Class Elements for 11/2/23

מספרים עד 20
 

The Sheva- rules 1-5

Two for one:  kama rachok

Meet Meshi Kleinstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74uj4lYKzMg

and the finished scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPkIudix_TY

Karov Rachok!

Partnered Reading in Breakout groups: Aleinu.   

1)             There are two kinds of shva-  :

a.   Moving (na / נָע) or vocalized (it makes a sound), and

b.   Resting (naḥ / נָח), or silent. The resting shva does not make a sound, but signals the consonant above is the end of a syllable, just like an apostrophe.

2)     At the start of a word, the shva is always a na / נָע, a vocalized shva.

3)  There will not be two shva next to each other in the start of a word (i.e. under letters #1 and #2), not ever. There will not be three shva in a row next to each other (unless you are looking at a transliteration from Arabic) .   

4)     At the end of the word, the shva  is always a naḥ / נָח a resting shva.

5)     When there are two shva next to each other (under two consecutive consonants), the first is resting and the second is vocalized as in יִשְׁפְּטוּ   yish’petu and  תִּשְׁמְעוּ tish’me-oo. Exception to the rule: at the end of the word, there can be two letters with a shva under them and both are resting, as with the wordנֵרְדְּ , neyrd, which means frankincense .

ABRAHAM REMINDS GOD TO BE  RIGHTEOUS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS

When the three men [Abraham had been hosting] got ready to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked part of the way with them. Adonai spoke inwardly, “Should I tell Abraham what I am going to do, since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all the other nations on earth? I have chosen him to teach his family to obey me forever and to do what is right and fair. If they do, I will give Abraham many descendants, just as I promised.” So Adonai said, “Abraham, I have heard such an outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, that their evil is so heavy! Now I am going down to see for myself they are acting like that outcry, and I will know if not.”

The men turned and started toward Sodom. But Adonai stayed with Abraham. And Abraham asked him, “Adonai, when you destroy the evil people, are you also going to destroy those who are good? What if there are fifty righteous people in it? You surely wouldn't wipe out the city and not forgive it if there are fifty righteous people there. You are the judge of all the earth, and you do what is right.”  Adonai replied, “If I find fifty good people in Sodom, I will save the city to keep them from being killed.”

Abraham answered, “I am nothing more than the dust of the earth. Please forgive me, Adonai, for daring to speak to you like this. But suppose there are only forty five righteous  people in Sodom. Would you still wipe out the whole city?”

“If I find forty Tzadikim,” Adonai replied, “I won't destroy the city.”-

“Suppose there are just forty righteous people?” Abraham asked.  “Even for them,” Adonai replied, “I won't destroy the city.”  Abraham said, “Please don't be angry, Adonai, if I ask you what you will do if there are only thirty righteous  people in the city.” “If I find thirty,” Adonai replied, “I still won't destroy it.” Then Abraham said, “I don't have any right to ask you, Adonai, but what would you do if you find only twenty?” “Because of them, I won't destroy the city,” was Adonai's answer.

Finally, Abraham said, “Please don't get angry, God, if I speak just once more. Suppose you find only ten righteous people there.” “For the sake of ten righteous  people,” Adonai told him, “I still won't destroy the city.” After speaking with Abraham, Adonai left, and Abraham went back to his home

THE FALL OF SODOM AND ITS SUBURBS:  BERAYSHEET 9

Two of the angels who visited Abraham and Sarah traveled on to Sodom.  Loht, Avrom’s nephew, is the only one in the town who offers them shelter overnight.  When the rest of the town finds out there are travelers in town, they come to assault the travelers and Loht, but they are driven back by the Sanveirim of the angels. And then…

The two angels said to Loht, “Adonai has heard many terrible things about the people of Sodom, and so has sent us here to destroy the city. Take your family and leave. Take every relative you have in the city, as well as the men your daughters are going to marry.” Loht went to the men who were engaged to his daughters and said, “Hurry up and get out of here! Adonai is going to destroy this city.” But they thought he was joking, and they laughed at him.

Early the next morning the two angels tried to make Loht hurry and leave. They said, “Take your wife and your two daughters and get away from here as fast as you can! If you don't, every one of you will be killed when Adonai destroys the city.” Loht ֓hesitated instead of leaving. But Adonai wanted to save him, so the angels took Loht, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city. When they were outside, one of the angels said, “Run for your lives! Don't even stop to look back. And don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, only there will you be safe.”

The sun was coming up as Loht reached the suburb of Zoar,  and Adonai sent burning sulfur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah. God destroyed those cities and everyone who lived in them, as well as their land and the trees and grass that grew there. On the way, Loht's wife stopped to look back and became like a pillar of salt.

That same morning Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood and spoken with Adonai. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and saw smoke rising from all over the land—it was like a flaming furnace. But it was that when God destroyed the cities of the valley where Loht lived, he remembered his promise to Abraham and saved Loht from the terrible destruction.