Commentary on Parasha: Va'etchanan

 

Tefillin

Tags:  covenant, shin, sign, tefillin, wedding

According to tradition, God's tefillin are marked with the name of Israel just as Israel's tefillin are marked with the name of God. Rabbi Nachman ben Yitzchak said to Rabbi Chiyya ben Abin, "What is written in the tefillin of the Lord of the Universe? -- He replied to him: "And who is like your people Israel, one nation in the earth." (b.Berachot 6a quoting Deuteronomy 33:29)...
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The Greatest Commandment

There are two primary reasons which would motivate us to serve God: fear and love. Love is higher than fear. The ancient Rabbis (of the Sifrei) discerned two primary ways of demonstrating our love for God. The first is to study Torah, the revelation of God, the second is to bring others to love Him....
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Honor Your Father and Mother

Tags:  authority, children, disagreements, disputes, honor, parenting, parents, respect

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you. (Deuteronomy 5:16)...
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He who Seeks Finds

Tags:  encouragement, Land of Israel, repentance, search, seek, spiritual hunger, spiritual thirst, yearning

So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. (Luke 11:9-10)...
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Answer to Prayer

Tags:  provision

Just as Moses longed to enter the land, so too Yeshua awaits His return to Israel. He awaits the day of redemption when He can return at last to His land, His people and His disciples and thereby bring His great redemptive work to its conclusion....
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Upon Your Heart

Tags:  salvation

In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:13-14)...
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The Commandment of Loving God

Tags:  salvation

Deuteronomy 6:6 speaks in the future tense when it says, “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.” (Deuteronomy 6:6) Jeremiah 31:33 promises that in the new covenant, God will write his Torah upon our hearts. He says, “I will put My Torah within them and on their heart I will write it.” (Jeremiah 31:33)...
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