Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Eval

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1. The Covenant of Arvot Moav

   Parashat Ki Tavo

   Prof. Jonathan Grossman

   Why is the covenant of Arvot Moav necessary, in addition to the covenant at Sinai? What is the relationship between these two covenants, and the third covenant after Bnei Yisrael have entered the Promised Land?

2. The Covenant on Both Sides of the Jordan

   Rabbi Elchanan Samet

   This article examines the relationship between two covenants: the covenant of the blessing and the curse, and the covenant of Gerizim and Eval.

3. The King of Ai and the Altar at Mount Eval

   Rabbi Michael Hattin

   The text highlights the moral dimension of the conflict, emphasizing that Israel's wars of conquest must not be exercises in gratuitous bloodshed, unrestrained plunder and cruel vengeance. While it is necessary to put the inhabitants of Ai to death in the course of the battle, their king, the symbol of their temporal might and power, is dispatched without recourse to torture, while his body is shortly thereafter removed from the gallows and buried without mutilation, two telling departures from the conventions of ancient warfare. The placement of the passage describing the assembly at Mount Eval is to emphatically declare that Israel can only survive the passage over the Yarden and the entry into Canaan if they put God's Torah at the forefront of their concerns and their mission as His people as their national objective.

4. The Structure and Significance of the Opening Verses

   Dr. Mordechai Sabato

   Parshat Re’eh opens the Covenant of Arvot Mo’av, which is concluded with blessings and curses. Brit of Arvot Mo’av – a collection of statutes and judgements - is a completion of the Ten Commandments in Horev. The observance of mitzvot entails a blessing and a curse, and the blessing and the curse are part of the conditions of the land.

5. Ramban on Parshat Ki Tavo

   Rabbi Ezra Bick | 30 minutes

   Parashat Ki Tavo features a ceremony with the list of curses at Mount Gerizim and Eival.  Ramban seeks to explain the meaning of “yakim” in the final statement in the list which exhorts the people to “establish” the words of the Torah, to do them. Rashi sees “yakim” here to mean “fulfill”—Bnei Yisrael must accept the entire Torah to fulfil it. Ramban, however, views that as superfluous: Bnei Yisrael had already accepted the Torah at Sinai! Rather, the exhortation here is to acknowledge the mitzvoth in one’s heart and accept them as true in one’s own eyes, and to accept the concept of reward and punishment. Ramban brings other interpretations of the word "yakim", and we find a beautiful expression of the internal "upholding" in the Hagbah ritual as part of the synagogue Torah reading ritual today.

6. How does one Establish the Words of the Torah?

   HaTanakh.com Staff

7. The Blessing and the Curse, and the List of the "Cursed"

   Rabbi Amnon Bazak

   What were  the "blessing" and "curse" that were given on Mt. Gerizim? Are they the list of "cursed" mentioned at the beginning of Parshat Ki-Tavo, or the rebuke and rewards listed at the end? What is the relationship between these two similar passages? Does the obligation for observing the commandments arise only from the reward received for observing them and the punishment for their desecration?

8. Parshat Ki Tavo - Pledge of Allegiance

   Rabbi Alex Israel | 33 minutes

   This shiur focuses on the description of the covenantal Ceremony of the Stones. It bears a striking resemblance to the covenantal ceremony at Sinai which took place the day after the Revelation at Sinai. What is the reason for the strong overlap? The ceremony occurs at an auspicious juncture as the People of Israel take a bold step- to become a nation with a land. The covenantal ceremony-  creating a triangle between the Nation, the Land, and God, mediated through the Torah - is meant to naturally continue the values of Sinai in Israel.

9. Erev Shabbat Parshat Ki Tavo - Short Thoughts

   Rabbi Ezra Bick | 5 minutes

   We take a look at the ceremony of  the bessings and curses to take place at Mounts Gerizim and Eval, and consider the significance of having separate mountains for blessings vs. curses. 

10. Yehoshua Perek 8

    Jesse Salem | 31 minutes

    Yehoshua perek 8 describes the second attempt at capturing the city of Ai, and the ceremony of the blessings and curses on the mountains of Gerizim and Eval as commanded by Moshe in Sefer Dvarim. 

     

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11. Sefer Devarim: Archaeology

    Nachliel Selavan | 22 minutes

    This is an analysis of the Archaeology of the Sefer Devarim by Nachliel Selavan.

    Archaeology Snapshot is a discussion on the location, timeline, main characters and highlights from history and archaeology, for each Sefer in Tanach.