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Vzot Habracha: The Ends of the Chumash

Rabbi Jay Kelman

If one wants to get a quick overview of a book one tends to read the introduction or perhaps the opening pages. That is where a typical author sets out the major themes of their work. One would not look to the end of the book, or each chapter –…

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Oct 6, 2023

V'zot HaBracha: From G-d to Man

Rabbi Jay Kelman

When writing a book, a good author will introduce the major themes of the book in the opening chapters, develop these and other secondary themes throughout the story, and conclude with a recap highlighting the major themes of the book. The…

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Oct 20, 2019

V'zot HaBracha: A Man of G-d

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Even though Parshat Vezot Ha'beracha is read over and over again during Simchat Torah it is probably one of the least understood and studied parshiot of the Chumash. With all the hustle and bustle of the Yamim Tovim in general, and with the…

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Sep 30, 2018

V'zot HaBracha: It Too is a Blessing

Rabbi Jay Kelman

In one of the great mistakes in history, Alfred Nobel was lucky enough to read his own obituary—a result of an error of an editor who printed Alfred’s obituary instead of that of his recently deceased brother. Reading himself described…

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Oct 4, 2015

V'zot HaBracha: Four Giants

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And Moshe was one hundred and twenty years when he died” (Devarim 34:7). It is a beautiful, if somewhat unrealistic, custom to offer blessings to those celebrating a birthday that they should live to be 120. While this quantity of life…

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Sep 25, 2013