Nasso

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Nasso has the largest number of letters, words, and verses of any of the 54 weekly Torah portions and is normally read on the Shabbat following Shavuot.

Numbers 5:17  And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

מים קדשים (mayim kedoshim)

Numbers 6:23  “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: saying to them…’”

אמור להם (amor lahem)

ו = 6 (vav)

Numbers 6:24-26  

Adonai bless you and keep you;

Adonai make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;

Adonai lift His countenance upon you and give you peace.

‎יברכך יהוה וישׁמרך

‎יאר יהוה פניו אליך ויחנך

‎ישׂא יהוה פניו אליך וישׂם לך שׁלום

Numbers 6:27   “So shall they put My name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”

Numbers 6:24  Adonai bless you and keep you

יברכך (ye’varech’cha)

ירכבך (yar’kivecha) = “May He graft you”

Romans 1:7  To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be holy ones: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Master Yeshua the Messiah.

This greeting is used in each of Paul’s 13 letters.

שׁלום = “Shalom”

מושל = “Ruler”

Numbers 7:1  On the day when Moses had finished setting up the Tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils…

This is the third time this day is described.

Exodus 40:17-33         -Dedication of the structure

Leviticus 8-9                 -Dedication of the priests

Numbers 7                     -Dedication by the Israelites

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Torah portion Nasso (the longest portion in the Torah) is made up of 8,632 Hebrew letters, 2,264 Hebrew words, 176 verses, and 311 lines in a Torah Scroll.

 Exodus 38:8  He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Exodus 34:29-30  And it came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

Song of Solomon 3:7-8  Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel, all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night.

Exodus 40:17,34-35  In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the Tabernacle was erected…Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Adonai filled the Tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of Adonai filled the Tabernacle.