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Broken Cisterns – Sidra Matot / Masei

Weekly Sidra: Matot-Masei Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 30:2-36:13 Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah: 2:4-28; 4:1-4:2 “For My people have done a twofold wrong: They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters, And hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, Which cannot even hold water.” (Jeremiah 2:13) The human body is made up of over 70 per cent of water.  We can go without food for a long time, but we could not survive too long without water. In our modern society we have no shortage of water.  We can get it from the tap, the hose or the store.  We also have a wide range of water from spring, bottled, flavoured and electrolyte waters. However, just as our physical body needs water we also need spiritual water to survive.  Jeremiah was lamenting the fact that not only have we forsaken Hashem, but we have created our own broken vessels which cannot hold [...]