Saturday, May 25, 2013

Be-ha'alotekha (Num. 8:1-12:16)


Waking The Dawn

            Be-ha’alotekha, this week’s parasha, includes the cleansing of the Levites and the Passover sacrifice. I wish to focus on the first 10 verses of chapter 10, which cover the silver trumpets. Two trumpets were to be made and used for summoning the community. Whether good times (festivals and new moon) or bad (war), their blasts called the Israelites to action. When we daven our daily prayers, it should be as though a military trumpet has called us to salute our L-rd. As it says in the Tehillim (Psalms), “Raise a shout for the L-rd, all the earth; worship the L-rd in gladness; come into his presence with shouts of joy (Ps. 100:1-2). 

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