Parashat 36 Portion 108 B’Midbar/Numbers 12:1-16 Yesh 59:1-21 Yoh 1:1-18

Blessing of Torah.

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na -tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.” 

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed

 are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah.)

We now come to the last Aliyah of parashat “B’ha’alotcha” Miryam, Moshehs' sister, spoke negatively of Moshehs' decision to take a Cushite wife. YHVH was highly displeased by this talk against His servant, and Miryam was stricken with tzara'at ("leprosy") for one week.

    Num 12:1  Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman.

א  וַתְּדַבֵּר מִרְיָם וְאַהֲרֹן בְּמֹשֶׁה, עַל-אֹדוֹת הָאִשָּׁה הַכֻּשִׁית אֲשֶׁר לָקָח:  כִּי-אִשָּׁה כֻשִׁית, לָקָח.

1 And Miryam and Aharon spoke against the reasons(ahdot) which brought about  Moshe's taking a Cushite woman – because he (actually)  took a Cushite woman.

Note the feminine verb (tdaber) employed in the first of the passuk (verse) it implies that maybe Miryam instigated this rebellion against Mosheh and Aharon agreed to go along with it. The Hebrew word “ahdot” implies that they were discussing amongst themselves how Mosheh could have taken the liberty to actually have taken a Cushite woman as a companion and wife. Miryam and Aharon obviously reasoned amongst themselves that it was a gross error of judgment on Mosheh’s part because they also “heard” from YHVH, “Mosheh needed to consider the error of his ways.”

Num 12:2  And they said, “Has יהוה spoken only through Mosheh? Has He not also spoken through us?” And יהוה heard it.

This verse (2) lays the absolute foundation in this life and age as to whether or not we have heard from YHVH.

THE TEST IS THIS: IF WHAT WE HAVE HEARD DOES NOT AGREE WITH WHAT MOSHEH HAS HEARD AND SAID – IT DOES NOT COME FROM YHVH.

The fact is that YHVH nor His Son Yahshua will ever contradict what Mosheh said, because what Mosheh said he received from YHVH and what Yahshua said he received from YHVH.

Joh 12:49  “Because I spoke not from Myself, but the Father who sent Me has given Me a command,¹ what I should say and what I should speak. Footnote: ¹See 7:16.

Joh 12:50  “And I know that His command is everlasting life.¹ Therefore, whatever I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.” Footnote: ¹See Mt. 19:17

Joh 5:45  “Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Mosheh, in whom you have set your expectation.

Joh 5:46  “For if you believed Mosheh, you would have believed Me, since he wrote about Me.

Joh 5:47  “But if you do not believe his writings,¹ how shall you believe My words?” Footnote: ¹Lk. 9:33, Lk. 16:31, Mal. 4:4-5.

2Co 3:15  But to this day, when Mosheh is being read, a veil lies on their heart.

2Co 3:16  And when one turns to the Master, the veil is taken away.

2Co 3:17  Now יהוה is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of יהוה is, there is freedom.

Jas 1:25  But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom,¹ and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah. Footnote: ¹See 2:12.

Num 12:3  And the man Mosheh was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.

The English word “humble” comes from the Hebrew word “anah” and can also mean “depressed and afflicted.”

This carries a Messianic tone of suffering and laying down one’s life for others.

There is also an interesting variation of the spelling of the Hebrew word “anav”(from anah) is used in this passuk. This word can also be spelled with a “yud” (anaiv). The word contains a “yud” we can speculate that there is a humility that comes from YHVH’s Hand. There is also a humility that comes from man’s hand.

Num 12:4  And suddenly יהוה said to Mosheh, and Aharon, and Miryam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting!” So the three came out.

Num 12:5  And יהוה came down in the column of cloud and stood in the door of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miryam. And they both went forward.

Num 12:6  And He said, “Hear now My words: If your prophet is of יהוה, I make Myself known to him in a vision, and I speak to him in a dream.

Num 12:7  “Not so with My servant Mosheh, he is trustworthy in all My house.

Num 12:8  “I speak with him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not in riddles. And he sees the form of יהוה. So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Mosheh?”

Hebrew says “pe el pe” or mouth to mouth. This remains the evidence of whether or not we speak the truth. Are the words we speak from YHVH’s Mouth.

Mat 4:4  But He answering, said, “It has been written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of יהוה.’ ”¹ Footnote: ¹Dt. 8:3.

Num 12:9  And the displeasure of יהוה burned against them, and He left.

Num 12:10  And the cloud turned away from above the Tent, and look: Miryam was leprous, as white as snow! And Aharon turned toward Miryam, and look: a leper!  - “the sin of la shon ha ra”

Num 12:11  And Aharon said to Mosheh, “Oh, my master! Please do not hold against us the sin in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.

Num 12:12  “Please do not let her be as one dead when coming out of its mother’s womb, with our flesh half consumed!”

Num 12:13  And Mosheh cried out to יהוה, saying, “O Ěl, please heal her, please!”

Num 12:14  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and after that let her be readmitted.”


Ve’avee’ah yarok, yarak…spit he shall surely spit…

Num 12:15  And Miryam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miryam was readmitted.

Will YHVH spit in the face of a rebellious bride and place her into seclusion for seven years….?

Num 12:16  And afterward the people departed from Ḥatsĕroth, and they camped in the

Wilderness of Paran. (Paran is a place of caves)

Isa 24:3  the earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for יהוה has spoken this word.

Isa 24:4  The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people of the earth shall languish.

Isa 24:5  For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot¹, changed² the law, broken the everlasting covenant³. Footnotes: ¹Torot - plural of Torah, teaching. ²Jer. 23:36. ³This is the only reason, according to all Scriptures, why the earth shall be burned in the day of judgment – see also 13:9, 13:11, 26:21, 66:24, Mic. 5:15, Zeph. 1:2-18.

Isa 24:6  Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.

Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Blessed are you YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of truth, and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn)