Obedience
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Give From Your Heart
Now that G!d has moved the Israelites out of Egypt and set them on their journey to the promised land, established a leader and laid out certain boundaries, he asks for the nation…
- Abraham, Allegiance, Bereshit, Comfort Zone, Confusion, Country, Division, Election, Fear, Isaiah, Lekh Lekha, Nation, Obedience, Parsha, Reward, Sarah, Shield, Truth, Ur
Stepping Out
Comfort zones are nice – especially those we didn’t know we occupied until they are violently yanked away from us. This week I, along with millions or even billions of other people across…
- 5777, Asheville, Choices, Generations, High Holidays, Israelites, Land, Leaves, Moses, Obedience, Parks, Parsha, Relationship, Rosh Hoshannah, Shabbat Shuvah, Shofar, Teshuvah, Vayelekh, Yom Kippur
The Leaves, They Are A-Changing
Tonight is Shabbat Shuvah: The Sabbath of Return, also calling to mind the teshuvah, or repentance, we are called to practice during these Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe) leading up to Yom Kippur…
- Aramean, Atonement, Commandments, Covenant, Egypt, Enter, Forgiveness, High Holidays, Inheritance, Israel, Ki Tavo, Obedience, Remember, Salvation, Selichot
A Grand Entrance
Last week we went out – this week we enter. “When you enter the land which the L!rd your G!d gives you as an inheritance…” begins Parashat Ki Tavo. Moshe is logically moving…
- Adar, Exile, Exodus, Instructions, Josephus, Kings, Obedience, Parsha, Pekudei, Praise, Prayer, Psalms, Purim, Repetition, Tabernacle
Repeat After Me…
Truth be told, I’ve always kind of been intrigued by the repetition of instructions as the means of communicating completion. Instead of saying, “Yo, they did what G!d told them,” the reader is…
- Assembly, Community, Congregation, Creativity, Haftorah, Instructions, Israelites, Moses, Obedience, Offering, Parsha, Tabernacle, Temple, Vayakhel
Enjoining the Joining (of Hands)
Moses has received G!d’s instructions for the Israelites, including the construction of the Tabernacle so he could dwell among them. However, for these words to become a reality, the people would have to…