Why are all the lefthanded people from Benjamin?

[RAMcGough]

The name "Benjamin" means "son" (ben) of the "right hand" (yamin)

There are only two mentions of "lefthanded" people in the Bible. They are from the tribe of Benjamin.

Judges 3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

Judges 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

And there is one mention of ambidextrous men who "could use both the right hand and the left" also from the tribe of Benjamin.

1Ch 12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

What's God trying to tell us?

[Geert van den Bos]

Judges 3:15 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man with a shriveled right hand; and the children of Israel sent through him a present to Eglon the king of Moab.

a man with a shriveled right hand אִ֥ישׁ אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ

אִטֵּר (a) heb
bound, impeded (on the right, ie, left-handed), shut, shut up

Judges 20:16, Of all these people there were seven hundred chosen men (with a) shriveled right hand. All these could sling a stone at a hair-breadth and not miss.

seven hundred chosen men (with a) shriveled right hand
שְׁבַ֚ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֔וּר אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ

Rashi https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true
(with a) shriveled right hand. Their right hands were shriveled. They had no use of it, as though it was closed, as in, (Psalms 69:16) “Do not close (תֶּאְטַר) upon me, O well, your mouth.”

Name Benjamin, Rashi on Genesis 35:18 https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true
Benjamin means “the son of days” (בֶּן יָמִים), because he was born in his (Jacob’s) old age, and it is spelled with a “nun” like“at the end of the days (הַיָמִין)” (Dan. 12:13).

I think because in the end of days Judah will make himself guarantee for him (cf. Isaiah 53:10 after which Mark 10:45)

[Geert van den Bos]

if we walk hand in hand and you are at my right hand then I do hold your left

[Geert van den Bos]

Should Jesus have been lefthanded?

Since you claim him to be the author of the Torah you might think so, since the Torah-script goes from right to left

And more, it was said in Judges 20:15,
every one (lefthanded) could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

and not miss וְלֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא

חָטָא = to sin, miss, miss the way, go wrong.

And Jesus was said to be without sin, https://scripturesavvy.com/bible-verses ... out-sin-2/
He never missed the mark.

[Geert van den Bos]

Matthew 2:1-2
Τοῦ δὲ Ἰησοῦ γεννηθέντος ἐν Βηθλέεμ τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐν ἡμέραις Ἡρῴδου τοῦ βασιλέως, ἰδοὺ μάγοι ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν παρεγένοντο εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα λέγοντες, Ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ τεχθεὶς βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων; εἴδομεν γὰρ αὐτοῦ τὸν ἀστέρα ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ καὶ ἤλθομεν προσκυνῆσαι αὐτῷ

the wise were at first looking to the east where the star came up, so they had the south at their right hand,
then went up to Jerusalem in the west, so then they had the south at their left hand.

Afterwards they went east again, with the south at their right hand
v.12
καὶ χρηματισθέντες κατ' ὄναρ μὴ ἀνακάμψαι πρὸς Ἡρῴδην, δι' ἄλλης ὁδοῦ ἀνεχώρησαν εἰς τὴν χώραν αὐτῶν.

[Geert van den Bos]

Same kind of thing with going in and going out of the temple

https://biblehub.com/q/what_are_the_jac ... illars.htm
Positioning: The right (south) pillar was named Jachin, and the left (north) pillar was named Boaz (1 Kings 7:21). In the 2 Chronicles account (3:17), the southern pillar carries the name Jachin, and the northern pillar is named Boaz.

When going in you had Boaz on the right and Jachin on the left, going out vice versa.

[Geert van den Bos]

The Tabernacle (later the Temple) was the place where the Divine presence would dwell, and where the people would see that the terrible betrayal—the sin of the golden calf —was forgiven, and that G‑d would once again dwell in their midst as He had at Sinai. How would the reconciliation take place?
https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_ ... d-Goat.htm

the sin of the golden calf = the crucifixion of the Lord

[Geert van den Bos]

Exodus 32:4 https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true
He took [them] from their hand, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molten calf, upon which they said: "These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up from the land of Egypt!"

These are your gods אֵ֤לֶּה אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ֙ "eleh eloheicha"

Rashi
But it does not say, “These are our gods.” -[from here [we learn] that the mixed multitude who had come up from Egypt were the ones who gathered against Aaron, and they were the ones who made it [the calf]. Afterwards, they caused the Israelites to stray after it. -[from Midrash Tanchuma 19]


the mixed multitude עֵרֶב רַב "erev rav"
they mixed up Hebrew, Greek and English gematria

“These are our gods.” -- the 66 books of KJV placed on a wheel

since "egel", calf, is related to "igul" = circle.

