Parsha Points To Ponder

QUESTIONS

1)Why does the Torah use the repetitive language of NOT WITH YOU ALONE DO I MAKE THIS PACT (29:13) and FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT HERE TODAY (29:14)? The second statement alone should have sufficed!

2)Why does the Torah say that we are responsible to listen to all that G-D teaches TODAY? (30:2)
3)Why does the Torah say FROM YOU (MIMCHA) when relating that the mitzvot are NOT HIDDEN FROM YOU (LO NIFLEIT HI)but it does not say FOR YOU when teaching that mitzvot are NOT FAR (LO RECHOKA) from us? (30:11) (more…)

QUESTIONS

1)Why does the Torah use the word V’HAYA (AND IT WILL BE) when introducing our entrance into the Land of Israel? (26:1) Why didn’t it simply say WHEN YOU ENTER THE LAND without the V’HAYA?

2)Why does the Torah suddenly include the Kohanim and Leviim together with Moshe when describing his speaking to the Jewish people about listening to the commands of the Torah? (27:9)

3)Why were the curses at the end of the Book of Vayikra taught in plural while the curses in this week’s parsha (begins with 28:15) are taught in singular? (more…)

QUESTIONS

1)Why does the Torah say the seeming extra word FOR YOU when it describes the soldier taking the yefat toar as a wife? (21:11) Of course if he marries her it will be FOR HIM!

2)Why, when choosing an example of a non animal in the command to return loss objects does the Torah choose a shirt (simlah)? (22:3)

3)Why does the Torah call the person who deserves lashes BIN HAKOT instead of BEN which is usually used to describe a person? (25:2) (more…)