ plural; mishi also can mean ‘my
wives’ plural; it’s also the same Gematria as the word b’choshen – which means ‘in the breastplate’. The breastplate
had twelve stones, each representing one of the tribes.
We find out that at this well the conversation taking place is ayin, which has the Gematria of 360, which has the
same Gematria as the words ‘my wives’ plural.

• FROM THE ZOHAR Book One 135b: (The Zohar a sod level, a mystical commentary on the Torah, and is
written on the deepest level of Torah interpretation).It is written: a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters,
a flowing stream, comes from Lebanon. A fountain of gardens is a description of Avraham. A well of living
waters is a description of Yitskaq (Isaac) of whom it is written: Yitskaq dwelt by the well of the Living and
Seeing One. [Be’er l’heiroi?] The well is none other than the Shechinah.

What did we say ayin means? Our mental and spiritual faculties. What is it that reveals things to us? The Shechinah,
or the female aspect, the Ruach HaKodesh. The well can also be symbolic of the Shechinah according to the Zohar.

• The Living One is an allusion to the righteous One who lives in the two worlds; that is who lives above in the
higher world, and who also lives in the lower world, which exists and illumined through Him just as the moon
is only illumined when she looks at the Sun. Thus the well of existence literally emanates from the Living One
whom it sees, and when it looks at Him it is filled with Living Waters.

Yahshua is The Righteous One, He is the Living One, and He says, “If you know this, and if you take this water I had
to give to you, where it emanates from (the Messiah), you will receive eternal life.” This is what the Zohar also
teaches.
Two Sisters

Let us go to Yechezqel [Ezekiel] 23.1. This is a rather long reading, but you have to look at it. We are going to look
at this prophecy about two women. Let us look at their names because they reveal something to us.

• YEHEZQEL [Ezekiel] 23: [1] And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [2] “Son of man, there were two
women, daughters of one mother.

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Who is our mother? She is the Yerushalayim above according to Rav Shaul. These two daughters are daughters of the
same mother and they came from the same womb. We have two kingdoms: Ephraim and Yehudah and they both came
from the same mother.

• [3] “And they whored in Mitzrayim, they whored in their youth. There their breasts were handled, and there
their maiden nipples were squeezed. [4] “And their names were: Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister.

Let us look at these names of these two women. The first one – Oholah – is a feminine of #168 [Strong’s] but is a
second form, and it means ‘her tent’. Oholah – a symbolic name for Samaria. Who was Samaria? Samaritans were
Ephraimites. Oholibah her sister means ‘my tent’ in Strong’s – a symbolic name for Yehudah. Even Strong himself
acknowledges that this in Yechezqel 23 is speaking of the two kingdoms of Yisra’el, the Northern kingdom and the
Southern kingdom.

• [4] ….And they were Mine [my wives – mishi – same Gematria as ayin], and they bore sons and daughters.
And their names: Shomeron [Samaria] is Oholah, and Yerushalayim is Oholibah.

Samaria and Yerushalayim. What is the conflict in Yochanan 4? It is between Samaria and Yerushalayim.

[5] “And Oholah whored while she was Mine. And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring Ashshurians
[Assyrians], [6] dressed in purple, officers and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. [7]
“So she gave her whorings on them, all of them choice sons of Ashshur. And with all for whom she lusted, with all
their idols, she defiled herself. [8] “And she did not forsake her whorings from Mitzrayim, for in her youth they had
lain with her, and they squeezed her maiden nipples, and poured out their whorings on her. [9] “Therefore I have given
her into the hand of her lovers, into the land of the Ashshurians, for whom she lusted. [10] “They uncovered her
nakedness; they took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with a sword. And she became a byword among
women, and they executed judgments on her. [11] “And her sister Oholibah [Yerushalayim] saw this, yet she became
more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her whorings more corrupt than her sister’s whorings. [12] “She lusted for the
sons of Ashshur, ---

We read that both of these women were harlots, but they both were His. Now let us go to Yirmeyahu [Jeremiah] 3.7-
8. According to the Torah, what can a husband give to a wife who is guilty of adultery? He writes her a bill of
divorcement [get].

• YIRMEYAHU [Jeremiah] 3 :( This is speaking of Yisra’el) [7] “And after she had done all these, I said
‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. (This is speaking of the northern house of Ephraim). And her
treacherous sister Yehudah saw it. [8] “And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’el had
committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister
Yehudah did not fear, but went and committed whoring too. [9] “And it came to be, through her frivolous
whoring, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood. [10] “And yet for all this her
treacherous sister Yehudah has not turned to Me with all her heart, but falsely,” declares Yahweh. [11] And
Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Yisra’el has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Yehudah.

