Rabbi Baruch Rosenblum - The Secret of Breaking the Tablets and the Connection to the World of Ma...

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The Torah portion we will read, God willing, this Sabbath, Parashat Eikev of the year 5785, is the third portion in the Book of Deuteronomy. It is the second Sabbath of the Seven Weeks of Consolation, with the second Haftarah of this period. Last week, we read: " Comfort, comfort My people, says your God." And this week: "But Zion said, ' The Lord has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.'" This is the Haftarah we will read, God willing, this Sabbath. We would like to focus on one point in the portion, but to provide several introductions for this point, God willing. Two weeks ago, in Parashat Devarim, the Book of Deuteronomy—the Book of Repetition of the Torah—opened with Moses 'words of rebuke, hinting at the places where the people of Israel sinned. "These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan, in the desert, in the Arabah, opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab...eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea." Rashi writes in Parashat Devarim that because these were words of rebuke—everything was words of rebuke—Moses alluded to all the places. He did not explicitly state the places or what they did, but only mentioned the locations. We then mentioned the words of the Sages in the Midrash. The Midrash tells a parable of someone who had a dog in his courtyard, and a thief entered and the dog attacked him. Some time later, the owner of the courtyard saw the thief bandaged. He remembered that this was

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