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power and mitzvah 510 disciplines certainty now the third shovels in some fun first of all for what is the roman empire famous roads mitzvah 520 establish cities of refuge in sefer hachinuch mitzvah 520 is the establishment of the cities of refuge עָרֵי הַמִּקְלָט arei hamiklat rate this written by sladehenson sunday 16 august 2026 saturday 15 august 2026 mitzvah 510 you shall be tamim with hashem devarim 18 13 is even better after prohibiting divination sorcery necromancy and other means of discovering hidden information the torah says תָּמִים תִּהְיֶה עִם יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ tamim tihyeh im hashem elohechah you shall be tamim with hashem your god notice the עִם im with torah doesn t simply say tamim tihyeh be whole it says be whole with hashem the relationship is the point sefer rate this written by sladehenson saturday 15 august 2026 saturday 15 august 2026 mitzvah 503 the king must carry the torah with him shoftim what kind of person does torah expect obedience to produce we usually think of mitzvos as things hashem tells us to do or not to do eat this don t eat that honor this day donate this amount don t cross this boundary these certainly are mitzvos but if we stop there we miss important information rate this written by sladehenson friday 14 august 2026 friday 14 august 2026 rosh hashana labehemos 5786 there s a jewish holiday that almost nobody celebrates there are no candles no kiddush no special shaped challah and no prohibition against work somehow hallmark failed to produce a card most surprisingly there s no remembrance of how people tried to kill us right before we eat it s rosh hashanah labehemos the new year for the animals rate this written by sladehenson saturday 08 august 2026 heart voice hand averting the harsh decree may he who blessed our fathers avraham yitzchak and yaakov moshe and aharon david and shlomo bless and heal so and so who is ill on whose behalf ploni almoni is making a contribution to charity as a reward for this etc i have some questions for you why do we pray for the sick why do we pledge rate this written by sladehenson tuesday 04 august 2026 mitzvah 431 love the stranger closing 431 to love the stranger you are to love the foreigner ger alien sojourner since you were foreigners alien sojourners in the land of mitzrayim devarim 10 19 this goes beyond refraining from oppression it commands action it commands real love in the taryag companion r jack says it s a mitzvah to love a convert this is despite that a ger tzedek righteous convert is rate this written by sladehenson monday 03 august 2026 mitzvah 611 walk in his ways 611 to walk in his ways to walk in all his ways devarim 10 12 the mitzvah instructs us to imitate g d s attributes this is one of the most profound mitzvos in the torah because it asks whom should i resemble don t kid yourself into thinking that g d has negative traits like anger and jealousy these traits rate this written by sladehenson sunday 02 august 2026 saturday 01 august 2026 mitzvah 430 birchas hamazon introduction last week we looked at some opening mitzvos loving g d teaching torah binding them on your hand because they help encapsulate some of the reasons we bother to keep the commands i hope you like this new direction because by the time we reach vezos haberachah you ll have walked through a representative sample of the rate this written by sladehenson saturday 01 august 2026 ekev 5786 overview parsha ekev begins and it shall come to pass because עֵקֶב you listen devarim 7 12 the word ekev means heel chazal noticed the word hints at the small mitzvos a person tramples with his heel even rashi on devarim 7 12 says if you heed the light commandments which a person treads under his heels moshe is not asking will you keep the spectacular rate this written by sladehenson monday 27 july 2026 saturday 25 july 2026 mitzvah 421 bind them on your hand closing tie them on your hand as a sign devarim 6 8 this mitzvah is fascinating because it joins the physical and the spiritual it teaches us that memory is not merely something that happens in the mind in judaism memory is something we wear touch and do your deeds educate your heart although he repeats it many rate this written by sladehenson sunday 26 july 2026 saturday 25 july 2026 mitzvah 419 teach torah this mitzvah is derived from you shall teach them diligently to your children devarim 6 7 the torah returns to this obligation repeatedly emphasizing that it s not an isolated command but a way of life devarim 4 9 10 5 1 6 7 11 19 31 12 13 sefer hachinuch says torah survives only if every generation teaches the next learning isn t supposed to be exclusively rate this written by sladehenson saturday 25 july 2026 saturday 25 july 2026 mitzvah 418 loving hashem introduction starting this week with vaeschanan i d like to begin a new series each week we ll use the parsha to discuss not only what the mitzvos are but how we are to keep them and why hashem gave them to us some of the primary sources we ll use are the taryag