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HARAV * KOOK *
 * Torah institute *


Parashat

 * RE'EH *

7th century B.C.E. alabaster Phoenician

 figure probably of the Canaanite 

goddess Astarte, now at the



ARTICLES















* TORAH * 

Parshat 

* RE'EH *



Mount Gerizim


Moses instructs the Israelites regarding idolatry, false prophets, clean and unclean foods, tithes, freeing slaves, and the pilgrimage festivals.
In his last speech to the Israelites, Moses warns them, "If you follow God's laws, you will be blessed more than all the peoples of the earth.
However, if you worship false idols and ignore the other commandments, then you shall be cursed and perish.
"These are the statutes which you are to carry out. You shall utterly destroy the places where the nations, whose property you are taking over, served other gods. You shall destroy their altars, break up their memorial stones, burn down their sacred trees, cut down the images of their gods, and you shall obliterate their gods from that place.

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TODAY IN JEWISH HISTORY

1903 August 23 - 28, 
SIXTH ZIONIST CONGRESS 
(Basle, Switzerland)

Theodore Herzl

Herzl proposed using territory offered 
by Britain, specifically Uganda, as a 
temporary shelter for Jews fleeing Eastern
 Europe and Russia. The Russian delegates, 
after a riotous debate, walked out and 
refused to return for the next congress
unless the plan was dropped.



* HAFTARAH * for * RE'EH *


God promises to rebuild
 and restore Zion.

The haftarah selection is from 
Isaiah 54:11-55:5.

In the seven weeks after
 Tisha B'Av we read a series
 of haftarot from the book of 
Isaiah that focus on themes 
of consolation.

a reconstruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, 
the site that God would choose as God’s habitation,
 within the meaning of Deuteronomy 12

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SHAVUA TOVE
 שבוע טוב ומבורך


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