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OHRNET — t Terumah 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — t Terumah 5784. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. THE OHR SOMAYACH TORAH MAGAZINE  WWW.OHR.EDU OHRNET PARSHAT TERUMAH  8 ADAR 1 5784, 17 FEBRUARY 2024  VOL 31 NO.17 PARSHA INSIGHTS by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair The Source of the Light “You shall make the Menorah out of pure gold…” (25:31) The last of the vessels of the Holy Temple described by the Torah is the Menorah, and yet visually it was the most striking. Synonyms in the Hebrew Language by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein Terumah: A Table for Thee One of the most important components of the Tabernacle and the Holy Temple was the golden shulchan, upon which the twelve loaves of the weekly shewbread (also spelled showbread) were placed. There is another parallel between shulchan and its Aramaic equivalent petorah: In Mishnaic Hebrew, the term shulchani refers to a “moneychanger” (Maaser Sheini 4:2, Bava Metzia 2:4, 3:114:6, 9:12, Shavuot 7:6, Meilah 6:5, Keilim 12:5), as those who served in that occupation typically worked from behind a shulchan (“table/desk”), upon which they would place the money. 22:5) explain that when the Bible associated Balaam with petorah, this means he functioned, after a fashion, like a moneychanger, as all the different kings ran over to Balaam to “do business” with him, just like those involved in commerce might chase after a moneychanger to “do business” with him. 22:5) offers two more exegetical ways of interpreting the word petorah used in connection with Balaam: Firstly, he connects petorah to the word pitaron (“interpretation/explanation”) as a reference to Balaam’s occupation as a “dream interpreter.” Secondly, he sees the word petorah as related to the Aramaic word petora for “table.” The way he explains it, Balaam’s pagan practices included idolatrous rites like “setting a table (shulchan) for Gad” (Isa. ww.ohr.edu 3 Either way, it is interesting that the Talmud (Shabbat 36a) states that the word patora and its diminutive form patorta respectively once referred to a “big table” and a “small table,” but that after the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, the meanings of those two words switched. This word appears many times in the Talmud,

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OHRNET

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16 февраля 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary