Abram, the original recipient of blessing.
"Abram, you've got no kids and now I'm taking you from your comfort,
your culture,
your community but I've got big blessings for you.
Your sons will fight,
your wife will be taken by another man for a little while,
your nephew will toe the line, practically do the macarena on it.
You’ll go decades between hearing from me,
you’ll die with out seeing the climax of the blessing.
But it is yours"
The blessed tribe, the Levites the only one of the twelve tribes not to get any land.
"I'm going to bless you, but you've got no permanent home.
No property to give you statues.
No land to pass on to your children.
But you, of the twelve tribes are blessed.”
The blessing.
The blessed.
The barak.
In the Hebrew barak the word used for blessing made up two words and three letters
The ancient Hebrew pictographs (the three letters) show that "to bless" is for:
the SON
(b)
to extend the PALM OF HIS HAND(r)
to you, to make you LINEAGE (k)
barak.
Isn't it to receive God himself.
Blessed.
barak.
The son extending his bloodied palms on the tree to make us lineage.
The son extending, inviting us with palm open into family relationship.
