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If you happen to be in New York's Temple Emmanuel for Shabbat services a couple weeks back,

you would have heard Rabbi Sarah Rhinis deliver something like an explicit content warning before her sermon.

I told him that when I assigned Torah portions to 12-year-olds and their parents, I always warn them,

whatever you think, this is not a G-rated text.

This is not the kind of stuff you would permit your children to see on the screen.

And then they might ask, so why are you giving it to them to read in synagogue?

The answer is because that's what we do as Jews.

We don't turn away.

That Friday, Rabbi Reynus was reading a piece of scripture

recounting an ancient war between the Israelites

and the tribe called the Midianites.

Well, it is a shocking passage.

It's a part of the Torah that I've never talked about before because it's so upsetting.

God commands Moses to take vengeance on the Midianites for leading Israel away from the covenant and deep into the morass of idolatry. And the officers, the fighters of Israel carry out this order.

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