The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Korach . In this Sedra we read of Korach , a Levite relative of Moshe , whose descendant was Shmuel Samuel the Prophet and this is why the Haftorah for this Sedra is 1 Samuel 11 : 14 - 12 : 22 where we read about Samuel the very holy Prophet . In this Parsha , we see the long reaching negative affects of not appreciating What HaShem Gives us and how we must always appreciate HaShem . Korach was not satisfied with being a Levite of high station and wanted more . We learn in this Parsha how Korach caused so much Machlokes Strife amongst the people and what did happen to him and those that stood with him as a result of his choices and actions . Korach was the cousin of Moshe Rabbeinu , from the very holy son of Levi , Kohath . It was this Tribe that was given the right to carry The Holy Ark and The Holy Articles of The Tabernacle . So as Moshe responded to Korach who had used the same words to Moshe , Moshe said to him , ' is it not too much , oh Son of Levi , ' for , to carry such Holy Articles , should have been enough of a great Kavod , but sadly for Korach , it was not . It was from this holy side of the Tribe of Levi that Korach descended . Korach always felt that he was meant for greatness . He foresaw that his descendant would be the holy Prophet Shmuel Samuel ( The subject of our Haftorah ) and Korach was the son of Yitz'har ( as mentioned at the beginning of this Sedra ) to show his illustrious family line . The word " Yitz'har " has within it the Hebrew Word " Yatzar , " which means ' create or make ' ( Shilo Hebrew Dictionary ) which shows a high status with regards to the word ' create , ' for it suggests a closeness with HaShem The One And Only True Creator . The word " Yitz'har " also has within it the word ' Yetzer ' which means ' inclination , ' like the word ' Yetzer Horah ' - ' the evil Inclination ' and so , within Korach was a choice that he could either choose to be very holy or fall to his Yetzer Horah and turn out the opposite . Sadly he followed the latter choice . Korach himself , was a man of division , strife and Machlokes , so much so that even his own organs within himsef did not agree with each other . In fact his own hair on his head was separated on the left and the right , thus forming an empty middle patch and pathway in the middle where the hair separated on the left and right , leaving a balding line in the middle . The word " Korach , " means ' separate or balding . ' The Gematriah of his name comes to 100 + 200 + 8 = 308 and 3 + 0 + 8 = 11 and 1+1 = 2 , not one , showing that he is not one with HaShem , but lives a life choice of two different conflicting opinions . Korach was also one of the wealthiest men that ever lived and in Egypt , he was put in charge of Pharaoh's treasury and thus when the redemption from Egypt came , he did not want to leave , for he hoped that at the destruction of Pharaoh , he might be put in charge of that treasury . One day , he came across Yosef's secret wealth , hidden among the rest of the wealth in Egypt that belonged to Yosef and Korach took it for himself , making him extremely wealthy to the point that when he left Egypt , he had with him man and maid-servants that saw to his every need and these were some of the Eirev Rav , Canaanites and Egyptians that went with . His wife , like him , was never satisfied with their present status and both of them always wanted more status and higher honor and position and so , she constantly prodded and pushed him further over the edge . When he would return home , she often questioned him and as did he did , belittled Moshe and the things that Moshe would command From HaShem . After the incident of the Spies that we read in the previous Parsha , Korach saw that the atmosphere was rife for rebellion and so , he thought as did his wife that now would be the time to take his stand . The last Sedra ended with instructions on the Tzitzis and then this Sedra of Korach continues . The reason for this Sedra carrying on straight from the one before about Tzitzis , is that it was the issue of Tzitzis that Korach chose , to come to Moshe with and challenge him once and for all . Korach would often privately with his wife , question Moshe's relating of HaShem's Commandments . One day , Korach came home to his wife and his wife asked him what he had done that day . Korach in anger related how he among other Levites , had been told to stand before Aharon and Moshe and be lifted and waved for the preparation of their service . Korach's wife told him that Moshe had just made this law only to ridicule him . Instead of Korach's wife being an Eishes Chayil , like On's wife ( On is mentioned in this Sedra ) , Korach's wife constantly prodded him , for her own status and benefit . Korach then related the Laws of Tzitzis and that they need a Techeiles String of Blue . Again , she mocked this as did he , telling her how the blue has to come from a creature called the Chilazon . And so they carried on . It was then that Korach chose to once and for all confront Moshe . But he would not do that on his own . He chose to go around from tent to tent , stirring up strife and division and Machlokes , using every possible thing he could twist , to gain support . Near him , was the Tribe of Reuvein and so , did he approach that Tribe and specifically two of their members , who were brother in law to each other , Dathan and Aviram , from the Tribe of Reuvein and also a Reubenite called On . Korach knew already that Dathan and Aviram held an antagonism to Moshe . Dathan was the one , who in Mitzrayim Egypt , Moshe had saved from being beaten by the Egyptian Taskmaster , over the matter of Dathan's wife Shelomis and when the following day , Shelomis' brother Aviram was arguing with Dathan not to divorce his sister , Moshe had come along and tried to stop their bickering and they warned him . It was this Dathan and Aviram who had gone to Pharaoh at the time , to report on Moshe for what happened to the taskmaster and it was this incident of reporting on Moshe , who had actually saved Dathan , that had caused Moshe to have to leave Egypt at the time . This was that Dathan and Aviram . " On , " that is mentioned here as well , is not mentioned again , as he started out standing with these rebels , but his wife constantly talked him out of it and told him to stand with Moshe . Also , when the time came to go before Moshe , On's wife gave him something that would put him to sleep and she and their daughter sat outside their tent with their hair uncovered , so that Korach or his followers , when coming to call him , would have to turn around and go , rather than converse with a wife of uncovered hair , thus On's wife and daughter saved On's life , by making sure that On would not go with Korach that day . In fact , On's wife , insisted that On go and apologize to Moshe for even taking part but On refused , feeling too guilty to face Moshe , so she called Moshe and Moshe humbly came to him and so On apologized to Moshe and Moshe forgave him . Such is the difference of the wife of On and the wife of Korach , where a holy wife seeks to improve her husband's holiness , but an unholy wife seeks to pull her husband down with her . Such is a true Holy Eishel Chayil A woman of Valor as Shlomo Hamelech wrote , that we say every Shabbos Kiddush evening , as we bless the holy Wife and Mother of our children who Lights the Holy Shabbos Candles and bring Holiness to the Jewish Home , just like Sarah did , the wife of Avraham . Korach , using every persuasion in the book , like saying that Moshe makes up his own Laws and only chooses his brother for Kohein Gadol and his close family for high positions , and that Moshe had no right to shun the first-born , for Levites , as all of Israel is holy equally , ( he meant only himself ) and that Moshe had no right to have the spies destroyed and so Korach managed to get the support of 250 men of the Children of Israel ( leaders of the assembly ) , to stand with him against Moshe and Aharon and thus against HaShem . Korach got a lot of support from the Tribe of Reuvein , for he persuaded them , by winding them up about them being shunned , as the Tribe who was first born among the Tribes and having to take a back seat . As I mentioned , Levi's line through Kohath , was near the Tribe of