Bamidbar: 3: 40
Hashem said to Moses, "Count every firstborn male of the children of Israel from one month of age and up, and take a census of their names.
|
|
Rashi on 3: 40
Count every firstborn male:
From one month of age and up. Once he has left the category of those who might be nefalim.
|
Bamidbar: 3: 45
"Take the Levites in place of every firstborn of the children of Israel, and the animals of the Levites in place of their animals, and the Levites shall be Mine, I am Hashem.
|
|
Rashi on 3: 45
And the animals of the Levites:
The animals of the Levites did not redeem the firstborn of the pure animals belonging to and Israelite, but only those which a merge first from the wombs of their donkeys. And one sheep of a Levite could exempt many of those first to emerge from a donkey, which belong to Israel. You can know that this is so, for, see now, Scripture counted those non-Levites in excess of the Levites among people, but it did not count those in excess among the animals.
|
Bamidbar: 3: 46
And as for those redeemed of the firstborn, the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who are in excess over the Levites,
|
|
Rashi on 3: 46
And for those redeemed of the firstborn, the two hundred and seventy-three:
And the firstborn who need to be redeemed among them. These are the two hundred seventy-three who are the excess among them, over and above the Levites, from them you shall take "five shekalim per head." Such was the price for the sale of Joseph, twenty pieces of silver, and he was the firstborn of Rachel.
|
Bamidbar: 3: 49
Moses took the money of the redemption from those who were in excess over those redeemed by the Levites,
|
|
Rashi on 3: 49
Who were in excess over those redeemed by the Levites:
Over those whom the Levites redeemed through their bodies.
|
Bamidbar: 3: 50
from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand, three hundred and sixty-five in the sacred shekels.
|
|
Rashi on 3: 50
One thousand, three hundred and sixty-five:
This is the total calculation of "five shekalim per head," for two hundred firstborn, a one thousand shekalim, for seventy firstborn, three hundred fifty shekalim, for three firstborn, fifty shekalim.
Moses said, "What should I do? A firstborn to whom I will say, 'Give five shekalim,' will say to me, 'I am among those redeemed by the Levites, so I do not have to give you five shekalim.' "What did Moses do? He brought twenty-two thousand tickets, and wrote upon them, " Levite," and he brought another two hundred seventy-three tickets, and wrote on them, "five shekalim." He mixed them up, and put them in a box. He said to the firstborn, " Come and draw your tickets according to the lottery."
|
Bamidbar: 4: 2
"Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, according to their families, according to their fathers' house,
|
|
Rashi on 4: 2
Take a census:
[literally, "raise the head"]. Count from among them, those who are fit for the work of carrying, and they are those from the age of thirty until fifty years of age. But one who is less than thirty, his strength has not become fully developed. From here they said, "A thirty year old for strength." And one who is more than the age of fifty, his strength diminishes from then on.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 4
"This is the work of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 4
The most Holy:
That which is most Holy of them all, the Ark, and the Table, and the Menorah, and the Altars, and the Partition, and the implements of sacrificial service.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 5
Aaron and his sons shall come, when the camp journeys, and a shall take down the partition of the Screen and cover the Ark of the Testimony with it.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 5
Aaron and his sons shall come:
They shall put each implement into the container stated explicitly for it, in this passage, and the Levites, the sons of Kohath, will need nothing but to carry.
Rashi on 4: 5
When the camp journeys:
When the clout moves away, they would no that they should journey.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 7
Upon the Table of the show-bread they shall spread a cloth of turquoise wool and place upon it its dishes, the spoons, the supports, and the covering to tubes, and constant bread shall remain on it.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 7
The dishes, the spoons, the tubes, and the supports:
I have already explained what these are in the passage which deals with the work of the Tabernacle.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 9
They shall take a cloth of turquoise wool and cover the Menorah of illumination, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its scoops, and all the vessels of its oil, with which they minister to it.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 9
Its tongs:
The type of tongs with which he pulls the wick to any side he wishes.
