Leeks
The leeks and the onions
Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
The "leeks and the onions" in one way could be construed as a metaphor for the benefits of Egypt. The need for the benefits of the Pharaoh's free bread is what brought the people into the bondage of Egypt.
But the message of the Torah is hidden in the metaphors of the text. Like the symbols and allegory of the great epic poems they cry secret messages about our own mental and spiritual psychosis.[1] There a clues codified in the Hebrew letter themselves which may reveal not only the secrets of the words and surrounding verses but the secrets hidden in our own mind and souls. The cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlick goes much deeper than a hunger for produce.
במדבר Numbers 11:5 Hebrew OT: WLC (Consonants Only)
זכרנו את־הדגה אשר־נאכל במצרים חנם את הקשאים ואת האבטחים ואת־החציר ואת־הבצלים ואת־השומים׃
| Numbers 11:5 | ||||
| 2142 [e] | 853 [e] | 1710 [e] | 834 [e] | 398 [e] |
| zā-ḵar-nū | ’eṯ- | had-dā-ḡāh, | ’ă-šer- | nō-ḵal |
| זָכַ֙רְנוּ֙ | אֶת־ | הַדָּגָ֔ה | אֲשֶׁר־ | נֹאכַ֥ל |
| We remember | - | the fish | that | we did eat |
| Verb | Acc | Noun | Prt | Verb |
The word remember is used in the since of recall. The word fish is dagah from the Hebrew letters DaletGimelHey [2] but here we see HeyDaletGimelHey which appears no where else. DeletGimel by itself can mean fish.[3]There is also the word DaletGimelVavNun which is the Dagon [4] which is an ancient Assyro-Babylonian and Canaanite deity and the national god of the Philistines which has the fish head or hat and suppose to be a god of fertility and increase or even prosperity.
the same Hebrew letters we see translated fish are also translated "grow" in Genesis.[5]
And what does it mean freely eat? Does it mean "We ate in Egypt free of charge?" How did the Egyptians give fish free of charge since they were not even giving them straw for free.[6]
Were they getting free fish or something free of charge?[7]
So what does “free of charge” mean?
Does it mean to be "Free from [the burden of] precepts."[8]
This free from precepts or principles is related to the idea that they were free "from sin".[9]
What could they do in Egypt that was not lawful to do under the Tablets of Moses?
In Egypt you could covet the benefits of Pharaoh even though he put heavy burdens on the people in order to provide those benefits.
This statement came about because they were tired of manna.
They supposedly wanted to eat meat. But they had meat because they had their flocks but they did not want to have to kill and eat their own cattle. They wanted to maintain the flocks and riches that they represented.
So eventually what was the solution for this dilemma?
While there was a conversation leading up to the solution Moses was finally told in Numbers 11:16 "And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. Numbers 11:17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which [is] upon thee, and will put [it] upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear [it] not thyself alone."
This is actually what took place again at Pentecost when the apostles came into one accord with 120 names in the upper room and received the Holy Spirit.
Understanding the nature of the herd and flock is important in understanding the Kingdom of God and His righteouness. Each member has a life of their own but they are also a part of a whole. Individual survival means nothing unless the herd survives a unite because each member of the flock or heard must care about the other members as much as themselves. Cattle and sheep are not bound by contracts but by the herd mindset.[10]
- "Researchers at Leeds University performed a group experiments where volunteers were told to randomly walk around a large hall without talking to each other. A select few were then given more detailed instructions on where to walk. The scientists discovered that people end up blindly following one or two instructed people who appear to know where they’re going. The results of this experiments showed that it only takes 5% of confident looking and instructed people to influence the direction of the 95% of people in the crowd and the 200 volunteers did this without even realizing it." "Sheep in human clothing - scientists reveal our flock mentality". University of Leeds Press Office. 14 February 2008.
| Numbers 11:5 | |||||
| 853 [e] | 2682 [e] | 853 [e] | 1211 [e] | 853 [e] | 7762 [e] |
| bə-miṣ-ra-yim | ḥin-nām; | ’êṯ | haq-qiš-šu-’îm, | wə-’êṯ | hā-’ă-ḇaṭ-ṭi-ḥîm, |
| בְּמִצְרַ֖יִם | חִנָּ֑ם | אֵ֣ת | הַקִּשֻּׁאִ֗ים | וְאֵת֙ | הָֽאֲבַטִּחִ֔ים |
| in Egypt | freely | - | the cucumbers | and | the melons |
| Noun | Adv | Acc | Noun | Acc | Noun |
The word we see as cucumber appears no where else in the Bible and is from an unused root word many hard.[11] The connection between cucumber and what is often called witchcraft or sorcery in Jewish and Talmudic literature[12] is uncanny. There seems to be a vast number of references to "gathering cucumbers by sorcery". What was the real connection?
What Moses meant for Israel and what Jewish traditions and interpretations became are evidently two different things. Jesus warned that if the pharisees knew Moses they would have known Him.[13] We have looked at the Sophistry of the ancient text and ponder her if this list of fruits and vegetables another clue in the Bible text and the truths it is trying to share with us?
Once you unmoor the metaphore from its meaning all sorts of stories and superstitions may arise. We saw that with the legend of the Golem and may be seeing that with cucumbers and sorcery.
It is written in Exodus 22:18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." The word witch is also translated sorcerer.[14] They were to be stoned.
