Illustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
רֶגַע שֶׁל עִבְרִית A Moment of Hebrew
וְעַתָּה לְכוּ וְנַהַרְגֵהוּ וְנַשְׁלִכֵהוּ בְּאַחַד הַבֹּרוֹת וְאָמַרְנוּ חַיָּה רָעָה אֲכָלָתְהוּ וְנִרְאֶה מַה יִּהְיוּ חֲלֹמֹתָיו׃
Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we can say, ‘A savage beast devoured him.’ We shall see what comes of his dreams!”
לְהַשְׁלִיךְ lehashlikh) (שֹׁרֶשׁ ש.ל.ך)
- To throw or cast
- To conclude or project
שַׁלֶּכֶת (shalekhet) = Fall (when leaves are cast off trees)
Osprey (probably because it throws itself into the water to hunt for fish) = (shalakh) שָׁלָךְ
= תַּשְׁלִיךְ
Tashlikh, the ritual of symbolically throwing sins into water on or right after Rosh Hashanah
הַשְׁלָכוֹת (hashlakhot) = Implications or consequences (like ripple effects)
Find the Word!
- This שֹׁרֶשׁ (shoresh, root) appears in two other places in this week’s parashah. Can you find them all?
- In Parashat Vayera someone throws a child under a bush, and in Parashat Beshallah a piece of wood is thrown into bitter water to make it sweeter, and in Parashat Ki Tissa gold that was thrown into fire becomes a calf. Can you find these stories, and the words that include this שֹׁרֶשׁ (shoresh, root)?ִ
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