Schelach Lecha
Schelach or Schelach Lecha ( Biblical Hebrew שְׁלַח-לְךָ 'Send!' ) is a section of the Torah and includes the text Numbers 13–15 (13 BHS ; 14 BHS ; 15 BHS ). It is read in the annual cycle of reading from the Torah on the 3rd or 4th Shabbat of the month of Siwan . The core theme is the mission of the scouts .
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Moses is commanded to select a scout from each tribe to scout the land of Canaan and prepare for an invasion. When they return after 40 days, the scouts bring abundant fruits from the land and report, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, that the strong warriors who live there, whom they describe as giants, can never be defeated.
The Israelites are disappointed and demand the return to Egypt. Caleb and Joshua ( Yehoshua ) try in vain to encourage the people and to strengthen their trust in God. By a decision of God , the entire generation of the Israelite people is condemned to die in the desert after 40 years of migration and that only their children can move into the country. The spies - with the exception of Joshua and Caleb - die of an epidemic.
When this decision was made public, the people saw their mistake and wanted - against the declared will of Moses - to attack immediately. However, this ends with a bloody defeat on the border of Canaan.
God commands Moses how the sacrifices should be carried out after the land has been taken. Then it is also reported how someone gathers wood on Shabbat and is punished with death by stoning.
The section ends by asking the Israelites to sew tassels on the tips of their clothes.
Haftara
The associated Haftara is Jos 2 BHS .
literature
- David Sander: SCHELACH LECHA . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 2 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 176 .
- Selig Bamberger (translator), Raschi's Pentateuch Commentary, Goldschmidt, Basel, fourth edition 2002, pp. 443–453
- Rabbi Dr. Salomon Almekias-Siegl ( ARK ): "That you see them and remember" - why the Zizite commandment stands for all 613 commandments (shop threads). In: Jüdische Allgemeine . Central Council of Jews in Germany , June 15, 2017, accessed on September 22, 2017 .
- Sidratext Bemidbar / Numbers 13–15.41. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
- Haftaratext Joshua 2. after the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
Web links
- Text of the Parasha in the translation of Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (1954): Bemidbar 13 , 14 , 15
- Text of the Haftara in the translation of Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (1954): Joshua 2
- Text of the Parascha in the translation by Buber-Rosenzweig (1929): Bemidbar 13 , 14 , 15
- Text of the Haftara in the translation by Buber-Rosenzweig (1929): Josua 2
- Rabbi Dr. Simon Bernfeld: Jewish translation by Schelach Lecha. In: talmud.de. talmud.de, May 6, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .
- Jweekly.com: Shelach Lecha: Opening up to a wider, less fearful view
- azamra.org: Shelach Lecha
- Elisa Klapheck : Schelach Lecha - fear is poison. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 13, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
- Elisa Klapheck : Schelach Lecha - What do you "think"? In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, June 23, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
- Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Schelach Lecha - "That you see them and remember". In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, June 15, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 147 (414 pp.).