Some legends that we know from childhood seems to be forgotten and from time to time we want to remember the time we were kids, the time that the kindergarten told us the stories, the legends that we loved to hear all the time.

Usually the wolf in the legends is the symbol of the bad type, the one who kills, the one that we can’t rely on, but not all the legends with the wolves goes like this. Today we are going to meet the white wolf that Moses met in the time he was a shepherd in Jethro’s house and he saw a white wolf and he started to speak with him.

Now Moses didn’t know that the white wolf is an angel. The white wolf said to

Moses: How are you the man of God?

Moses answered: could the animals speak, who is the one that gives them the ability to do so?

Then the white wolf told him that he would be the one who would be the leader of Israel that will write the Pentateuch and there will be the calf that will speak and also the she-ass…

It seems to be that Moses saw one more thing near to the burning bush and this is the white wolf……..

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Meaning of the name

The portion is named VaYikra, , literally "and he called out", because it begins with God

calling out to Moses from the Tent of Meeting.
The portion, which begins the Book of Leviticus, begins the ongoing detailed description in this book of the different sacrifices which are to be brought to the Temple, specifying the need for each sacrifice, the way it is to be offered, and different laws relating to it. The list begins with stating that a sacrifice to God which is brought from livestock must be from the herd or from the flock. There is a detailed description of how the sacrifice is brought, how the animal is slaughtered, what is done with the different parts and how the sacrifice is burned on the altar. Offerings of birds are also

accepted. A burnt offering such as these is called an "Ola",. All of the offering is burned before God.
In addition to offerings of animals, it is also possible to bring an offering called "minxa", , which is an offering of grain and oil. The remainder of the offering after it has been burned is given to the priests.

The numerous circumstances requiring this offering are listed.

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According to Hebrew Scriptures, the Shamir was a supernatural organism that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. According to legend, the Shamir was a worm whose mere touch could cleave rocks.

The Shamir have been created at the twilight of the first Sabbath Eve during the Six Days of Creation. . (See “Ten things were created at twilight on the eve of the first Sabbath” blog).

According to the Testament of Solomon, when Solomon The king erecting the Temple, he did not know how to get the blocks of marble into shape, since, according to the law the stones of the altar cannot be hewn using metal since it is a material used to make weapons that kill.

Wise men advised the king to obtain the Shamir. The problem was that there was only one such worm in the world. Only Ashmedai, the king of the demons, knew where to find the Shamir. The king calls Ashmedai to aid in the construction of the Temple.

The Shamir was guarded in Paradise until Solomon needed it. He sent the eagle thither to fetch the worm. With the destruction of the Temple the Shamir vanished.

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When I try to translate The Scriptures to my students I am trying to be as close as I can get to the meaning of the text, without changing the original meaning of it.

This is sometime a very impossible mission, like the great T.V. program in the sixties….

There is an easy way to solve the problem of the translation- Learn Biblical Hebrew with us!

So why should you do it?

A. Don’t you want to be as close as you can to The Lord’s words?

B. The sacred language should be for all of the people in the world as written in the book of Zephaniah 3:9-

“כִּי-אָז אֶהְפֹּךְ אֶל-עַמִּים, שָׂפָה בְרוּרָה, לִקְרֹא כֻלָּם בְּשֵׁם יְהוָה, לְעָבְדוֹ שְׁכֶם אֶחָד ”

“For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one consent”

C. It’s easy learning with the best teachers in the world!!!

D. You can see the teachers online, though that you are from other places in the world as written in the book of Isaiah 30:20-

“וְהָיוּ עֵינֶיךָ רֹאוֹת אֶת-מוֹרֶיךָ”

“thine eyes shall see thy Teacher”

E. you can understand the connection between the name and the meaning, like mahlon and kilion…

Have a nice week, Eli

Chapter 21 in 2 Kings start like this:

” 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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Hello dear readers, I am sorry for being away last week, this was a week with sickness to me and to my family.

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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Well, my friends, after a weekend with a lot of rain in Jerusalem, I decided to write on the water today.

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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The story of the Midrash tells us that when Noah started to plant the vineyard the Satan came to him and said: what are you plant?

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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After the flood that made a restart to the world of The Lord, Noah and his sons had the opportunity to eat meat and the vegetarian world got lost. When we speak about meat a lot of time we are thinking of a restaurant, 2 glasses of wine, a romantic mood, which comes along with the lovely steak that we are eating.

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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