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\u201cSee I place before you the blessing and the curse\u201d (verse 26). In chapter 11, God presents the people with a series of blessings and a series of curses. The blessings come from following God and God\u2019s ways and the curses come from refusing to follow God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse always reminds me of the famous Robert Frost poem, The Road Not Taken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And sorry I could not travel both<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And be one traveler, long I stood<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And looked down one as far as I could<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then took the other, as just as fair,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And having perhaps the better claim,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Because it was grassy and wanted wear;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Though as for that the passing there<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Had worn them really about the same,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The poet describes facing a fork in the road. Unable to see past a short length of either side, he is forced to make a decision: which path to take. He thinks that he could try one and then come back and try the other, yet knows that there is little chance that he will return from the first. The poem ends with the conclusion \u201cI took the one less traveled by\/And that has made all the difference.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The reader does not know which of the paths was the least traveled, or why that made all the difference. Was it a good difference? A bad one? The poet\u2019s point is that a choice has to be made in life without knowing what the results of that decision will be. That choice though has consequences. In the poem the paths are there in the woods already. The poet simply has to choose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In chapter 11, God also sets the paths before the people, a good path and a bad path. God does not force the people to take one path over the other. Just like in the poem, the people have the option to decide which path to take. They can choose to take the cursed path or the blessed one, but the choice is theirs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Unlike in the poem, though, God provides a bit more of a roadmap as to what the end of each path would look like. The people have free will, but are also enticed to take one path by God. Whatever the people decide, God promises, that will make all the difference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Remember: it is God<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who sends rain down from heaven<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to the ground where we work.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Take this truth,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>place it on your head<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>& on your arm.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Tie your strength below<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to what is above.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0image:\u00a0I, Marc Chagall. Self-Portrait with Tefillin, photo by Frans Vandewalle, Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 2015 \/ flickr<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cI will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil\u2014 I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle\u2014and thus you shall eat your fill\u201d (11:14-15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is a perfect annual cycle? Rain in its time, both early and late, and good produce to all throughout the year: <\/span>dagan<\/span><\/em> \u2013 grain; <\/span>tirosh<\/span><\/em> \u2013 sweet grape juice turning wine; <\/span>yitzhar<\/span><\/em> \u2013 olive oil, and <\/span>\u2018esev <\/span><\/em>- <\/span><\/i>grass in the field for the animals. The four correspond to four holidays and four agricultural seasons: grain to bake bread for Shavuot, which is a must for that holiday\u2019s sacrifice; grapes, ripening in the fall, along with Sukkot when we\u2019re commanded to be joyful; oil, at the time of olive harvest and oil production, for Hanukkah; and grass for the animals, for Pesach, when we sacrifice a lamb, and begin the barley harvest, of food suitable for our animals. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only then we too will be able to eat and feel satisfied. 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\u201cFor the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors like a vegetable garden; but the land you are about to cross and possess, a land of hills and valleys, soaks up its water from the rains of heaven\u201d (Deut. 11:10\u201311).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why did Moses compare Canaan with Egypt in speaking of the wonders of the Promised Land? What was his purpose in comparing a country that sits on the Nile and so has an abundance of water with the arid land of Canaan, where one has to depend on rain to water one\u2019s fields? How does all this support the message Moses wanted to convey?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Avner Moriah\u2019s illustration for this chapter hints at some answers. The painting is divided into two parts. The upper image depicts a typical agricultural scene in Egypt. In the background white pyramids are set against dreamy pink skies. In the foreground we see the River Nile, pictured as a blue strip, with green fields along both its banks. A scantily clad Egyptian farmer is standing at the bank near a donkey harnessed to a wheel that is used to pump water from the river. This scene is a visual description of the Hebrew expression above about \u201cthe grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors like a vegetable garden.