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Weekly Torah
G-d is uncompromising in His intention to bequeath the entire land of Israel to His beloved people Israel, the sons and daughters of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. But G-d is equally insistent and uncompromising in His intention that Israel not only fulfill G-d’s Torah in the land of Israel, but that Israel conquer and inhabit the land without mercy or distraction. Fulfilling G-d’s Torah in the land of Israel is literally Israel’s raison d’etre, and Israel’s only lasting claim on the land.
Parashat Eikev is read on Shabbat:
Av 23, 5775/August 8, 2015
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Moshe beseeches G-d simply to be allowed into the land of Israel where he can see “this good mountain and the Leban,on” understood by our sages as referring to the mountain of Jerusalem and the cedars of Lebanon of the Holy Temple. When Moshe later states the Shema declaration of G-d’s unity and absolute Oneness, it is with the same clarity of love and devotion that informed his prayer to see the Holy Temple.
Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11)
Parashat Vaetchananis read on Shabbat:
Av 16, 5775/August 1, 2015
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How poignant, yet sweetly hopeful that this year the Torah reading of Devarim falls precisely on Tisha b’Av – the 9th of Av. On the very day of the destruction of the Holy Temple, Moshe rabbenu – Moses our master – speaks for the first time his own words of gentle rebuke. The failings of past generations become our own failings when we fail to correct them. Until we build the Holy Temple we are guilty of allowing its destruction.
Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22)
Parashat Devarim is read on Shabbat:
Av 9, 5775/July 25, 2015
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On the eve of their entry into the land of Israel, the children of Israel undergo intensive spiritual preparation in order to merit the settlement and occupation of the land set aside for them by G-d. Life inside the land of Israel is a reality unparalleled by life anywhere else on earth, and requires an integrity and sensitivity unmatched elsewhere. This is exemplified by the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest, whose life and spiritual rectitude is inexorably bound with the well-being of his brothers and sisters.
Matot-Masei (Numbers 30:2-36:13)
Parashat Matot-Masei is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 24, 5775/July 11, 2015
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True Torah leadership, that which parashat Pinchas extols, serves the people by standing before G-d and seeking His council in leading the nation.
Pinchas(Numbers 25:10-30:1)
Parashat Pinchas is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 24, 5775/July 11, 2015
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They struck terror in the hearts of Balak and Moav. They threatened to “lick up the earth like an ox licks up the green fields.” Their very presence signified the end of the old order, their very existence augured a change in the way things are. Why? Because “they have covered the “eye” of the land, and they are stationed opposite me.” Who is this frightful ‘horde’? Meet the “assembly” of Israel, “a people [that] has come out of Egypt!”
Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 17, 5775/July 4, 2015
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The red heifer is the symbol of the reality of life, as opposed to the illusion of death that can grip us and render us unfit to stand in the presence of the Shechinah which fills the Holy Temple and its courtyards. The lives of Moshe, Aharon and Miriam, whose deaths occur or are foretold in this week’s parasha, are emblematic of the message of the red heifer, whose power transcends life and defies human comprehension.
Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)
Parashat Chukat is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 10, 5775/June 27, 2015
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