Making a Positive Impact on MITF Rahat (Video)

"See, today I set before you blessing and curse." Moses stands before the people, they are facing the future and he is facing the desert, he will not be entering the promised land. "See today," he tells them. Re'eh, see, in the singular, not "see" in the plural, addressing them as though they were one person, as though speaking to each one individually. Re'eh, as if speaking to himself, knowing that what the heart sees, the eyes do not see. To see the future is to know how to choose. To choose, one must know how to remember, to recall, and to look back. […]

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Seven times Joseph weeps, more than any other person in the Torah. He does not cry when he is thrown into the pit, nor when he is sold to the Ishmaelites. He does not weep when cast into prison, nor when betrayed by his companions there. He does not weep from happiness at his success. Seven times he weeps, but only in his encounters with his brothers, with his father, in the presence of, or facing, his family. […]

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