Friday

Right now Jonny is listening to shelach on real audio. Buddy isn't here. He won't mind anyway. Earlier in the week in torah gems, Jonny learned that Moshe might not have sent the spies if things were different. Scholars have commented that Moshe was basically in a sex-less marriage at this point. A sex-less marriage is defined as sex less than 10 times per year. Back in the day this meant divorce. So he was single. A married guy would have listened to his wife - about the spies. According to the scholars, the wives were ready to go into Israel. They didn't need the spies. However, it was the men who called the shots in this incident.

This is always an interesting chumash. Alberta's parsha was this one, a year ago. In two years it will be Lorraine's. The rabbi always says it his favorite. Jonny likes this one because of the Hebrew word for report. The spies gave their report and Jonny assumes this is how this word comes up in context. If you recall, at one point Jonny was using a Hebrew program to learn more of the language. The program was counting on the fact that a very small sub-set of the language can be learned and then the reader will be able to know 90% of the Torah from those 300 or so words. Words like king show up over 200 times. This program, counts as shows up though, meaning the whole tanach, and not just the Torah. One word that shows up is Soloman, which is a spin on the word Shalom. It also means satiated. Which in English means filled up.

Jonny just finished his coffee. He had to beg Angelina for 30 cents. Here in the Hilton, coffee isn't free. But they seldom make it. There is usually just the one cup that Jonny takes that is there and available. Jonny is up to page 323 of One Man Running so it will be time to check it out on Amazon. One of the bus riders on the #14 bus that Jonny rode today turns out was also working on the same floor of the Hilton as him. He said, weren't you just on the #14. And she said yes.