Hello.
This week I have had the great opportunity to work with the esteemed Alexa Wender. We have been studying the sin offering and we were learning in depth about it. We talked about how the kohen brings a young bull and he puts his hand on it, then at one point he dips his fingers into the blood and sprinkles it onto the alter.
There's that number again! 7! I wonder why 7 is such an important number in Judaism. I was hoping you guys could tell me your thoughts or even bring me some answers! Here is your mission-
1. Name 4 or 5 other times that the number 7 appears in some Jewish concept.
2. Give me your thoughts about the number 7.
3. Is there any rabbi or someone who says why 7 was important?
Good luck!
1. a. 7 days of creation
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c. 7 days of passover and sukkot
d. 7 week between passover and shavuot (
e. for 7 days bnei israel went around yericho beofre conquering it.
3. According to Rabbi Maimon(influenced by the Maharal 7 symbolize the nature. Since the world was created in 7 days that number symbolizes the holyness in nature. Shabbat is the 7th day, and that is the kedusha.
8 is the kdusha over the nature, therefore brit milah is on the 8th day.
-There are seven species of Israel (wheat, barley, dates, pomegranate, grapes, olives, figs)
ReplyDelete- We dance 7 circles (hakafot) on the holiday of Simchat
Torah.
- God created 7 levels of heaven.
-Each Shabbat, 7 people are called to the Torah reading
(Aliyot).
-sheva (7) mitzvot bnei noach
There are 7 days in a week. G-d created the world and rested on the 7th day.Therefore, the concept of a week and its constitution of 7 days is one that is strictly God-invented and human-adopted. The world has
agreed to the concept of a week. And whenever a week is completed it should be another reminder to us that God created the world in 7 days. Yes, 6 days were required to make the physical structures, but the process was not complete until the spiritual aspect, Shabbat, was added. Not until the day of rest was complete, was the world complete. This is a great lesson for life. I believe Judaism is all about balancing the physical AND spiritual. We cannot forget that there is something greater above us, Hashem.