Thursday, September 10, 2009

WHAT’S IN A NAME?


שבות אוריה = Shvut-Oriyah means “The Return of the Light of G-d”.
Names given to religious Jewish children are usually names or phrases found in the Torah. I believe such names carry with them prophetic, if not divine, statements for the times we live in.
Such is the young lady, Shvut-Oriyah, from Kiryat Arba. As she walked through hostile territory to protest illegal Arab building, she had an aura of self-confidence and self-determination, a quiet, non-assuming trust in the G-d of Israel.
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