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LECH LECHA 5785 Almost Four Millenia Rabbi Andrew Shaw Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK
If you have been asleep for the last few days, you may not know that Donald Trump is going to be the 47th President of the USA. For some this was wonderful news, for others not so much. However, I am not here to discuss politics, simply to say that in Israel this news was widely celebrated. It was felt that Trump, as he had done in his first term, was a huge friend of Israel and would help Israel in its current war on terror. A war which is still ongoing, and we are still losing the lives of our precious soldiers. There has been and still is so much pain and sadness in Israel and for our people. In this week’s Parsha, we read that, when Hashem told Avraham what would happen to his descendants, “aimah chashecha gdola nofelet alav” – “a fear of great darkness fell over him”. Rabbi Sacks, back in 2015, told the story of how a group of Holocaust survivors, by now gaunt and frail, made their way back to Auschwitz. How that ‘fear of great darkness’ haunted the survivors, who had witnessed the return of anti-Semitism to Europe after 70 years of political leaders’ constant avowals of “Never again.” https://mailchi.mp/mizrachi/lech-lecha-17989786
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