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Nitzavim Vayelech 5764 – Gilayon #358

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech WHEN SUCH A ONE HEARS THE WORDS OF THESE SANCTIONS, HE MAY FANCY HIMSELF IMMUNE, THINKING, "I SHALL BE SAFE THOUGH I FOLLOW MY OWN WILLFUL HEART"- TO THE UTTER RUIN OF MOIST AND DRY ALIKE. THE LORD WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM; RATHER THE LORD'S ANGER AND PASSION RAGE AGAINST THAT MAN, TILL EVERY SANCTION RECORDED IN THIS BOOK COMES DOWN UPON HIM, AND THE LORD BLOTS OUT HIS NAME FROM UNDER HEAVEN. THE...

Ki Tavo 5764 – Gilayon #357

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ki Tavo THE LORD WILL DRIVE YOU, AND YOUR KING WHOM YOU HAVE SET OVER YOU, TO A NATION UNKNOWN TO YOU OR YOUR FATHERS, WHERE YOU SHALL SERVE OTHER GODS, OF WOOD AND STONE. (Devarim 28:36)     And reign alone over us, with kindness and mercy The scribe Shafan also told the king, "The priest Hilkiah has given me a scroll," and Shafan read from it to the king. When the king heard...

Ki Teitzei 5764 – Gilayon #356

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ki Tetseh A MAN TAKES A WOMAN AND COHABITS WITH HER. THEN HE TAKES AVERSION TO HER AND MAKES UP CHARGES AGAINST HER AND DEFAMES HER… (Devarim 20:19)   Takes aversion – Rabbi Yishmael says: Come and see what hatred can cause – it brings him to lashon ha-ra . From this you can say: a person commits a minor sin, he ends up committing a serious sin; he transgresses love your neighbor...

Shoftim 5764 – Gilayon #355

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Shoftim WHEN IN YOUR WAR AGAINST A CITY YOU HAVE TO BESIEGE IT A LONG TIME IN ORDER TO CAPTURE IT, YOU MUST NOT DESTROY ITS TREES, WIELDING THE AX AGAINST THEM. YOU MAY EAT OF THEM, BUT YOU MUST NOT CUT THEM DOWN. ARE TREES OF THE FIELD HUMAN TO WITHDRAW BEFORE YOU INTO THE BESIEGED CITY? (Devarim 20:19)     But you must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human…...

Re'eh 5764 – Gilayon #354

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Reeh THERE SHALL BE NO NEEDY AMONG YOU – SINCE THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL BLESS THE LAND THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU AS A HEREDITARY PORTION. (Devarim 15:4)   FOR THERE WILL NEVER CEASE TO BE NEEDY ONES IN YOUR LAND, WHICH IS WHY I COMMAND YOU: OPEN YOUR HAND TO THE POOR AND NEEDY KINSMAN IN YOUR LAND. (Devarim 15:11)     As Sons, as Servants – Human Obligation to...

Eikev 5764 – Gilayon #353

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ekev CUT AWAY, THEREFORE, THE THICKENING ABOUT YOUR HEARTS AND STIFFEN YOUR NECKS NO MORE. FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GOD OF GODS AND LORD OF LORDS, THE GREAT, THE MIGHTY AND THE AWESOME GOD, WHO SHOWS NO FAVOR AND TAKES NO BRIBE, BUT UPHOLDS THE CAUSE OF THE FATHERLESS AND THE WIDOW, AND BEFRIENDS THE STRANGER, PROVIDING HIM WITH FOOD AND CLOTHING. YOU TOO MUST BEFRIEND THE STRANGER, FOR YOU WERE STRANGERS IN...

Va'etchanan 5764 – Gilayon #352

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Vaetchanan I PLEADED WITH THE LORD AT THAT TIME, SAYING, "…LET ME, I PRAY, CROSS OVER AND SEE THE GOOD LAND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN, THAT GOOD HILL COUNTRY, AND THE LEBANON." (Devarim 3:23, 25)   For the same state is in store for all (Kohelet 9:2) – Moses said to God: Master of the Universe, all are equal before you; you destroy the innocent and the wicked alike. The spies angered...

Devarim 5764 – Gilayon #351

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Devarim HOW CAN I BEAR UNAIDED THE TROUBLE OF YOU, AND THE BURDEN, AND YOUR BICKERING! (Devarim 1:12)     This teaches you that they were contentious and combative towards each other. (Rabbeinu Behayeiy on Devarim 1:12)   That it is said, I cannot bear the burden of you by myself (Devarim 1:9) and afterwards, How can I bear unaided the trouble of you (1:12) can be interpreted in two ways: First, that the expression...

Matot Masei 5764 – Gilayon #350

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Matot-Mas'ey THE FAMILY HEADS IN THE CLAN OF THE DESCENDANTS OF GILEAD THE SON OF MACHIR SON OF MANASSEH, ONE OF THE JOSEPHITE CLANS, CAME FORWARD AND APPEALED TO MOSES AND THE CHIEFTAINS, FAMILY HEADS OF THE ISRAELITES. THEY SAID, "THE LORD COMMANDED MY LORD TO ASSIGN THE LAND TO THE ISRAELITES AS SHARES BY LOT, AND MY LORD WAS FURTHER COMMANDED BY THE LORD TO ASSIGN THE SHARE OF OUR KINSMAN TZELOFHAD TO HIS...

Pinchas 5764 – Gilayon #349

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Pinchas PINHAS, SON OF ELAZAR, SON OF AARON THE PRIEST, HAS TURNED BACK MY WRATH FROM THE ISRAELITES BY DISPLAYING AMONG THEM HIS PASSION FOR ME, SO THAT I DID NOT WIPE OUT THE ISRAELITE PEOPLE IN MY PASSION. SAY, THEREFORE, I WILL GRANT HIM MY PACT OF PEACE. (Bamidbar 25: 11)     My Pact of Peace – Reward or Safeguard Against Psychological Damage? As reward for pacifying God's wrath and anger, He blessed...