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I, however, am not one of those people. After I got married, it was no more than 10 days before my wife and I were on a flight on our way to live the first two years of our marriage in Jerusalem. People often said we were crazy \u2013 newly married, starting a new life together and moving across the world all in just over a week?! But I\u2019m certain that this move was the key to our successful transition into true independence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amidst the words of preparation to the Israelites from Moses before receiving the Torah, Moses, speaking on behalf of God tells the Israelites \u201cYou have seen what I did to the Egyptians; how I carried you on the wings of eagles, and brought you to Me\u201d (v. 19). The Torah is filled with beautiful imagery, so what is it about eagles that made them the appropriate bird for this imagery? What message is the Torah trying to get across with the choice of an eagle rather than any other bird?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808 \u2013 1888, Germany) noticed something unique about the eagle \u2013eaglet relationship. Remember when you were a little kid and you wanted your parents to give you a piggy-back ride? They bent over so you could just get right on their shoulders and carried you away. Not so, says Rav Hirsch, with the eaglet and eagle. The mother eagle, eager to carry its young through the air, comes close, but not into the nest, and waits for the eaglet to jump out and onto its mother\u2019s wings. For the eaglet to fly, to leave the nest, it must first jump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often that dividing line between dependent and independent is the willingness to take that leap. We are often stuck somewhere and can\u2019t progress because we are too afraid that when we jump, we\u2019ll fall. What God is telling the Jewish people is that in order to become a nation, they must be ready to take a leap into something bigger and better than where they are now. To become, as the chapter says later, \u201ca kingdom of priests, and a holy nation,\u201d the Israelites must be willing to take that leap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same is true for all of us every day. My wife and I took a leap and moved across the world, with no one to hold our hands through the decisions of adult life, but we knew that the protective wings of our parents were always under us, making sure we\u2019d never fall. A phone call away, or deeply embedded advice in our mind, the wings were always under us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud, when discussing the duties of a parent to a child, states that according to one opinion, parents must teach their children to swim. 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