Torah With A Twist

   Be-Shallach They came to Marah, and found the water was not palatable. So, they complained to Moses, and he cried out to G-D, “What shall we drink?!”  G-D said, “Take the tree branch over there, and toss it in the water.”  Moses threw the branch into the water, and…………..the water became “sweet”! Then they came to Eilimah, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters. And the house of Israel called its name manna, and it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.  For the last 2 years, we've been stuck at home, unable to travel and wonder where we so well please and see new discoveries!  We can parallel and find similarities to this week's Torah Portion/Parsha-   How significant is all this I ask? Bitter water to that of SWEETNESS from tree bark!? Wandering in the desert with 70 palm trees, AND some palms, are DATE palms and produce the date fruit that ...

  In this week's Torah Portion, Pharaoh calls for Moses and Aaron, as the plagues are starting to affect him personally!!   He told them, “plan your exodus, take your wives, take your children, your children’s children, and your herds and flocks of animals, and your belongings, and I shall, “Let YOUR people go!”  They packed, and grabbed their belongings, and started their journey!  A long journey at that.....as we know how the story goes. To this very day, we remember!  WE REMEMBER!   Each and every year, we commemorate in reverence to our survival, our not being under The Pharaoh's rule as slaves!  We have survived, day in and day out.  It is our tribute and remembrance to times of slavery, to times of unjust persecution, to times of severe undue punishment, to times of plague.  We all have experienced persecution some time in our histories/life!  We all must comprehend that labeling facilitates this behavior as does social medi...