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Torah Portion

Are We Like The Sand
Or Like The Stars?

ise made to Abraham that his seed
would be many and numerous, like
the sand on the seashore and the
stars in the sky. But here, with a sly
subtlety, Moses says: "God has mul-
tiplied you as the stars in heaven."
Why did he leave out the metaphor
illir e begin this week a new
that they are like the sand on the
book of Torah, Sefer
shore? It is because with sand, the
Devarim, the Book of
grains tend to cling together. The
Deuteronomy. Its
stars, on the other hand, must be
Hebrew name comes from its open-
separated from one another by vast
ing phrase eilch hadvarim asher dibei
areas of space so that each scar is a
Moshe — "These are the words spo-
separate world to itself.
ken by Moses."
For Moses, they are
What then follows is a
most definitely not like the
repetition (of sorts) of the
sand: united and unified,
events, laws and rituals
clinging to one another.
described in previous books
They are much more like
of Exodus, Leviticus and
the stars in the sky: scat-
Numbers. It is for that rea-
tered and far distant from
son that the book bears the
one another, even worlds
Greek title of Deuteronomy,
apart from one another.
the "Second (or repeated)
Thus, Moses says here: "I
Law."
RAB BI
am not able to bear you
Indeed, the second
JOSEPH KLEIN myself alone — I can no
telling of the story begins
longer lead you by myself
Sp ecia to the
with a recounting of events
because the Lord, your
Jewish News
from the exodus out of
God, has multiplied you;
Egypt and into the desert.
for you are this day as the
Moses reflects upon Revelation from
stars of heaven, scattered and worlds
Sinai, listing the "ten sayings" that
apart from one another." So long
we call the Ten Commandments,
ago and so little has changed.
reviewing the laws and statutes given
We pray that with the opening of
at Sinai. It is also a review of the
this new book of Torah, we might
hard-headed and stiff-necked
finally learn the lessons of our histo-
Israelites who cannot work together
ry. God promised that we would
as a single people under Moses or in
become (that we could become) like
covenant with God.
the sand on the shore or the stars in
Moses reminds the Israelites of
the sky. Let us choose, at long last,
the promise God had made long
to be like the sand.
before to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
and of its fulfillment in their day:
"God has multiplied you ... as the
stars in heaven." (Deuteronomy
1:10).
I suppose that this is both the
good news and the bad news about
od's people, each wrapped around
each other here at the opening of
In what other ways and under
Moses' great farewell address. Yes, we
what
circumstances might posi-
are blessed by God with strength
tive
characteristics
of people
and endurance that have enabled us
become
negative
qualities?
What
to persevere wherever we have lived;
are
the
ways
that,
and
times
but as a stiff-necked and stubborn
when, the people Israel do act
people, we are too often our own
like grains of sand? Are we as a
worst enemy.
people
more likely to "stick
It is interesting to hear Moses
together"
because of internal
address the nation with his version
forces
(within
the Jewish people)
of their history. He recalls the prom-
or external forces (what others
Joseph Klein is rabbi of Temple
do to us)?
Emanu-El.

Shabbat Devarim:
Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22;
Isaiah 1:1-27.

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