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7 years ago
Abomination! [short vort]
There is an especially enlightning Targum this week which is worth focusing on. The Torah calls the idol worship and gold & silver of the (imoral) nations of the land ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
This is THE year (short vort)
There’s a bit of a discrepancy in one of our psukim this week. 11;12 says that the Land of Israel is “a land which HaShem your G-D seeks always, always ..
Written by D FIne
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7 years ago
The Bees and the Bees
“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
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7 years ago
As sweet as Honey
“These are the devarim / words that Moshe spoke to all Yisrael.” (1:1) The prolific R’ Yehuda He’chassid z”l writes in Ta’amei ..
Written by Benjie Fine
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7 years ago
Dont let an oppurtunity pass
The Book of Dvorim is basically Moshe’s final lecture to his nation. Sometimes softly, sometimes sternly, Moshe explains to the nation about their behavior ..
Written by Benjamin Rose
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7 years ago
Shabbos Chazon – G-d’s Answer to a Perplexing Question
Who is the wise man that may understand this and who is he to whom the mouth of the L-rd has spoken that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, burnt up like ..
Written by Rabbi Zev Leff
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7 years ago
Rebuke After Rebuke
“And it was in the fortieth year on the first day of the eleventh month, that Moshe spoke to the B’nei Yisrael” (1:3). This teaches us, says Rashi, ..
Written by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
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7 years ago
Tough Love
The entire book of Devarim (Deuteronomy) is essentially Moshe’s farewell speech to the Jewish people. Having rescued us from Egypt, been the conduit through which ..
Written by Rabbi ANdrew Savage
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7 years ago
Dvarim; chazara
Parshas Devarim; chazara Welcome to chumash and parshas Devarim; described to me by one of my chavrusas as his favourite mussar sefer. The entire chumash is in essence ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
One Day We Will All Be Togethor
This week we start a new book. The fifth and final book of the Torah: Devarim. It consists entirely of Moshe’s last speech to the Jewish nation before he dies ..
Written by Tal Segal
