{"id":2444,"date":"2016-08-16T00:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2444"},"modified":"2016-08-16T00:47:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:47:28","slug":"devarim-5776","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2444","title":{"rendered":"Devarim (5776)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Devarim (5776)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I want to continue to investigate the question: why does the Torah not end with BaMidbar.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First a comment about names. We call this book Devarim: The book of \u201cthese are the words\u201d. The Rabbis often called it Misneh Torah \u2013 repetition of the Torah, based on Ch 17 verse 18 [read it \u2013 a copy of the teaching] and that is what Rambam called his commentary on the Torah. Philo and the Greeks called it Deuteronomion \u2013 second law \u2013 from which it is called Deuteronomy by non-Jews. But make no mistake, there is only one law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Second, things have changed between Shemot and Devarim. Moses, the man of few words, now has an entire book!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>From this we can learn, first act then talk.\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed we say \u2018actions speak louder than words\u2019 \u2013 and there is no better example than Moshe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the first four books God words were transmitted directly by Moses; here God\u2019s words are transmitted through Moses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Moses speaks the words to <u>all <\/u>of the children of Israel, not some of them. Why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Because this is the generation that will enter the land of Israel. They will change from a nation of nomads sustained by God\u2019s presence and supernatural powers into a nation of farmers working the land and making the abstract teachings in the Torah practical, now with God a hidden partner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The generation of the Exodus saw what God did in Egypt and Sinai. But the next generation only heard God and about what God did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We all know that hearing about something does not give the certainty of seeing it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This generation needs lots of counsel, advice, and exhortation \u2013 hence they get an entire book! How much more do we \u2013 who neither saw nor heard \u2013 need?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Third, there are some differences is this repetition and what came before. Pay attention as we read in the follow weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Homework: in what fundamental theological way do 10 commandments differ between Shemot in Yitro (20:10-11) and Devarim in V\u2019Etchanan (5:12-15)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Devarim (5776) By Marc Mangel \u2022 I want to continue to investigate the question: why does the Torah not end with BaMidbar. First a comment about names. We call this book Devarim: The book of \u201cthese are the words\u201d. The Rabbis often called it Misneh Torah \u2013 repetition of the Torah, based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2444","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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2444\/revisions\/2445"}],"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=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}