Haftarah of
Shabbos Shirah, Deborah, and Barak sing G-dâs praises for delivering the Canaanite general Sisera into their hands. Towards the end of the
shirah, they say, in reference to Siseraâs mother anxiously anticipating her sonâs triumphant return: âShe gazed through the window (
chalon) and she sobbed; Siseraâs mother [peeked] through the window (
eshnav)â (Judges 5:28).
This verse contains two words for window: â
chalonâ and â
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Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim of Breslau (1740-1814) traces the etymology of â
chalonâ (which appears 31 times in the Bible) to the two-letter root
chet-lammed, which means circular movement and the empty space within a circle. Other words that derive from this root, says Rabbi Pappenheim, include:
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In the Song of the Sea, the Jewish People recount the events leading up to the miraculous parting of the Red Sea and the Egyptians’ fateful drowning therein. At one point, the Song describes what motivated the Egyptians to pursue the Jews who recently exited Egypt: “The enemy said, ‘I will chase them. I will reach them. I will apportion the booty’” (Ex. 15:9). In this context, the Torah uses the word