We have each been commanded to “love G-d with all of your hearts” [1]. We only have one heart, and so we have been taught that these “hearts” actually refer ..
Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
Hear Israel, today you cross the Jordan… (9:1) שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל אַתָּה עֹבֵר הַיּוֹם אֶת הַיַּרְדֵּן… In this ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
“And all of these curses will come upon you…because you did not serve Hashem your G-d with with joy and goodness of the heart” (28:45-47) Such is the great ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
You are standing today — all of you — before Hashem your God (29:9) In this verse, Moshe is telling the Jewish People that they are standing before Hashem, about ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
Cursed is he who will not uphold the words of this Torah — to perform them; and all the People will say Amen (27:26) According to the simple understanding of this ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
“The Emorites who lived in that mountain came out to confront you and pursued you like bees do. They smote you (i.e. the Israelites) in Seir as far as Chormah” ..
Written by Howard Jackson
You’ll notice that throughtout sefer devarim, Moshe repeats the history of the last 40 years and much more to the Bnei Yisrael. The question is why exactly ..
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The pasuk (26:7) reports our crying out to HaShem during the slavery in Egypt. However, the pasuk does not say that HaShem heard our prayers, but rather ‘HaShem ..
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Pasuk 6 of perek 30 reports that HaShem will help us reach a level of love for HaShem by removing (lit. ‘circumcising’) our decontaminating aspects that repel ..
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