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AUGUST 26 • 2021
SPIRIT
TORAH PORTION
Pause and Reflect
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n the Torah portion this learned from our experiences week known as Ki Tavo, of this past year? What would we read one of the more we put in our basket? Would famous and well-known we put a computer screen passages in our tradition. The with a Zoom session going in passage opens by telling the our basket? Would we put in Israelites that when a face mask? As we look they enter the Land to the coming year of of Israel, they should 5782 what do we want perform the First our basket of first fruits Fruits ceremony. to look like? They are to bring a One other aspect of basket with some of Rabbi Robert thinking of this past Gamer every first fruit of the year in terms of the First soil and then bring the Fruit ceremony is to Parshat basket to the kohen consider the narrative. Ki Tavo: in charge at that time The Israelites focused on Deuteronomy in the place that God moving from slavery to 26:1-29:8; will designate. Once Isaiah 60:1- freedom. What would there, the person is to be our narrative that 22. recite a formula that we would want to recite begins, “My father was before the kohen, before a fugitive Aramean. He went our community and before down to Egypt with meager God this coming year? numbers and sojourned What immediately there …” (Deuteronomy 26:1comes to my mind is that I 10). This passage became a believe I have learned more central text of the Passover deeply the importance of Haggadah, a text we recite connections. Specifically, each year at the seder. I mean connections with Rabbi Ilana Grinblat my family, with my friends suggests one of the purposes and with our community. of this ritual: After Israelites For so many people the wandered the wilderness for physical act of connecting 40 years, it is as if the Torah is with others has been one of asking them to ponder what the greatest challenges as we it is that they have learned have all endured some level of from their experience. What isolation during this past year does it mean for the Israelites as we sheltered in place. standing in the Land of Israel As we go forward into this to recall that difficult journey new year, I pray we all take from slavery in Egypt to some time to contemplate freedom? For the Israelites, it our basket of first fruit and was that God was the ultimate our narrative to go along source of their liberation. with it. May we all be blessed As we quickly approach with a happy and healthy the coming Yamim Nora’im, New Year. the Days of Awe, we should Rabbi Robert Gamer is the rabbi at be asking ourselves the same Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak question. What are our first Park. fruits? What is it that we have
