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what's with the desert the Torah was given in the desert the fourth book of the Hamas is called Bamidbar in the desert wit with the desert rough samsara fowlhurst says very interesting idea he says the purpose of the desert is to teach us that the Torah applies anywhere not any specific city civilization time or place the desert is type of like a place which is it's empty of stuff it doesn't have its it's a non environment in that sense and consequently it in that sense and consequently it teaches us that Torah is eternal anywhere and here we are in Queens I am in Queens but wherever you are in the United States certainly in New York right we have to understand the Torah applies and the Torah is relevant to every single Jew in every single place and heinrich heine german poet born Jewish unfortunately tragically baptized as a Christian but heinrich heine had a very interesting insight and he said i'm shawna pronouncing correctly i think it's right hi - hi Nick but my German is a little hi - hi Nick but my German is a little rusty he said the Jewish the Bible he says the Torah is the portable Jewish homeland portable Jewish homeland because wherever a Jew is that Jew is supposed to be living in what's called Torah now there are literally thousands of Jewish children who are not in their homeland they might be living near Jewish communities they might be living in a place where there's a lot of Jewish schools but they're not in Jewish schools they're in non-jewish schools

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