D’vrei Torah

With this week’s portion, Ha’azinu, we come to the next to last portion for the year. We know how the story ends, as does Moses, for as soon as he finished this [Read more...]

This double portion of Nitzavim-Vayelech takes us to the brink of the High Holidays. Moses’s discourses are ending and in 30 he accepts that his earthly time is [Read more...]

Ki Tavo continues the discourses of Moses as the time for his own death draws near. The portion recounts standard blessing-curse patterns and begins with the ceremony of the [Read more...]

Ki Tetze is another fascinating portion, one in which we see the outlines of a social order rooted in affiliation and adherence to God’s words. Now there are several [Read more...]

Shoftim explores a variety of issues that help determine a society. At the very beginning of the passage comes the famous three words tzedek tzedek tirdof – justice, [Read more...]

R’eh contnues the series of sermons that form the basis of Deuteronomy. This portion is most famous for its opening themes of blessings and curses, based on our [Read more...]

Eikev is a challenging portion. The beginning presents us with a real moral challenge as God, in the words of Moses, tells the Israelites that the people that God will deiver [Read more...]

The second portion of Deuteronomy is classic.  The Ten Commandments are repeated (5) and we meet in chapter 6 the Sh’ma and V’ahavta. There is so much to [Read more...]

This Shabbat we reach the beginning of the last book of Torah. Deuteronomy is a repetition of the Wilderness experience told through a series of sermons in the mouth of [Read more...]