[Avodah] Old style Hallel

Michael Kopinsky mkopinsky at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 12:24:59 PST 2009


Sorry to all the digest-readers for all the Hebrew in this post. I
couldn't see any other way to write this.

2009/12/6 Gilad Field <gilad73 at gmail.com>
> Has anybody come across any interesting explanations of this Rambam? I
> know there is a chasam sofer (Sukkah, 38a) that does try to explain -
> but I really don't understand what he is saying:

If your difficulty is with the mechanics of what he's saying, I've tried to
explain much of it below. I am still baffled on what he means with all this,
and on some points of the technical stuff as well.

> עונה אחריו הללוי'. כ' רמב"ם פ"ג מהל' חנוכה קכ"ג פעמים הללויה עוני' בהלל
> סי' לדבר שנותיו של אהרן הכהן ע"ש ממס' סופרים

> דע הלל גמטרי' אדני

Gematria of Hallel = 65 = gematria of A-d-n-y.

> הללוי' גמטרי' אלקי'

Gematria of Halleluyah = 86 = gematria of E-lohim.

> אדני אלהים היינו ב' היהי"ן דהוי"ה ית"ש שנקראו בסוד לאה רחל
> גמטרי' ער"ד בקדושה

Adn-y E-lohim = the two heis of YH-VH (???) which are called Yesod Leah
Rachel (???)
Leah Rachel = 36+238=274

> וכשתוסף על מספר הלל הללויה הנ"ל מספר קכ"ג עולה ער"ד

65 + 86 + 123 = 274

> ע"כ במיתת אהרן וישמע הכנעני מלך ער"ד

When Aaron died, the pasuk says (Bamidbar 21:1) וישמע הכנעני מלך *ערד*...
So we see the connection between the death of Aharon and the number 274.

> בטומאה וא"א לפרש יותר:

Not sure what this part is saying.

KT,
Michael



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