All posts in: Vaeschanan

• 
  Vaeschanan

  6 years ago

  Guard your Soul: Va’etchanan

  Guard your Soul – Va’etchanah We have been commanded to “guard your soul” [1]. This is the positive commandment to look after our bodies. Our body of course ..

  Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
• 
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Is our best really our best?

  I pleaded with Hashem (3:23) The Medrash tells us that when Moshe was told by Hashem that he would not be allowed to enter into Eretz Yisrael, he immersed himself ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
• 
  Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  King of hearts

  We have each been commanded to “love G-d with all of your hearts” [1]. We only have one heart, and so we have been taught that these “hearts” actually refer ..

  Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Another Reason Jerusalem was destroyed!

  The Posuk says “Do what is right and good in Hashem’s eyes, so that He will do good to you and you shall come and inherit the land” Rashi states ..

  Written by Ben Rose
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Idolatry & adultery

  Our sedra sees the repetition of the ten commandments. These comprised of two tablets, each with five commandments on. These two sets of five pair up with each other; ..

  Written by d fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  the odd one out of the 6 remembrances (short vort)

  After shacharis, many have the wonderful custom to say the six remembrace psukim printed in the siddurim just before the 13 articles of faith. They are the remembering ..

  Written by d fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Heart-warming

  Va’eschanan contains, amongst other treasures, the first paragraph of the Shema. In it (6:6) we are commanded that ‘these words that I command you shall be on your ..

  Written by d fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  an unpopular short vort

  The fact that a vort is unpopular does not always mean it should go unsaid. This is one example. Towards the end of the serda (6;10-13), Moshe says that we will ..

  Written by d fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  Using the enemy

  The pasuk (6:5) commands that you shall love HaShem with all your hearts (be’chol levavcha), which Rashi reveals refers to loving HaShem with both your inclinations; ..

  Written by d fine
• Vaeschanan

  7 years ago

  shema yisrael (Short Dvar Torah)

  The kli yakar gives us a great insight into the words Shema Yisrael HaShem (Yud-keh-vav-keh) Elokeinu HaShem (Yud-keh-vav-keh) Echad. The name Elokim represents ..

  Written by D fine