Mainly -- not helping my wife out enough around the house, and especially with the baby. I've been working on that this week, in the Ten Days of Repentance. I improved over the year, but can do more.
I'm also trying to be a little more patient with my kids, and to keep my own thoughts out of self-destructive ruts. I've been working on this for a while, and I'm seeing progress, so I know I can do it.
Oh -- and money. Young families have all kinds of cash flow issues. I need to get my finances under control this year, regardless. I'm going to pray for that, but I know that I am capable of getting it done.
I'm grateful for all the health and love and joy that I have in my life, and I'm wishing the same to all my family and friends, and thanking you, the readers, for continuing to follow and to support my work.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
