Shabbat BaMidbar: Words and Silence » J-Wire
We start a new book of the Torah this week, Bamidbar. Which in non-Jewish terminology is the Book of Numbers probably because it starts with a census. But in Hebrew, it is In the Desert! The word Midbar meaning desert is made up of the same letters as Daber, to speak. This is ironic given that a desert is a place of silence.…
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