for Parshat Naso
The Sotah is the woman whose husband suspects her of straying. She enters a ceremony of drinking water filled with dust from the ground of the Mishkan, the Tent of God’s presence. When the ordeal is over and the Sotah is proven innocent, the text says, this woman goes on to give birth.
The husband and wife reunite by way of the ground that God’s presence rests upon.
And so God’s presence rests on our coming back together.
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Shabbat Shalom,
Abe