Naso - 2nd Portion

Join me as we learn Chumash for Monday second Torah reading of parshas Nasso, chapter uh 41, verse 29. The name of Merari, as we continue into the families of the Levites, of what they were responsible to do in the dismantling and building of the holy Tabernacle, and who was in charge of each one of these shifts. family. Today we're learning about the Merari family. The name of Merari, the Merari family, to their families according to their fathers' homes, you will count them. At what age are you going to count them? From 30 years and up to 50 years, until 50 years, you will count whoever's eligible to work in the to serve to serve as a the work of the holy Tabernacle. And this is going to be their charge of their burden, but does them to all of their service while made in the Tent of Meeting. What they are going to be responsible for is the beams of the Mishkan, the planks of the Tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and the sockets. Verse 32, and the pillars surrounding the courtyard as well, and those sockets for those pillars, and its pegs, its stakes, and the ropes, all their items, for all their implementation. All the all the work that is needed, and you must designate by name the implement the implement the charges that are given for them, for what they will be carrying, and for what their burden may be. Verse 32, Rashi. What are these ropes and pegs for? What are these ropes and pegs for? Shall I say this being that we find that there were ropes already and pegs that were used that the Gershon family was carrying? So what are these ropes and pegs for? This was, as we mentioned, for the courtyard. There were ropes and pegs that were for the actual beams that helped them stand. And then there were ropes and pegs that were for the curtains of the courtyard. Because there were ropes and pegs that were helped the curtains from the bottom that they shouldn't go flying. Surely it's like be a maruach that the wind shouldn't make them go flying. We say they say some they say and their pegs and their ropes would themselves if they were for the pillars all around. There were two types of ropes and pegs. There were ropes and pegs that actually helped the curtains that they shouldn't go flying and therefore they kept them in the place. And then there were ropes and pegs for the courtyard that they were also there to be able to hold them in place as well. So, there were one that was from the Gershon family and one was the Merari family. The ones that had to do with the actual planks of the actual building of the Tabernacle. And then there were ones that had to do with the courtyard. Verse 31. Verse 33. This is the This is the job of the family Merari family for all the work that was done in the tent of meeting and their responsibility was a summer the son of Aaron was responsible for them. And now Moshe and the leaders of the congregation, the leaders of the people went and they counted as they counted the family according to their families and their others home families. From 30 years and up to 50 years whoever was eligible to be a troop to work while made in the tent of meeting. And what they count for the according to their families 2,750. 2750. 2,750 to the family of Kohath. Ehl-ahv koo-dee mish-pa-khot Kohath-ee. This is the family this is the count of the Kohath-ee family. Kol ha-oh-vehd ba-oh-hel mo-ed. Whoever was working in the tent of meeting ah-sher pah-kahd Moshe v'Aharon that Moshe and Aaron counted. And directed b'ahl pee Ah-shem directed by God. B'yad Moshe to Moshe. Verse 38. Uh koo-dee v'nay Gershon. And now the count of the family of Gershon uh l'mish-p'khotam l'veit ah-vo-tam for their families according to their father's home. Which is mee-behn sh'lo-shim shanah va-ma-alah from 30 years and up. Ahd behn kha-mee-shim shanah until 50 years. Kol ha-bo la-ah-vo-dah whoever is eligible to be in the troop. La-ah-vo-dah to work ba-oh-hel mo-ed in the holy tent. In the tent of meeting. Va-yee-p'k'doo o-tam l'mish-p'khotam l'veit ah-vo-tam and it was the count according to their families according to their father's house. Ahl-pine v'shesh me-ot sh'lo-shim 2,630. 41. Ehl-ahv koo-dee mish-p'khot v'nay Gershon. This is the count of the families of Gershon. Kol ha-oh-vehd ba-oh-hel mo-ed. Whoever worked in the tent of meeting. B'nay M'ra-ree to the family of M'ra-ree. L'mish-p'khotam according to their families. L'veit ah-vo-tam to their father's home. Verse 43. Uh koo-dee v'nay M'ra-ree uh verse 43. Mee-behn sh'lo-shim shanah va-ma-alah from 30 years and up. Ahd behn kha-mee-shim shanah until 50 years. Kol ha-bo la-ah-vo-dah whoever was eligible for a troop. La-ah-vo-dah to serve ba-oh-hel mo-ed in the tent of meeting. Va-yee-p'k'doo o-tam l'mish-p'khotam and it was their count according to their families. Sh'lo-shah ah-la-feem oo-ma-ta-yim 3,200. 45. Ehl-ahv koo-dee mish-p'khot v'nay M'ra-ree. This is the count of the family of M'ra-ree. Ah-sher pah-kahd Moshe v'Aharon that Moshe and Aaron counted. Ahl pee Ah-shem by the direction of God. B'yad Moshe through Moshe to Moshe. Verse 46. Kol ha-oh-vehd ah-sher pah-kahd Moshe v'Aharon oo-n'see-ay Yis-ra-el all the counts that Moshe and Aaron counted and the leaders of the tribes that counted et ha-L'vee-yim the Levites l'mish-p'khotam according to their families. L'veit ah-vo-tam according to their father's home. Verse 47. Mee-behn sh'lo-shim shanah va-ma-alah from 30 years and up. Ahd behn kha-mee-shim shanah until 50 years. Kol ha-bo la-ah-vo-dah ah-vei-dah whoever came to do a work of carrying, a service of the work of carrying. Vavoy das massa and a work of a serve to do a perform a service and the priest service, vavoy das massa and a carrying service. B'oil moyed in the tent of meeting. What this means, avoy das avoy das avoy das massa, Rashi explains what the two mean. Avoy das avoy das, there were two different kinds of services that the Levite did in the holy temple. What is considered a service which is a service? Here, shira, this is the singing as well as they used to sing with instruments, b'mitziltayim b'chinoydis, which is um symbols and harps. Mitziltayim is taking two pieces of copper which were symbols and they would bang them together. And the chinoydis is either a harp or string instrument. Avoy das lavoy das acheres, this was an avoy das, the reason why it's called avoy das avoy das because it was a service which was done for another service, meaning that while they were doing the service of the sacrifices, the Levites were the ones to sing along and play with the instruments while the other service was doing. So this was a service onto a service. Then there's avoy das massa. As work of carrying. K'moshma ya, literally they had to carry all the parts that were in the holy tabernacle. Verse 48, vayhi p'kudeihem, shmona esrei alafim v'chameish me'os v'shmonim, and their tally of all the Levites were 8,580. Verse 40 uh 49, al pi Hashem pakad es Moshe, according to by the direction of God, Moshe counted the Jewish people, ish ish al avodasoi, each person was appointed according to his service, al masoi, and to his burden, to his labor of what he had to shlep. U'fkudas and their count, asher tziva Hashem b'yad Moshe, that God told them to count according to what Moshe said, according to it was carried out through Moshe by the direction of God. U'fkudas avois es Moshe, asher tziva Hashem Moshe, Rashi says, ois na fkudim, those people that were part of the counting, hoyu b'mitzva, were also part of the commandment that God gave Moshe to count the people that they were from them eventually. From them there were people that were from 30 to 50. They were part of this count that Moshe did. This concludes the second Torah reading of Parshas Nasso.