Torah: Lv 25-26:2 JPS
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Torah: Lv 25-26:2 JPS
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Aliyot:
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1. Nr 1:1-19
2.Nr 1:20-54
3. Nr 2:1-34
4. Nr 3:1-13
5. Nr 3:14-39
6. Nr 3:40-51
7. Nr 4:1-20
OVERVIEW:
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Bela'aloscha includes instructions regarding the Menorah and priestly duties for the Levites, and for Pesach Shaynie, Second Pesach, one month after Pesach. The tribes of Israel move with the Pillar of Clouds. When it rests, they rest, and when it moves, they follow. This at times causes some iconveniences as there is no pre-arranged travel itinerary and they unpack to pack back up or remain in a desolate place longer than they desire. The people complain about a steady diet of manna and demand meat, so they receive quail until they gorge themselves to the extent it comes out their noses. Moses invites Jethro to remain with them and enter the promised land, but he declines. The seventy elders/leaders are chosen and the Sanhedrin established. At the end of the section, Miriam comments about her brother Moses to Aaron and is punished for Lashon Hara with tzaraas and is exiled outside the camp for a week.
IN FOCUS
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"Let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand." Nr 8: 2
"There shall be one law for you, whether stranger or citizen of the country." Nr 9:14
"So Miriam ws shut out of the camp for seven days..." Nr 12:15
KINDLING SOULS
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The parasha opens with the description of Aaron lighting the Menorah. The cups which held the oil were separable from the stand which was made of a solid piece. They looked alike of same height, just as if you were to line up a row of candles on a table: not one higher than the other. The even row of candles on the Menorah or Hanukiah symbolizes the equality of man before God. The person who helps the others is the one that is rised. But every morning Aaron lit the candles. He treated them individually, bending them down and realigning them. Each day, he did the3 same chore, but each time it was done in a new way.
The last parasha closed with the twelve gifts fromt eh twelve chieftans. Each gift presented was identical to the others, but the person presenting the gift to the Mishkan was different. The presentations of gifts is written in great detail, enumerating the gift of each chieftan as if it were original. We read it as a tedious list, but God receives each as an original gift.
