All posts in: Vaeschanan

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  Vaeschanan

  6 years ago

  Guard your Soul: Va’etchanan

  Guard your Soul – Va’etchanah We have been commanded to “guard your soul” [1]. This is the positive commandment to look after our bodies. Our body of course ..

  Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
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• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Is our best really our best?

  I pleaded with Hashem (3:23) The Medrash tells us that when Moshe was told by Hashem that he would not be allowed to enter into Eretz Yisrael, he immersed himself ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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  Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  King of hearts

  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
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  an unpopular short vort

  The fact that a vort is unpopular does not always mean it should go unsaid. This is one example. Towards the end of the serda (6;10-13), Moshe says that we will ..

  Written by d fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Using the enemy

  The pasuk (6:5) commands that you shall love HaShem with all your hearts (be’chol levavcha), which Rashi reveals refers to loving HaShem with both your inclinations; ..

  Written by d fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  shema yisrael (Short Dvar Torah)

  The kli yakar gives us a great insight into the words Shema Yisrael HaShem (Yud-keh-vav-keh) Elokeinu HaShem (Yud-keh-vav-keh) Echad. The name Elokim represents ..

  Written by D fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Parashas Vaeschanan – The Power of Prayer

  Parashas Vaeschanan – The Power of Prayer This week we have Parashas Vaeschanan which continues with the theme started at the beginning of the book of Devarim ..

  Written by Daniel Sandground
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  “You shall love Hashem…”

  “You shall love Hashem..” The word אהבה – love – has a root of הב which means give. We are commanded in this weeks parsha to Love Hashem. ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Humility

  Only last week we read of the Jewish people’s multiple misdemeanours and acts of individual and collective rebellion during its 40 years in the desert (the necessity ..

  Written by Rabbi Andrew Savage
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  vaeschanan and bein adam lechaveiro

  The 10 commandments were written upon 2 tablets; the idea being that the first 5 commandments are of the bein adam lamakom ilk (eg Shabbat), whilst the second lot of 5 are of bein ..

  Written by Daniel Fine