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Pleading for Comfort – Parashat Vaetchanan

Weekly Sidra: Va’etchanan (and I pleaded) Torah Portion: Devarim / Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 40:1-40:26 1 Comfort, oh comfort My people, Says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, And declare to her that her term of service is over, that her iniquity is expiated; For she has received at the hand of HaShem, double for all her sins. (Isaiah 40:1-2) This week we read a special haphtarah for the Sabbath immediately following Tisha B’Av. The Shabbat is called Shabbat Nachamu or Sabbath of Comfort. After three weeks of mourning for the Holy Temple we start seven Shabbats of comfort. The Summer Olympics are upon us. I am not a big fan of the games, but I was reminded that it is the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Massacre. The Munich massacre is an informal name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, [...]