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The people are overtly named by God, in just a verse or two, at the beginning of the book, but the book is called Names for a reason that pervades the book as a whole. It is as if the name of the book were saying: God continues to know our names, to keep track of each and every one, throughout all the events that happen in the book.
Just like creation is woven throughout the events of Genesis, God continues to know the names and stories of each individual through slavery, escape, and wandering in the desert because he cares so much about each of us
It’s special to think that this is my history too. I may not be a Jew by birth but I’m grafted on to this great tree of God’s people
even in our moments of greatest suffering, God knows our names. God attends to each and every one of us, individually.
Through it all, God knows our names. He cares about each and every one of us, in all of our pain, all of our anguish. For we are like stars, indeed.
Yes, the Ten Commandments are mitzvot; they are surely commands — but they are also more than mere commands. They express a means through which we human beings can become full partners in a relationship with our God. They are about how we can be a giver and not just a taker in that relationship. In accepting the Ten Commandments, we commit to respond to a loving God — with love, care, and honor of our own.
the Kohen Gadol’s clothes send a message not only to God but to us, His people. They tell us something both astounding and comforting: that the “line” of Heavenly justice will never be inclined against us,
