“If you diligently heed the voice of God, your God, and do what is upright in His eyes, carefully listening to His commandments and observing all His rules, I will bring none of the illnesses that I brought upon Egypt upon you, for I am God who heals you.”

Their miraculous rescue from capture at the Red Sea provides a unique opportunity for freedom and spiritual fulfillment, initially appreciated and embraced, but soon squandered.

The physical and spiritual integration needed to keep our inner fire burning for a holy way of life pre-supposes the act of being conceived and born into this world.

We live in a time when we have neither a temple in which to offer animal sacrifices to atone for the personal and community madness of idol worship, nor consensus about what is madness.

The ultimate place of Divine indwelling is the human being, a repository built upon the Intelligent Design of the human person, co-created with a mother and a father here on earth. To house the Divine will and carry it out is the reason we are given life, so we must protect and support human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

Our wise sages taught that Pikuach Nefesh includes saving unborn babies. This principle still applies despite later opinions and current beliefs that set it aside in order to destroy babies in the womb. This constitutes a serious breach of Jewish ethics and morals. Moreover, it enables ongoing spiritual and demographic suicide of the Jewish people.

We can remember the Amalekites as enemies of the Jews, pagans whose society was wholly corrupted with sin and evil and child sacrifice. A depraved culture disinterested, perhaps incapable of atoning for war waged against a new society of God centered people. The time has long passed when we can obliterate all of them in hopes of saving the world from their evil intentions and actions.

Looking deeper into this account, we recognize that the ultimate dwelling place of God is within each and every one of us. We have a lifetime to build a pleasing mind and body in which God's presence can live in the closest proximity to us and inform our thoughts, words and actions.

Many Jewish pro-abortion advocates deliberately misuse this translation to diminish the value of the unborn child, and as a tool to justify and defend unlimited abortion in Judaism. This particular interpretation of Torah has resulted in many Jewish generations lost. It calls into question the foundations of Judaism as a moral and just system. It also causes many righteous born Jews to convert out of our faith in order to resolve a seemingly impossible moral dilemma.

We now find ourselves in perilous times where human ideas rather than biblically based morals and ethics inform our attitudes, laws, national policies and lifestyles. Our pledge to carry our commitment forward through our children fails because we cannot guarantee our children's safe passage from conception through birth and then to teach them the laws of God.