Parshas Ha’azinu summarizes Torah’s main theme. Life works only when God leads and we follow happily and faithfully.

Perhaps Moses means to inspire the people into compliance, 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 secularism and suffering.

It is not compassionate and merciful to put women through the emotional, psychological, and physical horror of abortion

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 know that abortion is the deliberate violent destruction of an unborn baby. We know that doing this hurts mothers and fathers in many ways. Accordingly, we provide moral and practical support that saves the baby and parents from harm as we would help parents of a toddler find life saving solutions to their living problems.

Because every human being has intrinsic worth and a God given destiny, nations that legalize killing children in the womb face really serious trouble. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, over the past 30 years, more than 60 countries and territories have liberalized their abortion laws.

Isaiah isn't popular with the establishment. He preaches Torah ethics and morals over progressive politics and religious practice, arousing antipathy in the ruling elite of his day whose power and authority is threaten by the prophet's calls for a return to dependency on God for sustenance and safety.

Thousands of Jewish babies die by painful abortion every year, their destinies denied, their mothers exploited, manipulated, and damaged; their fathers deprived of responsibility and the joy of parenthood.

"Not by military force and not by physical strength, but by My spirit,' says the Lord of Hosts."

The biblical census is important because it recognizes each individual member of each individual tribe as a unique human being with value, dignity, and worth. HaShem loves each one of us, and creates each one of us to fulfill a specific mission on Earth.