[Avodah] Tetzaveh

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Moshe's name is conspicuously missing from this sedra. What is interesting is
that this mirrors the omission of God's name in the entire Megillas Esther; 
and Tetzaveh always falls right before Purim in a non leap year 
(and before Purim Katan in a leap year). Also, it falls around Moshe’s yahrzeit, 
the 7th of Adar and when Moshe tells God that if He doesn’t forgive the Jews for the Golden Calf, 
then erase his name from the Torah. So right at his yahrzeit, his name has been erased only from this Sidrah. 
(The GR"A says that Hashem foresaw that Moshe would die on the seventh of Adar).

 
The following is most fascinating:  Ch. 1, v. 1: "Va'y'hi" - This first word of the Megillah and the last word (10:3) "zaro" equal "Mordechai ha'Y'hudi" [gematria 314] (Roke'ach).  Now it gets even more fascinating regarding an insight into the first and last words of the Megillah. We know that Hashem kept a low profile in the Megillah, orchestrating every event, but not having His name mentioned even once. Hashem's name which embodies this concept of constriction, "tzimtzum," is Shin-Dalet-Yud, Shadai. The first and last words of the Megillah equal 314, the numerical value of the name Shin-Dalet-Yud. We thus see in a mystical sense that from the first word until the last word, everything that happened was controlled behind the scenes by Hashem in the constricted form of natural occurrences.  Likewise, though Moshe's name is not mentioned in Tetzaveh, he was still God's right hand man and the greatest prophet ever to live. His temporary absence merely underlines his overall presence. 
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