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The lower image visualizes a farm scene in the land of Canaan, with a background of yellow arid hills against cloudy white skies. We see an Israelite farmer, fully dressed in a striped gown, standing in a field behind an ox, holding what might be a shovel or a plow. Apparently the farmer has plowed and sown his field and is now looking in awe and gratitude at the sight of the falling rain, which will water his crops, ensuring a good yield for the coming year.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Comparing the two portrayals we can understand why Moses chose to contrast irrigation in Egypt with the way the Israelites will water their crops in Canaan. God\u2019s rain is not to be taken for granted: \u201cIf, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the Lord your God and serving Him with all your heart and soul I will grant the rain for your land in season\u201d (Deut. 11:13\u201314). Moses tells the people that their having to depend on God will open the way to forging a viable relationship with the Lord. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Israelites\u2019 reliance on rain will go far toward making them fully aware of their own limitations and appreciative of God\u2019s care, which will afford them \u201ca land which the Lord your God looks after, on which the Lord your God always keeps His eye from year\u2019s beginning to year\u2019s end\u201d (Deut. 11:12). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Artwork by: Avner Moriah, by courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Text by: Dr. Shulamit Laderman, PhD in Art History, publications on Jewish and Christian influences on biblical interpretive illustration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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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). 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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":"164","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Today! 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Our chapter begins with Moses charging the Israelites standing before him: \u201cLove, therefore, the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His laws, His rules, and His commandments\u201d (Deuteronomy 11:1). It concludes with a very similar charge to those who are about to enter the Promised Land: \u201cFor you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the Lord your God is assigning to you. When you have occupied it and are settled in it, you shall observe to do all the statutes and ordinances that I have set before you this day (ha-yom<\/em>, i.e. \u201ctoday)\u201d (verse 32).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An early midrashic tradition (Sifre Devarim 58:1) interprets each part of this final verse: \u201cAnd you shall observe\" -- this is Mishnah (i.e., study of the mitzvot). \"To do\" -- this is doing (i.e., performance of the mitzvot). \"All the statutes\" -- these are the midrashim<\/em>\u00a0(i.e., midrashic halachah, the midrashic derivations of the mitzvot). \"And the ordinances\" -- these are the laws (\u201cdinnim<\/em>\u201d). \"That I set before you this day\" -- Let them (i.e. the Mitzvot) be as beloved upon you as if you had received them this day at Mount Sinai and let them be as familiar in your mouth as if you had heard them today.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I can think of no text that better expresses the rationale behind the 929 Tanakh B'yachad project for studying one chapter of Tanakh each day \u2013 the biblical \u201cthis day\u201d \u2013 then and now.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Torah is a book of journeys. From Haran to Canaan. From Canaan to Egypt. From Egypt to Sinai to the Land of Israel. By modern means of travel these places are not particularly far from each other, although in biblical times, they must have seemed unfathomably distant. Indeed, before automobiles and aeroplanes, travel was invariably a much slower experience. I have a copy of a letter from the early 1900s in which my great-grandfather explains that travelling from Jerusalem to Tiberias takes three days, because one must travel by donkey!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Genesis, the first book of the Torah, God tells Abram to \u2018Go forth from your native land and from you father\u2019s house to the land that I will show you\u2019 (12:1). Together with his wife Sarai, Abram leaves the familiarity of Haran for the unfamiliarity of Canaan. Their journey is deeply, cosmically significant: God promises Abram blessings of a great name and a great nation. To mark this creation of covenant, <\/span>brit<\/span><\/i> \u2013 a mutually incentivised agreement \u2013 God renames them Abraham and Sarah. A journey to a new land becomes a transformation of identity, leading to the emergence of the people of Israel, who continue the <\/span>brit<\/span><\/i> that God made with Abraham.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Deuteronomy, the final book of the Torah, the Israelites are poised to enter the land of Israel after forty years in the desert. Moses relays God\u2019s words to the people: \u2018See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God, the Eternal, that I enjoin upon you this day: and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God the Eternal, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day\u2019 (11:26-28). God\u2019s promise here is more complicated than with Abraham. It contains a caveat: if you follow God\u2019s commandments, you will be blessed, but if you do not, you will be cursed. Here, blessing is not a promise, but a bonus. The threat of curse rankles ominously.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We often tell ourselves, it\u2019s about the journey, not the destination. This is the culmination of a journey that began many generations ago. God is not speaking to just one person, as God was with Abraham. God is speaking to a nation, on the cusp of entering the land that will become their home. A nation who must work together to create a just and civil society. Perhaps the threat of a curse is to remind the people of Israel both how far they have come, and just what is at stake as they finally enter the land that God promised them.<\/span>
