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The Yeshiva.net — every child needs a miriam — Behaalotcha 5786

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — every child needs a miriam — Behaalotcha 5786. Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind. Поисковые термины: шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. In the words of the Torah: ‫ַוֹּיאֶמ ר ְיהָוה ֶא ל ֹמ ֶׁש ה ְוָא ִב יָה ָיֹרק ָיַר ק ְּב ָפ ֶניָה ֲה ֹלא ִת ָּכ ֵלם ִׁש ְב ַע ת ָיִמ ים ִּת ָּס ֵגר ִׁש ְב ַע ת ָיִמ ים ִמ חּוץ‬ .‫ַלַּמ ֲח ֶנה ְוַא ַח ר ֵּת ָא ֵס ף‬ “She shall be quarantined for seven days outside the camp, and afterward, she can re-enter.” The Torah finishes the story: “And the people did not travel until Miriam had re-entered.” The greatest biblical commentator, the 11th-century French sage, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, known as Rashi, quoting the Talmud[5], tells us that the nation waiting for Miriam was a unique honor conferred upon her in the merit of something she had done eight decades earlier. The Torah is decidedly cryptic about what exactly she was criticizing, stating merely that “Miriam and Aaron spoke about Moses regarding the Cushite woman he had married[1].” There are various ways to explain what it was she said and who this Cushite woman was[2]. https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/2463/essay-behaaloscha-every-child-needs-a-miriam 1/5 17:03 ,5.6.2026 Every Child Needs a Miriam Is the only reason the nation waited for Miriam, while she was quarantined for a week, because she once waited for Moses as an infant? Not to wait for Miriam and leave her alone in a parched and barren desert, without food, water, or any protection, a place the Torah describes[7] as “a desert great and awesome, full of snakes, vipers, scorpions, and drought, where there was no water?” Suppose Miriam had never watched over Moses as an infant. The words “outside the camp” intimate that her exclusion and expulsion would be effective when the people are encamped; when they are dwelling in one place as a camp (“machaneh” in Hebrew means to dwell in one place, as in the term “vayachanu”), and she would remain outside of the camp. Even if Miriam were to travel in isolation behind the rest of the nation, this would not be counted as part of her seven-day quarantine necessary for her healing and reentry, since she was not quarantined “outside the camp”, because during their traveling the Jews did not constitute a “camp”, a “machaneh.” Thus, if the nati

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29 мая 2026 г.

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Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind