Chevre, this week’s parsha is וָאֶתְחַנַן (VaEtchanan). We are continuing the final speach from Moshe. This week we have the reiteration of the 10 commandments and part of the Shema prayer that Jews say twice daily (at least). We are past Tisha B’Av, which was yesterday. This day marks the destruction of The Temple in Jerusalem on the same Hebrew Date by both the Babylonians and the Romans marking the 2 exiles by these empires. Throughout Jewish History, different folks have come up, tried to destroy us, but we have managed to survive. The Shema Prayer an actually be found in various places in our Shabbat and Holiday prayers. This is because at various times the empires in question forbade the reciting of this foundational prayer. Therefore, the sages added it in various places like when we remove the Torah from The Ark to read it and in the Kedusha of Musaf. The idea of having these prayers later on was to allow it to be said after the guards from the empire had left at the traditional time of saying in the prayers. While our architectures should be fullproof, they often have problems and edge cases. Having the ability to reprocess or capture errors or abandoned files or messages is critical to the robust functioning of a workload. Wernor Vogels says that “things break all the time” and therefore, we must adapt and be ready to handle that breakage. And our sages helped us adapt to say the Shema “out of sync” to ensure we maintain this important devotion. Shabbat Shalom.