Thoughts on Parashat Mattot-Masei
Recently I re-watched an American classic “Saving Private Ryan”. The main character of the story, Captain John H. Miller, played by Tom Hanks, (spoiler alert) was killed by a German soldier whose life was spared earlier by captain Miller himself, in an act of benevolence and mercy. This motif, which is pretty common in western literature, reminded me of a similar theme in the biblical story of the total[…]