Category: Torah Talks
Torah Talk for Parashat Lech Lecha
November 9, 2016 by
In this parasha, Avram and Sarai follow Hashem’s call to journey to Cana’an, where the covenant between Hashem and Avraham is affirmed. Avram, renamed Avraham, has a son with Hagar, Sarai’s maid, and Hashem promises that Sarai, renamed Sarah, will bear a son as well. In chapter 14, verse 13, Avram is referred to as […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Noach
November 1, 2016 by
In this parasha, we hear the story of Noach and the flood; about its aftermath when Noach plants a vineyard and gets inebriated, and his son “sees his nakedness”; and finally, about the story of the Tower of Babel and the birth of Avram. We all know the story of the flood. But why did […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Bereshit
October 26, 2016 by
In this parasha, we read about ma’aseh bereshit (the Act of Creation); Adam and Chava’s sin of eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad and their subsequent expulsion from Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden); Kayin’s murder of his brother, Hevel; and the genealogy of Adam and Chava’s descendants, culminating in […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat V’zot Habracha
October 19, 2016 by
In this Torah portion, the final one in the Torah, which we will read on Simchat Torah, Moshe gives the tribes of Yisrael a final blessing and dies at the age of 120. The Bnei Yisrael mourn and begin to follow Yehoshua, their new leader. The last chapter of the Torah gives an account of […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Ha’azinu
October 11, 2016 by
At the end of Moshe’s last speech to Bnei Yisrael, Hashem tells Moshe to write down a song to teach to the Israelites. “Put this song in their mouths,” Hashem says, “so that the words may become a witness for Me against them. After I bring them to the land that flows with milk and […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Vayelech
October 5, 2016 by
In this parasha, Moshe concludes his speech to the Bnei Yisrael, blesses Yehoshua, and instructs the community to gather every seven years to read publicly from the Torah; Hashem predicts the eventual straying of Bnei Yisrael. Parashat Vayelech is the second-to-last portion of the Torah that we read on Shabbat. The beginning of the parasha […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Nitzavim
September 27, 2016 by
In this parasha, Moshe describes the brit (covenant) between Hashem and Bnei Yisrael, urging Bnei Yisrael to uphold the brit and honor the Torah so that they may be rewarded with life in the land of Israel. Chapter 30, verses 11-14, says: “For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Ki Tavo
September 20, 2016 by
In this parasha, Moshe instructs the Bnei Yisrael on the first fruit offering and then elaborates on the terms of the covenant by listing the blessings for keeping the commandments and the punishments for disobeying them. We encounter an interesting verse towards the end of the parasha [29:4]: “I have led you forty years in the […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Ki Teitzei
September 13, 2016 by
In this parasha, Moshe enumerates many laws that relate to topics of family relationships, interpersonal ethics, and forbidden mixtures. Twice in this parasha, the Torah lists a reward of long life for fulfilling a particular commandment. It is unusual for the Torah to cite a specific reward for completing a commandment, and this same reward […]
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Torah Talk for Parashat Shoftim
September 6, 2016 by
In this parasha, Moshe reviews the justice system for the Bnei Yisrael. Moshe talks about the limits future kings should have on their possessions and explains that the Kohanim [priests] and Levi’im [Levites] should not be paid and should survive on donations from the people. Finally, Moshe explains the laws of warfare. The system of […]
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