I am a rabbi in the middle of the "Fall High Holy Day Sweeps".
As I prepared for this week's Shabbat/Sabbath services, I was struck with the way in which one of the readings from the prophets, Joel 2:19-20, seemed a fitting summary of the week and the debate last evening:
- "And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with that; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;
- But I will remove far off from you the northerner, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea, and his stench and foul smell shall rise, though he has done great things."
Have a great weekend and Shabbat/Sabbath