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Parasha 036 B'Ha'alotcha “When you set up” The thirty-sixth weekly Torah
portion it constitutes
B’midbar - Numbers 8:1-12:16
Aaron is commanded to raise light in the
lamps of the menorah, and the tribe of Levi is initiated into the
service in the Sanctuary. A “Second Passover” is instituted in response
to the petition “Why should we be deprived?” by a group of Jews who were
unable to bring the Passover offering in its appointed time because they
were ritually impure. YEHOVAH instructs Moses on the procedures for
Israel’s journeys and encampments in the desert, and the people journey
in formation from Mount Sinai, where they had been camped for nearly a
year.
The people are dissatisfied with their
“bread from heaven” (the manna), and demand that Moses supply them with
meat. Moses appoints 70 elders, to whom he imparts of his spirit, to
assist him in the burden of governing the people. Miriam speaks
negatively of Moses, and is punished with leprosy; Moses prays for her
healing, and the entire community waits seven days for her recovery.
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