PARSHA POSTS: KI TEITZEI

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Sep 24, 2024, 3:38 AM

The Loneliest People in the World

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Why G-d Can Never Abandon Us! Two American citizens were killed in Israel in September. The killing of one led to widespread international condemnation, while the other’s death was met with complete silence about those responsible. Can you guess which...

Sep 21, 2024, 3:32 PM

How can we say Shehecheyanu this Rosh Hashanah?

Ki Tetze Minyan 2024 This week's Torah reading is called Ki Teitzei. It begins with the verse "When you go out to war” and in fact refers the reader back to last week’s Parsha, Shoftim, where we learn of the...

Sep 20, 2024, 12:05 AM

Laws of War: September 18, 2024, Ki Tetze

I have no idea how to win a war. Not the war in Gaza nor the war in Lebanon, nor the West Bank... Is this war just? Is it necessary? What I do know is that children should not...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Sep 14, 2024, 11:01 PM

Hebrew Bachelors

The Talmud (Pesachim 113a) that each and every day, Hashem “announces” in the Heavens that He is impressed with three categories of people: poor people who exert themselves to help return lost objects to their rightful owners, rich people...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Sep 14, 2024, 10:32 PM

Is God an anti-woke Sexist?

Why are His pronouns He, Him? He (!) created humans in His image, male and female He (!) created them. G^d is Not a Person Everything in Hebrew is gendered. There is no neuter (it) in Hebrew. Designating pronouns for G^d (He,...

William Hamilton

Sep 13, 2024, 5:46 PM

Warning and Warming

Our friend and gifted writer Matti Friedman published two articles this week. Whenever Matti writes anything, it’s worth your attention. He only writes when he has something important to say. What I found telling about this week’s two pieces was...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Sep 12, 2024, 11:28 PM

Ki Tetze: Kilayim & Identity in Relationships

In this week’s parasha of Ki Tetze, there is a section that describes “kilayim” - things we are forbidden to combine together. This made me think about combinations of human beings - namely, relationships between one person and another....

Mordechai Soskil

Sep 12, 2024, 9:40 PM

An Open Letter to My Beloved

Dear Beloved, It is that time of year again when my heart calls to you Beloved. I hope You feel the same. I smile when I see the apples of autumn in the stores because it calls to me of our...

Sep 12, 2024, 6:18 PM

Ki Teitzei—Do we need to be tough or soft?

Father of Black-naped Blue Flycatcher bird guarding its chicks in the nest

Last week, in Parashat Shoftim, we read about the need to prepare the Israelite soldiers for war against the nations that inhabit the Land (20:1-9). They must be able to overcome their fears and fight courageously, and anyone who...

Sep 12, 2024, 2:52 PM

Our Beautiful Captive Women: Parshat Ki Teitzei

We are still reeling from last week’s brutal execution style murder by Hamas of the six captives. Despite the fact that we had two very happy events in our family this week, it is difficult to celebrate amidst tragedy...

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