When Is D'varim Read?
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Summary
- Moses begins his final words of instruction to the Children of Israel, focusing first on recounting their physical journey. (1:1–21)
- Moses reviews the people’s reactions to the negative reports of the spies and the appointment of Joshua to succeed him. (1:22–45)
- Moses recounts that all of the Israelite warriors who left Egypt died, as God had intended, and the people continued their wanderings and defeated their enemies. (2:14–3:11)
- Moses reiterates that the Land of Israel was allocated to the Israelite tribes. (3:12–22)
More D'varim Commentaries
- D’varim: Embracing Contradiction
- How Does a Story Begin? Not Like You Think
- Correcting is Respecting
- It’s An Old Song, But We Sing It Anyway
- How Moses Found His Voice – and How We Can, Too
- Words, Words, Words: The Powerful Words of D’varim
- The Most Radical Book of Torah and the Necessity of Interpretation
- D'varim for Teens: Shabbat Sha-raps
- Does God Command Going to War?
- Victim and Perpetrator - Reflecting on Our Role
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Ten Minutes of Torah: D'varim Commentary
Manifesting Our Destiny
By: Rebecca Good
How fascinating that the first book of the Torah begins with God creating the world through words and now, as we begin the last book of the Torah, we are once again reminded of the power of "ha'devarim" (the words). The Hebrew title of this book, D'varim, means "words."
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