The Woman at the well

I present this thought provoking article gleaned from an internet source because I believe it is insightful.

Joh 4:7

A woman of Shomeron came to draw water.  Yah’shua  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 Yehudite, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For Yehudim do not associate with Shomeronites. 10  Yah’shua  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 Yaaqob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?” 13  Yah’shua  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 The woman said to Him, “Master, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.” 16  Yah’shua  said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”  Yah’shua  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.”

Why does the Samaritan woman at the well have "five" husbands that she was previously married to?

When we recognize that she represents Ephraim, Yisrael in dispersion, can we assume the "five" husband's that Yahushua refers to is the Torah, or five books of Mosheh?

Not necessarily that she was married, or more accurately betrothed, to five different men, but that she was once betrothed to YHWH through the Ketuvah of Torah represented by five husbands. Of course she knows she is part of physical Yisrael, so she knows she was once betrothed to YHWH through the marriage Ketuvah of Torah. She further testifies to her (Ephraim's) current condition by saying that she is currently not betrothed, or married to any other, meaning, even though she has been unfaithful to YHWH, she has not taken another bridegroom. She is lost and living in sin, but she knows in her heart, as does Yahushua, that sin or haShatan, the man she is now with, is definitely not her husband.

When you look at verses 17 and 18 the message Yah’shua is giving the woman becomes clear.