Beha'alotcha

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Beha'alotcha ( Biblical Hebrew בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ 'When you put on' [the lamps]) refers to a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra ) of the Torah and comprises the text Numbers / Bemidbar 8–12 (8 EU ; 9 EU ; 10 EU ; 11 EU ; 12 EU ).

It is the cider of the 2nd or 3rd Shabbats in the month of Siwan .

Essential content

  • Instructing Aaron how to use the candlestick in the sanctuary.
  • Consecration and service of the Levites : They should serve between the ages of 25 and 50, after which they should only assist their brothers in lighter services.
  • Presentation of the Passover sacrifice / Passover scheini
  • The rising and falling of the cloud over the sanctuary as a sign of departure or storage
  • The trumpet signals
  • Moses prayers when setting out and setting down the Ark of the Covenant
  • Murmuring of the people, punishment by fire, desire for meat, longing for the pleasures in Egypt
  • Moses wishes death, determined by God's command 70 elders to support him
  • Flocks of quail provide meat in abundance, followed by great death
  • Aaron and Mirjam reprimand Moses for his Cushitic wife
  • Mirjam is punished with leprosy, later healed, but has to stay outside the camp for 7 days.

Haftara

The associated Haftara is Zechariah 2.14–4.7 (2.14–17 EU ; 3 EU ; 4.1–7 EU ).

Phrase

Since even Rashi was unable to provide a reasonable explanation for some particularly dark parts of this cider, it is said in Jewish vernacular of someone who uses artificial reasons to explain facts or to justify: "He turns like Rashi in Beha'alotcha."

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Individual evidence

  1. Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 144 (414 pp.).