Chevre, this week’s parsha is Tetzavah (תצוה) and Parshat Zachor. Continuing from last week, we now get a deep explanation to the priestly garments followed by their induction ceremony.

Parshat Zachor is a special section read the Shabbat before Purim (next Fri in most places). We remember what Amalek did to us as we left Egypt and were vulnerable. They attacked us. And Haman, the villian from the Purim story is an ancestor of Amalek.

Vulnerability has been a hot topic in computing for a long time. Back in the Arpanet days built by BBN, they used 300 baud modems and phone lines to check-in with the various nodes around the US. One of those lines called the wrong number every day at 3am. The folks that received that phone call were unhappy. And that was a time where folks didn’t know what the screeching noises meant. The younger folks these days that don’t know what a floppy disk is (besides the save icon), probably have no idea what screeches I’m talking about.

Once networks were starting to be interconnected, we started to build firewalls and other network protection devices. In today’s modern world, we have things like mesh VPNs, default encryption for communications (TLS/SSL, SSH, etc) and building on a modern cloud gives even more protections.

While the tribe of Dan was attacked by Amalek for being last, even the smallest user or business on the cloud has a robust automated infrastructure protecting their computing, data and resources.

Shabbat Shalom