A spectacular Sunday in Southern California, and we have a great live show for you this weekend. We'll start with the sad news about the terrible shooting at a Chinese New Year party near L.A. -- and the suspect is no white supremacist.
Then we'll turn to the news that the DOJ searched Joe Biden's house on Friday and found more classified material -- and that there may be even more out there! This, after the White House assured us that the searching was done!
We've got a debt ceiling fight, and the White House doesn't want to negotiate -- after it pushed through nearly $2 trillion in spending last month, suddenly, the debt ceiling is a crisis. Joe Manchin has other ideas. Will this time be different?
We've got ongoing flood recovery in California, left-wing riots in Atlanta, and reparations in devastated San Francisco. So much to talk about today... looking forward to sharing ideas with you and with our crew of special guests.
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Emma-Jo Morris - Breitbart News political editor
Richie Greenberg - San Francisco activist and commentator
Nir Ziso - founder of the Global Architect Institute, on life as a "simulation"
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This is the portion that all journalists should love: the Torah tells the story of the 12 spies, only two of whom tell the truth when the other ten shade it in a negative away (perhaps to suit a political agenda that is opposed to Moses).
It's not that the ten "lying" spies misconstrue the facts about the Land of Israel; rather, they interject their opinions that the land is impossible to conquer, which strikes unnecessary terror into the hearts of the people.
We have many examples of such fake news today -- from the Iranian propaganda outlets spreading false claims that they are winning the war, to California politicians spreading false horror stories about ICE raids in L.A.
The people realize, too late, that they have been fooled, and once they are condemned to die in the desert, they try to rush into Israel -- only to be defeated by the inhabitants, as the spies predicted that they would be.
But as consolation, God gives the people new commandments -- focused on things they must ...
This week's portion discusses the procedure for lighting the menorah, the holy seven-branched lamp, in the Tabernacle (and later the Temple). It also describes an episode where the people crave meat, and God punishes them by giving it to them in excess. We also read the story of Miriam, Moses's sister, who is punished with the spiritual skin blemish of tzara'at for speaking about her brother, thus violating the prohibition against lashon hara (evil tongue).
I heard a fantastic sermon this week about the lighting of the menorah: that while only the priests were qualified to clean and purify the menorah, anyone could light it. A reminder that each of us can inspire others along the way.
This week we study the vow of the Nazirite; a reminder that sometimes trying to be too holy is excessive, and the best we can do is to be the best that we are.
https://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading_cdo/aid/2495720/p/complete/jewish/Naso-Torah-Reading.htm
