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  • Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”L

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  • Shlach, 5th Aliya

    Shlach, 5th Aliya
    Jun 27 2024

    Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”L

    To sponsor an episode please visit: https://itistaught.com/support-this-project/To get the daily chumash summaries in your email click here https://substack.com/profile/182692001-sarede-rachel-switzer?utm_source=profile-page.Subscribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple PodcastsPlease consider leaving a review on the platform of your choice! For comments and inquiries, email itistaught@gmail.com

    Sacrificial Instructions Cont'd

    When offering a young bull, the meal offering should consist of 3/10ths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with 1/2 hin of oil and 1/2 hin of wine for the libation.

    These listed amounts (see yesterday's post for the rest of the info) should be included with each animal brought.

    These rules apply to converts to Judaism as equally as to a born Israelite.



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  • Shlach, 4th Aliya

    Shlach, 4th Aliya
    Jun 26 2024
    Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”LTo sponsor an episode please visit: https://itistaught.com/support-this-project/To get the daily chumash summaries in your email click here https://substack.com/profile/182692001-sarede-rachel-switzer?utm_source=profile-page.Subscribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple PodcastsPlease consider leaving a review on the platform of your choice! For comments and inquiries, email itistaught@gmail.comThe Spies' Consequences and Sacrificial InstructionsThe Spies' Consequences Cont'dG-d asks Moshe and Aaron rhetorically, in reference to the spies*, "How long for this evil congregation that provokes the Israelites to complain against Me?"*Side note: Rashi notes that this is where we learn that a "congregation" means a group consisting of at least ten people.G-d tells Moshe and Aaron to tell the spies that He is giving an oath that He will fulfill what they had asked, "if only we would die in the desert". Thus anyone who is usually counted as part of a tally (eg. for an army or for shekalim) will indeed die in the wilderness. This included anyone over the age of twenty, to the exclusion of anyone fro the tribe of Levi, since they were not counted the way the others were.G-d also excludes Caleb the son of Yefuneh and Yehoshua the son of Nun from this decree.G-d goes on to say that the children (who will remain alive) will wander in the desert for forty years, corresponding to the forty days the spies spent spying out the land.Thus none of those who were decreed to die here died before entering their sixtieth year (i.e. before the age of 59), thus forty years would have had to pass for this to be true for the youngest who were included (i.e. twenty year olds) to reach this age.This forty years began in their first year, since that is when the sin of the Golden Calf happened, and the thought of this decree entered G-d's mind, yet He only waited until this point, when their sins has accumulated, to fulfill it.Since they "removed their hearts" from following G-d, they will now know what it means to depart from Him.The actual spies (aside from Yehoshua and Caleb) died in a plague. The plague attacked them in a "measure for measure" manner. Since the spies sinned with their tongues (by speaking slanderously about the land), they were afflicted with having their tongues stretched out to their navels and having worms emerge from their tongues and enter their navels.The gemara in Sotah 35a elaborates that the Land of Israel is the center, i.e. "navel" of the world. And the Be'er BaSadeh (based on Mechilta, Beshalach 2) points out that worms attack and destroy plants with their mouths just as the spies attacked with their mouths.Yehoshua and Caleb took the other spies' portion of the Land of Israel as their own.So Moshe related all of these things to the Israelites and the nation mourned profusely.The Israelites woke up early in the morning and began traveling up towards the Land of Israel, declaring that they acknowledged that they had sinned and that they are ready to enter the Land of which "G-d had spoken". The Be'er BaShadeh notes that in calling it "the Land of which G-d had spoken" rather than the "Land which G-d told us to enter", they neglected to voice that in entering the land it would be a fulfillment of G-d's command.Moshe tried to stop them, saying, "Why are you going against the word of G-d? It won't work. Don't enter the land for G-d is not with you and don't be killed by your enemies." He warns that the Amalekite and Canaanites are before them and that the Israelites will be die by their hand. Since they turned away from G-d, G-d will turn away from them.Yet they were unstoppable in ascending towards the land, while the Ark remained behind in the camp. And the Amalekites and Canaanites who were dwelling in the land came down and attacked them until they were annihilated*.*Side note: The Hebrew word for annihilation is חרם, and thus the text has a dual reading of "until annihilation" or "until a place called חרם (which was so called due to what happened there).G-d then tells Moshe to relate some instructions to the Israelites regarding offerings they will bring when they "enter into the land* of your dwelling place".*Side note: One interpretation of this is that this instruction was regarding when they would eventually enter into the Land, however another reading suggests that they were meant to bring these offerings in the desert as well. Either way, the reason for commencing with when they enter the Land, was in order to reassure them that in spite of everything which had occurred, they would still eventually make it into the Land of Israel.Sacrificial InstructionsThe instruction is that for any offering they bring from their cattle or flock, whether it be an olah or peace offering, brought as a vow or from free will, or on a holiday, they must offer libations and a meal offering for each animal.Unlike in...
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  • Shlach, 3rd Aliya