Reuvein . So Korach and Dathan and Aviram stood before Moshe and Aharon with the 250 men , men of renown . They all appeared before Moshe and Aharon so as to mock Moshe , by these 250 men all wearing Tzitzis , but not as commanded By HaShem Through Moshe , for they had made Tzitzis totally of Techeilis Blue . Korach challenged Moshe on this saying , ' can they wear a garment totally of Blue ' and he also challenged Moshe on the other points I mentioned , that Korach had gone around saying to the others . Korach challenged Moshe's position as Leader and most of all , challenged Aharon's Appointment as Kohein Gadol , for this position , Korach wanted for himself . In challenging this , Korach was Challenging their Leader and more so , HaShem , Who Had Appointed them . Aharon stood quietly by , not responding to Korach's attacks against Aharon's Appointment of the High Priesthood , for Aharon himself felt totally unworthy of the position and Aharon too was also a very humble man . Moshe defended Aharon's honor and reminded Korach and the followers that Aharon had not chosen this position for himself and nor had Moshe , But That It Had Come Straight From HaShem Directly As Had Everything Else that Korach was complaining about . In Pirkei Avos , we are reminded of how there was not even agreement among Korach and his own followers , for even they did not agree amongst themselves . Such is the bitterness and evil of Machlokes and Strife . Moshe reminded Korach how Aharon had lost his two beloved sons and certainly it wasn't a position Aharon had personally chosen , but Korach didn't stop . Moshe fell on his face . Moshe begged them to stop and pleaded with HaShem for peace and guidance . HaShem Answered and so , Moshe told them that they were to return the next morning and for each one of them to take his fire-pan and put fire in them and place incense upon them " before HaShem tomorrow and the man Whom HaShem Will Choose - he is the holy one . " Moshe felt that Korach and the others should be satisfied with their positions and not want more and so , as I mentioned , Moshe said to Korach and those of Levi who were disatisfied , " It is too much for you , O offspring of Levi , " to rather be happy With What HaShem Has Given them . By now , Dathan and Aviram had left and returned to their tents . So Moshe summoned them , but they refused him , their very holy leader . So in his humility and caring , Moshe himself humbly went to them , to plead for them to stop this . When Moshe came to them , they did not even stand up for him , but remained seated . They accused him of bringing them out of Egypt and they totally shunned HaShem , by daring to call Egypt , a land flowing with milk and honey . A description That HaShem Gave us Only For Israel , not for Egypt which was a land of suffering and slavery and taskmasters and killing of our First-born . They accused Moshe of bringing them all out to die in the Wilderness and of trying to dominate them and accused Moshe of not bringing them to the land of Israel , when they knew it was the people's fault for shunning HaShem And His Gift of the Land and the evil report of the spies and almost all the people whispering in their tents against HaShem that they had to wander in the Wilderness for the 40 years . Moshe had enough and knew their offerings that they were wanting to offer was against Halacha , for only a Kohein Priest can take the offerings and prepare them and so , Moshe asked HaShem not to turn to their gift - offering , given only for their own benefit . Moshe told Korach to be with his assembly before Aharon the next day , with their fire-pans as instructed and so the next day , that is exactly what happened . They all arrogantly stood before The Tent of Meeting with their fire-pans . The Glory Of HaShem Appeared To the entire assembly . HaShem Spoke And Told Moshe And Aharon to separate themselves from amid this assembly And HaShem Said That He Would Destroy them In An instant . Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces to try and save the others . And So HaShem Told Moshe To tell the assembly to get themselves up and away from all around the dwelling places of Korach , Dathan and Aviram and Moshe obeyed . It was then that Moshe Asked of HaShem a Miracle , for the sake of all the others , that the others see A Neis , a Miracle , for Moshe felt it was needed for HaShem's Sake and so , Moshe asked that these evil men not die a natural normal death , But That HaShem Make A Miracle , and open the Earth and swallow them and they descend into the pit of Gehinnom alive , As A Kiddush HaShem . As soon as Moshe had finished speaking , So Did HaShem Make the Earth open up and swallow them alive and their households and all those with Korach , in reference to those who served him and his wife and Korach's entire wealth . Afterwards , the Earth closed completely , leaving no trace of an opening . All Israel fled in fear , lest they too be swallowed alive . Only Korach's three sons survived , for they were holy and did not go along with their Father , rising when Moshe walked into their tent , even though their Father did not want them to . And so , did the line of this family go down to Shmuel Samuel the holy Prophet that we read of in the Haftorah of this Sedra . Korach's sons composed Psalm 48 , which is said on the second day of the week , the day in Creation That HaShem Separated the waters , for Strife and Separation is not a good thing , ( where on this day in Creation , it is the only day That HaShem does not talk of that day being good ) , as Korach caused Strife Machlokes and so his sons wrote this Psalm . HaShem Sent a Flame that consumed the 250 men who had offered the incense . Seeing as they had intended to make an offering to HaShem using the fire-pans , these fire-pans had become holy and as in Halacha , that which is set aside for a holy purpose cannot be used for a mundane thing And So HaShem Commanded Moshe to tell Aharon's son Elazar to pick up the fire-pans from amid the fire , throw away the flame and make them into hammered out sheets as a covering for the Altar and so it was done . On the morrow , the entire assembly complained against Moshe and Aharon about what had happened to Korach and his followers , so Moshe and Aharon turned toward the Tent of Meeting and the Cloud Covered It And HaShem's Glory Appeared . HaShem Told them to remove themselves from this assembly And HaShem Would Then Destroy them in an instant . Again , they fell on their faces . Moshe quickly told Aharon to take the Fire-pan and put fire on it from the Altar and to go quickly to the assembly and provide atonement for them For The Fury Had Gone Out From HaShem , For HaShem Had Sent the Malach Angel Kesef , Where It Was HaShem Who Had Brought a plague . Aharon obeyed and stood between the dead and the living and so , the plague was checked . This was something that Moshe had learned when he was up With HaShem on Har Sinai , from the Angel of Death . HaShem Then Commanded That Moshe tell the Children of Israel , that each Tribe take a staff , according to their Father's House , twelve staffs , each man inscribing on his staff , his name and also Aharon for the Tribe of Levi and lay them together in the Tent of Meeting before The Testimony , Where HaShem Meets With Moshe and the man That HaShem Will Choose , his staff will blossom , so as to cause the complaints to subside against HaShem and Moshe and Aharon , of the Children of Israel . And so did Moshe do and so did the leaders of the Tribes obey . Moshe specifically put Aharon's staff in the middle and not on the outside , so that none of the Tribes could later say , that because Aharon's staff was put on the outside , it must have touched the Holy Place and thus budded , so Moshe made sure that it was not on the edge of the staffs but in the middle , so they would not be able to make out it budded because it was on the edge near the Holy Place and thus did Moshe put it in the middle so that it could not have touched the Holy Place . And so it was done . On the next day , Moshe came to the Tent Of Meeting and so , Aharon's Staff of the House of Levi had blossomed , bringing out a blossom , sprouting a bud and " Shekeidim " - " Almonds " ripened . " Shaked " also means " hurry , " For HaShem Waited Not A Moment Longer To Ensure That His Will , be seen