Shabbat

Portion Va EtChaNan ... Take em Out Take em Out...

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Portion Va EtChaNan ... Take em Out Take em Out...

While the Fifth of the Five Books packs in so many things

And this portion as well is packed with

Shema Yisrael

Ten Commandments

History and Warnings

and

Just think :

we are over 500 years after he Jews were thrown out of Spain on Tisha Baה

(which we commemorated by fasting his week)

and

There are also especially the promises we should rememeber:(see chap 4 verses 32-40)

Remember: theTorah speaks to us all every day and in the portion

It says that we must remember how the Almighty Took Us out of Egypt... and says

"has anyone (ever) seen such a thing ? ... Taking a nation out of the surrounding Nation ..."

So what you might ask?

But it is NOT about leaving Egypt - but about TODAY AS WELL!

Hashem will take you out! Now! like then ... WHAT?

I was just with a group of returning Jews in Central America.

Some were descended from Jews who were pirates in the Caribbean

Others joined in Jewish practices in he last few years

Those ejected from Spain 500 years ago this week!

SO TOO WILL THE ALMIGHTY EXTRACT US FROM OUR ISRAELITE EXILE

A FEW HERE A FEW THERE

So the Torah speaks to all of us - every day every week

And it was great honor to be a small part of Hashem's promise to Israel

and work with his orders to us in such a clear way.

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz