On not Predicting the Future (Rabbi Sacks on Vayechi)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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I Am Who I Choose to Be
The Jewish people has been written off many times by its enemies, but it remains after almost four millennia, still young and strong. The first reference to Israel outside the Bible is engraved on the Monaptor Steely,. inscribed about 1225 BCE by Pharaoh Monaptor IV Ramses II successor. It reads, Israel is laid waste. Her seed is no more. We are not predestined to fail. Neither are we preordained to succeed. Our choice is our willpower, our persistence and our determination to survive.
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