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In a strange and powerful passage in our chapter, Moses refers to himself as \u201c<\/span>omen<\/span><\/em>\u201d of the Israelites. <\/span>Omen\/ omenet<\/span><\/em> appears only a few times in Tanakh, and refers broadly to a caregiver, sometimes related to nursing (here and Naomi, Ruth 4:7) but not always (Mordecai, Esther 2:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is in yet another episode of the Israelites complaining about their living conditions in the desert, that Moses turns to God in frustration and says:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Did I myself conceive this entire people, or did I myself give birth to it, that you should say to me, carry it in your bosom, like an <\/span>omen<\/span><\/em> (variously translated: nursing father, nursing parent, nursemaid) carries a suckling child, to the soil about which you swore to their fathers? (Numbers 11:12)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhat else is a leader if not a \u2018nursing father\u2019?\u201d asks political scientist Aaron Wildavsky in his book <\/span>Nursing Father: Moses as Political Leader<\/span><\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026 The more power leaders seem to have, the more people depend on them. The feminine principle that \u2018beareth the suckling child\u2019 must also be an integral part of the male, if the children of Israel are not to perish as a people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, known as the Netziv, was a 19<\/span>th<\/span> century Lithuanian Rabbi and scholar. He comments that even if an infant hits his <\/span>omen\/omenet<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> or soils her clothing, she does not reject the child. The Israelites were like a new baby, immature in their development, needing much support, guidance, caring, protection, until they were ready to \u201cwean\u201d themselves from Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses\u2019s self-reference as <\/span>omen<\/span><\/em> for the young immature nation used the personal language of birth and nursing to describe his role as leader and caregiver of the nascent nation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The work of <\/span>omanim<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>omanot<\/span><\/em> begins in the family (biological and otherwise) and reaches beyond to the political or institutional arena.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Similarly, for each of us there are times when we have \u201comened\u201d a child, family member or institution.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our personal actions have ramifications beyond our expectations. When we are called upon to serve as <\/span>omanim<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>omanot<\/span><\/em> in whatever context, we are following in the footsteps of Moses, Naomi and Mordecai.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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After the high point of chapter 10, chapter 11 begins the more discouraging parts of Numbers. The people start complaining and Moses loses patience. Much of this chapter seems like repeats of earlier episodes in the Torah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1) Complaining. The people complain that they have no meat and they fondly remember the food in Egypt. This is a repeat of the complaint in Exodus 16 when the people complained to Moses about not having any food. There, God provided the people with the manna. Here he provides them with so much meat that the people overeat and die.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2) Moses complains that he has no help and God selects 70 elders to assist him.\u00a0 This is a repeat of the episode with Yitro. Moses did not complain about the burden, but Yitro could see that Moses was overworked and unable to handle the day-to-day functions of the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

