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June 15 . 2006
ur Torah reading this week
"You want meat to eat? Fine! I'll give
begins a series of frustrat-
you meat — you'll eat it not just one
ing and annoying stories of
day, not just two days or five days or 10
Israelite reluctance and resistance.
days or 20 days, but for a solid month,
Though they know that ahead of them
until it comes out your noses and is
lies a rich land, eretz zavat chalav
loathsome to you! I'll teach you to wail
udvash — "a land flowing with milk
and whine about having to leave the
and honey" — the people repeatedly
`wonderful place' that was Egypt!"
cry out, "Woe is us, we'd better turn
Moses, so caught up in his own
around!"
complaining, lets God's
Of course, this isn't the
sarcasm go right over his
first time that these fright-
head, and says, "So much
ened and passive Israelites
meat,s God? The people
were ready to give up and
here number 600,000, and
go back.
that's just the men. They're
Even two books ago, in
all going to get that much
Exodus, within only three
meat? Where are there •
verses of the magnificent
flocks
or herds enough for
Rabbi Joseph
miracle of the splitting of
that;
are
there enough fish
P. Klein
the sea, the Israelites com-
in
the
sea
for that?"
Special to the
plain that they have no
And
God
answers, "Do
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water to drink! How can
you really think, Moses,
they so soon have doubts that God can that I am limited in what I can do?"
do wonders with water?! •
And we the readers are thoroughly
And here in this week's reading .
embarrassed. These are our ancestors?
(Numbers 11) we come to a particu-
We're supposed to point to them with
larly embarrassing episode. The people pride? Who would have believed that
are weeping in their desert tents that
this people Israel back then would be
they only have manna to eat. They
our people Israel today? But though
miss the meat and veggies they were
the Israelites are whining in their wan-
served in Egypt.
dering, we know that they will indeed
Never mind they were slaves then.
pull themselves together, that they will
Never mind that God has freed them.
affirm a covenant with God that will
All they can think of is food!
sustain them into us, 3,500 years later.
And as God burns hot with anger
In finally figuring out who they
at the people, Moses registers up his
were, they found strength in their com-
own complaints — as if God hasn't
munion with God and in their com-
already heard enough whining from
munity under God.
the Israelites! Moses schries, "Why
go while it is somewhat embarrass-
have You, God, treated me so poorly?
ing to read these stories of our ances-
Why have I not found some favor in
tral leaders, way back at the beginning
your eyes that you have laid the burden of our people — there is an ennobling
of these people on me alone?
reassurance that from them rose this
"Did I give birth to them, that now
enduring andworld-changing nation.
You make me lift them to my breast -
We are they, and they are we — and
and nurse them? Why do I have to
the chosen people are still choosing
carry them to the land You promised
themselves. ill
them?
Conversations
"Now where am I going to get meat
This
story is a valuable, teachable
for them to eat? If this is the way You
moment.
What qualities of the Israelites
God are going to treat me, then just kill
(the
"children"
of Israel) are important
me now and put me out of my mis-
for
us
to
share
with
our children as we
ery!" This is Moses our leader?
help
them
to
grow?
God, it appears, is "up to here" with
the lot of them. So in a marvelous
Joseph P. Klein is rabbi of Temple
example of divine humor, God declares
Emanu-El in Oak Park.
to the people: