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 ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Alan Freedman, leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Austin, Texas. Rabbi Freedman was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and holds ...

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Our guest this week is Rabbi Aaron Starr, leader of the Shaarey Zedek community in Southfield, MI. Rabbi Starr is the author of the book Taste of Hebrew (URJ Press) and Tradition vs. Modernity: The ...

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God was not pleased with the people’s request to send spies to the land of Canaan, yet He consented to it. What can we learn from this? The Book of Devarim (Deuteronomy), the fifth of the five books ...

From the Parsha of Devarim we have wonderful words of encouragement for the Jewish people right now. Moshe declared ‘Hashem elohei avotechem yosef aleichem kachem elef pe’amim’. May the Lord, the God ...

One of the first obstacles to understanding Devarim is thinking of it as a book. Devarim literally means “[spoken] words.” Even if we might otherwise have missed the centrality of this notion, the ...

Last week, the Nation of Israel concluded the fourth book of the Torah, Sefer Bamidbar; the conclusion of last week’s Parshiyot, Mattot and Massei, also was the end of G-d communicating directly ...

Israel’s war by the numbers: From 40, 40, 40 to 12,000 bombs ...