Rabbi Alex Israel
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The Ten Commandments are maybe the best-known of all Jewish laws. They are perceived widely as a universal code of ethics. Within Judaism, they are one of...
Rabbi David Sabato
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Clashes between true and false prophets take place in many places in the Bible. But for no other prophet does this type of confrontation play such a...
Rabbi Dr. Avraham Walfish
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How does the seemingly anti-climactic final chapter of Parshat Bechukotai fit into the larger context of Sefer Vayikra? By examining the end of the book...
Rabbi Yair Kahn
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The end of the tokhacha - the section of Parshat Behukotai describing the curses that will befall Israel if they do not follow God's laws - contains...
Rabbi David Sabato
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These chapters contain a collection of prophecies that Yirmiyahu delivered to the last kings of Yehuda. The institutions of the Beit HaMikdash and the...
Rabbi David Sabato
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The first section of perek 29 laments Yerushalayim: it describes the debased state of the city and then shifts to a description of the enemy’s sudden...
Rabbi David Sabato
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The first pasuk of perek 27 continues the same prophetic thread expressed by the two closing pesukim of perek 26. These pesukim describe the destruction...
Rabbi David Sabato
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Perek 23 completes the first section of prophecies addressed to the nations with a final prophecy addressed to the opulent Tyre (in Hebrew, Zor), the...
Rabbi David Sabato
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God prohibits Yirmiyahu from partaking in normative life cycle events. He may not go to comfort mourners, attend wedding celebrations nor may he marry or...
Rabbanit Sharon Rimon
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The description of exile in the curses section of Parshat Bechukotai emphasizes the desolation of the land of Israel. We can understand that the...
