SHABBAT SHALOM (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev And the israelites journeyed onward from beeroth-bene-jaakan To moserah. There aharon died and he was buried there, And eleazar his son served as priest in his stead. From there they journeyed on to gudgod  and from gudgod to jotbath, a land of brooks of water. (Devarim 10:6-7)   From there – "Misham" begins with the letter 'mem' and ends with 'mem'. . This tells that us that...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev And it shall be, if you indeed heed my commands with which I charge you today  to love the Lord your God and to worship Him with all your heart and with all your being I will give you the rain or your land in its seasons early rains and late, and you shall gather in your grain and your wine and your oil… Watch yourselves lest your heart be seduced and you swerve and worship...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev For the land to which you are coming to possess is not like the land of Egypt, out of which you came, where you sowed your seed and which you watered by foot, like a vegetable garden. But the land, to which you pass to possess, is a land of mountains and valleys and absorbs water from the rains of heaven. (Devarim 11:10-11) Land and Man R. Brekhiya said in the name of R. Shimon ben...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev   keep all the commandments that I command you this day,  in order that you may be strong and come and possess the land to which you are crossing, to possess it, . And in order that you may prolong your days on the land that the Lord swore to your forefathers to give to them and to their seed a land flowing with milk and honey… a land the Lord, your God, looks after; the...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev AND THE LORD WILL DRIVE OUT ALL THESE NATIONS FROM BEFORE YOU, AND YOU WILL POSSESS NATIONS GREATER AND STRONGER THAN YOU. EVERY PLACE UPON WHICH THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET WILL TREAD, WILL BE YOURS: FROM THE DESERT AND THE LEBANON, FROM THE RIVER, THE EUPHRATES RIVER, AND UNTIL THE WESTERN SEA, WILL BE YOUR BOUNDARY. NO MAN WILL STAND UP BEFORE YOU; THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL CAST THE FEAR OF YOU AND THE...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev AND YOU SHALL REMEMBER THE ENTIRE WAY ON WHICH THE LORD, YOUR GOD, LED YOU THESE FORTY YEARS IN THE DESERT… YOUR CLOTHING DID NOT WEAR OUT UPON YOU, NOR DID YOUR FOOT SWELL THESE FORTY YEARS. (Devarim 8:2,4)     Your clothing – Some say: this occurred miraculously. Others say: Because they took out many garments with them from Egypt. And it could be that it is not in...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev AND YOU SHALL TEACH THEM TO YOUR SONS TO SPEAK WITH THEM, WHEN YOU SIT IN YOUR HOUSE AND WHEN YOU WALK ON THE WAY AND WHEN YOU LIE DOWN AND WHEN YOU RISE. (Devarim 11:19)   And you shall teach them to your sons,] to speak with them – From the moment your son knows how to speak, teach him, Moses commanded us the Torah (Devarim 33:4). Let him learn speech through this...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ekev I SAW THAT YOU HAD SINNED AGAINST THE LORD YOUR GOD: YOU MADE YOURSELVES A MOLTEN CALF; YOU HAD BEEN QUICK TO STRAY FROM THE PATH THAT THE LORD HAD ENJOINED UPON YOU. (Devarim 9:16)   The question is worth considering why Aaron, who was given a completely free hand in the choice of the form, should have just chosen that of a calf… But we have already had the opportunity on several occasions...

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...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ekev FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD, HE IS THE GOD OF GODS AND THE LORD OF LORDS, THE GOD GREAT, POWERFUL, AND AWE-INSPIRING, HE WHO LIFTS UP NO FACE IN FAVOR AND TAKES NO BRIBE, PROVIDING JUSTICE FOR ORPHAN AND WIDOW, LOVING THE SOJOURNER, BY GIVING HIM FOOD AND CLOTHING. SO ARE YOU TO LOVE THE SOJOURNER, FOR STRANGERS WERE YOU IN THE LAND OF EGYPT. (Devarim 10:18)     "So are you to love...