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Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« on: September 05, 2012, 01:39:37 AM »
Shalom Everyone,

Today I am starting the Parasha study for this weeks Torah portion early. Today I sat in the WORST traffic ever and it took me double the time I normally drive {2 3/4 hours instead of 1 1/4 hours} and I was very exhausted by the time I got to work. I remember looking forward to when I got home so I could study some Torah. Well now I am home, and here we are studying some Torah.

This week we are are reading the portion called Ki Tavo. As we are approaching the end of the Torah {the Chumash/Five books} and the Yomim Noraim/Days of Awe the portions are getting very spectacular. Moses is giving the Jewish people the strength and the will to enter the land, he teaches them of blessings and curses.

This portion includes the second rebuke of the people, explaining all the terrible things which will befall us {and many of these curses already have occurred to us}.

Here are some videos we can learn from:



The animated G-dcast video:

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2012, 01:41:32 AM »
Rabbi Shafier discusses the word 'today':

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2012, 01:46:38 AM »
Rabbi Richman tells us what the Torah means when it says we must serve Hashem with joy...



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You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2012, 02:03:04 AM »
And Rabbi Richman just posted this video on the first fruits...

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2012, 02:19:11 AM »
Rabbi Weisblum talks about the parasha:

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2012, 02:27:06 AM »
Rabbi Glick...

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2012, 02:29:01 AM »
Rabbi Finkelstein discusses witnessing:

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2012, 02:40:10 AM »
Rabbi Chaim Millers 'Torah in Ten' talking about, what else? The First Fruits:

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2012, 02:51:17 AM »
I love some of these Rabbis, and these lessons are so important.

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2012, 02:57:17 AM »
The lovable Rabbi Shlomo Katz talks about questions..

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2012, 03:01:57 AM »
Gotta get some sleep, can't believe it is so late...

Here is Rabbi Ginsburg on how the Jewish people are blessed...

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2012, 03:17:28 AM »
One more, Rabbi Finkelstein talks about the relationship between Hashem and the Jewish people.

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Re: Video Study for Parasha Ki Tavo
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2012, 04:43:05 PM »
I just came across a timely piece on this weeks Parasha concerning HaKares HaTov {Appreciation} in relation to the Bikkkurim {First Fruit} ritual. It also is relative to the discussion in the General Section concerning hatred and the Egyptian people. What I conclude is that the enemies of the Jewish people are a part of this world and Jew-hatred is put here by Hashem for a purpose which we hopefully will see soon...



http://www.torah.org/learning/ravfrand/5768/kisavo.html

Parshas Ki Savo

The Egyptians Made Us Evil

This parsha contains the mitzvah of Bikkurim [offering one's first fruits in Jerusalem] and the mitzvah of reading the associated Parshas Bikkurim [First-Fruit Reading]. In Parshas Bikkurim, a person offers praise to the Almighty, expressing gratitude for the many kindnesses He has bestowed on the Jewish people in general and on this farmer in particular.

In expressing this gratitude, the person testifies that he not only appreciates what he has received now, but he appreciates the whole process by which he has arrived to that point in time. In Parshas Bikkurim, we trace the whole history of the Jewish people from the earliest Patriarchic era to our present day.

In detailing the suffering we experienced in Egypt, the narrative includes the following declaration: "The Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, and placed hard work upon us." [Devorim 26:6]. We have similar pasukim [verses] in Parshas Chukos: Moshe sent emissaries to the King of Edom: "You kn ow all the hardship that has befallen us. Our forefathers descended to Egypt and we dwelled in Egypt many years, and the Egyptians did evil to us and to our forefathers" [Bamidbar 20:14-15].

There is a subtle difference between the two pasukim complaining about our treatment at the hands of the Egyptians. In Parshas Chuukas, it says "Vaya're-oo LANU Mitzrayim," meaning the Egyptians were evil unto us. Here the pasuk uses the expression "Vaya're-oo OSANU haMitzrim," to say essentially the same thing – that the Egyptians were bad to us. Grammatically speaking, the more correct way to say it is "Vaya're-oo LANU" – we were the OBJECT of their actions. "vaya're-oo OSANU haMitzrim" literally means "they made US bad".

Rav Gifter and Rav Zalman Sorotzkin both gave similar insights into this expression, which literally means that they made us bad. The Egyptians had a terrible public relations problem on their hands. When the councils of government in Egypt decided to en slave the Jewish nation, they had to come up with a way of selling this evil plan to the people of their country. How were they to suddenly turn on the descendants of the people who literally saved Egypt from starvation? Where is the sense of national gratitude? What kind of nation starts enslaving and torturing a people who saved them from destruction?

Pharaoh's pronouncement to his people is recorded at the beginning of the Book of Shmos: "Behold! The people, the Children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we. Come, let us outsmart them lest they become numerous and it may be that if a war will occur, they too may join our enemies, and wage war against us and go up from the land." [Shmos 1:9-10].

In other words, Pharaoh slandered us. "Jews are disgusting people. They are disloyal. They are cowards. They are a threat to us – a fifth column in our own society. We have to watch out for these guys because they can turn around and ruin us." "Vaya're-oo OSANU haMitzrim" – means they turned the Jews into evil people. They made us bad. This is the only way that they were able to perpetrate such evil upon the nation who saved them from starvation.

These pasukim and this technique is the manual for anti-Semitism the way it has existed for the last 3000 years. They turn us into despicable people. It is not hard to hate despicable people. The players have changed over the years. We are no longer dealing with the ancient Egyptians but with the "United Nations" and with the various enemies of our people throughout the world. But while the players have changed, the game plan remains the same. The Jewish people, and often more accurately the Jewish state, is demonized and slandered at every opportunity.

As always, our salvation from such threats and diabolical plans for our destruction lies ultimately only with the Almighty.
You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14