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RE’EH 5784 A Time To Mourn, A Time To Dance Rabbi Andrew Shaw Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK
I have finally arrived in Israel. From when I took off from Heathrow on Wednesday morning, it took 33 hours until I arrived in Tel Aviv! I had to fly with my son via Larnaca (Cyprus) and then there were long delays – but we got here. That is a whole other story. Israel is not the same country that it was and the scars of October 7th are everywhere. From the names of the hostages as you walk towards passport control in Ben Gurion, to the posters and signs all over the country, not to mention the thousands of people still displaced from the homes and the grieving of the families of the 1500 or so who have been murdered and killed by Hamas and Hezbollah. However, despite this, it is still Israel, the Jewish home, the greatest testament to the renaissance of the Jewish people in over 2000 years, as Rabbi Sacks said: The messiah has not come. Israel is not yet at peace. The Temple has not been rebuilt. Our time is not yet redemption. Yet many, if not all, of the prayers of two thousand years have been answered. Which is why this week’s parsha is difficult to read. https://mailchi.mp/mizrachi/dvar-torah-for-parashat-reeh-17988399
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