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In this week’s parshah, we are looking at the end of the 40 years of Klal Yisrael being in the desert. Klal Yisrael is now approaching Eretz Canaan (Yisrael) from the south. The land of Edom was between them and Eretz Canaan. Hashem instructed Moshe Rabbeinu not to attack Edom, Klal Yisrael’s cousins, Eisav’s descendants. Moshe sends messengers to the king of Edom, requesting permission to take a shortcut through their land to reach Eretz Canaan faster. They would stay on the highway and even pay for food and drink. Edom refuses and threatens to attack. Klal Yisrael is forced to take the long route around, heading towards the east.
Recap: Jordie and Zevi have to leave the plane, since they recognize the known terrorist. Jordie tells the flight attendant that his friend is having a recurrence of Covid. Zevi keeps coughing. They get permission to leave the plane. Then they are told that they will be flying to England instead.
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NYPD Officer Emilia Rennhack, 30, was among four people killed on Friday when an allegedly drunken driver, Steven Schwally, crashed his minivan into a Long Island nail salon.
Parshiyos B’Haaloscha, Sh’lach, Korach – these are all parshiyos where B’nei Yisrael had incredible nisyonos (challenges, tests). Even for the nation who lived with the Sh’chinah: Eating mann, drinking water from a rock, being surrounded by the Clouds of Glory (knowing that outside the clouds was a vast dangerous desert), and seeing the pillar of cloud/fire above the Mishkan – they had nisyonos on their level that we can’t even relate to. (However, we must realize that over a 40-year period, they had ten nisyonos in which they could’ve done better! We have, like, ten nisyonos over a 40-minute period that we could have done better!)
Recap: Jordie and Zevi are told not to go back to Zevi’s aunt. They are picked up by a cab and the driver says the code and hands them tickets for a flight to Israel. He drives them to the airport. They board the plane and then Zevi notices a woman seated across the aisle, wearing a black burka covering her face, and she has a mole on her forefinger.
For the second year in a row, world renowned singer Ishay Ribo is scheduled to headline the premier Jewish unity concert of the year in the “world’s most famous arena,” Madison Square Garden in New York City. Building on last year’s successful late summer event, this year’s version, scheduled for Sunday, September 15, promises to be grander and all the more thrilling.
