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Through The Looking Window | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein | 15 Shevat 5781 – January 27, 2021

Haftarah of Shabbos Shirah, Deborah, and Barak sing G-d’s praises for delivering the Canaanite general Sisera into their hands. Towards the end of the shirah, they say, in reference to Sisera’s mother anxiously anticipating her son’s triumphant return: “She gazed through the window ( chalon) and she sobbed; Sisera’s mother [peeked] through the window ( eshnav)” (Judges 5:28). This verse contains two words for window: “ chalon” and “ Advertisement Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim of Breslau (1740-1814) traces the etymology of “ chalon” (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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