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Deuteronomy/Davarim 6: "Hearken O Israel: YHVH our God, YHVH (is) One!"

[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 […]

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Deuteronomy/Davarim 2-3,1-22: "You are not to be afraid of them, for YHVH your God, he is the one who wages-war for you!"

[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 […]

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Deuteronomy/Davarim 1: "These are the words that Moshe spoke to all Israel "

[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 […]

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Numbers/Bamidbar 36: "So will no inheritance transfer from one tribe to another tribe"

[In the broadway musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, one of the 3 daughters of Tevye falls in love with a Russian soldier and that poses a problem for this Jewish family. The disapproval of intermarriage of an Israelite with a non-Israelite is understandable in light of preservation of the covenant people, their cultural and religious […]

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Numbers/Bamidbar 34: ". . .this is the land that will fall to you for an inheritance"

[Inheritance—unworked for ownership of any asset, sometimes undeserved—is undoubtedly a blessing.   Land occupied by another people, someone else’s territory such as the land of the Canaanites—promised to the patriarchs of a nation of slaves, landless, with no territorial claim to any property on earth except by Divine promise—this is the land that is surrounded […]

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Numbers/Bamidbar 33: "and it shall be: as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you!"

[Imagine yourself among the 2nd generation of Israelites:   you were born in the wilderness, you were born free unlike your slave-parents who have already died, never catching a glimpse of the Land, much like all their contemporaries except for Mosheh who sees the Land from a distance before he dies, and except for Yahushuwah […]

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