Chevre, this week’s parsha is Pinchas (פִּינְחָס). The parsha starts with a continuation of the last parsha. Pinchas, who defended the sanctity of The Mishkan is awarded with being a Cohen (Priest). I always felt this was curious that he wasn’t a Cohen already given his father was, but he had already been born and so wasn’t born into being a Cohen. Similarly to how EBS volumes attached to an EC2 instance after the instance is created doesn’t inherit the Tags assigned to the EC2 (EBS volumes created with the EC2 instance do inherit the Tags).

There is another census. With the amount of time and effort all these censuses take, it makes me happy that my S3 inventory is automated and that I get a weekly email (something I setup) looking for duplicate objects (based on the etag or md5 hash).

HaShem shows Moshe The Land of Israel. Moshe doesn’t actually get to go into the land, but because of the 2.5 tribes that stay on the eastern side of The Jordan River, Eretz Yisrael comes to Moshe (I heard this from Rav Matanya ben Shachar, Rav of Neve Daniel). This takes me back to the first Awesome Day that I attended where we were shown some of the greatness of AWS. Truly eye opening. And the fact that anyone can have access to first class technical services still amazes me to this day.

We then go through the daily offerings, Shabbat offerings and the holidays. This section of the Torah is read on the holidays so there is often a Sefer Torah in the shul (synagogue) that is rolled to this section of The Torah.

It seems to me that this was a pretty eclectic gathering of concepts. Truly fitting for a comparison with the cloud which encompasses so many different aspects of IT life. Shabbat Shalom.