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With powerful words, Moses restates the terms of the covenant, asking<\/span> \u201cAnd now, O Israel, what does the Eternal your God demand of you? Only this: to revere the Eternal your God, to walk only in God\u2019s paths, to love God, and to serve the Eternal your God with all your heart and soul,\u00a0 keeping the Eternal \u2019s commandments and laws, which I enjoin upon you today, for your good (10:12-13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although \u201conly this\u201d is language that expresses limitation, the demands here are tremendous. Lest we be overwhelmed by the \u200ecomprehensiveness of the demand and the lack of detail, the Torah provides some examples \u200eto get us started. After piling on superlatives to establish God\u2019s awesome grandeur, specific \u200edetails bring God\u2019s goodness down to earth: \u201cT<\/span>he awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe, but upholds the cause of the orphan and the widow, and loving the <\/span>ger\/<\/span><\/i>stranger\/sojourner, providing him with food and clothing. You, too, must love the sojourners, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt<\/span> (10:17-19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Note the transition between Deuteronomy 10:18 and 10:19, between the theological statement that God cares for widows, orphans and the <\/span>sojourner,<\/span> and the commandment directed at us to love the <\/span>sojourner<\/span>. God\u2019s love for the sojourner is immediately translated into concrete, human needs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moreover, the Torah specifies how God works in this world. <\/span>Through us<\/span><\/em>. We are <\/span>commanded to act as God\u2019s agents providing the sojourner \u2013 the vulnerable outsider who lives among us \u2013 with God\u2019s love, food and clothing, as the verse specifies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is especially important in Deuteronomy, whose original audience (according to its self-understanding) had been living in the wilderness for 40 years, eating manna and wearing clothes that never wore out (see Deuteronomy 8:4). Therefore, the idea that God doesn\u2019t provide human needs directly indeed requires emphasis. The transition from the wilderness into the Land is also a transition from the miraculous to the natural (Joshua 5:12). We forgot this to our own detriment.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Godly Demands","tile_main_caption":"We are commanded to act as God\u2019s agents providing the sojourner \u2013 the vulnerable outsider who lives among us \u2013 with God\u2019s love","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","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":"10","chapter_main_number":"163","date":"20260414","wall_id":"163"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"384","name":"God","old_id":"784"},{"term_id":"436","name":"Morality","old_id":"836"},{"term_id":"453","name":"Stranger","old_id":"853"}]},{"order":3,"id":"108100","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"Moses Tried To Save Aaron","post_title":"Moses Tried To Save Aaron","slug":"moses-tried-to-save-aaron","old_id":"108100","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":78133,"post_title":"Josh Blechner","slug":"josh-blechner","old_id":"78133","first_name":"Josh ","last_name":"Blechner ","description":"Josh first finished the Tanach during Yeshiva in Mevaseret Zion. He and his daughter studied the Tanach again for her bat mitzvah. Josh has taught many classes on Tanach throughout the years and currently in the New Rochelle 929 group. When not studying for 929, Josh works as an in-house lawyer in New Jersey.","short_description":"Josh has taught many classes on Tanach throughout the years and currently in the New Rochelle 929 group, and is an in-house attorney in New Jersey. ","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":78134,"alt":"","title":"josh blechner","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner.jpg","width":276,"height":351,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner-236x300.jpg","medium-width":236,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner.jpg","medium_large-width":276,"medium_large-height":351,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner.jpg","large-width":276,"large-height":351,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner.jpg","1536x1536-width":276,"1536x1536-height":351,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner.jpg","2048x2048-width":276,"2048x2048-height":351,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner.jpg","post_full_size-width":276,"post_full_size-height":351,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/josh-blechner.jpg","home_baner-width":276,"home_baner-height":351}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"163","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"But was Aaron\u2019s death a punishment for the Calf kerfuffle?\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

