A Call For Personal Improvement
The opening words of the haftarah from Hosea, “Shuvah Yisrael—Return, O Israel, to the Lord your G-d, for you have fallen because of your sin” (14:2). “To the Lord” is understood as meaning to...
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Laws of Idolatry | Rambam’s Mishneh Torah | Part Three
This part three of the laws of idolatry from Rambam’s Mishneh Torah. The Mishneh Torah (Hebrew: מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה, “Repetition of the Torah”), subtitled Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (ספר יד החזקה “Book of the Strong Hand”),...
The Consequences of the Covenant | Parashat HaAzinu
The Consequences of the Covenant | Parashat HaAzinu We learn in HaAtzinu that we cannot escape from G-d and His Covenant, with its privileges, responsibilities and its terrible sanctions. The stark severity of the message...
HaAzinu: Rabbi Abraham
By Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: HA-AZINU, Deuteronomy 32: 1-52 SONG OF G-D’S JUSTICE Some songs are happy, some are sad. Some are for entertainment. Some come to tell a story or teach a lesson....
The Temple, Idolatry and Exile | “The Place The Lord will Choose”
By Yonah Bar Maoz “The Temple, Idolatry, and Exile | “The Place The Lord will Choose“. Parashat Va-Yelekh mentions for the last time the demand to come to the Lord’s Sanctuary. This location is defined...
Parshat Nitzavim
Parshas NITZAVIM is always read on the last Shabbos before Rosh HaShanah (New Year) and is often (though not always) coupled with its sister parshah of VAYELECH, with which it shares the same theme....
A Lesson on Moshe’s Death | Parashat Nitzavim
The story of Moses’ death in this week’s reading has received extensive literary treatment from Tannaitic times through the Middle Ages, in a wide variety of Jewish works.The narrative told in the Bible reveals...
The Laws of Idolatry | Rambam’s Mishneh Torah | Part Two
This part two of laws of idolatry from Rambam’s Mishneh Torah. The Mishneh Torah (Hebrew: מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה, “Repetition of the Torah”), subtitled Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (ספר יד החזקה “Book of the Strong Hand”), is...
Standing Firm | Parshat Nitzavim
Rabbi Yaakov Cohen brings down a beautiful lecture on connecting to HaShem at Rosh Hashanah. Nitzavim, Nitsavim, Nitzabim, Netzavim, or Nesabim (נִצָּבִים — Hebrew for “ones standing,” the second word, and the first distinctive...
Nitzavim: Rabbi Abraham
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: NITZAVIM: Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20 VAYELECH: Deuteronomy 31:1-30. DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING “Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done,...
Knowing HaShem is all that Matters | Parashat Ki Tavo
“Knowing” figures repeatedly in Deuteronomy as the basis for Moses’ demand of the Israelites that they have faith in the Lord Who took them out of Egypt. This knowing goes beyond merely acknowledging intellectually;...
