Monday, July 5, 2010
Torah Portions Matot, Masei V
Matot, Mattot, Mattoth, or Matos (×ΕΎ×˜×•×ª — Hebrew for “tribes,” the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 42nd weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 30:2–32:42. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in July or early August.
Pinchas Vs. Girls Of Baal
This week’s Torah portion has so much slaughter and fornication that it would make a good videogame.
I’m normally a very strong man, but there’s just something about Midianite girls that puts the lead in my pencil.
I remember meeting this Christian woman at a party one Sunday night in 1994. We were in an acting group together. We had a nice talk. We hugged.
Even though she believed that a carpenter from Nazareth was God and Messiah, I invited her back to my place.
My place at the time was a 1979 Toyota stationwagon. I’d been living it out of it for a few months while I pursued my acting career. I figured a job would only hold me back from achieving my dreams.
We were standing beside my wagon and I was trying to hold her hand and she was pushing me away. So I invited her inside so that we could be on our own and not let secular morality impinge upon our feelings.
I had the back seat down and all my possessions piled up in cardboard boxes along the sides. In the middle was my comfy duve and two pillows.
Torah Portions Matot, Masei II
Moses
told the heads of the
Israelite tribes God’s commandsabout
vows. (
Numbers 30:2.) If a man made a vow to God, he was to carry out all that he promised. (
Numbers 30:3.) If a girl living in her father’s household made a vow to God or assumed an obligation, and her father learned of it and did not object, her vow would stand. (
Numbers 30:4–5.) But if her father objected on the day that he learned of it, her vow would not stand, and God would forgive her. (
Numbers 30:6.) If she
marriedwhile her vow was still in force, and her husband learned of it and did not object on the day that he found out, her vow would stand. (
Numbers 30:7–8.) But if her husband objected on the day that he learned of it, her vow would not stand, and God would forgive her. (
Numbers 30:9.) The vow of a widow or divorced woman was binding. (
Numbers 30:10.) If a married woman made a vow and her husband learned of it and did not object, then her vow would stand. (
Numbers 30:11–12.)
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