Chevre, this week’s parsha is Ki Tavo (כִּֽי־תָב֣וֹא). This week, there is a huge section of the parsha taken up with Blessings and Curses. When Am Yisrael came over the Jordan, they were commanded to go to Mount Gerizim and Mount Eval. We know where these mounts are and interestingly, they are right next to each other. So visiting the area, you can imagine the scene with 1/2 of the nation on 1 mountain and the other 1/2 of the nation on the other. Mount Gerizim is lush with trees and plantlife while Mount Eval is barren and rocky. This is the perfect scene for Blessings on Mount Gerizim and Curses on Mount Eval.
As we have noted in the past, if you follow the commandments, things will go well for you and you will be blessed. If you do not, then you will be cursed. Here, we have a physical representation of these blessings and curses. Similarly, when you run your load testing and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with automation, then the idea and hope is that the good things that past the test will get through to production and the things that do not pass will not get through.
I learned yesterday that another curse in the tech world may be in decline. Apparently, someone made a plastic rack-nut. So all those folks installing computers can now save their fingers with these things. And so this curse may now be a blessing (when the sysadmins bless these things for saving their fingers).
May all our curses turn into blessings. Shabbat Shalom.