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Drinking Torah like Milk
The holiday of Shavuot makes its debut in this week’s parashah. One of Shavuot’s most distinctive customs is that we consume milk and eat other dairy foods.1 And though there is no explicit mention of any connection between Shavuot and milk in the Torah itself, R. Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, the Olelot Ephraim,2 finds a basis for this custom in the Torah’s description of Shavuot, by means of a rather inventive reading.3 The verse says,
במדבר כח:כו
וּבְיוֹם הַבִּכּוּרִים בְּהַקְרִיבְכֶם מִנְחָה חֲדָשָׁה לַה' בְּשָׁבֻעֹתֵיכֶם מִקְרָא קֹדֶשׁ יִהְיֶה לָכֶם כָּל מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ:
BeMidbar
On the day of the first fruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to God at your festival of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do the work of your labor.
The Olelot Ephraim points out that the first three letters of the phrase, חֲדָשָׁה לַה' בְּשָׁבֻעֹתֵיכֶם (new [grain] to God at your festival of weeks) spell out the word, חל"ב, milk.4
He goes on to explain that the custom to eat dairy is also grounded in the Rabbinic understanding of Shavuot as the anniversary of the giving of the Torah. He cites the rich tradition of Rabbinic literature which supports a comparison between the qualit
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September 28,
by Dr. Richard Booker
According to the Talmud (Jewish oral traditions put in writing), the destruction of the Temple did not come as a total surprise to the Jewish people. The Talmud records four ominous events that occurred approximately forty years before the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. These four events were a warning to the rabbis of the impending doom of the Temple. According to Jewish traditions, all four of the following signs came to pass as recorded in the Talmud (Yoma 39a, b). Here is what happened.
1. The Lot marked for the Lord did not come up in the right hand
In Leviticus 16, on the Day of Atonement, the High Priest was to present two goats before the LORD. He would then cast lots over the goats to determine which would be offered to the LORD and which would be led into the wilderness as the scapegoat. The goat on which the LORD’S lot fell was offered as a sin offering. (See Leviticus )
The religious leaders considered it a good omen if the lot marked “for the LORD” was drawn by the priest in his right hand. But according to traditional Jewish writings, for forty years prior to the destruction of the temple, the lot “for the LORD” appeared in his left hand. This bad omen caused great fear of impending doom.
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