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Guest Sermon by Rabbi Sybil Sheridan 8th August / 25th Av 5786
Re’eh Ancient Civilisations ‘Take care that your heart is not deceived into straying, obeying other gods and worshipping them.’ Deut 11:16. So we read in the second paragraph of the Shema, Deuteronomy chapter 11. It is a familiar theme that seems to dominate the book of Deuteronomy. Our parashah, Re’eh begins only verses later and continues the subject, so that today, we read the words: ‘Take care that after you have destroyed (your enemies on the land) that You do not enquir
Guest Sermon by Felix Mara 1 August / 18th Av 5786
Although this week’s parashah is from Devarim, I was urged to aim for a laconic sermon/svar Torah. I’ll also do my best to keep this sweet anyway. Picking up on the passage I struggled through in my atrocious Hebrew, Deuteronomy 10: 1-22, there’s certainly a lot going on in the text. Deuteronomy means second law in Hebrew, and you might say this parashah contains the book’s locus classicus, or core text. YHVH tells Moses, who has destroyed the original stone tablets after the
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