Parasha Va’etchanan and the Sabbath of Comfort

August 4, 2025 Because this Shabbat follows the fast day on the 9th of Av (Tisha B’Av) when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, this week’s Torah Portion has a special name: …

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Parasha Va’etchanan and the Sabbath of Comfort

August 12, 2024 Because this Shabbat follows the fast day on the 9th of Av (Tisha B’Av) when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, this week’s Torah Portion has a special name: …

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Parasha Va’etchanan and the Sabbath of Comfort

July 25, 2023 Because this Shabbat follows the fast day on the 9th of Av (Tisha B’Av) when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, this week’s Torah Portion has a special name: …

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Parasha Va’etchanan and the Sabbath of Comfort

August 8, 2022 Because this Shabbat follows the fast day on the 9th of Av (Tisha B’Av) when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, this week’s Torah Portion has a special name: …

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Parasha Va’etchanan and the Sabbath of Comfort

July 19, 2021 Because this Shabbat follows the fast day on the 9th of Av (Tisha B’Av) when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, this week’s Torah Portion has a special name: …

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Parasha Va’etchanan and the Sabbath of Comfort

August 14, 2019 Today is the 15th of Av and the Shabbat of Comfort begins tonight.

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Parasha Va’etchanan and the Sabbath of Comfort

July 28, 2018 Today is the 15th of Av and a special blood moon Shabbat of Comfort begins tonight.

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Parasha Va’etchanan: The Sabbath of Comfort

August 3, 2017 The Shema (Listen! or Hear and Do!) and the Ten Commandments are part of this week's Torah Portion Va'etchanan.

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Parasha Va’etchanan: The Lord’s Protection, Comfort and Jealousy

August 19, 2016 Several of the best known and fundamental passages of Scripture in the entire Tanakh (Old Testament) are in this week's Parasha, including the Ten Commandments and the Shema (Listen! or Hear and Do!) — a call in Deuteronomy 6:4–9 to love the one true God with all our being.

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Va’etchanan: Preparing the Next Generation

July 31, 2015 Included in this week’s Parasha are several of the best known and fundamental passages of Scripture in the entire Tanakh (Old Testament), including the Ten Commandments and the Shema (Listen! or Hear and Do!)—a call in Deuteronomy 6:4–9 to love the one true God with all our being. This passage also exhorts us to pass on our faith to the next generation by faithfully teaching the Torah to our children.

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