Torah Talk

This is Torah Talk for the week of September 23rd, 2018 Deut. 33:28 Thus Israel dwells in safety, Untroubled is Jacob’s abode, בדד עין יעקב In a land of grain and wine, אל-ארץ דגן ותירוש Under heavens dripping dew. What makes Jacob “untroubled,” and what is his “abode”? This week’s handout:  54 V’zot ha-Bracha 5778-79 […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of September 16th, 2018 Deut 32:4 The Rock!—His deeds are perfect, Yea, all His ways are just; A faithful God, never false, True and upright is He. What was “The Book of Jashar”?  According to Ed Greenstein, Deuteronomy 32:4 holds the answer. This week’s handout:  53 Ha’azinu 5778-79 […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of September 9th, 2018 Deut. 31:7  Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel: “Be strong and resolute [חזק ואמץ], for it is you who shall go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of September 2nd, 2018 Deut. 29:27  “The LORD uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as is still the case [כיום הזה].” Why is the ל so big?  What does “as is still the case” mean?  “The LORD […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of August 26th, 2018 Deut. 28:51 … leaving you nothing of new grain, wine, or oil [דגן תירוש ויצהר] What are these three unusual words?  Why doesn’t this expression use the normal words for wine [יין] or oil [שמן]? This week’s handout:  50 Ki Tavo 5778Donate: https://www.paypal.me/mcarasik Learn Biblical Hebrew: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/biblical-hebrew-learning-a-sacred-language.html […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of August 19th, 2018 Deut. 22:6  If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young. 7 Let the […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of August 12th, 2018 Deut. 18:6      If a Levite would go, from any of the settlements throughout Israel where he has been residing, to the place that the LORD has chosen, he may do so whenever he pleases. 7 He may serve in the name of the […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of August 5th, 2018 Deut. 13:13 If you hear it said, of one of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you to dwell in, 14 that some scoundrels from among you have gone and subverted the inhabitants of their town, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”—whom you […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of July 29th, 2018 Deut 7:15  The LORD will ward off from you all sickness; He will not bring upon you any of the dreadful diseases of Egypt [מדוי מצרים], about which you know, but will inflict them upon all your enemies. What are the “diseases of Egypt,” […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of July 22nd, 2018 Deut 5:23/26  For what mortal ever heard the voice of the living God [קול אלהים חיים] speak out of the fire, as we did, and lived? What does it mean to call God “living”? This week’s handout:  45 Va-etchanan 5778 Read Tzvi Sinensky’s article […]