Hebrew:
Buy, steal, trash: galgalatz -- https://glz.co.il/%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%A6
alternate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43h9YjDkvso
https://hadshon.edu.gov.il/
Kaddish Shalem,
Quick!!! video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mriqs6ytcYc
Colors! Le’mi
yesh davar--
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f7/70/14/f7701414da345b3b1d580780bf1abadc.jpg
https://alefdesigns.com/cdn/shop/products/12x18-Colors-in-Hebrew_900x.jpg?v=1452833695
1)
60 Seconds With checklist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3cDQcRZWE
2)
Golden Calf- The actual story and some commentary
3)
Spicy quiz- Cinnamon,
Cassia
4)
Shabbat is a big deal in
the Torah. Why not now?
1)
Ex 33:7-11- the first tent of meeting.
a.
Where is it best to try and
seek God? What conditions?
b.
Is there someone who you
honor by rising up for when they come into the room? In practice or in theory?
2)
Glowing Skin.
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ברקים ורעמים
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Thunder and Lightning
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הכבש השישה עשר
מילים: יהונתן גפן
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“The 16th Lamb”
Words: Yehonatan Geffen Melody: David Broza
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רעמים וברקים בליל חורף קר לא נשמעים תמיד אותו הדבר
ברקים ורעמים, רעמים וברקים לפעמים קרובים ולפעמים רחוקים.
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Thunder and lighting on a cold winter night
They don’t always sound like the same thing.
Lightning and thunder, thunder and lightning
Sometimes close, sometimes far apart
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רעמים וברקים בלילות הגשומים את הברק רואים אבל את הרעם שומעים
יש רעמים שמאוד מפחידים ויש כאלה שרק קצת
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Thunder and lightning on rainy nights
The lightning you see but the thunder you hear
There is thunder that is very scary
And some that is only a little bit (scary)
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יש רעם חלש ורעם בינוני ורעם חזק חזק שלא נעים לשמוע
בעיקר אם אתה לבד (לעתים רחוקות אתה פוגש רעם נחמד)
רעמים וברקים...
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There is thunder that’s weak and in-between thunder,
And loud, loud thunder that’s not nice to hear,
Especially if you’re alone
(It’s rare that you meet nice thunder)
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CHECKLIST FOR KI TISSA (INCOMPLETE)
Census and half-shekel donation
Bronze sink- wash your hands or you’ll die
Anointing oil- Spices
Incense
Betzalel in charge of fabrication
Moses is missing
Aaron makes a calf with donated rings
Party! Idolatry! Both!
God is angry- Moses argues “forgive them.”
Moses is angry. He breaks the tablets. Aaron crakes a joke
Moses puts the ashes
of the calf in the drinking water.
Anarchy has broken out,
the Levites use lethal force to restore order.
Moses seeks to understand God better.
God warns “No human can see my face an live.”
Moses makes two new tablets for God to write on.
Moses learns the 13 middot for the next time there is
trouble
God restates or adds to the covenant. Don’t marry the nations of the land, keep
the sabbath, celebrate the holidays, no
milk and meat,
Moses is up for another 40 days and nights.
He comes down aglow with torah and people are freaked out,
but he veils himself and it’s okay.
SHEMOT 32: THE ACTUAL STORY OF THE EIGEL HA’ZAHAV
1--Now the people
saw that Moshe was shamefully-late in coming down from the mountain,
so the people assembled against Aharon
and said to him:
“Get up, make us a god who will go before us,
for this Moshe, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
we do not know what has become of him!”
Aharon said to them:
“Break off the gold rings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons and
your daughters,
and bring [them] to me!”
All the people broke
off the gold rings that were in their ears,
and brought [them] to Aharon.
He took from their
hand,
fashioned it with a graving-tool,
and made it into a molten calf.
Then they said:
“This is your God, O Israel,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt! “
[When] Aharon saw
[this], he built an altar before it,
and Aharon called out and said:
“Tomorrow is a festival to Adonai!”
