60 Seconds of Torah: B'midbar
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As many times as you may have recited these words, what you may not know, until you see the words in the context of this week’s haftorah is that these words appear in a bruising time for that covenant. The people have betrayed God, God has punished the people and covenantal relationship is going through a very hard time. Beautiful as the words may be, the chapter in which they appear is one of the roughest of our entire tradition.
And perhaps therein lies the lesson. A life of faith is not a straighforward proposition – we have good days and we have bad days – sometimes we let God down and sometimes God lets us down. But as with every relationship that means something to us, we get up everyday and find the spiritual wherewithal to recommit and renew – with righteousness and justice, with goodness and mercy.