Vezot Habracha concludes the Torah with the blessings of Moshe to the tribes of Israel, and subsequently with his transfer of power to Yeshoshua bin-Nun, and then it ends with Moshe’s passing.
A former EMT, firefighter, and college professor, she is a master of English and a student of Hebrew. She and I meet monthly in a group of writers—a ... All of that changed in a glance at Deuteronomy ...
And we reserve the penultimate aliyah of the entire Torah–Moses’s final blessings to the children of Israel–for kol hana’arim, a special aliyah when every child is invited up to the bimah ...
This is the beauty of the Torah’s mitzvot—they aren’t just ... about crops—it’s about “gathering” all the brochot (blessings) of the past year. What have we overcome?
But generations from now, people I never knew will be reciting those same Torah blessings I recited, with the same words and the same tears. They’ll look around and, if they are very fortunate ...
The second reason is that the religious-Zionist public is connected to Torat Eretz Yisrael (the Torah of the Land of Israel), which inherently emphasizes the blessing that comes through the ...
The extended “seder” we eventually adapted features symbolic foods — simanim in Hebrew — and each food ... in the ritual by speaking words of blessing and eating foods that engage our ...
Between a song, a Hebrew blessing and training on how to reach low-propensity voters in Louisiana, the call’s organizer paused to share the state’s “I voted” sticker. A dapper cartoon ...