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Deuteronomy faces a problem: It is one thing to acknowledge dependence in the desert, where provisions are meager, but what of a land where blessings abound, and milk and honey flow freely?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses utters what appear to be odd words of praise for the land: \u201cFor the land you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come... It is a land which the Lord your God looks after, on which the Lord your God always keeps His eyes, from year\u2019s beginning to year\u2019s end\u201d (11:10-12). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In contrast to Egypt, where crops grow only on land irrigated by human hands, the whole land of Israel is watered directly by God. As a midrash explains, since Egypt is irrigated by the Nile, highlands must be watered by hand, with great human effort. Since Israel is watered by Heaven, both highlands and low are watered without human effort. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>And yet the comparison with Egypt does not play obviously into Israel\u2019s favor:<\/span> It may require strenuous labor to cultivate the land of Egypt, but at least one knows what one will get; in the land of Israel, the price of ease may be uncertainty and anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Meir Leibush Weiser (Malbim, 1809-1879) asks why God relocates the people to Israel instead of simply giving them the land of Egypt. The answer, Malbim suggests, is that Egypt is irrigated by the Nile once a year, whereas Israel is in constant need of rain. To live in Israel, he concludes, is to realize that one \u201cneeds divine mercy at each and every moment.\u201d Living in Egypt, one can easily forget God; living in Israel, aware of one\u2019s ongoing dependence, one is more likely to remember God at all times (comments to Deuteronomy 11:10). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

To be dependent on the rain, in other words, is to be dependent on the God who sends the rain. In the wilderness, Israel looked heavenward for bread itself; in the Land of Promise, it will look heavenward\u2014for the rain which will enable it to grow bread.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In many ways, conditions in the land will be the very opposite of the wilderness: Where before the people faced the peril of having too little, now they will face the challenge of having too much. 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How many people do you know who make it a point to have a candle-light dinner with wine and fresh baked bread on a weekly basis? Sounds romantic, no?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Well, traditional Jews \u2013 and even many not-so-traditional ones \u2013 usher in the weekly Shabbat with a set of rituals that are exactly that. Friday night entails candle lighting, shared wine, and two loaves of challah, each with their own blessings, lending an air of sanctity to the very sensuous proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, besides the romance and the gustatory enjoyment, why these three? Interestingly, they represent the three states of matter: the bread is solid, the wine liquid, and the fire of the candles \u2013 gaseous. Looking more deeply, another connecting thread between them is: they're alive! Or at least \u2013 they breathe. The combustion of the candles, the rising of the challah dough, and the fermentation of the wine all involve a sort of metabolism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That connects to another symbolism: the challah is symbolic of the earth (indeed, the blessing is <\/span>hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz <\/span><\/em>- <\/span><\/i>\u00a0bread from the earth), the liquid wine is the water element, and the candles are of course fire. And the breathing they all share means they are joined together by life-giving air \u2013 making them all together a spiritual symbol of life, and the life-giving bounty of the natural world which we sanctify in their use.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A third explanation is more historical \u2013 and connects us to our chapter. Verse 14: \"You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil.\" These three crops are not only the sound foundation of a Mediterranean diet, but are the Biblical expressions of divine blessing and well-being. Those are the blessings of a good year in the Land of Israel. But how can we connect to that wherever, not just in the Land?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer is: at the weekly Shabbat table. We make Kiddush over the wine and we make challah out of the grain. And the (olive) oil? Well, we can dip the challah into the oil (a venerable tradition) \u2013 but the real connection is, in fact, the candles, which were originally olive oil lamps. So the three elements of the home Shabbat ritual are also to connect us historically to the Land and its unique produce, and help make the observance portable to wherever you may be spending your Shabbat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Photomontage by the author: wine \u2013 Stefan Kraus\/Schwappender Wein.jpg; challah \u2013 Aviv Hod\/ Challah Bread Six Braid 1.JPG; oil candles - \u00a0he.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=489223<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":50263,"alt":"","title":"dt11-montage1","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","width":1280,"height":392,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-300x92.