# Ki Tetze | Roni Akara: Hope That Transforms Present Pain

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- **Published:** Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:22:00 +0000
- **Duration:** 17:49
- **Books:** Deuteronomy
- **Parsha:** Ki Teitzei
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<p>Ki Tetze | Roni Akara: Hope That Transforms Present Pain, by Rav Eli Weber</p> <p>Yeshayahu 54: 1-10</p> <p>The haftara "Roni Akara" consoles Israel not about the pain of the present but about despair over the future. The barren woman symbolizes suffering that seems permanent — and God's promise of children transforms it into bearable hope, an idea echoed in Viktor Frankl's Holocaust observations. To guarantee this promise, God invokes the covenant with Noach: a unilateral oath never breached, proof that the exile will end and His kindness will never depart.</p>