Dear Friends, Parshat Chukat continues the Jewish people’s journey through the wilderness along their long and arduous road to the Promised Land. There are highs and lows: The successful battle against Sichon and Og; the deaths of Aharon and Miriam and receiving water from the rock, albeit not in the way decreed by God. This journey is so much like life – like all of our own individual lives – filled with moments of jubilation and moments of trepidation with exalted highs and depressing lows. We know, as readers of the text, that the people will make it to their destiny and arrive in their pro