The Jewish calendar gets a little tricky right now, but we'll just move along slow and steady and end up in the same place.
This is Deut 33:1-34:12
Let's start with this:
6. May Reuben live and not die, and may his people be counted in the number. 7. May this [also be] for Judah." And he [Moses] said, "O Lord, hearken to Judah's voice and bring him to his people; may his hands do battle for him, and may You be a help against his adversaries." 8. And of Levi he said: "Your Tummim and Urim belong to Your pious man, whom You tested at Massah and whom You tried at the waters of Meribah, 9. who said of his father and his mother, 'I do not see him'; neither did he recognize his brothers, nor did he know his children, for they observed Your word and kept Your covenant. 10. They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob, and Your Torah to Israel; they shall place incense before You, and burnt offerings upon Your altar. 11. May the Lord bless his army and favorably accept the work of his hands; strike the loins of those who rise up against him and his enemies, so that they will not recover."
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/TorahReading.asp?AID=36242
Some questions: Why say of Reuben that he live and not die? What kind of blessing is that? What are the Tummim and Urim? Who said of his father, "I do not see him?" May the Lord bless whose army and the work of whose hands? What does it mean to strike the loins? Is this literal or a metaphor for something else?
Dauer
This is Deut 33:1-34:12
Let's start with this:
6. May Reuben live and not die, and may his people be counted in the number. 7. May this [also be] for Judah." And he [Moses] said, "O Lord, hearken to Judah's voice and bring him to his people; may his hands do battle for him, and may You be a help against his adversaries." 8. And of Levi he said: "Your Tummim and Urim belong to Your pious man, whom You tested at Massah and whom You tried at the waters of Meribah, 9. who said of his father and his mother, 'I do not see him'; neither did he recognize his brothers, nor did he know his children, for they observed Your word and kept Your covenant. 10. They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob, and Your Torah to Israel; they shall place incense before You, and burnt offerings upon Your altar. 11. May the Lord bless his army and favorably accept the work of his hands; strike the loins of those who rise up against him and his enemies, so that they will not recover."
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/TorahReading.asp?AID=36242
Some questions: Why say of Reuben that he live and not die? What kind of blessing is that? What are the Tummim and Urim? Who said of his father, "I do not see him?" May the Lord bless whose army and the work of whose hands? What does it mean to strike the loins? Is this literal or a metaphor for something else?
Dauer