2007-01-18 22:25:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
For, when the Jews gave gold to build the golden calf they sold themselves out and made themselves vulnerable to destruction by the nations of the world. However, by contributing to the construction of the Mishkan they bought themselves back, and this is why it was so important that their giving was leshmi (for G-d's sake), and not for an ulterior purpose. It had to be a true giving.
2007-01-18 23:28:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We read in the Book of Numbers 14:42: "Go not up, because the Lord is not among you [beqirbekhem]". The Onkelos Targum uses the word "Shekhinah" to the Name of God as also in Numbers 14:14: "For they have heard that you Lord are among this people". This example is interesting because when, during the Divine Liturgy according to the Byzantine tradition the clergy kiss each other as a sign of Jesus, they say: "Christ is amidst us" and the answer is "He is and will be". The well-known Professor of Christian theology at the Hebrew University, the late David Flusser does not think that these words have really the same meaning as shown in Saint Matthew 18:20. He considers that Jesus could not have said the words "amidst them/ you", but that the only mention that the disciples are "gathered in My Name" includes the two Hebraic concepts expressed as "leShmi" [toward My Name, for the sake of My Name], which definitely implies to be gathered in the Name of God or His Messiah/Christ. These remarks are important since they show how the Shekhinah gathers in a similar way God the father, the Only-begotten Son[Israel according to Isaiah 4:22; the Messiah if considering the Christian theology] and all human beings which are given a breath of life. Thus, the Word of God creates mansions "amidst us" because he is present "within our heart", i.e. "in the core of the Church.
2007-01-18 22:37:55 · answer #2 · answered by maverick 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hebraic concepts expressed as "leShmi" [toward My Name, for the sake of My Name], which definitely implies to be gathered in the Name of God or His Messiah/Christ
2007-01-18 22:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by xwdguy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-18 22:31:34 · answer #4 · answered by misty blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