Parashat Masei By banahtorahAugust 5, 2006Parashat Masei – JourneysNumber 33:1 – 36:13 Ramses – Raamses or Rameses = “child of the sun”; departed 1st month on 15th day of the month, after the Passover; Succoth – “booths” Etham – “with them: their plowshare”; 3 day journey and pitched in Marah Pi-hahiroth – “place where sedge grows” Migdol – “tower” Marah – “bitter” Elim – “palms”; 12 springs; 70 date palms Dophkah – “knocking” Alush – “I will knead (bread)” Rephidim – “rests” or “stays” or “resting places” Sinai – Wilderness — “thorny” Kibroth-hattaavah – “graves of lust” Hazeroth – “settlement” Rithmah – “heath” Rimmon-perez – “pomegranate of the breach” Libnah – “pavement” Rissah – “ruin” Kehelathah – “assembly” Shepher – “beauty” Haradah – “fear” Makheloth – “place of assembly” Tahath – “station” Terah – “station” Mithkah – “sweetness” Hashmonah – “fatness” Moseroth – Mosera or Moseroth = “bonds” Bene-jaakan – “sons of twisting” Hor-hagidgad – “cavern of Gidgad” Jotbathah – Jotbath or Jotbathah = “pleasantness” Abronah – Ebronah = “passage” Ezion-geber – “backbone of a man” Zin (Wilderness) – “flat”; which is Kadesh – “holy” Mt. Hor – “mountain” / Edge of Edom – Aaron died here; 123 years old Zalmonah – “shady” Punon – “darkness” Oboth – border of Moab – “waterskins” Ijeabarim – “ruins of Abarim” Dibon-gad – “wasting” Almon-diblathaim – “concealing the two cakes” Nebo “prophet” – Mountains of Abarim – “regions beyond” Plains of Moab – “of his father”, by Jordan – “descender” near Jericho – “its moon” Beth-jeshimoth – “house of the desolation” – unto Abel-shittim – “meadow of acacias” Related