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Parshat Ki Tavo: Deuteronomy
26:1-29:8; Isaiah 60:1-22.

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TORAH PORTION

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of the most common
working for and serving God in
descriptions in the Torah
freedom. Every hard-earned crop
of the Land of Israel is
grown on their land would taste
that it would be a land "flowing
sweeter to the Israelites than milk
with milk and honey."
and honey itself.
On the surface, this
People around the
seems to be a some-
world today wonder how
what odd description.
it is that Israelis today
Leave aside the fact
can be so enthusiastic
that we usually think
about living in Israel. It
of water as flowing,
seems to be dangerous.
not milk and honey,
There is still not much
the Land of Israel
water. How can Israelis
at that time, and for
talk about the sweetness
centuries to come,
of living in Israel?
Rabbi Aaron
was a pretty rugged
Israelis understand
Bergman
place. Crops did not
that
all the work that they
Special to the
grow easily. Water was
have
done, all the sacrific-
Jewish News
always in short supply.
es they have made, all the
A heat wave could
recognition of the
destroy the flocks
pain of two thou-
and herds.
sand years of exile,
Why then, is
has made their lives
this land called
truly sweet, even
flowing with milk
when things seem
and honey? Is God
chaotic. They turned
merely trying to
a land that would
entice the people
refuse to yield its
to go into the land
riches for thousands
with more enthu-
of years back into
siasm?
a land flowing with
I think the key
milk and honey, a
to understanding
sweetness available
this dilemma is found in the very
for all of us to enjoy and appreci-
beginning of the Torah portion,
ate. ❑
when God demands a sacrifice of
the first fruits upon entering the
Aaron Bergman is a rabbi at Adat
land.
Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
The Torah says that when the
Hills.
Israelites were to enter the land,
they were to bring the first fruits
as a sacrifice, but also acknowledge
their modest beginnings and the
fact that they were once slaves who
Conversations
had faced humiliating and back-
What kinds of sacrifices have
breaking labor. Only then would
Israelis made to create a
they say that the land of Israel is
modern country "flowing with
flowing with milk and honey.
milk and honey"? Have you
There is a connection between
created something in your life
recognizing our freedom and
that has required that kind of
appreciating the Land of Israel.
sacrifice and hard work? What
Only people who understood the
is the basis of your connection
debilitating effects of slavery
to Eretz Yisrael?
could appreciate the sweetness of

Only people
who understood
the debilitating
effects of slavery
could appreciate
the sweetness.