The Parsha says the following,
Children of Israel”.(Exodus 30:12) The term sisah is also translated as taking, uplifting.
The Gematria of this term is 701. The word Shabbos has a Gematria of 702 . The words
share two letters save one. This teaches us how beloved we are to God as noted by Rashi.
In another interpretation, the term sisah sounds like seesaw, whose definition is the
following;
riding on each end, one end goes up as the other goes down. This teaches us that when
one keeps count of something, like a census, the numbers keep changing, sometimes up,
sometimes down. Same with the weather, it is like a seesaw, in the morning it is one
temperature, the afternoon another and it changes again in the evening. It is never the
same. That is how God created His universe. Following nature is never boring but
exciting and interesting. It always keep changing. In fact, this is what Rabbi David Miller
wrote in his book, “The Secret of Happiness”, back in 1930, where he said that the
Jewish religion closely follows nature. When we say Krias Shema (reading of the
Shema), we must say it when we arise and we go to sleep which represents morning and
night. Our prayers must be said within a certain time frame. Our holidays , which are also
mentioned in this Parsha, must be celebrated during a specific time of the year, harvest or
post harvest time. Moreover, the Sabbath, which is mentioned in this Parsha, is observed
on a weekly basis and Shabbos begins before sunset it and it ends after sunset. It lasts
approximately 25 hours. For many of us that are burdened with the yoke of work, people
look forward to the rest and peace that Sabbath ushers in.
When ever you find a name encoded in the Torah, the subject influences that person life.
In this
upkeep. It is interesting to note that we find encoded King Solomon in this section. The
Torah says the following,
the holy shekel, the shekel is twenty geirah” (Exodus 30:13). The encoded letters
(rearranged) spells the word
built the first temple.
In this week’s Parsha, God tells Moshe that no one can see Him and live (see Exodus
33:20). However, we with aid of the codes, we do feel the presence of God on the
Temple Mount. The next sentence says the following,
said, behold, there is a place with me.” ”(
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