<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">Moshe's name is conspicuously missing from this sedra. </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">What is interesting is</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">that this mirrors the omission of God's name</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">in the entire Megillas Esther; </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">and Tetzaveh always falls right</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">before Purim in</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">a non leap year </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">(and before Purim Katan in a leap year). Also, it falls</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">around Moshe’s yahrzeit, </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">the 7</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">th</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> of </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">Adar and when Moshe tells God that if He doesn’t</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">forgive the Jews for the Golden Calf, </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">then erase his name from the Torah. So</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">right at his yahrzeit, his name has been erased only</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">from this Sidrah. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">(The</span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 26px;" class="">GR"A says that Hashem foresaw that Moshe would die on the seventh of Adar).</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 26px;" class=""><br class=""> <br class="">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. </span></div></div></body></html>