Parashas Nasso : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Nasso . This Sedra begins by teaching us about Levi's Son Gershon's Tribal responsibilities , of what they are to " Nasso " " Carry . " In the previous Parsha , we discussed what the Kohathites ( Levi's other son's Tribe ) carried and so here in this Parsha , we mention what Levi's other son's Tribes ( Gershon and Merari ) " Nasso " - " Carried . " In this Parsha , we also learn about the Nazarite , and so the Haftorah for this Parsha is in Shoftim - Judges 13 : 2 - 25 , which also speaks about a son who will be born to the Tribe of Dan , who is to be a Nazarite , the famous Shimshon Samson . In this Sedra , HaShem Tells Moshe to " Nasso " - " Take " a census of the sons of Gershon according to their Father's household and families from 30 years of age and up to 50 years of age , And HaShem Tells Moshe what their task is to be , to carry the curtains of the Tabernacle and The Tent of Meeting , It's Cover and the Tachash ( which is a unicorn ) cover , the Screen of the Entrance of The Tent of Meeting , the lace hangings of the Courtyard and Altar , their ropes and all utensils of their service and they are to be under the authority of Aharon's son Ithamar . HaShem Tells Of the count to be made of Merari's Tribal families , from 30 years of age and up till 50 , and their work which will include the carrying of the planks of The Tabernacle , It's bars and pillars and sockets , the pillars of the Courtyard all round and their sockets , pegs and ropes for all the utensils and work and the Tribal families of Merari , will also be under the authority of Aharon's son Ithamar . HaShem Then Commands the Children of Israel , that they shall remove from the Camp , all with tzaraas , all who had a zav emission and all that are contaminated by a human corpse , whether male or female , they are to be expelled to the outside of the Camp . The underlying essence within this Sedra is certainly also one of Purity . HaShem Then Commands That if a man or woman commits a sin , in reference here to theft , they are to confess their sin and make restitution for their guilt in it's principal amount and add also a fifth to it , and give it to the one they indebted . If the one they wronged , is not alive and has no kinsman , then the debt is paid to HaShem , by giving it to the Kohein . HaShem Then Discusses the Laws of the Sotah , the wayward wife , who is unfaithful to her husband . The Law of the Sotah is so important to HaShem , that HaShem Will even have His Own Name erased , in order to ensure purity in our Nation . Purity and Tznius and Modesty and Family Purity and Faithfulness , between husband and wife , so important is faithfulness between couples , to HaShem . Just as HaShem Wants us to be faithful to Him . But what is the Law of the Sotah ? If any man has a wife that goes astray , and thus commits treachery against him , which is like committing treachery against HaShem , this man can bring this case up for judgement . In this case , the Testing of the Sotah , will only act , if the man himself has been pure and faithful himself and if he has treated his wife correctly as far as him not straying , as is taught in Gemorrah Sotah . The case can be brought against the wife , if the husband suspects his wife of being carnally with another man , where it was hidden from the husband , where she became secluded with the other man , and where , in this seclusion , she could have become defiled , but not forced , but there was no witness against her defilement , so that only HaShem Would Know . This negative action alone , would cause a spirit of jealousy to reach the husband . The husband has to first warn his wife about this man , for she should not seclude herself with any other man but her husband . Such is the holy Jewish way of Purity between husband and wife , that she only be alone with her husband and he is only to be alone , with his wife . Such Jewish Laws are explained among the Laws of Yichud and these Laws prevent seclusion of either gender with the opposite gender , when not married . In the case of the Sotah , the husband is to bring his wife near and stand her before HaShem , and thus before the Kohein . The husband is not to have any physical relations with her after he accuses her , before she is tested with the Waters of the Sotah . If he does so , she is not tested and he forfeits the test . The man is to bring his wife to the Kohein and an offering with his bringing her , the offering is to be the offering of jealousies , and so , frankincense is not to accompany the offering , for it is not a positive kind of occasion as an offering and is not to be sweetened with frankincense . The offering is to be a tenth - ephah of barley flour , a meal offering of remembrance and reminder of iniquity . The reason that barley flour was chosen , was that barley flour , is the