Gimme Some Torah

Gimme Some Torah

#539: Life Is Good, Not Fair

A D'var Torah about Moses and the Rock

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Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel
Jul 15, 2024
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A man nervously scratches off a lottery ticket in front of the lotto machine.

Note: This is the sermon I gave on Shabbat morning. It was written before the assassination attempt occurred.

Shabbat Shalom. This is a difficult Torah portion to read because God treats Moses very unfairly, at least from Moses’s perspective. Look at Moses’s record. He challenge…

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