Parasha Eikev 5784
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This week we read Parasha Eikev, Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25, which is more or less one giant cry of the heart of God for Israel to remain faithful to Him and His covenant. The parasha opens up with the reminder that that B’nei Yisrael should Shama (Listen, take to heart, and respond) and Shamar (to guard, protect, keep) the Covenant and Loving Kindness of Adonai, along with the blessings that will go along with faithfulness.
Chapter 8 is a reminder of all the seemingly mundane miracles Israel experienced throughout their wilderness journey that could have been overlooked or taken for granted, such as the daily provision of Man Hu (Manna) that was gathered six days a week, Israel’s clothing never wearing out, their sandals never falling apart, and the lack of physically being worn out while walking in the wilderness for forty years. We also see verse 10, from which we get the Jewish custom to bless our food after we eat and are satisfied (Birkat HaMazon). This is then closed out with a short version of the curses due with lack of faithfulness to Torah.
Chapter 9 opens with a reminder that Adonai will fight for Israel and will provide them with victory, but also that when they are settled in their land they should not to become arrogant at the provision of the Promised Land thinking it is because of our righteousness but rather because of the Canaanites wickedness that they have been driven out. This is followed by a reminder of the Egel HaZahav (Golden Calf) and Moses destroying the tablets—likely a reminder of how easy it is for Israel to become stiff-necked and turn their hearts from HaShem.
Chapter 10 continues with the recarving of the Tablets and Moses’ second 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain. Moses calls Israel to fear, love, and serve Adonai with all their heart and all their soul and to circumcise their hearts and be stiff-necked no longer.
Parasha Eikev closes out with the first half of Deuteronomy 11, which is once again a plea from the heart of Moses for Israel to remain faithful to Adonai and to Shama the Torah. Traditionally in the Siddur the Shema is comprised of Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Deuteronomy 11:13-21 (which is in this week’s Parasha), as well as Numbers 15:37-41.
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Principle: We cannot accuse G-d of abandoning us while experiencing the consequences of walking outside His will.
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Parasha Eikev 5784
But Zion said: “Adonai has forsaken me, Adonai has forgotten me.”
“Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for a child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me.
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Thus says Adonai: “Where is the divorce certificate, by which I sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? See, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea at My rebuke, I make rivers a wilderness— their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”
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“Listen to Me, you who pursue justice, you who seek Adonai. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.
Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you. For when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and multiplied him.”
For Adonai will comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of Adonai. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and a sound of melody.
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Principle: We cannot accuse G-d of abandoning us while experiencing the consequences of walking outside His will.
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Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it. You discern my thinking from afar.
You observe my journeying and my resting and You are familiar with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, Adonai, You know all about it.
You hemmed me in behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from Your Ruach? Where can I flee from Your presence?
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Search me, O God, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,
and see if there be any offensive way within me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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Principle: We cannot accuse G-d of abandoning us while experiencing the consequences of walking outside His will.
Parasha Eikev 5784
“Take care that you do not forget Adonai your God by not keeping His mitzvot, ordinances and statutes that I am commanding you today.
Otherwise, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them,
and when your herds and flocks multiply, and silver and gold multiplies for you and all that is yours multiplies,
then your heart will be haughty and you will forget Adonai your God. He brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness—fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water. He brought forth water for you from the flinty rock.
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and test you, to do you good in the end.
You may say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand has made me this wealth.’
Rather you are to remember Adonai your God, for it is He who gives you power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant that He swore to your fathers—as it is this day.
“Now if you do forget Adonai your God, and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you will certainly perish.
Like the nations Adonai makes perish before you, so you will perish, since you would not listen to the voice of Adonai your God.
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Watch yourselves, so your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them.
Then the anger of Adonai will be kindled against you, so He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain and the soil will not yield its produce. Then you will perish quickly from the good land Adonai is giving you.
“Therefore you are to set these words of Mine in your heart and in your soul. You are to bind them as a sign on your hand, and as frontlets between your eyes.
You are to teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.
You are to write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
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Principle: We cannot accuse G-d of abandoning us while experiencing the consequences of walking outside His will.
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Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that He may lift you up at the appropriate time.
Cast all your worries on Him, for He cares for you.
Stay alert! Watch out! Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, searching for someone to devour.
Stand up against him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being laid upon your brothers and sisters throughout the world.
After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace—who has called you into His eternal glory in Messiah—will Himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.
All power to Him forever! Amen.
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Let brotherly love continue.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers—for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Remember the prisoners as if you were fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you also were suffering bodily.
Let marriage be held in honor among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Keep your lifestyle free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. For God Himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,”
so that with confidence we say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What will man do to me?”
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Verse 5 (I will never leave you or forsake you) is quoted directly from what Moses encourages Israel and Joshua with in Deuteronomy 31:6-8
Chazak! Be courageous! Do not be afraid or tremble before them. For Adonai your God—He is the One who goes with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.”
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong! Be courageous! For you are to go with this people into the land Adonai has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you are to enable them to inherit it.
Adonai—He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you. Do not fear or be discouraged.”
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Principle: We cannot accuse G-d of abandoning us while experiencing the consequences of walking outside His will.
Parasha Eikev 5784
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