Joshua
Boqer Tov! I know Yehoshua probably didn't have blue eyes, but this was the best depiction of him I could find. He was both a warrior and the spiritual leader of Israel. It was he who God chose to bring the Israelites into the Land of Israel . In reading/studying the book of Joshua - who, by the way, shares a name with our Saviour - it was a bit disheartening to hear the Sages say that if a person lives outside the land of Israel, it is as though he has no God, that there could be no emunah outside the Land of Israel. I asked the Father how this could be, since I have lived in South Africa all my life and have known His loving and protecting hand over my life. Then I remembered what Zera Shimshon said in his commentary on this Torah portion: That God had given his people the exile as a means of being able to forgive them, even for intentional sins. How? Zera Shimshon says that at some point, Israel beg...
