Blessing with Different “Dots”
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Shalom,
This Shabbat we will read the Torah portion “Ekev” – עקב from the book of Deuteronomy – D’varim.
In this Torah portion appears the following verse:
וְהֵסִיר יְהוָה מִמְּךָ, כָּל-חֹלִי; וְכָל-מַדְוֵי מִצְרַיִם הָרָעִים אֲשֶׁר יָדַעְתָּ, לֹא יְשִׂימָם בָּךְ, וּנְתָנָם, בְּכָל-שֹׂנְאֶיךָ
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. (Deut. 7:17).
Once a man came to Rabbi Yakov Ariyeh of Radzimin and told him about his many ailments.
He was crying and said that he could not afford to go see a doctor to be treated.
The rabbi contemplated for a moment and then said:
My blessing to you is:
וְהֵסִיר יְהוָה מִמְּךָ, כָּל-חֹלִי
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness…
But, please pay attention, this very same verse can be read with different vowels (NEKUDOT, ‘dots‘ in Hebrew)
וְהֵסִיר יְהוָה מִמָּךְ כָּל-חֹלִי *
And the LORD will take away from the poor man all sickness
* Explanation:
The original word in the verse is מִמְּךָ – MIMKHA
It means “from you”
The way the rabbi put it – מִמָּךְ – MIMAKH
It means “from the poor man”
Pay attention to the difference in the vowels (dots underneath the letters).
The word MIMAKH has the same consonant letters as the original word in the verse, but the vowels (dots) are different and the meaning is changed to
“from poor man”.
MI – מִ “from“, MAKH – MAKH – מָךְ – poor man.
מִמָּךְ – from poor man
And the rabbi added:
It is allowed to “change” a couple of dots (Nekudot- vowels) in the Torah for the sake of a poor man!
Let’s change a few of our own “internal dots” for the sake of blessing others and being blessed.
שבת שלום
Shabbat Shalom
Wishing you a wonderful Shabbat,
and speaking a lot of Hebrew!
Yoel & Orly
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