The first half of the chapter has an odd chronology. The chapter opens with Moses carving the new tablets and coming down from the mountain, then \u201cfrom Beeroth-bene-jaakan the Israelites marched to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried there; and his son Eleazar became priest in his stead\u201d (verse 13). Following the death of Aaron, the tribe of Levi is appointed to carry the ark. Then Moses says he stayed on the mountain for another forty days and forty nights to pray for the people. The second tablets were crafted very soon after Moses broke the first. After the giving of the Torah, God commands the people to build the Mishkan, and then the tribe of Levi assumes the caretaker status. Aaron does not die until year 40.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is his death recounted here? Furthermore, when was the third time that Moses was on the mountain? Or is this second forty days a middle forty days?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra explains that Moses connects Aaron\u2019s death to the sin of the Golden Calf. It seems that Ibn Ezra is saying that Moses could only defer Aaron\u2019s punishment for the Golden Calf for 38 years. Malbim adds that Moses\u2019s message is that he was able to save the Israelites from God\u2019s wrath, but was unable to save Aaron. The reason Aaron did not enter the land was due to the sin of the Golden Calf. As far as the forty days and nights, Rashi explains that this verse simply provides the length of time that Moses was on the mountain because this information is missing from verse 2. Rashi\u2019s opinion does not address why this single visit is split between the death of Aaron and the Levites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps, taking the opinions of Ibn Ezra and Malbim into account, one can deduce that this entire first part of the chapter is one thematic block. Moses\u2019s time up the mountain to retrieve the second tablets also included time of prayer on behalf of the people and his brother. The death of Aaron 38 years later and the ascension of the Levites all stemmed from this forty day \/ forty night time period. His prayer resulted in the second tablets, the forgiveness of the people, the replacement of the first born with the tribe of Levi, and a slight deferral in the edict against his brother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The unspoken truth of Deuteronomy is that this generation is the second set of tablets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first generation, like the first set of tablets, was carved by God the moment they heard the voice at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by fire and thunder and great sounds. And, like the first set of tablets, forty days later, at the foot of that same mountain, they shattered.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This generation, the generation of Deuteronomy that Moses is speaking to now, is the second set of tablets. Like the second set, they have never been touched directly by the Divine. Like the second set, they are made of earth-stuff instead of heavenly material. They have never been freed by God or stood at the edge of a splitting sea. Like the second set of tablets that Moses had to bring up the mountain himself, this generation has been shaped by human hands rather than Divine ones. The carving that God did for their parents when they stood at Sinai must now be done by Moses, a generation later, as he recounts God\u2019s words spoken so many years before.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Deuteronomy is the story of this carving, the final act of Moses\u2019s life: inscribing the word of God on the hearts of the Jewish people It is Moses\u2019s final act of faith, of hope, and of trust, that this generation, this set of tablets, so much less divine than the first, might be sturdy enough to last.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. So you must love the stranger, for you yourselves were strangers in Egypt. (Deut. 10: 17-19)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God is the voice of the other within the self, that tells us that neither we, nor our desires, nor the group to which we belong, are the measure of all things. There is a higher court than the bar of human reason; there is a higher imperative than the law of the land; there is a force greater than that of human might; there are larger considerations than human interests and larger perspectives than the here-and-now. God is the absolutely other and the otherly absolute, without knowledge of whom men have destroyed one another in the past and may destroy life on earth in the future. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God loves particulars. He is not Plato's god who lives in a remote heaven amid the conceptual forms of things-in-general. He is the God who made the universe with its hundred billion galaxies, each with a hundred billion stars; the God who made the three million different species of life thus far known to us; who made the human person, each of whom is different from the others; who created diversity and asked us to celebrate it, honouring the individual above the collective, the person above the state, the nation above the empire, the particular not just the universal. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

So God tells Abraham to leave his land, birthplace and father's house, the roots of tribalism, of blood and belonging. He makes his children experience the dark side of empire, discovering and never forgetting what it feels like to be enslaved by the ruling power. The people of the covenant are born as a people through the experience of being strangers in a strange land, and are then commanded (thirty-six times, as the rabbis noted) to love the stranger. Jews became the archetypal strangers; and only those who can make space for strangers can make space for the God of the Hebrew Bible.<\/span>
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Future Tense, p.84-85<\/em><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":50234,"alt":"","title":"Dt10-people","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people.png","width":1280,"height":1158,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-300x271.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":271,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-768x695.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":695,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-1024x926.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":926,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1158,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1158,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-1200x1086.