{"id":183,"date":"2013-11-03T01:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T01:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2013-11-03T01:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T01:40:29","slug":"dvarim-5771-2010","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=183","title":{"rendered":"Dvarim 5771 (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Drash for Dvarim (5771)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

All of the commentators agree that Dvarim is the original Mishneh Torah \u2013 review of the Torah.\u00a0 And after that, they pretty much stop agreeing.\u00a0 Today, I will provide a broad overview of their thinking, and illustrate the challenge for us.<\/p>\n

Nachmanides divides Dvarim into three parts:<\/p>\n

Words of Reproof: Ch 1, 1 to Ch 3, v 29<\/p>\n

The Main Show, being a recapitulation and elaboration of the statutes and ordinances: Ch 4, v1 \u2013 Ch26, v 15<\/p>\n

The end of the book, consisting of blessings, curses, and a song: Ch 26, v16- end<\/p>\n

For the Ramban, Devarim is a utilitarian volume for those who are about to conquer the land\u00a0 — there is nothing new in it that was not given at Sinai but people need to be reminded of the practical issues of mitzvoth that did not mean much until now.<\/p>\n

Abarvanel notes that the reproof consists only of the story of the spies and wonders by the Golden calf is not in there.\u00a0 He concludes that the spies represented more of a lack of faith in God than the Golden calf did\u00a0 — that the lesson of history is not to lose faith.<\/p>\n

For Abarbanel, Devarim is a book meant to explain the beliefs and instructions that Moses had been given at Sinai, but which were improperly understood or where an incorrect view had developed among the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

The Vilna Gaon also divides the book into three sections, but differently than the Ramban.\u00a0 For him the first five verses are an introduction and the book is divided so that the new section parallels the start of the middle three books of the Chumash:<\/p>\n

1:1 \u2013 V\u2019aleh Ha Devarim matches V\u2019aleh Shmot<\/p>\n

5:1\u00a0 — Vayikra,\u00a0 ditto<\/p>\n

27:9 VayDabar Moshe\u00a0 matches VayDabar Adonai (start of BaMidbar)<\/p>\n

In response to the Dubno Maggid, the Vilna Gaon explains that in the first four books, the voice emanating from Moshe was God himself speaking, whereas in Devarim, Moshe acts like a prophet \u2013 repeating what we hears from HaShem<\/p>\n

The Maharal disagrees and says that throughout the Torah HaShem placed words in the mouth of Moshe but in the Mishneh Toah Moshe speaks by himself, as a messenger of HaShem.<\/p>\n

The last Lubavitcher Rebbe goes in a different direction and says, based on Zohar VaYikra, that in Devarim the Shechinah and Moshe are united as one which is why<\/p>\n

Moshe speaks in the first person .<\/p>\n

Kli Chemdah agrees with Ramban that the entire Torah with all details was given to Moshe at Sinai but that only when specific mitzvoth became applicable were they revealed to the people.\u00a0 In the first four books, the mitzvoth are given to the people just as HaShem said them to Moshe, but in Devarim Moshe expanded on some of the mitzvoth himself.<\/p>\n

For Kli Chemdah, HaShem commanded Moses to write down the entire Torah at this point \u2013 the first four books given directly by HaShem in which there is no precedence of one parsha over another\u00a0 but the Mishneh Torah arranged by Moshe with a specific intention of the order of the parshiot (and approved by HaShem).<\/p>\n

So what are we to do?\u00a0 I say revel in this apparent confusion and try to make sense of conflicting opionions and make new discoveries in Mishneh Torah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Drash for Dvarim (5771) by Marc Mangel All of the commentators agree that Dvarim is the original Mishneh Torah \u2013 review of the Torah.\u00a0 And after that, they pretty much stop agreeing.\u00a0 Today, I will provide a broad overview of their thinking, and illustrate the challenge for us. Nachmanides divides Dvarim into three parts: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183\/revisions\/186"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}