3) Moses complains to God about not being able to find enough food and God responds: \u201cIs there a limit to God\u2019s power?\u201d (verse 24). This parallels Moses telling God that he cannot go to Pharaoh because he has a speech impediment. God responds: \u201cwho made a mouth for man, or who makes one mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the lord?\u201d (Exodus 4:11).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does this chapter have so many reruns? The Torah is trying to paint a stark contrast between the first time these incidents happened and now to emphasize the changes in character. Back in Exodus, the people had a basis to complain. They had just been released from bondage and were traveling in the wilderness for many days, with their resources running thin. God did not punish the people then, he simply provided them with miraculous food. In Numbers, the people are simply being ungrateful. Miraculous food is not enough for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the beginning of Yitro, Moses was just starting out leading the people and adjudicating the newly-given Torah. Perhaps he was truly able to handle it, but Yitro could see that Moses was taking on way too much. This time around Moses could see that he could no longer handle the complaints of the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Finally, when Moses first talked with God, he had reason to doubt himself in front of the most powerful ruler in the world. Moses had not fully seen the wonders of God. Now, Moses has witnessed the most awesome miracles. He should not have been doubting God\u2019s power. Instead, it is another example of Moses\u2019s exasperation of leading the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These two themes will dominate the latter part of the book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":106888,"alt":"","title":"-62e7cfa4be29e--62e7cfa4be2a0num11-film projector 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One of the most gut-wrenching speeches in Tanach occurs when the Israelites complain to Moses about their lack of meat in the desert. Moses pleads to God, \u201cDid I conceive this people, or give birth to it? Where shall I get meat to give to this entire people? I alone cannot carry this nation, for it\u2019s too heavy for me! And if this is how you deal with me, then kill me now (11:12-15).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses laid it all out. He cannot lead the Israelites anymore unless something fundamental changes. If that\u2019s not going to happen, then he\u2019d rather die than witness the outcome. It\u2019s not the first time that Moses expressed his lack of self-confidence to God. He did so at the burning bush when he was first tasked with leading the Israelites of Egypt. At that time, God spent some considerable time talking Moses down and helping him conceive of how he might be a successful leader. But this time it was different. It\u2019s more than just a lack of self-confidence that Moses was expressing \u2013 this speech drips with utter frustration and despair.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why was this moment, when the Israelites complained about a meat shortage, the tipping point for Moses? There had been plenty of complaints brought by the Israelites before this. And why was God so quick to provide a \u2018solution,\u2019 when previously He had carefully and methodically worked to raise Moses\u2019 confidence? Menachem Feldman suggests the following. Moses understood that the Israelites\u2019 complaint wasn\u2019t really about the meat, because they had plenty of cattle. For Moses, this complaint was a cover for their rejection of everything he was working for \u2013 a Jewish people loyal to God with a higher spiritual path as a free nation. Moses heard their complaint as a rejection of the responsibilities of both freedom and of having a relationship with God. Moreover, Moses internalized the complaint as a rejection of him as their leader.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God was quick to provide a solution, but it\u2019s an unexpected one. He doesn\u2019t facilitate any grand Moses-enacted miracles that would change the Israelites\u2019 minds. And He doesn\u2019t punish the people for their lack of trust in Moses. (Although, their lack of faith didn\u2019t go unnoticed: in an act of divine irony, God tells the people that he\u2019s going to give them so much meat it will make them sick.) Instead, God instructs Moses to appoint seventy trusted, well-respected leaders from the tribes who will work under Moses. This was the birth of the Sanhedrin, the supreme council that presided over the Jewish people for more than a millennium.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This was a watershed moment for the Israelites, a newly free people, facing a monumental task. To work as a united group and build themselves into a nation, in the land of Israel, following the guidelines set by God, required more than Moses alone could give them. It required a council of leaders, headed by Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As our chapter opens, the Israelites are becoming more and more cantankerous. An increasingly exhausted Moses is becoming more and more frustrated and overburdened with leading the ungrateful Israelite people on their extended sojourn in the Desert of Sinai. So, God instructs Moses \u201cAssemble to Me seventy men from the Elders of Israel\u2026they shall share the burden of the people with you, and you shall not bear it alone\u201d (Numbers 11:16-17). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Numbers Rabbah 15:20) raises an issue of biblical chronology: Were there no Elders in the past? Was it not already said in Egypt: \u201cGo and assemble the Elders of Israel\u2026\u201d (Exodus 3:16)? This apparent difficulty is resolved by the following expansion of the Biblical narrative: \u00a0A new Pharaoh arose over Egypt, \u201cwho knew not Joseph\u201d (Exodus 1:8), and dealt deceitfully with Israel (Exodus 1:10). He said to them: Please do me a favor. And then, to show them what he was so \u201cpolitely\u201d requesting, he himself began making bricks. The Israelites, eager to please, willingly followed suit. But, the same night, Pharaoh set Egyptian taskmasters who ruled over Israelite Overseers. And when the now enslaved Israelites failed to produce the required amount of bricks, without the previously supplied straw (Exodus 5:6-13), the Egyptian taskmasters would beat the Israelite overseers. As it says: \u201cAnd the overseers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: Why have you not fulfilled your appointed task in making bricks, both yesterday and today as before!?\u201d (Exodus 5:14). But, rather than letting their fellow Israelites be beaten by the Egyptian taskmasters, the Israelite overseers submitted themselves to being beaten, saying: Better we be beaten than that the rest of our people suffer punishment. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

