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Divided camps – this week’s parashah: Vayishlach

“Jacob was greatly frightened; in his anxiety, he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps” Genesis 32:8

By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur

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Jacob's encounter with Esau, Simon de Vos, 1641 (Wikimedia Commons)

Detail from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's portrait of Rachel and Leah (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Chayei Sarah

By Rabbi Hannah Kingston

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Parashah of the week: Vayera

By Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum

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Parashah of the week: Lech Lecha

By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur

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Parashat of the week: Bereshit

“The Lord looked favourably on Abel and his offering but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favour” Genesis 4:5

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Parashah of the week: Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Succot

“And you shall not appear before Me empty-handed” Exodus 34:20

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Parashah of the week: Ha’azinu

“Moses came, together with Hosea son of Nun, and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people” Deuteronomy 32:44

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Parashah of the week: Vayelech

“Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel. He said to them: I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go on” Deuteronomy 31:1-2

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Parashah of the week: Nitzavim

“I will greatly rejoice (sos asis) in God… like a bridegroom adorned like a priest, like a bride bedecked in her finery” (Isaiah 61:10)

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

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Parashah of the week: Ki Tavo

“Cursed be the one who misdirects a blind person who is underway. And all the people shall say, Amen” Deuteronomy 27:18

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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Queen Street Mall in Brisbane, Australia on International White Cane Day (photo: John Robert McPherson/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Ki Tetzei

“Do not see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road and ignore it; you must surely help him lift it up” Deuteronomy 22:4

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

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A woman from a rural commune in Morroco leads a donkey up a mountain path (photo: Getty Images)

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“When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this ‘Torah’ written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it remain with him and let him read it all his life, so that he may learn to revere his Eternal God, to observe faithfully every word of this ‘Torah’ as well as these laws. Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the ‘Torah’ to the right or to the left” Deuteronomy 17:18-20

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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Parashah of the week: Re’eh

“See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God Hashem that I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God, Hashem” Deuteronomy 11:26-28

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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Parashah of the week: Ekev

“You shall cut away the thickening of your hearts and stiffen your necks no more” Deuteronomy 10:16

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Parashah of the week: Va’etchanan

“But if you search there, you will find the Lord your God – if you seek with all your heart and soul” Deuteronomy 4:29

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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Parashah of the week: Devarim

“How can I bear your troubles, your burdens, and your quarrels all by myself?” Deuteronomy 1:12

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

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Parashah of the week: Mattot-Massei

“Moses said to them: If you do this, if all your shock-troops go to battle… until the land has been subdued… then when you return here you shall be clear before the Eternal and before Israel; and this land here shall be your holding under the Eternal. But if you do not do so, then you will have sinned against God and know that your sin will overtake you” Numbers 32:20-23

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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The tribes of Reuben and Gad ask to settle on the east of the Jordan (from the Bible and Its Story, 1908/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Pinchas

“The daughters of Zelophehad, of the Manassite family… drew close”. Numbers 27:1

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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Parashah of the week: Balak

“Now Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, so he did not, as on previous occasions, go in search of omens, but turned his face toward the wilderness” Numbers 24.1

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

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Parashah of the week: Chukkat

“We will not pass through fields or vineyards, and we will not drink water from wells. We will follow the king’s highway, turning off neither to the right nor to the left until we have crossed your territory” Numbers 20:17

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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