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Ki Tavo כי תבוא

Deuteronomy 26:1–29:8

Parshat Ki Tavo ('When you come') opens with two ceremonial declarations that mark the Israelites' arrival in the Promised Land: the bringing of first fruits (bikkurim) to the Temple with a recitation tracing God's hand from Abraham's wanderings through Egyptian slavery to liberation and the gift of the land, and the triennial tithe declaration affirming that all obligations have been fulfilled. Moses then commands the dramatic covenant ceremony to be performed upon crossing the Jordan: the entire Torah inscribed on great plastered stones on Mount Ebal, an altar built there, and the blessings and curses proclaimed antiphonally between the tribes standing on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. The parsha then unfolds the Tochachah — the fearsome catalogue of blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience that constitutes one of the Torah's most powerful and devastating passages. The blessings promise abundance in every domain; the curses, read in an undertone in the synagogue, foretell siege, famine, exile, madness, and dispersion among the nations with terrifying specificity. The parsha concludes with Moses summarizing the covenant: 'You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in Egypt... the great trials, signs, and wonders.'


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Isaiah 60:1–60:22

ישעיהו

"Arise, shine, for your light has come!" — the sixth of the Seven Haftarot of Consolation. Isaiah's glorious vision of Jerusalem's restoration contrasts with the parsha's warnings of exile.




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