“These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai” (Leviticus 27:34).
This verse is found at the end of the seventh chapter of Leviticus, the third book of the Torah (the Old Testament). It follows a list of the commandments God gave to Moses, and includes vows and offerings to God. (Leviticus means “of the Levites.”) Tribes of Israelsays the website Bible Study Tools.
For New York-based Jewish activist and influencer Lizzie Savetsky, this chapter from Leviticus is a reminder that God is in control and that things happen for a reason.
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“I was recently reading a portion of the book of Leviticus in the Torah (the Old Testament) that lists a number of really severe curses from God if we don’t follow His ways — if we don’t trust Him,” she told Fox News Digital in an email.
She said these verses resonated with her as she has experienced a range of emotions over the past nine months since the terror attacks on Israel, teaching her important lessons about what she can control and what she should leave up to God.
Lizzie Savetsky of New York City told Fox News Digital that Leviticus, the third book of the Torah, is a reminder about trust and who really has control. (Courtesy of Lizzy Savetsky via Shield Communications PR/iStock)
“Imagine a circle. Within that circle are all the things we can control, that we can actually control,” she said.
Savetsky said trust exists outside the proverbial circle: “It’s precisely because we have no control that we truly place our trust in God.”
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Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, Savetsky said he has felt caught in a “never-ending cycle of frustration, sadness and anger.”
“I realized that everything that was driving me crazy was outside of that circle, in an area I couldn’t control,” she said. “It meant that I wasn’t trusting God.”
Savetsky told Fox News Digital that she has been wrestling with her emotions since the brutal terrorist attack on her Israeli border community on Oct. 7, and that she constantly reminds herself to trust in God. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Savetsky said she found it frustrating to see people she previously respected and followed on social media make posts critical of Israel “with no real knowledge of the region and its history.”
“I was deeply saddened recently to see the video released by the parents of American Hersh Goldberg Pollin, who was kidnapped along with two other civilians at the Nova festival,” she said, adding that she still thinks about the hostages being held in Gaza every day.
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Since Oct. 7, Israel’s war with Hamas has continued to rage abroad, while large-scale student protests against Israel have sparked concern at home, Fox News Digital reported.
“This is out of my control,” Savetsky said. “I’m incredibly angry about the silence, the lies and the demonization, but this is also out of my control.”
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But she had can “I get up every day and I do it,” she said.
“We have to trust that all of this is leading us to something.”
“I say I’m committed to a Jewish life, a spiritual life, so how can I be so frustrated and angry and sad about all these things that are outside of my control?” Savetsky asked.
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These feelings, she said, “just reflect my lack of trust in God.”
“We have to trust that all of this is leading us to something,” she said.
Feelings of anger and sadness “just reflect a lack of trust in God,” said Savetsky (not pictured), as he reflected on his faith. (iStock)
Savetsky said many things in today’s world simply don’t make sense.
“There is no logic to the amount of hatred and silence that exists in the world,” she said.
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“You just have to let it go.”
She added: “Otherwise we will just exhaust ourselves trying to control something that only God can control.”
