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HA’AZINU

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 32:1 – 32:52 – Click here.

Haftarah: II Samuel 22:1 – 22:51 — Click here.

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NITZAVIM

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 29:9 – 30:20 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 — Click here.

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KI TAVO

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 26:1 – 29:8 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1 – 60:22 — Click here.

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KI TEITZE

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1 – 54:10 — Click here.

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Another good Torah “helper” is Pocket Torah, available in the Apple App store. Pocket Torah Trope teaches “Trope Phrases,” and Pocket Torah teaches portions.

“Grazing Sheep at PaSu Farms”by Heidi Schuyt is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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SHOFTIM

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 51:12 – 52:12 — Click here.

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Another good Torah “helper” is Pocket Torah, available in the Apple App store. Pocket Torah Trope teaches “Trope Phrases,” and Pocket Torah teaches portions.

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RE’EH

On Human Agency and Free Choice

At the heart of America and at the heart of the human condition, is that human beings are endowed with the dignity AND the responsibility to take ownership of our lives and of our societies. And ultimately to recognize and embrace that we need one another if the world is to be made a better place.

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 11:26 – 16:17 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 54:11 – 55:5 — Click here.

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Another good Torah “helper” is Pocket Torah, available in the Apple App store. Pocket Torah Trope teaches “Trope Phrases,” and Pocket Torah teaches portions.

“New York Kosher” by Thomas Hawk is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 

This week’s picture:

“#GoodShabbos! This week’s #parsha is Eikev (עקב) https://goo.gl/HMuaO0 #ShabbatShalom!”by EliPongo is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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EIKEV

On Being the Chosen People

The Israelites may assume that as God’s select, they are immune to punishment and entitled to a bounty of privileges. But God is no patron. On the contrary, with great privilege comes great condemnation. Arthur Hertzberg famously said that, “Chosen-ness is the inescapable discomfort caused by consciousness.”

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 7:12 – 11:25 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 49:14 – 51:3 — Click here.

Another good Torah “helper” is Pocket Torah, available in the Apple App store. Pocket Torah Trope teaches “Trope Phrases,” and Pocket Torah teaches portions.

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VAETCHANAN

Shabbat Nachamu:
God, the Parent, Consoles His Children

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 40:1 – 40:26 — Click here.

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“To the Promised Land – 4×3”by joshlama is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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MATOT-MASSEI

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Numbers 30:2 – 36:13 – Click here.

Haftarah: Jeremiah 2:4 – 28; 3:4

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DEVARIM

Every human being is inevitably left with a huge emptiness which is a vacuum of unanswered questions, fears, and doubts that come with the trials and tribulations of being human. How do we go on living and  find the strength to carry on? How do we make the lessons, the values, the inspirations of our individual and collective memories a part of who each of us is becoming, while at the same time finding our own voices of aspiration? We ask, “How can we hold these two intentions?”

THE TROPE

Please note: These trope links connect to the beginning of the whole Torah portion / Haftarah. Find a specific reading with the drop-down box at the top, right of the page, and/or by using chapter and verse.

Torah: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22 – Click here.

Haftarah: Isaiah 1:1 – 1:27 — Click here.

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Another good Torah “helper” is Pocket Torah, available in the Apple App store. Pocket Torah Trope teaches “Trope Phrases,” and Pocket Torah teaches portions.