A few weeks ago, I gave a Dvar Torah in Hebrew and then in English. Both of the messages had the same content. Although my Hebrew is more fluent than English, my wife told me that the Dvar Torah in ...

Parashat Masei, the last of the book of Bamidbar, ends with the verse, “These are the commandments and regulations that the LORD enjoined upon the Israelites, through Moses, on the steppes of Moab, at ...

Parashat Devarim begins with Moses reprimanding the Jewish People as he recalls the numerous places in the desert where they rebelled against God. As they enter the land of Israel, the Jewish People ...

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Parashat Devarim initiates the fifth Book of the Torah, which shares its name. This final section of the Torah is unique. In the other four books, Moshe acted as a scribe, simply recording with ...

This week’s parashah is the first of a new book of the Torah, Devarim (Words) or Deuteronomy. The Book of Devarim mostly consists of Moses's long farewell speeches to the people, in which Moses offers ...

After a whirlwind of parshiyot, chagim, global pandemics, and rallying for justice, we have arrived at the beginning of the last stretch, Sefer Devarim, Moshe’s book. Though a man of very few devarim ...

How prescient is our holy Torah! This verse warning us not to favor the strong OR the weak stands as a sharp rebuke of the current fad of fetishizing the perceived underdog. The Targum rejects this ...

On March 9, 1790 — 14 years after signing the Declaration of Independence — a dying Benjamin Franklin responded to a letter from Yale President Ezra Stiles, who wanted to glean some final wisdom from ...

On its surface, the Book of Deuteronomy appears to be little more than a restatement of stories and laws that were already covered in the preceding four books of the Torah. This is, however, far from ...