VOLUME 20, ISSUE 26 FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013 \/ 22 SIVAN 5773
\nCANDLE LIGHTING: 7:58 P.M. SHABBAT ENDS: 9:09 PM (CHICAGO)
\nTORAH PORTION: SH\u2019LACH (NUMBERS 8:1 – 12:16)<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s CTN Shabbat Fax is sponsored in honor of Rabbi Yehuda and Mashie Polstein, and the fabulous work they are doing at the Jewish Family Experience (JFE). CTN is honored to partner with you in this vital project. Special<\/em> ‘mazal tov’ wishes to JFE student Sol Zilberman, as well as to his parents, regular participants in JFE classes with Rabbi Katz, on the occasion of Sol’s Bar Mitzvah. May you grow to make your parents and the entire Jewish People proud!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Story of the Spies: It was after the Exodus. The Jews had left Egypt. VOLUME 20, ISSUE 26 FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013 \/ 22 SIVAN 5773 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:58 P.M. SHABBAT ENDS: 9:09 PM (CHICAGO) TORAH PORTION: SH\u2019LACH (NUMBERS 8:1 – 12:16) This week\u2019s CTN Shabbat Fax is sponsored in honor of Rabbi Yehuda and Mashie Polstein, and the fabulous work they are doing at the Jewish Family Experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-chicago-torah-network-shabbat-fax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. We felt so small \u2026 and that\u2019s how they looked at us. (13:33)<\/h4>\n
\nThey\u2019re about to enter the Land of Israel. And they send spies to check it out first.
\nThe spies report back: \u201cWe can\u2019t do it. The people there are too powerful. The cities fortified.
\nWe are doomed.
\nWe felt so small. And that\u2019s how they looked at us.\u201d
\nJewish tradition sees a powerful lesson in these last words: “We felt so small. And that\u2019s how
\nthey looked at us”.
\n\u2026 That people see us as we see ourselves.
\nThat if we know what we stand for. What we are trying to accomplish.
\nIf we believe in what we are doing.
\nThen people will respect us.
\nBut if we are unsure about ourselves. About our goals.
\nIf we are small in our own eyes.
\nThat\u2019s exactly how people will see us.
\n\u2026 And it\u2019s especially true for us. As American Jews.
\nIf we \u2013 and our children \u2013 are in touch with our heritage. And our history.
\nUnderstand our mission as Jews. Are proud of it. And committed to it.
\nIf we respect ourselves as Jews.
\nThen we can expect others to respect us as well.
\nShmuel Agnon and Robert Aumann are two individuals who can serve as very good\u00a0<\/strong>examples. Who can teach us a lot.<\/strong>
\nTwo Israeli Jews who received the world\u2019s most prestigious award for intellectual accomplishment.
\nThe Nobel Prize.
\nAgnon in literature (1966) and Aumann in economics (2005).
\nBoth observant Jews. Deeply committed to Torah values and observance.
\nIn fact, they each celebrated Shabbat in Stockholm and then rushed over to the banquet hall.
\nMaking it just in time for the Saturday night ceremony!
\n(Actually, Agnon had an added challenge. He had to light Chanukah candles first!)
\nThis week\u2019s CTN Shabbat Fax is sponsored in honor of Rabbi Yehuda and Mashie Polstein, and\u00a0the fabulous work they are doing at the Jewish Family Experience (JFE). CTN is honored to\u00a0partner with you in this vital project. Special ‘mazal tov’ wishes to JFE student Sol Zilberman, as\u00a0well as to his parents, regular participants in JFE classes with Rabbi Katz, on the occasion of\u00a0Sol’s Bar Mitzvah. May you grow to make your parents and the entire Jewish People proud!
\nThey stood before the King of Sweden proudly wearing their yarmulkes.
\nThey made other Jews proud. And earned the respect of people all over the world.
\n\u2026 And they both expressed the place that Israel has had in the hearts of hearts of the Jewish
\nPeople for the last 2000 years.
\nAgnon<\/strong>: \u201cAs a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem \u2026 I was\u00a0born in one of the cities of the Exile. But I always regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
\nI am very small indeed in my own eyes \u2026 If I am proud of anything it is that I have been granted the\u00a0privilege of living in the land which G-d promised to our forefathers \u2026 as it is written \u2026\u201d
\nAumann<\/strong>: \u201cYour Royal Highness, we have, over the years \u2026 participated in the scientific enterprise \u2026\u00a0studied and taught \u2026 and pushed forward the boundaries of knowledge \u2026 And I have participated in\u00a0the realization of a 2000 year old dream \u2013 the return of my people to Jerusalem, to its homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"