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Mikxan Fenz Yceg ,dW¨ A¨ I©A© oia¥ E mI¨A© oiA¥ mic¦n§ Frd¨ ,di¨a§ X¦ a© E dx¨v¨ A§ mip¦EzP§d© ,l`¥ x¨U§ i¦ ziA¥ lM¨ Epig«¥ `© ,dN¨ `ªb§ l¦ cEAr§ X¦ n¦ E ,dx¨F`l§ dl¨ t¥ `£n¥ E ,dg¨ e¨x§l¦ dx¨S¨ n¦ m`¥ iv¦ Fie§ ,md¤ il¥ r£ mg¥ x©i§ mFwO¨ d© .on¥ `¨ xn© `Ÿpe§ ,aix¦w¨ on© f§ a¦ E `l¨ b¨r£A© `Y¨ W§ d© gly mikxan fenz yceg 'b wxt :zea` June 4-5, '21 • `"tyz'd oeiq d"k Yerushalayim in/out for Shabbat Parshat SH'LACH M'vorchim 4 7:07PM Plag 6:14PM • %32 8:24PM R' Tam 9:00PM Marcheshvan: ALWAYS B'reishit. Kislev: Mostly Chayei Sara; KAF SIVAN sometimes To-l'dot Tevet: Mostly Vayeishev; sometimes See last week's CALnotes Mikeitz (same year-types as Kislev) The first link in the grid of The Previous Week's Files Sh'vat: Va'eira; but often Sh'mot SHABBAT M'VORCHIM Adar: Mostly Mishpatim; rare Yitro Adar Rishon: same - Mostly Sivan has 30 days, so Rosh Chodesh Mishpatim; rare Yitro Tamuz has a two-day Rosh Chodesh - which will be Thursday and Friday, Adar Sheini: Usually Vayakhel; once June 10, 11. in a while P'kudei fEOY© yc¤Ÿg W`Ÿx Nisan: 12-month year - Mostly iW¦ X¦ d© mFia© E iW¦ in¦ g£ mFiA§ di¤d§ i¦ Vayakhel-P'kudei; rare P'kudei :da¨ Fhl§ l`¥ x¨U§ i¦ lM¨ lr© e§ Epi«l¥ r¨ `A¨ d© 13-month year - mostly Sh'mini; sometimes Tazri'a The molad of Tamuz is on Thursday Iyar: 12-month year - always Sh'mini; morning (June 10th) at 9h 15m 8p 13-month year - Acharei or K'doshim zFwc© dx¥U§ r¤ Wn¥ g¨ ,iW¦ in¦ g£ mFiA§ di¤d§ i¦ cl© FOd© and sometimes Acharei in Chul and .xw¤ FAA© rW© Y¥ ix¥g£`© miw¦ l¨g© dp¨ŸnW§ E K'doshim in Eretz Yisrael Time of the molad is always Sivan: B'har-B'chukotai or Bamidbar; announced in Jerusalem Solar Time, sometimes Bamidbar in Israel and which translates (this month) to B'chukotai outside. Rarest: B'har- 9:54am Israel Summer Time. B'chukotai in Chul; B'chukotai alone in Israel. The 9h 15m 8p is announced the same everywhere in the world. The 9:54am Tamuz: Sh'lach or Korach; or Sh'lach should be adjusted to local time. It in Chul and Korach in Israel. need not be announced, but it can be Av: usually Matot-Mas'ei; sometimes added to the regular announcement Pinchas; rare Matot or Masei; some- of the molad. times Pinchas in Chul - Matot in Israel For the statistically-minded Elul: mostly R'ei; rarer, Eikev Sedra for Shabbat M'vorchim: Numbers in [square brackets] are the Sh'lach Mitzva-count of Sefer HaChinuch AND Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvot. A=ASEI; L=LAV 37th of the 54 sedras; (prohibition). X:Y is the perek & pasuk from 4th of 10 in Bamidbar which the mitzva comes. Written on 198 lines, ranks 25th 10 Parshiyot; 7 open, 3 closed Kohen - First Aliya 119 p'sukim, ranks 21, 6th in Bamidbar 20 p'sukim - 13:1-20 1540 words, ranks 27, 5th in Bamidbar [P> 13:1 (43)] G-d tells Moshe to send 5820 letters, ranks 27, 4th in Bamidbar "people” to "scout out" the Land. (“People” is in quotes because com- Sh'lach has shorter than average mentaries point to the word p'sukim, which explains the drop in rank ANASHIM and say that it means for words and letters, yet the rise in people of high calibre and repute - rank within Bamidbar indicates that except that we know how it turns there are sedras in Bamidbar with even out...) The emphasis in the wording of shorter p'sukim. the pasuk is on Moshe being the one sending the Meraglim, not at G-d's MMMIIITTTZZZVVVOOOTTT command nor by His "desire". 3 mitzvot - 2 positives - Challah & The representatives of each tribe are Tzitzit, and 1 prohibition, not to follow named and the Torah, further testifies the temptations of your heart and eyes. to the high caliber of each man. As we point out often, the distribution SDT: Back in Bamidbar, when the of mitzvot in the Torah is very uneven. Tribal leaders were named, Efrayim and With only 3 mitzvot, there are 25 sedras Menashe were identified as the sons of with fewer mitzvot than Sh'lach and 26 Yosef - within the same pasuk. Here, with more. 3 is the median number of only Menashe is identified with Yosef, mitzvot per sedra in the Torah. T'ruma and Efrayim's scout, Yehoshua, is listed and Chukat also have 3 mitzvot each. 3 p'sukim earlier, without reference to his father. Commentaries note that Aliya-by-Aliya Yosef had been involved in "negative reports" (against his brothers), as was the scout of Menashe involved in Sedra Summary