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.

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.

The modern state of Israel must continue to exist to ensure safe haven for Jews and so that the promise of messiah occurs. This happy day depends on a sincere repentance of lapses in policies that enable unholiness followed by a return to godliness in the Jewish state.

This being the last book in the Torah, we ought to know the message by now. Life works only when God leads and we follow happily and faithfully. So simple but so elusive.

This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses [that I have warned] you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. You shall choose life, so that you and your offspring will live;

Perhaps Moses means to inspire the people into adherence, perhaps he means to scare them into obedience. Whatever his intentions, our history as chronicled in Tanakh clearly shows a correlation between God centered living and flourishing, as well as a correlation between human secularism and suffering.

Yes, mothers experience heartbreak when they see their babies killed. Human mothers experience heartbreak, too, when they see their babies killed. In an abortion, the mother is right there to feel the demise of her pre-born child. Allowing this to occur goes against Torah for many reasons, including the mandate to be compassionate and merciful. It is not compassionate and merciful to put women through this emotional, psychological, and physical horror.

So far have these deceptions progressed that pre-born babies bear the painful indignity of being blamed, accused and legally tortured to death for society's failures and the shortcomings of their parents. Enabled by most governments, this moral failure invites the loss of national sovereignty.

We take solace in the understanding that God's ways are not our ways, and God's timing is not our timing. As we fill our days with efforts to educate, save, heal and redeem we must leave the results to Heaven, and rest at night in the knowledge that our Heavenly Father will provide a pathway to restoration in His time and in His ways.