by all And When HaShem Chooses something and the time arrives for that thing to take place , no more waiting takes place And HaShem Fruitfully Hurries To Perform it . This will be like the time of Moshiach , for though he tarry and we await his coming , when he finally does come , it will come like a flood , in a hurry , with no more waiting . And so , HaShem Instructed Moshe to bring back the staff of Aharon before the Testimony as a safekeeping , as a sign to rebellious ones and so that their complaints should cease to HaShem , that they not die . How Beautifully Merciful ls HaShem . Moshe obeyed As HaShem Had Commanded . HaShem Then Talks of the duties of Aharon and the Kohanim and Mentions the 24 Gifts to the Kohanim and also the Tithes to the Levites and so ends the Parsha . We may think , after reading this Parsha , how terrible it was of Korach to make this division and Machlokes against the Leader Moshe and against HaShem . Yes , it was a terrible thing he did and so , he sits even till today in Gehinnom . A story was told of how one day , a very famous Rabbi was walking in the desert and he came across a hole in the desert and heard a man screaming the same words that Korach screamed as he was on his way into the opening , " Moshe Was Right , Moshe is the Leader , HaShem Was Commanding Moshe , I was Wrong . " The Rabbi asked who this voice was and from deep down in the pit , the Rabbi heard that this was the very Korach who had caused this division and was now in Gehinnom . The miracle was not just that the Earth Opened up and swallowed Korach and all that was his , but also , as I mentioned , that it closed up again , just as if it had never opened in the first place . HaShem Had Performed A Miracle . Not just that , but HaShem Had Also Brought the lower opening of Gehinnom , close up to the Surface of the Earth , so that when the Earth opened up , Gehinnom's opening would be right there . So yes , Korach does sit even today in Gehinnom and out of Mercy , will only come out when Moshiach Comes . But though we may view Korach as bad and doing terrible things , are any of us so different . Have we also at times , argued with our Holy Sages and With HaShem , as if to say and wrongly think that we think we know better , even though we never can . HaShem Is All Knowing . Are we so different . Aren't there many , who turn away from HaShem's Laws or lessen on them , Chas Ve Shalom . Aren't there many who think that they know better than HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and so , wrongly make up their own paths that will definitely not lead to where they want it to , because they should rather follow HaShem And His Holy Way Only , for Only His Way Is The Way To HaShem and Holiness . HaShem Wanted To Make A World That would be At One With Him . A World that would seek Only His Closeness . Sadly For Him , We have done the opposite . We make strife wherever we can . We all want to go our own way . We all wrongly think deep down that we know it all , which we certainly do not and we all think that we are the only ones who have the answer to Heaven . But no , we are not and we do not . We are just mere mortal human beings that do not even know our tomorrow . But HaShem Does . Yes , HaShem Knows All Things . HaShem Knows Everything there is to know and more . ' To Be At One With HaShem , ' we have to ' Be With HaShem As One . ' We cannot do our own thing or follow our own heart , no matter how we might think we are right . We are not . Only HaShem Is Right . In this Parsha , we also learn the difference between being grateful for all that HaShem Gives us and the position and station in life That HaShem Gives us for a very good reason and not coveting what others have , For HaShem Only Knows what station and position each person , in order to grow . We also learn in this Sedra the difference in life that a Holy wife can make , for in the case of Korach , his wife pushed him further toward destruction , unlike On's wife , that saved her husband from destruction . The true Jewish partner , is one that helps and assists their spouse toward greater humble holiness and toward closer humble closeness with HaShem . Let what happened to Korach and his followers teach us , that no matter how sure we may be that we have the answer and are right , that is only our own limited personal feelings and view on things . The Creation Is So Much Bigger And Deeper Than us . We know hardly anything . Our Pathway to HaShem is , like Moshe , to be Humble and Follow The Only True Truth And The Only True Path , The Only Path That Takes us To Shamayim Heaven And HaShem And That Is The Path Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I Wish Forever Eternally Most Beloved HaShem A Beautiful Sweet And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation a Blessed Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Shelach . Due to what transpired as told in this Parsha , we were not able to enter straight into Israel , but had to wonder ,in the Wilderness for forty years , for in this we learn of the negative report of the spies about HaShem's Gift to us of The Holy Land . The Haftorah for this Sedra is in Yehoshuah Joshua 2 : 1 - 24 and in this Haftorah , Joshua also sends two spies Pinchas and Kaleiv , to spy out Yericho Jericho , but these two spies do the correct thing in promoting HaShem and not Loshoning HaShem and His Gift , unlike ten of the twelve spies in the Sedra did . HaShem Starts the Parsha By Saying That HaShem Spoke to Moshe Saying , " Shelach Lecha Anashim Veyaturu , " - " Send forth men if you please to spy out . " Why Would HaShem Talk of sending men and then when they go and return , HaShem Punishes them and us . To answer this , let us have a closer look at the words . The word That HaShem Uses for " Spying , " is the word " Veyaturu , " when the usual word for ' Spy ' is ' Meragel . ' So what is HaShem Trying To Show us . Within the word " Veyaturu , " is the Hebrew word ' Yoter , ' which means ' More or Abundant . ' So What HaShem Was Actually Asking the spies , was to go and see for themselves and bring back word of the Land's Abundance , to show the people the Beautiful Land That HaShem Was Lovingly Giving them , but what they did was the exact opposite , for in saying that this was a land that devours it's inhabitants , they were directly lying and completely contradicting What HaShem Had Commanded Of them for the Land was Truly filled with abundance . No wonder HaShem Was So Angry , they went ar for the spies went around dishonestly telling all the people when they got back , that this was certainly not a Land of Abundance , but how it is a Land that devours its inhabitants . What an outright lie and slander of the Beautiful Blessing Of Abundance , That HaShem Was Giving them And us , that the spies chose to ignore and twist around . So how did this all take place with the Spies . It started when the men came to Moshe as the Children of Israel were nearing the border of Israel and asked Moshe to let them be sent to spy out the land . This was never HaShem's Wish or Idea . Nor was it Moshe's . The people , nearing Canaan , felt that when they go into the Land , they will need to work the Land and Fend for themselves , for throughout their journeys through the Wilderness , HaShem Took Care Of their every need And Surrounded them With The Clouds of Glory . They knew of the many nations in Canaan and thought that they would have to fight wars to gain possession of the Land . This was not true at the time , for had they entered into the Land at that very time , HaShem Would Have Miraculously Blessed them With It , but seeing that this sad happening with the Spies took place , the Land had to be fought for at the time of Joshua . So the people approached Moshe , saying that they needed to spy out the Land so they could plan ahead for the campaign . They persuaded Moshe to agree to send them for this reason , but Moshe was still reluctant and said that he needed to first speak with HaShem , to get permission for this for by right , we should have total faith in HaShem's Assurance of how good is this Land and That HaShem Would Take Care Of our enemies . So when Moshe approached HaShem , HaShem Did Not Want spies sent and Felt That this action and their wish , was a lack of faith in HaShem . This is one of the reasons