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Ki Seitzei
Rabbi Jablinowitz
This week's parsha is full of mitzvoth, twenty seven positive commands, and forty seven negative commands. Yet precisely in this parsha of legal details we find in the sefarim many homiletic explanations to these laws. This is particularly true in the beginning of the parsha. Why is it that precisel Read more...
Ki Savo
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We read in this week's parsha the mitzvah of Vidui Ma'aser. This section includes a statement made on Erev Pesach of the fourth year that all the Ma'asrot from the last three years have been given. The giver states that he has performed the mitzvoth properly and he adds (Chapter Read more...
Nitzavim Vayelech
Rabbi Jablinowitz
In the beginning of this week's parsha Moshe Rabbeinu gathers Bnei Yisrael together on the day of his death in order to bring them into a covenant with Hahsem. The commentators point out that there is a mention of the general public in the first pasuk, Atem Nitzavim Hayom Kulchem. You are all standi Read more...
Devarim
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We begin sefer Devarim with Moshe Rabbeinu recounting past events from their forty year sojourn in the desert. The description of these occurrences is meant as a rebuke, as a tochachah, to Am Yisrael by Moshe before his death. This is somewhat difficult, since the generation which committed these si Read more...
