B'haalot'cha: This Passage Is Out of Place
This week’s Torah portion, B’haalot’cha, begins with the instructions for the lifting up of “the lamps,” haneirot, to illuminate the Tabernacle. The initial letter of the word , “lamp,” neir, is nun. This same letter, nun, also marks the portion’s most distinctive passage in Numbers 10:35–36. These two hard-to-understand verses