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Then they announced that they "loathed" the wondrous manna that had nourished them now for forty years. But this too was connected with the fact that they were fast approaching the Promised Land. They said: This light bread was adequate during our long "abnormal" existence in the wilderness, where we enjoyed divine protection. Now, however, as we are about to enter the real world and became responsible for our security and economic will being, perhaps this "light bread" is too "spiritual" to provide the extra energy (just the developing infant begins to find his mother’s milk inadequate; Netziv).
So too, our own generation. After fifty-eight years of kibbutz galuyot and Jewish sovereignty in Eretz Yisroel, we are drawing closer to the Promised Redemption. And once again, we have become impatient. In our desire to "get there already’ some have resorted to violence and turned against the State. This is foolish and dangerous. Others who are still in Galut should perhaps begin to question the attitudes they have been "fed" for so long. Perhaps these were adequate for the "abnormal" existence during the long Exile but they have failed to provide the spiritual fibre and balanced outlook needed to respond properly to the new reality which is Atchalta Degeula- "the beginning of the sprouting of our Redemption."
Rabbi Akiva Eiger (Introduction)
Rabbi Daniel Mann | 5775
The Birth of Hope
Bechukotai 5779
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Iyar 18 5779
