Wednesday, August 13, 2014
OU TORAH and YU TORAH Va’etchanan (5774)The Fewest of all Peoples Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Please learn this as a zechus for Eretz Yisrael and our injured and fallen soldiers.
Buried inconspicuously in this week’s parsha is a short sentence with explosive potential, causing us to think again about the nature of Jewish history and the Jewish task in the present.
Moses had been reminding the new generation, the children of those who left Egypt, of the extraordinary story of which they are the heirs:
Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?
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