Chevre, this week’s parsha is Vayera (וַיֵּרָ֤א). The parsha this week starts off with an interesting story. Three men come to visit Avraham three days after he did circumcision. We learn that this is the time of high discomfort and these three men are visiting Avraham, who is sick. This is the first time we learn about visiting the sick.

Avraham, however, fulfills another mitzvah of attending to guests. He jumps up, even in his discomfort, and takes care of his guests personally. This is consider some of the greatness of Avraham.

In the computer world, we are regularly looking out for and attending to sick workloads, scripts, programs, systems, networks, etc. What is interesting here, is that even the highest “engineer” is attending personally to broken systems. Only when the great and the small together are attending to the complications of a modern system do we get the deep knowledge and new insights needed to fix the issue and fix it properly and for the long term.

In this modern world and in the current situation, there are many folks that are repurposing modern technologies to help folks. In the past few weeks, I’ve joined whatsapp groups that share the Hebrew names of injured soldiers so that we, as a community, can pray for their speedy and full recoveries.

May we all, big and small, work together to make our computer systems and our society better every day. Shabbat Shalom.