They started-early
on the morrow,
offered offerings-up
and brought shalom-offerings;
the people sat down to eat and drink
and proceeded to revel.
2-- Adonai said to
Moshe:
Go, get down!
for your people
whom you brought up from the land of Egypt
has wrought their own ruin!
They have been quick
to turn aside from the way that I commanded them:
they have made themselves a molten calf,
they have bowed to it, they have sacrificed to it,
and they have said: “This is your God, O Israel, who brought you up from the
land of Egypt!”
And Adonai said to
Moshe:
I see this people—
and here, it is a hard-necked people!
So now,
let me be, that my anger may flare up against them
and I may destroy them—
but you I will make into a great nation!
Moshe soothed the
face of Adonai his God;
he said:
“Why,
O Adonai,
should your anger flare up against your people
whom you brought out of the land of Egypt
with great power,
with a strong hand?
Why
should the Egyptians [be able to] say, yes, say:
With evil intent he brought them out,
to kill them in the mountains,
to destroy them from the face of the earth?
Turn away from your flaming anger,
be sorry of the evil [intended] against your people!
Recall Avraham,
Yitzhak and Yisrael your servants,
to whom you swore by yourself
when you spoke to them:
I will make your seed many
as the stars of the heavens,
and all this land which I have promised,
I will give to your seed,
that they may inherit [it] for the ages!”
And Adonai repented
of the destruction
that he had spoken of doing to his people.
3--Moshe faced about
to come down from the mountain,
the two tablets of the Testimony in his hand,
tablets written on both their sides:
on this one and on this one they were written;
and the tablets were
God’s making,
and the writing was God’s writing,
engraved upon the tablets.
Yehoshua heard the
sound of the people as it shouted, so he said to Moshe:
“It’s the sound of battle in the camp!”
But he said:
“Not the sound of the song of prevailing,
nor the sound of the song of failing,
the sound of party-song is what I hear!”
And it was,
when he neared the camp
and saw the calf and the dancing,
that Moshe’s anger flared up;
he threw the tablets from his hands
and smashed them beneath the mountain.
He took the calf
that they had made
and burned it with fire
and ground it up until it was thin-powder,
and strewed it on the surface of the water
and made the Children of Israel drink it.
Then Moshe said to
Aharon:
“What did this people do to you
that you have let them commit [such] a great sin!
Aharon said:
“Let not my lord’s anger flare up!
You yourself know this people, how set-on-evil it is.
They said to me:
Make us a god who will go before us,
for this Moshe, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
we do not know what has become of him!
So I said to them:
Who has gold?
They broke it off and gave it to me;
I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”
Rashi on Exodus 32:4:2
עגל מסכה A MOLTEN CALF — As soon as he
(Aaron) had thrown it (the gold) into the fire in a melting pot, sorcerers amongst the mixed multitude who had escaped
with them from Egypt came and made it (the golden calf) by their magic art.
Chizkuni, Exodus 32:4:2
ויעשהו, “he made it into the shape of
a calf.” He did not select a different creature, seeing that the mixed
multitude that had joined the Jewish bandwagon at the Exodus had been the first
to gang up on him, demanding a replacement for Moses. They had heard Moses sing
after the splitting of the sea: “this is My God, who I will adore!” They had
only seen the feet of the angels surrounding God’s throne, feet which looked
like the feet of a calf. They had mistakenly assumed that what they had seen
were the footprints of God which had the appearance of calves’ feet. This is
also why the psalmist in Psalms 77:20 writes: “Your way was through the sea,
Your path through the mighty waters; Your tracks could be seen.” They had
mistaken the footprints of the angels for the footprints of God!
Or HaChaim on Exodus 32:4:1
ויעשהו עגל, "he made it into a
calf." The calf is described as the work of Aaron not because he meant to make
it, but because he was the instrument
which caused the calf to emerge. We hear about this clearly in verse 24 where
Aaron describes what happened with the words: "this calf just came out of
the furnace!” It is also possible that
the making of the calf was attributed to Aaron because he accepted the gold
from the contributors in his hands without first depositing it on the ground
which would have deprived it of the magical quality which resulted in it
emerging in the shape of a calf (Zohar volume 2 page 192).
