No, U.S. Sanctions Are Not the Reason for Iran’s Coronavirus Crisis
The ayatollahs’ financial woes are the result of prioritizing terrorism over caring for their people.
March 20, 2020
A mob built the Golden Calf; a community built the Tabernacle.
This week’s Torah reading of Vayakhel-P’kudey (Exodus 35–40), begins with Moses briefly reminding the Israelites to observe the Sabbath and then, reiterating God’s commands in Exodus 25–28, to construct the Tabernacle—the portable sanctuary where they would worship in the wilderness. In this seeming redundancy, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks finds the Torah’s “primer on how to build community.”
The ayatollahs’ financial woes are the result of prioritizing terrorism over caring for their people.
But coronavirus is only a convenient excuse.
And that would be good for Israel.
Are there more important things than being a Jew?
A mob built the Golden Calf; a community built the Tabernacle.
This week’s Torah reading of Vayakhel-P’kudey (Exodus 35–40), begins with Moses briefly reminding the Israelites to observe the Sabbath and then, reiterating God’s commands in Exodus 25–28, to construct the Tabernacle—the portable sanctuary where they would worship in the wilderness. In this seeming redundancy, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks finds the Torah’s “primer on how to build community.”
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