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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

SHABBATH SHIRAH, TU B'SHEVAT, ROSH CHODESH ADAR, SHABBATH ZACHOR, TANITH ESTHER, PURIM, SHUSHAN PURIM

SHABBATH SHIRAH and TU B'SHEVAT came in the early half of last month. We put out crusts of bread for the birds, who sing with us on Shabbath Shirah, remembering the Miracle of the Splitting of the Yam Suf. Was Gilad Shalit gifted with even crusts of bread in his Gaza prison? Was there a splitting of some sea that has yet to reveal itself to us, that Gilad Shalit is free or imminently shall be? We tasted new fruits on Tu B'Shevath.... What did Gilad Shalit taste???

ROSH CHODESH ADAR came already in the early part of last week, SHABBATH ZACHOR comes this Shabbath, and TANITH ESTHER and PURIM and SHUSHAN PURIM shall come the early part of next week. We remember, in this month of Adar especially, the character of AMALEK; and we remember the BIBLICAL MITZVAH to blot out the remembrance of Amalek. It is the character of Amalek -- and his descendants -- to wage war on the weak, the helpless, the stragglers, the isolated....

This Shabbath Zachor, let us remember Gilad Shalit, who suffers at the hands of the descendants of Amalek. And may The Holy One -- Blessed Be He -- See to it that among the Hidden Miracles of Purim, the Seeds of Freedom for Gilad Shalit are already as sweet and available to taste as the MUN HAMANTASHEN that we anticipate joyfully and associate with the gifts of life, freedom, and the existential right to exist!!