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He starts with the familiar verse from Ecclesiastes (Kohelet 1:4): "A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.” But he asks a piercing question: what ...
It turns out, our sages grappled with these feelings too, and they used a beautiful metaphor: water. This passage from Sifrei Devarim (48) explores how we should approach learning,...
Our tradition grapples with these questions all the time, especially when it comes to seemingly disparate commandments. to one such conundrum, found in Sifrei Devarim, concerning t...
You stumble across something familiar, but the context is… different. Let's untangle a little bit of that today, drawing from Sifrei Devarim. We find a curious phrase: "as He spoke...
The Book of Devarim, Deuteronomy, dives right into this question. It's in chapter 13, verse 2, where it says, "If there arise in your midst a prophet..." But it doesn’t just stop t...
It’s from Sifrei Devarim, a portion of the book of Deuteronomy, and it unpacks what it REALLY means to serve God. The verse (Deuteronomy 13:5, or 13:6 in some translations) is pret...
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...
" We grapple with it in our careers, our relationships... and even when it comes to giving gifts! The ancient rabbis did too. to a fascinating little corner of Jewish law, specific...
For millennia, people have sought guidance from… well, some pretty unusual places. Today, let's dive into some ancient methods of divination, as described in the Sifrei Devarim (De...
