Archive for August 2020

August 28, 2020 This week’s Torah portion, Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) has the largest number of commandments found in a weekly portion – 72 mitzvot (commandments). One of them reads, “When you build a…

August 21, 2020 This week’s Torah portion, Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9), records that before going out to battle, the Israelite troops would gather together to hear from their leaders. The generals would give…

August 14, 2020  Moses, having  restating the details of the covenant and its broad guiding principles, now turns to the details, which occupy the greater part of the book of…

Parshat Eikev