{"id":2348,"date":"2016-05-11T00:40:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2348"},"modified":"2016-05-11T00:40:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:40:43","slug":"devarim-5760","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2348","title":{"rendered":"Devarim (5760)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Devarim (5770)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 This parsha is almost always read on the Shabbat before T’sh B’av.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The big theme is the lamentations of Moses: 1) mockery of the legal system and 2) the people’s inability to keep peace.<\/p>\n

\u2022We learn about leadership from the structure of the narrative: Moses begins not with his accomplishments but his limitations and what the people did (Ch 1, v 9ff; especially v 12-15<\/p>\n

\u2022 Let us turn to verse 17 (read it in Hebrew). \u00a0Here is one interpretation: justice must be blind<\/p>\n

\u2022 The 2nd interpretation is that the verse does not apply to the legal system itself: the most important criterion if for a leader or judge to know the law — when you appoint a judge for reasons other than the law, you are perverting the law.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Although the Israelites are very successful, in Ch 2, v 9 we see that there are limits (one must know what is yours)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Devarim (5770) by Marc Mangel \u2022 This parsha is almost always read on the Shabbat before T’sh B’av. \u2022 The big theme is the lamentations of Moses: 1) mockery of the legal system and 2) the people’s inability to keep peace. \u2022We learn about leadership from the structure of the narrative: Moses … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2348","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=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2348\/revisions\/2349"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}