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  "path": "/2026/05/15/bamidbar-finding-god-in-the-wilderness/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-15T21:40:02.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The wilderness was the perfect place precisely because life there was so brutally difficult — and that is often exactly where God chooses to speak. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]",
  "title": "Bamidbar: Finding God in the Wilderness"
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