Yirmeyahu states that Yahweh gave the northern kingdom of Yisra’el [Ephraim] a get – a bill of divorcement –
because of her adultery. But YHWH never gave a bill of divorcement to Yehudah for her whoring. So we know that at
one time Yahweh was married – betrothed – to the Northern Kingdom of Yisra’el, but He gave her a get because of her
adultery.
Let us read Hoshea 2.In Hoshea 2 Yahweh says He will once again betroth Himself to the Northern House of
Yisra’el. Just a minute! We are going to run into a problem, because according to the Torah you cannot re-marry a
wife whom you have divorced and she has married another man. It is violation of the Torah.

• HOSHEA 2: [16] “And it shall be, in that day,” declares Yahweh, “that you call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no
longer call Me ‘My Ba’al.’ (My Master). [17] “And I shall remove the names of the Ba’als from her mouth,
and they shall no more be remembered by their name. [18] “And in that day I shall make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping creatures of the ground,
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NOTICE Hoshea uses the “birds of the heavens” and the beasts if the field” and the “creeping creatures of the
ground”5 – these are all code words used of the northern house of Yisra’el. This is the same creeping creatures, birds of
the heavens, wild beasts, that Kepha saw lowered down in the tallit6 from heaven in Acts 10.These are symbolic of the
Northern House of Ephraim.

• [18] ….when bow, and sword, and battle I break from the earth. And I shall make them lie down in safety. [19]
“And I shall take you as a bride unto Me forever, and take you as a bride unto Me in righteousness, and in
right-ruling, and kindness and compassion. [20] “I shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and
you shall know Yahweh.

The word “know” in the Hebrew means to know in the most intimate way of a joining, such as a married husband and
wife.

• [21] “And it shall be in that day I answer,” declares Yahweh, “that I answer the heavens, and they answer the
earth, [22] and the earth answer the grain and the new wine and the oil, and they answer Yizre’el.

YHWH had divorced (according to Jeremiah) the Northern House of Yisra’el giving them a get. But yet in Hoshea
He promises that He will re-marry her at a later date. But we have a problem because that is a violation of Torah. It
cannot be done.

• YEHEZQEL [Ezekiel] 16: [6] “Then I passed by you and saw you trampled down in your own blood, and I
said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ And I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’

NOTICE it says “live” twice. One is the blood of the covenant of circumcision, and the second is the blood of the
covenant of the Brit Chadasha.

• [7] “I have let you grow like a plant in the field. And you are grown and are great, and you come in the finest
ornaments. – breasts were formed, your hair grew, and you were naked and bare. [8] “And I passed by you and
looked upon you and saw that your time was the time of love (speaking of Yerushalayim, Yehudah). And I
spread My skirt [tallit] over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore an oath to you and entered into a
covenant with you, and you became Mine,” declares the Master Yahweh. [9] “And I washed you in water, and
I washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil. [10] “And I dressed you in embroidered work and gave
you sandals of leather. And I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. [11] “And I adorned you
with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck. [12] “And I put a ring in your
nose, and earrings in your ears, and a crown of adorning on your head. [13] “Thus you were adorned with gold
and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, and honey,
and oil. And you were exceedingly pretty, and became fit for royalty.

This text is speaking of Yehudah and Yerushalayim. He remained married to Yerushalayim [Judah] despite their
whorings. Now let us turn to Devarim [Deuteronomy] in the Torah, 24.1.

• DEVARIM [Deuteronomy] 24:[1] “When a man takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds
no favor in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness [uncleanliness] in her, and he shall write
her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house,

What place is called Yahweh’s house? It is the Temple, or Beit HaMikdash. Ephraim never came back to the temple
because Ephraim worshipped on Mount Gerizim and they built their own temple. They despised the worship
inYerushalayim.

• [2] and if she left his house and went and became another man’s wife,

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Ephraim did this by joining herself to other people of the nations, so much that they became the goyim. I am going to
take you to deeper levels; because remember this woman from Samaria had married five husbands, and she was living
with someone who was not her husband. Those five husbands she was previously married to are symbolic of the
five books of Torah. Those were her husbands. But He said, “Now you are with someone who is not your husband.”

• [3] and the latter husband shall hate her and write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send
her out of his house, or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, [4] then her former husband
who sent her away is not allowed to take her back to his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be an
abomination before Yahweh. And do not bring sin on the land which Yahweh your Elohim is giving you as an
inheritance.

