in this week's Torah portion...
Last week things looked up.
Daughters got a few land rights.
Joy was premature.
Mo explains vow rules.
Men must hold the vows they make.
Not the same for girls.
The vows of women
can be rendered null and void
if the men say so.
Particularly
the girl's father or husband
can nullify her.
(There's much more to this week's Torah portion. Much of it is rather troublesome. That is part of the importance of reading ALL of the Torah -- even the parts that we don't agree with, that we don't like. But it's hard to write haiku about it!)
Shabbat Shalom, y'all!
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Sh'lach L'cha...Sending out the Scouts!
in this week's Torah portion...12 spies were all sent
to scout the land of Canaan
one from every tribe.
They came back with grapes,
reports of milk and honey,
and fear of giants.
Caleb calmed them down
"we can do it!" he told them
Josh stood by him too.
It was lack of faith
in God's promise of the Land
and they paid the price:
As a punishment
they would not enter the Land
except Josh and Cay (leb)...
And so they wandered
forty years in wilderness
until....Israel.
Shabbat Shalom!
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