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1086,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-464x420.png","home_baner-width":464,"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":"God Loves Particulars","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Only those who can make space for strangers can make space for the God of the Hebrew Bible","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":50234,"alt":"","title":"Dt10-people","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people.png","width":1280,"height":1158,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-300x271.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":271,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-768x695.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":695,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-1024x926.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":926,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1158,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1158,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-1200x1086.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1086,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-people-464x420.png","home_baner-width":464,"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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"163","date":"20260414","wall_id":"163"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"384","name":"God","old_id":"784"},{"term_id":"436","name":"Morality","old_id":"836"},{"term_id":"453","name":"Stranger","old_id":"853"}]},{"order":6,"id":"50238","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Everything You Need to Know About Judaism ","post_title":"Everything You Need To Know About Judaism","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-judaism","old_id":"50238","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33992,"post_title":"Bradley Shavit Artson","slug":"rabbi-dr-bradley-shavit-artson","old_id":"33992","first_name":"Bradley Shavit ","last_name":"Artson","description":"Rabbi Dr Bradley Shavit Artson holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is Vice President of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, and is professor of philosophy there. 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One of the perks of coming to appreciate Judaism as an adult is that I came to the Torah with fresh eyes. There were no bad experiences or teachers to forget, whatever text I learned was new and clean. \u00a0So I well remember as a young 20 year old, buying my own Torah and commentary for the first time (eternal thanks to Rabbi Gunther Plaut, ztz\u201dl!)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One thrilling day, I reached Deuteronomy 10:12 \u2013 19 and these words rang in my ears with a powerful lure toward holiness. I typed out the words and pasted them inside my new traditional prayerbook (thank you, Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, ztz\u201dl!). Each day I would read them as a summary and a reminder of everything I held dear. Imagine my delight, years later in rabbinical school, to discover in the words of the ancient rabbis, that they saw this passage, <\/span>Parashat Ha-Yirah<\/span><\/i>\/the Section of Awe, as the very quintessence of what Judaism is all about.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It begins with a question (how very Jewish!): what does God demand of us? And it answers with an oscillation of mutually enhancing opposites (behavior and belief, outer and inner), (1) reverence, (2) walking only in God\u2019s paths, (3) loving God, (4) serving God will our entire hearts and souls. The section closes by noting that the mitzvot are given for our benefit, the life-enhancing gift of a loving God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second unit offers paradoxes: God is sovereign over all that is, the heavens and the earth, yet, in that very grandeur, chose our little people, our ancestors, with a love that burns with an erotic heat (that\u2019s what <\/span>chashak<\/span><\/i> implies). That passion passes from our ancestors to us, to this very day. We are so reliably adored that we can risk circumcising our hearts and unstiffening our necks. That is to say, only someone utterly confident that they will be cherished can risk letting themselves feel the pain of other people\u2019s lives, can be open to the flexibility that the needs of others requires. We are called to be those flexible, empathic, healing people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Final section: God\u2019s greatness is above all monarchs, all empires, all clusters of power. And it is the true measure of God\u2019s greatness not to coerce all others, but to care for the orphan, the widowed, and the stranger. God\u2019s greatness is manifest in concern for the weak and the marginalized, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. And we, God\u2019s beloved, we who have known being strangers in Egypt, we carry a special obligation \u2014 like God \u2014 to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That\u2019s all you need to know about Judaism: cosmic theology, entering into a love relationship that manifests in risking the pain and joys of all living things, and then rising in that love to care for each other and to repair the world. 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Moses tells the people that in order for God\u2019s blessings to be fulfilled, in order for Israel to achieve its destiny, something dramatic will have to change. Moses instructs the people: \u201cCircumcise (<\/span>u-maltem<\/span><\/em>) the foreskin of your hearts (<\/span>orlat levavkhem<\/span><\/em>) and stiffen your necks no more\u201d (Deuteronomy 10:16).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is circumcision of the heart? The second half of the verse elucidates the first: A circumcised heart is the antithesis of a stiffened neck. Bible scholar Moshe Weinfeld explains that \u201can uncircumcised heart, like an uncircumcised ear (Jeremiah 6:10) and uncircumcised lips (Exodus 6:12, 30), means than an organ is incapable of absorbing feelings and impressions from the outside.