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Talk about pressure! The Israelites weren’t exactly waging war on Moab, but their very presence – a kind of “hostile, though not warlike, attitude” as Ginzberg phrases it in Legend...
We often think of the big communal sacrifices, the ones everyone brings together. But what about all the other offerings? The smaller ones, the personal vows, the little gifts we w...
There's something deeper going on. Deuteronomy, or Devarim (דְּבָרִים) as it's known in Hebrew, really hammers this point home. And there's this one little verse, Devarim 13:8, tha...
We read phrases like "the sword of the Lord," but... swords don't literally belong to God, right? And they certainly don't eat flesh! So, what's going on when we read, as we do in ...
AND Mosheh went into the tabernacle of the house of instruction, and spake these words unto all Israel, and said to them: I am the son of a hundred and twenty years this day. I am ...
It involves a divine tour, some hard "nos," and a resounding "yes" that changed everything. The story goes that before God presented the Torah to Israel, He offered it to all the n...
Devarim Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic teachings on the Book of Deuteronomy, tackles this very question. It starts with a verse from Proverbs (2:1): "My son, if you take my sayin...
In the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy), specifically chapter 3, verse 24, we find Moses pleading with God. He says, "Your greatness (gadlecha)..." But what exactly does that gadlecha...
The ancient rabbis certainly understood that feeling. And they weren't afraid to address it head-on. In Sifrei Devarim, a collection of early rabbinic legal commentaries on the Boo...
