VayelechMy Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Vayelech
Submitted by Daniel M. Kimmel [Brookline, MA] on Fri, Oct 3, 2008
 It was the Russian playwright Anton Chekov who came up with this definition of foreshadowing: if there's a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must be fired in the last. There's foreshadowing in the Torah but we may not pick up on it as we read it over the course of an entire year. This week in Va-Yeilekh, Moses announces that he is 120 years old and will soon be joining his ancestors. That number is not random. read more »
I'm a film critic in Boston (Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Variety, Jewish Advocate), lecturer (Suffolk University, private groups) and MC for the New England Region of the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs. My one paragraph drashes are for my brotherhood newsletter. You may use them for your own.
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