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Devarim דברים

Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22

Parshat Devarim opens the fifth and final book of the Torah with Moses addressing the entire nation on the first day of the eleventh month in the fortieth year — five weeks before his death. In a long, deeply personal retrospective, Moses recounts the major events of the wilderness years: his appointment of judges and officers to share the burden of leadership, the catastrophic sin of the spies that condemned the generation to forty years of wandering, the detours around Edom, Moab, and Ammon (nations whose land God forbade them to touch), and the victorious conquests of Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan that gave the Transjordanian tribes their inheritance. The parsha ends with Moses charging Joshua not to fear the nations of Canaan, 'for it is the Lord your God who fights for you.'


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Isaiah 1:1–1:27

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Isaiah's opening vision of rebuke — 'How has the faithful city become a harlot' — is read on Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat before Tisha B'Av. The third and most severe of the 'Three of Rebuke.'




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