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7 years ago
Read steady bless
The pasuk ‘when I call out the Name of HaShem, ascribe greatness to our God’ (32:3) is explained by various gemarras to refer to the pre-Birkas Hamazon zimun ..
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7 years ago
Rain & Dew
In the second pasuk of our sedra (32:2) we are told that ‘My lessons (I.e. the Torah) should drop like rain, and My words should flow like dew.’ Why the two expressions ..
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7 years ago
Consolation prize
Chazal note that the first day of Pesach and Tisha B’Av always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. The Jewish calendar is teaching us that redemption ..
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7 years ago
Group exercise
One of the final mitzvos in the Torah is the mitzvah of hakhel, whereby on the night after the first day yom tov of Sukkos all of Klal Yisrael got together in the Beis ..
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7 years ago
The end is nigh
Parshas Vayelech is essentially Moshe’s last speech to Bnei Yisrael regarding their conduct and faithfulness to HaShem. How did Moshe know that this was going ..
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7 years ago
The best mohel ever!
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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7 years ago
A right hiding
Rabeinu Bachayei cites an important principle and novel understanding of the pasuk (29:28) ‘the hidden things are for HaShem, our God, and the revealed things ..
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7 years ago
Middle class
The sedra opens with the words ‘you are all standing today,’ which the Ibn Ezra explains to mean that Klal Yisrael were encamped around the Aron. This represents ..
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7 years ago
Crying when it matters
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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7 years ago
Physical reward?
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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