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Rabbi Schapiro on the Parshah: Va'etchanan

DEVARIM

Asks why the source pasuk for the universal obligation to learn Torah, ושננתם לבניך, speaks specifically about teaching children, and why the Rambam opens Hilchos Talmud Torah with a father's duty to teach his child rather than the general obligation on every adult. Connects this to the fact that unlike every other mitzvah, chinuch in Torah study alone is a father's Torah-level obligation, not merely rabbinic. Explains that because Torah is Hashem's own chochma rather than an ordinary wisdom, grasping its true inner meaning demands the kind of bitul, self-nullification free of ego, that a child naturally embodies and that every adult must learn to recover.

Parshas Va'eschanan

DEVARIM

A vort on Parshas Vaeschanan unpacking the Shema's declaration that Hashem is one -- not merely that there's no other god, but that no other reality exists at all.

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