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Portion Devarim and Tisha Bav - Holy Jug Handles Batman

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Portion Devarim and Tisha Bav - Holy Jug Handles Batman

 

On destruction, rebirth, and Moses' version of 40 years in the desert.

But first about Margo and Jealousy:
 
It was in the desert near Beer Sheba - summer of 1970 - when I studied archaeology in Tel Aviv University

6 feet away from where I was digging on the ancient city mound - I heard shouting

It came from Margo and one of the profssors - about 6 or 7 feet down in their slice/cut of what was once the southern border city

They unearthed the storehouse of king Josiah - with many storage jugs 100% INTACT (some with traces of grains still in them)

and on each clay jug handle was imprinted in the word "LA ME LECH" - for the King.

I had my own find that summer - but I was a little jealous of all the pictures and publicity Margo was getting

Fast forwatd to Jerusalem 200 yards from my apartment - in Jerusalem 2020 - last week - there was a discovery -
 
They unearthed the storehouse of king Josiah - with many storage jugs 100% INTACT -

from the time of Hezekiah the King - grandfather of Josiah
 
and on each clay jug handle was imprinted in the word "LA ME LECH" - for the King.

The Tisha B Av fast happens next Thursday.
 
We read this Shabbat Portion Devarim - like every year the week of the Tisha B Av fast day

describing the speeches from
the last 30 days of Moses ...  reminding the Israelites of the mistales of their parents.
 
Why talking about rebukes for things Not from this portion?
 
Why do all the "Ultra" rabbis this week talk about the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem

and the need to refine all our characters?
 
My first Talmud Rebbe in Jerusalem -Rsv Tzukerman - told us once that
when his wife was about to deliver, he drove her on the Shabat in the sidecar of his motorcyle
with his Talis flying in the wind
as the ultra-Orthodox down the road were demonstarting against people driving on SHABBOS.

Yesterday I got  call about my Jerusalem Persian Plumber's parents who came to Israel in the 1950's
 
and how they gave up a good business to join with our people struggling to build a safe haven for ALL

Today there are still kids in isolation kept from going out
and adults in danger for health reasons who cannot take a chance of even walking outside
 
Friends and Family and Community are so important and necessary to them -
and we can so easily spread a lot of joy and comfort by making that extra phone call
 
sending that extra little gift

praying that extra little prayer for deliverance from the hard times we face.
 
So everyone religious in Israel is hoping for deliverance and a Moshiach
 
To save the World from Corona
Hezbullah
Hamas
European cynics and abti semites bribed by Arab money and oil
 
Moses left us 3200 years ago but reminded us to think of everyone

King David wrote his reminders 3000 years ago

Kings Josiah and Hezekiah left us reminders 2600 years ago -
That we had a Temple for the WHOLE WORLD and didn't try like the Romans and Babylonians
to enslave the world - so

Stay healthy, call a shut in, maybe even fast a little Thursday
Shabbat Shalom
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz