<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">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.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">In Ch.32, verse 16, the tribes of Gad and Reuben approached Moshe and said "Pens <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">for the flock</span> shall we build here for our livestock and cities <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">for our small children</span>."</span></font></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">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! </span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">However, in verse 24, Moshe responds to the tribes: "Build for yourselves cities <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">for your small children</span> and pens <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">for your flock</span>. So in essence Moses set them straight.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; ">Several years ago a terrorist in Israel attached a bomb to a donkey and took the donkey to the main outdoor Jerusalem marketplace.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">The bomb killed many innocent people. Shortly thereafter, a protest was sent out by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) criticizing and</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">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! </span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">rw</span></font></div></div></div></body></html>