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The beginning of Parashat Haazinu, Deuteronomy 32:1–4, as it appears in a Torah scroll. Haazinu, Ha'azinu, or Ha'Azinu (הַאֲזִינוּ —Hebrew for "listen" when directed to more than one person, the first word in the parashah) is the 53rd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the 10th in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The Mishnah Berurah noted that the first Hebrew letters of the words of Deuteronomy 30:6, אֶת-לְבָבְךָ, וְאֶת-לְבַב , et-levavecha, v'et-levav, "[the Lord your God will circumcise] your heart, and the heart [of your seed, to love the Lord your God with all your heart]," spell out אֱלוּל , Elul, the name of the ...
Jeshurun (Hebrew: יְשֻׁרוּן Yəšurūn; also Jesurun [1] or Yeshurun) is a poetic name for Israel used in the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible.It is generally thought to be derived from a root word meaning upright, just or straight, but may have been derived from שׁור, shur, to see, or may be a diminutive form of the word Israel (יִשְׂרָאֵל Yiśrāʾēl).
Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy suggests that different views of the structure of the book will lead to different views on what it is about. [5] The structure is often described as a series of three speeches or sermons (chapters 1:1–4:43, 4:44–29:1, 29:2–30:20) followed by a number of short appendices [6] or some kind of epilogue (31:1–34:12), consist of commission ...
An artist's impression of Solomon's Temple from the Nordisk familjebok.Some see the centralization of Jewish worship in Jerusalem as the intention of Deuteronomy 12. Re'eh, Reeh, R'eih, or Ree (רְאֵה —Hebrew for "see", the first word in the parashah) is the 47th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the ...
In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות , aliyot.In the masoretic text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashat Devarim has no "open portion" (פתוחה , petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ()), and thus can be considered one whole unit.
The adjectives "Deuteronomic" and "Deuteronomistic" are sometimes used interchangeably; if they are distinguished, then the first refers to the core of Deuteronomy and the second to all of Deuteronomy and the history. [3] [4] [5] The Deuteronomist is one of the sources identified through source criticism as underlying much of the Hebrew Bible.
This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( ת ) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.