D’vrei Torah

            This week Moses comes to realization that he will soon die. The portion begins (31:2) with the recognition that at 120 years of age “I can no longer be active”. The Hebrew words, la’tzeit [Read more…]

           What a Torah portion for us to consider this Shabbat! The Israelites, poised to enter the “land flowing with milk and honey” are given a stern and direct warning by [Read more…]

            Ki Tetze is a portion that will keep any Torah study participant busy for hours. It has combination of themes from social justice issues to treatment of captives, from medical ethics to marriage and [Read more…]

            This week the Torah asks a question that touches all of us. In Deuteronomy 16:20 we read the famous line “justice, justice shall you pursue”. The Hebrew word Tzedek is repeated to stress the [Read more…]

            This week’s portion covers a lot of ground. We see in chapter 12 the call for centralized worship which reflects King Josiah’s attempt at his religious reformation. We see [Read more…]

     Eikev is a fascinating portion. It conveys a variety of instructions, all embraced by the Deuteronomic style of “If…Then”; If you follow God’s commands then good things will happen and if you stray, then [Read more…]

  This week’s portion is  quite well known. Many of the portion’s verses find their way into so many prayer books, private prayers etc. Just look at the beginning of the portion (4:44) and the [Read more…]

  The Book of Deuteronomy begins with the first of several “sermons” delivered by Moses. It is time for the Israelites to move into the land that had been promised. It has been forty years [Read more…]