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The Torah study is dedicatedin the memory of
Amram son of Sultana
Moshe knows that the people he has led for the last forty years are "stiff-necked" and that he will no longer be there to lead them. Thus, his final speech must be a message so strong and inspiring that it will continue to echo thousands of years later. He is so successful in this mission that Hashem incorporates his address into His own words and eternalizes it as Sefer Devarim.
I suggest that you take the time to read the Sefer as a whole unit and realize that this really was Moshe’s last speech. Only then will you feel that it is the history of a real people, your people. You will then feel what our ancestors felt in the hot desert after forty years of wandering. You will be terrified by the voice of God when you stand before Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, and you will worry in anticipation of the enemy you will have to fight when you arrive in the Promised Land. There you will bring your first fruits to Jerusalem, and with the basket on your shoulder you will tell the Kohen how your father was an Aramean refugee who went down to Egypt in small numbers. You will remind the Kohen how the Egyptians dealt harshly with you, oppressed you and enslaved you. You will then proceed to tell the Kohen how you cried out to Hashem your God and how He heard you and brought you to this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Sefer Devarim is our connection to Eretz Yisrael standing on one foot. Go Learn It!
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
