Chevre, this week’s parsha is Ki Teitzei (כי תצא). A huge part of the parsha this week is talking about relationships. There is one section on marriage and divorce. It says that if someone no longer loves his wife, he can divorce her. But if she marries someone else, he is no longer able to marry her after that.
While I was visiting The Israel National Library in Jerusalem, we saw an original Vilna Shas volume on display. My neighbor, Reuven Lavi a tour guide, told me that we have that volume because of Henry VIII. The story goes that Hevry VIII wanted to get divorced, heard the Jews allowed for divorce and so he purchased a full set of Shas, first edition when it came out. And this set of Shas was owned by Westminster Abbey. During an anniversary of The Abbey, they had part of their library collection on display and a Jewish businessman saw the volume and asked if they had more. He was told they had the entire set, but they were not interested in selling them. The businessman found that the original charter for Westminster Abbey was up for auction in New York and he purchased it. And then traded the charter (more important to the Abbey) for the right to purchase the Shas. And eventually, after the businessman’s passing, that set of Shas made its’ way to The Israel National Library.
This week, I spent some time with my new friend Q CLI. We spoke for a good part of the week about taking resources I had spun up in my account by hand and turning them into Cloudformation templates (Infrastructre as Code or IAC). Some of the projects were complex and it took some cajoling and re-writes, but eventually my 3 biggest projects were able to be spun down and I have the AMIs (Ay - Em - I) and IAC in my account available for use whenever I need those projects again. Fortunately, IAC is available for sharing and I don’t have to worry about a re-marriage getting in the way.
Shabbat Shalom.