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Post by hollygail on Jun 4, 2024 12:00:51 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by hollygail on Jun 4, 2024 12:01:17 GMT -5
Sorry. I'll be back in an hour or so with today's topic...
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Post by hollygail on Jun 4, 2024 15:31:32 GMT -5
Chapter 3 talks about a census (that God commands Moses to take) of the Levites, who will be responsible for taking care of the Tabernacle’s vessels. The age limit is all males from the age of one month and older. The Levites serve in the place of all Israelite firstborn sons, which is the original of the traditional ceremony of pidyon ha-ben (the redemption of the firstborn) when the child is thirty days old. The Torah then records the census of all the subclans of the Levites: Gershon, Kohat, and M’rari — along with the specific duties of those clans.
For a Levite, apparently one month old is “old enough.” Whereas the age for fighting was twenty, the age for Levitical duty — taking care of the Tabernacle — is only one month. What can a one-month-old child do to take care of the Tabernacle? Nothing. But this teaches us that Jewish education must begin when a child is very young. Our earliest memories and experiences help shape the kinds of people we will become.
Do you remember your early Jewish teachings? How young were you? Did you trust your teachers? What lessons did you learn that you still carry with you?
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Post by louise on Jun 4, 2024 18:21:57 GMT -5
I guess that would be Hebrew School. Mostly I remember being tested and driled in reading and vocabulary!
Not very grand I guess (though it helped me later in life).
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