The Sages of the Mishnah and the Talmud do not clearly define the exact parameters of the melachah of knotting, the twenty-first of the thirty-nine forbidden forms of “labor” on Shabbos. The description of the Biblically prohibited knot, kesher shel k’yama, a permanent knot, is vague enough to allow for much dispute and debate among
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A. If Moses received the Torah at Mount Sinai seven weeks after the Jews left Egypt, how does the Torah describe events that took place long after that during the forty years that the Jews wandered in the wilderness? Q. This is a very good question and one which the Sages of the
By Rabbi Reuven Tradburks We begin a new era in the Torah: the Mitzvah era. In the first 86 verses of the Parsha, there are 51 mitzvot. The bulk of the Parsha is civil law mitzvot. The end of the Parsha resumes the narrative, describing the impending entry into the