The stories and repeated application of rules include the idea that if two people are collecting cucumbers in a magical way. One collects and is guilty of the sin of practicing sorcery, and one collects and is not guilty. The one who actually commits the act of producing cucumbers through sorcery is guilty, and the one who only manipulates the eyes to believe there are cucumbers is not guilty. But if sorcery is not really about making cucumbers with magical means then what is sorcery and what is stoning?
The next word we see in this verse is melons which only appears once in the Bible and is also of an uncertain origin.[15]
| Numbers 11:5 | |||||
| 4714 [e] | 2600 [e] | 853 [e] | 7180 [e] | 853 [e] | 20 [e] |
| wə-’eṯ- | he-ḥā-ṣîr | wə-’eṯ- | hab-bə-ṣā-lîm | wə-’eṯ- | haš-šū-mîm. |
| וְאֶת־ | הֶחָצִ֥יר | וְאֶת־ | הַבְּצָלִ֖ים | וְאֶת־ | הַשּׁוּמִֽים׃ |
| and | the leeks | and | the onions | and | the garlic |
| Acc | Noun | Acc | Noun | Acc | Noun |
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- ↑ psychosis a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. Strong delusion.
- ↑ 01710 ^הגד^ dagah \@daw-gaw’\@ from 01709; n f; AV-fish 15; 15
- 1) fish
- ↑ 01709 ^גד^ dag \@dawg\@ DaletGimel or (fully) ^גאד^ da’g DaletAlefGimel(#Ne 13:16) \@dawg\@ from 01711; n m; {See TWOT on 401 @@ "401a"} AV-fish 20; 20
- 1) fish
- ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
- א Alef Father-Son- begin- The Paradox: God and Man - (ox bull) [strength, leader, first] (Numeric value: 1)
- ג Gimel Reward and Punish, Cause and effect, 'justified repayment'. Do to others as they should do. Written like a Vav with a Yod as a "foot". Camel, [throwstick, pride, to lift up] (Numeric value: 3)
- ↑ 01712 ^ןוגד^ Dagown \@daw-gohn’\@ from 01709; ; n pr m AV-Dagon 13; 13 Dagon= "a fish"
- 1) a Philistine deity of fertility; represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish, often seeing the famous fish hat.
- Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon <01712> their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
- also 1 Samuel 5:2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 1 Chronicles 10:10
- ↑ 01711 ^הגד^ dagah \@daw-gaw’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 401} AV-grow 1; 1
- 1) (Qal) to multiply, increase Genesis 48:16 "The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
- ↑ “Straw shall not be given to you” (Exodus 5:18)?
- ↑ Numbers 11:5 "We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic." Shlomo Yitzchaki known by the acronym Rashi was a medieval French rabbi and author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud and commentary on the Tanakh.
- ↑ — [Sifrei Beha’alothecha 1:42:5]
- ↑ Numbers 11:5 "We remember the fish which we had to eat in Mizraim freely, without (being restricted by prohibitory) precept, the cucumbers and melons, the leeks, onions, and potherbs." Targum an ancient Aramaic paraphrase or interpretation of the Hebrew Bible
- ↑ Social psychologists study the related topics of group intelligence, crowd wisdom, and decentralized decision making.
- ↑ 07180 ^אשׁק^ qishshu’ \@kish-shoo’\@ or (plural) ^םיאשׁק^ from an unused root (meaning to be hard); n f; {See TWOT on 2083 @@ "2083a"} AV-cucumbers 1; 1
- 1) cucumber
- ↑ * "Y. Bazak voiced the far-reaching claim that Rabbi Eliezer wished to avoid mentioning sorcery ( כשפים) by name, so he called it “cucumbers” (םיאשק), in that the gematria of both is 451 (when using the ללוכ system for the first = counting the word itself as 1 (Y. Bazak, “Cucumbers and Witchcraft,” Bar Ilan 6 (1968) 165–6 [Hebrew]). 49 Cf. Goshen-Gottstein, “Ideological Analysis,” 88. Goshen (n. 29) considers the possibility that the Bavli's baraita changed the the subject of the 300 laws from witchcraft in general to cucumbers in particular under the influence of the Mishnah, which speaks about harvesting cucumbers. This is, of course, not necessary, for the very Tosefta passage which served as the source of the baraita in the Bavli already contains same language." Rabbinic Traditions between Palestine and Babylonia, edited by Ronit Nikolsky, Tal Ilan
- ↑ John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
- John 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: [as for] this [fellow], we know not from whence he is.
- ↑ 03784 כָּשַׁף kashaph [kaw-shaf’] KafShinPei a primitive root; v; [BDB-506b] [{See TWOT on 1051 }] also 03785 and 03786
AV-sorcerers 3, witch 2, witchcraft 1; 6
- b1) (Piel) to practice witchcraft or sorcery, use witchcraft
- 1a) sorcerer, sorceress (participle)
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
- b1) (Piel) to practice witchcraft or sorcery, use witchcraft
- ↑ 020 ^חיטבא^ ‘abattiyach \@ab-at-tee’- akh\@ of uncertain derivation; n m; {See TWOT on 234 @@ "234a"} AV-melons 1; 1
- 1) watermelon, Egyptian fruit
- The Hebrew letters are AlefBeitTetYodChet
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