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PARACHAT BECHALAH : 15 CHEVAT 5777/ 11 FEVRIER 2017
CHABBAT CHIRA DEBUT : 4 :56 PM / FIN 6 :02 PM
Ce Chabbat coincide avec le nouvel an des plantes : Tou Bichvat, qui signifie le 15ème jour du mois de Chevat. Nous ferons un petit Seder pendant le Kiddouch pour souligner cette petite fête.Venez célébrer avec nous .
Aussi, c’est le Chabbat Chira; Le chant -AZ YACHIR MOCHE- que Moché a composé et a chanté en traversant la mer .Les femmes ont aussi accompagné Miryam en chantant.
LA PARACHA EN BREF :
Peu après avoir laissé les Enfants d’Israël quitter l’Égypte, Pharaon les pourchasse pour les forcer à revenir et les Israélites se retrouvent pris au piège entre les armées égyptiennes et la mer. D.ieu ordonne à Moïse d’élever son bâton au-dessus des eaux. La mer s’ouvre pour laisser passer les Israélites et se referme sur les poursuivants égyptiens. Moïse et les Enfants d'Israël entonnent un cantique de louanges et de reconnaissance à D.ieu.
Dans le désert, le peuple souffre de soif et de faim et se plaint à plusieurs reprises auprès de Moïse et d’Aharon. D.ieu adoucit miraculeusement les eaux amères de Marah, et, plus tard, fait couler de l’eau d’un rocher en demandant à Moïse de le frapper avec son bâton. Il fait tomber de la manne chaque matin avant l’aube et des cailles apparaissent dans le camp hébreu chaque soir.
Il est commandé aux Enfants d’Israël de récolter une double portion de manne chaque vendredi, car celle-ci ne tombera pas le Chabbat, le jour de repos décrété par D.ieu. Certains désobéissent et partent récolter de la manne le septième jour, mais ne trouvent rien. Aharon préserve une petite quantité de manne dans une jarre, en témoignage pour les générations futures.
À Réfidim, les Enfants d’Israël sont attaqués par les Amalécites, qui sont vaincus par les prières de Moïse et une armée levée par Yéhochoua.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
ll references are to the verses and Rashi’s commentary, unless otherwise stated.
- What percentage of the Jewish People died during the plague of darkness?
13:18 - Eighty percent (four-fifths).
- Why did the oath that Yosef administered to his brothers apply to Moshe's generation?
13:19 - Yosef made his brothers swear that they would make their children swear.
- Why did the Egyptians want to pursue the Jewish People?
14:5 - To regain their wealth.
- Where did the Egyptians get animals to pull their chariots?
14:7 - From those Egyptians who feared the word of G-d and kept their animals inside during the plagues.
- What does it mean that the Jewish People "took hold of their fathers' craft" (tafsu umnut avotam )?
14:10 - They cried out to G-d.
- How did G-d cause the wheels of the Egyptian chariots to fall off?
14:25 - He melted them with fire.
- Why were the dead Egyptians cast out of the sea?
14:30 - So that the Jewish People would see the destruction of the Egyptians and be assured of no further pursuit.
- To what future time is the verse hinting when it uses the future tense of "Then Moshe and Bnei Yisrael will sing"?
15:1 - Resurrection of the dead during the time of mashiach .
- Why are the Egyptians compared to stone, lead, and straw?
15:5 - The wickedest ones floated like straw, dying slowly. The average ones suffered less, sinking like stone. Those still more righteous sunk like lead, dying immediately.
- The princes of Edom and Moav had nothing to fear from the Jewish People. Why, then, were they "confused and gripped with trembling"?
15:14 - They felt horrible seeing Israel in a state of glory.
- Moshe foretold that he would not enter the Land of Israel. Which word in the parsha indicates this?
15:17 - "T'vi-aimo ..." -- "Bring them" (and not "bring us").
- Why is Miriam referred to as "Aharon's sister" and not as "Moshe's sister"?
15:20 - Aharon put himself at risk for her when she was struck with tzara'at . (See Bamidbar 12:12 )
- The Jewish women trusted that G-d would grant the Jewish People a miraculous victory over the Egyptians. How do we see this?
15:20 - They brought musical instruments with them in preparation for the miraculous victory celebration.
- Which sections of the Torah did the Jewish People receive at Marah?
15:25 - Shabbat, Red Heifer, Judicial Laws.
- What lesson in derech eretz concerning the eating of meat is taught in this week's Parsha?
16:8 - One should not eat meat to the point of satiation.
- How did non-Jews experience the taste of the manna?
16:21 - The sun melted whatever manna remained in the fields. This flowed into streams from which animals drank. Whoever ate these animals tasted manna.
- The Prophet Yirmiyahu showed the Jewish People a jar of manna prepared in the time of Moshe. Why?
16:32 - The people claimed they couldn't study Torah because they were too busy earning a livelihood. Yirmiyahu showed them the manna saying: "If you study Torah, G-d will provide for you just as he provided for your ancestors in the desert."
- Which verse in this week's parsha alludes to the plague of blood?
17:5 - "And your staff with which you smote the river...."
- Why did Moshe's hands become heavy during the war against Amalek?
17:12 - Because he was remiss in his duty, since he, not Yehoshua, should have led the battle.
JEWISH QUOTES:
Never rebuke a man in such a way as to shame him in public." ~~ Rashi
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. " ~~ Anne Frank
Who respects the elderly is as if he respects the Lord." ~~ Alphabet of Ben Sira
Keep far from quarrel and you will escape sin! " ~~ Ben Sira
"Be grateful to your parents; had they not been tempted, you wouldn’t be here." ~~ Talmud,
A man of good sense guards his tongue and attends to his own affairs." ~~ Ibn Gabirol
A person must never open his mouth to Satan. [Guard your tongue!] " ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
A wife is as a protective wall to her husband." ~~ Menachem Recanati
Be careful to honor your wife, for blessing enters the house only because of the wife. " ~~ Talmud,
Charity knows neither race nor creed." ~~ Talmud,
Who never was sick cannot realize the value of health.
If a man sees trouble brewing, let him examine his own acts!" ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
LE SOURIRE DU CHABBAT
C’est un enfant qui a été frappé par la voisine. La mère, furieuse, va lui demander des explications :
– Pourquoi avez-vous frappé mon fils ?
– Parce qu’il est mal élevé : il m’a traité de grosse.
– Et vous croyez qu’en le frappant vous allez maigrir ?
C’est un couple qui va fêter ses 25 ans de mariage et l’épouse demande à son mari :
– Mon amour, que vas-tu m’offrir pour nos noces d’argent ?
Le mari répond :
– Un voyage en Chine.
La femme, très surprise par ce cadeau magnifique, lui demande :
– Mais mon amour, si pour nos 25 ans tu m’offres ça, que feras-tu pour nos 50 ans ??!!…
– J’irais te chercher.
Le rêve de toute femme est d’avoir trois hommes :
– Un de 20 ans pour le choc
– Un de 40 ans pour le chic
– Et un de 60 ans pour le chèque
CHABBAT CHALOM
David Hasson
