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“No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter that were forced to evolve a keen sense for economics that dangerous than a great new danger.” has been a driving force behind world development since idea that the world is not —Heraclitus (535-475 BCE), Greek Philosopher antiquity. According to the biblical timeline, it would have been quite ready for yet. The one of the eight Egyptian Pharaohs of the 12th dynasty who were Torah acknowledges our Greetings from The Holy Land—no, not Boca Raton, the other first to recognize that every great ruler needs a Jewish economist Yiddishe kopf by another one. I feel so very privileged to be able to make it back to on staff. term, one that both Jerusalem for a visit. I lived here during my first year of cantorial recognizes our ingenuity and school, 2005/6, and since then, every return visit always feels a This week’s parsha, Vayigash, wraps up the first book of the also holds us responsible for little bit like I’m coming home. That said, the city also changes so Torah. Joseph, the first Jewish royal economics advisor has using it not only to better dramatically each time, with all kinds of new urban developments. achieved his position of prominence in Egyptian society. He is ourselves, but to better the Unlike my previous visits, there is now a wonderfully convenient completely unrecognizable to his brothers who have journeyed to world. Better than a 20-minute train ride from Ben Gurion Airport, directly to Egypt to buy food during the famine that had plagued ancient Yiddishe kopf, we are A Light Jerusalem’s city centre. When I came out of the station at Yafo Mesopotamia. At long last, his identity is revealed to his brothers, Unto The Nations, and we Street, a place which used to be perpetually grimy and congested and by doing so, Joseph also reclaims his heritage. He reunites must continue to share our with city traffic, I was surprised to find that the street has been with his father, Jacob, and the whole family relocates to Egypt beautiful vision not only with replaced by a beautiful pedestrian promenade and light-rail where Joseph can make sure that his family is provided for so each other, but with transit, blended into a background of beautiful cityscapes, that they may grow and prosper. everyone. It may take some time, but God willing, the rest artisanal shops, and not a single car in sight. As I write this sentence, I am actually standing in front of Kever of the world will find their Yiddishe kopf, and see the vision too. Rachel, the tomb of our foremother, Rachel, wife of Jacob and On my flight here, a passenger beside me watched as I used the mother of Joseph. I can reach out and touch it. Jerusalem is a adjustable computer screen built into my seat as a second table Shabbat Shalom, few minutes drive to the Northwest of here where the progeny of for the iPad I had brought with me, while my tray table was still —ChazJ Rachel continues to thrive, and carry on her legacy of creative full from the dinner service. The man gave me a wink, “A Yiddishe kopf”, he said, congratulating me on my ingenuity. A thought, being able to see worlds of possibility when others can ------Yiddishe kopf—a Jewish head. It’s a delicious phrase that could only see the reality of what is physically before them. And yet, only exist in the language. It describes a person as just outside the walls of the synagogue that house Rachel’s “clever” or “ingenious”, with the meta-acknowledgement that ‘of Tomb, is the concrete of the mighty barrier wall that protects course’ the Jewish people are the most clever, ingenious, Israel from Palestinian terror. It is a sobering reminder that industrious, astute people in the world. And where else would history has also taught us that wherever Jews prosper, there also you hear a stranger spontaneously say that to you except on an exist those who resent us for our success, envy our El Al flight to Tel Aviv? It’s no wonder that Jerusalem is so achievements, despise our resolve, fear our strength and seek different each time that I visit, as if a Jewish city could be anything our destruction. As proud as we may be of our Yiddishe kopf, it but be among the most industrious, quickly developing, ever- has failed many times in our long history to perceive the growing, eco-conscious, technologically advanced cities on seriousness of the threats against us, bringing us to the brink of earth. Why? Everybody here is walking around with a Yiddishe annihilation. kopf! The artisanal shops by Kikar Tzion are particularly incredible this

Throughout history, city-states, kingdoms and empires all year. In every store, I see industry-leading new concepts in benefited from having a Yiddishe kopf on hand. Often considered mixed media such as combining ceramic and paper, metal and second-class citizens whether under Christian or Muslim rule and glass, and dimensional paintings that are reshaping how we prohibited from owning land, Jews often rose to prominent social understand colour, shape and functional sculpture. The very positions as money lenders (Christianity prohibits Christians from same Yiddishe kopf that birthed these designs, I believe, also lending money to other Christians with interest), or as foreign sees the possibilities of a future where Israel is at peace with trade facilitators, leveraging their well-established network of Palestinians, and indeed, all of her Arab neighbours. But just Jewish friends and relatives in distant lands on behalf of their because we can envision it, doesn’t mean that it is ready to exist benefactors. While this mayhave given rise to the anti-Semitic yet. While there is nothing more powerful than a great new idea stereotype of Jews being greedy and money-grubbing, it is true whose time has come, there is sometimes nothing more