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Rabbi Adam Starr Joins Communal Trip to Israel
Religious Zionists of America organized the support mission. By Jan Jaben-Eilon July 14, 2021, 3:58 pm Edit
Rabbi Adam Starr hopes for a “spiritual boost” from his July trip to Israel.
Atlanta’s Rabbi Adam Starr is one of a couple dozen religious Zionist leaders from around the country participating in a mission to support Israel, one of the first such communal leadership trips since the COVID pandemic struck both countries.
Starr said that he hasn’t been to Israel since 2019, despite the fact that his two brothers and his in-laws live there. “It’s easier to get in the country with a mission or group,” he acknowledged days before leaving on his early-July flight. “They’re taking care of the technicalities,” he noted, referring to the Religious Zionists of America-Mizrachi organization. Starr is the spiritual leader of Congregation Ohr HaTorah, formerly Young Israel of Toco Hills
Thoughts on Torah Portion Shelach Lekha 2021 (adapted from previous versions)
All Ohr HaTorah regulars know about my little bit of a trick question: “How long did it take the Israelites to get from Mt. Sinai to the land of Canaan?” The uninitiated almost always say, “Forty years.” This incorrect answer is based on a mistranslation of Numbers 14:33. The Israelites had rebelled against Moses when they were faced with the prospect of fighting their way back into their homeland. Ten of the 12 who spied out the land, tribal leaders all of them, rooted for going back to Egypt. The rest of the Israelites, by and large, followed these tribal leaders and fell for this distraction from their life’s purpose. The Israelites rebelled against Moses and Aaron, and God. They sought to kill Moses and Aaron and head back to the land of slavery. These demagogues and those who fell under their sway did not realize that going back to Egypt was not only unadvisable, but actually not an option.