In this poem of praise, we learn how to bless Hashem by examining our own actions in light of His Holy Torah. Though we fail, the good news is that Hashem has mercy and forgiveness for the Jewish Israelites who will perform teshuva and return to Him and His mitzvot.

The Good News of salvation is held in Torah, Hashem, and His love.

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