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Back to SearchParshas Reeh (Rebroadcast)
This week’s parsha marks a transition in the Book of Deuteronomy: it is no longer primarily about admonishment and rebuke and warnings, instead we re…
2 years ago
Parsha: Eikev - Shock and Awe
Flashy achievements make the news. Great triumphs, awesome deeds, transcendent moments grab our attention and seize our imagination. Humdrum acts fai…
2 years ago
Parsha: Eikev - Well-Heeled (5782)
If the Almighty promises to give you a blessing, your ears should perk up. If God promises to give you abundance, health, prosperity, fertility, secu…
2 years ago
Ethics: Sharpening Teachers (6.6.46)
Teachers are usually pretty talented. They're usually gifted, knowledgeable, intelligent, and well-studied. In way to wisdom # 46 we learn how a stud…
2 years ago
Parshas Eikev (Rebroadcast)
We pick up where we left off last week amid Moshe’s speech to the nation before his passing, and as in the previous few weeks, Parshas Eikev is jam p…
2 years ago
Parsha: Vaeschanan - Get a Life
Moshe was Joshua's teacher. By any measure, Moshe was a greater leader of the nation than Joshua was. Moshe was the sun to Joshua's moon. But Moshe w…
2 years ago
Parsha: Vaeschanan - Linked to Sinai (5782)
Although he was the paradigmatic leader of all time, Moshe was barred from crossing the Jordan River and entering the Land. Joshua his student was to…
2 years ago
Ethics: Studying with Intentionality (6.6.44-45)
What are our intentions when we study? What are we trying to achieve? If we are studying the Almighty's Torah simply as an exercise in theoretical, a…
2 years ago
Parshas Vaeschanan (Rebroadcast)
This week’s parsha continues Moshe’s monologue to the nation in the weeks preceding his passing. He begins by recounting his repeated efforts in tryi…
2 years ago
Parsha: Devarim - Citizen of Heaven
A year after the Exodus Moshe dispatched a contingency of dignified men to scout the land of Canaan prior to the Nation's invasion. It was a catastro…
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