David, before he was a king, was sitting in his garden and he saw the wasp eating the spider. He asked The Lord: why did you create those two creatures? The wasp is taking the honey all the time and she isn’t helping to create it; the spider is dealing with his cobwebs all the year, but there are no clothes that are created from him. Isn’t your creation is in vain?
The Lord answered to David: do you despise to my creations? One day will come and you will be saved by them. No for nothing I have made them….
And the days passed and David ran away from Saul the king and he hides himself in the cave. God appointed for him a spider that closed the cave with his cobwebs. Saul passed there and thought to himself: maybe David is here, let’s take a look there. His servants said to him: can’t you see that this cave is closed? If someone came to this cave there wouldn’t be cobwebs there that are complete; this cave is empty!
David was saved and when he went out from the cave he blessed The Lord who created the spider and also blessed the spider as well.
After a while David went and saw King Saul and his servants sleeping in the desert he went under the legs of Avner the best warrior of Saul and he stole the spear of Saul. When he came back the legs of Avner were closed and David couldn’t go out; only after the wasp bite Avner’s leg he could go out and he was saved one more time…
Then he realized that no creature is for nothing from God’s acts!
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After a while the queen of Sheba came to Jerusalem with a lot of gifts to Solomon and with a lot of question in order to see how wise and smart is the king. She asked him 77 different riddles and Solomon succeed to answer and solve all of them.
The last riddle was like this: she brought bouquets of flowers, all of them were seen like real flowers, but only one of them was the real one from the creation of The Lord. The queen of Sheba asked Solomon to find which flower ids the real from all of the flowers that have been there.
Solomon the king was embarrassed; he didn’t know the answer to this question. He felt bad not knowing the answer. Suddenly a sound of a small bee came into his ears , he saw the small bee that bite him near the window. He commended his servants to open the window and the bee stood on the real flower. This riddle has been solved as well.
The bee repaid her payback, the recompense is done. From this story there is a small proverb in the book of proverbs 13:13-
"בָּז לְדָבָר – יֵחָבֶל לוֹֹ"
"Whoso despised the word shall suffer thereby"
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The portion is named , the Hebrew name for Jethro, because the beginning of the portion
tells us of Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, who comes to see him in the desert. At the beginning of the portion we hear of Jethro, the Midianite priest who was Moses’ father in law, who came to meet Moses in the desert, bringing Moses’ wife, Zipporah, and their two sons, with him. Jethro came after hearing of all the great miracles God performed for the Israelites, and after hearing Moses’ account of the miracles, he announces his faith in the mighty God.
After arriving, Jethro sees that Moses is busy from day to night judging the people with every little judgment that comes up. He then suggests that instead of bothering Moses with every little thing, a system which will bring to his collapse, Moses should appoint judges, to whom he will teach the laws of God, and they will judge the people. He suggests a hierarchy which will enable more difficult cases to be brought before more superior judges, and the most difficult cases will be brought before Moses himself. Moses accepts his father-in-law’s advice, and then sends him back to his home.
We then arrive at the climax of the portion and one of the most important parts of the Pentateuch: the Sinai revelation and the giving of the Ten Commandments. Moses goes up to Mount Sinai, and God gives him instructions as to how the people must prepare for the revelation, by cleansing themselves. They are also forbidden to approach the mountain. On the third day, God comes down on the smoky mountain, and delivers the Ten Commandments to them. After the revelation, the people ask Moses to bring God’s word to them from now, because hearing God speak to them directly caused them great fear. Moses then approaches God and is given instructions as to the proper altar that is to be built to worship God.
Didn’t you afraid from the king’s nose? Solomon said to the bee.
Oh, my dear king, I am a small little bee, I don’t know how to distinguish between a flower and a nose; I’m so stupid, the nose of the king had a smell like a flower. The king was so angry, but a small laugh was inside of him. He said to the bee: what else you want to say, you small and reckless animal.
And the bee said to Solomon with a lot of courage and insolence: maybe one day will be able to help to my king with a small recompense. The angry of the king was bigger and bigger so he said to her: get out of here, or I will … if you won’t!
Solomon laughed and laughed and laughed and sent all the bees from the palace. He put a cream on his nose and his nose came back to life. He forgot the small bee because like always we keep on forgetting to small things….
But the story, my friends, is far from to be over; next time we will meet the queen of Sheba and Solomon and we will see what will be the recompense of the bee, the small bee, to the great king!
To be continued…
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