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AM YISRAEL CHAI!

May 13, 2008

In Deuteronomy chapter 6 is Israel's Declaration of Independence: "Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad" (Hear, O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord alone, He is One) "Baruch shem kavod mulchuto la'alam vayed" (Blesed be His glorious Name, Whose Kingdom is forever). And that declaration is for all those who will come under the headship of the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, claiming that salvation which He had poured out as He promised to Abraham, "I will provide for Myself a Lamb".

Today (well, tomorrow in my time zone but it's just crossing over midnightinto May 14th as I type this) we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the restoration of the homeland of God's chosen, Israel. I'm lucky and humbled to count among my friends many who have lived and were born there, and as a Christian the land where Jesus walked and taught and Resurrected is as sacred to me as it is to any Jew. I ask that any reading this give a moment's prayer to those who've suffered way more than their share of chaos and indiginity and pain, for the mere sin of EXISTING and daring to dream of a return to their ancestral homeland.

I, for one, am with them all the way.