Wherever I may roam, where I lay my head is home!

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Shalom,

This evening while studying Torah I realized a very interesting connection. Many of you JTF readers know I like some heavy metal music and in my younger days I attended many live concerts (rock and roll & heavy metal & prog rock)...

I saw Metallica a number of times and one of their songs from the Black Album (1991) entitled 'Wherever I may roam' seems, according to my gut feeling, to have a basis in this weeks Torah portion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_(album)

Here are the pasukim from the Torah reading of Eikev...

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading.asp?aid=36234&p=complete

Deuteronomy Chapter 11
 
24. Every place upon which the soles of your feet will tread, will be yours: from the desert and the Lebanon, from the river, the Euphrates River, and until the western sea, will be your boundary.
25. No man will stand up before you; the Lord your God will cast the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land upon which you tread, as He spoke to you.


Chas V'Shalom I am not suggesting Metallica is 'holy' or has any good intention by singing this song..



But it is a great pasuk concerning the ultimate boundaries of 'Greater Israel'... Israel will, G-d willing, extend from the river to the sea... Israel will be free of enemies... Amen.