S<\/span>o, when the Holy One, blessed be He, commanded Moses: \u201cAssemble to Me seventy men from the Elders of Israel\u201d (Numbers 11:16), Moses replied: My Master! I do not know who is worthy and who is not! God added: They are those \u201c\u2026whom you know to be the Elders of the people and its overseers\u201d (Numbers 11:16). Those same Elders and overseers who let themselves be beaten in place of the rest of the Israelites in Egypt, they shall now come and take up the great honor of establishing the assembly of seventy Elders, as God says to Moses: \u201c\u2026they shall share the burden of the people with you\u201d (Exodus 11:17). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This comes to teach that God regarded the seventy Elders as equal to Moses. Our Midrash ends by drawing a general conclusion -- that those who willingly accept suffering for the sake of Israel merit honor, greatness and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. \u00a0Indeed, to this day, those of our leaders who serve selflessly, and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the people, only they are the true successors to our ancient Elders.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201c\u2018Did I conceive all this people, did I bear them, that You should say to me, \u2018Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries an infant,\u2019 to the land that You have promised on oath to their fathers? Where am I to get meat to give to all this people, when they whine before me and say, \u2018Give us meat to eat!\u2019 I cannot carry all this people by myself, for it is too much for me. If You would deal thus with me, kill me rather, I beg You, and let me see no more of my wretchedness!\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Then the Lord said to Moses, \u2018Gather for Me seventy of Israel\u2019s elders of whom you have experience as elders and officers of the people, and bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them take their place there with you. I will come down and speak with you there, and I will draw upon the spirit that is on you and put it upon them; they shall share the burden of the people with you, and you shall not bear it alone\u2019\u201d (Num. 11:12-17).<\/p>\r\n

