Shabbat
Portion Bo ...(Why) everyone - even Pharoah - has a Bad Day sometimes
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Portion Bo ...(Why) everyone - even Pharoah - has a Bad Day sometimes
We all have bad days.
Moses had a bad day when the burning
bush said he had to go back to Egypt
Aron had a bad day when Moses did not
come down from the mountain in time to
stop the golden calf thing
Abraham had a bad day when THAT Pharoah
kidnapped Sarah
But these and many other tough times - we learn from the Torah -
were overcome by looking at the Almighty s Big Plan - for Israel and Torah
(Some of the PLAN Is Foretold to the World and us in a later chapter)
BO - the name of the Portion - means COME ...
So the Almighty says " Come (With Me) to Pharoah ...(I will be with you)"
RABBI ELIEZER WEISS says it means FOR US today too!
But Pharoah had no room for anyone but himself and his hoodlums -
Even when THE CHARTOOMIM - SORCERERS AND
TRICKSTERS - when even in last week's portion
said the plagues were too much and to let Israel Go
He still had NO ROOM FOR THE ALMIGHTY
(or even his CHARTOOMIM advisors, who were still scratching from the lice ...)
Life can be Frightening sometimes
But if we rememeber the Almighy is With Us
and we see part of The Plan (because we are still HERE, and not the Pharoahs)
Then despite the weather and the world
we should all have a good Shabbos
a good day ...
and a better life - trying to Live the Plan
SHABBAT SHALOM
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz