Chevre, this week’s parsha is Bamidbar (במדבר) and Yom Yerushalim (Jerusalem Unification Day). We are starting a new book in Numbers/Bamidbar. You may remember that when we ended Genesis/Beresheit, we were more a large extended family and enslaved. We left Egypt as a people and now we start out by counting the people as tribes. So we have evolved from a large family to tribes. And we have an explanation of where the tribes will live around the encampment. We see similar explanations later where the tribes are planned to be in The Land of Israel and especially in The Book of Joshua (Yehoshua) where they ended up.

When building out a project, we see this over and over again, you start small. You try it out, find some problems, fix them and do it again until you are happy with the result and then you publish or push it to production. I was doing this yesterday with a new cloudformation that makes a daily backup of some DNS records in R53 so we can roll back if the changs cause a problem. In modern times, we see a lot of this now being automated more and more including the building of the code and the testing, the verification and eventually the deployment.

Today is also Yom Yerushalim (and the dayI proposed to my wife). In 1967, the IDF reunified the eternal capital. We gained access to the entire old city and more. It’s a happy day, we say Hallel with a bracha in shul (synagogue). I was so proud to see our soldier go out to Yerushalim yesterday to celebrate in uniform! The smile on his face upon his return was precious.

May we all know only good times, precious moments and Shabbat Shalom.