What is going on? How can Yahweh say “I and going to re-marry Ephraim”? According to Torah He cannot, it’s a
sin. We have a problem here, don’t we? Go to Yeshayahu [Isaiah] 50.1.

• YESHAYAHU [Isaiah] 50: [1] Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom
I have put away? (Speaking of Ephraim). Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you
were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

This is speaking to the Northern House of Yisra’el. Yeshayahu is saying, “Show Me the bill of divorcement. I gave it
to you, show it to Me.” So once again we know there was a get given to the Northern House of Yisra’el. Go to
Colossians 2. We have a harlot of a woman who has a get and we have her husband, Yahweh, who is not able to re-
marry her because she has been married to another man. How is this problem going to be resolved and not violate the
Torah? I am going to give you a fresh look into Colossians 2.14.

Divorce and Remarriage?

Remember the Scripture we just read, where He said, “When I saw you in your blood I said, ‘Live!’ When I saw you
in your blood I said, ‘Live!’

• COLOSSIANS 2:[13] And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has
made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, [14] having blotted out the certificate of
debt against us – (Remember in Yeshayahu, “I have sold you to creditors and given you a certificate” – get) -
-by dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake,

Rav Shaul is saying here that when Yahshua went to the stake He took the bill of divorcement of the Northern
Kingdom, and it was nailed to His stake. People want to put a Greek interpretation into this verse. But, you have got to
look at the Scripture with Hebraic mindset. What was the bill against Ephraim? It was a divorce decree. But we still
have a problem because she had been married to another person. Yahweh cannot re-marry her, even though she has a
get.
In Wayyiqra [Leviticus] 21.15. You have got to have knowledge of the Torah to understand what is really going on
in Yochanan 4. Wayyiqra 21.15 says this:

• WAYYIQRA [Leviticus] 21: This is speaking of a Cohen HaGadol, a High priest). [14] ‘A widow or one put
away or a defiled woman or a whore – these he does not take. But a maiden [virgin] of his own people he does
take as a wife. [15] ‘And he does not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh, who sets him
apart.’”

Wait a minute! If Yahshua is the Cohen HaGadol, then He cannot marry a divorced woman. We still have a dilemma.
Not only can Yahweh not re-marry Yisra’el because she has married another, but Yahshua as the Cohen HaGadol
cannot marry her because she has been divorced. Go to Lamentations [Ekah] 5.3.

• EKAH [Lamentations] 5: [3] We have become orphans, fatherless, Our mothers are like widows.

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Widows are women without a husband. But remember that the Cohen HaGadol cannot marry a widow. But look at
this:

• [3] We have become orphans, fatherless,

Go to Yochanan 14.18.

• YOHANAN [John] 14: [18] “I shall not leave you orphans – I am coming to you.

Yisra’el is saying, “We are like orphans,” and “Our mothers are like widows,” Yahshua says, “I am not going to leave
you in that condition. I am not going to leave you like orphans.” The Master is telling them, in Yochanan 14.18, “You
will not be an orphan anymore, nor your mothers like widows. You will have a father and a mother. You are not going
to be orphans any longer. I will not leave you in that condition.” Yahshua has not gone to the stake at this time.

Romans Seven

Let us go to Romans 7.1. Rav Shaul is giving us the key to understanding Yochanan 4. But not only that, Rav Shaul
is giving us a key of understanding the problem of the Two Houses, and the problem of the get – divorce of Ephraim.
The problem is that Yisra’el cannot be re-married to Elohim because she has been married to somebody else.

• ROMANS 7:[1] Or do you not know, brothers – for I speak to those knowing the Torah –

Who would anyone know the Torah in Rome? He is speaking to Yehudah, and he says, I am revealing something to
you who know the Torah.

• That the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives?

According to Torah as long as Yahshua is alive He cannot remarry Yisra’el.

• [2] For the married woman has been bound by the Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is
released from the Torah concerning her husband. [3] So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an
adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so
that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s. [4] So, my brothers, you also were put to death to
the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead,
that we should bear fruit to Elohim.

