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Tag Archives: Parshat Devarim

An Even Stronger “Am”

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Andrea Wiese

I wrote this dvar Torah after a four-day desert adventure with NFTY: This week we start reading the book of Devarim / Deuteronomy. Devarim takes place right before the Israelites are going to enter the land that God gave them. And Moshe is reminding the Jewish people of the laws that God gave to the Continue Reading »

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] Devarim vs the First 4 Books

Posted on July 10, 2013 by The Director of Digital Media

This week, Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy discusses Parashat Devarim. Devarim

[Pardes From Jerusalem Podcast] Devarim 5772: Bacon, Eggs and the Zionist Question

Posted on July 27, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

This week, Rabbi David Levin-Kruss discusses Parashat  Devarim. Click here to listen. Click here to download the accompanying source sheet [PDF]. Shabbat Shalom!

דברים

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Barer

From my blog This week we begin the final book of the Torah, Dvarim, which consists mostly of Moshe’s final speech to the Israelites.  In this week’s parsha Moshe recounts the sin of the spies.  Curiously, though, it has a number of inconsistencies with the original telling: Moshe says this week that the people approached Continue Reading »

דברים, devarim

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Avi Strausberg

in this week’s parshat devarim, moshe becomes a master of words.  his new-found verbosity is notable given how lacking he was in the words department forty years back.  but, a lot has changed both with the jewish people and with moshe.  and now, as the people are finally about to enter the promised land, moshe Continue Reading »