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As Rabbi Tracee Rosen was unloading boxes after arriving in Arizona in 2010, her new neighbor informed her that a local Reform congregation, Temple Gan Elohim, was looking for a rabbi. She and her family had relocated to Greater Phoenix to be closer to her mother-in-law, moving from Salt Lake City, where she served for six years as the rabbi of Utahâs largest synagogue.
Her family attended Shabbat services there that Friday night and soon after, Rosen accepted an offer to become the congregationâs spiritual leader, a role she continued until the congregation closed in 2016.
When it closed, Gan Elohim was housed at Beth Emeth Congregation, a Conservative congregation in the West Valley, and Rosen was also leading Saturday morning services for Beth Emeth members. By the next year, she was Beth Emethâs spiritual leader. Now, after a year of leading the congregation through a pandemic, she has announced that she plans to retire from the pulpit.
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Parshat Zachor, according to some authorities, is a
Torah based commandment, a
Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim 685:7). It is, of course, important to hear the
Torah at its regular times, and every Jewish community is obligated to provide a public
Torah reading for its members (
Ma’aseh Rav Section 175). What is it about
Parshat Zachor, however, that requires from us the heightened obligation that each and every individual Jew must hear this reading without interruption? What is unique about
Parshat Zachor? What are we supposed to remember?
Parshat Zachor tells the story of the Amalekites. According to
Dvarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 25:17-19 the Amalekites attacked Israel from behind as they traveled across the desert from Egypt to the land of Israel. Who was behind? Who was in the back? The weak, the sick and the physically challenged. For their cowardly attack on this group of highly vulnerable individuals, the Amalekites are considered to be the paradigm of evil and t