Parashat B'chukotai
IM B'CHUKOTAI TEILEICHU - If you follow G-d's laws... then we will receive our rain in the proper time (hourglass) and we will have bread to eat... and we will have peace... And 5 will be able to repel 100 (of our enemies) and 100 will push away 10,000. If, on the other hand, we don't follow in G-d's ways... the skull and crossbones represents all the negative things that we are warned about in the Tochacha. A boy between the ages of one month and five years is "evaluated" at five shkalim (for purposes of donations to the Beit HaMikdash). Nine new-born lambs are counted off as they walk single-file through an opening in the pen into which they were gathered. The tenth on to pass "under the staff" is sacred - MAASER B'HEIMA. This mitzva is depicted again in symbols - with an additional detail. There are three Zodiac symbols in the picture - Aries, the Ram and Capricorn, the goat are added together and then divided by 10. Sheep and goats are both called TZON and may be combined for the mitzva of Maaser B'heima. Cows must be treated separately, hence Taurus, the Bull divided by 10 is separate.
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