why HaShem Says " Shelach Lecha , " - " Send for you , " not for Me . This action was never sanctioned By HaShem , Who Knew what the spies would do . But HaShem , when a person is set on a path of negativity , HaShem Allows their free choice to lead them down that path they choose . And so HaShem Let them go and do what they so wrongly chose to do , Knowing their motive . But In HaShem's Mercy , HaShem Said to choose , " Anashim " - " Men " of renown , leaders , men of stature and high position , so that they could have the wisdom enough to still try to do the correct and right thing and bring a good report but they had other ideas . A person , at any stage and point can still make their own choice . Moshe told them that they can go , hoping in his mind that they would see how good the Land is and what Blessings HaShem Was Giving them and so hopefully end up doing the right thing . Thus HaShem Said , " Shelach Lecha , " - " Send for you " not for Me , For I HaShem Know That The Land is Good , As HaShem So Many Times Tells us In His Torah . And so , Moshe sent a leader of each tribe , distinguished men of renown . Even in the names of the ones chosen as the spies , except for Joshua ( from the Tribe of Ephraim ) and Kaleiv ( from the Tribe of Yehudah ), are the essences of rebellion . In each of their names also was the hint of words that would positively bring about Obeying HaShem , so that they could fairly have chosen the Right , Good and Holy Path . But they sadly did not . " For the Tribe of Reuvein was Shammuah son of Zaccur , " where Shammuah is like the Hebrew word 'Shomeah ' which means ' to hear , ' and ' Zaccur ' has reference to ' rebellion , " For the Tribe of Simeon , Shaphat son of Hori , " has reference to ' Shofeit ' - ' A Judge ' and ' Har ' - ' Mountain , ' as if to say , he judges from high up and far away , to whatever suits his own needs , and not the closeness of the people . From the Tribe of Issachar , Yigal son of Yosef , " where the word ' Gal ' - ' Wave ' intimates that his nature was like a wave going back and forth with the tide , moving wherever it suits his own personal agenda . " For the Tribe of Binyamin , Palti son of Raphu , " has the word ' Pelah , ' which has reference to ' leveling ' and " Raphu " has within it ' Ropheah ' in reference to being in need of leveling and healing within him , thus showing he leveled or put down Miracles and was in need of Spiritual healing , being more physically minded then he ought to have been . " Raphu " like ' Refuah ' - ' Healing ' could also have meant that he could have brought Spiritual healing to the nation and " Palu " - ' leveling ' could have been leveling ones ego and being humble . From the Tribe of Zevulun , was Gaddiel son of Sodi , " where the word 'Gad ' refers to physical strength and ' Sod ' refers to being secretive , thus his character displayed secretiveness and trust in his own strength and not in HaShem's Strength . " For the Tribe of Manasseh , was " Gaddi son of Susi , " where again ' Gad ' represents strength and a ' Sus ' is a horse , that runs at the first sign of danger , leaving its rider to face the threat , making sure it saves itself and thus , his character was also a belief of strength in his own self and not in HaShem , where he unfaithfully bolts and leaves HaShem , and whatever he is put to face , to just save his own skin . " For the Tribe of Dan , Ammiel son of Gemalli , " where ' Ammi ' makes reference to being with his own group of people who have chosen the wrong behavior and ' Gamal ' refers to a ' Camel , ' that is very temperamental and not totally faithful to its owner rider , as he was unfaithful to HaShem in rebelling against HaShem with the other spies . " For the Tribe of Asher , Sethur son of Michael , " where ' Satur ' has reference to arguing and putting down something of belief , and ' Macher ' refers to one who goes in for physical increase , thus ignoring HaShem . " For the Tribe of Naphtali , Nachbi son of Vophsi , " where ' Nach ' refers to resting and not acting , in this case for HaShem and ' Nachbi , ' ( Shimon Zilberman Dictionary Hebrew English ) , means ' hidden ' for so was he hidden and not straightforward with HaShem and the nation and ' Vav ' refers to a ' hook , ' pointed on which to hang physical things . " For the Tribe of Gad , " Geuel son of Machi , " where ' Galus , ' refers to being in exile , shunned by HaShem and ' Macah ' (Zilberman's Dictionary ) refers to ' hits and blows ' and physical actions against the holy way . Moshe had an idea that the Spies might try something negative and so , to the spy from Ephraim , Hoshea son of Nun , HaShem Through Moshe , added a letter Yud , a letter In HaShem's Name , so Hoshea became Yehoshuah , so as to give Joshua HaShem's Strength against the Spies . Moshe then sent them and gave them certain things to look out for , hoping that they would not look from their own biased opinion , but rather be fair and holy . When the twelve spies returned after forty days , ten of the Spies answered most of Moshe's questions with an ulterior motive from their own negative point of view , twisting everything that they saw to the bad . Moshe had them enter Canaan Israel through the South , the same direction that Avraham took when he entered the Land . The Spies entered , already planning to put down the Land wherever they could , but Yehoshua and Kaleiv defended HaShem and the Land . The Spies found that Iyov Job was made to pass away , so that the inhabitants of the Land would not have any Spiritual Kavod protecting them and they saw also how the inhabitants were sickly , Where HaShem Had Put on the inhabitants a sickness so that the Spies would go unnoticed and remain safe and unharmed , but the spies twisted this around with remarks of the land being uninhabitable and devouring its inhabitants . A total lie , for they could see the sweetness of the Land . On the way , they came to the region of Chevron , to the Cave of Machpeilah ,where Adam Ve Chava and our Fore-Fathers Avraham , Yitzchak and Yaakov and our Fore - Mothers Sarah , Rivkah and Leah were buried . Kaleiv chose to remain there for awhile so as to pray at this Holy Site , so as to beg for strength against the plot of the other Spies , for he thought that he needed extra protection against their negativity , for he was not given a previous Blessing of protection by Moshe , like Yehoshuah was before leaving to go Spy out the Land . As I mentioned , HaShem In His Mercy Still Tried To Mercifully Help the Spies , by bringing a sickness upon the inhabitants of the Land so that they would not be able to have the mind to take note of the Spies . Also , the holy man Iyov Job , whose holiness protected his surroundings , was made to pass away as I mentioned at that time , thus the inhabitants of the Land would lose the Kavod of his righteous protection . But the Spies had other ideas . As they journeyed near Chevron , they came upon the children of Anak ( the giant ) , who were Talmai , Sheshai and Achiman , where Anak was the son of Arba , from whose name that place also known as Kiriath Arba , came from , where Arba - Four in Hebrew , also referred to the Four Giants that lived there . The Spies became so afraid that they tried to pronounce HaShem's Name , but because of their negative motives , the Giants never ran away but chased them from there , telling them that their time to conquer the land had not yet come ( not realizing How HaShem Had Still Saved their lives . They took a bunch of Grapes from the Valley of Eshkol that was so massive and beautiful , that it took eight of the spies to carry it . One other spy took a fig and another a pomegranate ( Midrash Bamidbar Says - Rabbi M . Weissman ) . Yehoshuah and Kaleiv never carried these fruits as they knew the Spies ' negative intentions . The Twelve Spies returned after the forty days and went straight to Moshe and Aharon , without even respecting Moshe and Aharon's position . They started out telling of the Land positively , talking of the pools of milk and honey in it . And when they had the attention of the people , they turned deceitfully around and started to Loshon This Beautiful Gift of The Holy Land That HaShem Wanted To Give us and they played on the fear of the people , talking of Amalek and Giants , to put fear into the people's hearts to melt