Parashat Beha'alotcha--פרשת בהעלתך--25/05/2013

Next read in the Diaspora on 25 May 2013. Parashat Beha'alotcha is the 36th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion: Numbers 8:1 - 12:16

Full Kriyah

1: 8:1-14 (14 p'sukim)
2: 8:15-26 (12 p'sukim)
3: 9:1-14 (14 p'sukim)
4: 9:15-10:10 (19 p'sukim)
5: 10:11-34 (24 p'sukim)
6: 10:35-11:29 (31 p'sukim)
7: 11:30-12:16 (22 p'sukim)
maf: 12:14-16 (3 p'sukim)

Triennial Year 1

11 June 2011

1: 8:1-4
2: 8:5-9
3: 8:10-14
4: 8:15-22
5: 8:23-26
6: 9:1-8
7: 9:9-14
maf: 9:12-14

Triennial Year 2

09 June 2012

1: 9:15-18
2: 9:19-23
3: 10:1-7
4: 10:8-10
5: 10:11-20
6: 10:21-28
7: 10:29-34
maf: 10:32-34

Triennial Year 3

25 May 2013

Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14 - 4:7

Commentary

List of Dates

Parashat Beha'alotcha is read in the Diaspora on:

References

The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series): Nosson Scherman, Mesorah Publications, 1993
A Complete Triennial System for Reading the Torah: Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly
Hebrew - English Bible: Mechon Mamre

My thoughts:

The following verses are taken from the Haftarah for Parashat Beha'alotcha--Zechariah 3:1 (2:14 in Jewish bibles) to 4:7.

6The angel of the Lord gave this charge to Joshua: 7“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.

8“ ‘Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. 9See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.

Zechariah 3:6-9 NIV

By the prophetic principle of double fulfillment, "single day" is taken to mean both the Passover Day on which the Lamb of God was sacrificied to pay for our sins, and the Day on which this same Jesus, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah will set foot on the Mount of Olives on the day of His return to the soil of the Earth, on Yom Kippur, in the Jubilee year of His return. Yom Kippur is the day of both personal and national atonement.

From: http://www.aish.com/h/hh/yom-kippur/guide/ABCs-of-Yom-Kippur.html

Teshuva (literally "return") involves four steps:

Regret – acknowledging that a mistake was made, and feeling regret at having squandered some of our potential.
Cessation – Talk is cheap, but stopping the harmful action shows a true commitment to change.
Confession – To make it more “real,” we admit our mistake verbally, and ask forgiveness from anyone we may have harmed.
Resolution – We make a firm commitment not to repeat the harmful action in the future.

Since the Adversary has done a job on our Gentile calendars (I believe the Jewish one at http://www.aish.com/h/ --download at bottom of page--is the correct one, meeting all historical criteria imho. Sorry, but this one has no BC data, but only the years from 1 January 1 AD forward--16 Tevet 3761 forward)

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6So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.

7“What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’ ”

Zechariah 4:6-7 NIV

Verse 7 seems to be a remez to the following passage in Isaiah.

1Comfort, comfort my people,

says your God.

2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

and proclaim to her

that her hard service has been completed,

that her sin has been paid for,

that she has received from the Lord’s hand

double for all her sins.

3A voice of one calling:

“In the wilderness prepare

the way for the Lord^a ;

make straight in the desert

a highway for our God.^b

4Every valley shall be raised up,

every mountain and hill made low;

the rough ground shall become level,

the rugged places a plain.

5And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,

and all people will see it together.

Isaiah 40:1-5 NIV

~Blessings,

Mike

Hello, John and Doves,

Here is information about the 36th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Parashat Beha'alotcha / פרשת בהעלתך