lowest form of flour , and is usually used as animal - feed , and is thus representative of such a low and physical action of adultery , where animals don't engage for holy spiritual reasons , for adultery is totally unholy , and thus is a show of how she let her physical carnal animalistic desires come to the fore . She shall stand before the Kohein and he shall adjure her many times and try to persuade her to admit her guilt , for if she does admit her guilt , the Sotah test does not need to be performed . She is dressed in a way that is low physically , for she let her physical desires rule her . Where before , she used her physicality to attract the other man , now she is disheveled and made to look as unattractive as possible . The Kohein shall then take the Sacred Water in an earthenware vessel ( representative of her earthly unholy physical desires ) , and the Kohein shall take from the earth that is on the floor of the Tabernacle , ( in Temple times , there was a specific tile in the Temple floor that could be lifted and earth taken from there ) , and put it into the Sacred water , and the woman shall be stood before HaShem , and her hair uncovered , as she did for the other man that was not her husband , and upon her hands , that she used for cheating on her husband , shall be put the meal offering of remembrance - a meal offering of jealousies , while in the hand of the Kohein shall be the bitter waters that cause curse . The Kohein shall adjure the woman to try and have her confess , asking her the words pertaining to this stage of the test , that are written in the Torah . The Kohein shall then adjure the woman with the oath of the curse , and repeat the words that are written in the Torah that if she was unfaithful , she shall be rendered a curse and oath to her people ( for her name will always be connected with her adulteress actions from then on ) , when HaShem Causes her thigh to collapse , that she lay with , near the other man , and her stomach to distend , that she used to eat delicacies and drink wine with the other man to entice him . The Kohein repeats this and she is to answer two Ameins . The reason that she answers two Ameins , is for the man she is standing accused of being with , and in case she was with any other man , that is not known of by the husband . The Kohein shall then inscribe these curses that are written in The Torah , on a scroll and erase it into the bitter waters . It is here , Where HaShem Is Letting His Holy Name be erased , which shows how important is fidelity and faithfulness to HaShem , between husband and wife . The Kohein shall then take the meal offering of jealousies from the woman's hand , and wave it before HaShem , and he shall offer it on the Altar . The Kohein shall then scoop up from the meal offering , its remembrance and cause it to go up in smoke on the Altar . The woman is then to drink the bitter waters . If she has committed treachery against her husband , the waters will come into her for bitterness ( for the bitter action that she did ) and her stomach will distend and her thigh will collapse and this woman shall be a curse amid her people . But if she had not become defiled , she is pure and will be Blessed To Be Given seed - offspring . The man with whom she was with , if she did commit adultery or was unfaithful to her husband , will get the same fate instantly as she gets , no matter where he might be . Even if she was innocent , the very fact that she isolated herself with another male , is not how the purity of our people are to be , and so , she brought upon herself , the test of the Sotah . It once happened that a woman had committed adultery and she had a twin sister . They thought they could trick the test , by swopping places , by the other twin sister who had not been involved in the Aveirah , taking the Sotah Test . She was obviously proved innocent . But when she went back to the city where her sister , who was the one that had committed the defilement and deceit against her husband , was waiting for her , when both sisters , in happiness for thinking they had gotten away with it , hugged and kissed each other , the waters of bitterness , passed from the twin sister , to the real wife , and she died with all the curses of this Test , at that very moment . After a time , when the Jews were living in later Temple times , the people became less and less holy , and so were not even worthy of this test , for so many were not pure as they should be , and so the test was stopped . HaShem Values , so very much , Purity within us . We Jews are to be a Pure people , unto HaShem , and not engage in the practices of the other nations that were in Canaan before we came into the Land . We are to be a Holy people , Modest and always pure and holy unto HaShem . Unfaithfulness to one's spouse is unfaithfulness to HaShem , Who Blesses Couples with their partner . One