the hearts of the people . Kaleiv stood up against them reminding them of HaShem's Miracles in Mitzrayim Egypt and saying how we can conquer the inhabitants there . The Spies carried on talking and throwing the Gift Of HaShem , of the Land , back into His Face , by making such vile comments about how it is a land that " devours its inhabitants , " when in fact HaShem Had Only Protected the Spies during their sojourn while spying . They completely contradicted themselves by calling the people there " huge " which actually shows it is not a Land that devours its inhabitants . By now , the people were in a frenzy . They referred to the children of Anak , calling them Nephillim , who were the fallen ones in Noach's time , where there were only a small few left as family of Anak . They referred to the opinion of Anak for us as being , that " we were like grasshoppers in ' our ' eyes , and so were we in their eyes , " thus showing that it was from their ( the Spies ) own eyes and their own negative point of view , that the Spies saw themselves small , and not from the point of view of Anak at all . Joshuah and Kaleiv tried their best to stand up for HaShem and the Land and contradict the evil report of the Spies , even reminding the other Spies How HaShem Had Saved us At The Yam Suf , but to no avail , the people would not listen . The Spies ran from tent to tent , till all the people were in mass hysteria and cried all that night , for no reason at all , For HaShem Had Shown us His Almighty Love And Protection throughout , Fighting our battles For us , but the people that night cried out in vain , for no reason . That night was the night of the Ninth of Av , the night we cried out in vain for nothing and so , Did HaShem Say that we cried for no reason on that night , so from then on , HaShem Would Give us a reason to cry through the centuries on that night , which became the night of Tisha B'Av ( The Ninth of Av ) . It is on the date of this night that we Jews have suffered throughout the centuries , for our total loss of faith in and disobedience of HaShem and ourUngratefulness of His Goodness To us Throughout the years . It was on Tisha B' Av , that we lost both our Holy Temples . It was on this very date , that the Chmielnetsy massacres took place in the Ukraine about 400 years ago . It was on this date , that the Expulsion from Spain took place just over 500 years ago . It was on this night that the city of Betar fell to the Romans and our bodies were left lying on the ground , with no Roman permission to bury them . It was on this date that The Final Solution was promulgated , in the holocaust . It was on this night that so many calamities have happened to our Jewish people and still we cry and shed tears , for the effects of Tisha B'Av will continue till Moshiach's time . The Children of Israel murmured against Moshe and Aharon , calling for us to return to Egypt , calling for an appointment of a new leader to lead us back to Egypt . Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces in prayer to HaShem , in an attempt to try save the people . Joshua and Kaleiv tore their garments and tried their best to defend HaShem and His Land , but the people tried to pelt them with stones . The Glory Of HaShem Appeared In The Tent Of Meeting To all the Children of Israel , Asking Moshe how long we will provoke Him and not have faith in Him , after all the Signs HaShem Performed For us . HaShem Said He Would Destroy us and Make of Moshe and his descendants a more powerful nation then them . But faithful and humble and selfless Moshe still prayed for us to be saved . Moshe , having learned the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy at Har Sinai after the people had sinned with the Chait Ha Eigel , when HaShem Taught him these 13 principles of mercy to use whenever he needs to seek mercy for us , chose to pray with 8 of these 13 principles , to attain mercy for us , the other 5 principles he knew he could not use in this case due to the nature of the people's lack of faith and sin . Moshe continued to pray and beg for forgiveness for us And HaShem Forgave because of Moshe's words , But Commanded that none who left Egypt would see the Land then , except for Kaleiv and Yehoshuah and the women who did not sin in this sin and their children , they would see the Land of this generation , but not the others who had tested HaShem these ten times . The Ten Spies who had slandered the Land died in a Plague before HaShem . HaShem Commanded That we turn back toward the Wilderness and so , for every day that the spies spied out the Land , we would spend a year in the Wilderness and so , we spent 40 years between Egypt and finally entering into Canaan Israel . Also , it was decreed that every year at this time on Tisha B' Av then , the people between the ages mentioned would have to go out and dig their own graves and lie in them , where they would die . This carried on year after year , until the year before they came to the border of Canaan , where on that year that they went out to dig their graves and lie in them , they found that the next morning they were still alive . They did this every night for the next few nights , thinking that maybe they had gotten the date wrong and by the time of the 15th of Av when they saw that there was a full moon , they realized that they had not mistaken the date And That HaShem Had Lifted this particular decree and so they rejoiced and this day of Tuv B'Av - the 15th of Av , became a day of rejoicing . When the people heard all the Decrees Of HaShem , they mourned and some wanted to go up toward Canaan , against HaShem's Decree , realizing that they had sinned , but Moshe warned them that they must not go up for HaShem Will Not Be In their midst and the Amalekim and the K'na'anim would kill them , but they did not listen and so , when they tried to go up , the Amalekites and Canaanites struck them and killed them . The people started to think that they might sin again and that HaShem May never let them into the land , So HaShem Mercifully Gave them the Commandment of the Libation , that is performed in the Land of Israel , to let them know that they would perform this Commandment one day in Israel . HaShem Also Commanded about taking the portion of the Challah as Lehafrish Challah Al Ha Issah , that was a portion for HaShem , given to the Kohanim . Today , we burn that portion . HaShem Commanded about Atonement for unintentional idol worship , but for an intentional sinner of idol worship , they are to be cut off . A man was found gathering wood on The Shabbos and he was placed in custody and Moshe asked HaShem what was to be done to him . HaShem Commanded , that he be taken outside the Camp and be stoned to death . And so it was done . The name of this person is not mentioned here , so as not to embarrass him , for our Rabbis say , he did this action , as a show to what happens to people who break HaShem's Laws and Shabbos . Though we know his name , Rabbis say we are not to mention it , for he is known . HaShem Then Commands About Tzitzis Fringes that we males are to wear on a four-cornered garment . The Tzitzis are a reminder to us of the 613 Commandments in The Torah to the Jew . The word " Tzitzis " comes to 600 in Gematriah , and with the 5 knots and 8 strings on each corner , we get 613 , the number of Commandments to a Jew . The four corners represent the four directions of Creation , where we are to fill every corner of Creation with HaShem's Mitzvos And Light . The letters of HaShem's Name " Yud Key Vav Key " comes to 26 in Gematriah and 2 + 6 = 8 , thus the 8 strings on the Tzitzis are a sweet carrying of HaShem with us , as we wear it . The Tzitzis are a very holy garment , worn by the Jewish male And When HaShem Mentioned this Mitzvah , HaShem Also Commanded About the one blue Techeilis string as part of the 8 strings on each corner , which was taken from a water creature called the Chilazon so as to represent the colour of Shamayim Heaven . In today's times , that Creature is hidden from us , for we are now not worthy to have the colour of Shamayim near us , so we put a longer strand of white . We are to look at the Tzitzis and remember the Commandments Of HaShem and do Them , remembering all the Commandments Of HaShem and being Holy to HaShem . HaShem Says , " I Am HaShem your G-D , Who Has