What are we doing In this dark land with its Yellow shadows that pierce the eyes? (Every now and then someone says, even after forty Or fifty years: “The sun is killing me.”) What are we doing with these souls of mist, with these names, With our eyes of forests, with our beautiful children, With […]
Parsha Behaalotcha by David Hartley Mark
May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This parsha/Torah portion shows the Israelites developing their rituals in the wilderness, with the Levites taking charge of the portable sanctuary, lighting the menorah/seven-branched candlelabra and purifying themselves to serve God. A now-defunct Pesach Sheni/Second Passover is described, for the benefit of those Israelites who had been tamay/ritually impure and thereby unable to observe the […]
Parsha Behaalotecha (Numbers 8:1–12:16)
June 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Behaalotecha (Numbers 8:1–12:16) Summary Aaron is commanded to raise light in the lamps of the menorah, and the tribe of Levi is initiated into the service in the Sanctuary. A “Second Passover” is instituted in response to the petition, ”Why should we be deprived?” by a group of Jews who were unable to bring the […]