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OHRNET — edition-29 — Korach-Chukas 5786

Выпуск: OHRNET — edition-29 — Korach-Chukas 5786. Темы: holidays, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: пурим, песах, ханука, суккот, yom tov, פורים, פסח, חנוכה, סוכות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. You rebellious ones!” (20:10) The mann that the Jewish People ate in the desert was given to them by Hashem Himself and not by an agent; as it says, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you.” (Shemot 16:4) This parallels Avraham Avinu, who also served his angelic guests himself, as it says, “I will take bread…” (Bereishit 18:5), whereas the water was brought by a servant, as it says, “Let a little water be taken...” So say our Sages. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Birkat HaChama – The Blessing of the Sun (Part 1) by Rabbi Reuven Lauffer “I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.” Written on a cellar wall during the Holocaust in the Cologne Concentration Camp Introduction Astronomically, based upon the calculations of Mar Shmuel, the sun returns once a year to the same place and position where it was when it was created. Abaye said, “Every twenty-eight years the cycle begins anew and the Nissan equinox falls in [the hour of] Saturn, on the evening of the third [day] which is the night before the fourth [day].” www.ohr.edu 7 One of the most influential Rabbis in the Talmud was Mar Shmuel (165-254 CE), head of the famed Yeshivah in Nehardea in Babylon. 58b): “The paths of heaven are as clear to me as the streets of Nehardea!” Mar Shmuel explains astronomically why the alignment of the sun occurs only once every twenty-eight years: A solar year is 365-and-a-quarter days long, which is fifty-two weeks plus an extra one-and-a-quarter days. According to Shmuel’s calculations, exactly one year after the Creation, when the sun returned to its original position, it was one and a quarter days later in the week; after two years, it was two and a half days later, and so on, with each year adding another one and a quarter days; it therefore takes twenty-eight years for the sun to return to exactly the same location, on exactly the same day of the week, and at exactly the same time as when it was originally positioned by Hashem. Whilst it is true that Birkat HaChama can never be recited on the first day of Pesach, this has nothing to with the sanctity of Pesach; rather, it is due to a technical issue: according to the way the Jewish calendar is ar

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OHRNET

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19 июня 2026 г.

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Темы: holidays, parsha_commentary