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":92,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-768x235.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":235,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-1024x314.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":314,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":392,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":392,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-1200x368.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":368,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","home_baner-width":1280,"home_baner-height":392}},"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 Weekly Romance","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Taking a deeper look at the symbolism of the Shabbat rituals","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":50263,"alt":"","title":"dt11-montage1","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","width":1280,"height":392,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-300x92.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":92,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-768x235.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":235,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-1024x314.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":314,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":392,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":392,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1-1200x368.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":368,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt11-montage1.jpg","home_baner-width":1280,"home_baner-height":392}},"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":"11","chapter_main_number":"164","date":"20260415","wall_id":"164"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"360","name":"Nature\/Environment","old_id":"760"},{"term_id":"378","name":"Shabbat","old_id":"778"},{"term_id":"430","name":"Land of Israel","old_id":"830"},{"term_id":"464","name":"Agriculture","old_id":"864"},{"term_id":"680","name":"Symbolism","old_id":"1080"}]},{"order":10,"id":"50323","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"An Ode to Life in High Voltage ","post_title":"An Ode to Life in High Voltage","slug":"an-ode-to-life-in-high-voltage","old_id":"50323","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33859,"post_title":"Avidan Freedman","slug":"avidan-freedman","old_id":"33859","first_name":"Avidan","last_name":"Freedman","description":"Rabbi Avidan Freedman is the Rabbi of Hevruta, the Shalom Hartman Institute's post high school program for Israelis and North Americans, and an educator in the institute's high school. 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\"I just don't get it. Why leave a life that's simple, comfortable, near family, to come to this crazy country??\" \u00a0Most people who choose to make aliyah from places like North America hear this battery of questions at least once. Whenever I'm confronted with it, I'm reminded of a Jewish Agency poster \"promoting\" aliyah that I saw when I was about 10 years old. \"We never promised you a rose garden\" it read, with classic Israeli bluntness, displaying a field of forbidding looking thorns with a single beautiful rose in their midst. Very tempting.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it's true. Life in Israel is thorny. It's difficult, and it's about more than just the economics of living here. Life is lived on high voltage, literally and figuratively, for better and for worse. (Usually, it seems like when it's worse, we're better, and when it's better, \u00a0we're worse. It's an alternating current. ) Every argument is for the soul of the nation, every crisis is existential, whether it's about religion, politics, security or cottage cheese. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It's not like Egypt here, the Torah tells us. There, you go outside, kick a furrow in the ground, and you have water. In Israel, as basic a necessity as water is a barometer for good behavior, and so naturally, it's a life of ups and downs, hills and valleys. \u00a0As mentioned earlier, this doesn't provide us with clear spiritual guidance, but it does reflect the way everything here is played at high stakes. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It's a life lived coping with the feeling of constant, disproportionate scrutiny. While inhuman brutality is the norm all around us, isolated incidents of radical fringe individuals receive extensive international coverage. But no one scrutinizes us more than we do ourselves. From NGOS, to the media, to opposition parties, to the prime minister and the president, soul searching and breast beating are constant features of the landscape.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But all this is just the human echo of God's scrutiny. It's the price, and the privilege, of living in the land \"that God seeks, that God's eyes are always upon, from the beginning to the end of the year.