- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Bo
1008
In our world of changing eras and bewildering uncertainties we can only reflect upon the enormous challenges facing us. The Diaspora as Jewry knew it to be for many centuries on end is no longer. The tremendous accomplishment of the creation of the State of Israel and sustaining it for its first sixty years is behind us. This process was fraught with many plagues and concurrent miracles. The faith of Israel has sustained us through these times of ordeal and difficulties. But now there are new and perhaps even more difficult challenges that face us. The task of nation-building is a long and arduous one, not given to easy solutions and pat sloganeering. It is measured not in years but in decades if not even in centuries. It requires faith and tenacity and along view of things. That is what God meant when he told Moshe at the beginning of the redemption process that Israel would accept the Torah at Sinai and that He would eventually bring them to the land that he promised to their forefathers. Why bother Moshe with those promises now when the people are under the lash of slavery? But God informs Moshe that freedom from slavery is only the beginning of the story not its culmination. Our modern story of Israel does not end in 1948 or 1967. The realization of this stark truth can fire us to greater understanding and firmer belief and behavior in the justice of our cause and its eventual triumph.

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