For Parshat Pikudei
The cloud of God rests upon the Tent of God.
The people encamp around the Tent, around the cloud.
When the cloud lifts up, the people follow it.
They follow the cloud until it rests down, and the people reunite with it again.
The cloud rests and rises up, rests and rises up, throughout the forty years in the Desert,
and the people follow the cloud all the way to the Land.
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The people do not come to the Land by encamping steadily around the cloud.
They do not come to the Land by resting steadily with God.
They come to the Land in the continual process of being apart from God
and reuniting with Him again,
and being apart from God and reuniting with Him again,
and being apart from God and reuniting with Him again for forty years.
In this cycle, they arrive.
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Shabbat Shalom, Abe
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Please pray for the premature infant Baer Yakov ben Emunah, who is improving and needs our prayers now; and for the infant Ayelet Yakira bat Chaya Hinda Matel Nechama, and register for bone marrow for Ayelet. Please also pray for Ahuvah Rachel bat Orah and for Rachel Tovah bat Yehudit Esther.
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