\" If we came here, thorns and all, it is out of a desire to clear them out, to live up to a life of great expectations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There is an intriguing footnote, within the Bible itself, as to why this land is different. In a masterstroke of delayed information, Moses tells the Israelites as they are almost within sight of the land that there is a qualification to the description he has given previously, that it is 'a land flowing with milk and honey.' It is a good land, but with one caveat:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. The land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end (Deut. 11: 10-12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Israel is not the Nile delta or the Tigris-Euphrates valley. It is a land dependent on rain, and rain in that part of the world is not predictable. We knew this already: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all have to leave the land temporarily because of drought and famine. We have merely lost sight of this during the narrative from Exodus to Deuteronomy in which our focus has been on Egypt and the desert. But the passage intimates a correlation between geography and spirituality. Israel is a place where people look up to heaven in search of rain, not down to earth and its natural water supply. It is a place where you have to pray, not one in which nature and its seasons are predictable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That is part of a larger narrative. Because the terrain of Israel is such that it cannot become the base of an empire, it will constantly be at threat from larger and stronger neighbouring powers. Israel will always find itself outnumbered. It will need to rely on exceptional courage from its soldiers, and unexpected tactics of war. That will take high national morale, which in turn will require from the people a sense of belonging to a just and inclusive society.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commitment will be needed from every individual. They will need to feel that their cause is justified and that they are fighting for something worth preserving. So the entire configuration of the Torah's social ethics, whose guardians were the prophets, is already implicit in the kind of geo-political entity Israel is and will be. It would always be a small and highly vulnerable country, set in a strategic location at the junction of three continents, Europe, Africa and Asia.<\/span>
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\"And you shall put these, My words, on your heart and on your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.\" \u00a0(Deuteronomy 11:18)<\/span>
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Every morning the prophet Ezekiel put on<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/i> of a chariot,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And when he wound the straps around his arm,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He would see the tracks of wheels<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And a storm wind; and a cloud; and a fire ablaze. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Every morning King David put on<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/i> of a harp,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And when he wound the straps around his arm,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He would see musical notes<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Quavering on a seven-lined stave. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Every morning Joseph put on<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/i> of dreams,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And when he wound the straps around his arm,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He would see stars binding sheaves<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As the sun and the moon whispered: 'Amen.' <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Every morning Jacob put on<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/i> of a ladder,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And when he wound the straps around his arm,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He would see angels ascending<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Rung by rung. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But I \u2014 every morning I put on<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/i> of sand,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And when I wind the straps around my arm,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>They break apart, disintegrate and disperse<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Like grains in the desert of routine. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

When will I put on<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Not the <\/span>tefillin<\/span><\/i> of Rashi<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Nor the <\/span>tefillin<\/span><\/i> of Rabeinu Tam,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But rather<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The <\/span>tefillin<\/span><\/i> of Rabbi Nachman,<\/span>
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  1. Discipline (<\/span>musar<\/span><\/em>). <\/em>This reminds us of the ancient connection between suffering\/ discipline (<\/span>musar\/yisurim<\/span><\/em>)<\/em> and education (verse 2).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The generation of the exodus, or their children<\/em>? Who is Moses talking to? In verse 2 there is a surprising answer.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The earth swallowed up whom<\/em>? Look for the differences between the story of Korach in Num. 16, and the short reminder here in verses 3-4.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Remind you of anything<\/em>? Verses 18-20 are an almost exact repetition of what appears in the paragraph of the Shema, that was read last week (Deut. 6). By the way, these verses are part of the four <\/span>parashiyot<\/span><\/em> that are written in the tefillin, and mezuzot include the verses 13-21.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Blessing and curse<\/em>. Gerizim and Ebal. What\u2019s the connection? Suggestions for an answer will be given in another 16 chapters. Stay tuned. <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Deuteronomy 11","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"11","chapter_main_number":"164","date":"20260415","wall_id":"164"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/49883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}