July 29, 2010 | Ekev

Vayelech

My video divrei Torah on parasha Vayalech by Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEzxgwyAtYw

My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Vayelech

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...

About Ekev

My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Ekev

"Love, therefore, the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His laws, His rules, and His commandments." (Deut. 11:1) This passage from Parshah Ekev is not unique. It is one of many places we are told to "love" God. But what does that mean? Rabbi Jakob Petuchowski wrote, "Jews study Torah...read more

About Daniel M. Kimmel
9908_profile

Joined: 10/02/2007

Daniel M. Kimmel is a Boston area film critic,...

Divrei Torah (117)
  

Parshat Ekev

The concept of teshuvah, repentance, is a given in traditional Jewish circles: One who sins before God has the inalienable right to repent and to be absolved. Nevertheless, an analysis of the Torah indicates that such a theology might be absent from the text. In this week’s portion, Ekev, Moses...read more

About Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld
Missing

Joined: 08/08/2007

Shmuel is Rabbi of Ohev Sholom -- The National...

Divrei Torah (17)
  

Faces

Missing

dakaiman

Joined: September 26, 2007

Divrei Torah (0)
  
Missing

yaakovmeir

Joined: December 6, 2008

Divrei Torah (0)
  
Missing

Jonathan Ginsburg

Joined: September 26, 2007

Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg and hs wife Rabbi Avigail Ginsburg, have developed amny online jewih eductional programs including conversio to Judaism, hebrew scool, bnai mitzvah training, para rabbis, Introduction to Judaism, and Judaism explained to Christians. He has developed over 550 videos of...

Divrei Torah (89)
  

More Faces