A Music Video
Based on Moses's Words
ל׳ בְּאָב תשע״ב
30th of Av, 5772
Sat, 18 August 2012
If the Israelites were slaves in Egypt,
how can they be slaveholders in the
Land of Israel? In this week's Torah
portion, a nation of former slaves learns
about controling--and freeing--the enslaved. MORE>
In his last speech to the Israelites, Moses warns them, "If you follow God's laws, you will be blessed more than all the peoples of the earth. However, if you worship false idols and ignore the other commandments, then you shall be cursed and perish.
"These are the statutes which you are to carry out. You shall utterly destroy the places where the nations, whose property you are taking over, served other gods. You shall destroy their altars, break up their memorial stones, burn down their sacred trees, cut down the images of their gods, and you shall obliterate their gods from that place MORE .
14th–12th century B.C.E. bronze figurine of
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7th century B.C.E. alabaster Phoenician figure probably
of the Canaanite goddess Astarte, now at the
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A Music Video
Based on Moses's Words
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