\u201d To circumcise the heart, then, is to open it, and thereby to become genuinely receptive to God and God\u2019s command. The image of a circumcised heart thus symbolizes \u201cachieving a condition of responsive openness to God\u2019s word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Scholars have long struggled to understand just what the heart (<\/span>lev<\/span><\/i>) symbolizes in biblical thinking. Some interpreters insist that in the Torah, the heart is \u201cconsidered, not the seat of feelings, but of intelligence,\u201d in which case what the Torah asks for in our verse is for Israel is to open its mind. Others assert that it is the \u201cthe organ of volition,\u201d in which case what is called for is a conversion of the will. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

More convincing, in my view, is a more expansive interpretation, according to which \u201cthe heart in Hebrew thought is the preeminent metaphor for the inner being of a person, the seat of intelligence; the seat of emotions; and the seat of volition, i.e., the will.\u201d Moses thus demands that the people totally transform their inner lives, so that they will now respond to God\u2019s command with loyalty, readiness, and faithfulness. As Bible scholar Richard Nelson explains, \u201ccircumcising the heart is a metaphor for a radical, interior renewal that makes love and obedience fully possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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What we're never told when instructed to follow in God's ways are things like: Just as He is vengeful, so shall you be vengeful; as He conquers, so shall you conquer, as He punishes, so shall you punish. We are called to imitate God at His most powerful, and to be powerful, teaches chapter 10, is first and foremost to care for the weakest elements of society. The second blessing of the thrice daily <\/span>Amidah<\/span><\/i> prayer is called <\/span>Gevurot<\/span><\/i>- strength. What does God's strength consist of? Miracles? Battles? Conquest and control? \"He supports the falling, heals the sick, frees captives, and upholds his commitment to those who lie in the earth.\" \u00a0According to the Torah, power is not privilege, it's responsibility. (Where did Spiderman's creator, Stan Lee, nee Stanley Lieber, get the idea from, if not from here?) Power obliges us to care for the 'Other', and the greatest 'other' is the stranger in our midst, who we must not only care for, but love, and with whom we are bidden to identify.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is there any room for the value of conquest in our idea of power? Only for self- conquest. 'Who is mighty? One who conquers their evil inclination' (Avot 4:1 ). Regarding this trait, too, we are taught to emulate God. A fascinating Gemara in Yoma (69b) suggests an explanation for why the 'Men of the Great Assembly' merited such a name. While the prophets saw Jewish sovereignty destroyed, and asked where God's strength and glory have gone, the sages were able to appreciate God's strength and power in the way He conquers himself, and restrains from conquering others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now that the Jewish people have returned to political power after a long exile, it is these insights into the nature and purpose of power that we need to consider if we want '<\/span>lehachzir atara leyoshna<\/span><\/em>', <\/span><\/i>to return to our previous glory.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":50245,"alt":"","title":"dt10-caring","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","width":972,"height":452,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-300x140.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":140,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-768x357.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":357,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","large-width":972,"large-height":452,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","1536x1536-width":972,"1536x1536-height":452,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","2048x2048-width":972,"2048x2048-height":452,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","post_full_size-width":972,"post_full_size-height":452,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-903x420.jpg","home_baner-width":903,"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":"Understanding Jewish Power","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Not the power to punish or conquer - but to care","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":50245,"alt":"","title":"dt10-caring","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","width":972,"height":452,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-300x140.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":140,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-768x357.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":357,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","large-width":972,"large-height":452,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","1536x1536-width":972,"1536x1536-height":452,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","2048x2048-width":972,"2048x2048-height":452,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring.jpg","post_full_size-width":972,"post_full_size-height":452,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt10-caring-903x420.jpg","home_baner-width":903,"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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"163","date":"20260414","wall_id":"163"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"370","name":"Divine\/human","old_id":"770"},{"term_id":"412","name":"Responsibility","old_id":"812"},{"term_id":"503","name":"Power","old_id":"903"}]},{"order":9,"id":"50247","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Who