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Parshat Ki Tavo opens with the commandment of <\/span>bikkurim<\/span><\/em>. It continues with related agricultural commandments and a commandment to inscribe the Torah on large stones. The sages add that this was made in 70 different languages, to be accessible to all nations. The parsha concludes with a long speech detailing the blessings the nation will receive if it follows the Torah, and the calamities which will befall it if it does not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Bikkurim <\/span><\/i>means bringing the first fruits to the Temple and reciting a special prayer. It is valid only under certain circumstances: (1) physical presence in the Land of Israel; (2) well-established political status in the land; and (3) building the Temple. There is an additional precondition, which is complete human ownership of the fruits a person brings, according to the verse: \u201cthe first fruits of <\/span>your <\/span><\/i>land.\u201d Even one who has planted a tree in their own land but has layered it into another person\u2019s land cannot bring the first fruits (layering is taking a branch and bending it to the point of planting it in the ground while still attached to the original tree so it grows new roots). Nevertheless, the essence of the first fruits commandment is letting go of the fruits in a solemn and joyful process, and not as an experience of loss.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This complex dynamic, between ownership and letting go, is also one of the foundations of shmita.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Along with the establishment and preservation of the mechanisms that enable private property and personal freedom, and thus the prosperity of society and the individual, shmita seeks to instill in us the awareness that together our lives are interdependent, yet, individually, a mere shadow passing over the earth. Although our natural inclination is to be preoccupied with our property (which may outlast us, especially our non-recyclable waste), property does not define who we are.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I once learned from Rabbi Menachem Fruman, of blessed memory, that this forceps movement \u2013 of ownership and letting go, of toil and rest, of framework and freedom \u2013 is the most liberating thing. It was when I worked with him on an essay for a book on Jewish economic thought when we started talking about Douglas Adams\u2019 <\/span>Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/span><\/em>. Adams explains that to learn to fly, all you must do is throw yourself at the ground and miss it. Rabbi Fruman paralleled this to the tension between aspiring for transcendental holiness and promoting actual justice within this world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus, shmita and <\/span>bikkurim <\/span><\/i>invite us to throw ourselves straight into the core of private ownership in the most meticulous sense, and yet miss it and learn to fly. In this sense, shmita enables us to grasp eternity, while living within the constraints of space and time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the last month of\u00a0 the shmita year: Shmita means a sabbatical year for the Earth but also for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Each week we continue to share thoughts on how the weekly parsha can help guide our thinking around shmita themes of work and rest, wealth and debt, responsible land use, fair labor practices, private and public property ownership, and physical and spiritual revitalization.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

See here for more information on the Hazon Shmita project, and its blogs.<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":81608,"alt":"","title":"shmita","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","width":711,"height":708,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","medium_large-width":711,"medium_large-height":708,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","large-width":711,"large-height":708,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","1536x1536-width":711,"1536x1536-height":708,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","2048x2048-width":711,"2048x2048-height":708,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","post_full_size-width":711,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-422x420.jpg","home_baner-width":422,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"A Weekly Series: The \"Shmitah Parasha\" Blog","tile_main_caption":"Ki Tavo: Property, Shmita And Learning To Fly","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"in conjunction with Hazon.org","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":81608,"alt":"","title":"shmita","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","width":711,"height":708,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","medium_large-width":711,"medium_large-height":708,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","large-width":711,"large-height":708,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","1536x1536-width":711,"1536x1536-height":708,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","2048x2048-width":711,"2048x2048-height":708,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","post_full_size-width":711,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-422x420.jpg","home_baner-width":422,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1032"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"368","name":"Parasha","old_id":"768"},{"term_id":"411","name":"mitzvah","old_id":"811"},{"term_id":"494","name":"Shmita","old_id":"894"}]},{"order":2,"id":"49452","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"A