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I don't have a particularly favorite parsha, but there are a few sections I like especially: """World-building""" (for lack of a better term at the moment, hence the triple quotation marks...) sect...
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Harel13
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2020-08-03T08:14:37Z (over 4 years ago)
- I don't have a particularly favorite parsha, but there are a few sections I like especially:
- """World-building""" (for lack of a better term at the moment, hence the triple quotation marks...) sections - sections such as the genealogies in Beresheet and the mifkadim in Bamidbar. I find that sections like these really anchor the Torah to reality, as though the Torah is saying: guys, this is real stuff that happened to real people and still has meaning today - "Lo bashamayim he" - it is not in the heavens. I also love those sections because they feel like a hidden trove of knowledge about things in the past - with just a bit more digging, you can discover amazing secrets of times long-passed.
The blessings to the tribes in Vayechi and V'zot Habracha - a little similar to the previous example, the blessings are interesting because they reveal key info about the qualities of the tribes we may not have known otherwise, for example, the quickness of Naftali (compared to running deer).- Finally, Devarim, mainly because it's my bar-mitzvah parsha, but also because it's filled with the kind of details I like - info about surrounding nations and names of places, but it's also one of the parshas that features the interesting story of [Menashe wanting to get the Gilad specifically](https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/61579/why-did-moses-add-part-of-the-tribe-of-menashe-to-join-reuvean-and-gad-on-the-e/110990#110990). It also features Moshe's regret at not being able to enter Israel and also talk of passing on the torch to Yehoshua - you can sense that things are about to change greatly for Am Yisrael.
- I don't have a particularly favorite parsha, but there are a few sections I like especially:
- """World-building""" (for lack of a better term at the moment, hence the triple quotation marks...) sections - sections such as the genealogies in Beresheet and the mifkadim in Bamidbar. I find that sections like these really anchor the Torah to reality, as though the Torah is saying: guys, this is real stuff that happened to real people and still has meaning today - "Lo bashamayim he" - it is not in the heavens. I also love those sections because they feel like a hidden trove of knowledge about things in the past - with just a bit more digging, you can discover amazing secrets of times long-passed.
- The blessings to the tribes in Vayechi and V'zot Habracha - a little similar to the previous example, the blessings are interesting because they reveal key info about the qualities of the tribes we may not have known otherwise, for example, the quickness of Naftali (compared to a running deer).
- Finally, Devarim, mainly because it's my bar-mitzvah parsha, but also because it's filled with the kind of details I like - info about surrounding nations and names of places, but it's also one of the parshas that features the interesting story of [Menashe wanting to get the Gilad specifically](https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/61579/why-did-moses-add-part-of-the-tribe-of-menashe-to-join-reuvean-and-gad-on-the-e/110990#110990). It also features Moshe's regret at not being able to enter Israel and also talk of passing on the torch to Yehoshua - you can sense that things are about to change greatly for Am Yisrael.
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Harel13
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2020-08-02T20:51:42Z (over 4 years ago)
I don't have a particularly favorite parsha, but there are a few sections I like especially: """World-building""" (for lack of a better term at the moment, hence the triple quotation marks...) sections - sections such as the genealogies in Beresheet and the mifkadim in Bamidbar. I find that sections like these really anchor the Torah to reality, as though the Torah is saying: guys, this is real stuff that happened to real people and still has meaning today - "Lo bashamayim he" - it is not in the heavens. I also love those sections because they feel like a hidden trove of knowledge about things in the past - with just a bit more digging, you can discover amazing secrets of times long-passed. The blessings to the tribes in Vayechi and V'zot Habracha - a little similar to the previous example, the blessings are interesting because they reveal key info about the qualities of the tribes we may not have known otherwise, for example, the quickness of Naftali (compared to running deer). Finally, Devarim, mainly because it's my bar-mitzvah parsha, but also because it's filled with the kind of details I like - info about surrounding nations and names of places, but it's also one of the parshas that features the interesting story of [Menashe wanting to get the Gilad specifically](https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/61579/why-did-moses-add-part-of-the-tribe-of-menashe-to-join-reuvean-and-gad-on-the-e/110990#110990). It also features Moshe's regret at not being able to enter Israel and also talk of passing on the torch to Yehoshua - you can sense that things are about to change greatly for Am Yisrael.