Pays? \u2013 Then and Now ","post_title":"Who Pays? \u2013 Then and Now","slug":"who-pays-then-and-now","old_id":"50247","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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. He has now returned to Jerusalem where he is continuing his research and teaching activities.","credit":"","image_url":"","short_description":"Marc Bregman is the Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies emeritus, at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":33878,"alt":"Marc Bregman","title":"Marc Bregman","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","width":361,"height":488,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-222x300.jpg","medium-width":222,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","medium_large-width":361,"medium_large-height":488,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","large-width":361,"large-height":488,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","1536x1536-width":361,"1536x1536-height":488,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","2048x2048-width":361,"2048x2048-height":488,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","post_full_size-width":361,"post_full_size-height":488,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-311x420.jpg","home_baner-width":311,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"163","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Moses, being the intermediary, was liable for shattering his precious cargo","post_main_content_content":"

In the beginning of our chapter, Moses recalls how he replaced the first set of Tablets he had smashed in anger (Deuteronomy 10:1-5): \u201cThe Lord said to me, \u2018Carve out two tablets of stone like the first\u2026\u201d (verse 1). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Deuteronomy Rabbah 3:12) relates the writing of the Tablets of the Covenant to a halakhic ruling that continues to be relevant in our day: When a Jew betroths a woman, it is the bridegroom who pays the scribe for writing the betrothal document (see Talmud Yerushalmi, Sotah 7:22 and Sheqalim 6, 49d). Our Midrash continues by describing the Giving of the Torah as God\u2019s betrothal of Israel at Sinai (see Exodus 19:10). If God was the bridegroom and Israel the bride, it must have been Moses who actually inscribed the \u201cbetrothal document\u201d (i.e. the Tablets of the Covenant) (see Deuteronomy 31:9 and 33:4, Exodus Rabbah 33:7). In payment, God gave Moses a lustrous countenance (see Exodus 34:29). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

How did this come about? Resh Lakish said that what was given to Moses was made of white fire written with black fire. While Moses was writing, he wiped his pen in his hair and as a result he acquired a lustrous appearance. Rabbi Samuel bar Nahman said that Moses acquired his lustrous appearance directly from the Tablets. While they were being passed to him from God's hands to Moses\u2019 hands, he acquired a lustrous appearance by direct contact with the radiance of the Shekhinah. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But when the Israelites made the Golden Calf, Moses broke the Tablets. God said to him: \u2018When you made the Tablets for Israel, I gave you as your reward a lustrous face, and now you have broken them! This relates to the halakhic ruling that if a cask is broken in transit before it is delivered to the buyer, it is the transferring agent (sarsur<\/em>) who bears the loss (see Talmud Bavli, Baba Batra\u2019 27a). God said to Moses: 'You were the transferring agent (sarsur<\/em>) between Me and My children. You broke the Tablets, so now you must replace them.\u2019 As it is written: \u201cAnd the Lord said unto Moses: \u2018Carve out two tablets of stone like the first\u2026\u201d (Deuteronomy 10:1 and Exodus 34:1). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This Aggadic depiction echoes the opening halakhic ruling that it is the bridegroom who pays the scribe. The further halakhic ruling, that a transferring agent is liable for loss in transit, reflects an international convention that has been practiced to this day. According to legal practice, a \u201ccarrier\u201d is absolutely responsible for the safety of the goods entrusted to it and is liable for their loss, except in exceptional circumstances (see, for example, the British Carriers and Innkeepers Act 1958 2.12). So is seems, that according to rabbinic legend, God already applied what has developed as international law in force to this day.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Who Pays? \u2013 Then And Now","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Moses, being the intermediary, was liable for shattering his precious cargo","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"163","date":"20260414","wall_id":"163"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"652","name":"Commandments","old_id":"1052"}]},{"order":10,"id":"50236","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Just Who Is \"The Ger\" We Are Supposed To Love? ","post_title":"Just Who Is \"The Ger\" We Are Supposed To Love?","slug":"just-who-is-the-ger-we-are-supposed-to-love","old_id":"50236","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. He is the author of TANAKH: An Owner\u2019s Manual (Jerusalem: Urim\/Ktav, 2015).\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34244,"alt":"","title":"sokolow","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","width":302,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","medium_large-width":302,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","large-width":302,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","1536x1536-width":302,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","2048x2048-width":302,"2048x2048-height":300,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","post_full_size-width":302,"post_full_size-height":300,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","home_baner-width":302,"home_baner-height":300}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"163","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Just as God loves all strangers, so must we","post_main_content_content":"

