Tzav - 2022

Chevre, this week’s parsha is צו (Tzav). This week’s parsha continues the explanation of the sacrifices. One interesting thing is the note that we shouldn’t eat blood. This leads to the kashering process where the blood is extracted from meat by using salt. I learned this week that this used to be done in people’s homes and so was a major part of Rabbinic training. Now this is done before it is sold to consumers and this reflects in the Rabbinic training as well. I understand it’s still important for a Mashgiach to know about this process. When I was first getting into computers (I had 10Base2 at home when I started my first job), I needed to know how to install operating systems and build networks. While this information is still important for my role, for new comers, a lot of what I needed to focus on in details is now handled for me by cloud providers and my ISP. If I wasn’t in tech, I could probably go a long way without understanding the underpinnings because so much of what used to be manual (spreadsheets of manually assigned IPs) is now automated. Even spinning up a Linux machine doesn’t need a lot of knowledge (or time) since I can do it in a few clicks in my AWS console. Now with all my extra time, I can focus on other things like writing more Lambdas (I still prefer bash Lambdas via custom runtime). Shabbat Shalom.