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SPIRIT

Words To Live By
W

henever we take 
the Torah out from 
the ark, we sing the 
verse taken from our Torah por-
tion (Numbers 10:35): 
“When the Ark was to set out, 
Moses would say:
“
Advance, our God!
“May Your enemies 
be scattered,
“
And may Your ene-
mies flee before You.
”
The verse takes 
place when the peo-
ple of Israel were in 
the wilderness for 40 
years. They were not 
traveling every day, 
though. They would 
stay in one place for a 
long time. The Ark of 
the Covenant would be 
in the center of their 
camp. When it was time to trav-
el, they would pick up the Ark 
and announce that it was time 
to go.
It was a box about 5 feet wide 
and about 2 feet high and deep. 
It was beautiful and covered 
inside and out with gold, but it 
was small. Inside was the Ten 
Commandments written on 
small pieces of stone; otherwise, 
they would not have fit.
This was not the most intimi-
dating weapon. I can only imag-
ine their enemies when they saw 
this coming. Oh, no, here come 
the Israelites and their box of 
rocks.
The Israelite enemies had 
much more sophisticated tech-
nology; but we are still here, and 
they are gone. They have been 
scattered into the dustbin of 
history. 
Most of us will never lead 
armies or devise military strat-
egies. More likely our decisions 
will be how do we deal with the 
people in our own homes. Do 

we treat our disagreements like 
battles to be won, using every 
argument in our disposal to 
defeat those who challenge us; 
or do we look at every situation 
as an opportunity to live by our 
values in a difficult moment? 
We must remember that 
everyone, even those who 
disagree with us, including 
our family, deserves to be 
treated with respect, dignity 
and kindness. 
The real weapon of our 
people, and the only com-
pletely successful one, is that 
we live according to the 
values we take with us. The 
Ten Commandments intro-
duced to the world respect 
for individual rights and 
their property. It insisted 
upon human dignity for all. 
Shabbat is one of the most 
radical statements in history 
on the value of being a human 
being and not just a drone. 
Everyone was entitled to a day 
each week to pursue meaning 
and spend time with their own 
family and friends.
We are the ones who carry the 
values of our tradition into the 
world.
We can show that the greatest 
weapon in the world to defeat 
the senseless hatred in our 
world is to live by the words of 
the Torah that insist that God 
loves every person, and that it 
is our sacred obligation to cre-
ate a world where all of God’s 
creation can live in peace and 
dignity. 
May our enemies be scattered 
by the love we bring into a world 
that needs that more than any-
thing. 

Rabbi Aaron Bergman is a rabbi at Adat 

Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills.

TORAH PORTION

Rabbi Aaron 
Bergman

Parshat 

Bachaalotecha: 

Numbers

8:1-12:16; 

Zechariah

2:14-4:7.

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