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muman613:
Shalom JTF readers,

I apologize again for a late posting. I usually try to post some videos by Wednesday night but this week I have been off my game due to my yetzer hara succumbing to the news of 104 terrorists being released (G-d Forbid!). But I have spoken with my Rabbi and I feel a little better, so I will post the weekly portion thread now.

This week is another mitzvot packed portion. We read the statement Hashem makes concerning placing free-will in our hands, we can choose the blessing or the curse, as our heart desires. The portion contains the command to build the Sanctuary for Hashem in the place he has chosen (Jerusalem).

We are told that Hashem abhors idolatry and all forms of idol worship must be erased from the land which we are about to enter (Israel). We must not listen to false prophets and those who want to break our bond with the Master of the Universe, the one who freed us from bondage in Egypt.

This portion also puts a great amount of emphasis on the idea that every Jew is responsible for every other Jew. We are told we must support the poor Jew, giving Tzedakah (righteousness) to every beggar who asks, and to give with joy... This is tough in todays world but it is a mitzvah of the Torah and we must learn it's lesson.

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2272/jewish/Reeh-in-a-Nutshell.htm

--- Quote ---“See,” says Moses to the people of Israel, “I place before you today a blessing and a curse”—the blessing that will come when they fulfill G‑d’s commandments, and the curse if they abandon them. These should be proclaimed on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal when the people cross over into the Holy Land.

A Temple should be established in “the place that G‑d will choose to make dwell His name there,” where the people should bring their sacrifices to Him; it is forbidden to make offerings to G‑d in any other place. It is permitted to slaughter animals elsewhere, not as a sacrifice but to eat their meat; the blood (which in the Temple is poured upon the altar), however, may not be eaten.

A false prophet, or one who entices others to worship idols, should be put to death; an idolatrous city must be destroyed. The identifying signs for kosher animals and fish, and the list of non-kosher birds (first given in Leviticus 11), are repeated.

A tenth of all produce is to be eaten in Jerusalem, or else exchanged for money with which food is purchased and eaten there. On certain years this tithe is given to the poor instead. Firstborn cattle and sheep are to be offered in the Temple, and their meat eaten by the kohanim (priests).

The mitzvah of charity obligates a Jew to aid a needy fellow with a gift or loan. On the Sabbatical year (occurring every seventh year), all loans are to be forgiven. All indentured servants are to be set free after six years of service.

Our Parshah concludes with the laws of the three pilgrimage festivals—Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot—when all should go to “see and be seen” before G‑d in the Holy Temple.

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Let us start with the latest video from Rabbi Chaim Richman from the Temple Institute...

muman613:
Rabbi Finkelstein on the concept of Tzedakah...

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The hospitable Rabbi Machlis on our portion..

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Alright, just got home from work... Time to study a couple of lessons on the Sedrah...

Here is the great Rabbi Yitzak Ginsburg giving us some of the deeper meanings in the portion.

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Rabbi Chaim Miller from TorahInTen and Kol Menachem, gives us the Chassidic understanding of the portion.

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