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OHRNET — Terumah 5783

Выпуск: OHRNET — Terumah 5783. Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. THE OHR SOMAYACH TORAH MAGAZINE  WWW.OHR.EDU OHRNET SHABBAT PARSHAT TERUMAH  4 ADAR 5783, FEBRUARY 25 2023  VOL 30 NO.16 PARSHA INSIGHTS by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair “ You shall make a table of acacia wood…” (25:23) T hey say that into every life, a little rain must In this week’s Torah portion, the Torah describes fall. *To read the rest of this first installment in the two part essay, please visit us at: http://ohr.edu/this_week/whats_in_a_word/ PARSHA OVERVIEW H ashem commands Moshe to build a Mishkan (Sanctuary) and supplies him with detailed instructions. by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein Speedy Horsepower (Part 1 of 2) Towards the end of the Story of Purim, when the Persian king Achashverosh decided to overturn his awful decree against the Jews, the king sent out messages to all one hundred and twenty-seven provinces under his dominion, announcing that the Jews had permission to fight back against their enemies. In this two part essay we will explore the meanings of the four nouns in that verse and consider the possibility that all four words are actually synonyms meaning “horse.” Part one focuses on the words sus and rechesh, while part two will be dedicated to the words achashtranim and remachim. In his work Cheshek Shlomo, Rabbi Pappenheim sees the core root of sus as SIN-SIN (via the interchangeability of the letters SAMECH and SIN), whose principal meaning is “liveliness.” This root also gives us the word sasson (“gladness”), as a jovial and happy person is said to be “full of life” (while the opposite is true of a depressed and melancholy individual). For example, the Midrash (Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:49) expounds on the presence of the word sus regarding Pharaoh (Song of Songs 1:9), as though Hashem said that just as He was “happy” to drown the Egyptian cavalry at the Red Sea, so is He always “happy” to annihilate the Jews’ enemies. Rabbi Yaakov Ashkenazi of Janow (1550-1625) writes in Tzeina U’Reinah that when Adam encountered all the animals in order to give them their names, he saw that horses were especially jovial and happy, so he named them sussim, which is a word etymologically-related to sasson. The Maharal (Ohr Chadash to Esther 8:1) makes a simi

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OHRNET

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23 февраля 2023 г.

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Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary