<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">The last sentence of the portion of Yisro states that</span></font><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">ramps should lead to the altar. (Exodus 20:23)</span></font><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Why are ramps used and not steps?</span></font><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> There are different reasons given, but the one I like most is that the Torah</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">already had sensitivity for the handicapped.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Our task is to learn from the ramps that led to the altar</span></font><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">in the tabernacle. They teach that we must make sure</span></font><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">that all people can face the door and be welcomed making</span></font><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">their way in -- either by foot, walker or wheelchair.</span></span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">ri</span></font></div></body></html>