Removed you from the Land of Egypt to be a G-D unto you ; I Am HaShem your G-D . " So ends the Parsha . This Parsha of " Shelach " - " Send " is so filled with meaning , as every part of The Torah is . The whole idea of being sent , has a lot of connotations . We need to realize that we , of our own mind , sometimes speak for HaShem , even though HaShem Never Commanded such a thing . We are all servants of HaShem Who Gives us life and so , " Shelach " - " Sends " us out to make His Creation Holy and a Place For HaShem To Dwell With us . So when the " Shelach " - " Sending " is according to HaShem's Command And Wish , That " Sending , " that " Shelach , " is in accordance with Creation and It's Path to the End of Days and It's Intended Completion . But when we send ourselves out on our own wants , desires and wishes , we think incorrectly that we make ourselves feel better by making out that what we are doing is what HaShem Wants when it really is not , then we delude ourselves and hurt Creation at large , and we sadly wrong HaShem and His Beautiful Gift of Creation . HaShem Gives us all life , so that we can be His Messengers of Light and Holiness , For When HaShem Gives us Life , HaShem Is Actually " Shelach " - " Sending " us out on His Will . To defy that , Chas Ve Shalom , is to defy Life and It's very meaning , The Very Life That HaShem Gives us , and when we do not do as HaShem Commands us to do , it halts the Coming of The End Of Days Olam Habah . We are not here for selfish reasons . We are not here to fulfill meaningless physical desires of no long lasting value . We , you and me and all of us , are here as Messengers " Shelach " - " Sent " From HaShem , to Bring HaShem Into Everything That Is . Doing this , will also benefit us all , for a Spiritual Existence , is so much sweeter and more beautiful than anything physical can ever be . It is True and Eternal . It Is True Holiness . The word " Shelach Lecha " is 10 Gematrically ( 300+ 30 + 8 + 30 + 20 = 388 and 3 + 8 + 8 = 19 and 1 + 9 = 10 ) , the number of Completion , bringing all Creation to Completion , from the Time That Creation Was Created , to Completion , with HaShem's Ten Pronouncements That HaShem Used To Create Creation and that 10 of Completion , becomes 1+0 = 1 , where we are all at one , with HaShem , Who Is One . Such a Beautiful Existence , Is Truly " Shelach Lecha , " - " A Sending for you , " for us and our benefit . HaShem Does it all for us , you and me , not for Himself . Such a " Shelach , " is the step with Moshiach into that holy time into the End of Days , Olam Habah , the Time of 10 , of Completion , where we are At One With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , The Holy One Blessed Be He I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Deepest And Sweetest Eternal Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With All My Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews and Creation , a Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

The Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Beha'aloscha . The previous Sedra ended with the Tribal Leaders bringing their offerings and thereafter , Did HaShem Speak With Moshe From the top of the Cover that was on the Ark of the Testimony , from between the two K'ruvim . The only Tribe that had not been called upon Spiritually , to bring their offering , was the Tribe of Levi . Moshe's brother Aharon assumed , when he had not been called upon with his Tribe of Levi like the other Tribes bringing their offerings , That HaShem May Still Be Upset With him about the Chait Ha Aigel , the Golden Calf and so our Rabbonim teach us That HaShem Started out this Sedra With a Very Special Mitzvah For Aharon and the Tribe of Levi . HaShem Spoke To Moshe , Telling him to speak to his brother Aharon that " Beha'aloschah " - " That when he kindles " " the Lamps toward the face of the Menorah shall the seven lamps cast light . " This would not be like the once off offering that each of the Tribes gave , but that this Very Special Offering action of Aharon's would be a Continuing Mitzvah . The Menorah would have , among the Levites , a Very Special Connotation , for at a later date the descendants of Aharon , the Levites of the Chashmonaim , the Hasmoneans would on Chanukah , come and rededicate the Beautiful Holy Menorah . We all remember the Beautiful Miracle From HaShem , of the one cruze of pure Olive Oil that lasted much longer than it would have or could have , for the full Eight days . The Love And Mercy Of HaShem Is Endless . May we all always follow HaShem And His Torah Commandments and Obey Him Only . The Haftorah of this Portion is Zechariah 2 : 14 - 4 : 7 and just as with the Torah Portion , The Haftorah also speaks of the Beautiful Holy Menorah . Aharon , would every day , clean out the Menorah and re kindle it and as Ohr HaChaim puts it , it would be like building a new Menorah every day by his lighting . The face of the Menorah refers to the Central Stem where the other Lights would be directed toward . The Central Stem is like the one that represents our soul within us , that is Part Of HaShem's Love and is thus like The Face Of HaShem Looking Within and From Within us all . The Menorah had to be of one hammered out piece of gold , all one piece , just as we are to be at one with HaShem and always connected to HaShem and at one with our fellow Jews , United With HaShem , United and at One With HaShem's Holy Torah . In the Hebrew , before the word " P ' nei " - " Face of " are the words " El Mul , " which actually means " Opposite to " showing us that when we are standing opposite to HaShem , facing HaShem , standing in front of HaShem , HaShem Facing us , it means that our face , faces HaShem and so , we are standing toward HaShem . This is how we must always be , facing HaShem and never turning away from HaShem . All our actions must always be toward HaShem , for HaShem Is Always In Front Of us . The Menorah was so detailed That HaShem Showed what it looks like to Moshe , when Moshe was on the Mountain , for Moshe asked for an explanation of it and how it was to look so that Moshe could understand the Menorah's Holy detail . The picture of the Menorah does not appear among the Script of the Torah , only a comment that HaShem Had Shown it to Moshe . This shows us that there is more within the Torah that Moshe was told to write in words ,and was thus told via the Oral Torah - ' Torah She Be Al Peh , ' then what the written word ' Torah She Bichtav ' shows on the surface of the Words . So to learn The Holy Torah , we must study It in depth , word by word and letter by letter and all that are within and our Oral Torah explanations given originally By Moshe Rabbeinu From HaShem's Mouth To Moshe and from Moshe's mouth down the generations till today and beyond . So Moshe made the Menorah and all that it was to contain in and on it , out of one hammered out piece of Gold . Though HaShem Gives us His Light Of The Shechinah Within the Holy of Holies , HaShem , Wanting us to be at one with Him and His Light , Still Asks us to contribute to This Light , by us kindling our own light , for Light is like our Neshoma , our Soul within us and we are to raise this Light of our soul ,via Torah Observance and Obedience to HaShem and so , join as one with HaShem's Eternal Light . HaShem Then Asks Moshe to Purify and Consecrate the Levites into the Service . Aharon and Moshe was to wave them as a Wave Service before HaShem . This gives us an idea of how strong Moshe and Aharon was , for Moshe and Aharon had to lift and wave each Levite in one day and that means that they lifted and waved on their own , with HaShem's Help , 22 000 Levites in one day . How Sweet And Beautiful Are The Miracles Of Ever Beloved HaShem . HaShem Then Explains the age of and work of the Levites And HaShem Also Teaches About The Passover Offering and how we are to make the Pesach Offering . There were , at that time , some men who had been contaminated by a human corpse . Our Rabbis tell us that these were either the the men that were handling and carrying Yosef's coffin or they were men that had come across a corpse that they buried , for It Is A Mitzvah to bury an unattended corpse and so they were not pure enough to make the Pesach Offering on that day of the 14th of Nissan . Our Rabbonim teach us that it was in honour