Haazinu: ask your father

 

Iy would seem that Haazinu is the "song" mentioned in Vayelech, the song of testimony that would never be forgotten, that attests to the validity of Jewish sufferering. The text fits the bill ( I guess; it is poetry so I am never sure of what it is saying) (I think that is the nature of poetry; it make ambiguous statements because truth is intrinsically ambiguous)

 

זְכֹר יְמוֹת עוֹלָם בִּינוּ שְׁנוֹת דֹּר-וָדֹר  {ס}  שְׁאַל אָבִיךָ וְיַגֵּדְךָ זְקֵנֶיךָ וְיֹאמְרוּ לָךְ.  {ר}
ח בְּהַנְחֵל עֶלְיוֹן גּוֹיִם  {ס}  בְּהַפְרִידוֹ בְּנֵי אָדָם  {ר}
יַצֵּב גְּבֻלֹת עַמִּים  {ס}  לְמִסְפַּר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל. 

 

 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

 

Ask your father: and he  will affirm Israel's inheritance, and transmit it to you.

Ask your father: and he will give you this world view; all events are centered around the Children of Israel.

 

Those 70 nations have taken their turns at us. Each has its own idea of fairness

In America, we are taught that the view of our fathers' is obsolete and wrong.  We strive for fairness for all people. A noble idea.  But an idea that must be tempered by reality.  Fainess is an important test. Survival trumps it.

 

be careful.