Beit Midrash Torah Portion and Tanach Dvarim

Ki Tetze

Parashat Hashavua - Torah Portion - Ki Tetze

Elul 12 5778 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
YOU’RE (ALL) IN THE ARMY NOW
Ki Tetze
Elul 12 5778 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Blessings and Guardrails
Ki Tetze
Elul 12 5778 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
“So that His Heart Not Be Elevated above His Brothers”
Our Parasha starts with halachot that come about by going out to war. It is the king who is involved in the decision to fight and leads the nation into it. Such power can lead its possessor to conceit. That is why the Torah dictates laws whose purpose is “so that his heart not be elevated above his brothers … and so that he shall have many years in his kingship, he and his sons in the midst of Israel” (Devarim 17:20). This shows that a candidate for kingship can fall if he is guilty of the sin of haughtiness.
Parashat Hashavua Ki Tetze
Elul 12 5778 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Social Capital and Fallen Donkeys
Covenant & Conversation Ki Tetze
Elul 12 5778 | Rabbi Daniel Kirsch
Ki Tetze 5778 At The Shabbat Table
Ki Tetze
Elul 7 5777 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THE BEAUTIFUL BLANK
Ki Tetze
Elul 6 5777 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
You Wipe Out and I Will Wipe Out
We find two p’sukim in the Torah about wiping out Amalek: “You [Bnei Yisrael] shall wipe out the memory of Amalek” (Devarim 25:19); “I [Hashem] will certainly wipe out the memory of Amalek” (Shemot 17:14). There seems to be a contradiction as to who is responsible to rid the world of Amalek – Bnei Yisrael or Hashem? The Tanchuma (Ki Teitzei 11) answers that until Amalek raises his hands against the divine throne, Hashem leaves it to us; afterward, Hashem takes the matter into His own hands. In explaining how a human can raise his hands against the divine throne, the midrash answers that this is by destroying Yerushalayim.
Parashat Hashavua Ki Tetze
Elul 5 5777 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Found Money – A Drama in Real Life
Ki Tetze
Elul 5 5777 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Two Types of Hate
Covenant & Conversation Ki Tetze
Elul 9 5776 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Contemporary Mechir Kelev Questions
Ki Tetze
Elul 8 5776 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Love is not Enough
Covenant & Conversation Ki Tetze
Elul 8 5776 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
Don’t Hide the Internal Problem
There are two equal obligations of remembering found in this week’s parasha. The more famous one is to remember what Amalek did to us. But there is also an obligation to remember the affliction of tzara’at that Hashem did to Miriam after she spoke a few errant words about her brother, Moshe.
Parashat Hashavua Ki Tetze
elul | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Why is there a prohibition on interest?
Basics of Financial Laws Ki Tetze
Elul 12 5775 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
The Measure Of Long Life
Ki Tetze
Elul 8 5775 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Semicha and Sanhedrin in the 19th - 21st Century
Ki Tetze
Elul 8 5775 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Human Dignity – Never to be Forgotten
Parashat Hashavua Ki Tetze
5774 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
KI TETZEI
Ki Tetze
5774 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Seeing – In Perspective
Parashat Hashavua Ki Tetze
Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Freiers And Forgivers
There is a fine, but crucial line, between being a forgiver and a "freier". Two Mitzvot in Parashat Ki Tetze teach the difference.
Ki Tetze
Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
Our Internal Enemy
In our busy and crowded world, our schedules allow precious little time to think about our true selves - our goals and the purpose of our existence. Ignoring the enemy is the surest way of being defeated by it.
Ki Tetze The High Holidays