Yitro - 2020

Chevre, this week’s parsha is יִתְרוֹ (Yitro). The first interesting thing to note is that the parsha is named after Moshe’s father-in-law, who is not Jewish. But Moshe, exibiting “is right a lot” listens to good advice from Yitro. From this, Moshe takes this advice and the advice of others, stores it in a data lake sitting on S3 and runs some Sagemaker and/or EMR on the data and comes up with what he should do. Then from this, he must have done the right thing, because Moshe receives the Torah on Har Sinai. So now that Moshe has the manual, it should be easier to follow the rules. It’s much easier to RTFM when you have the manual. And finally, it says that the people saw the thunder and the flames, the sound of the shofar and the smoking mountain. This has been interpreted to be that the people heard AND saw the sound of the shofar. Now that they have Deep Composer, they can do both. I’m positive this is exactly what the sages were thinking. Shabbat Shalom.