of our national history now in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past in future. [Very fitting for today]

Today I got in my box this email from Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum who does a fantastic “job” for all of us who want to go through the whole of Tenach [Bible]…..Quoting the Rabbi: Did you know that by reading 2 chapters of Bible every day, you can complete the world’s greatest Book of Eternal Wisdom in one year? 

https://www.azamra.org/spirit/nakh.php

“If Israel had not sinned they would have received only the Five Books of Moses and the Book of Joshua, which is the Registry of the Land of Israel (i.e. of its tribal portions)” (Nedarim 22b). The whole of the rest of the narrative and prophetic portions of the NaCh tells the story of how the Israelites failed to drive out the Canaanites and the terrible consequences to which this led. Some say that the only lesson we learn from history is that nobody ever learns anything from history. It may be true that many fail to draw and implement the lessons of history, but we do not have to be like them. In Joshua’s final discourse he emphasizes that we are FREE to choose our own path (ch 24 vv. 14-15). Let us choose the path of life and learn the lessons of our national history now in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past in future.