This is a big one. This is a good one.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) end of chapter 3 - where Moses begged Gd to be able to go to the Land, but instead gets to see it, and appoint Joshua as his successor.
Chapter 4 - where every line has so much to say. Follow the statutes, don’t change them, teach your children, don’t make idols or images, prophecy of what will happen if we get scattered, prophecy of “the end of days”, challenge to find another nation who has had a mass revelation (there is none!), reasons to keep the commandments - including because the world will respect us as a “wise and intelligent people!” and so that we will live while we’re alive, and to prolong our days in this land.
Chapter 5 - repetition of the Ten Statements (aka the Ten Commandments) and the story of receiving them.
Chapter 6 - the words of the Shma (“Hear, Israel: HaShem is our G-d, HaShem is one”) and the first proceeding paragraph. Verse 11 contains the phrase, “you shall eat and be satisfied,” which many repeat after eating.
Beginning of chapter 7 - Do not make a covenant with the nations that we are to drive out of this land, or worship their gods/ideologies. G-d chose this nation out of all nations, like a husband chooses a wife from all women, and is loyal to our oath forever. References to being redeemed from Egypt and slavery, which are in almost every paragraph of this parsha.
Apologies: in minute 23, I said that “micoor” means source — but actually that’s with Hebrew spelling מָקוֹר, whereas here in the Torah it is spelled מכור. According to an online translation and the dictionary, that is connected to the words “addicted” and “sold.” We can stick with the Torah translation, which says “crucible.”
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