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About George Bush . . .

To The Editor:

You might find the following of interest:

Davka on Shabbos Shemos was the inauguration of George Bush as the new president of America -- the very day on which we read the posuk: "And a new king arose."

Was it the Supreme Court of America that decided whether the president would be Bush or Gore? No -- it was the Torah: we read in parshas Shemos about the "sneh" -- the burning bush. The name "Bush" is thus mentioned explicitly in the parshah.

In parshas Shemos, we are introduced to Yisro, the former adviser to Pharaoh. One of Yisro's names was Keini. Who became the Vice President and adviser to Bush on parshas Shemos?

Dick CHENEY!

Bush selected representatives of every minority in America to his Cabinet -- except one group -- the Jews. What does it say in Shemos?

"A new king arose over Egypt who did not know of Joseph" -- i.e. a new President arose in the US who did not recognize the contribution which the Jew (represented in the Torah by Joseph) had made to the previous development of his country.

There are no coincidences. The Torah had already decreed that there would come a parshas Shemos on which "a new king would arise" -- whose name would be Bush, whose adviser would be Cheney and who would not know Joseph -- who would turn his back on the Jews.

Hopefully, just as the new king who arose in Egypt signaled the beginning of that geulah, so should the new king who arose (again) on Parshas Shemos signal the beginning of the final geulah.

A Reader in South Africa

The Editor Replies: These are cute observations, but should not be taken as anything more than that. Many U.S. presidential inaugurations must have taken place around parshas Shemos.


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