companion by r jack abramowitz sefer hachinuch and whatever helpful insights we find in chazal rate this written by sladehenson monday 13 july 2026 saturday 25 july 2026 mattos and massei looking for mr bemidbar the torah closes bamidbar by showing that holiness is not found primarily in spectacular moments it s found in the ordinary unselfish actions that preserve covenant access for future generations that observation fits with yeshua as well he rarely points people toward extraordinary experiences instead he said let your speech be truthful mattisyahu 5 37 reconcile with rate this written by sladehenson sunday 12 july 2026 saturday 25 july 2026 mattos and massei cities of refuge the manslaughterer flees to one of the refuge cities the locations of these six cities suggest they were distributed to capitalize on coverage not tribal ownership according to yehoshua 20 the cities were leviim owned even though they sat within tribal allotments later rambam expanded the number to include all 48 leviim cities this makes them neutral rate this written by sladehenson saturday 11 july 2026 saturday 25 july 2026 mattos and massei the holiness of speech if a man vows a vow to hashem he shall not profane his word bemidbar 30 2 we might expect torah to say he shall honor his vow but it says he shall not profane יָחֵל דְּבָרוֹ his word torah treats speech as something holy חלל is the opposite of קדש to profane something is to rate this written by sladehenson saturday 04 july 2026 saturday 04 july 2026 hillel shammai introduction beis hillel and beis shammai are the two prominent schools of thought in pharisaism they were founded by r hillel and r shammai respectively and are known for their differing approaches to jewish law and ethics beis hillel is beis shammai is in the midrash and gemara the schools engaged in numerous debates emphasizing the significant rate this written by sladehenson wednesday 01 july 2026 saturday 04 july 2026 learning to miss yerushalayim the why if someone loses a loved one and twenty years later they still cry occasionally do we think they re unhealthy no we think the relationship was real the jewish people still mourn the destruction of jerusalem because the relationship was real the three weeks are not merely historical remembrance they are annual training in rate this written by sladehenson sunday 28 june 2026 balak go doesn t always mean approval while editing the drash for balak on wednesday a thought paused the process this parsha contains something profound perhaps it could be called go doesn t always mean approval the sequence in bemidbar is puzzling first you shall not go with them bemidbar 22 12 bilaam reports this but he softens it by saying hashem has refused to let me go rate this written by sladehenson saturday 27 june 2026 saturday 27 june 2026 balak a malach in the heavenly court in bemidbar 22 22 35 bilaam is riding his donkey to meet balak because balak hired bilaam to curse israel the irony is painted in technicolor the king believes words create reality and the prophet believes he controls blessings and curses both soon discover neither controls anything an angel of hashem stands in the road in opposition rate this written by sladehenson saturday 20 june 2026 saturday 20 june 2026 korach between life and death today s portion contains a remarkable scene aaron does something that appears at first glance impossible and he stood between the dead and the living and the plague was stopped bemidbar 17 13 here s a simple question how can a man stand between death and life the answer reaches into torah chazal and some of the deeper themes rate this written by sladehenson sunday 14 june 2026 saturday 20 june 2026 bereishis r 38 and the divine sovereign bereishis r 38 says it happened when they went east mikedem bereishis 11 2 r eleazar b shimon said they withdrew themselves from the one who was before the world they said we do not want him or his divinity this is a fascinating passage and the context is lost and misapplied when the line is quoted by itself rate this written by sladehenson saturday 13 june 2026 saturday 13 june 2026 colossians 1 15 20 image of the invisible g d colossians 1 15 20 should be approached as a jewish second temple text never through later stative theology created from the wrong mindset we will examine the passage through tanach chazal and related early jewish literature with the central phrases highlighted the passukim read he is the visible image of the invisible g d he is supreme over all creation because in connection rate this written by sladehenson saturday 06 june 2026 saturday 06 june 2026 behaaloscha the accused the accuser exordium the most dangerous weapon in parsha behaaloscha is not the fire that consumes the complainers bemidbar 11 3 it s not the quail bemidbar 11 32 it s not the plague bemidbar 11 34 it s a conversation between siblings loshon hora speech in opposition to torah begins with speech but rarely ends with speech it grows until it destroys rate this written by sladehenson saturday 30 may 2026 naso bearing the name the birkas hacohanim the priestly