History usually moves slowly.

But sometimes it moves in moments that feel almost biblical.

The dramatic events unfolding around Iran — a regime that for decades financed terror, threatened Israel’s destruction, and destabilized the region now facing extraordinary pressure — are unfolding at a moment many Jews cannot ignore.

They coincide with Parshat Zachor, the Torah reading before Purim when we are commanded to remember Amalek — the force that attacks the weak and the vulnerable.

Judaism is careful about drawing direct conclusions from history. We do not presume to understand the mind of God.

But sometimes events bring moral clarity.

And this moment feels like one of those moments.

Every serious life eventually reaches a rock bottom moment.

A failure we did not expect. A weakness exposed. A painful realization that the version of ourselves we trusted is no longer intact.

It feels as if something inside us shatters.

The Torah captures this moment in one of its most powerful images.

Moshe descends from Mount Sinai and sees the people dancing around the Golden Calf.

And he shatters the tablets.

Those tablets represented revelation, certainty, covenant — the highest spiritual moment the Jewish people had experienced.

Their breaking represents collapse.

Yet Judaism does something remarkable.

The broken tablets were not discarded.

They were placed in the Ark alongside the second tablets.

Brokenness becomes part of the story.

Rock bottom........

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