August 29, 2019 / 28 Av, 5779 • Parshat Re'eh
Issue 576
Dedicated in loving memory of Mrs. Miriam Friedman

You are the children of G-d, your G-d.

Devarim14:1


You are children of G-d, your G-d

This metaphor implies that just as a child originates in its parents' essence, so do the Jewish people originate in G-d's essence. In the words of the Baal Shem Tov, "Every Jew is as precious to G-d as an only son born to his parents in their old age is to them--and, in fact, even more precious."

From Kehot's Chumash

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