Shabbat

 

What did Jacob feel when he heard that his son Joseph was still alive?

 

What do American Jews feel when the media finally lets them hear about terrorist incidents

 

and those who survive terror - and are

 

in hospitals, in rehab, and finally back with their families who worry day and night how they can possibly return to normal lives?

 

Jacob tells Pharoah he has had a difficult life - but the final years are spent teaching -

all his grandchildren - how to survive the exile in Egypt - and maintain their Israelite values.

 

Can we absorb all this in our own exiles?

 

Shabbat Shalom

 

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz