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...

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,...

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...

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...

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:...