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…
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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…
Parasha Readings
Weekly Parasha Readings Through August We wanted to give you all the weekly Parasha readings so that we are on the same Scripture reading schedule. Week Ending: Aug, 2nd D’varim (Words) Deut: 1:1 -3:22, Isa 1:1-27 1Tim 3:1-7 Aug 9th V’et’chanan (And I pleaded) Deut 3:23- 7:11, Isa 40 1-26, Mark 12:28-34 Aug 16 Ekev…
Parshas Devarim
Parshas Devarim 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 recounts the history of the 40 years from after the 2nd Luchos,…
Parsha DEBARIM
THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS ON THE SEPHER ELLEH HADDEBARIM OR BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY SECTION OF THE TORAH XLIV TITLE DEBARIM I. THESE are the words which Mosheh spake with all Israel beyond the Jordan, reproving them because they had sinned in the wilderness, and had provoked (the Lord) to anger on the plains over against…
D’var Torah
D’var Torah Parshas Masei Close Enough? By Rabbi Label Lam And you shall not defile the land where you reside, in which I dwell, for I am HASHEM Who dwells among the Children of Israel. (Bamidbar 26:34) …in which I dwell: You should not cause Me to dwell amidst its uncleanness. (Rashi) …for I am…
Parsha Summary
Pashas Masei Jeremiah 2:4 – 2:28, 3:4 Please note: There is no Parsha Summary for this week. Just the Haftorah. 2nd of the Tlas Diparanusa – Haftoras of Ill Tidings This week’s Haftorah is the second Haftorah forewarning the impending destruction of Yerushalayim. In the 2nd chapter of Yirmiyahu, the Navi detailed the extent of…
Parshas Masei Haftorah
Parshas Masei Yirmiyahu 2:4 This week’s haftorah continues the theme of the three weeks and introduces the month of Av. The prophet Yirmiyahu reprimands the Jewish people and reminds them, in the name of Hashem, of all of the favors they have received over the years. Hashem asks, “What wrong did your fathers find in…
Sfas Emes
Parshas Ma’sei By Nosson Chayim Leff Sfas Emes, Zechuso Tagein Aleinu, Parshas Mas’ei, 5632 The parsha begins (33: 1 -2): “These are the journeys of Bnei Yisroel who went out of Egypt … Moshe recorded their departures for their journeys (motza’ei’hem lemas’ei’hem) … these were the journeys for their departures” (mas’ei’hem lemotza’ei’hem). The Sfas Emes…
Parshas Mas’ei
Journeys The tenth and last section of the book of Numbers begins by reviewing the journeys (Mas’ei, in Hebrew) of the Jewish people from Egypt until the threshold of the Land of Israel. It continues with G-d’s instructions regarding the Jews’ imminent entry and conquest of the land. Massei First Reading Numbers 33:1-49 Having…
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