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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

The Houthis' Attack and 760

This past Shabbat, we read the Parshiyot of Tazria and Metzora, which mainly deal with the affliction of Tzara'at.  One day later, the Houthis sent a missile to Ben Gurion Airport, creating a large crater in the ground.

A crater in Hebrew is called a מכתש, which happens to be the word (albeit with different voweling) that that Targum Onkelos uses in Tazria/Metzora for the word נגע.

Some interesting gematrias:

מכתש = 760
צרעת = 760
תימן אירן =   1 + 760 (Yemen [&] Iran - where the missile originated from)

So, one may be inclined to say that the Land of Israel was hit with a נגע (or מכתש) of צרעת on the day after reading about צרעת in the Torah.  I will not venture to guess why it was deserved.

And where was the target of Israel's retaliation?

חודיידה צנעא בתימן = 760 (Hodeidah [&] Sana'a in Yemen)


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2 comments:

  1. Tomer DevorahWed May 07, 04:01:00 PM 2025

    Excellent. יישר כח

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  2. NeshamaMon May 12, 01:06:00 AM 2025

    There is some commenting about the direction of the “incoming” missile from the “who-thies”, indicating the trajectory was from th3 north; the same direction many of the “various aerial weapons” thrust upon little Eretz Yisrael came from. It was even proposed that a vessel somewhere north is where they are being lobbed.

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