This week’s parsha is Ki Tavo: Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8
| Ki Tavo (26:1-29:8) – (When You Enter): Haftorah: Isaiah 60:1-22 (Ashkenazi); Isaiah 60:1-22 (Sephardi) |
| 26:1-4: First fruits | 27:11-26: Blessings and curses |
| 26:5-11: Declaration | 28:1-14: The blessing for fulfilling the commandments |
| 26:12-15: Confession of the tithes | 28:15-69: The admonition for disobedience |
| 26:16-19: God and Israel are inseparable | 29:1-8: Moses’ final charge to the people |
| 27:1-10: The new commitment |
D’var Torah: Everything Old Can Be New Again
Torah Pearls: Parsha Ki Tavo
This week’s Haftarah is: Isaiah 60:1-22 (Ashkenazi); Isaiah 60:1-22 (Sephardi)
Chapter 60: God calls upon the Children of Israel to be a light for the Nations. If they would only follow Torah, the Nations would come to them with riches and for guidance. The Nations will hear of God and will come to worship Him. They will stand behind the Children of Israel and will support them. Those Nations who will not support the Children of Israel however will be destroyed. In the end of times there will be universal recognition of God and the guidance of the Children of Israel will be sought. Sinfulness will disappear and eternal peace will be established.