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It’s a question the Torah touches upon in subtle, yet profound ways. We find a beautiful example in the book of Bamidbar, Numbers, chapter 27, verse 15. "And Moses spoke to the L-r...
We often think of ritual purity as a key aspect of their service, but sometimes a story comes along that truly shocks us into understanding just how far they would go. Sifrei Bamid...
The verse we're looking at is Deuteronomy 1:16: "And I charged your judges at that time, saying..." What follows is a commentary that really gets to the heart of leadership and com...
Why all this talk of "going up"? It's not just poetic license. The Sifrei Devarim, a collection of early rabbinic legal interpretations on the Book of Deuteronomy, points to a fasc...
The ancient Israelites felt that way too, and their story, preserved in the Sifrei Devarim, offers a powerful lesson. Let's rewind. The Israelites are poised to enter the Promised ...
The Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal midrashim on the Book of Deuteronomy, offers a powerful reminder of this. When it says, "as all that He did with you in Egypt before your ...
The text starts by pondering the phrase "who can do as Your deeds" (Deuteronomy 3:24). Sifrei Devarim finds echoes of God's power in two pivotal moments of our history: the Exodus ...
Those are tefillin, also known as phylacteries. They’re deeply meaningful, filled with ancient texts, and the way we put them on is steeped in tradition. But have you ever stopped ...
There's this beautiful analogy in Sifrei Devarim that paints a picture of a king and his wife. The king tells his wife, "Adorn yourself with all your jewels, so you may be desirabl...
