Go that I may send you to Pharoah
When it’s summer in midtown Manhattan, coming back into the office lobby after lunch is like a glass of cool water.
Category: Exodus
2nd book of the Torah
“And the Lord said: ‘you shall say to him…if you refuse to send them off, I will scourge all your region”.
At last, she heard the sound of his key in the door.
And it happened at midnight that the Lord struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt
No one in L.A. knows how to drive in the rain, and this Sunday was a killer rain.
If an ox gores someone to death, the owner of the ox will not be held responsible. But if the ox has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills someone, its owner also is to be put to death.
From his bedroom, George heard the glass window smash with a determined violence that he had imagined but never experienced.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the Israelites, that they take me a donation from every man, as his heart may urge”.
“As we enter the season of giving, we are asking each of our employees to give, give, give.
And the people saw that Moses lagged in coming down from the mountain, and they assembled against Aaron and said to him, “Rise up, make us gods that will go before us, for this man Moses who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.””
Looking down at my unconscious father in his hospital bed, it is a challenge to see him as the unpredictable and tempestuous man I’ve known all my life.
”And they took from before Moses all the donation that the Israelites had brought for the task of the holy work to do it, and they on their part brought more freewill gifts morning after morning. And all the wise people…said to Moses, saying, ‘The people are bringing too much for the work of the task that the Lord charged to do..”
In the early days of the place that we now call California, all of the animals were not getting along with each other very well.
”And from the indigo and the purple and the crimson they made service garments to serve in the sanctuary”
“Stand up straight! When you’re being fitted for clothing, I don’t care if it’s a suit or if it’s a costume, you want to be in a proper position so that the clothing fits.”
