[Avodah] Mattos "Human Nature Hasn't Changed Much"

[Cantor Wolberg]

If you look at Ch.32, verse 3, you will notice a very unusual posuk.  
The entire sentence consists of nine words and every word is the name  
of a city.

In Ch.32, verse 16, the tribes of Gad and Reuben approached Moshe and  
said "Pens for the flock shall we build here for our livestock and  
cities for our small children."
It is such an instructive posuk.  The people put their animals before  
their children.  How selfish to favor their property over their own  
flesh and blood!

However, in verse 24, Moshe responds to the tribes: "Build for  
yourselves cities for your small children and pens for your flock. So  
in essence Moses set them straight.

Several years ago a terrorist in Israel attached a bomb to a donkey  
and took the donkey to the main outdoor Jerusalem marketplace.
The bomb killed many innocent people. Shortly thereafter, a protest  
was sent out by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)  
criticizing and
condemning the killing of the donkey. There was no mention of the  
Israelis who were killed. Hard to believe -- enough to make one  
enraged and incensed!

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