parshat Ki Tavo

Have You Ever Traced The Journey Of Your Life?

I live in chutz la’aretz. Am I required to leave peah in my backyard vegetable patch? Is there a requirement to leave leket, shich’cha and peah in your field today? The attached article will help you answer the attached questions.

Such an explicit declaration of apparent self-congratulation requires explanation, as it appears to be going on a limb and being boastful. Can/should a person really announce that he did everything he was supposed to?

The great questions - “Who are we?” “Why are we here?” “What is our task?” – are best answered by telling a story.

This week's Torah portion of Ki Tavo begins with the words of appreciation that one must say when he brings his First Fruits to the Holy Temple: "I say today that I have come to the Land that G-d vowed to our Forefathers to give to us…" (D'varim 26,3). Rashi explains that the purpose of this statement is to show that we are not ungrateful. Ungrateful for what? The Maharal of Prague, in his commentary on Rashi entitled Gur Aryeh, explains...