Fwd: Choosing Life, Approaching Elul, and the Special Quality of the Jewish People

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Subject: Choosing Life, Approaching Elul, and the Special Quality of the Jewish People
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NEW! YUTorah Parsha Roundup for Re'eh

To view this email as a web page, click here. Become a Member of the YUTorah Society Sponsor a Day of Learning on YUTorah The newsletter this week has been sponsored by Yaakov and Margaret Gorlin l'ilui nishmos Harav Moshe Zev ben Harav Shmuel Mordechai HaLevy and Malka bas Alter Tzvi  (Dr. Morris and Mrs. Marilyn Gorlin) Z"L Download the YUTorah in Print for Parshat Re'eh 5785 10 pages of insights and inspiration from the parsha for your Shabbat enjoyment! Download Now See all previous editions of YUTorah in Print for Parshat Re'eh See all articles on YUTorah for Parshat Re'eh See all shiurim on YUTorah for Parshat Re'eh TOPICS IN PARSHAT RE'EH Choosing Between Life and Death Why is this even a question? Learn more Re'eh and Elul Why is this parsha read before Rosh Chodesh Elul, and what does it teach us about starting the month of Teshuva? Learn more Tzedaka and Matanot Aniyim Is there something special about tzedaka that gives it such a special place in our parsha? Learn more Aliyah L'Regel Is it possible for us today to come close to Hashem without a Beit Hamikdash? Learn more The Chosenness of the Jewish People Why did Hashem choose us? What makes us special? Learn now More Topics in Re'eh Avoda Zara • Bal Tigra and Bal Tosif • Ir Nidachat • Kashrut • Kedushat Eretz Yisrael • Lo Taasun Kein L'Hashem Elokeichem • Lo Tisgodedu • Meat and Milk • Simcha and Happiness • The False Prophet • The Moadim • The Haftorah of Re'eh QUICK INSPIRATION FROM THE PARSHA (10 MINUTES OR LESS) Rabbi Joel Finkelstein: Two Paths to G-d Rabbi Yonatan Shai Freedman: Ach Sameach Rabbi Daniel Grama: Keeping a Kosher Life Rabbi Jonathan Kaplan: We are the Children of Hashem Rabbi Yoni Levin: Simanei Kashrus as a Living Avodah-Map Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss: The Torah Temimah's Counterintuitive Take on the Mitzvah to Live in Israel (and Rav Chaim Brisker's Zionism) Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: A Mitzvah to Eat Meat? QUICK READS FROM THE PARSHA  Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein: Will-Power Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald: Prohibition Against Excessive Grief Mrs. Michal Horowitz: The Haste of Redemption Rabbi Yehuda Mann: The Bird That Sees Too Far... Rabbi Moshe Taragin: A Country Unashamed by Our Story Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner: Tzedakah: Corporate and Private update Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: Are There Unique Tzedaka Obligations to Employees? Daf Yomi |  Mishna Yomi |  Support YUTorah The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah Website is a project of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) 515 West 185th St. New York, NY 10033 To continue receiving RIETS emails, please subscribe to the RIETS option in the Manage My Subscription form