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Sunday, March 04, 2007

Shilo Tchelet-The explanation

To all who had to miss the Brit of my son. Here's the story. Firstly, his name is Shilo Tchelet.
The explanation I gave was as follows. Shilo was born on 7 Adar, the birthday of Moshe Rabbainu. Shilo was the place of the mishkan, and is now a city on the Palestinian side of the border. But to us, Shilo is always a part of Israel. In addition, Shilo in gematria is the same as Moshe. The brit was on Purim, and the Parshat Hashavua of his is Parshat Titzave. In Titzave the Kohen's clothes were made of many material, including Shany and Tchelet. So that's connection. Secondly, in the Megilla when the Jews were at the height of their power, it says Mordechai went out from the king in tchelet, etc. On a personal note, Tchelet for me symbolizes the return of Jews to Israel, as seen in the flag, on my tzizit, etc. We want our son to continue in our path here in Our Land.
Then I said a bunch of thank you's.

4 Comments:

  • i dont care what anybody says SHILOH TCHELET is much better than TEL AVIV YAROK.
    also when he gets a siddur at his siddur party you wont have to inscribe his name on the cover. it will already be there you may just have to put an apostrophe S (if he uses the shiloh siddur as oppsosed to the artscroll) in any case may he grow to bring you much nachas and be legadol ltorah lchupah ool'maasim tovim

    By Blogger docyaak, at 8:57 PM  

  • I heard a slightly different version:

    You wanted to repay me for naming Jonah after you, but you didn't feel right naming him shauli, so you picked a name that was close, and that's Shilo.

    And Techlet is blue, which is a boys a color

    By Blogger Just Shu, at 9:51 PM  

  • Shiloh is a name from the birchat Yaakov to Yehuda. עד כי יבוא שילה...

    By Blogger rockofgalilee, at 8:06 AM  

  • I agree with Yaakov, Shilo Techelet is much better than Tel Aviv Yarok :)

    As someone who met Shilo I would like to say he's a keeper :) Really beautiful baby!!

    By Blogger 2R, at 2:19 PM  

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