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PUTING THE SPOTLIGHT ON IMPORTANT JEWISH INFORMATION
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
RABBI WEIN ON PARSHAS NASO
The term that the Torah uses for counting the Levite family of Gershon is nasso – to raise and lift up. The word can also mean to carry and bear a burden. It can also mean to lead. When such words appear in the Torah with multiple, differing meanings – and Hebrew is replete with so many of them – the commentators remark that all of the possible meanings of that word are nuanced and meant to be part of the verse of the Torah itself.
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