Let us review a moment: Yoseph was called a fruitful bough sitting by a well. Yahshua, as long as He is alive,
cannot be remarried to Ephraim, who represented by the woman at the well. He would have to die. But who would
wish to return to a dead husband? You cannot marry a dead person. But you can return to a husband if he becomes a
renewed-resurrected man. Then you can be remarried to him. According to Torah, the minute he dies, the Torah law
forbidding remarriage does not apply to him. He is dead. That is why when we die they cut one of the tzitzit7 off the
tallit because there is no longer an obligation to do the Torah.
So the minute Yahshua dies, and He says, “It is finished!” -the Torah no longer applies to Him, the Torah of not being
able to remarry His former wife who has been married to another man. Then when He is raised from the dead, since He
is a renewed Man, and He has come back to life, He can then remarry her. That is how the problem is going to be
solved. That is how the Two Houses, both wives, represented by the ayin – by the well – are going to be able to be
joined to their husband. Because of what we read in Ephesians:

• EPHESIANS 2[15] having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the Torah of the commands in dogma –

What Torah of commands in dogma? The Torah concerning the divorce of a remarried woman.

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• [15] ….so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making shalom [peace]…

This peace is between the Two Houses: Yehudah and Ephraim – the seven hundred year enmity is abolished in His
flesh .What enmity? Yehudah viewed Ephraim as a divorced woman! They saw the Samaritans as an adulterous
woman. They knew that Ephraim held a bill of divorcement from Yahweh. In their self-righteousness the Yehudim
say, “We have never been divorced,” even though they were unfaithful, and adulterous, Yahweh never divorced the
Jews. So this enmity that had existed for over seven hundred years at the time of Yahshua, in His death and
resurrection, was putting an end to this enmity. He nailed to the stake the bill of divorcement to Ephraim. He says,
“The Two are becoming One in the Messiah.”

• [16] and to completely restore to favor both of them

Both of who? We are never told in the text. I believe Rav Shaul assumes you know that it is Ephraim and Yehudah.
People read this as Jew and Gentile! It has nothing to do with Jew and Gentile, but everything to do with Ephraim and
Yehudah. That is the only enmity that existed!

• [16] …unto Elohim in one body through the stake, having destroyed the enmity by it. [17] And having come,
He brought as Good News peace to you who were far off, and peace to those near.

Now unless you understand those terms you will not understand what Rav Shaul is writing. And unless you truly
understand the Good News, which is more than “Your sins are forgiven,” and has nothing to do about flying away to
heaven. The Good News is that the enmity that has existed between Ephraim and Yisra’el would end in the
Messiah, and their sins are forgiven. Thus the Restoration of the Kingdom of Yisra’el can take place in King
Moshiach, because He is stopping the war between brothers and all can be reconciled with YHWH and each other by
His blood.
Yehudah and Ephraim are both full citizens of Yisra’el .This is what Yahshua is saying in Yochanan 4 when He
said, “There is coming a time when they are not going to be worshipping on Mount Gerizim. But Yehudah, there is
going to be a time when you are not worshipping in Yerushalayim either.” Yahshua knew in 70 CE that the Temple
would be destroyed. He said, “Then both of you are going to be worshipping the Father in Ruach and emet” [Spirit and
Truth].
What was causing the enmity? It was the problem of Mount Gerizim and Yerushalayim, and two places of worship.
Yahshua said, “I am going to do away with both of them and that will stop the problem if neither one of you have a
place to go.”
At the Well-Conclusion

Do you understand what is going on in Yochanan 4? It is far more than just an encounter with the Messiah by a
woman who is a sinner. Let us go back to Yochanan 4, and with this understanding I think the text will open up to
you. You NOTICE throughout the Torah there has always been a meeting of male and female aspects at a well.
We have Ya’aqov meeting Rachel at a well; we have Eleazer the servant meeting Rivkah at a well; we have Moshe
meeting Zipporah at a well; and now here in the Brit Chadasha we have Yahshua meeting the isha [woman] of Samaria
at a well; male and female aspects meeting together around a place of spiritual understanding, which is called binah. Is
binah male or female? Binah is female and choqmah is the male.
Yahshua is representative of choqmah [wisdom], because we are told that He is our wisdom. All wisdom from above
is in Yahshua. He is choqmah. The woman from Samaria represents binah .So we male and female coming around the
well. Choqmah realizes that there is choqmah in this meeting that is going on, and through binah, the information that
is given to you is analyzed you find the applications to the Truths that you find in the Torah.
Let me show you some other things here, and then we will end. NOTICE this took place in the land of Ephraim, the
land of Yoseph. We have a fountain or a well here at Sh’khem.Let us look at it this way: A woman of Samaria came to
draw water from this spring [or well], and Yahshua said to her, “Give Me to drink.” This woman [who is Ephraim]
comes to this well in Shekhem to draw some water. Wells are symbolic types of teachings, and this well at Shekhem
was poisoned by the teachings of Ephraim, and the Samarians were guilty of drawing the water from this well. Why
are they poisoned teachings? Because the Samaritans invented their own Torah. That, my friends, is exactly what
Ephraim had done by leaving Torah and Yahshua, the Jewish Messiah.

