{"id":1154,"date":"2010-12-26T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2010\/12\/26\/Parashat-Vaera-By-My-name-Lord-I-did-not-make-Myself-known-to-them"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:19:03","slug":"parashat-vaera-by-my-name-lord-i-did-not-make-myself-known-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-vaera-by-my-name-lord-i-did-not-make-myself-known-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Va&#8217;era, By My name, Lord, I did not make Myself known to them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>In this week&rsquo;s reading from the Triennial Cycle (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><br \/>\nShemot \/ Exodus 6:2-7:7<\/em><\/font>) God says to Moshe in <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><br \/>\nShemot \/ Exodus 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My<br \/>\nname, Lord, I did not make Myself known to them.&nbsp; 6:4 &lsquo;I also established My covenant<br \/>\nwith them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.&nbsp; (NASB)<\/em><br \/>\n<\/font>&nbsp; The Hebrew word used by God to describe that he had made Himself known to Avraham,<br \/>\nYitachak, and Yaakov is written in the Niphal verbal pattern <em>&ldquo;nodati&rdquo;<\/em> meaning<br \/>\n<em>&ldquo;be made known or be \/ become known.&rdquo;<\/em>&nbsp; It is also interesting to note<br \/>\naccording to the marginal mesorah on verse <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>6:3<\/em><\/font> there<br \/>\nis a variant spelling in the Targum Onkelos, the Targum Jonathan, the Targum Zakanim, and the Targum<br \/>\nSori.&nbsp; The variant spelling is written in the Hiphil verbal pattern <em>&ldquo;hodati&rdquo;<\/em><br \/>\nmeaning <em>&ldquo;make known or declare.&rdquo;<\/em>&nbsp; The same form of the word is used in<br \/>\n<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jeremiah 11:18<\/em><\/font>, which says <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<em>&ldquo;Moreover, the Lord made it known to me and I knew it; Then You showed me their deeds.&rdquo;<br \/>\n(NASB)<\/em><\/font>&nbsp; The Hiphil form in Jeremiah, God causatively made it known to him (Jeremiah)<br \/>\nthe deeds of the people.&nbsp; In our verses, <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Shemot \/ Exodus 6:3-4<\/em><br \/>\n<\/font>, God is explaining that He is revealing Himself, making His name known in a new way to His<br \/>\npeople.&nbsp; What is the significance of these verses for our lives today?&nbsp;<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Va%27era%20_2010-2011_.pdf\">Read More here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s reading from the Triennial Cycle (<br \/>\nShemot \/ Exodus 6:2-7:7) God says to Moshe in<br \/>\nShemot \/ Exodus 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My<br \/>\nname, Lord, I did not make Myself know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}