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VERSE: Nu17-25b

RULE: The Hebrew word OTH means SYMBOL. The concepts SYMBOL
and MEMORIAL are more or less the same. Here is Rav Hirsch's
definition of symbol

>>A Symbol is an
>>--object or
>>--act
>>whose purpose is to remind
>>the user of other
>>--acts,
>>--events or
>>--objects.

Rav Hirsch gives 3 categories of Symbolic Biblical Commandments



EXAMPLES
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 (1-3) The Bible EXPLICITLY says that these are symbols
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    VERSE           SYMBOL          WHAT IT SYMBOLIZES
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(1) Ex31-13         Shabbath        God created the world
(2) Gn17-11         Milah           Convenant (God-Abraham)
(3) Ex13-09         Tefillin        Salavation from Egypt*1




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 (4) The Bible EXPLICITLY links an object to a memory
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(4) Nu15-39         Tzitzith         All the commandments
(5) Nu17-25         The bud rod      The Korach Rebellion*1





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 (6) The Bible EXPLICITLY connects deeply emotional events
     with a whole collection of procedures that have clear
     symbolic links to these emotions
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(6) For example Isa11 links the deeply emotional event of
    Redemption to "the sheep lying with the wolf & the
    infant playing on snake holes". We immediately remember
    (Gn49) that animal personalities symbolize human
    personalities.

    Thus it follows that the verses mean "The sheep-like
    nations will coexist with the wolf-like nations..."



NOTES
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*1 (Rashi) It explicitly states in Nu17-25 and the
surrounding chapters
        "Take rods and the rod that sprouts--that is
        the tribe I chose....And put this rod in the
        ark as A SYMBOL to those who wish to rebel so
        that they will stop complaining"
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