Chevre, this week’s parsha is Eikev (עקב). There are a bunch of interesting things in this week’s Parsha, many of them I’ve spoken about in years past. Toward the end of the Parsha, there is a section that talks about you seeing the miracles that HaShem performed for the Jewish People in Egypt and in the desert (you should know every time I use the word desert, I need to make sure I get the spelling right, that it’s not dessert). And there is a reiteration of following the commandments and the love for HaShem.

In my day job, I see miracles every day. I know they are not miracles, they seem like miracles. I see the operation and running of the cloud (the computer cloud, not the ones in the sky that cover Neve Daniel). As a user of the systems, these seem like miracles. Even as I get some peaks under the covers of how things are run and how the failover and operations are done, they can still seem like miracles.

We have a requirement to pass the AWS AI Parctitioner certification. And as I delve into AI and use more and more of it in my day job to find answers to customer questions, to perform basic cloud tasks or provide options I hadn’t thought about. This seems like a miracle as well. I understand the theory from the coursework for the certification and even still, this seems like a miracle.

In my previous roles, I worked on encryption systems for television (satellite and cable) and in networking and VOIP (Voice over IP). All of these seem like miracles. The fact that I can pull up an app on my phone anywhere in the world and make a voice or video call to someone 1/2 way around the globe no matter where they are, that is a miracle. (OK, now I’m starting to get Fiddler on the Roof Miracles running in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVeJJ-TnK4)

My point is, there are many amazing things that happen in this world. Many of them are miracles or seem miraculous. And we should stop to appreciate them, love HaShem and thank HaShem for them. Shabbat Shalom.