One particular verse in our chapter warrants special consideration: \u201cLove the <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em>, for you were <\/span>gerim<\/span><\/em> in the Land of Egypt\u201d (v. 19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew word <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> has been translated in non-Jewish Bibles as: stranger (King James), sojourner (American Standard Version), foreigner (New International Version), and resident- alien (New American Revised Bible).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The history of Jewish translation is also uneven. The venerable Aramaic Targum Onkelos rendered the first <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> as <\/span>giyora<\/span><\/em> (arguably, the selfsame word), while translating <\/span>gerim<\/span><\/em> as <\/span>dayyarin<\/span><\/em>, residents. Sa'adyah Gaon (882-942) translated it into Arabic as <\/span>gharib<\/span><\/em>, stranger in the sense of different. The Jewish Publication Society (Old and New) used stranger, Everett Fox and Robert Alter used sojourner, and ArtScroll (following the lead of Onkelos?) translated <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> as proselyte and <\/span>gerim<\/span><\/em> as strangers. Note that Onkelos was himself a proselyte.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This invites the question: Are we supposed to love all strangers, or only proselytes\u2014i.e., those who have converted to Judaism?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Logic would dictate that if we are enjoined to \u201clove the <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em>\u201d specifically because we were, ourselves, <\/span>gerim<\/span><\/em> in Egypt, then a <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> is someone with whom I have nothing in common save for a shared place of residence. It would clearly seem to exclude a convert with whom I share something as essential as my religion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is textual proof as well from the appearance of <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> in the previous verse: \u201c[God] executes justice on behalf of the orphan and widow, and loves the <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em>, providing him with food and clothing\u201d (v. 18). Just as the widow and the orphan need God\u2019s protection because they have no one of sufficient social standing to look out for them, so is the <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> dependent on His grace because he, too, lacks adequate social status on his own.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just as God loves <\/span>all<\/span><\/em> strangers, so must we.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":50016,"alt":"","title":"dt8-question","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question.png","width":771,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-181x300.png","medium-width":181,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-617x1024.png","medium_large-width":617,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-617x1024.png","large-width":617,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question.png","1536x1536-width":771,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question.png","2048x2048-width":771,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-723x1200.png","post_full_size-width":723,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-253x420.png","home_baner-width":253,"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":"Just Who Is \"The Ger\" We Are Supposed To Love?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Just as God loves all strangers, so must we","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":50016,"alt":"","title":"dt8-question","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question.png","width":771,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-181x300.png","medium-width":181,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-617x1024.png","medium_large-width":617,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-617x1024.png","large-width":617,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question.png","1536x1536-width":771,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question.png","2048x2048-width":771,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-723x1200.png","post_full_size-width":723,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-question-253x420.png","home_baner-width":253,"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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"163","date":"20260414","wall_id":"163"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"381","name":"love","old_id":"781"},{"term_id":"453","name":"Stranger","old_id":"853"}]},{"order":11,"id":"50228","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Science Student ","post_title":"The Science Student","slug":"the-science-student","old_id":"50228","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36669,"post_title":"Yakov Azriel","slug":"yakov-azriel","old_id":"36669","first_name":"Yakov ","last_name":"Azriel","description":"Yakov Azriel, who lives in Israel, has published five books of poetry in the USA and hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. 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\u201cAnd now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you, but to have awe of the Lord your God \u2026\u201d (Deuteronomy 10:12)<\/span>
\r\n
