By Marney Blom
On September 17, 2013, the eve of the Jewish Feast of Sukkot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara held the fourth meeting of the Tanakh Study Circle at the Prime MInister’s Residence in Jerusalem. The Tanakh is the canon of the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament.
The Tanakh Study Circle became the tradition of former prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin, and was renewed by PM Netanyahu in May of 2012.
Attended by both Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, the evening focused on scripture taken from the Book of Deuteronomy 33:1-34.
“Moses our teacher could not enter the Promised Land,” said PM Netanyahu who opened the discussion. “It is a very great privilege to read this great book and know that we are realizing what the Almighty commanded our people. The fact that this is our inheritance and we are here, reading these words today, and knowing that we will remain here forever – thus we are fulfilling the precept.”
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