Taste of Limmud
Taste of Limmud ran from 5766-5771, and has now been renamed Limmud On One Leg.
The archived content from Taste of Limmud is still available below:
Laurie Rosenberg on Haazinu
Haazinu is Moses’s farewell song to the Israelites, in which he talks about their status as God’s chosen people and the consequences of forgetting our dependency on God. Moses emphasizes that it is through keeping God’s word that the people will be able to live well in the land of Israel. Moses is told by God that he is now about to die, and that he will see the land but will not enter it. More
Jonathan Arkush on Nitzavim
Nitzavim-Vayelech is the shortest double sidra in the canon (shorter than most other single sidras). At the end of Moses’ peroration (ie the whole book of Deuteronomy), it presents the children of Israel with the choice before them of following or not following God’s commandment and, in the image at the end of Nitzavim (30,19), “to choose life”. Vayelech sets the scene for Moses’ swansong as he is told he is about to die and he gathers the elders and officers of the tribe for one final song. More
Nathan Abrams on Ki Tetze
In this parsha, Momses outlines a wide range of commandments, including laws relating to the captive women, the rebellious son, returning lost items, building a fence around the roof, tzitzit, the laws of adultery and rape, divorce, the childless widow, and remembering Amalek. More
More Taste of Limmud...
Shoftim Shoftim means judges and opens with how judges should act, followed by how the Levites should be treated. More
Re’eh Moses sets before the people the choice of a blessing if they obey God or curse if they do not. More
Va'etchanan Va’etchanan contains two of the most well-known passages in the whole of the Torah – the first paragraph of the Shema and the repetition of the ten commandments. More
Devarim Sefer Devarim (Deuteronomy) consists of Moses’s speech to the people of Israel, as they prepare to enter the land of Canaan. More
Mattot In this parasha, God sends Moses, the people of Israel, and Pinchas from last week's portion, to fight a war with Midian and wipe them out to a man, also killing the prophet Bilaam from two weeks ago. More
Pinchas Pinchas – the eponymous hero or anti-hero of this week’s sidra – appears only at its beginning. More
Balak This parasha tell the story of King Balak of Moav, who asks the prophet Bilaam to curse the Israelites. More
