To Lead is to Listen Parashat Eikev By Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation-homepage/ “If only you would listen to these laws…” (Deut. 7:12). These words with which our parsha begins contain a verb that is a fundamental motif of the book of Devarim. The verb is sh-m-a. It occurred in last week’s parsha in the most famous […]
This week, Rabbi David Block asks an interesting question: why do the people of Israel get to go into the land of Israel? Is it because of merit? Or because it was promised to our ancestors? Or, as the text suggests, because of the evil of the other nations? In this video, we analyze these […]
CAUTIONARY NOTE – Please note that Rabbi Machlis is not associated with the KOL AHATOR VISION and does not necessarily subscribe to our interpretations. We publish, promote and recommend his erudite studies for the great insights that they provide. KOL HATOR Commentay – The Conservative Yeshiva, in its Haftarah Commentary on Parashat Eikev mentions a […]
The promised land – the land of Israel – the land where Torah, the covenant between G-d and His people Israel, is fulfilled in the deeds and the hearts of the people, in the soil and the rivers and the mountains and the valleys of the land, the only land where all this is possible, […]