Parshat Shekalim: One nation with one destiny
Jews the world over, estranged for decades if not generations, have been forced to return to the Jewish body, to recognise that their destiny is Jewish destiny.
Jews the world over, estranged for decades if not generations, have been forced to return to the Jewish body, to recognise that their destiny is Jewish destiny.
Pulsating under the many episodes of this week's sedra is the inevitable tension in human life between free choice and preordained destiny.
Iran/Persia, the hostile Ishmaelic state will go the way of Achashverosh and Haman. How Hashem will do it makes for fascinating theories.
What is it that gave these very different men, Joshua and Calev, the strength to perceive what the others missed?