Parshat Lech Lecha

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God calls Abraham to leave his homeland for Canaan. Covers Abraham and Sarah in Egypt, the separation from Lot, the war of the kings, and the covenant between the pieces. Genesis 12:1-17:27.

Benjamin and the King

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 62:3

The book of Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the book of Deuteronomy, presents us with a bit of a puzzle. We're talking about the place where the Temple in ...

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Sanctity of the Land

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 72:1

It's like the universe whispering secrets, if you know how to listen. one such whisper today, found in Sifrei Devarim. The text focuses on a verse about spilling blood: "On the ear...

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Rabbi Yossi in the Holy Land

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 72:7

Our tradition, specifically in Sifrei Devarim 72, wrestles with just such a dilemma concerning the ma'aser sheni, the second tithe. Imagine this: someone designates their second ti...

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Rabbi Akiva and Joseph

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 91:1

What's the ultimate betrayal? To be led away from God, the very source of our being. That's what's at stake in the passage from Sifrei Devarim we're about to explore. The text focu...

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Fall from Paradise and Scripture

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 101:1

We can find some interesting hints in the Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy. One thing the Sifrei points out right away: there are mo...

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Rabbi Akiva's Offering

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 106:3

It can seem like a maze of "do's" and "don'ts," but within these details lie profound insights into their relationship with the Divine. Let's delve into a fascinating discussion fr...

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Holy of Holies of Temple

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 106:4

But trust me, there's some fascinating reasoning hidden in there. to a passage from Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy, and see how th...

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Nevlatah and the Origins of the World

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 111:1

The Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy, tells us about this family, the Nevlatah. They were desperately poor. So poor, in fact, that t...

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Messiah in Joseph's Time

Other Texts Sifrei Devarim 130:7

But like so many things in Jewish tradition, the answer, or rather the layers of answers, are richer and more meaningful than you might expect. R. Shimon, in Sifrei Devarim, tells ...

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