Oddly, after the Israelites complained about the lack of meat, Moses uses a metaphor involving milk to describe his leadership: a nursing mother. Moses understood something profound about the nature of his people\u2019s complaint. It had little to do with meat. It had to do with a desire for total dependence, the way that a baby relies entirely on the mother as a source of nourishment. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God who <\/span>could<\/span><\/i> provide meat was asked by Moses to refrain. \u201cBut Moses said, \u2018The people who are with me number six hundred thousand men; yet You say, \u2018I will give them enough meat to eat for a whole month.\u2019 Could enough flocks and herds be slaughtered to suffice them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered for them to suffice them?\u201d Rashi cites an interpretation from <\/span>Tosefta Sota <\/span><\/i>6:4 \u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt is impossible to take them at their word, since they are only seeking a pretext; You will never satisfy them, and they will contend with you no matter what. If you give them beef they will say that they asked for mutton; if you give them mutton they will say they asked for beef, for fish, for grasshoppers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses recognized that in a culture of complaint, requests mount, become increasingly unrealistic and ultimately unable to be fulfilled. This provoked his despair and his desire for a permanent exit strategy. 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Even though it is ultimately the sin of the Spies that decides their fate, the earlier sins, which are recorded immediately after Moses\u2019 ecstatic speech to Jethro, have the immediate effect of disrupting the three-day fantasy of instant arrival. There are two such narratives: they \u201ccomplain,\u201d or \u201cbewail themselves\u201d (Num. 11:1), and they are \u201cfilled with desire\u201d (11:4). From this point until the narrative of the Spies and the loss of the generation--that is, over ten weeks--the history of that catastrophe unfolds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The narrative of the Spies, I suggest, has its roots much earlier in the story. But beginnings are always elusive; they recede as we pursue them. It is possible to conceive of many histories, many beginnings and endings. We are pursuing the particular history that is framed within the \u00a0book of Numbers-a history that flares destructively with the narrative of the Spies but that neither begins nor ends there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This narrative begins with the sins recorded in our chapter. Complaint and desire speak here. Indeed, it is striking that these sins are exclusively sins of <\/span>speech<\/span><\/em>. Nothing actually happens. But their complaints are \u201cevil\u201d (<\/span>ra<\/span><\/em>) in the ears of God, and their desire is \u201cevil\u201d in the eyes of Moses, who then complains to God about the \u201cevil\u201d that He has done to Moses (Num. 11:11). The atmosphere is full of words, and tears, and cries. A sense of evil pervades.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people\u2019s actual complaint is not recorded; it is evoked by the word <\/span>mit\u2019onenim<\/span><\/em>, which suggests a posturing dissatisfaction, suffused with <\/span>ra<\/span><\/em>, a querulous, reflexive tonality that penetrates \u201cGod\u2019s ears.\u201d They are instantly punished.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps, suggests Ha\u2019amek Davar, because of their recent encounter with God, they are still trailing clouds of glory from Sinai; God\u2019s presence is still palpable, with its attendant hazards. In this heightened state, every word, every whisper of <\/span>ra<\/span><\/em>, is instantly registered and exacts its immediate retribution.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this reading, Ha\u2019amek Davar is pursuing a theme that he sees as pervasive in the book of Numbers. The intensified presence of God after Sinai makes demands that expose the people to the hazards of intimacy with the sacred. A world visited by Revelation creates a combustible atmosphere for human complexity. And indeed, fire breaks out, and subsides only after Moses prays.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Complaining And Desiring","tile_main_caption":"The intensified presence of God after Sinai makes demands that expose the people to the hazards of intimacy with the sacred","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"11","chapter_main_number":"128","date":"20260224","wall_id":"128"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"400","name":"Sin","old_id":"800"},{"term_id":"547","name":"Punishment","old_id":"947"},{"term_id":"803","name":"Complaint","old_id":"1203"}]},{"order":8,"id":"47001","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Moses and A Mother\u2019s Love ","post_title":"Moses And A Mother\u2019s Love","slug":"moses-and-a-mothers-love","old_id":"47001","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34285,"post_title":"Tammy Jacobowitz","slug":"tammy-jacobowitz","old_id":"34285","first_name":"Tammy ","last_name":"Jacobowitz ","description":"Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz is the chair of the Tanakh department at the SAR High School in Riverdale, NY, and is the founding director of Makom Ba'Siach at SAR, an immersive adult education program for parents. She has taught Bible for the Wexner Heritage program, and she is also an adjunct faculty member of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, where she teaches the Pedagogy of Tanakh. \r\nShe received her BA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of the Drisha Institute's Scholars Circle, and completed her PhD in Midrash at the University of Pennsylania in 2010 as a Wexner Graduate fellow. Dr. Jacobowitz is currently at work on a parsha book, geared towards parents reading to young children. Her research interests include the spiritualizing tactics of Midrash, gender and the body in the Bible and Rabbinics, purity and impurity, and the contemporary use of Midrash. She lives in Teaneck, NJ with her husband, Ronnie Perelis, and their four children.","short_description":"Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz is the chair of the Tanakh department at the SAR High School in Riverdale, NY,","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34286,"alt":"","title":"tammy j","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j.jpg","width":512,"height":768,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j-200x300.jpg","medium-width":200,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j.jpg","medium_large-width":512,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j.jpg","large-width":512,"large-height":768,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j.jpg","1536x1536-width":512,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j.jpg","2048x2048-width":512,"2048x2048-height":768,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j.jpg","post_full_size-width":512,"post_full_size-height":768,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tammy-j-280x420.jpg","home_baner-width":280,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"128","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Moses, the strung-out parent, skirts despair, but God knows how to nurse him back","post_main_content_content":"

