AI en Translation, Pages 126-150
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Peace to you wherever you are, peace and blessing and life
<del>⟦illegible⟧</del> shall come to you in peace and tranquility and quietness and security
Blessed are you to the Lord your God, the Guardian of Israel who neither slumbers nor sleeps
The Guardian of Israel shall guard you from all evil, He shall guard your soul
And peace ⟦and goodness⟧ and blessing and life and peace forever Amen
By your servant, the young and small and poor and young and humble
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Interpretation of 'And Jacob Sent'
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom
And he commanded them saying, Thus shall you say to my lord, to Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob,
With Laban I have sojourned and stayed until now; and I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants,
and I have sent to tell my lord, to find grace in your eyes. And the messengers returned to Jacob
saying, We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you and four hundred men
are with him. And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks
and the cattle and the camels into two camps. And he said, If Esau comes to the
one camp and strikes it, then the remaining camp will escape. And Jacob said, O God of
my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Return to your land and to your birthplace
and I will do good with you. I am unworthy of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have done
with Your servant; for with my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two
camps. Save me now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come
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and strike me, mother with children. And You said, I will surely do good with you and make
your seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. And he stayed there that night
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and he took from what came into his hand a gift for Esau his brother: two hundred she-goats and twenty
he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, thirty nursing camels with their colts,
forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and
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ten male donkeys. And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Pass on
before me and put a space between drove and drove. And he commanded the first saying,
When Esau my brother meets you and asks you saying, To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and whose
are these before you? Then you shall say, They belong to your servant, to Jacob; it is a gift sent to my lord,
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to Esau; and behold, he also is behind us. And he commanded also the second, also the third,
also all who followed the droves, saying, According to this word shall you speak
to Esau when you find him. And you shall say also, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.
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For he said, I will appease his face with the gift that goes before me, and afterward I will see
his face; perhaps he will accept my face. So the gift passed over before him, while he stayed that
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night in the camp. And he rose up that night and took his two wives and
his two female servants and his eleven children and crossed the ford of Jabbok.
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And there is still in the world also a second degree more
than it, and if a person is in the second and saw one
low low low except <del>from him</del> he said so, and if a person is in
so a second with a great degree, where is the evil for him
from it, and if he saw it from him in the world, then he is not hidden
more than it until he is ashamed before God and the rest of
the people from him, and in this likewise he sees, and if he stands upon
anything of this, then he is not ashamed before God and the rest of
the people, and if the speech is about something so he is ashamed
because he is in a degree of it, so it would not be so so
in a degree more than this so because he is ashamed
because he is ashamed before God, and if the world is in something
which he is ashamed of in a degree, and if it is that which he is ashamed of
lower than it, then he only says oh oh he is ashamed before God
and among the people, so this matter is likewise in the world
it will be lower than it in the world and the rest of the people, and if
it was in the world from him, then he is not ashamed before God
from him in the world, then he is not ashamed before God and in
in a degree from him in the world, then he is not ashamed before God
from God and in this
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And this is the blessing wherewith
Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death
And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth
from mount Paran, and He came from the ten thousands of holy ones; at His right hand was a fiery
law unto them. Yea, He loveth the peoples; all His holy ones are in Thy hand; and they
sat down at Thy feet, receiving of Thy words. Moses commanded us a law,
an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And there was a king in Jeshurun,
when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together. Let
Reuben live, and not die in that his men become few. And this
for Judah, and he said: Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people;
his hands shall contend for him, and Thou shalt be a help against his adversaries. —
And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, whom
Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; who said
of his father, and of his mother: I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren,
nor knew he his own children; for they have observed Thy word, and keep Thy covenant.
They shall teach Jacob Thine ordinances, and Israel Thy law;
they shall put incense before Thee, and whole burnt-offering upon Thine altar.
Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite through the loins
of them that rise up against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. Of Benjamin he said:
The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by Him; He covereth him all
the day long, and He dwelleth between his shoulders. And of Joseph he said: Blessed
of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth
beneath, and for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and for the precious things of the yield of the moons,
and for the tops of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
and for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, and the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush
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Parashat Resha
When a person dies in a tent, all who come into the tent and all who are
in the tent shall be unclean seven days. And every open vessel
which has no lid fastened on it is unclean.
And whoever touches one in the open field who has been slain by a sword or has died,
or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
And for the unclean they shall take some of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and put on it
running water into a vessel. And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water,
and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels,
and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched a bone,
or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle
on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and he shall purify him
on the seventh day, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be clean at evening.
But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off
from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD;
the water of sprinkling has not been thrown on him; he is unclean. And it shall be for them
as a perpetual statute. And he who sprinkles the water of sprinkling shall wash his clothes,
and he who touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening. And whatever
the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean
until evening.
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of blessed memory in the name of Rabbi Abraham of blessed memory son of Rabbi Joseph
of blessed memory that Rabbi Eliyahu of blessed memory would say -
on this verse from what I heard from my teachers
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Face to face the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the fire
The commandment of hearing, that one should hear from the mouth of the Lord without a mediator, and this is
⟦facing⟧ the general principle for all, and the meaning of face to face is because He spoke
directly and in His glory and not through an angel, and the meaning of 'out of the fire'
is because every word that came out of the mouth of the Holy One, Blessed be He, was divided into seventy languages
and every word would go out like a torch of fire and circle the entire camp of
Israel and ask each and every one: do you accept upon yourself etc.
and he would say yes, and He would say to him: such and such commandments are in it, such and such
punishments are in it etc. and all this was out of the fire
for every word that came out of the mouth of the Holy One, Blessed be He, was divided
etc. and so it says: Is not my word like fire, says the Lord
for from the mouth of the Almighty they heard them, and this is what the scripture says
Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness
and we heard His voice out of the fire etc. and this is what is written
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud
so that the people may hear when I speak with you, and also believe in you forever
and this is: For from heaven I have spoken with you etc. and this is
Face to face the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the fire
and it said ⟦and all the people saw⟧ the voices etc. and this is
For ask now of the days past etc. and this is
Has a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire etc.
and all this was at the standing at Mount Sinai etc. and this is
And it was that the sound of the Shofar grew louder and louder; Moses would speak
and God would answer him with a voice etc. and this is
And all the people saw the voices and the torches and the
sound of the Shofar and the mountain smoking, and the people saw and they trembled
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And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said: 'Rise up, O Lord, and let
Thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Thee flee before Thee.' And when it rested, he said: 'Return,
O Lord, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.' And the people were as murmurers,
speaking evil in the ears of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled; and the
fire of the Lord burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the Lord, and the fire
abated.