{"id":2369,"date":"2016-06-01T23:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T23:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2369"},"modified":"2016-06-01T23:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T23:28:03","slug":"ki-tavo-5767","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2369","title":{"rendered":"Ki Tavo (5767)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Ki Tavo (5767)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 Here’s the big picture: \u00a0we are three weeks from Yom Kippur but this Parsha begins Ch 26, v 5 and ends Ch 29, v1 with the Exodus — our defining myth<\/p>\n

\u2022 Who’s a Jew? The person who tells of the Exodus; peoplehood is created by the myth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 But along with this story in the long rebuke (we had the short rebuke in VaYikra 26:1-46, where God was talking).<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the\u00a0long rebuke (Ch 27, v 1-26; Ch 28 v 1-69) Moses is talking.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The theme of the blessing and curses is that God does not bring destruction, human misbehavior does.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Moses says: problems are caused because you did not serve God amid gladness and goodness of heart (Ch 28, v 47), which is a symptom<\/p>\n

\u2022 The plan is this \u00a0(Ch 27): \u00a01) Cross the Jordan, 2) Write the Torah on huge stones in 70 languages of the world, 3) Cover it in plaster; 4) Half of the Tribes stand on Mt Grizim, half on Mt Ebal, with the Levites in the valley; 5) the Levites recite the blessings and curses and the people say amen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 What should we do today? \u00a0Pirke Avot, \u00a0Misnah 4\/3 tells us “Do not be disdainful of any person and do not scorn anything, for there is no person without his hour and no thing without its place (in the plan)”. \u00a0Not so easy, but we are three weeks from Yom Kippur….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Ki Tavo (5767) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Here’s the big picture: \u00a0we are three weeks from Yom Kippur but this Parsha begins Ch 26, v 5 and ends Ch 29, v1 with the Exodus — our defining myth \u2022 Who’s a Jew? The person who tells of the Exodus; peoplehood is created … 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-2369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369","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=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions\/2370"}],"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=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}