who can be unfaithful to a partner , will be unfaithful to HaShem . This fact , the Prophet Hosea talks of a lot in his Book in the Tanach . The Torah then discusses the Laws of the Nazarite , akin to the Haftorah of this Sedra . The Nazarite is one who chooses to live a holier life , abstaining from wine and grapes . All the days of his Nazarite vow , he is not to go near these products and he shall not cut his hair and not come near a dead person . Thus he chooses to take this upon himself , so as to grow Spiritually in Holiness , the Laws like a Kohein Gadol . This portion of the Nazirite is mentioned in the Torah , after the Laws of the Sotah , for both deal with Purity and like a woman who used wine to entice her adulterer , the Nazirite does the opposite and abstains from wine . Should the Nazirite become contaminated during his Nazirus period , he shall perform the sacrificial offerings , and again begin the term of the Nazarite from the start . The Holy Torah also explains what the Nazarite is to do at the completion of the term . The idea of a sin offering also being brought by the Nazirite , has a specific purpose . Even though the Nazarite was trying to abstain for holy reasons , HaShem Gives us What He Does , even physically for enjoyment , that we consume , according to what is allowed , for us to partake of His Bounty . When we prevent ourselves by choice from partaking Of What HaShem Has Allowed us , we are actually depriving ourselves from What HaShem Allowed us And Made For us to partake of , And HaShem Knows Better . We Should thus be able to control ourselves and our desires in this World , no matter how we are tested . Holiness must always reign supreme . Also , as Ramban tells us , the Sin Offering , is for the return to physical not - lasting pursuits in this World , which this person now returns to , after completing the term . Torah then Tells us of the Holy Priestly Blessings , which the Kohanim are to say , when they Bless the People . The Priestly Blessing is in three verses , which the Kohanim nowadays say on Yomim Tovim , in the Shul . Originally the three verses were said as one long verse , by the Kohanim , and the people , whom the Kohanim are to face , with their hands raised and fingers split in the way Halacha teaches . This was originally said with us saying a single Amein after the full Blessing was completed . Now we say an Amein after each verse . The hand positions of the Kohanim , were done so that there would be five openings between their fingers and two on the outside , making seven , like Moshiach and the holy number seven . HaShem's Shechinah Would Filter Through these gaps and thus , Through the Kohanim , who stand before us with no shoes out of respect , and so , we would thus be Blessed By HaShem . The three verses in the Priestly Blessing is like the three days before Shavuot That HaShem Gave us to prepare for HaShem's Revelation ; the three months from Nissan to Sivan ; when we received the Torah in Sivan on the Sixth of Sivan ; the three parts of Jewry being the Kohanim , Levi'im and Yisroel ; the three parts of the Pesach Seder we are to mention of the Matzah Maror and the Pashcal Lamb and HaShem , the wife and the husband , coming together , to bring the newborn child . There are many other threes in Judaism , but these were just a few examples , representing the holiness within all of Judaism and within the three verses of the Priestly Blessing . In days of old , the Kohanim would say the Priestly Blessing every day and then it became only on Shabboses and Yomim Tovim . Now we have it on only Yomim Tovim . Torah then continues with the offerings brought by each Tribe by their Leader , on the Day that Moshe finished erecting the Tabernacle and anointing It , Sanctifying It and all It's Utensils, and the Altar and all It's Utensils . Moshe had erected the Tabernacle and then taken it down on each day that he officiated , but on this day it was set up as a permanence . We note that each Tribe Miraculously brought the same things . This was a Miracle , for each Tribe thought at the same moment , to bring the same things , without knowing what the other Tribes would bring . Each Tribe had its common reason as well as it's own personal reason for bringing what it brought , in the numbers of each item that it brought , that had a common purpose with the whole of Israel , as well as a personal reason that had something to do with that particular Tribe , in It's history . Also , each Tribe's Offering was repeated , even though it was the same as each other Tribe , For HaShem Was Showing That each Tribe's Offering Was So Very Special To HaShem . As an example , the weight of the one silver bowl was 130 shekels , which was , as Ramban tells us the age of Adam ha Rishon , when he had his child Seth Shais , in the Book of Bereishis . The one silver basin was 70 shekel in the sacred shekel , like the number of Moshiach and of the 70 nations in the World . The gold ladle of 10 shekels , was like the Ten Pronouncements that HaShem Pronounced In Creating Creation and also the Ten Commandments . As Ramban says , the word " Ka'arat Kesef " for the " Silver Bowl " comes to 930 in Gematriah , which was the age of Adam ha Rishon , when he passed away . As Ramban tells us , the 5 rams , 5 he-goats and 5 sheep in their first year , as given by all the Tribes , and also given by the Tribe of Yehudah , comes to the number 15 , which were the number of Kings between Rehoboam and Zedekiah . So each and every thing in Torah , has its very deep and very holy reason . At the end of the bringing , all is totaled , for the dedication of the Altar after it was anointed . When Moshe came to The Tent of Meeting , to speak to HaShem , Moshe heard HaShem's Voice Speaking to him from the top of the Cover , that was on The Ark of The Testimony , between the two K'ruvim - Cherubim , and HaShem Spoke to Moshe . Here ends the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Nasso " - " Take " but the word " Nasso " also means " Carry and Lift . " When we bring offerings to HaShem , or do HaShem's Mitzvos , we " Lift " ourselves up to HaShem , and so HaShem " Carries " us To Him . We are in this Physical World to " Nasso " - " Raise " our Spiritual levels and be at one with HaShem . ln this World , we are here to gain merit . We are not here to just waste our lives on empty Physical pursuits . This is what we can also learn from the Laws of the Sotah in this Sedra and also from the Laws of the Nazarite in this Sedra . Our lives are not just for a momentary value-less pleasure or lifetime of song and dance . We are here to gain HaShem's favor . We lost that when we were forced out of Gan Eiden , after the Aveirah , and HaShem , every day , Gives us the opportunity to Go Back Home . In Gan Eiden , HaShem " Nasso " - " Carried " For us , every need . Whatever we needed , was there for us , To Be Gifted With From HaShem . That Is HaShem's Love In Creation . We made the errors . We did the wrongs . We did not listen to HaShem . And till today , we still disobey . We still want to do our own things and we still want our own way , and we really do not appreciate the Wonderful Miracles of HaShem's Laws , for our benefit , to be our pathway back into Gan Eiden , where HaShem " Nasso " - "Carries " us , In Love . We can see by HaShem's Abundant Creation , just how much , HaShem Loves us And Really Wants To Bless us With so many things That HaShem Wants To Give us . All we need to do , is to listen To HaShem . HaShem Asks This , For our sakes . HaShem So Desires , To Bless us With all His Goodness And Bounty Within Creation . The very word " Nasah " means " High and Lofty " ( Silverman's Dictionary ) . This is what The Mitzvos Of HaShem Give us . To bring ourselves on high and be at one With HaShem . Every time we give of ourselves in doing What HaShem Wants , we " Nasso " - " Take " ourselves higher . HaShem Wants To Carry us . We need to Obey Him and Let Him " Nasso " - " Carry " us To Him . We need to be a part to completing the Beauty around us , by obeying HaShem Whole - heartedly and so take the final step into Gan Eiden . The Gematriah of the word " Nasso " is 50+300+1 = 351 and 3+5+1 = 9 , the number before 10 , where 10 is the number of completion . This teaches us that doing HaShem's Mitzvos , is the Step before " Nasso " - " Taking " ourselves up to HaShem And Letting HaShem Carry us Into Olam Habah , The World To Come in Gan Eiden and Shamaim . If we take the letters of " Nasso " and put them backwards , we get " Ashan " which is the root of the word " Ashanav " which means " Window . " ( Silverman's Dictionary ) So our very Obedience of doing HaShem's Mitzvos , Opens The " Window " Of HaShem's Shamaim Heaven to us and also Allows HaShem's Beautiful Rays Of Light To Shine Upon us , Through HaShem's " Window " Of Shamaim . We cannot possibly imagine The Beautiful Merit , in each and every Mitzvah that we do . We are not , in this Physical Realm , on a level to fully appreciate the Amazing Value of each Mitzvah Of HaShem . Only when we have Done what HaShem Wants From us , And Raised our level to Holy Heights , will we be able to appreciate How Truly Wonderful And Magnificent , is each Mitzvah Of HaShem and how each Mitzvah " Nasso " - " Carries " us " High " And Opens For us , HaShem's " Window " into His Closeness and how , Through that Holy " Window , " HaShem's Rays Of Warmth And Light And Love , Shine Upon Us And Bring us Close , " Nasso " - " Lifting " us And " Nasso " - " Carrying " us Into The Beautiful Arms And Hands Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Immense And Beautiful Love , A Very Sweet And Most Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Very Much Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .