Chevre, this week the parsha is BeHar-BeHukotai (בהר-בחוקתי). This week we complete the book of Vayikra. Towards the end of the parsha we learn about tithes from the land and tithes regarding animals. And the parsha states “All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are HaShem’s; they are holy to HaShem” and “All tithes of the herd or flock - of all that passes under the shepherd’s staff, every tenth one - shall be holy to HaShem”.

We are commanded to give a certain amount of our physical “output” to HaShem. They are holy to HaShem. The people are essentially forced to donate a certain amount. We learn in Judaism that everything belongs to HaShem. In the shared responsibility model of the world, HaShem owns everything and we are allowed to borrow/rent the physical for a time being. And we are commanded to give up some of those physical things to show gratitude. More in the pre-nitro EC2, there was a small piece of every virtual machine that was used to run the infrastructure. But even with nitro, we know that we are running on someone else’s computer and infrastructure when running on the cloud.

What we do with what we are given is what makes or breaks us. We can opt to do “bad” in the cloud and in this world or we can opt to do “good”. Judaism tries shows us what the “good” things are and encourages us to move in that direction.

I bless you all to always choose good. Shabbat Shalom.