Parsha 44 of 54 · Sefer Devarim
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5781–82 · Year 1 · 2 pages
This week’s parsha marks the first parsha of the last book of the Chamisha Chumshei Torah. Chronologically the parsha is the beginning of the repetition of the chumash by Moshe to the Jews as they complete their travels before entering the land of Israel. The…
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5782–83 · Year 2 · 2 pages
This week’s parsha is Devarim as well as Shabbos Chazon, that is the Shabbos before 9 av (which is followed next week by Shabbos Nachamu). Chazon- is the first word of the book of Yeshayahu, it means vision, and it is the opening prophecy of Yishayahu that…
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5783–84 · Year 3 · 1 page
This week’s Parsha is Devarim, typically called Shabbos Chazon, as it precedes Tisha B’Av. The Parsha appropriately begins, as Rashi explains on the first Posuk, that Moshe is beginning with rebuke. Except the rebuke is done in hint format out of respect for…
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5784–85 · Year 4 · 1 page
This week, we begin the 5th book of the Chumash. The beginning of the Parsha alludes to the various times the Jews sinned along the way in the desert and then discusses the Meraglim and the extended trip in the desert. Then the posuk says that the children,…
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5785–86 · Year 5 · 1 page
This week’s Parsha is Devarim, the first of the last Chumash, and it is also Shabbos Chazon. It is called Chazon, as it references the Haftorah read this week, the Shabbos that precedes Tisha B’av. Shabbos Chazon always falls out on Parshas Devarim, and the…
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5786–87 · Year 6 · 2 pages
1 Parshas Devarim Sanhedrin 91a relates the story of Alexander (of Macedon, i.e., the Great), in which various nations of the world came before Alexander to challenge the Jewish position, namely their claim to the legitimacy of the Jews’ claim to Israel and…
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