Rise with Faith Like a Lion - Shelach 5785
The faith and resilience of the Jewish people is remarkable. Once again another Haman has vowed to wipe us out. His threats continue as he is being routed. But his threats come with missiles that target men, women and children, and have unfortunately caused a lot of destruction. Every life lost is an entire world. Every person injured and every building destroyed is a tragedy. And the suffering extends to the entire nation. I have many friends and relatives in Israel and they are all very tired. Woken up by sirens every night; running to shelters where they can’t sleep; and the general stress of living under fire takes its toll. Like so much of our humor that comes from oppression, a new pithy post said: Am Yisrael Chai, but I’m dying to get some sleep. Yet in my conversations and correspondence I hear people talking about the great miracles that we are seeing all the time. There is a powerful feeling of faith and gratitude to Hashem. We know that we will survive. We kno...