Yona Hacohen Sneh

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Jacob's greetings to his sons

The book of Genesis ends with a series of blessings of Jacob's instructions to his sons, the tribes of Israel. The Torah commentators were faced with the question: What is the essence of blessings? What is the overall message that our forefather Jacob sought to convey to us? Let's look a little at the content of the blessings: Reuben, as the firstborn, deserved to be king. But he was rejected because he was "carbonated as water," meaning that his recklessness might

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The Twelfth Number (twelfth)

The language of the Holy Ramak in his book The Orchard: 12 The tribes of Israel are a chariot to the twelfth of the upper forms which are in the spheres themselves by reality, when Nabar and to those who converted invisible upper forms, said here that they are tribes, and the language of tribes he interpreted in the Book of Clarification itself when Nabar and against these the upper forms

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Priests and Levites

(Based on Rabbi Sharkey's articles) There is a tribe in Israel, the tribe of Levi, which is divided into two groups: Priests and Levites. This tribe has a special status among the people. The most famous and important people belonged to this tribe in high percentages: Moses, Miriam the prophetess, Aaron Hacohen and Pinchas, Ali and Zadok, Joshua ben Yehotzedek, Ezra the scribe, Simon the Tzaddik, Mattityahu the Hasmonean and his sons,