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That’s how Joshua, Moses’ successor, felt when Moses died. Imagine the weight of that grief, the sheer absence of a leader, a teacher, a friend. But according to Sifrei Devarim, Go...
It begins with the verse, "My taking shall drip as the rain" (Deuteronomy, Ibid. 2). But what does "taking" even mean in this context? Well, according to this interpretation, "taki...
One particularly striking passage from Sifrei Devarim explores this very idea, starting with a poignant scene. Imagine Moses, descending from Mount Sinai, tablets in hand, after th...
This feeling of being "ignorant and not wise" is something that the ancient Jewish sages grappled with too. In Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal and ethical teachings connected...
The ancient text of Sifrei Devarim offers a powerful image of finding something precious in just such a place. It starts with the verse, "He found them in a desert land" (Deuterono...
The ancient rabbis grappled with this feeling, particularly when thinking about the exiles of the Jewish people. They found echoes of this isolation, this sense of being utterly ab...
The ancient sages noticed this human tendency, too, and they saw it reflected in the relationship between Israel and the other nations. Sifrei Devarim, a legal midrash on the Book ...
It's easy to get caught up in the moment, to think that the way things are now is how they'll always be. But Jewish tradition encourages us to look deeper, to see the hand of somet...
Deuteronomy 32:29 says, "If they were wise, they would understand this." But understand what, exactly? The Sifrei Devarim (a collection of legal midrashim on the Book of Deuteronom...
