{"id":21300,"date":"2010-07-19T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21300"},"modified":"2010-07-21T08:19:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:19:18","slug":"live-torah-talk-with-rabbi-rabbs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21300","title":{"rendered":"Torah Talk With Rabbi Rabbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Torah portion is <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Va%27etchanan\">Veetchanan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>Va&#8217;etchanan<\/b> (\u05d5\u05d0\u05ea\u05d7\u05e0\u05df \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_language\" title=\"Hebrew  language\">Hebrew<\/a> for \u201cand I pleaded,\u201d the first word in the parshah)  is the 45th <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weekly_Torah_portion\" title=\"Weekly Torah portion\">weekly Torah portion<\/a> (<i>parshah<\/i>)  in the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judaism\" title=\"Judaism\">Jewish<\/a> cycle of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torah_reading\" title=\"Torah reading\">Torah  reading<\/a> and the second in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Deuteronomy\" title=\"Book of  Deuteronomy\">book of Deuteronomy<\/a>. It constitutes <a href=\"http:\/\/bibref.hebtools.com\/?book=%20Deuteronomy&amp;verse=3:23%E2%80%937:11.&amp;src=HE\" class=\"external text\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deuteronomy 3:23\u20137:11.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jew\" title=\"Jew\" class=\"mw-redirect\">Jews<\/a>  in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewish_diaspora\" title=\"Jewish diaspora\">Diaspora<\/a> generally read it in late July or  August. It is always read on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special_Sabbaths\" title=\"Special  Sabbaths\" class=\"mw-redirect\">special Sabbath<\/a> <i>Shabbat Nachamu<\/i>,  the Sabbath immediately after <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tisha_B%27Av\" title=\"Tisha B'Av\">Tisha  B&#8217;Av<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As the parshah describes how the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israelites\" title=\"Israelites\">Israelites<\/a>  would sin and be banished from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Land_of_Israel\" title=\"Land of  Israel\">Land of Israel<\/a>, Jews also read part of the parshah, <a href=\"http:\/\/bibref.hebtools.com\/?book=%20Deuteronomy&amp;verse=4:25%E2%80%9340,&amp;src=HE\" class=\"external text\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deuteronomy 4:25\u201340,<\/a> as the  Torah reading for the morning (<i>Shacharit<\/i>) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewish_services\" title=\"Jewish  services\">prayer service<\/a> on <i>Tisha B&#8217;Av<\/i>, which commemorates  the destruction of both the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solomon%27s_Temple\" title=\"Solomon's  Temple\">First Temple<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Temple_of_Jerusalem\" title=\"Second Temple of Jerusalem\">Second Temple<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerusalem\" title=\"Jerusalem\">Jerusalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first video is behind the scenes footage. 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