HEBREW WORD STUDY – RAGE – YACHEM  יחמ   

Psalms 90:7: “For we are consumed by thine anger, by thy wrath we are consumed.”

It is three o’clock in the morning and I cannot sleep thanks to my S-O C-A-L- L-E-D FRIENDS…. Yod, Chet Mem (Yachem – rage).  “What!?, now don’t you dare approach my Looking Glass, It is too early in the morning and I want to sleep, not go behind my Daleth and you are the last guys I want to travel into Hebrew Esoteric Land with.”   

Yod Chet and Mem look at me with sad eyes.  Chet begins to cry, Yod warps himself around Chet and glares at me as Mem (hidden knowledge) steps forward and points his finger at me and starts to scold me: “See what you have done now, shame on you – shame.”

“Shame?” I declare,  “Your Yachem (rage) for crying out loud, I don’t need you guys around when I am trying to sleep.”  “Ohhhhhhh!” wailed Chet, “We are so, so  misunderstood.”  

All of a sudden I hear someone sneezing “Aneph! Aneph!?”   “Oh no!!!” I cry, “What are you guys doing here?”  As I look over I see Aleph, Nun, and Pei (Aneph – nose, snort, breath through the nose, wrath) gather around my box of Kleenex.  “You calleth us.”  Said Aleph all stuffed up. 

I look over at my Hebrew Bible which is opened to Psalms 90:7  recalling how I fell asleep searching for Hebrew words to prepare for a speaking gig I had coming up in a couple weeks.   The way I minister is to seek God’s guidance in choosing Hebrew Words in key Scripture passages that I write down on a card and place in an envelope.  Then when I go to the meeting I put all the envelopes in a basket and pass it around trusting the Holy Spirit to give each person the right word to speak to them.  I would call for a couple of volunteers to share their Hebrew word and Scripture passages and I would give a broader explanation of it.

This evening before going to sleep I was pondering Psalms 90:7 and praying that God would direct me to a word or words in this verse. But I what I got was an inner prompting to chose the words Aneph (wrath) and Yachem (anger or rage).   I did not see the value in these words so I decided not to put them on a card.  However, when I fell asleep I had dreams where the word “ anger and rage” kept popping up.  I woke up and turned to look at my clock and there were Yod, Chet, and Mem (Yachem – anger, rage)  standing  beside my clock grinning at me, waving and saying: “Choose us, choose us, oh choose us.”   “Go on,” I say, “Get out of here, I need my sleep.”   I fell back to sleep and now I had a dream where Yachem (anger or rage – Yod, Cheth, Mem) was dressed rather seductively, speaking in a throating voice “Hello, big boy, why don’t you come and spend a little time with me.”   I woke up in a cold sweat it was 3:00 am and Yod, Chet Mem (Yachem – anger, rage)   were dancing on my chest chanting: “Choose us.” Then suddenly took off to my Looking Glass and ran through it.

I decided to follow Yakem (Yod, Chet, Mem) through the Looking Glass where I found myself in a courtroom.  The Shadow of Resh (being judgemental) which I recognize as the Bailiff was speaking: “Hear ye, Hear ye, the court is in session presided by the Honorable Ayin (spiritual insight).”   We all stood as Judge Ayin took his seat and ask the Bailiff to read the charges. 

“The accused, alias Chaim Bentorah” read Resh, “Is charged with knowingly ignoring the Creators soft prompting to use the defendants Yod, Chet Men (Yakem) in his prophetic ministry.”   Judge Ayin looks me and asks: “How do you plead?”   Before I can answer Kalah (Kap, Lamed, Hei – destroy, consume, finish, complete)  says: “Not guilty your honor.”   

My defense attorney is Kalah (destroy, consume, finish, complete)?  “Hey, “ I ask, “Didn’t I see you in Psalms 90:7, yeah, you’re that verb that’s in cahoots with Yakem (anger, rage).”   “Quiet” whispers Kalah, “They are about to call the first witness.”  I watch as Aneph (wrath, anger, snort, nose, breath through the nose) takes the stand.

The plaintiff ’s attorney, Bahal (consume, to be agitated or terrified),  approaches the witness Aneph.  I whisper to Kalah “Bahal is the plaintiff’s attorney?  Why he is the verb associated with Aneph (wrath) in Psalms 90:7.”   I then look at the jury: “Kalah, I say in panic, “The jury is made up of the letters from Psalm 90:7, this whole trial is rigged.  I’m going to fry.”  “Would you just hush,” scolds Kalah, “We don’t use the electric chair in Esoteric Land, we use the guillotine to chop off your prophetic ministry.”   “Oh,” I say with a sigh of relief, “Then there is nothing to cut off, I am safe.”   Kalah only looks at me with a frown. 

Bahal (agitated or terrified) speaks to Aneph (wrath, sorrow): “Aneph, would you give your story?”  Aneph goes into long detail how I used to associate him with God’s wrath and how I eventually came realize that Aneph’s true meaning was a snorting or breathing hard and that although that could mean anger, it also means a show of emotion which may also be frustration or sorrow and that in context with God it would mean that He is expressing his sorrow over our behavior and that in Psalms 90:7  we are being agitated or terrified (Bahal) by God’s  Aneph (sorrow).  

Aneph explains that his co-worker Yakem,  in Psalms 90:7, has also been falsely accused of being angry when in truth he merely means be warm or hot.  One becomes warm or hot when one is angry, hence the expression “hot with anger” but the body is only responding to a strong emotion.  That emotion of grief could also raise one’s body temperature. In truth, Yakem really means to express great emotion, it could be any emotion from anger to grief.”

Judge Ayin appears to become yakem (emotional)  as his face turns red.  He demands that my counsel, Kalah (consume, complete) and the counsel for Yakem (grief),  Bahal (agitated, terrified) approach the bench.  Judge Ayin speaks directly to my counsel, Kalah: Judge Ayin speaks: “I  feel great emotion over this lost opportunity, I am not angry, but grieved that your client, refuses to use a perfectly good and innocent word like Yakem (grief)  in his ministry.  It is this court’s ruling that your client uses Yakem(grief) in his next ministry or face the guillotine to separate him from his prophetic ministry.”   “I’ll take the guillotine” I shout.  

The last thing I hear is Judge Ayin’s gavel and the words: “You’re in contempt of court.”   I then wake up in bed with Yakem (grief) sitting on my chest looking at me: “Well, are you going to use us next week?”  “Yes, I say, only if you agree to return to my Hebrew Bible and let me get some sleep.”

As they return to my Hebrew Bible, I look at Psalms 90:7 to make sure they are safely bedded down in the verse and then I just take a quick read of this verse.  This time I read: “For we are consumed by His grief and we are agitated by His sorrow.”

I went to sleep thinking about how my earthly father used to discipline me as a child.  He did not get angry, he just grew sad and appeared grief-stricken over my misbehavior.  Seeing his sorrow was worse and more corrective than if he became angry with me.