<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I just came across the following which is beautiful and will make Naso even more powerful.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Rabbi Shmuel Greinemann explains that it was no accident that Nesanel ben Tzuar of Yissachar chose, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">on the second day, to bring precisely what Nachshon ben Amminadav brought the day earlier. He knew </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">that each of the tribes could engage in one-upmanship, compensating for and taking advantage of going </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">later in line to bring something greater than the other</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><i>Nesi'im</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">had brought so far. Instead, Nesanel ben Tzuar </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">chose a path designed to avoid any hint of jealousy, and to generate feelings of love and brotherhood. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">And every</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><i>Nasi</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">followed suit. That was what was so precious about each and every offering, warranting </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">that it, too, be described with the same level of detail in the Torah itself as all the others.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">My two cents: Instead of trying to BE better than someone else, we should try TO BETTER someone else.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">In doing that we will be FAR BETTER than had we tried to BE BETTER.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Shabbat shalom.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">ri </span></div></body></html>