- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Beha'alotcha
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Coming to the Land of Israel and its Jewish state whether as a tourist and most certainly as someone who is immigrating there on a more permanent basis requires commitment and enthusiasm. There are many who came to Israel over the past one hundred years by default but the country has truly been served and built by those who came with a sense of mission and purpose, happiness and expectation. Moshe’s clarion call "that we are traveling to the place" of our destiny echoes throughout the Jewish ages. Not all such calls are heard and even fewer are followed. Nevertheless the call has resonated within the Jewish people for all of its history. It is that call that appears in today’s parsha and again it is that call that Moshe proclaimed millennia ago that was and is the guiding motive for the existence of the State of Israel today. Just as then in the desert, there are options for Jews today also present in our world. The many "Egypts" of the world beckon with all of their seeming allure but also with great underlying faults and dangers. And there are those who wish to continue to live in a desert that demands nothing from them and contemplate themselves somehow as being a dor deah. History has always arisen and smitten these options from the Jewish future. The long trek begun by Moshe and Israel in this week’s parsha continues. We hope that we are witnessing at last its final successful conclusion.

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