negative reports on the Land. Yehoshua [P>] and [S>] indicate start of a parsha remained clear of the taint of DIBA RA'A p'tucha or s'tuma. X:Y is Perek:Pasuk of the and is therefore not mentioned together beginning of the parsha; (Z) is the number of with Yosef, in this context. p'sukim in the parsha. (It is interesting to note that the words not join the "evil advice" for any reason, immediately before 'for the tribe of even one to benefit Moshe himself. Efrayim...' are BEN YOSEF, in this case, Moshe gives the scouts instructions the father of Yig'al, the scout for and an itinerary, hoping that they will Yissachar. Nonetheless, it is interesting return with an encouraging report for that Efrayim is juxtaposed to a different Bnei Yisrael. It was the time of the Yosef even though he is 'distanced' ripening of the grapes, Bikurei from his own father's name.) Anavim. And Moshe called Hoshea bin Nun, Yehoshua. As long as this box was devoted to the correct pronunciation of the sedra's SDT: Rashi says that by adding a name last week, let's sharpen our YUD to Hoshea's name, he was giving pronunciation of SH'LACH (and other him a bracha that he should be saved similar words. from the group attitude of the other The first letter is SHIN with a SH'VA Meraglim. Question: MIMA NAFSHACH NA under it. SH'VA NA is a very weak (whichever way you want to look at vowel sound - somewhere between no things) - Why did Moshe not “bless” the sound at all and the sound of a SEGOL. others scouts similarly? And why would People whose mother tongue is Yehoshua need a bracha when Kalev English, tend to drop the vowel sound apparently did not? to zero and blend the letter with the following letter. SHLACH. BRACHA. Whether a Scout will come back with SHNAYIM. Not the best way to write the proper attitude or not was based on these words. But neither is SHELACH, each individual's personality, per- BERACHA, SHENAYIM. No vowel ceptions, and conclusions. That was up sound; too strong a vowel sound. Using to each of the 12 individuals. That's not an apostrophe is the best way to why Moshe gave a special bracha to present such words in transliteration. Yehoshua. Moshe had a separate fear concerning Yehoshua. He could imag- Other sedra names: B'REISHIT, LECH ine Yehoshua joining the ten Meraglim in L'CHA, SH'MOT, B'SHALACH, T'RUMA, T'TZAVEH, P'KUDEI, SH'MINI, discouraging the People from entering M'TZORA, K'DOSHIM, B'HAR, the Land so that Moshe's life would be B'CHUKOTAI, B'HAALO-T'CHA, prolonged. Eldad and Meidad had D'VARIM, R'EI, V'ZOT HAB'RACHA prophesied that Moshe would die and (that's 18 sedra-names, including Yehoshua would lead the people into the SH'LACH). Land, Yehoshua heard that and was quite agitated. Moshe's bracha to Not the name of a sedra, but it is Yehoshua was to keep Yehoshua important that we say SH'MA - not SHMA and not SHEMA. honest, so to speak, so that he would Levi - Second Aliya witnessed so many miracles performed on our behalf), we should not have 20 p'sukim - 13:21-14:7 viewed ourselves that way. And, how The Torah describes the 40-day "tour" others perceive us is their problem, not of the scouts. When they returned, ours. (In fact, it should often be an asset they reported to the People about the for us.) Sadly, each of these attitude truly beautiful land to which they had problems exists in our own time. been sent. They showed the samples • Notice how the first time the Meraglim of the fruits they brought back with spoke to the people, they did not say them. They described the apparent that we shouldn’t go into Eretz Yisrael. strength of the inhabitants (in an They “just” described some of the attempt to scare the people). And they difficlties we would face and apparently mentioned Amalek and other nations hoped that their report would scare off (knowing it would have a discourag- the people. After Kalev took the ing effect). microphone, so to speak, and gave a Kalev silenced the people and told brief but enthusiastic “Aliya pep-talk”, them that they should go to the Land; the Meraglim dropped the subtle "We can do it!" The other ten scouts approach and spoke out openly against objected and spoke further against the going into Eretz Yisrael. This is what the Land, causing wide-spread panic Torah described as DIBA AL HA'ARETZ, among the people.
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