And just like that, we have moved from the glorious period of preparation to persistent, limitless complaining. The early chapters of Numbers which chart the orderly, regal march of souls ready to enter the promised land quickly fall into a quagmire of complaints, crying and longing for the Egyptian past. The assault experienced by the reader -- what happened? why now? -- is paralleled by Moses\u2019 anguish. God is angry, and Moses is deeply distressed, and he turns to Him with a tumult of accusatory, embittered words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And Moses said to the LORD, \u201cWhy have You dealt ill with Your servant, and why have I not enjoyed Your favor, that You have laid the burden of all this people upon me?..\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people weigh him down, crushing his spirit. Moses experiences the people\u2019s unhappiness on a personal level; even more, he assumes that their complaining reflects God\u2019s direct rejection of him. After all, he speaks to the people for God, and to God for the people. Strung out from the demands of leading and mediating, he feels an absence of love from both ends: the people and God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is hard to say what exactly moves Moses to cry out to God, \u2018I can\u2019t do this anymore!\u2019 Is it the unvocalized murmurings? Crying at their tents? Or is it their request for meat in the middle of the desert? Perhaps the piling up of discontent - despite all his care and attentiveness to them-- pushes him to despair.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Consider his metaphor. As he says to God -- am I their mother? Did I carry them, or birth them, that I should feel prepared, somehow, to provide for them no matter what comes?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mothers who carry babies in the womb (<\/span>rechem<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> are expected to extend mercy (<\/span>rachamim<\/span><\/em>), care, sustenance to their babies -- even in a world without resources. Motherhood so defined is an exercise in radical giving, even erasure of the self, in both literal and metaphoric senses. A tenuous arrangement, but held together.. until the complaining starts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For children, articulated complaints represent their burgeoning self-actualization, a healthy sense of separation from their parent. But for the parent, the experience can cut sharply into the effort of caregiving and evoke despair or a sense of futility. How could they fixate on what I did not provide, against the landscape of so much giving? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In response, God embraces Moses, the strung-out parent, back into the love narrative: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do it all alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":67903,"alt":"","title":"is49-comfort","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Moses And A Mother\u2019s Love","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Moses, the strung-out parent, skirts despair, but God knows how to nurse him back","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":67903,"alt":"","title":"is49-comfort","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is49-comfort-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"11","chapter_main_number":"128","date":"20260224","wall_id":"128"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"384","name":"God","old_id":"784"},{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"428","name":"Parent","old_id":"828"},{"term_id":"607","name":"Comfort","old_id":"1007"}]},{"order":9,"id":"47008","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Chapter of Thirst, Hunger and Complaints ","post_title":"A Chapter Of Thirst, Hunger And Complaints","slug":"a-chapter-of-thirst-hunger-and-complaints","old_id":"47008","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":47016,"post_title":"Ilana Blumberg","slug":"ilana-blumberg","old_id":"47016","first_name":"Ilana ","last_name":"Blumberg ","description":"Ilana Blumberg is a prize-winning author and teacher. 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This is a chapter of pain that cannot, at the moment, be contained. The people are unhappy, complaining, and their unhappiness reaches God\u2019s ears. Then God becomes angry and the anger bursts into flame which eats at the edges of the camp. The people call out to Moses, who prays to God, and the fire subsides.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But just as in a family or a community or even in an individual\u2019s life, when things are not well -- one \u201cfire\u201d is put out and even as you are still breathing a sigh of relief, another \u201cfire\u201d has erupted -- here, too, the subsided flame does not bring real relief. It doesn\u2019t mean well-being, or peace, or a realigned balance. It\u2019s only a respite until the trouble resumes, in another round or another direction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fire\u2019s ashes are still hot, so to speak, when the people of Israel beg for meat. They cry out for the foods of \u201chome,\u201d ironically Egypt, and they declare that their \u201csoul is dry.