Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch
ata YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu
eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the
blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the
Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us
your Torah.)
It
remains a great source of amazement to the ancient and modern Jewish scholars
how the most important Torah portion in the Torah –‘’Yitro’’ – “This parashah -
The giving of the Torah” would be named after the gentile – Yithro.
This
Torah portion reminds us once again that righteous Torah-seeking-non-Jews would
again play a critical role to cause the Torah to flourish again among Jews and
non- Jews in the last days – may it be
His will in our time for this to happen – Deu 32:21 “They made
Me jealous by what is not Ěl, They provoked Me with their worthless matters.
But I make them jealous by those who are no people, I provoke them with a
foolish nation. (Rom
11:14)
The
name Yithro comes from a root word “yeter” (S3499) which can also mean
“remnant.” Will there