” בֶּן-שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה, מְנַשֶּׁה בְמָלְכוֹ, וַחֲמִשִּׁים וְחָמֵשׁ שָׁנָה, מָלַךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָם; וְשֵׁם אִמּוֹ, חֶפְצִי-בָהּ. וַיַּעַשׂ הָרַע, בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה–כְּתוֹעֲבֹת, הַגּוֹיִם, אֲשֶׁר הוֹרִישׁ יְהוָה, מִפְּנֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל.

“Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel”

One of the best questions that a man can ask is why. This question gives us, the people of the world the opportunity to understand that the curiosity still exist in our crazy world. If why is the best question that a man can ask, all the more so in a religious context. Today we will speak about Manasseh

This is a king that has done a lot of sins in his life, maybe the worst sins ever. He put a statue of the god Astarte in the temple- this is the place that you should serve The Lord and nothing but The Lord. He killed a lot of people in Jerusalem that the bible said that Jerusalem was full of blood from end to end.

Manasseh was a king that if you had to give him a grade the grade was the most negative to you can imagine- a big F. and still the question remains- why did he reigned more time then David and Solomon- why?

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Meaning of the name

This week’s Torah reading is in fact the combination of two portions. These two portions are often combined, since the system of dividing the Torah into portions is designed so that there will be enough portions for all of the Sabbaths of the year. The weekly portion is not read on holidays that come out on the Sabbath, and therefore, when there is a year during which many holidays do, some portions are joined together to that the Torah will still be completed during the year.

VaYakhel, , literally "and he gathered", is thus named because it begins with Moses

gathering all of the Israelites and commanding them to keep the Sabbath.

Pekudey, , literally "the sum" or "the records", is thus named because it begins with

listing all that was gathered from the Israelites for building the desert Tabernacle – in gold, silver, bronze, jewels and cloth.

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Due to this reason, I decided to write today about sick people in the bible.

In the book of Ruth we can find two very sick persons without telling us that they are sick, these are mahlon and kilion, the two sons of Naomi and elimelech as written

In Ruth 1:2-

“וְשֵׁם הָאִישׁ אֱלִימֶלֶךְ וְשֵׁם אִשְׁתּוֹ נָעֳמִי וְשֵׁם שְׁנֵי-בָנָיו מַחְלוֹן וְכִלְיוֹן..”

“And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and kilion”

Seemingly, it seems to be that nothing is written about someone that is sick, but if we will look closely to the nouns that appear in the names mahlon and kilion, we will see that machlon derives from the noun Machala, which means sickness or illness; kilion derives from kelaya, which means extermination.

It’s not a surprise that few verses after we can find this:

“וַיָּמֻתוּ גַם-שְׁנֵיהֶם, מַחְלוֹן וְכִלְיוֹן”

“And Mahlon and chilion died both of them”

If you have a name with sickness you will be sick.

I wish everyone to be healthy, Eli

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The water in the bible has a lot of meanings, but today we are going to look at one verse in the book of Ecclesiastes, a verse that always bring into my mind a lot of questions:

"כָּל-הַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים אֶל-הַיָּם, וְהַיָּם אֵינֶנּוּ מָלֵא; אֶל-מְקוֹם, שֶׁהַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים–שָׁם הֵם שָׁבִים, לָלָכֶת"

"All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

This verse speak about the water, but it seems to be that the water here is not just the liquid , the H20, it’s also a symbol to our life, we are all going in different ways, but the end and the beginning are the same.

Furthermore, we are all going to a place that is not going to be perfect because only one is perfect and endless, this is God!

The sea will never be full because it can’t, like the stories of other people, fight against the Almighty.

There’s a program in the T.V. that my small kid likes to see, the circle of life, and this are the same situation with the water, where they go they will come back, what a beautiful metaphor…

The process is different with every one of us, but in the edges we are all one!

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Noah said: I am planting a vineyard.

The Satan asked: what’s good in the vineyard?

Noah said: his fruits are sweet, whether it’s dry whether it’s humid. From the fruit you can make wine that does make the hearts happy.

The Satan asked him to plant the vineyard together and Noah agreed.

Then the Satan brought 4 animals which represent to Noah and us the situation of them man when he drinks. The four animals were the ewe, the lion, the monkey and the pig- all of them were slaughtered and from the blood of them the Satan watered the vineyard.

When a man drinks one glass he becomes like the ewe, humble and modest.

When a man drinks two glasses he becomes like the lion – he thinks he’s the hero!

When a man drinks three glasses he becomes like the monkey- dancing and cursing with his mouth.

When a man becomes a drunken one – he is like a pig- dirty and with a lot of mud!

This’s happen to Noah the righteous- he was like a pig!

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The first carnivore was also the first drunk in our world as written in Genesis 9:20-21

" וַיָּחֶל נֹחַ, אִישׁ הָאֲדָמָה; וַיִּטַּע, כָּרֶם. וַיֵּשְׁתְּ מִן-הַיַּיִן, וַיִּשְׁכָּר; וַיִּתְגַּל, בְּתוֹךְ אָהֳלֹה.

