English
ולינו ורחצו רגליכם AND LODGE OVER NIGHT AND LAVE YOUR FEET — Is it then customary for people first to tarry all night and then to wash? Furthermore, Abraham began by saying to them, “Wash your feet”! —But this is what Lot thought: If when the men of Sodom come they see that they have already washed their feet, they will make a charge against me saying, “Two or three days have already elapsed since these come to your house and you did not report it to us” — consequently he said: it is better that they should stay here with the dust on their feet so that they would seem to have just arrived. On this account he first said to them, “Lodge over night”, and afterwards “Wash [your feet]” (Genesis Rabbah 50:4).
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"In America, we are based on the values of acceptance and democracy. Emma Lazarus, the poet famed for “The New Colossus” at the base of the Statue of Liberty eloquently expresses:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
These very words echo G-d’s commandments in the Torah. It is a requirement for Jews to welcome one another (Hachnassat orchim) and to give tzedakah (charity) to those less fortunate. The founding American fathers intended for America to do the same."
I read this as we are experiencing an anti-immigrant surge in America. Tucson JCC brings out an important connection to the foundational values of Judaism. https://www.tucsonjcc.org/2016/07/shabbat-shmoozings-give-tired-poor/