Summary: <p>Uvalde. Buffalo. Santa Ana. Bomb threats at JCCs (including our own).</p> <p>If the Messiah were ever going to come to fix our broken world, now would be a good time.</p> <p>On Shabbat we are going to take a look at three texts that deal with the Messiah.</p> <p>The first is an <a href="https://us-west-2.protection.sophos.com/?d=rs6.net&u=aHR0cHM6Ly9yMjAucnM2Lm5ldC90bi5qc3A_Zj0wMDFWVDJndEgtaVI4elo2Mk1PN250N3BOSlViSXVpUUZYbUduVFVSbmh1dndhaWlHNUd2TzJHQzZZTEI0ZkxEOHZ4WjI3QVJHRFgxQ1ltU0hYOEZQM3hZNlBUbVFUNS0tZlh6M2RrRzVZNVNJbG9IRFZiVGFiYTY1ZUtZRFFadmZIUDN4b0NUZXJLS2RDYjJZVmVST2drRDVyQmVpaDN6SHNDbGlwRjNVWG1CaWV4Q1dHdlhTUDlzY3FHZVpiUFlhVjNMLVFNRGg4SENhN3lob2VDM05MMHZoU0xrQVplV0h5UGJtOWpRcmNNeVFkaDhLU2lVbmdYVnc9PSZjPVg5dEJxcVowaHNRdFdPR0E1ZzlwZTBFVWRZLWx2alY1b240clNWOFFLX0ZGU1pYM0dPRlNHZz09JmNoPVdTWXVDNHNWWF9ocDBuZ0t3LUFnNG9OYk5BSTRiUVJPYXhkbXN3MjloZnRVRTVITnVwMWJuQT09&i=NWQzYjQ1ODFjMDRhMGIxMTcyMWEyYmNl&t=YUdUbFIzNUU1OE1jSnkrVUhBWk8rSlV6dko2RlE5anFiWHlVTlE2K0ZzYz0=&h=1fa60d0accf3403d99c7f721969db275" target="_blank">Elijah story.</a> Elijah famously tells a rabbi searching for the Messiah that you can find him in a leper colony, among the most diseased and impoverished people.</p> <p>The second is a story by Israel’s Nobel Prize-winning author Shmuel Agnon called <a href="https://us-west-2.protection.sophos.com/?d=rs6.net&u=aHR0cHM6Ly9yMjAucnM2Lm5ldC90bi5qc3A_Zj0wMDFWVDJndEgtaVI4elo2Mk1PN250N3BOSlViSXVpUUZYbUduVFVSbmh1dndhaWlHNUd2TzJHQzZZTEI0ZkxEOHZ4eXFwS3Q4VWlCMWZFbkJBemJ5dzB6dWV6bVRpSVE5b2MzMHphRnkxUHU4WXpHYlRSZldkanlQU09TZ2pqTHRnUnQ1b195VDM5cGRmV2ZCaG5IVVdyS1dCU0pna2NxNHRjTFdyM1pkRG5MTUw5NmZpdmpnVk1xZG5iTjZaeUpaaDRkbVY3aU5DdFVnVEVybTZyLUJZTTZyVU9FMDZoclVXbjJwNk1KV1F2aS0wbldUaVJROERKQUE9PSZjPVg5dEJxcVowaHNRdFdPR0E1ZzlwZTBFVWRZLWx2alY1b240clNWOFFLX0ZGU1pYM0dPRlNHZz09JmNoPVdTWXVDNHNWWF9ocDBuZ0t3LUFnNG9OYk5BSTRiUVJPYXhkbXN3MjloZnRVRTVITnVwMWJuQT09&i=NWQzYjQ1ODFjMDRhMGIxMTcyMWEyYmNl&t=VXp1N09SMmUwb0MzdFRZSjh3YWlQa2pqVy80ZXNwK2VPQ2pQS1plcHJCYz0=&h=1fa60d0accf3403d99c7f721969db275" target="_blank">The Kerchief,</a> which is a literary treatment of the passage from the Talmud about the Messiah coming from a leper colony.</p> <p>The third is a sermon by Rabbi Harold Kushner, delivered at his son Aaron’s Bar Mitzvah (Aaron would pass away later that year), on the <a href="https://us-west-2.protection.sophos.com/?d=rs6.net&u=aHR0cHM6Ly9yMjAucnM2Lm5ldC90bi5qc3A_Zj0wMDFWVDJndEgtaVI4elo2Mk1PN250N3BOSlViSXVpUUZYbUduVFVSbmh1dndhaWlHNUd2TzJHQzZZTEI0ZkxEOHZ4eUJoMFNwMm5yZXdyQWpwUUJhUlhMRnVtTUphZmV1SFQ2UVBINm01QWkxUUZZak5IY1hYelJXSEpBUUw0TGJWYmxRSDQ0Y3F6akZKZ1FXdms0RjRpMW42ZTNhdFR4YkltTWhhSklNRVk1YXhvZkFvODNoUWNhekc4RVl6NkFzc2VuV3A2dWV1ZFI0Q1lvWXR0WWtvNUxkVXdzNkk2QnlFMG5uc0laN29QTHZIaWotNkNpRDJrbXc9PSZjPVg5dEJxcVowaHNRdFdPR0E1ZzlwZTBFVWRZLWx2alY1b240clNWOFFLX0ZGU1pYM0dPRlNHZz09JmNoPVdTWXVDNHNWWF9ocDBuZ0t3LUFnNG9OYk5BSTRiUVJPYXhkbXN3MjloZnRVRTVITnVwMWJuQT09&i=NWQzYjQ1ODFjMDRhMGIxMTcyMWEyYmNl&t=cGt4MDdORXJnZVRLSmxYLy8yYlRlVzFWMjI5bEd1bXlGb2NkMEgzS2xEOD0=&h=1fa60d0accf3403d99c7f721969db275" target="_blank">Agnon story.</a></p>