Rabbeinu Bahya, Shemot 32:4:1-5
ויעשהו עגל מסכה, “he made it into a calf cast
of gold.”
When Aaron constructed the golden calf
he intended for it to be a body which would receive divine input from the angel
Metatron, the one in charge of the rules of the universe and the powers
assigned to the planets. He thought in terms of the ox which is one of the four
“animal-like faces” (concepts) supporting the Merkava of God. He assumed
that such insights would be provided by the ox, seeing it is on the left side
of the Merkavah, and it would show the Jewish people the way so that it would counteract the
negative northern influences. [The journey of the Israelites towards the Holy Land
took them straight north. Ed.]
When Aaron constructed the golden calf
he intended for it to be a body which would receive divine input from the angel
Metatron, the one in charge of the rules of the universe and the powers
assigned to the planets. He thought in terms of the ox which is one of the four
“animal-like faces” (concepts) supporting the Merkava of God. He assumed
that such insights would be provided by the ox, seeing it is on the left side
of the Merkavah, and it would show the Jewish people the way so that it would counteract the
negative northern influences. [The journey of the Israelites towards the Holy Land
took them straight north. Ed.]
Shadal (Samuel David
Luzzatto, Padua, Italy, 22 August
1800 – 30 September 1865. Author and Rabbinical school professor. Wrote in
Hebrew, German and Italian.) on Exodus 32:4:1
Calf: The calf was not for Idol
worship initially, and they did not accept it for God, but for it to be a
vessel to receive God's bounty, and stand for them as a leader instead of Moses.
Aaron was not enough for them because he was also a human being. This is also
the opinion of the Kuzari, Ibn-Ezra, Ramban and Chizkuni and Ralbag.
1)
The spice most prominently
named in the Torah is Kin'amon. What do we call this spice in English?
a.
Cumin
b.
Curly Parsely
c.
Cilantro
d.
Cinnamon
e.
Dude, the Torah was given long before people used spices.
2)
The Manna, the bread that
God gave our ancestors, tasted like
wafers and honey, but looked like this brown spice:
a.
Green Cardamom
b.
Turmeric
c.
Paprika
d.
Coriander
e.
The glorious black pepper
grown by our divine leader of North Korea!
3)
In the works of the prophet
Isaiah, Black Cumin is mentioned. Which
of the following is NOT a name for this spice:
a.
Kalonji
b.
Nigella
c.
Charnushka
d.
Black Caraway
e.
Ninja Pepper
4)
Za’atar is a common blend
of spices in Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. In addition to sesame, salt and Hyssop (eizov) which is mentioned in
the Torah, what common herb is also in this blend?
a.
Basil
b.
Marjoram
c.
Oregano
d.
Cesium
e.
Thorny Owchplant
5)
The most expensive spice in
the world, going for about $2,000 for a single pound on amazon? Why, that’s
a.
Fennel Pollen
b.
Majarajah Curry
c.
Everest Cinnamon
d.
Spanish Saffron
e.
Mellinger Fakespice
6)
This chili pepper is not
found in the Bible
a.
Serrano
b.
Jalepeno
c.
Scotch Bonnet
d.
Fish Pepper
e.
Dude, there are no hot
peppers in the Jewish Bible.
7)
Cumin is found in many
cuisines, but not
a.
Israeli
b.
Chinese
c.
Palestinian
d.
Mexican
e.
Pakistani
8)
OPINON: Why do
Detroit Red Wings Fans throw octopuses (octopi) onto the ice?
a.
Who cares? Its gross and
smelly, like Detriot.
b.
Who cares? I don’t follow hockey-- I’m not sure why
there is even ice involved in it.
c.
Who cares? The Blackhawks are the better team anyway.
d.
Who cares? The things freeze onto the ice and makes extra work for the rink crew!
e.
Who cares? Like I have the
time and energy to bring an octopus to a hockey game.
9)
What does the spice Star
Anice smell like?
a.