    Shlach, 3rd Aliya
    Jun 25 2024
    Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”LTo sponsor an episode please visit: https://itistaught.com/support-this-project/To get the daily chumash summaries in your email click here https://substack.com/profile/182692001-sarede-rachel-switzer?utm_source=profile-page.Subscribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple PodcastsPlease consider leaving a review on the platform of your choice! For comments and inquiries, email itistaught@gmail.comThe Spies' ConsequenceYehoshua and Caleb continued speaking to the nation, saying that if G-d wants them, He will bring them to the land and give it to them.They caution the nation not to rebel and not to fear the people in the land, as they will "eat them like bread", as the decent ones from among them have died, thus they no longer have the protection they used to due to their merits (an alternate reading is that the "shade of G-d" has departed from them).However the entire nation said that Yehoshua and Caleb should be pelted with stones and then the Cloud of Glory appeared to the Israelites in front of the Tent of Meeting.G-d asked Moshe "To what extent would the Israelites anger Me and for how long will they not have faith in Me? Due to all of the miracles I did on their behalf, they should have faith that I will fulfill my promise (to bring them into the Land)."G-d continues speaking to Moshe, saying that He will hit them with a plague and eradicate them. He will then make Moshe into an even greater nation.Moshe responds, saying that if G-d does this, the Egyptians will hear about it and rather than saying that G-d killed the Israelites because they sinned, they will say that while G-d had enough strength to rise up against the Egyptians, He was not strong enough to fight the inhabitants of the land of Canaan.Moshe continues along this line, saying that if G-d kills the nation suddenly, the Egyptians will interpret this as being because the inhabitants of Canaan are strong and mightly, and that while G-d was able to fight Pharaoh, Pharaoh does not compare to the 31 kings of Canaan. And in being unable to bring the Israelites into the land, G-d killed them in the desert.Moshe pleads with G-d, invoking his 13 attributes of mercy (see Bamidbar 14:18 for full list). Beginning with His trait of being "Slow to Anger" and absolving anyone who repents, bringing to light a conversation Moshe had with G-d when Moshe ascended Mount Sinai. At that time, Moshe saw G-d sitting and writing "Hashem is slow to anger" and Moshe interjected, "For the righteous" to which G-d retorted, "for the wicked as well. Moshe then said, "Let the wicked be eradicated." To which G-d said that He swears by Moshe's life that he will need G-d's trait of being slow to anger for even the wicked. And indeed after the sin of the Golden Calf as well as here with the spies, Moshe invoked G-d's trait of being "Slow to Anger", to which G-d responded, "But didn't you say I should only be slow to anger for the righteous?" To which Moshe replied, "But had you not said it would be for the wicked as well?"G-d replies that He forgives the Israelites in accordance with Moshe reasoning. However, He Swears (saying "as I Live"), that those amongst them who tested G-d ten times* will be killed off slowly over the next 40 years.*Side note: The gemara in Archin 15a-b lists these 10 times as follows:2x at sea - first when they complained saying "are there no graves in Egypt that you took us here.." and second when they emerged from the sea they said that just as they came out of the sea, the Egyptians came out on the other side.2x with the manna - first when some people left some manna over in the morning when though they were commanded not to and second when some people when out to gather manna on shabbos even though they were commanded not to.2x with the pheasants (ie the two times they asked for meat in an ungrateful way - in Shmos 16:3 and Bamidbar 11:4)2x when they complained about lacking water (Shmos 15:23 and 17:2)And the last two were the sin of the Golden Calf and the sin with the spies.G-d says that he will save Caleb since he did not follow along with the rest of the spies. Caleb had told the spies that he was going along with them though in his heart he was not. The fact that he pretended to be going along with the spies is what made them open to listening to him as they thought that he would continue with the negative rhetoric of the other spies.He says that He will bring Caleb into the land and his offspring will drive out the Giants inhabiting the land.G-d then concludes saying that the Amelikites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley and if they are to go towards them now, the Israelites will be killed by them as G-d will not be with the Israelites. Thus instead, they are to pivot and tomorrow they are to redirect their journey in the direction of the Sea of of Reeds. Get full access to Sarede’s Substack at sarede.substack.com/subscribe
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