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Numbers 13
''Shlach, Shelach, Sh'lah, Shlach Lecha'', or ''Sh'lah L'kha'' ( or — Hebrew for "send", "send to you", or "send for yourself") is the 37th weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Numbers. Its name comes from the first distinctive words in the parashah, in . ''Shelach'' () is the sixth and ''lecha'' () is the seventh word in the parashah. The parashah tells the story of the twelve spies sent to assess the promised land, commandments about offerings, the story of the Sabbath violator, and the commandment of the fringes (, ''tzitzit''). The parashah constitutes . It is made up of 5,820 Hebrew letters, 1,540 Hebrew words, 119 verses, and 198 lines in a Torah Scroll (''Sefer Torah''). Jews generally read it in June or early July. Readings In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or , '' aliyot''. First reading — Numbers 13:1–20 In the first reading, God told Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanfranco Moses And The Messengers From Canaan
Lanfranco (active in Modena from c. 1099 to 1110) was an Italian architect. His only known work is the Modena Cathedral. Record of his work there is in the early 13th-century manuscript ''Relatio de innovatione ecclesie sancti Gemeniani'' in the Chapter archives of Modena. Here he is described as the "principal and supreme artificer of such an arduous undertaking".Fossi, Gloria, ''Italian Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture from the Origins to the Present Day'', p. 26. Giunti, 2000. Together with Bonsignore, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Bishop of Reggio, Lanfranco discovered the urn with relics of St. Geminianus for the new church in 1106. A Latin apsidal epigraph in the cathedral describes Lanfranco as "famous for ingenuity, knowledgeable and competent director of works, governor and master". References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