Cinnamon
b.
Varnish
c.
Licorice
d.
Roses
e.
The breeze from the
Kum-Kang mountains of North Korea! All
hail the glorious leader!
10) The nutmeg tree obviously
gives us nutmeg, which is a seed, as
well as this spice from the nutmeg wrapping,
which is essential in a classic hot dog:
a.
Saffron
b.
Mace
c.
Vetiver
d.
Cloves
e.
Uranium
11) The Moroccan spice blend,
“Ras el Hanout” is a blend of top
quality spices that differs from shop to shop, but on average has this many
spices in it:
a.
Four
b.
Fourteen
c.
Fourty
d.
Eighty
e.
Four Hundred thousand, six
hundred and nineteen. Point two five.
SHEMOT 30- OIL THAT MAKES HOLY THINGS… HOLY-
Now Adonai spoke to Moshe, saying:
And as for you, take you
fragrant-spices, the best:
streaming myrrh, five hundred,
cinnamon spice, half as much—fifty and two hundred,
fragrant cane, fifty and two hundred,
and cassia, five hundred
by the Holy-Shrine shekel,
as well as olive oil, a hin,
and you are to make [from] it
anointing oil of holiness,
perfume from the perfume-mixture, of perfumer’s making;
anointing oil of holiness is it to be.
You are to anoint with it
the Tent of Appointment
and the Ark of the Covenant
and the table and all its implements,
and the lampstand and all its implements
and the altar for smoke-offerings
and the altar for offering-up and all
its implements
and the basin and its pedestal.
You are to hallow them
that they may become holiest holiness—;
whatever touches them shall become-holy.
And Aharon and his sons you are to
anoint,
you are to make them holy to be-priests for me.
And to the Children of Israel you are
to speak, saying:
Anointing oil of holiness
this is to be for me
throughout your generations.
On any [other] human body it is not to
be poured out;
in its [exact] proportion, you are not to make any like it—
holiness is it,
holiness it shall remain for you.
Any man who mixes-perfumes like it
or who puts any of it on an outsider
is to be cut off from his kinspeople!
SHEMOT 33- the other tent of meeting
Now Moshe would take the Tent
and pitch it for himself outside the camp, going-far from the camp.
He called it the Tent of Appointment.
And it was,
whoever was seeking Adonai
would go out to the Tent of Appointment that was outside the camp.
And it was:
whenever Moshe would go out to the Tent,
all the people would rise;
they would station themselves, each at the entrance to his tent,
and would gaze after Moshe
until he had come into the Tent.
And it was:
whenever Moshe would come into the Tent,
the column of cloud would come down
and stop at the entrance to the Tent,
and he would speak with Moshe.
And all the people would see
the column of cloud
standing at the entrance to the Tent,
and all the people would rise;
they would bow down,
each at the entrance to his tent.
And Adonai would speak to Moshe
face to face,
as one speaks to his neighbor.
Now when he would return to the camp,
his attendant, the lad Yehoshua,
would not depart from within the Tent.
EXODUS 32: SHABBAT IS A BIG DEAL- BUT
HOW BIG?
Now Adonai said to Moshe:
And you, speak to the Children of
Israel, saying:
However: my Sabbaths you are to keep!
For it is a sign
between me and you, throughout your generations,
to know that I, Adonai, hallow you.
You are to keep the Sabbath,
for it is holiness for you,
whoever profanes it is to be put to death, yes, death!
For whoever makes work on it—
that person is to be cut off from among his kinspeople.
For six days is work to be made,
but on the seventh day
[is] Sabbath, Sabbath-Ceasing, holiness for Adonai;
whoever makes work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death, yes, death!
The Children of Israel are to keep the
Sabbath,
to make the Sabbath-observance throughout their generations
as a covenant for the ages.
Between me and the Children of Israel
it is a sign for the ages,
for in six days
Adonai made the heavens and the earth,
but on the seventh day
he ceased and paused-for-breath.
He gave to Moshe
when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai
the two tablets of the Testimony,
tablets of stone,
written by the finger of God.