Tale of Thwarted Desire ","post_title":"A Tale Of Thwarted Desire","slug":"a-tale-of-thwarted-desire","old_id":"49452","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34004,"post_title":"Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg","slug":"avivah-gottlieb-zornberg","old_id":"34004","first_name":"Avivah Gottlieb","last_name":"Zornberg","description":"Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg lives in Jerusalem where she has been lecturing on Torah since 1980. 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These final speeches hold a peculiar pathos. They are, in a sense, deathbed speeches. In the most personal among them, Moses tells of his own failure to achieve his life's desire\u2014to enter the Holy Land. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses tells of a desperate plea to God, and of a cruel repudiation. In a sense, he is telling the people of his failure to be heard by God, a failure that replicates his original failure of voice: \"And God would not listen to me....\" God cuts his plea short, and closes off any future pleas in this vein: \"Never speak [<\/span>dabber<\/span><\/em>] to Me of this matter [<\/span>davar<\/span><\/em>] again.\" God seals off his language in words that echo the description of his outburst of language at the beginning of the book: \"These are the words [<\/span>devarim<\/span><\/em>] that Moses spoke [<\/span>dibber<\/span><\/em>].\" With all the pathos he can command, Moses, the newly eloquent speaker, reports to his people how God interrupted his most passionate speech.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is, in fact, the only account we have of this encounter between Moses and God. There is no independent narrative of this painful moment. We know of it only because Moses chooses to tell the story to the people. Why does he do this? What would possess a leader, in his final speeches, to report such a crushing interaction with his God? What is his rhetorical purpose, the implicit demand he is making on his audience? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, trying to understand when this event occurred, places Moses' prayer at the historical moment when Moses finds himself already, in a sense, inside the borders of the Holy Land. Having conquered the territories of Transjordan, he allows himself to hope that he will, after all, be permitted to cross the river and lead his people into their future. Perhaps the decree has been annulled? The moment of first conquest might plausibly have been a moment of personal hope for \u00a0Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi tells his midrashic tale of thwarted desire. Moses draws courage to pray from the wording of God's instructions: \"You [personally?] shall give them possession of their inheritance....\" He hears God's personal address as an invitation for prayer. Perhaps, too, he is inspired by God's acceptance of \u00a0the plea of the daughters of Zelophechad: Since one boundary has shifted, perhaps this is the moment to press his own case? But God answers, \"My decree stands in place\"\u2014inexorably blocking Moses' movement of hopeful imagination. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from: Bewilderments<\/em>, Schocken Books, 2017, p.<\/span>286 - 291<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70033,"alt":"","title":"jer14-moses-prays","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","width":450,"height":648,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-208x300.jpg","medium-width":208,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","medium_large-width":450,"medium_large-height":648,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","large-width":450,"large-height":648,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","1536x1536-width":450,"1536x1536-height":648,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","2048x2048-width":450,"2048x2048-height":648,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","post_full_size-width":450,"post_full_size-height":648,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-292x420.jpg","home_baner-width":292,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"A Tale of Thwarted Desire","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Moses heard God\u2019s personal address as an invitation to prayer, but\u2026.","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70033,"alt":"","title":"jer14-moses-prays","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","width":450,"height":648,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-208x300.jpg","medium-width":208,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","medium_large-width":450,"medium_large-height":648,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","large-width":450,"large-height":648,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","1536x1536-width":450,"1536x1536-height":648,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","2048x2048-width":450,"2048x2048-height":648,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","post_full_size-width":450,"post_full_size-height":648,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-292x420.jpg","home_baner-width":292,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"3","chapter_main_number":"156","date":"20260405","wall_id":"156"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"}]},{"order":3,"id":"49532","color":"#e0e9ef","size":"1","name":"Are We There For Our Leaders? 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Moses\u2019s life is full of accomplishment, and also suffused with tragedy. One of the greatest tragedies of Moses\u2019s life is his inability to cross the Jordan and enter the Promised Land. This comes full force in the end of Deuteronomy 3. Moses tells the people how he begged God: \u201cPlease! Let me cross over (\u05d0\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4) and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan (Deut 3:25).\u201d But, of course, God denies Moses\u2019s request, spinning the word \u201ccross over\u201d (\u05d0\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4) into God\u2019s being \u201ccross\u201d (\u05d5\u05d9\u05ea\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8) with Moses. \u201cEnough! Never speak to Me of this matter again!\u201d (Deut 3:26).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this rejection by God is not the deepest tragedy in Moses\u2019s life. It isn\u2019t even the most tragic part of our chapter, Deuteronomy 3. Because there is a silent bystander to this exchange: the people of Israel. Why didn\u2019t the people jump in and plead with God on Moses\u2019s behalf to let him join them?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This tragedy is magnified in the rabbinic interpretation of this scene. Rabbi Tanhuma notices that Moses tells the people, with Joshua at their head, that \u201cyou shall cross\u201d over the Jordan (Deut 3:21) and enter the Promised Land. R. Tanhuma imagines a pregnant pause here, in which the people are strangely silent:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is the force of \"You are crossing over (Deut 3:21)\"? R. Tanhuma said: Moses prostrated himself before Israel and said to them: \u201cYou are to cross over,\u201d but not I. He gave them the opportunity to pray for him, but they did not grasp his meaning (Deuteronomy Rabbah 3:11)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses thought: I have prayed on behalf of Israel \u2013 with success! \u2013 so many times. My prayers saved them from annihilation following the sin of the Golden Calf. Isn\u2019t it possible that they will pray for me now? But Moses was let down: Israel did not take the hint, and never intervened on Moses\u2019s behalf.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a deep lesson here for all of us in our relationship to people in power. How many times in life do we miss the cues from people we consider powerful, from our leaders, parents and teachers? When they need our support and our prayers, are we there for them? Imagine a world in which Israel prayed for Moses, and God forgave him. Is that a world we are willing to try to pray for now? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAnd when you look up to the sky and behold the sun and the moon and the stars, the whole heavenly host, you must not be lured into bowing down to them or serving them. These the LORD your God allotted to other peoples everywhere under heaven\u201d (4:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We often speak about the search for truth. It\u2019s part of so much of our education. Science is the search for how the world truly works. History is the search for what really happened. It seems like everything we learn is the search for the answer to life, the universe, and everything. And at this point, I\u2019m sorry to say that the answer is probably not 42.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, I often wonder whether there is a single answer. The world is a complicated place. And here, the Torah seems to recognize that. The Torah does not say that the religions of other nations are completely mistaken. The Torah says that the stars, the sun, and all that other people worship is what God gave them. These other nations are following the truth God gave them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I think it\u2019s powerful to admit that there are multiple ways to understand the world. Especially in these times, where we often sit in our own echo chambers and only speak to people who agree with us, it\u2019s important to realize that others have equally valid claims to truth. It is difficult for one side to be completely right, and the other to be completely wrong, except in bad fiction. 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I was raised in the church of \u201cpas nisht<\/em>,\u201d Yiddish for it\u2019s not fitting \u2013 or as Nancy Reagan would have said, \u201cJust Say No.\u201d The reasoning was clear: beware \u201ca shanda fur die goyim<\/em>,\u201d a shame before the nations. The underlying messaging was clear too: We American Jews weren\u2019t supposed to do anything that embarrassed fellow Jews in front of the real Americans, the non-Jews.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This other-directedness offered one-way tickets to the shrink and the chiropractor: being so tense, forever looking over your shoulder, stresses the soul and strains the neck. And our perma-probation was defensive, reinforcing a sense of otherness, of homelessness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Deuteronomy 4:6 turns \u201cpas nisht<\/em>\u201d positive. \"Observe them faithfully, for that will be proof of your wisdom and discernment to other peoples, who on hearing of all these laws will say, 'Surely, that great nation is a wise and discerning people.'\" \u00a0We absorbed this value in the Young Judaea Zionist Youth movement as <\/span>dugma isheet<\/span><\/em>: setting a personal example.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, we\u2019re talking: the audience as launching pad, not peanut gallery. This passage says \u201cdon\u2019t be a Galut Jew, a Diaspora Jew, a Woody Allen neurotic, worried how you look. Be a proud Jew, educating the world through your ethics, your actions.\u201d The Revisionist Zionist Ze\u2019ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940), challenged our grandparents: stop being broken ghetto Jews. Remember, our ancestors were princes and princesses. We built majestic temples, improvised the Talmud, developed an eternal civilization, when others still frolicked in mud huts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Live by \u201cHadar,\u201d Jabotinsky urged, an untranslatable world evoking dignity, glory, an outward majesty reflecting an inner morality. Hadar \u201cconsists of a thousand trifles which collectively form everyday life,\u201d he preached in 1934. \u201cYou must be generous, if no question of principle is involved. Do not bargain about trivialities\u2026. Every word of yours must be a \u2018word of honor,\u2019 and the latter is mightier than steel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here, then, is the Torah\u2019s grandeur, often neglected, especially in America. Being scripted helps us learn the part; it\u2019s better to act good than be bad, but it\u2019s best to live the part. Our mission is not to fit in, but to stand out. Don\u2019t seek external rewards but inner peace. Greatness, wisdom, understanding, don\u2019t come from trashing tradition but embracing it (which isn\u2019t being handcuffed by it either).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In short, acting good keeps us in check; living virtuously makes us honest, keeps it real.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zeev Jabotisnky: by Unknown -<\/span>https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=535645<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Woody Allen: by David Shankbone,<\/span>
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Are there women in the book of Deuteronomy? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

At first glance, they don\u2019t seem to exist, but if we look closely we realize that they appear in unexpected contexts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first reference to women appears at the end of chapter 3 (verse 19), when the inheritance of land given to the tribes of Reuven, Gad, and half of Menasheh is explained. \u00a0These tribes have been given a portion of land on the east of the Jordan, but before they are allowed to settle it they are commanded to help the rest of the tribes conquer the land on the western side of the Jordan. Their wives, young children, and livestock, however, can settle into the cities while the men go to war. This command explains why women don\u2019t appear frequently in the first few chapters of Deuteronomy: it\u2019s not that there weren\u2019t women among the Israelites, it\u2019s that the beginning of the book is directed at Israelite men, outlining their roles as judges, scouts, and soldiers. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a shift in the narrative at the beginning of chapter 5. Suddenly, Moses turns to \u201c<\/span>all of Israel<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/span> (5:1). \u00a0Moses shares the ten commandments with all members of the nation, including the women. They are commanded to listen to them (<\/span>shema yisrael<\/span><\/em>), to learn them, to keep them, and to fulfill them (5:2). They are all identified as those with whom God seals the covenant, \u201cwe who are here, all of us alive today\u201d (5:3). The text concludes: \u201cThese are the words that God spoke to <\/span>your entire congregation<\/span><\/em> at the mountain\u201d (5:19). Here, again, the biblical language is inclusive, it emphasizes that God\u2019s laws are for the entire congregation, not only the men to whom the first chapters of Deuteronomy were addressed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The opening passage of the next chapter retains this inclusive voice: \u201cThis is the commandment, the decrees, and the ordinances that God commands you (plural) to teach you (plural)\u2026\u201d (6:1). The same phrase, <\/span>shema yisrael<\/span><\/em>, appears again a few verses later (6:4). The phrase <\/span>shema yisrael<\/span><\/em>, which appears in 5:2 and 6:4, is a call to \u201c<\/span>all of Israel<\/span><\/em>,\u201d the \u201c<\/span>entire congregation<\/span><\/em>.\u201d Read in the context of the previous chapter, the command in 6:4-9 can be understood as addressed to all of Israel, including women. Each individual must love God with all their heart, soul, and means; teach them to one\u2019s children; recite them at all times and places; wrap themselves and their homes in them. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This intertextual reading makes the exclusion of women, enslaved people, and children from the commands of Deuteronomy 6:7 all the more scandalous. When we read Deuteronomy 6 in light of Deuteronomy 5, we see that there is a possibility for understanding the commandment more inclusively. <\/span>All of Israel<\/span><\/em>, the <\/span>entire congregation<\/span><\/em>, ought to participate in this all-encompassing worship. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The women in the text aren\u2019t named, but they are there if we choose to see them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Are human beings a species of animal, or are they something categorically different?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Different biblical voices weigh in on this question, among them the creation stories in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3, the exquisite meditation on the natural world in Psalm 8, and Ecclesiastes in his despairing proclamation, \u201cHumankind has no advantage over beasts, for all is vanity\u201d (Eccl 3:19). Again, from Darwin to the present critical moment, the relationship between human beings and animals has stood near the center of environmental thought.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis reach a novel and interesting conclusion on this question via a close investigation of the law of mixed species. The Torah prohibits the farmer from plowing with \u201can ox and an ass together\u201d (Deut 22:10). The rabbis take these animals to stand merely as examples of different species: It is equally prohibited, for example, to yoke an ox and a horse together to a plow. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet, according to the Mishnah (Kil\u2019ayim 8:6), it is permissible for a person to pull a plow alongside an animal. Why should this not also count as impermissible mingling of species? The solution, says the Talmud (Bava Qamma 54b), comes from Deuteronomy 5:14, the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, which mandates Sabbath rest not only for people but for animals. From the equal application of the Sabbath law to people and animals we learn\u2014to paraphrase and elaborate on the Talmud passage following the lead of the Torah Temimah on Deuteronomy 5:14\u2014that human beings are treated as a species of animal for the purpose of rest, and only for the purpose of rest. When it comes to work, human beings are not to be thought of as a species of animal. They are something categorically different, and so the restriction against plowing with mingled species does not apply to the case of a yoke pulled by a human being and an animal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Are human beings a species of animal, or are they something categorically different? It depends, we learn. For six days, during the work week, we are humankind and not animals. \u00a0On the Sabbath, when we rest, we are animals of the human kind. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a certain misanthropy encoded into much thinking on the environment and sustainability. How much more various and beautiful the world would be without people! \u00a0Do they not wreak havoc wherever they go? While it is easy to understand and sympathize with this position, and though the voice from the whirlwind (Job 38-41) arguably indulges it, biblical teaching ultimately prohibits misanthropy. There is no getting around the fact that the Bible assigns value, indeed ultimate value, to human life, and one trembles to imagine a Western world without such a moral bedrock. But the above rabbinic teaching, like some others, allows us to nuance this perspective. We work six days so that we may rest on the Sabbath. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are set apart from the natural world for the sake of transforming ourselves into part of it.<\/span>
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I am your God! And you should have no more<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t make a sculpture that looks just like Me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t bow to other gods, for I deplore<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>All worship that smacks of idolatry. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And God almighty, don\u2019t swear in my name<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I will not cleanse you if you swear in vain<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Observe the Sabbath, so it\u2019s not the same<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As weekdays. From all work you must abstain. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Give honor to your parents \u2013 mom and dad.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For if you do, you\u2019ll live long and fare well<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t murder. Don\u2019t be an adulterous cad<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t steal, don\u2019t come to court and untruths tell. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Your neighbor\u2019s wife may be a pretty lass<\/span>
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The Sabbath (in Hebrew, <\/span>Shabbat<\/span><\/em>) is a religious institution, a memorial to creation, the day on which God Himself rested. But it is also and essentially a political institution. Shabbat is the greatest tutorial in liberty ever devised. Passover tells us how the Israelites won their freedom. Shabbat tells us how they kept it. One day in seven, Jews create a messianic society. It is the day on which everyone, master and slave, employer and employee, even animals, experience unconditional freedom. We neither work nor get others to work, manipulate nor allow ourselves to be manipulated. We may neither buy nor be bought. It is the day on which all hierarchies, all relationships of power are suspended.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shabbat was, of course, the antithesis of Egypt \u2013 the free society as opposed to a society of slaves. Slaves work without rest at the will of their masters. So the first mark of the Israelites\u2019 freedom was a day of rest for everyone:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On it you shall do no work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your animals, nor the stranger within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day. (Deuteronomy 5:14-15)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Shabbat was also a way of enacting, while on the way, the journey\u2019s end, the destination. Slavery was not immediately abolished; it existed in most parts of the world until the nineteenth century. Even today there are lesser forms of servitude \u2013 insecurity, workaholism, the hundred stresses and anxieties of everyday life. And as Marx never tired of telling us, slaves get used to their chains. So, within time itself, everyone had to experience unconditioned freedom so as never to lose the love of liberty, even though as yet it lasts only one day in seven. Jews never lost those two memories: the taste of affliction on Pesach, the taste of freedom on Shabbat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shabbat is also a way of living out another idea, the concept of possession without ownership which is at the heart of Judaism\u2019s social and environmental ethic. Every week, for a day, Jews live not as creators but creations. On Shabbat the world belongs to God, not us. We renounce our mastery over nature and the animals. We see the earth as a thing of independent dignity and integrity. We become God\u2019s guests, as Judah Halevi put it, recognizing the limits of human striving. But above all else, Shabbat is covenantal time, the working out of Judaism\u2019s vision of a society of equal dignity and hope.<\/span>
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Regarding his recap of the laws and rules given by God, in Deuteronomy 6:18 Moses tell the Israelites \u00a0\u201cDo what is <\/span>right and good in the eyes of God.<\/span><\/em>\u201d But back in Deuteronomy 4:5-6, Moses says \u201c<\/span>observe them carefully, for <\/span>this is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations.<\/span><\/em>\u201d So it seems we\u2019ve got two audiences for our actions: the eyes of God and the eyes of the world, and two ways of executing the laws: the right way and the good way.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi interprets that the \u201cgood\u201d in \u201cright and good\u201d is Moses\u2019 reference to the compromise needed to properly execute God\u2019s commandments. It is not a matter of merely enacting the letter of the law, it needs to be for ultimate good as well. Rashi expounds on this in Bava Metzia 108a in which, in reference to a law about enforcing field borders, he says \u201cOne should not perform an action that is not right and good, even if he is legally entitled to do so.\u201d \u00a0In other words, common sense should prevail. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what of our actions in the eyes of the rest of the world? It\u2019s certainly not the first time that God has mentioned our impact on the world. In Genesis 12:3 God says <\/span>\u201cthrough you all the families of the earth will be blessed.\u201d And in Exodus 7:5 about the signs and wonders He was going to perform for the Israelites, God says they are so \u201cthe Egyptians will know that I am the Lord\u201d. In fact until today the Jewish people exhort the prophet <\/span>Isaiah\u2019s transmission of God\u2019s promise to make us \u201ca light unto the nations\u201d (Isaiah 49:6). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God may judge us on both <\/span>the right<\/span><\/i> (the observance of laws and rules) and <\/span>the good<\/span><\/i> (the way in which we enact our observance), but because it\u2019s reasonable to assume that the rest of the nations do not know all the laws and rules under which the Jewish people operate, it is only in the way that we fulfill the commandments that we will be judged by the world. If indeed we are to be \u201ca light unto the nations\u201d and fulfill our destiny as world leaders writ large we must individually remember to exemplify our commitment to Jewish law (do what\u2019s right) while heeding the call of common sense and compromise (doing what\u2019s good).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Deuteronomy 6 is most famous for the ultimate proclamation of Jewish faith, the Shema. For millennia, Jews have covered their eyes twice a day and exclaimed, \u201cHear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One\u201d (Deut 6:4). The paragraph that follows outlines one of the most profound, complicated, and unique mitzvot of Judaism: it commands us to love God, with all our being (more on this later).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this chapter begins with another startling message: \u201cThis is the <\/span>m<\/span>itzvah<\/span><\/em>, the laws and the rules, that the Lord your God commanded me to teach to you, to be observed in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy\u201d (Deut. 6:1). This is <\/span>the<\/span> mitzvah<\/span><\/em>. This is the big one. The capital-M <\/span>Mitzvah<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

But what is it? Is it the command to love God? Is it the command, in that same paragraph, to teach these things to our children (Deut. 6:7), or to \u201cbind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead\u201d (Deut. 6:8)? Is it the command later in the chapter to make sure we don\u2019t forget God and all that God has done for us (Deut. 6:12)? Or is it answering our children\u2019s questions when they ask us why we do all these things (Deut. 6:20)?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer is that it\u2019s all of these things. <\/span>The Mitzvah<\/span><\/i> is gratitude. This chapter commands us to love, appreciate, and pass on what we know. It reiterates these messages, doubles- and triples-down on them. It tells us to appreciate all God did and does for us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it doesn\u2019t just tell us to <\/span>voice<\/span><\/i> our gratitude, it tells us to <\/span>live<\/span><\/i> our gratitude. It tells us that living our lives in gratitude will lengthen our lives. When our lives, actions, deeds, <\/span>mitzvot<\/span><\/i>, come from a place of gratitude, we fill our lives and the lives of others with the love God has commanded. We pass on that love, filling the future with love. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And we do so by proclaiming, \u201cHear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is One\u201d. \u201c<\/span>Hear<\/span><\/i>, O Israel\u201d: transmit the message. \u201cThe Lord is <\/span>our<\/span><\/i> God\u201d: ours to be grateful for. \u201cThe Lord is <\/span>One<\/span><\/i>\u201d: the oneness of love. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the man said, \u201cOne love, one life\u2026 we get to carry each other\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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When Achilles was a baby, he was dipped in the river\u2019s magical, protective water, but while doing so, his mother held him by his heel which was therefore left untouched. Although he survived many wars, one day a poisonous arrow shot at him was lodged in his heel, causing his demise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We have our own heel stories, when Jacob grabs hold of Esau, trying to catch up with his twin brother, and even earlier when God tells Adam about the animosity between him and the serpent, an animosity which would be expressed in the heel. The heel, <\/span>akev<\/span><\/i>, is \u201cpivotal\u201d. That\u2019s why his relative word <\/span>ekev<\/span><\/i> is often translated as \u201cbecause\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The snake, <\/span>Nachash<\/span><\/i>, on the other hand, shares its root with<\/span> lenachesh<\/span><\/i> \u2013 to guess, also \u2013 to use hidden tricks and magic, that is \u2013to rely on something unstable, \u201cslithering\u201d. The animosity between the snake and our heel can be therefore symbolic of us being hurt in our most vulnerable spot by doubt by something small, slippery, that we can\u2019t quite get our hands on. For example, when hiking, we most often don\u2019t trip because of a huge mountain but because of a small rock on our path. We don\u2019t make a 1000-piece puzzle beautiful because of one big piece in the middle, but because of connecting lots of small pieces. And it\u2019s so aggravating when one is missing, just one small piece!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDon\u2019t sweat the small stuff and it\u2019s all small stuff\u201d, says a catchy phrase on a magnet in a souvenir shop, but really??<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our life is more often made of little details coming together: this minor decisions, plus that small issue; that turn in the road along with this other incident, which brought us to where we are today. It\u2019s not that I think the Torah advocates for us to be petty; it wants us to be \u201clarge\u201d and have \u201cvision\u201d and see the \u201cbig picture\u201d, but it also wants to remind us to pay attention to the details in our life. 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In our chapter, Moses instructs the Israelites about what they must do when they finally enter the Promised Land (verses 1-11). At the end of this set of specific instructions, the reward for fulfilling them is stated: \u201cAnd if you obey these rules and observe (u-shmartem<\/em>) them carefully, the Lord, your God, will maintain (ve-shamar<\/em>) for you the covenant and the faithfulness (chesed<\/em>) that He made on oath with your forefathers\u201d (verse 12). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew three-letter verbal root Sh-M-R occurs hundreds of times in the biblical text, requiring different translations into English depending on the specific context of each occurrence. Our verse reflects how this single Hebrew verb can have the meaning of \u201cobservance\u201d by the people of Israel and can also refer to their reward: God\u2019s \u201cmaintaining\u201d the ancestral covenant. The Midrash (Deuteronomy Rabbah 3:4) ponders this dual use of a Hebrew verb by asking: What is implied by saying that God \u201cwill maintain (ve-shamar<\/em>)\u201d for the People of Israel the covenant made with their forefathers? All that Israel enjoys in this world is a result of the blessings with which the wicked Balaam blessed them (see Numbers, Chapters 23-24). But the blessings with which the Patriarchs blessed the People of Israel (see for example, Genesis 12:1-3) are reserved for them in the world to come, as it is said \u201cthe Lord will maintain\u201d the covenant. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Furthermore, to what might the relationship between Israel and God (in Deuteronomy 7:12) be compared? To the relationship between an orphan who was brought up in the house of a certain man who fed and clothed him and taught him a trade so that he would be able to support himself when he reaches adulthood. The orphan expected that the cost of his upbringing would need to be repaid to the man who maintained him as a child. But the man explained: The total cost of your food and clothing have already been well repaid by the service you rendered me in filling the cask of water and chopping the wood when you served as my apprentice. You deserve the full reward for your labors now. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Similarly, whatever pleasures the people of Israel enjoy is a reward for their efforts in this world. But their full reward is stored up and maintained (u-meshumar<\/em>) for them in the world to come, as it is said, \u201cThe Lord, your God, will maintain (ve-shamar<\/em>) for you the covenant and the faithfulness that He made on oath with your fathers\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Throughout history, the traditional last words of Jews who have been killed <\/span>al kiddush Hashem<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>sanctifying God's name, are the 6 words of the Shema found in chapter 6. The power of that statement takes on deeper meaning in light of Rashi's elucidation of the phrase. For Rashi, this is not a declaration of faith as much as it is a prayer, a hope.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"God, who is our Lord (<\/span>Elohei<\/span><\/i>nu<\/span><\/i>) <\/span><\/i>now, and not the God of the nations, in the future will be one God, as it says 'For then will I turn the nations language clear, to all call in the name of God' and it says 'On that day will God be one, and His name will be one.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jew being killed because he is a Jew spends his last words, his last breath, expressing the hope for the day that no nation will lift sword against nation, because all nations will accept upon themselves the majesty of God. To hold onto this hope in the face of evil is to die sanctifying God's name.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, the Rambam points out, our first responsibility is not to die <\/span>al kiddush Hashem<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>but to live that way. And that is precisely what the next verse directs us to do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"And you shall love Hashem your God.\" What does it mean to love God? The Talmud gives an answer that needs to be read and reread, taught and re-taught. We dare not skip a single word.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"'And you shall love Hashem your God'- that the name of Heaven should become beloved because of you, that you should study, learn, and serve Torah scholars, and conduct your business pleasantly with people. What will people say about such a person? 'Fortunate is his father who taught him Torah, fortunate is his rabbi who taught him Torah, woe to those who don't learn Torah. This one who learned, see how pleasant are his paths, how proper are his actions.' About him the verse says 'And He said 'You are my servant, Israel in whom I glory.' But- he who studies, learns and serves Torah scholars but whose business dealings are not faithful and who doesn't speak pleasantly with people, what do people say about him: 'Woe to him who learned Torah, woe to his father, to his rabbi who taught him. This man who learned Torah, look how corrupt his actions are, how ugly his ways are.' About him the verse says 'As they say- this is God's nation, who left his land'\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rest, as they, is commentary. If we want to sanctify God's name, we need to start internalizing these words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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