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39th day of the Omer Let’s start from the end of this double parasha. Bechukotai is extremely difficult to read. Hashem’s rage excoriates the Jewish people beyond tolerable limits. Even more horribly, the descriptions of divine wrath resonate through the most painful moments in Jewish history. We have suffered famine, fear, alienation, displacement, and exile. Moments of desperation during the worst persecutions and moments of catastrophe have seen the devouring of our own children, recorded even Eicha and recalled on the 9th Ab. When the Torah describes these most horrific sufferings of the Jewish people, we receive a paradigm and lens for understanding the human condition. I suggest that Bechukotai teaches us about the condition of humanity, and Behar actually provides a salve for the curses. God provides the cure before describing the affliction. ....
Haftarah of Shabbos Shirah, Deborah, and Barak sing G-dâs praises for delivering the Canaanite general Sisera into their hands. Towards the end of the shirah, they say, in reference to Siseraâs mother anxiously anticipating her sonâs triumphant return: âShe gazed through the window ( chalon) and she sobbed; Siseraâs mother [peeked] through the window ( eshnav)â (Judges 5:28). This verse contains two words for window: â chalonâ and â Advertisement Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim of Breslau (1740-1814) traces the etymology of â chalonâ (which appears 31 times in the Bible) to the two-letter root chet-lammed, which means circular movement and the empty space within a circle. Other words that derive from this root, says Rabbi Pappenheim, include: ....