Friday, June 11, 2010

(17,25)1.Q&A What was Hashem commanding Moshe, it didn't work? Two pasukim later they're complaining again? They weren't fighting they were voicing a concern.
(17,13)1.Q Where was this exactly? Were the people dying in a neat wave, so that there was a point between the dead and the living?
(17,10)2.P Here they couldn't use the tefillah of (16,21), because it wasn't just one person.
(17,10)1.Q Why here are they told "hei'romu" - raise yourselves up, while earlier in (16,21) they are told "hi'bad'lu" - separate?
(17,9)1.Q Why not Aharon as well?
(17,8)1.Q This question could be asked all over the Torah but it occured to me here, so I shall ask it here: What does "Ohel Moed" mean? Classically, it's translated as "the tent of meeting" but "moed" really doesn't meet meeting, it means time or season? It could be that it is a reference to the idea that it is temporary, as opposed to the "Bais Olamim" the eternal house, i.e. the Bais Hamikdash. But if so why "moed", why not "arai" as we use in Succah a "diras arai", a temporary dwelling?
(17,6)1.Q What were they thinking? Didn't they learn anything from Korach and his following?
(16,34)1.Q Why were the people running to "the voice" - nasu li'kolam, shouldn't they have been running from the voice - nasu mikolam?
(16,32)1.Q&A Who are "them", that are first mentioned in the Pasuk? Dasan and Aviram.
(16,29-30)1.Q What if neither happened? What if they died an unnatural death but not through being swallowed, would Moshe be a messenger of Hashem or not?
(16,26)1.Q Where does it state explicitly any previous sins of Dasan and Aviram?
(16,25)1.Q Didn't Hashem just tell Moshe to seperate from them, why did Moshe go to them? Also if Moshe could go to them, doesn't by definition that mean he was away from them, so why did Hashem tell him to seperate from them?
(16,24)1.Q Is the term "mishkan" used anywhere else, not in reference to the "Ohel Moed"?

Parshas Korach

(16,22)1.Q Why is the title "Elokey Ha'ruchos" used here? What does "li'kol basar - to all flesh" mean?

Friday, June 4, 2010

(14,39)1.Q Why did Moshe and not Aharon tell this over to the Jews if they were both talked to by Hashem, in (14,26)?
(14,27)1.Q Why does it say "asher heima malinim a'lai" twice, isn't it redundant?
(14,26)1.Q Why talk to Moshe and Aharon?
(14,2)1.Q Why would it be better to die in the desert than to die trying to get into Israel?
(13,18)1.Q Why does Moshe tell them to see "he'chazak hu ha'rafeh" - is it strong or weak without using the syntax that he uses by the following 5, using the word "im"? Why not say like the Targum writes it: "ha'takif hu im chalash" - is it strong or is it weak?
(13,4-15)2.P It is interesting to note that the first spy listed is from shevet Reuven and the last is from Gad, neither of which actually inherited the land when they finally went in.

Parshas Shlach

(13,4-15)1.Q What is the order in which the Miraglim are listed here? It's not the classic orders of the way they camped or the way they were born?