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Jacob's greetings to his sons

The Book of Genesis concludes with a series of blessings and instructions from Jacob to his sons, the tribes of Israel. Torah commentators were faced with the question: What is the essence of these blessings? What is the overall message that our forefather Jacob sought to convey to us? Let us examine the content of the blessings: Reuben, as the firstborn, was entitled to be king. But he was rejected because he was “as turbulent as water,” meaning that his recklessness

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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,

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Reuven and the Well

Reuben Interpreted and explained by representatives of the tribes in a joint discussion Keren Kloos, Sima Levy, Yona Sne, Hila Cohen Rabinovich, Moran Pelled-Tavlovich, Alexandra Oxenoid, Daphna Turgeman Jacob’s blessing: “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the beginning of my power.”

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Typology of 12

About the typology of number 12 by Ilan Levy The number 12 symbolizes harmony and perfection, so it is generally accepted that a whole life is 120, as the age of Moses,1+2 represents the result of the connection, one male and the other feminine, the connection between them gives rise to a fresh and shared fruit of creation. In the Bible in Judaism 12 Bnei Yaakov 12 Tribes of Israel 12 precious stones