Did Moses Die for Us?
Jul 31, 2015 By Stephen P. Garfinkel | Commentary | Va'et-hannan
What a magnificent and rich Torah reading we have this week, Parashat Va’et-hannan! It’s as if the Torah wants to compensate the Jewish community for the week gone by, a week during which we commemorated Tishah Be’av, the putative anniversary of so many devastating events that have occurred throughout Jewish history. This week’s “reward” is a reading that incorporates a restatement of the Ten Commandments (Deut. 5:6-17) followed almost immediately by the first paragraph of the Shema (6:4-9).
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Va-ethannan’s Personal Message to Us
Aug 16, 2008 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Va'et-hannan
But what really draws me to Va-ethannan, I think, is the way it reaches out to each one of us individually, both pleading and demanding to be heard. It addresses us person by person, one-on-one, in the same way we enter into every serious relationship and tremble with each true love.
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Va’et-hannan
Jan 1, 1980
23 I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, 24 “O Lord God, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal!
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