\u201d Thirst and hunger have taken them over. All of us know the force of those primal needs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the intensity of this scene, Moses, too, is drawn into the trouble which previously he found himself able to mediate and to quiet. God\u2019s anger at Israel is renewed, and this whole scene is \u201cra'<\/em>\u201d in Moses\u2019 eyes: the complaint, God\u2019s anger, the intensity of demand upon him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cRa'<\/em>,\u201d \u05e8\u05e2, evil \u2013 the word repeats four times in the first fifteen verses of this chapter. We hear a related sound in the description of the \u201cburning\u201d of God\u2019s fire in response to evil \u2013ba\u2019ar<\/em> \u2013 \u05d1\u05e2\u05e8 \u2013 the root repeating three times. Even Moses\u2019 angry plea to God, \u201cdid I carry this people in <\/span>pregnancy<\/span><\/em> that they should cry to me now for meat?\u201d -- he-anochi hariti<\/em> \u2013 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0\u05e0\u05db\u05d9-- repeats the sound of \u05f4ra<\/em>,\u05f4 suggesting that it\u2019s been trouble from the very start.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If we dwell in this chapter for a moment before moving on to its resolution and to the long-term historical resolution of the journey through the desert, we are invited to recognize how difficult it is to sense \u201cra<\/em>\u201d at the heart of our relations. Primal needs, desires, emotions \u2013 the desire for meat, the desire for someone to feed us, for someone to take our children and raise them when what they ask seems too great or impossible, even the desire that Moses expresses, simply to die because the demands are too much \u2013 all these desires are our waystations in the desert, and God, Moses, and the people of Israel have been there before us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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It was the worst crisis in Moses\u2019 life. Incited by the \u2018mixed multitude\u2019, the Israelites complain about the food. It was an appalling show of ingratitude, but not the first time the Israelites had behaved this way. Moses\u2019 reaction takes us by surprise. For once, the hero of the Exodus experiences something recognizably like despair (Num. 11:14-15). It is an extraordinary outburst, and a puzzling one. Moses had faced and overcome such difficulties before. Each time, God had answered the people\u2019s requests. He had sent water from the rock, manna from heaven, and quails driven by the wind. Moses knew this. Why did this outburst of the people induce in him a complete breakdown? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Equally strange is God\u2019s reaction (11:16-17). How would the appointment of elders address the crisis Moses was undergoing? He did not need deputies to help him find meat. Either it would appear by a miracle or it would not appear at all. Nor did he need help in sharing the burdens of leadership. Already, on the advice of his father-in-law Jethro, he had created a leadership infrastructure: heads of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. How would a new appointment of 70 elders make a difference?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And why the emphasis in God\u2019s reply on spirit: \u2018I will take of the spirit that is on you and put the spirit on them\u2019? The elders did not need to become prophets to help Moses in carrying out the burdens of leadership. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet it worked. Reading the text closely, we see that from this moment onward, Moses\u2019 despair disappeared. Immediately afterward, it is as if a new Moses stands before us, untroubled by even the most serious challenges to his leadership from Eldad and Medad, and then <\/span>when <\/span>his own brother and sister<\/span><\/em>, Aaron and Miriam, complain about him. These two subsequent challenges were far more serious than the request of the people for meat, yet Moses meets them with confidence and equanimity. Something has taken place between him and God and he has been transformed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God gave him a unique gift. He let Moses see the influence he had on others. For a moment God took \u2018the spirit that is on you and put it on them\u2019 so that Moses could see the difference he made to one group, the 70 elders. Once he had seen that, he needed nothing more: not their help, nor their prophecy. All he needed was to see, if only for a moment, that 70 elders had internalized his spirit and made his message their own. That was enough to know that his life was not in vain. He had disciples. His vision was not confined to him. He had planted it in others. They would continue his work after his lifetime. Once Moses knew this, he could face any challenge with equanimity.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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\u201cTwo men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, had remained in the camp, yet the Spirit fell upon them. \u00a0They were among those recorded but had not gone out to the Tent, and they prophesied in the camp. A youth ran and told Moses, 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!'\u201d \u00a0(Numbers 11:26-27)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

