Matthew 9:19-21 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“So YESHUA stood up and He went-and His disciples with Him. And behold, a woman who flowed with blood for twelve years came behind Him and touched the TSIT-TSIT of His garment, saying in her heart, “If only I could touch His garment I would be healed immediately.”
Mark 6:56 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“In whatever city or town He entered into, they passed by the ways and entreated His face that they might only touch the BORDER OF HIS GARMENT, for all those who TOUCHED WERE HEALED.”
Luke 8:43-48 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“As he went, with the crowds on every side virtually choking him, 43 a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, 44 came up behind him and touched the tzitzit on his robe; instantly her hemorrhaging stopped. 45 YESHUA asked, “Who touched me?” When they all denied doing it, Kefa said, “Rabbi! The crowds are hemming you in and jostling you!” 46 But YESHUA said, “Someone did touch me, because I felt power go out of me.” 47 Seeing she could not escape notice, the woman, quaking with fear, threw herself down before him and confessed in front of everyone why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. 48 He said to her, “My daughter, your trust has saved you; go in peace.”
Sirach 38:1-7
“Honor a physician with the honor due to him for the uses which you may have of him: for YAHWEH has created him. For from the ELYON (Most High) COMES HEALING and he shall receive honor from the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration. YAHWEH has created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.”
Holistic doctors do serve a purpose and can help, but as with the woman with the flow of blood for 12 years no one could help her, which shows that healing comes from YAHWEH and the physician is a vessel. So, we see that those who touched the tsit-tsit that YESHUA wore were healed! So, firstly we have to remember what the tsit-tsit is for!
Numbers 15:38-41 (Septuagint)
“Speak to the children of Yisra’el and you shall tell them; and let them make fringes (tsit-tsit) for themselves on the BORDERS OF THEIR garments throughout their generations; and you shall put on the fringes of the borders a lace of blue (etymology says purple). And it shall be on your fringes and you shall look at them and you shall remember ALL THE COMMANDS OF YAHWEH AND DO THEM: and you shall not turn back after your imaginations and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which you go fornicating; that you may remember AND PERFORM ALL MY COMMANDS AND YOU SHALL BE SET-APART TO YOUR ELOHIM. I am YAHWEH your ELOHIM that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your ELOHIM: I am YAHWEH your ELOHIM.”
So, the tsit-tsit are a reminder to keep the commandments of YAHWEH, which means that they are a physical reminder of the commandments themselves! And what does obeying the commandments in the Torah do?
Leviticus 18:5 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“You are to observe My laws and rulings; if a person DOES THEM, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM; I am YAHWEH.”
Ezekiel 20:11 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“I gave them My laws and showed them My rulings; if a person OBEYS THEM, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM.”
Ezekiel 20:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“But the house of Yisra’el rebelled against Me in the desert. They did not live by MY LAWS; and they rejected My rulings, which, if a PERSON DOES, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM; moreover, they greatly profaned My Shabbats. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the desert, in order to destroy them.”
Ezekiel 20:21 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“But the children too rebelled against Me. They did not live by My laws or observe My rulings, TO OBEY THEM, which, if a PERSON DOES, HE WILL HAVE LIFE BY THEM; and they profaned My Shabbats. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and spend My anger on them in the desert.”
And yes, Paul who observed the Torah calls the Torah righteous and gaining life through it!
Romans 10:5 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“For Moses writes about the RIGHTEOUSNESS GROUNDED IN THE TORAH that the person WHO DOES THESE THINGS WILL ATTAIN LIFE THROUGH THEM.”
Damascus Document 3:14-15 (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls pg. 131)
“But with the remnant which held fast to the COMMANDMENTS OF ELOHIM He made this covenant with Yisra’el forever, revealing to them the hidden things in which all Yisra’el had gone astray. He unfolded before them His set-apart Shabbats and His esteemed feasts, the testimonies of His righteousness and the ways of His truth, and the desires of His will WHICH A MAN MUST DO IN ORDER TO LIVE.”
The scriptures testify multiple times that those who keep the commandments will have eternal life by keeping them! Knowing this we can see that in the “Peshat” the literal meaning of the scripture is that YESHUA wore tsit-tsit according to the command in the Torah and that people touched them.
In the “Remez” the hint to a deeper spiritual meaning: They reached out and touched the commandments of the Torah which were on YESHUA the Living Torah and were healed, because YAHWEH’s commandments bring forth LIFE!
Hosea 6:1-3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Come, let us RETURN TO YAHWEH; for He has torn, and He will HEAL US; He has struck, and He will bind our wounds. After two days, He will revive us; on the third day, He will raise us up; and we will LIVE IN HIS PRESENCE. Let us know, let us strive to KNOW YAHWEH (1 John 2:3-4). That He will come is as certain as morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
Let us return to YAHWEH and obey the written Torah and believe in YESHUA the Living Torah! As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!