Why a fish tail? As David tells it: "My dad grew up in South Philly, one of four kids of an immigrant shopkeeper and his disabled wife. When the family got a smoked whitefish, each member had their particular part of the fish, Dad's was the tail. And, boy, was he good at picking the bones clean!"
Thursday's Bible study (7pm on Zoom) looks at the exasperation that Moses, the "father of the nation," experienced when the people didn't like what God put on the table for them. The weekly Torah portion, B'ha'alot-cha (Numbers 8:1-12:16), tells of the Israelites' complaints about having to live on manna. "Why can't we have meat like we did in
Egypt?" they gripe.
Moses has had enough of their complaining. "Please, God, kill me now, so I don't have to put up with them anymore," Moses says. Instead, God gives the Israelites so much meat that it makes them sick.
We'll look at this passage Thursday evening and read from it on Saturday morning before we get down to some serious eating.
