Month: August 2020
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Parshas Re’eh: False Prophets, Free Speech and the Totalitarian Left
The Torah portion for Shabbos, August 15, 2020 was Parshas Re’eh. Primary reading – Deuteronomy (Devarim): 11:26 – 16:17 Supplemental reading (Haftorah) – Isaiah 54:11 – 55:5 This Torah portion prescribes capital punishment for a false prophet. Deuteronomy Chapter 13 “2 If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream,…
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Parshas Va’Etchanan: Determinism and Detachment
Bible study time! Parshas Vaetchanan Deut. 3:23 – 7:11; Isaiah 40:1-26 August 1 2020 hebcal.com/sedrot/vaetcha… Vaetchanan Text-Based Learning – Va’etchanan – Parshahhttps://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2497349/jewish/Text-Based-Learning.htm Free photo by mnplatypus pixabay.com/images/id-8962… OK. Was just reading over the portion a bit. I take no credit for the following question, which was posed by a family member. How do we understand that…