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Let's take a peek into one such dance, found in the Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy. The passage focuses on the firstborn – the bec...
It's not like you can just bring any old animal to the Temple. There are rules, of course, meticulously detailed in the Torah. And within those rules are layers upon layers of inte...
And it turns out, the seeds of their monumental freedom were sown not under the blazing sun, but under the cloak of night. We read in Sifrei Devarim – a collection of early Jewish ...
The verse in Deuteronomy (16:4) is pretty clear: "And there shall not be seen unto you leaven in all of your border for seven days." Seems straightforward. No chametz for you! But ...
And the rabbis of old, they wrestled with this question too! The verse in Deuteronomy (16:6) tells us we should sacrifice the Passover offering "to the place that the L-rd your G-d...
For the Jewish people, the Exodus from Egypt is that moment. And it echoes even in the details of how we celebrate Passover, Pesach, the festival commemorating that liberation. Our...
But who exactly is being told to do this counting? Is it the beth-din, the Jewish court, maybe acting on behalf of the community? That's where the Sifrei Devarim, a collection of e...
Well, our Sages grappled with that very idea when it came to Sukkot, the Festival of Booths. Sukkot, as you probably know, is that joyous week where we dwell in temporary shelters,...
It couldn't have been easy. Turns out, the Torah already had a plan for that! This week, we're diving into a tiny verse, just a sliver of text, in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of l...
