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TAZRIA 5784 Longing For Redemption Rabbi Andrew Shaw Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK
We live in difficult times. As well as a rise in antisemitism across the western world, we now have the spectre of a war with Iran seemingly imminent. We still haven’t defeated Hamas, the hostages have not been returned and the world seems to be turning against Israel. Not the sort of backdrop for the month of Geulah – the month of Redemption. As Chazal teach us: In Nissan they were redeemed, in Nissan they will be redeemed (Rosh Hashanah 11a). I find myself on Shabbat HaChodesh in Glasgow. I am here to speak to the community on their Israel Shabbat. Glasgow is special to me; this is where my grandmother fled to from Nazi Germany in 1938. This is where my mother was born and spent her first decade. This is the place that gave a home to my family – and I will always be grateful. Though I am sure that when my grandma arrived here in the winter of 1938, she would never have dreamed that her grandson, a Rabbi, would be speaking to the Glasgow
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