12/28/2023 0 Comments Gemara ispeakMoses pressed him again, noting that he could serve as the Israelites' guide. Moses asked Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite to come with the Israelites, promising to be generous with him, but he replied that he would return to his native land. In the fifth reading ( עליה, aliyah), in the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle and the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai to the wilderness of Paran. As well, short blasts were to be sounded when the Israelites were at war against an aggressor who attacked them, and the trumpets were to be sounded on joyous occasions, Festivals, new moons, burnt offerings, and sacrifices of well-being. Short blasts directed the divisions encamped on the east to move forward, and a second set of short blasts directed those on the south to move forward. Upon the blast of one, the chieftains were to assemble. Upon long blasts of the two horns, the whole community was to assemble before the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. God told Moses to have two silver trumpets made to summon the community and to set it in motion. Whenever the cloud lifted from the Tent, the Israelites would follow it until the cloud settled, and there the Israelites would make camp and stay as long as the cloud lingered. In the fourth reading ( עליה, aliyah), starting the day that the Tabernacle was set up, a cloud covered the Tabernacle by day, and a fire rested on it by night. įeast of Trumpets (illustration from the 1894 Treasures of the Bible) Fourth reading - Numbers 9:15–10:10 But if a man who was clean and not on a journey refrained from offering the Passover sacrifice, he was to be cut off from his kin. God told Moses that whenever Israelites were defiled by a corpse or on a long journey on Passover, they were to offer the Passover offering on the 14th day of the second month-a month after Passover-otherwise in strict accord with the law of the Passover sacrifice. They asked Moses and Aaron how they could participate in Passover, and Moses told them to stand by while he listened for God's instructions. But some men were unclean because they had had contact with a corpse and could not offer the Passover sacrifice on the set day. In the third reading ( עליה, aliyah), at the beginning of the second year following the Exodus from Egypt, God told Moses to have the Israelites celebrate Passover at its set time. God told Moses that Levites aged 25 to 50 were to work in the service of the Tent of Meeting, but after age 50 they were to retire and could stand guard but not perform labor. In the second reading ( עליה, aliyah), the Levites were qualified for the service of the Tent of Meeting, in place of the firstborn of the Israelites. The Levites were then to lay their hands in turn upon the heads of two bulls, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make expiation for the Levites. Aaron was to designate the Levites as a wave offering from the Israelites. Moses was to assemble the Israelites around the Levites and cause the Israelites to lay their hands upon the Levites. God told Moses to cleanse the Levites by sprinkling on them water of purification, and making them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. In the first reading ( עליה, aliyah), God told Moses to tell Aaron to mount the seven lamps so as to give light to the front of the Menorah in the Tabernacle, and Aaron did so. The Menorah ( Byzantine mosaic in Israel) First reading - Numbers 8:1–14 In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות, aliyot. 1.8 Readings according to the triennial cycle.As the parashah sets out some of the laws of Passover, Jews also read part of the parashah, Numbers 9:1–14, as the initial Torah reading for the last intermediate day ( חוֹל הַמּוֹעֵד, Chol HaMoed) of Passover. Jews generally read it in late May or in June. It is made up of 7,055 Hebrew letters, 1,840 Hebrew words, 136 verses, and 240 lines in a Torah Scroll ( סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah). The parashah comprises Numbers 8:1–12:16. The parashah tells of the Menorah in the Tabernacle, the consecration of the Levites, the Second Passover, how pillars of cloud and fire led the Israelites, the silver trumpets, how the Israelites set out on their journeys, the complaints of the Israelites, and how Miriam and Aaron questioned Moses. Blowing the Trumpet at the Feast of the New Moon (illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible)īehaalotecha, Beha'alotecha, Beha'alothekha, or Behaaloscha ( בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ - Hebrew for "when you step up," the 11th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 36th weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Numbers.
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