YU TORAH OU TORAH and CHABAD.ORG Devarim(5774)The Leader as Teacher By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

t was one of the great moments of personal transformation, and it changed not only Moses but our very conception of leadership itself. By the end of the book of Bamidbar, Moses career as a leader seemed to have come to its end. He had appointed his successor, Joshua, and it would be he, not Moses, who would lead the people across the Jordan into the promised land. Moses seemed to have achieved everything he was destined to achieve. For him there would be no more battles to fight, no more miracles to perform, no more prayers to make on behalf of the people.

OU TORAH YU TORAH and CHABAD.ORG DEVARIM(5773)Tzedek: Justice and Compassion By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Please learn this for Eretz Yisrael and our fallen soldiers As Moses begins his great closing addresses to the next generation, he turns to a subject that dominates the last of the Mosaic books, namely justice: I instructed your judges at that time as follows: “Listen to your fellow men, and decide justly [tzedek] between each man and his brother or a stranger. You shall not be partial in judgment. Listen to great and small alike. Fear no one, for judgment belongs to God. Any matter that is too difficult for you, bring to me and I will hear it.”

YU TORAH OU TORAH and CHABAD.ORG DEVARIM(5772)Profits and Prophets By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Please learn this as a zechus for Eretz Yisrael and our fallen soldiers There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great “vision,” chazon, that gives its name to the Shabbat before Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the Jewish year. It is more than great literature. It expresses one of the great prophetic truths, that a society cannot flourish without honesty and justice. It could not be more relevant to our time.

NAALEH.COM Parshas Devarim: The Spiritual Wars of Israel By: Rabbi Hershel Reichman

Please learn this as a zechus for Eretz Yisrael and our fallen soldiers. In this class on the Chassidic thought on Parshat Devarim, Rabbi Hershel Reichman elaborates on the interpretations of the Shem Mishmuel to Parshat Devarim. In this shiur, Rabbi Reichman discusses why the appointment of judges is part of the story of the Meraglim, and explains that Jewish wars involve a spiritual war as well as a physical war. Rabbi Reichman expands the topic with an analysis of the two types of yetzer hara, and reveals how the method of defeating all yitzrei hara is commitment to truth. This Torah class is available online in streaming video and for download in mp3 and ipod video formats.

NAALEH.COM RABBI HANOCH TELLER ON DEVARIM and SHIRA SMILES ON THE 3 WEEKS and MORE

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RABBI WEIN ON DVARIM

please learn this as a zechus for Eretz Yisrael and our fallen soldiers. People who attain blessed advanced age and many years tend to look back in time and concentrate less on the future. Old rabbis write autobiographies. Past events, which were previously sublimated and hardly ever recalled, suddenly become vivid memories worthy of meaningful contemplation. An example of this is to be found in the words of our father Jacob to his children in his final days when he recalls for them the tragic incident of the sudden death of his beloved wife Rachel. Many decades had passed since that event and the Torah does not record for us his ever mentioning that bitter event during that long period of time. But now at the end of his days this painful and tragic occurrence in his life comes to dominate his memory and his conversation.

RABBI WEIN ON FECKLESSNESS AND UNWISDOM

please learn this as a zechus for Eretz Yisrael and our fallen soldiers In Winston Churchill's epic six-volume memoir of the Second World War, in the first volume entitled “The Gathering Storm,” he wrote of the British foreign policy of the 1930s as follows: “[The later disaster was caused by] the English-speaking peoples, [who] through their unwisdom, carelessness and good nature, allowed the wicked to rearm." A good nature is a necessity for personal life and domestic harmony. It is however a disastrous national policy. This is especially true when a nation realizes that it is surrounded by bitter and fanatical enemies who publicly proclaim their intention to destroy it.