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The science student sits in the university library,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Studying research papers of paleontologists and paleobotanists<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Trying to uncover<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The origin of life. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The library is quiet,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Almost empty,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Air-conditioned,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As the student summarizes articles in journals<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On primitive marine bacteria from the Lower Pre-Cambrian period.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At lunchtime, the student sits in a small park<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And eats a chicken sandwich.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Removing a bone from the sandwich,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He stoops to bury it.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cA future fossil,\u201d he whispers to himself, smiling. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The student notices a torn piece of paper under his bench<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And picks it up:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cIn the wilderness of Sinai,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>How many hundreds of worn out wanderers<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Passed by a bush that burned but was not consumed,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Never bothering to take a closer look?<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Until one shepherd, a Jewish refugee from Egypt,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Observed.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

The student removes his thick eyeglasses<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And observes the leaves of the tree next to the bench.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The leaves,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Blobs of green light from an impressionist painting,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Shine and shadow, shine and shadow, shine and shadow,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Relaying him a Message<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In visual morse code<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Which he alone can decipher,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He alone can uncover. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The student stands and stares at the leaves,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Receiving their Message<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On the origin of life<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As they spell out before him<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Thousands of variations and permutations<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On the letters of the unpronounceable Name of God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

He touches leaf after leaf;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Stroking them delicately<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Like letters in a thick braille prayer-book,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He reads their blessings<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And listens intently, hearing the leaves<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Articulate in a still small voice<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The unutterable Name of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He bends down<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And removes his shoes;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For on sacred ground,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Under a canopy of green leaves that shadow and shine,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Overwhelmed by the polyphonics of divine voices<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And the mosaics of divine lights,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A man<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Trembles<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In the science of 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\u201c\u2018As a Sign Upon Your Hand:\u2019 Taking Torah Seriously, Not Literally\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Jeremy Tabick: How literally should we read the Bible?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. What\u2019s the connection?<\/em> \u201cAt that time,\u201d i.e., after the Golden Calf episode, God chose the tribe of Levi (verses 8-9). Ex. 32:26-28 explains the connection.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Pleased to get to know you<\/em>. In verses 17-18 God\u2019s greatness is described, and connected to divine protection of the weakest: \u201cFor the LORD your God is God supreme and Lord supreme, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe, but upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and befriends the stranger, providing him with food and clothing.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Love<\/em>. There\u2019s a lot of love in verses 12-22. \u201cIt was to your fathers that the LORD was drawn in His love for them,\u201d and \u201cIsrael, what does the LORD your God demand of you? Only this: to revere the LORD your God, to walk only in His paths, to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.\u201d God loves the stranger, and expects that we love the strangers in our midst as well.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Only you<\/em>. About choice, the choosing and the chosen - see verses 14-15.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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