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Ki Tavo | The Historical and Metaphysical Future, by Rav Eli Weber Why is the haftara for Ki Tavo so uniquely comforting? A look at divine light, historic redemption, and surprising echoes. Yeshayahu 60: 1-22 This shiur examines the haftara for Ki Tavo, Yeshayahu's "Kumi Ori" — the sixth of the seven Haftarot of Consolation. It highlights three themes: a metaphysical shift in which Hashem's own…
Ki Tavo | The Power of Mikra Bikkurim and Vidui Ma'asrot, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The final two Mitzvot in Moshe's presentation of the Law (נאום המצוות) are the "Bikkurim Declaration" and the "Ma'asrot Confession". Immediately after this, the multi-tiered covenant in Moav begins. In earlier shiurim, I have proposed that the נאום המצוות is Moshe's explication, in order, of the עשרת הדברות - and…
Ki Tetze | Roni Akara: Hope That Transforms Present Pain, by Rav Eli Weber Yeshayahu 54: 1-10 The haftara "Roni Akara" consoles Israel not about the pain of the present but about despair over the future. The barren woman symbolizes suffering that seems permanent — and God's promise of children transforms it into bearable hope, an idea echoed in Viktor Frankl's Holocaust observations. To guarantee…
The Special Celebration of טו באב - the Fifteenth of Av, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The happiest days of the year, Rabban Shim'on b. Gamliel tells us, were the 15th of Av and Yom haKippurim. On these days, he reports, young women would go into the vineyards and dance and the young men would choose them as wives. The Gemara expresses an understandable confusion about the special nature of the 15th of…
Vaetchanan | Nachamu Nachamu Ami, by Rav Eli Weber Yeshayahu 40: 1-26 Is repentance required for redemption?
Devarim | "The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amotz", by Rav Eli Weber Yeshayahu 1:1-27 Is ritualistic worship enough?
Matot - Masei | "For My people have committed two evils", by Rav Eli Weber Yirmiyahu 2: 4-28, 3:4 Idolatry as Betrayal. Why couldn't even Yoshiyahu's great teshuva revolution save Yerushalayim? Yirmiyahu reveals the sin God takes personally — and the lesson for the Three Weeks.
Yirmiyah, the Joyous Sounds of Weddings, and the Return to the Land, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Why are the themes of marriage and the return to Yerushalayim intertwined in Yirmiyah's prophecies and in the Birkat Chatanim? We are all famliar with the phrase עוד ישמע בערי יהודה ובחוצות ירושלים...from songs, from the final ברכה under the חופה and from countless homilies. Yet, if we look at the…
Matot | Moabite Daughters, a Midianite Princess and Pinchas, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Balak-Pinchas-Matot. Why is the "war of vengeance" carried out against Midian, if the instigators and participants in the BaalPeor episode were Moabites? The story of Pinchas's zealotry is famous, yet his action along with the subsequent Divine command to launch a war of נקמה against Midian is surprising,…
Pinchas | Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, by Rav Eli Weber Yirmiyahu 1:1 - 2:3 The burden of prophecy.
Balak | The remnant of Yaakov shall be among the nations, by Rav Eli Weber Mikha 5:6 - 6:8 Is being alone a curse or a blessing?
Bein HaMetzarim | Brit Sinai and Brit Zion, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom What is the message emerging from the parallel lists of 5 calamities on each of 17 Tamuz and 9 Av in Mishnah Taanit? Source sheet >>
Chukat | Now Yiftach the Gil'adite was a mighty man of valour, by Rav Eli Weber Shoftim 11:1-33 The leader Am Yisrael needed
