Questions tagged [parshat-devarim]
The weekly Torah portion of Devorim (Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22)
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Is it allowed to live in a place which has brazen Avodah Zarah?
Is a Jew allowed to live in a place which has brazen Avodah Zarah? I'm talking about places like India, China and Cambodia. While Christians worship idols as well they say that doing so is wrong. I'm ...
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Respect the stranger?
The word גר is commonly translated convert. However, we are commanded to love the גר as we were גרים in Egypt. Exodus 22:21, ibid 23:9, Deuteronomy 10:18-19. How can the Jewish people be said to have ...
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Esau, Edom, Rome and the Jews
In parshat Devarim, Hashem tells the Israelites to leave the Edomites alone and bypass them: "You shall not provoke them, for I will not give you of their land...because I have given Mount Seir to ...
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Yitroh's advice - why Moses does not mention Yitroh to the Dor Ha'Aretz?
In Shmot 18 Yitroh gives Moses an advice to appoint chiefs/judges for the entire nation.
However, when Moses recalls this event to the Dor Ha'Aretz in Chumash Dvorim 1,11 he takes all the credit and ...
