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Last week’s blog emphasized that embedded within the tapestry of our lives there are specific experiences created for us by God that we should focus on and engage. To convey this idea, the parashah utilized the words ShaeM (שם name), allegorically meaning “what is put forth (in experience)”1 and LeHheM (לחם bread), allegorically meaning “what can be gotten into closely (of experience).”2 These two words were joined in construct phrases with the words Elohim (אלהים), meaning “of God’s guidance being presented in experience”3 and QaDShi (קדשי), allegorically meaning “of what is brought forward of me.”4 Therefore, our goal is to tease out the things put