In this week’s parsha, Ki Sovo, the passuk (26:16) says Hayom hazeh Hashem Elokecho me’tzavcho…. and Rashi says that this is the mokor for the famous expression ..
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There is a sharp contrast between 2 seemingly very similar words; ‘vehaya’ (meaning ‘it will be’) and ‘vayehi’ (meaning ‘it was’) Chazal tell us that ..
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Parshas Ki Savo; Birth Pains The opening of our sedra this week discusses the mitzvah of bringing bikurim (1st fruits) up to the beis hamikdash. Whilst this mitzvah ..
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“It will be when you will go over the Yarden, you will set up these 12 stones at Har Aivol, and you will build a Mizbayach and bring Korbonos and be happy ..
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This weeks parsha starts with “ViSamta Bateneh” – “You shall place the Bikkurim in a basket”; the mitzvah of Bikkurim. Chazal tell ..
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“It will be when you will go over the Yarden, you will set up these 12 stones at Har Aivol, and you will build a Mizbayach and bring Korbonos and be happy ..
Written by BENJAMIN A ROSE
This weeks Parsha starts with the mitzvah of Bikurim (the obligation to take the first fruits up to Yerushalayim). In Breishis Rabbah it says that it was for Bikkurim ..
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Bikurim does not strike one as being the most relevant thing to a 21st century jew’s life. After all, we do not have the beis hamikdash at the moment, and as such ..
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Every time reward (and punishment) appears in the Torah, they are always stated in physical form. For example, if we are good then the Torah promises rain in its correct ..
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