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Post by alon on Aug 7, 2020 4:28:21 GMT -8
Name of Par’shah- 47.3a Re’eh, See
Par’shah- Deuteronomy 11:26-13:18
D’rash: In this the part of our readings heavy in mitzvoth, we are going to start splitting those parashot which are heavy on mitzvoth into two parts. This will make us go long on the schedule, however since a lot of next year is going to be devoted to collating these mitzvoth into categories so we will have a reference we can use, this will not be a problem.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3 (ESV) You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. Destroy all traces of idolatry.
Deuteronomy 12:4, 30-31 (ESV) You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way. … take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. Do not worship El Elohe Yisroel as pagans worship their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:5-6, 11, 13-14, 26-27 (ESV) But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go, and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. … then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord. … Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see, but at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you. … But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the Lord will choose, and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat. Bring sacrifices only to the place God designates (His Temple in Yerushalayim).
Deuteronomy 12:15 (ESV) “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. Tame and tahor persons may slaughter and eat outside the Temple, as these are not sacrifices. So may we today slaughter and eat.
Deuteronomy 12:16, 23 (ESV) Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water. … Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. Do not eat blood. How far should we go in removing blood? As far as is reasonable. I do not think this necessarily means we must kasher our meat, but it should be well drained. And especially we do not use the blood we drain.
Deuteronomy 12:17-18 (ESV) You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present, but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake. Do not eat things set apart to HaShem as offerings outside His Temple. Today, with no Temple in Yerushalayim we no longer set aside these sacrifices. However we typically do set aside a tithe, and this is to be separated from profane use. We don’t “borrow” from HaShem this month to make the downpayment on that new boat.
Deuteronomy 12:19 (ESV) Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land. Make sure you give freely to the Levies/those in ministry.
Deuteronomy 12:20-21 (ESV) “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. If the place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire. There is no restriction on when and where you may eat meat.
Deuteronomy 13:2b- (ESV) if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. Do not follow false teachers, but hold fast to HaShem.
Deuteronomy 13:5-9 (ESV) But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. While we do not kill false teachers today, we still can remove them from fellowship. We can also warn others of this evil should they try to find another congregation to influence. And no matter who they are or how close to you, you should be the first to condemn them.
Deuteronomy 13:12-14 (ESV) “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there, that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, Investigate charges of heretical doctrines thoroughly, and if a congregation is found to have fallen away that entire assembly should be removed from fellowship.
Deuteronomy 13:15-17 (ESV) you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction [setting apart (devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)], all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers, Do not go after the things the proscribed fellowship owns, as all are set aside to whatever fate HaShem has in store for them.
Par’shah- Deuteronomy 11:26-13:18
D’rash: In this the part of our readings heavy in mitzvoth, we are going to start splitting those parashot which are heavy on mitzvoth into two parts. This will make us go long on the schedule, however since a lot of next year is going to be devoted to collating these mitzvoth into categories so we will have a reference we can use, this will not be a problem.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3 (ESV) You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. Destroy all traces of idolatry.
Deuteronomy 12:4, 30-31 (ESV) You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way. … take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. Do not worship El Elohe Yisroel as pagans worship their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:5-6, 11, 13-14, 26-27 (ESV) But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go, and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. … then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord. … Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see, but at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you. … But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the Lord will choose, and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat. Bring sacrifices only to the place God designates (His Temple in Yerushalayim).
Deuteronomy 12:15 (ESV) “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. Tame and tahor persons may slaughter and eat outside the Temple, as these are not sacrifices. So may we today slaughter and eat.
Deuteronomy 12:16, 23 (ESV) Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water. … Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. Do not eat blood. How far should we go in removing blood? As far as is reasonable. I do not think this necessarily means we must kasher our meat, but it should be well drained. And especially we do not use the blood we drain.
Deuteronomy 12:17-18 (ESV) You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present, but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake. Do not eat things set apart to HaShem as offerings outside His Temple. Today, with no Temple in Yerushalayim we no longer set aside these sacrifices. However we typically do set aside a tithe, and this is to be separated from profane use. We don’t “borrow” from HaShem this month to make the downpayment on that new boat.
Deuteronomy 12:19 (ESV) Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land. Make sure you give freely to the Levies/those in ministry.
Deuteronomy 12:20-21 (ESV) “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. If the place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire. There is no restriction on when and where you may eat meat.
Deuteronomy 13:2b- (ESV) if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. Do not follow false teachers, but hold fast to HaShem.
Deuteronomy 13:5-9 (ESV) But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. While we do not kill false teachers today, we still can remove them from fellowship. We can also warn others of this evil should they try to find another congregation to influence. And no matter who they are or how close to you, you should be the first to condemn them.
Deuteronomy 13:12-14 (ESV) “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there, that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, Investigate charges of heretical doctrines thoroughly, and if a congregation is found to have fallen away that entire assembly should be removed from fellowship.
Deuteronomy 13:15-17 (ESV) you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction [setting apart (devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)], all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers, Do not go after the things the proscribed fellowship owns, as all are set aside to whatever fate HaShem has in store for them.
