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The ancient text Sifrei Devarim paints a powerful picture of just that feeling, and offers a startling, hopeful response. Imagine the entire congregation of Israel standing before ...
It’s a question that’s been pondered for centuries, and one little verse in Devarim (Deuteronomy) offers a fascinating glimpse into the reverence the ancients held for the unspeaka...
Jewish tradition explores this human tendency, and how it relates to our relationship with the Divine, in a powerful passage from Sifrei Devarim (a commentary on Deuteronomy). The ...
The ancient text, Sifrei Devarim, a commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, opens up a fascinating perspective. In it, the verse referring to God as "your Owner" (kanecha) sparks a ...
And it's all tucked away in a short but potent verse from Sifrei Devarim 313, a midrashic text on the Book of Deuteronomy. The verse says, "He built them up," and it's explained as...
And in a fascinating little verse, we get a glimpse of how God saw their unique position in the world. It all comes from Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on th...
He was a righteous man, tested beyond measure. But how did tragedy initially strike his family? As we learn in Sifrei Devarim, it wasn't due to any inherent sinfulness on their par...
The ancient text of Sifrei Devarim, a commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, uses just such a feeling to illustrate a terrifying point. The passage we're looking at grapples with t...
We find ourselves wrestling with this very question in Sifrei Devarim 325, an ancient commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy. The text grapples with the idea of divine retribution, ...
