Parsha:

Eikev 

Description

Our history is predicated on being strangers, always in search of the place where we find safety. The ability to love the stranger is not only a moral imperative but, as we have learned so tragically in recent days and years, it can very well be the difference between life and death. That the culture "hates" the stranger serves only to make the stranger more isolated. 'Yet, for all the acts of mass violence which necessarily capture our attention - from Uvalde to Virginia Tech, across the country and across the years - there are thousands who fit this ger criteria who do not commit violence. We are told to care for the stranger but to do so we must ask, who is the ger?