"And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was uncovered within his tent"

There is no explanation in the bible why Noah decided to be the first drunk. Psychologically maybe the curiosity was there, like it was in the Garden of Eden, the point that caused Noah to become the first. The other thing that is understandable is that the man of the ground, the farmer, needs to taste his produce in order to see if it’s alright. The first experience with the wine wasn’t so good for Noah and the continuation of the story is even more awful – his son or his grandson are doing a sexual thing in the tent- but this is for another time to be discuss.

Whenever there is a difficulty in The Scriptures, especially a moral one, the Satan will become involve in the Jewish interpretation. Next time we will see what the Satan did in Noah’s vineyard!

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"וַתֹּאמַרְןָ–אִישׁ מִצְרִי, הִצִּילָנוּ מִיַּד הָרֹעִים; וְגַם-דָּלֹה דָלָה לָנוּ, וַיַּשְׁקְ אֶת-הַצֹּאן. וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל-בְּנֹתָיו, וְאַיּוֹ; לָמָּה זֶּה עֲזַבְתֶּן אֶת-הָאִישׁ, קִרְאֶן לוֹ וְיֹאכַל לָחֶם. וַיּוֹאֶל מֹשֶׁה, לָשֶׁבֶת אֶת-הָאִישׁ; וַיִּתֵּן אֶת-צִפֹּרָה בִתּוֹ, לְמֹשֶׁה"

"And they said: ‘An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock and he said unto his daughters: ‘And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.’And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter" (Ex 2:19-21)

We all know that Moses went out from Egypt after pharaoh discovered that he killed an Egyptian man. Moses went to a place called Midian and there he helped the daughters of Reuel. Zipporah was one of the daughters and Moses married her after he the helping with the shepherd near the well.

The legend on Moses tells us a different story. Reuel was afraid that the king of Egypt will find moses in his house so he decided to put him in a pit. Zipporah felt mercy over him; she came to see him every day and gave some bread.

After seven years she told to her father: you put a clean man, pure one, in the pit. He didn’t drink a lot of days, but he is praying to his God so he is alive.

Reuel went to see the man, Moses, that was singing a song to his Lord in that day, so he took him out from the pit and gave him to Zipporah, only because she spoke the good things about him…

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Meaning of the name

The portion is named Tetzaveh, , literally "you shall command", because it begins with God’s order to Moses to command the Israelites to bring pure olive oil in order to light the light in the Tabernacle regularly. literally "offering", because it begins with God telling Moses.
The portion contains detailed instructions given to Moses as to the dedication of Aaron and his sons as priests in the Desert Tabernacle. They are first commanded to light a regular light in the Tabernacle. There is then a very detailed description of the clothing of the High Priest, which include different garments as well as the Ephod – a special vest on which 12 stones representing the 12 tribes of Israel are placed. Special garments for the other priests are also needed and described.
Following the dressing of the priests, they are to be anointed with special sacrifices. Following their dedication, the Tabernacle is to be dedicated, as well as the altar. All these dedications are commanded with great technical detail.

Commentary

• OU Torah Insights
• Torah.org
• American Jewish University
• Academy for Jewish Religion

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What is needed to be telling is another legend. Pharaoh slept in his house, in his dream he saw an old man with scales. In one side of the scales were all the Egyptian from the small to the big one; in the other side of the scales was only small lamb. The lamb determined all the side with the Egyptian people and pharaoh was so scared from this dream.

After he called to his sages and told them the dream they said to the king: the lamb is a sign to the leader from the people of Israel, those who are your servants. He will come from them and will take them out from Egypt with great force….

This is the reason why in the book of exodus 1:22 written:

"וַיְצַו פַּרְעֹה, לְכָל-עַמּוֹ לֵאמֹר:  כָּל-הַבֵּן הַיִּלּוֹד, הַיְאֹרָה תַּשְׁלִיכֻהוּ, וְכָל-הַבַּת, תְּחַיּוּן"

"And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: ‘Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive."

Pharaoh didn’t want the lamb to be a shepherd!

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This is off-course The Lord.

In the book of Judges, we can find the first seeds that try to replace The Almighty with the human person. First was Gideon who was asked by the some of the people the Israel to be a king. Gideon refused, but it seems to be that in his genes was the idea that was in abimelech, his son.

After killing all the seventy brothers that he had, we can find in Judges 9:6 this verse:

“וַיֵּאָסְפוּ כָּל-בַּעֲלֵי שְׁכֶם, וְכָל-בֵּית מִלּוֹא, וַיֵּלְכוּ, וַיַּמְלִיכוּ אֶת-אֲבִימֶלֶךְ לְמֶלֶךְ–עִם-אֵלוֹן מֻצָּב, אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁכֶם”

“And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all Beth-millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the terebinth of the pillar that was in Shechem”

If you are alone in the family with the genes of royalty, so you can be a king without any problems. The problem is that one of the seventy remained alive, and this brother is not going to be quiet with the killing of the brothers (some will say the killing of the idea that only God is the king)

To be continued…

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