Parshas Chukas-Bolok Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Candle Lighting 4:54pm Latest time for Shema 10:00am Shkiya 5:12pm Shabbos Ends 5:58pm Avos Ubonim at Home Avos Ubonim 7:05-7:50pm Join us on Zoom at 7:50pm for this week's RAFFLE Special treat this week - Hot Chips!! Kindly sponsored by Family Abrahams in honour of Moishe's Barmitzva Short Vort on the Parsha The Torah says that the mountain that Aharon dies upon was called 'Hor Hahor' which Chazal tell us means that there was one mountain on top of another mountain. What is the significance of this? Chazal tell us that Hashem flattened all the mountains in the dessert as Bnei Yisrael passed so we would have an easy walk. There are 3 mountains that were left alone though; Har Sinai, Hor Hahor, and Har Nevo (where Moshe dies). The idea is that these correspond to 3 crowns. The Mishna in Avos (4:17) cites that Rabbi Shimon says that there are 3 crowns - the crown of Torah, the crown of Kehuna, and the crown of Malchus (kingship), and the crown of a good name rests upon all of them ('olah al gabeihen') . Har Sinai matches the crown of Torah for obvious reasons, Har Nevo is the crown of Malchus - for this is where Moshe dies - and he had the halachic status of a melech (Rambam beis habechira 6;11). Now 'Hor Hohar' corresponds to the crown of Kehunah (Aharon was Kohen Gadol), and has a double-mountain, for Aharon also had the 'shem tov' which rises above all the other crowns, for he went out of his way to make peace between members of Bnei Yisrael.