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Please Note: The author of the Israel and the Sin of Expulsion Blog has set up a special group on Facebook called: Bring Jonathan Pollard Home and urges everyone on this Parsha HaShevua list to join the group. Further, this author urges all of you to dedicate your Shavu’ot night learning L’Zechut Jonathan Pollard — Yehonatan Ben Malka.
With Shavu’ot always being during the week of Shabbos Parsha Naso, and this year with Shavu’ot coming on the night of yom shi’shi and Shabbos following directly after, there are various common threads between Shabbos Parsha Naso and Chag HaShavu’ot. There is the thread of national unity projected by the Kohanim as expressed in the Birchat Kohanim, the thread of diversity and unique expression within the 12 repetitions of the same offering brought by the Sh’vatim at the inauguration of the Mishkan and the thread regarding the importance of caring for the Ger Tzeddik.