I recently noticed that the word “how” and “who” have the same letters yet very different meanings.
Apparently, linguistically, the word “who” is used more frequently — yet the word “how” is more associated with change.
The how to get something done or to move forward, far more pivotal than the “who did it” that so often gets associated with blaming or relying on another.
Moses in this week’s Parsha asks the “how” or in the original wording “eicha”— when questioning of Gd, regarding the overwhelming burden of leadership.
The response was fast in coming — set up courts of law, delegate judicial decisions and empower a subset of leaders to shoulder the burden.
How as a catalyst for change. How as a catalyst to take a step forward — opening ourselves up to the Divine blessing.
Next week we mourn the destruction of the two Temples that stood on Temple Mount — on the saddest day of the year, called Tisha B’av. We read of the book of Lamentations — called Megilat “Eicha”.
There we have it again, Eicha. The “how” that’s associated with life. The “how” that’s associated with challenging times.. the how in the most painful of times —the “how” that drives change, and it’s change that guarantees, future!!
Speaking of future — it’s all in the children — see here in photo form the tremendous future that we have here locally with the campers at Gan Izzy — Am Yisrael Chai!
With best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Yehuda & Dina Kantor