This week's Dvar Torah is sponsored in memory of Neshama Tehila bas Chana v'Yitzchak whose first yahrtzeit was this week. If ever there was a woman, a family, who embodied the message of this Dvar Torah it is the Heller family whom I have been privileged to get to know over the past year. May her exceptional neshoma have an aliyah and may we know no more sorrow. To sponsor a Dvar Torah please email us Nitzotzos@gmail.com Nearly forty years of traveling in the desert have passed. Klal Yisrael has arrived in Kadesh in the Zin desert which borders Eretz Yisrael. It is here that we encounter one of the most perplexing stories in Chumash. The people discover that there is no water. Fearful of death their response is quite intense. וַיָּ֥רֶב הָעָ֖ם עִם־משֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּֽאמְר֣וּ לֵאמֹ֔ר וְל֥וּ גָוַ֛עְנוּ בִּגְוַ֥ע אַחֵ֖ינוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהֹוָֽה: וְלָמָ֤ה הֲבֵאתֶם֙ אֶת־קְהַ֣ל יְהֹוָ֔ה אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לָמ֣וּת שָׁ֔ם אֲנַ֖חְנוּ וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ: וְלָמָ֤ה הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֨נוּ֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם לְהָבִ֣יא אֹתָ֔נוּ אֶל־הַמָּק֥וֹם הָרָ֖ע הַזֶּ֑ה לֹ֣א | מְק֣וֹם זֶ֗רַע וּתְאֵנָ֤ה וְגֶ֨פֶן֙ וְרִמּ֔וֹן וּמַ֥יִם אַ֖יִן לִשְׁתּֽוֹת: "The people quarreled with Moses, and they said, "If only we had died with the death of our brothers before the Lord. Why have you brought the congregation of the Lord to this desert so that we and our livestock should die there? Why have you taken us out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place; it is not a place for seeds, or for fig trees, grapevines, or pomegranate trees, and
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