eturn to
rural life.
hat's all cancer
patients want.
TORAH PORTION
Researchers at the Technion Israel
Institute of Technology were awarded
A Lesson From
Our Teacher Moses
—
the Nobel Prize for work that has led to a
powerful. new cancer drug.
Technion scientists are also discovering
how to disguise cancer cells as viruses,
Shabbat Shemot: Exodus 1:1-6:1;
Isaiah 27:6-28:13; 29:22-23.
so they can be destroyed by the body's
immune system, and are learning why
some tumors resist treatment. Technion
T
to our advantage to learn to live with
here are no supermen on this
them despite their failings.
earth. As human beings, we
Moses transmits to each of us two
are limited. No one can give us
significant
lessons. A person has a
the perfect example of what a person
right
to
feel
despair, but even more
ought to be. As we follow the odyssey
importantly,
a person has the power
of Moses, we realize how alone and
to
overcome
despair.
A person need
how forlorn he is. He is filled with an
not
hide
feelings.
We
have the right to
overwhelming sense of despair in his
scream
when
we
are
in
pain, cry out
heart.
when
we
are
hurt
and
lament
when life
Moses had a very poor self-image.
becomes
difficult.
This
He didn't want to go back to
is
what
makes
all
of
us,
Egypt because he felt inade-
including
Moses,
human.
quate. He knew that the people
But we also have the abil-
would not listen to him. He
ity — and the responsi-
felt that the task assigned to
bility
— to pick ourselves
him was impossible. He told
up
and
continue to work
God that he was not fit and he
toward
important goals.
tried in every way possible to
The
other
lesson is that
But
get out of his assignment.
the
real
heroes
in life are
God would not let him.
AL not always the ones who
Reluctantly, he went, and
do something dramatic.
sure enough all his fears were
Cantor
The real heroes are those
realized. Those who promised
Leonard
whose achievements are
to accompany him to Pharaoh
Gutman
never emblazoned in the
dropped out and left him
Special to the
headlines, but heroes who
holding the bag. To add insult
Jewish News
hang in there and finally
to injury, Pharaoh doubled the
see
some
light
at the end of the tunnel.
work of the slaves.
The survivors are those who stick it
Then, his own people blamed him
out day by day, defeat after defeat, until
for making their situation worse. Who
success comes.
cannot empathize with this poor man,
The significant work of the world
a person who has been cajoled into
is done by those who can endure and
taking on a task that is more than a
survive the longest. The real winners
human being can cope with. Moses
are those who can accept setbacks and
was ready to quit, and who could
start all over again. Moses taught us the
blame him?
simple but basic principle of life that
Yet, even after Moses expresses
if one has the staying power and tries
his frustration, God sends him back.
long enough and hard enough, good
This time, there is some progress.
will come from it. Let this be the lesson
But Moses is not home free. An even
we learn from Moses, our teacher.
greater task is before him. The leader
of the Israelites must take them out of
Leonard Gutman is assistant cantor at
Egypt and then take Egypt out of the
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Oakland
ex-slaves to make them "the chosen
County.
people!'
The 40-year trek through the desert
is filled with chagrin, disillusion and
Conversations
frustration. Moses is almost ready
Discuss people whom you would
to throw up his hands in resignation
regard as modern-day heroes.
— again, but never does. He expresses
Do not limit yourself to those
his disappointment, but he digs in and
"in the news," but consider
carries on. He comes to realize that the
those whom you see and know
world we live in and the people we deal
of in everyday life.
with can be very difficult. On the other
hand, they have much to offer, so it is
research in nanotechnology will one
day yield devices small enough to travel
through the bloodstream and attack
cancer cells.
NO CHALLENGE TOO GREAT
The fut ure of Israel is in high technology, and the future of high
technology in Israel is at the Technion.
American
Technion
Society
email detroit@ats.org , call (248) 737-1990
or visit www.ats.org/cancer
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Matt Engelbert, East Central Regional Director
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