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Tag Archives: torah portion
This Week’s Torah Portion – Ki Savo 5768
Steve Brizel writes: The Mitzvah of Bikurim R. Yitzchak Etshalom explores Havaas Bikurim and Mikra Bikurim: link R. Yonasan Sacks discusses the similarities between Mikra Bikurim and Birkas HaTorah: link R. Baruch Simon, quoting a Medrash Tanchumah, suggests that Tefilah … Continue reading
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What Can An Orthodox Jew Get Away With?
Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion "Shoftim." What can you get away with as an Orthodox Jew? How much freedom do you have? Can you eat at McDonalds? No way. Complete video of my discussion with Joey … Continue reading
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Judaism Is An Unromantic Religion VII
Complete video of my discussion with Joey Kurtzman on this week’s Torah portion Shoftim. Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion "Shoftim." Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Joey does not find the Torah spiritual. Funding Levites and rabbis. Married to Jesus?
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Living In Fear Of God
Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion “Shoftim.” Torah is not afraid to command fear. It says fear God. Not awe, but fear. You’re going to fear something, says Dennis Prager, you might as well fear God.
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Joey Kurtzman and I Discuss Torah Portion Shoftim II
Complete video of my discussion with Joey Kurtzman on this week’s Torah portion Shoftim. Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Moses directed the Israelites to appoint magistrates and officials for their tribes to govern the people with justice, impartially, without bribes.
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Judaism is an unromantic religion
Complete video of my discussion with Joey Kurtzman on this week’s Torah portion Shoftim. Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion "Shoftim." Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Moses directed the Israelites to appoint magistrates and officials for their tribes to govern … Continue reading
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Vegetarianism As A Jewish Ideal
Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion Re’eh.
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The Torah Is Israel-Centric
It’s a blueprint for an ethnocentric state. Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss the week’s Torah portion.
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Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman Discuss Torah Portion ‘Re’eh’
Recorded live at the hovel this afternoon: