Rav Joe's 929 Tanakh Podcast

Considering the verse 'remember the day of old...' zakhor and the difference between history and memory Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.32

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.31

Perhaps some of the most glorious rhetoric in all of Tanakh if not human history Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.30

The start of Moshe's final speech - soaring rhetoric about the nature and meaning of covenant. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.29

The blessing and the curse! Text for these chapters can be found here: ⁠https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27 https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.28

Calev Ben Dor will tell us in his audio contribution about Pesach (and mention Purim as well!) Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25

In our audio today, Harris Lorie considers the relationship between individual and collective responsibility. Text for this chatper can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.24

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.23

Ilana shares thoughts on the shooing away of the mother 🐦 Very exciting guest audio from Ilana Stein, one of South Africa's finest Jewish educators (@ The Academy of Jewish Thought & Learning) & a writer on issues of conservation. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.22

Continuing with the laws of warfare via a quick detour into the strange world of the eglah arufa on why a book on bereavement written in 1940s Jerusalem will forever give you something to remember about this chapter and the value of life. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.21

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.20

I have recorded a new piece stitching together the themes of ch18+19 - the Leviim and the cities of refuge https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.18 , https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.19

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.17

In our audio today we discuss the stress our chapter places on ensuring that the festivals are an opportunity to help those on the social periphery who have financial or emotional need of assistance. In Rashi's beautiful language:לוי גר יתום ואלמנה. אַרְבָּעָה שֶׁלִּי כְּנֶגֶד אַרְבָּעָה שֶׁלְּךָ – בנך ובתך ועבדך ואמתך, אִם אַתָּה מְשַׂמֵּחַ אֶת שֶׁלִּי אֲנִי מְשַׂמֵּחַ אֶת שֶׁלְּךָ:Levite, st...

Adina is a former student of ours, who, whilst at NYU founded a charity called Knock Knock Give A Sock which, since its inception has collected millions of socks for those experiencing homelessness. She has also run dozens of stigma-busting Get To Know Your Neighbours Dinners bringing together different groups with people experiencing homelessness. Check out her work http://knockknockgiveasock.org...

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.14

Audio on one of the pieces I've been most looking forward to sharing, an idea of Rav Yoel Bin Nun on Leon Trotsky, Bnei Brak and why Devarim's false prophet is incomprehensible to someone who has learned Shemot! Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.13

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.11 , https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.12

Audio from Aron White, considering the 'what is that God asks of you...'. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.10

Here's a verse to chew on: 'Know, then, that it is not for any virtue of yours that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess; for you are a stiffnecked people.' Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.9

Audio from yours truly, in which a poem of John Keats inspires a new understanding of making a blessing before food. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.8

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.7

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.6

Audio based on a piece of RaDaTz Hoffman, giving a blinding reading that the 10 commandments form the structure of the rest of Sefer Devarim. Thank you to everyone who wrote to me after yesterday's recording. The shorthand version is: How does the man of 'lo ish devarim anochi' (Shemot 3) become the man of 'eleh hadevarim' (Devarim 1)? And the answer is 'vedaber moshe el ha...