Rashi on 4: 9
Its scoops:
It was in the shape of a spoon, its bottom flat, and not rounded, it has no wall on its front, only on its sides. He scoops up the ashes of the lamps when he prepares them.
Rashi on 4: 9
Its lamps:
In French, luces, into which they put the oil, and the wicks.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 10
They shall place it and all its utensils into a cover of tachash-hide, and place it on the pole.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 10
into a cover of tachash-hide:
A type of packing bag.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 12
They shall take all the utensils of service with which they serve in the Sanctuary and place them on a cloth of turquoise wool, and cover them with a covering of tachash-hide, and place them on the Pole.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 12
All the utensils of service with which they serve in the Sanctuary:
Inside the Tabernacle, which is wholly, these are the implements of the incense, with which the Kohanim serve at the inner Altar.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 13
They shall clearly ash from the Altar and spread a cloth of purple wool over it,
|
|
Rashi on 4: 13
They shall clear the ash:
They shall take away the ash from upon it.
Rashi on 4: 13
And spread a cloth of purple wool over it:
And the fire that had descended from the Heavens would crouch beneath the cloth like a lion, at the time of the journeys, and it would not burn the cloth, because they would turn a large copper pot over it.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 14
they shall place upon it all the utensils with which they minister upon it, the fire-pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the Altar, and spread over it a covering of tachash-hide, and set its staves.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 14
Fire-pans:
They are called such [literally "diggers"] for with them, they would dig out coals, for the raising of the ashes. The fire-pan is made in the shape of a pan, which has only three walls, and at its front, it draws in the coals.
Rashi on 4: 14
Forks:
Copper hooks, with which they would strike the limbs that were on the Altar fire, in order to turn them over, so that they should be consumed, thoroughly and quickly.
Rashi on 4: 14
Shovels:
They are scrapers. They were made of copper, and with them they would sweep the ashes from on top of the Altar.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 15
"Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy and all the utensils of the holy when the camp journeys, and after that amthe sons of Kohath shall come to carry, so that they not touch the Sanctuary and die. These are the burdens of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 15
Covering the holy:
The Ark and the copper Altar.
Rashi on 4: 15
And all the utensils of the holy:
The Menorah, and the utensils of the sacrificial service.
Rashi on 4: 15
And die:
For if they would touch, they would be liable to the death penalty at the hands of Heaven.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 16
The charge of Elazar son of Aaron the Kohen is the oil of illumination, the incense spices, the meal-offering of the continual offering, and the anointment oil, the charge of the entire Tabernacle and everything in it, of the Sanctuary and its utensils."
|
|
Rashi on 4: 16
The charge of Elazar:
For he is appointed over them, to carry them, the oil of illumination, and the incense, and the anointment oil, and the continual meal-offering. It is put as a duty upon him, to issue orders, and to rouse those over whom he is appointed to carry out their tasks, and to offer at the time of their encampment.
Rashi on 4: 16
The charge of the entire Tabernacle:
And in addition, he was appointed over that which was to be carried by the sons of Kohath, to give orders to each man regarding his work, and regarding that which he had to carry. And this is what is meant by "the entire Tabernacle and everything in it," all those set forth above, in this passage. But that which was to be carried by the sons of Gershon and Merari, which are not of the highest degree of holiness, were carried out by the word of Ithamar, as it is written in Parashat Naso.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 18
"Do not cut off the tribe of the Kohathite families from among the Levites.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 18
Do not cut off:
Do not cause them to die.
|
Bamidbar: 4: 20
But they shall not comment looked as the holy is inserted, lest they die.
|
|
Rashi on 4: 20
But they shall not comment looked as the holy is inserted,:
Into its container, as explained above, in this passage, "And they shall spread such and such a cloth over it, and cover it with such and such a cover." It's "insertion" is its being covered.
|
|
Notes and Questions and Answers:
No Notes
|
