Parshas Ki Savo Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. Following the last two Parshios that focused on Justice and the value of individual rights, Moshe…
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Dvar Torah – Parshas Ki Seitzei
D’var Torah Parshas Ki Seitzei A Nice Disguise By Rabbi Label Lam You shall not keep in your pouch two different weights, one large and one small. You shall not keep in your house two different ephah measures, one large and one small. Rather,] you shall have a full and honest weight, [and] a full…
The war against evil
Synopsis of KI TEITZEI FIRST READING Deuteronomy 21: 10-21 Moses told the Jewish people that after they conquer the Land of Israel from its occupiers, they would be allowed, if necessary, to attack neighboring countries that posed a threat to their security. The war against evil Moses told the Jewish people, “If you go…
Parsha Summary – Parshas Ki Seitzei
Parshas Ki Seitzei Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. In the course of history mankind’s most ignoble times have been during war and conflict. It…
Sfas Emes – Parshas Ki Seitzei
The weekly Sfas Emes is now available in a Sefer. The Seferis called Emes Ve’emunah : A Sfas Emes Companion. This Sefer contains all of the materials in the weekly emails, plus new insights. The Sefer also contains the text in lashon hakodesh on which the Sfas Emes worked to produce his ma’amar. Accessing the…
D’var Torah
Parshas Shoftim What Makes Us Holy By Rabbi Label Lam If a matter eludes you in judgment, between blood and blood, between judgment and judgment, or between lesion and lesion, words of dispute in your cities, then you shall rise and go up to the place HASHEM your G-d chooses. And you shall come to…
Becoming a Fruit-Bearing Tree
Synopsis of SHOFTIM SEVENTH READING Deuteronomy 20:10 – 21:9 Moses to instructs the Jewish people regarding how they were to conduct their conquest of the Land of Israel. Becoming a Fruit-Bearing Tree Moses told the Jewish people, “If you besiege a city…you must not destroy its [fruit] trees.” Our emotions are the measure of our maturity….
Parshas Shoftim Fifth Reading
Shoftim 18:14 Fifth Reading The nations that you are driving out listen to astrologers and stick diviners, but what God has given you is totally different. Ki hagoyim ha’eleh asher atah yoresh otam el-me’onenim ve’el-kosmim yishma’u ve’atah lo chen natan lecha Adonay Eloheycha. 18:15 In your midst, God will set up for you a prophet like…
Sfas Emes
Parshas Reeh By Dr. Nosson Chayim Leff Re’eh, 5633 This parsha begins with a focus on choice. We hear Moshe Rabbeinu saying: “Re’ei a’nochi no’sein lif’nei’chem ha’yom bracha u’klalla”. (ArtScroll: “See. I present before you today a blessing and a curse … “). The Sfas Emes notes that implicit in this pasuk is a key…
Parsha Summary
Parshas Reeh Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st and 2nd Aliyot: Moshe instructs the Chosen People to eradicate any remnant of idolatry and strengthen…
Channeling Moses
EIKEV Devarim 10:12-11:9 Moses then told the Jewish people that G-d’s demands on them are not excessive, and certainly not disproportionate to the great mercy that G-d continues to show them. ____________ INSIGHT Channeling Moses This “reverence” is the fear that G-d would see us doing something that we would be…
What Had to Be Said
D’var Torah Parshas Eikev What Had to Be Said By Rabbi Label Lam …lest you eat and be sated, and build good houses and dwell therein, and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold increase, and all that you have increases, and your heart grows haughty, and you forget HASHEM, your…
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