JEWISH PARSHAH
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In this week's Torah portion we learn about the lighting of the menorah. The menorah had to have seven branches, and made from one piece of gold.
We then learn about how Moses appointed the levitis. All men between the ages of twenty and fifty would help the Kohanim with their holy jobs.
We also learn about how the Jews would travel unharmed. Wanna know how? Well let's take a peak! There was four clouds! Yes! You heard me right, (not left.) Clouds! One on the top, the bottom, right, left, frontwards and backwards! Though in this week's parsha we only learn about the cloud on the top, which would serve as a roof. This cloud would rest upon the Mishkan when G-d wanted them to stop and camp there.and would rise when G-d wanted them to travel.
Next we read about the manna. Manna was the food the Jews would eat in the dessert, wonder why they all liked it so much? Well, let's say you wanted to have an apple, but the only thing you have is manna. So all you needed to do was imagine you are eating the apple, then you put the manna in your mouth, and… it tasted like an apple! The manna would rain at night and would be collected in the morning. But now, after a year, the people complain that they are sick of eating the manna and want meat. So G-d toled Moses that the next morning there would be meat, and sure enough the next morning the Jews wake up to the sounds of quail, and the Jews have more than enough meat to eat.
At the end of this week's torah portion Moses sister Miriam says loshon Hara about Moshe and receives Tzarat. And for the next seven days the Jews would have to stay in the same place waiting for Miriam to be healed by G-d.
By Yisroel Stiefel