They crucified the Lord on a biblewheel.

That it was meant that way was clear from Genesis 45:27,
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... ter-45.htm
Rashi:
He (Joseph) gave them a sign, viz., in what topic he was engaged when he (Joseph) separated from him (Jacob). [That was] the section dealing with the heifer that was to be beheaded (עֶגְלָה עִרוּפָה "eglah arufah") (Deut. 21), and this is what [Scripture] says, “and he saw the wagons ( אֶת־הָ֣עֲגָל֔וֹת "et-haagalot" ) that Joseph had sent,” and it (Scripture) does not say, “that Pharaoh had sent.” [from Gen. Rabbah 94:3]

https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_ ... d-Goat.htm
(Leviticus 9:2-3 https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9910 )
While the calf immediately evokes the story of the golden calf, finding the meaning of the goat is a bit harder. We must turn back to the book of Genesis to discover that indeed the goat played an important role in the most tragic sin of the family of Israel: the sale of Joseph.

Genesis 37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and they slaughtered a goat, and they dipped the coat in the blood. Rashi: Its blood resembles that of a human
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true

Here is used שְׂעִיר עִזִּים "se'ir izzim"
Another word for goat is "g'di"

So now Ezekiel 47:10 might get sense https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true
And it will be [a place] beside which fishermen will stand, from Ein-gedi to Ein-eglaim;

"Ein-gedi" eye of the goat = eye 17
"Ein-eglayim" eye of the two calves = eye 153

"eglayim" two circles , like the lemniscate = number eight



"Ein-eglayim" = Omega

"eight" is an edenic of Hebrew "cheit" -- the eighth letter

"cheit" = 418
A. Crowleys favorite number
number of ABRAHADABRA (in Hebrew letters)

[Geert van den Bos]

How to remove those lines?

[Geert van den Bos]

Exodus 32:4 https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true
He took [them] from their hand, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molten calf, upon which they said: "These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up from the land of Egypt!"

These are your gods אֵ֤לֶּה אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ֙ "eleh eloheicha"

Rashi
But it does not say, “These are our gods.” -[from here [we learn] that the mixed multitude who had come up from Egypt were the ones who gathered against Aaron, and they were the ones who made it [the calf]. Afterwards, they caused the Israelites to stray after it. -[from Midrash Tanchuma 19]


the mixed multitude עֵרֶב רַב "erev rav"
they mixed up Hebrew, Greek and English gematria

“These are our gods.” -- the 66 books of KJV placed on a wheel

since "egel", calf, is related to "igul" = circle.

They crucified the Lord on a biblewheel.

That it was meant that way was clear from Genesis 45:27,
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... ter-45.htm
Rashi:
He (Joseph) gave them a sign, viz., in what topic he was engaged when he (Joseph) separated from him (Jacob). [That was] the section dealing with the heifer that was to be beheaded (עֶגְלָה עִרוּפָה "eglah arufah") (Deut. 21), and this is what [Scripture] says, “and he saw the wagons ( אֶת־הָ֣עֲגָל֔וֹת "et-haagalot" ) that Joseph had sent,” and it (Scripture) does not say, “that Pharaoh had sent.” [from Gen. Rabbah 94:3]

https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_ ... d-Goat.htm
(Leviticus 9:2-3 https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9910 )
While the calf immediately evokes the story of the golden calf, finding the meaning of the goat is a bit harder. We must turn back to the book of Genesis to discover that indeed the goat played an important role in the most tragic sin of the family of Israel: the sale of Joseph.

Genesis 37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and they slaughtered a goat, and they dipped the coat in the blood. Rashi: Its blood resembles that of a human
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true

Here is used שְׂעִיר עִזִּים "se'ir izzim"
Another word for goat is "g'di"

So now Ezekiel 47:10 might get sense https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... rashi/true
And it will be [a place] beside which fishermen will stand, from Ein-gedi to Ein-eglaim;

"Ein-gedi" eye of the goat = eye 17
"Ein-eglayim" eye of the two calves = eye 153

"eglayim" two circles , like the lemniscate = number eight

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"Ein-eglayim" = Omega

"eight" is an edenic of Hebrew "cheit" -- the eighth letter

"cheit" = 418
A. Crowleys favorite number
number of ABRAHADABRA (in Hebrew letters)