{"id":55769,"date":"2020-07-03T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T20:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55769"},"modified":"2020-07-03T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T20:32:02","slug":"off-the-pulpit-the-new-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-the-new-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: The new wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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In experiencing the long days of the pandemic however, we can perhaps develop more sympathy with the situation of our forebearers. For a difficult, prolonged situation sorely tests the nerves of even the most patient. Slight disagreements erupt into full-throated arguments. Different strategies become polarizing fights. People get on one another\u2019s last nerve.<\/p>\n

That is why the vision of a promised land is so important in the story of the wilderness. We have to envision a better world at the end of the trials. Like the Israelites, we need not come through the desert empty-handed. We can come through it understanding more about ourselves, one another, and believing that at the end of the journey there will be peace.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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