Posted by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum in Featured Articles, Weekly Torah Commentary on July 30, 2010 | No Comments
Please and Thankyou
Eikev, Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25
For not on bread alone does man live but on all that comes forth from the mouth of God will man live.”
Deuteronomy 8:3
“Eat and be satisfied and bless HaShem your God.”
Deuteronomy 8:10
In our present portion of EIKEV the Torah teaches us to bless and thank God for the food we eat. “Eat and be satisfied and bless HaShem your God” (Deuteronomy 8:10).
According to tradition, Moses instituted that after eating their food, the Children of...
Posted by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum in Featured Articles, Weekly Torah Commentary on July 23, 2010 | No Comments
Know today…
Va-etchanan, Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11
Know today, and bring it into your heart that HaShem, He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.
Deuteronomy 4:39
In our present portion of VA-ETCHANAN, Moses launches into the main body of his final discourses to Israel and the world, which he starts by reviewing the very fundamentals of faith in God and the way we are to serve Him through the practice of His commandments.
The foundation of the entire edifice is contained in the...
Posted by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum on July 30, 2010
Please and Thankyou...
Eikev, Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25
For not on bread alone does man live but on all that comes forth from the mouth of God will man live.”
Deuteronomy 8:3
“Eat and be satisfied and bless HaShem your God.”
Deuteronomy 8:10
In our present portion of EIKEV the Torah teaches us to bless and thank God for the food we eat. “Eat and be satisfied and bless HaShem your God” (Deuteronomy...
Posted by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum on July 16, 2010
Lands and their owners...
Devarim, Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22
Structure of the book of Deuteronomy
The entire book of Deuteronomy consists of Moses’ discourses to the people of Israel in the concluding weeks of his life. The people were encamped in the Plains of Moab, poised to enter their ancestral land. The earlier sections of the book (especially from Deuteronomy 3:23-11:25) mainly review the basic foundations of faith,...
Posted by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum on July 8, 2010
Do not corrupt the land!...
Matos-Mas’ei , Numbers 30:2-32:42 & 33:1-36:13
Do not corrupt the land which you are in. For it is blood that corrupts the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it except through the blood of the one that shed it.
Numbers 35:33
Conclusion of the Book of Numbers
In many years the two concluding portions of the Book of Numbers, known respectively as...
Posted by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum on June 30, 2010
The Covenant of Peace...
Pinhas , Numbers 25:10-30:1
And God spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Pinhas, son of Elazar, son of Aaron the priest has turned away My wrath from the children of Israel, in that he was very jealous among them for My sake, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My jealousy.
Therefore say: I am hereby giving him My Covenant of Peace; and it shall belong to him and his descendants after him,...
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