That one way is to live a life sanctified unto Hashem by living out His mitzvot daily. In so doing, we draw closer and closer each day to the highest reaches of aleph. The good news is: gentiles can grab the hems of the Jews and come with us too! If you unite yourself with the Jewish people and to Hashem by keeping Torah, you too can have a place in the eternal kingdom of Hashem. As it is written in Zechariah 8:20-23

In Part 1 of this commentary, we learned that the last letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Beit, which Hashem created, is the letter Tav. We learned that according to orthodox Judaism, the Tav represents the “lowest point in Hashem’s creation.” And we also learned that the Tav was first pictured as an X, or a scepter. When I was in Israel in 2023, I was told that the tav looked like a cross, much like the one used to kill a Jewish brother. Even this misguided thought points to salvati

The first act of creation was for Hashem to create His Aleph-Beit, which allowed Him to speak & therefore create all. From the first letter, aleph, to the last letter, tav, Hashem created the promises of shalom and salvation before He even spoke them into creation.

Just like when He brought the Israelites out of Egypt, Hashem chose to take me the long way home to the Jewish faith. As I dug deeper and deeper into His Tanakh, and proclaimed more adamantly the Jewishness of G-d, I was also convinced that faith in the Jewish G-d would necessitate that faith in the Messiah of the Jewish people would mean having a Jewish faith as well. This clarity of vision brought on even more vitriol and antisemitic rhetoric from the pulpits.

Being so shaken by war, it seems, is was exactly what I needed to drive my Jewish faith home. It was as if Hashem took me the shoulders, looked me square in the heart, and said “choose this day whom you will serve!”