blessing is a beautiful and powerful brachah יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה וְיִשְׁמְרֶךָ יָאֵר יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ וִיחֻנֶּךָּ יִשָּׂא יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ וְיָשֵׂם לְךָ שָׁלוֹם hashem bless you and keep you hashem make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you hashem lift up his smile upon you and give rate this written by sladehenson saturday 23 may 2026 saturday 30 may 2026 philippians 2 06 11 deconstruction of messiah this passage may be the single most important sugya for this project because it appears to straddle the line between venerated mediator divine identity enthronement and avodah zarah concerns similar to yochanan who often speaks in symbolic and layered prose philippians 2 is poetic material every phrase matters though he was in the form of g d he did rate this written by sladehenson monday 18 may 2026 saturday 16 may 2026 mr thomas pashat and yochanan 20 28 i always want to be intellectually honest and this is why i try to give points and counterpoints to everything important or confusing the reason is two fold i want you to know how my brain works and so you can tell instantly if i m presenting the truth or bull butter so on to thomas rate this written by sladehenson sunday 17 may 2026 saturday 16 may 2026 bemidbar encampment vs avodah zarah on the surface parsha bemidbar is a wilderness of names banners censuses and camp arrangements yet beneath the sand there is a deeper current the question of how the presence of hashem dwells among human beings without us misinterpreting events that can spiral us into idolatry the parsha becomes important because it helps us understand rate this written by sladehenson saturday 16 may 2026 tuesday 09 june 2026 postlude these last few months i ve been using you as a sounding board in discussions about how besorah chazal and tanach are in agreement the end goal has been to prepare us for a theology of moshiach yeshua and hashem that doesn t promote avodah zarah torah and tanach are the foundation chazal the walls and the rate this written by sladehenson saturday 09 may 2026 behar moshiach and the eved ivri the torah repeatedly says כִּי עֲבָדַי הֵם אֲשֶׁר הוֹצֵאתִי אֹתָם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם for they are my servants whom i took from mitzrayim vayikra 25 42 and 55 hashem is saying the redemption from mitzrayim permanently invalidates absolute human ownership chazal considers this in b kiddushin 22b they are my servants and not servants to servants also sifra behar 5 5 ties the concept of rate this written by sladehenson monday 04 may 2026 sunday 10 may 2026 shaul and original sin the later doctrine that all humans inherit adam s guilt original sin is not what shaul developed for his adam theology nor does chazal speak in this manner the main texts are romans 5 12 21 and 1 corinthians 15 21 22 paul does not say all humans are born guilty of adam s sin infants are damned because of adam rate this written by sladehenson saturday 02 may 2026 acharei mos death of a tzaddik in halachic literature kedushas ha guf refers to the intrinsic sanctity the holiness that clings to an object or body itself not just its value and this holiness is neither transferable nor redeemable the most common occurrence of kedushas ha guf is korbanos another is shabbos for once consecrated the animal itself or the time slot becomes holy rate this written by sladehenson tuesday 28 april 2026 major general michael collins apollo 11 31 oct 1930 rome italy 28 apr 2021 naples fl age 90 rate this written by sladehenson saturday 25 april 2026 acharei mos the veil of life death וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל מֹשֶׁה דַּבֵּר אֶל אַהֲרֹן אָחִיךָ וְאַל יָבֹא בְכָל עֵת אֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ מִבֵּית לַפָּרֹכֶת אֶל פְּנֵי הַכַּפֹּרֶת אֲשֶׁר עַל הָאָרֹן וְלֹא יָמוּת כִּי בֶּעָנָן אֵרָאֶה עַל הַכַּפֹּרֶת hashem said to moshe tell your brother aharon not to come at just any time into the holy place beyond the paroches in front of the kapores which is on the ark so that he will rate this written by sladehenson wednesday 22 april 2026 tuesday 28 april 2026 mispar hechrachi mispar hechrachi מספר הכרחי is the most common gematria calculation method where each of the 22 letters is assigned a basic value on the fourth line the mispar gadol מספר גדול is added to the standard method with final sofit letters counting as a continuation of the alphabet and are valued from 500 to 900 rate this written by sladehenson monday 20 april 2026 sunday 10 may 2026 a torah of r aharon lichtenstein it s unfortunate that this is a couple days late the 11th yartzheit was shabbos 01 iyyar 5786 this is in his memory faith is not a refuge from complexity but a confrontation with it from leaves of faith by r aharon lichtenstein often faith is treated like a chrysalis you slip inside and knit a protective cocoon against rate this written by sladehenson saturday 18 april 2026 tazria metzora 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