The Dust and the Stars - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz

The book of Deuteronomy has begun, and our people are as numerous as the stars in the sky. But Moses cries out, “Eikhah!”

The famous heart-broken “how” that foreshadows the tragedies of Tisha

B’Av. What mournful message does Moses see in the stars? And what,

instead, can we learn from the dust?