Warnings from Hashem

Picture of the remnants of Greensburg, Kansas by Jaime Oppenheimer/The Wichita Eagle

This week's Perasha:
וְהָיְתָה אַרְצְכֶם שְׁמָמָה, וְעָרֵיכֶם יִהְיוּ חָרְבָּה

(The point here is not that the tornado in Greensburg was a punishment for not keeping Torah. That may or may not have been true. The point here is to show how Hashem warns us in the Torah to keep the Mitzvot via a punishment for not keeping it, and gives us an example of this in real life, as a "visual aid".)