of them and their coming to ask how they can perform this Mitzvah out of eagerness to do the Mitzvah on their own volition , That HaShem Taught us Of Pesach Sheni , where a month later on the 14th of Iyar , they were to make this offering and eat it with matzos and bitter herbs . HaShem Gave Signs To the Children of Israel so that they would know when to journey and when to wait and encamp . When The Cloud Covered the Tent of The Tabernacle , then we would encamp and when the Cloud Lifted off of the Tent of the Tabernacle , then we would journey . Sometimes it might cover the Tent of The Tabernacle for only a day and then lift and so we would then start to journey again and sometimes it would rest on the Tent of The Tabernacle for a longer period , like for example when we were in Kadesh , it rested and so did we encamp there for 19 years . All Was Up To HaShem , For HaShem Alone Knew what was up ahead and how long we would need to wait at each station , for as we were traveling toward Canaan , so were other things going on in the area , so we relied on pure Faith in HaShem , on when to go and when to wait . If only we , today , could have the same Faith in HaShem Who Knows Best About our future and so we too need to trust HaShem every step of the way and let Him Guide us toward our destination and realize that should we be delayed , we need to trust in HaShem Knowing Best And Watching Over us in His Tender Loving Care , For HaShem Knows All . HaShem Instructs Moshe to make two silver trumpets which , according to different signals of tone , would tell the Children of Israel , certain commands of travel and readiness . If only today , we would put our full faith and trust In Ever - Loving And All Knowing HaShem . In this Sedra in Bamidbar 10 : 35 - 36 are two verses that have before and after them an inverted letter Nun . The reason for this is that these two verses of The Torah are considered in deep learning , a separate Book of the Torah , thus making in actual fact , Seven Holy Books of the Torah . Within the verses of The Torah , are breaks in the scripts and the letter Nun , being 50 in Gematriah shows , that these verses are 50 sections away from the section of the Carrying of the Ohel Mo'ed , where this section actually belongs ( in Bamidbar 2:17 ) , thus showing That HaShem Delayed this section in the Torah , by 50 Parshiyos . Also , the letter Nun , being 50 , shows that we would have straight away gone over the Jordan River ( which is 50 amos wide ) into Canaan at that time , had the incident of the spies , which comes up soon in Torah , not have taken place , where B'nei Yisrael actually sadly turned their backs on HaShem , shown by the inversion of the letter Nuns . ( Midrash Says - Bamidbar - Rabbi M Weissman ) . " The people , " as The Torah refers to them , are the Eirev Rav , the Mixed Multitude who wanted to come along with the Jews when we left Mitzrayim Egypt , which were the ones who took to complaining about the Manna That HaShem Beautifully Gave us and when the people desired Meat . They could not just shecht their own animals , for as our Rabbis tell us , at the time , meat from them could only be eaten when it became part of a Korban that permitted the eating of a portion of it , yet the people desired Meat , for they were not Spiritually Holy enough to appreciate the Spiritual Holiness of the Mannah That HaShem Sweetly Provided For us On A Bed Of His Loving Dew , ever day . The Mannah , was so called , because when it first came down for us , This Holy Food From Heaven , that gave off no waste part when eaten , but was completely absorbed in health by the body , the people at first did not know what it was and when they first saw it , some of them said , ' Man hu , ' - ' What is this , ' for many of them were not on a Spiritual Level high enough yet , to full appreciate It and they could not understand It's holy depths and so , did it get called " Mannah . " It could take on the taste of any food that a person thought of while eating It and some even prepared It in different ways , showing that they did not appreciate It's full Beautiful Spiritual taste , on It's own . The Holier among the Children of Israel , did not have to do anything to prepare It . They just ate the Mannah As It Was Given By HaShem and were able to taste Its Taste beyond the human Physical need and thus could taste It's taste in a Spiritual Physical way . The people complained about The Mannah and so Moshe complained to HaShem , why they had been put on him . HaShem Told Moshe to pick Seventy men ( like the 70 Sarim angels of the 70 nations ) and like the members of the Sanhedrin with another at their head as Moshe was at their head ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - R Weissman ) . When Moshe asked which to choose , he Was Told to take those that had taken the blows for our people in Egypt under the taskmasters , when they had decided not to put us in trouble when we were asked to go and make bricks without straw and so they were rewarded now , by having some of Moshe's Spirit be put on them to help him , yet like a candle that is not diminished by lighting other candles , so was Moshe's Spirituality not diminished by HaShem Increasing Moshe's Spirit , when Moshe gave some of his Spirituality to them even though HaShem Had Increased his spirit . HaShem Became Angry With the people , and this was one of the Ten Times that we tested HaShem in the Wilderness . Out of the people that were part of the 70 , two of them Eldad and Medad , were overly humble and so they remained in the camp . Because of their greater humility , HaShem Increased their prophecy beyond the other Elders and so they remained behind to prophesy in the Camp , Eldad prophesying Moshe's death and Eldad and Medad prophesying the war that Moshe would overcome with Sichon and Og , both also foreseeing the war at the End of Days with Gog and Magog ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - R . Weissman ) . Both Eldad and Medad outlived the other Elders . Moshe's son , as the youth mentioned in the Torah , Gershom felt for his Father and came and told his Father Moshe and Yehoshuah who was there , asked for their incarceration , thinking that they had wrongly prophesied in front of their Rebbe Moshe , something one Halachically does not do , but Moshe in all his humility , thought humbly less of himself , than others and more for his people and selflessly said that all Israel should be prophets like this , even if prophesying Moshe's death , just as long as we all follow HaShem Wholeheartedly. What a beautiful selfless soul is Moshe . HaShem Brought the Slav , the Quail and it descended on the camp and came so abundantly that the people got punished with it , till it was coming out of their teeth , and once consumed , extended their stomachs , like what happens to the unfaithful Sotah , for the people , in asking for meat and the vegetables they claimed to have gotten in Egypt , was certainly a lack of gratitude and faithfulness in HaShem . The place was called Kibrot Hattaavah - Place of the Lusters ( Rashi ) . After the 70 Elders were appointed , Miryam commented to Tzipporah , Moshe's wife , how Blessed their wives will be , but Tzipporah commented that it would be otherwise , for they would not come near their wives either , just as Moshe does not . Miryam , in the presence of Aharon and in the earshot of Moshe , commented how she and Aharon have not left their spouses , even though they too receive prophecy . Her intention was not a bad one , for she hoped to fix things for Tzipporah and she did speak in the earshot of Moshe ( Midrash Says - Bamidbar - R. Weissman ) . HaShem Summoned them , for Moshe had not responded So HaShem Responded For him . So should we trust in HaShem Handling things for us and never take the physical act of revenge on one of our own people , As The Holy Torah Commands . Moshe was left in the Tent of Meeting When HaShem Spoke To Aharon And Miryam Explaining To them That what Moshe does re Tzipporah , is totally correct For At Any Time Does HaShem Comes And Speaks To Moshe and so Moshe must always be ready and totally pure , unlike anyone else . Both Aharon and Miryam were both stricken with Leprosy but the Leprosy for Aharon lifted straight away for it was Miryam who first spoke out . Aharon begged Moshe to pray for