Parashat Va’etchanan includes one of the best-known sentences in the Torah, “Shema Yisrael, Hashem Eloheinu, Hashem Echad ” (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One; Deuteronomy 6:4).

This week’s Torah portion, Va’etchanan, opens with a deeply human moment: Moses pleads with G-d to allow him to enter the Promised Land. After decades of faithful leadership, Moses wants to see the ...

This week is the first of seven weeks that take us to Rosh HaShanah. This week’s Torah portion is an excellent first step. We have here the 10 Commandments as well as the Shema, two foundations of the ...

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“Take utmost care and watch yourselves scrupulously,” Moses advised in this week’s Torah reading Ve’ethanan, “so that you do not forget the things that you saw with your own eyes and so that they do ...

This week’s portion presents a grim forecast of the Jews’ fortune. God says that following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile. The Torah then states: ...

Just before he was to pass away, Moshe, who was on the eastern side of the river Jordan because he couldn’t enter into the Holy Land, separated off three cities there. Of course, two and a half tribes ...

This week is the first of seven weeks that takes us to Rosh HaShanah. This week’s Torah portion is an excellent first step. We have here the 10 Commandments as well as the Shema, two foundations of ...