an eagle
\r\nhovers
\r\nstationary
\r\nabove a cliff on a scorched summer morning;
\r\nsuspended
\r\nin the air, as if
\r\na huge magnet above,
\r\na huge magnet below,
\r\nkeep it in perfect perpetual balance; a photographed eagle, preserved
\r\nin a photographed desert sky would budge
\r\nno less,
\r\nno more;<\/p>\r\n

until<\/p>\r\n

its dark eye shifts a thousandth of an inch, focusing
\r\n<\/span>on a rabbit or mouse or even snake slithering unaware from rock to rock.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

suddenly
\r\nIt<\/p>\r\n

Strikes.<\/p>\r\n

the Word of God
\r\nhovers
\r\nbeyond our perception
\r\nlike a radio transmission broadcast from Somewhere, amidst the static
\r\ndesperately seeking a receiver to pick up its message;
\r\nundetected even by the soul\u2019s ear<\/p>\r\n

until<\/span><\/p>\r\n

the chosen one is focused: man or woman; farmer or kohen; child
\r\nhalf-asleep in his bed, totally unprepared,
\r\nor aged prophet meditating in devout readiness after years of anticipation;<\/p>\r\n

suddenly
\r\nIt<\/p>\r\n

Strikes.<\/p>\r\n

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\u201cManna and Torah\u201d <\/span><\/a>by Hal Rudin-Luria: Explore Jewish texts about manna. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cOn Mixed Multitudes, Riff Raffs, and Electric Cords: Exploring Collective Identity, Newcomers, and Redemption\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Jeremy Fineberg: On otherness and connectedness. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Numbers 11","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Click to get links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"11","chapter_main_number":"128","date":"20260224","wall_id":"128"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":16,"id":"106877","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 11 ","post_title":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 11","slug":"points-to-ponder-numbers-11","old_id":"106877","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"128","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Traumatic names.<\/em> The two desert waystations wherein the two very difficult stories take place, carry the names of the trauma and the punishment. Tabera: \u201cThat place was named Taberah (<\/span>from root b\u2018r, \u201cto burn\u201d<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> because a fire of the LORD had broken out (<\/span>ba\u2019arah<\/span><\/em>) against them\u201d (verse 3). And Kibroth-hattaavah: \u201cThat place was named Kibroth-hattaavah (<\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/i>the graves of craving<\/span><\/em>\u201d -<\/span><\/i>\u00a0or graves of craves!?<\/span>)<\/span><\/i> because the people who had the craving were buried there\u201d (verse 34).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The aroma of leeks.<\/em> What Egyptian delicacies did the riffraff yearn for? Check out verse 5.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. A minute on manna.<\/em> Verses 8-9 are for those who might be convinced that the Egyptian menu was preferable to \u201cbread from the heavens\u201d that was served up every morning. Even if the tastes that are described are not 100% clear, the general impression is one of a sweet, rich treat.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Bottomless pit.<\/em> Moses expresses his deep frustration with the insatiable hunger of the people: \u201cCould enough flocks and herds be slaughtered to suffice them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered for them to suffice them?\u201d (verse 22). God\u2019s response shows that there is a limit to appetite, and whoever doesn\u2019t set that limit for themselves, will end up badly.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The flesh and the spirit.<\/em> There is a tension in this chapter between the desires of the flesh and the nobility of the spirit. See Moses\u2019 desire: \u201cWould that all the LORD\u2019s people were prophets, that the LORD put His spirit upon them!\u201d\u201d (verse 29). <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Numbers 11","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"11","chapter_main_number":"128","date":"20260224","wall_id":"128"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/46860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}