The Desert of the Real: Ge'ula Narratives and Human Development - The convergence of Shabbat Shirah and Tu B’Shevat highlights the major theme of the parasha – the process of becoming. The happiness of song is illusory as we discover in its feminine aspects the continual birth of new problems and doubts. Shirah relates the saga of Yisrael – dreams followed by disappointments, failures followed by new beginnings. The key is to never take what is happening at the moment as the end of the story, but to see how the process is continually served by the “now.” The lesson of the breakdown in “etz oseh pri” is to be mindful not only of what we produce, but who we become while we are producing. Emunah stems from the knowledge that HaKadosh Baruch Hu remains with us throughout the long and painful journey of our self-discovery. Terrifying it may be, but there is love and there is hope…in the Desert of the Real. (BW)

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