PERMANENT PROPERTY You shall not move your fellow man’s boundary, which the earlier ones established, in your inheritance that you shall inherit, in the Land that the Lord, your God, gives you to possess it. (19:14) The Midrash (Sifrei) comments: What does this verse teach us? Does [the Torah] not already state, You shall not…
ME OR WE – THAT IS THE QUESTION כי יכרית ה’ אלוקיך את הגויים אשר אתה בא שמה לרשת אותם מפניך, וירשת אותם וישבת בארצם (יב:כט) When the Lord your God will cut down the nations, which you come to drive them out from before you, you shall drive them out and dwell in…
PRACTICE MAKES IMPERFECT Twice a day we recite the second paragraph of Kri’at Shema, taken from this week’s parashah. By the age of twenty, we have said it well over 10,000 times! If we have paid any attention to what we’ve been saying, we know that it talks about the blessings we will receive if…
PRINCES BELONG IN THE PALACE I entreated the Lord at that time, saying: “O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand… Please let me cross over and see the good Land that is on the other side of the Jordan, this good mountain and the Lebanon.” (3:23-25)…