Miryam's healing . Humble Moshe Begged HaShem To Heal her . Miryam was quarantined outside the Camp for seven days and the whole of K'lal Yisrael waited for her . The waiting for her by the whole nation was a reward for Miryam who waited and watched over Moshe for 15 minutes when he was small and put upon the Nile , before Basya drew him from the water . So Does HaShem Reward Abundantly , more than He Punishes , for ever good that we do for Him and others . Miryam , after she was healed , also had her skin cleared just like the skin of a youth , yet she was sickly for a lot of her life before , due to her overworking in Egypt as one of the women who saved the Jewish babies with her holy Ima Mom Yocheved , as the two Jewish mid-wives Shifrah and Puah , even though Miryam was at such a young age and so she had remained unmarried for so long until Kaleiv , who was much younger than her , saw her true Spiritual Beauty and after he married her , years later , her health was restored . Out of Miryam and Kaleiv , came their grandson Betzalel , who at 13 years of age , built the Mishkan . Out of such holiness comes holiness . May we remember this for our children and generations . So ends this Holy Parsha . The Path to HaShem's Light is through selfless Humility and total Faith In HaShem and in keeping HaShem's Holy Commandments and Mitzvos . Every Mitzvah that we do , goes straight up to Shamayim Heaven . Every Action that we do is accounted . Every time that we do a Mitzvah , we light up our soul brighter than before on it's journey as it yearns to join with HaShem . Every Moment That HaShem Gives us is an opportunity to lift and " Beha'aloscha " and " Kindle " the Flame of our Life Soul within us to Reach Closer to HaShem . If we all would do all that we are supposed to do By HaShem's Command , then we would all come together and bring Creation ( like the one hammered out piece of Gold of the Menorah ) , to the Oneness Of HaShem . The word that HaShem Chose for " Kindling " is " Beha'aloscha " where in Ivrit , " Kindling " is actually ' Lehadlik . ' So why Did HaShem Choose this word " Beha'aloscha ? " Within this word is the word ' Alei ' which means ' To go up / To reach High Holy and Spiritual Heights . ' This is what happens when we keep HaShem's Holy Torah Commandments , for then we lift ourselves up toward the heights and raise our levels of holiness and the Mitzvah of Lighting the Menorah is one of us giving ourselves over totally to HaShem's Holy Light And HaShem's Holy Torah Commandments and like the Wicks of the Menorah that ' Alei , ' - ' Rise upwards , ' so do we raise ourselves , pointing upwards ever journeying toward HaShem . As The Candle always burns upwards , so should we ensure that our every action is one that faces and carries us upward on high and make sure that every action and Mitzvah that we do is done ' Leshem Shamayim ' - ' for the sake of Heaven ' for HaShem and that every Mitzvah and action that we do carries us up closer towards HaShem . The Torah Is A Light and the Pathway to HaShem , just as a Candle's light , burns upwards , for with Torah , we travel up towards HaShem and join with HaShem's Light . The word " Beha'aloscha " is 527 in Gematriah and when we add 5+2+7 , we get a total of 14 ( 10 and 4 ) . The numbers 10 and 4 , come to the letters Yud and Dalet , which spells two words ' Yad ' and ' Dai . ' The word ' Yad ' Means ' Hand , ' and represents The Hand of HaShem . The word ' Dai ' means ' Enough ' and thus has reference to The End of Days when the Physical World will have reached its End , when it will have been ' Enough ' that was done , so that The End of Days can come When HaShem Carries us Up Toward Him With His Hand . Thus in " Beha'aloscha " - " Kindling " the Lamps , it is the pathway via HaShem's Eternal Light , to reach The End of Days when we can all rest Lovingly in The Hand Of HaShem . If we take the 1 and add it to the 4 , 1+4 = 5 . Avraham , who brought the Shechinah back to Earth , brought out The Light Of HaShem , in bringing people back to HaShem And HaShem's Oneness . How interesting it is that Avraham's name in Gematriah comes to 248 and 2+4+8 = 14 , where 1+4 = 5 , for Avraham was also a light to bring all back to HaShem . How interesting it is that out of the 613 Mitzvos in The Holy Torah , there are 248 Positive Mitzvos and 365 negative Mitzvos Commandments we Jews are to keep . Avraham was certainly a positive influence on all around him as he spent his life bringing people to HaShem The One And Only Creator . Also , the Fifth Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet , is the Letter ' Hei , ' and the ' Hei ' sound when saying this letter , Is Representative Of The Breath Of HaShem , Where HaShem Breathed Life Into All Of His Creation . So the very Lighting and " Beha'aloscha " - " Kindling , " of the Menorah , is like HaShem's Breath of Light That Shines Out His Light Of Wisdom to all of His Creation . This is also why the window frames of the Temple were different sizes within , then they were from without , For HaShem's Light Shines Out To Creation . We all must do as Avraham did and bring The Light Of HaShem , His Breath Of Light , like the Light of the Menorah , into everyone we meet , by working to bring HaShem into every corner and person in this World , teaching all those around us , about The Oneness Of HaShem and so , be like the Lamps on the Menorah that lean toward HaShem and become one with Him , just like one hammered out piece of gold , teaching us that we are to give of ourselves and the light of our Neshoma , toward HaShem's Creation , so that Creation can all be one With Our Beloved Creator , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Deepest Eternal And Forever Love , A Beautiful Special Sweet And Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Forever And Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful Blessed Special Holy Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parashah is Parashas Nasso . The Sedra starts by teaching us about Levi's Son Gershon's Tribal responsibilities and 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 who was also to follow the same laws of the Nazarites . 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 years of age 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 and Sholom Bayis Peace within the home and Peace between man and wife . Purity and Tznius and Modesty and Family Purity and Faithfulness between husband and wife is so important and faithfulness between couples is akin to faithfulness 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 also an offering when 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 this low and physical action of adultery , where animals don't indulge 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 it is put 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 herself and 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 punishment 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 . The twin 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 . 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 physical things within the Law for enjoyment that we consume , according to what is allowed ,By Law 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 non - lasting temporary 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 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 ( whose Gematriah is seven and the word Moshiach is seven Gematrically ) 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 are 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 also 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 general community 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 in the Sedra , 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 And 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 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 Shamayim . 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 Shamayim Heaven To us and also Allows HaShem's Beautiful Rays Of Light To Shine Upon us , Through HaShem's " Window " Of Shamayim . 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 Ever So Eternally Beloved HaShem With Immense And Beautiful Love , A Very Sweet And Most Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With So Very Much Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .