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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). In 2006, Bregman was appointed the Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, where he also headed the program in Jewish Studies, until 2013. Bregman retired from UNCG as of July 31, 2017. 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In celebrating one parade example of right behavior, Moses says to those assembled before him: \u201c\u2026 you, who held fast [ha-DeVeKim] to the Lord your God, are all alive today\u201d (verse 4, see also Deut. 2:22, 10:20, 11:22, 13:5, 30:20). Etymologically, the Hebrew three letter verbal root d-v-k has the core meaning of \u201cto stick\u201d. So, we English speakers might say -- using a rather colloquial expression -- that Moses is blessing Israel for their \u201cstick-to-itness\u201d in obeying the commands of God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, the Talmud (Sanhedrin 64a) relates to the core meaning of the Hebrew root D-V-K in a veritably palpable interpretation of our verse: \u201cyou, who \u2018stick to\u2019 the Lord your God\u201d are like two dates stuck to each other. It should be noted that dates are not only sticky but, being the source of what Israelis call \u201csilan\u201d (date-honey), are also intensely sweet! <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The consuming intensity of \u201csticking to God\u201d is illustrated by the depiction of Rabbi Akiva, who when praying alone would begin in one corner of his room and end in the opposite corner, apparently oblivious of his own ecstatic bows and prostrations (Berakhot 34a). <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud (Ketubot 111b), in another interpretation of our verse, ponders the theological question: How is it possible for a human being to \u201cstick to\u201d God and live? For, elsewhere in the same chapter it is said that \u201cGod is a devouring fire\u201d (verse 24)! In answer to this question, we are told to support Torah-worthy causes. And in answer to a similar question, we are told (Sotah 14a) to \u201cwalk after the Lord, your God\u201d (Deuteronomy 13:5), by emulating His \u201chumane\u201d behavior in clothing the naked (see Genesis \u00a03:21), visiting the sick (see Genesis 18:1), comforting mourners (see Genesis 25:11) and burying the dead (see Deuteronomy 34:6). <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the possible risk of \u201csticking (<em>devekim<\/em>) to God\u201d, there evolved in later Judaism the variously interpreted concept of <em>devekut<\/em>, surveyed in the classic essay by Gershom Scholem, \u201c<em>Devekut<\/em> or Communion with God\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of Religion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 14, 1949-1950, pp. 115-139). 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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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deuteronomy 4:6 turns \u201c<em>pas 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><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dugma isheet<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: setting a personal example.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. 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Particularly haunting is the way Moses repeats the refrain of \"You [Moses] shall not cross over.... He [Joshua] shall cross over ...\" (Deut. 3:27-28).13 This counterpoint is sustained in relation not only to Joshua, his successor, but also in relation to the people: \"For I am to die in this land; I shall not cross over the Jordan. But you will cross over and take possession of that good land\" (4:22). <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not simply an antithesis of (their) life and (his) death, but, precisely, of crossing over and not crossing over. (\"I must die\" is subsidiary to the main statement\u2014<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eineni over<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \"I am not to cross over.\") It is striking that, in many cases, this expression is not completed by a reference to the Jordan River. Crossing over stands on its own in almost metaphysical antinomy with not crossing over. 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