[Commentary from our excellent source book: Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.–Admin1.]   Deuteronomy/Davarim 11 1-9.  LET PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF GOD’S WONDROUS DEEDS ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL LEAD TO LOVE AND OBEDIENCE   1 So you are to love YHVH your God,  you are to keep his charge, […]

[Commentary from our excellent source book: Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.–Admin1.]   Deuteronomy/Davarim 10 RESULTS OF MOSES’ INTERVENTION The grant of the Second Tables; the institution of the priestly and Levitical services; and the permission to march onward and take possession of Canaan.   1 At that time […]

[Commentary from the best of Jewish minds are collected in our excellent resource book Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.]   Deuteronomy/Davarim 9 WARNING AGAINST SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS Israel’s victories over the Canaanites are due not to any exceptional merits of Israel, but to the wickedness of those nations, and because of […]

[Commentary from Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz, the best compilation of Jewish interpreters of their own Hebrew Scriptures; translation is different from our translation of choice, EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.]   Deuteronomy/Davarim 8 FATHERLY DISCIPLINE OF GOD–THE LESSONS OF THE WILDERNESS The long wandering in the Wilderness had been designed to teach Israel humility and […]

[Commentary from the best of Jewish minds, collected in an excellent resource: Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; our translation of choice is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses..—Admin1]   Deuteronomy/Davarim 7 Observance of the Fundamental Laws–the Ten Commandments and Shema–demands avoidance of intermarriage, and the destruction of all idolatrous worship in the Promised Land.   1 […]

[Continuing our featured resource, commentary from the best of Jewish minds all in one book, edited by Dr. J.H. Hertz, titled Pentateuchs and Haftorahs; our translation of choice is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses—Admin 1.]   THE SHEMA THE ONENESS OF GOD AND ISRAEL’S UNDIVIDED LOYALTY TO HIM   Deuteronomy/Davarim 6 1 Now this is the […]

[This is another lonnnggggg read but worth the time you spend on it; please read slowly and absorb not only the scriptural text but the valuable commentary by the Rabbis and Torah scholars.  If it took time and patience for me to painstakingly type every word and punctation mark from the vast commentary of one […]

[An Elohiym Who fights for His people . . . what a God!    In reading about religions of the world, believers/worshippers of specific gods do not have this much assurance since their beliefs are based on man-made speculations on what their god is like.  They probably never hear from that god, except in their […]

[You will notice that in these posts, there is a discrepancy between the wording of the translation we use, EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses, and the translation used in the commentary Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. H.W.Hertz. It is not difficult to make the connection, the message is much the same.   Also, while the commentators […]

[Finally we reach the last book of the TORAH.   Like Israel, we gentile readers/students of the “T” in the TNK have made our own pilgrimage from the account of Bereshiyth— the beginning of the created world, through the formation of the nation of Israel and its pre-Land history in Shemoth/Wai-qrah/Bemidbar.  Hopefully in paying attention […]