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Yahshua’s talmidim went off into town to buy food. The woman of Samaria said, “How is it that you, being a
Yehudi, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” We know there is a reason the Yehudites had something against
the Samaritans. Yahshua then tells her about the gift of Elohim, – Living Waters. She says, “Master, you have no
vessel, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?” NOTICE the text never says Yahshua took
a drink from the well even though He was weary and thirsty. He asked her for a drink, but it never says she gave Him a
drink.
Then she questions Him: “Are you greater than Ya’aqov?” Yahshua said, “Everyone drinking out of this well shall
thirst again.”

• 15 “Let me have of this water so that I do not thirst, nor come here [anymore] to draw.”

Yahshua says, “Go, call you husband, and come back.” The woman said, “I have no husband.” Yahshua said, “You
have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ (she was divorced, or she was as a widow) for you have had five husbands
(representative of the five books of Torah), and the one whom you now have is not really your husband 9 the strange
doctrines of Ephraim). What you have said is true.”

• [19] And the woman said, “Master, I see that you are a prophet. [20] “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain
[Gerizim], but you people [the Yehudim] say that in Yerushalayim is the place where one needs to worship.”
[21] Yahshua said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither on this
mountain, nor in Yerushalayim, worship the Father.” (He is telling her here what is going to happen). [22]
“You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because the deliverance is of [salvation
springs forth from] the Yehudim.”

The Messiah, YHWH’s salvation, would come from the Tribe of Yehudah.He is not saying deliverance is just for the
Jews. He is saying, “Deliverance [salvation] comes forth from the Yehudim.”

• [23] “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and
truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him.[25] The woman says, “I know Messiah is coming,
[she knew that from just the Torah, that is all that they had] the One who is called Anointed. [26] He tells her,
“I who am speaking to you am He.”

The woman then left her water-jug. She was willing to leave the vessel from which she drew the poisoned water, the
poisoned doctrine.

• [28] ….and went away into the city, and said to the men,

Those that are familiar with the TaNaK know that the term” men” is symbolic of Yisra’el. When you see “men” it is
speaking of Yisra’el. This woman went to tell lost Yisra’el that the Messiah had come.

• [29] “Come; see a Man who told me all that I have done. Is this not the Messiah?”

When his talmidim ask for someone to give him food, he replies, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

• [34] Yahshua said to them, “My food is to do the desire of Him [My Father] who sent Me, and to accomplish
[finish] His work.” In this text it means: to finish, bringing about what He is doing. What is YHWH doing? He
sent His Son to Samaria to tell the Samaritans, “Look, Messiah is here and I am He. You are going to have a
husband again.”

Yahshua then shows them about the harvest of the Samaritans. He says this: “The fields are white for harvest –
already!” Where was He looking? He was looking at Samaria, at the land of Ephraim, the land of Yoseph. He says,
“Look at the fields, look, they are ready for harvest.”8 His talmidim could not see it because they, as Yehudim, still

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willfully blind to see something they have not or would not see, something not seen before because of stubbornness or stiff necks.
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held a prejudice against the Samaritans. People ask, “Why did Yahshua tell His talmidim not to go into the land of
Samaria?” The talmidim still held that prejudice against the Samaritans, and they were not willing to share their Good
News with the Samaritans. They still held the prejudices that they were just Samaritans. And the Samaritans, before
Yahshua’s death could not be remarried to Him.

• [38] “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into
their labors.” In other words, “You are going to get the benefits of what they have done,” speaking of the
Nevi’im [The Prophets]. [39] And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of
the woman who witnessed, “He told me all that I have done.” [40] Therefore when the Samaritans came to
Him, they were asking Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

A day is as a thousand years according to Scripture.

• [42] And they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have
heard, and we know that this is truly the Messiah, the Savior of the world.”

We now understand that there is a lot going on in Yochanan 4. We need look beyond the text to find out what
Yochanan 4 is revealing about the Two Houses. Yahshua came with a greater mission than just forgiveness of sin.
Their transgressions had to be forgiven, but He also came to do way with the bill of divorcement that was held in the
hand of Ephraim. He knew, according to the Torah, that the husband had to die to the Torah in order for that get to be
taken out of the way.
This is the plan that Yahweh had for the restoration of Yisra’el. There is hidden wisdom in it.

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