25: 5-10, Deut.

" Frequently Jewish fundamentalists refer to the Palestinians as the ' Amalekites ' … of today … According to the Old Testament, the Amalek … were regarded as the Israelites ' inveterate foe, whose ' annihilation ' became a sacred duty and against whom war should be waged until their ' memory be blotted out ' forever ( Ex 17: 16 ; Deut 25: 17-19 )….

Deut 25: 10 His name-That is, his person, and his posterity also.

25: 44-46 ), intolerance of religious pluralism ( Deut.

Examples of similar constructions are " servant of servants " ( Gen 9: 25 ), " Sabbath of sabbaths " ( Ex 31: 15 ), " God of gods " ( Deut 10: 17 ), " Vanity of vanities " ( Eccl 1: 2 ) or " Song of songs " ( Song of Songs 1: 1 ).

( Gen 16: 5, 18: 9, 19: 33, 33: 4, 37: 12, Num 3: 39, 9: 10, 21: 30, 29: 15, Deut.

They are described as a powerful people of great stature " like the height of the cedars ," ( Amos 2: 9 ) who had occupied the land east and west of the Jordan ; their king, Og, being described as the last " of the remnant of the Rephaim " ( Deut.

According to the Bible the site should function as the center of all national life — a governmental, judicial and, of course, religious center ( Deut 12: 5-26 ; 14: 23-25 ; 15: 20 ; 16: 2-16 ; 17: 8-10 ; 26: 2 ; 31: 11 ; Isa 2: 2-5 ; Oba 1: 21 ; Psa 48 ).

Moreover, they argued that all Jews should study in local synagogues, because Torah is " the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob " ( Deut.

The following verses, commonly referred to by the first word of the verse immediately following the Shema as the V ' ahavta, or in Classical Hebrew W ' ahav ' ta meaning " And you shall love ...", contain the commands to love God ( the Talmud emphasizes that you will, at some point, whether you choose to or not therefore " shall " future tense, love God ), with all one's heart, soul, and might ; then the verse goes on to remind you to remember all commandments and " teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit down and when you walk, when you lie down and when you rise " ( Deut 6: 7 ); to recite the words of God when retiring or rising ; to bind those words " on thy arm and thy head " ( classically Jewish oral tradition interprets as tefillin ), and to inscribe them on the door-posts of your house and on your gates ( referring to mezuzah ).

It contains the promise of reward for serving God with all one's heart, soul, and might ( Deut 11: 13 ) and for the fulfillment of the laws.

3: 8 ; 4: 46-48 ), embracing " all Gilead and all Bashan " ( Deut.

#* Love the Lord your God with all your heart ( Deut.

The Jewish prayers also often incorporate gratitude beginning with the Shema, where the worshiper states that out of gratitude, " You shall love the Eternal, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might " ( Deut.

This is a love which does not keep anything back, a kind of love which parents are supposed to transmit all day long to their children ( Deut 6: 4-9: Shema Yisrael ), and which Christ called the " greatest commandment " ( Mt 22: 37-40 ).

When she came to plow it, Moses told her not to plow it with an ox and an ass together ( Deut.

As soon as a child begins to speak, his father is directed to teach him the verse " Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob " ( Deut.

12: 3 ), he enjoyed unique privileges, for " there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom YHWH knew face to face " ( Deut.

Moses instructed the children of Israel to gather for a reading of the Law during Sukkot every seventh year ( Deut.

But this can not mean that the benedictions were unknown before that date ; for in other passages the " Shemoneh ' Esreh " is traced to the " first wise men " ( Sifre, Deut.

It became a custom for every male member of the congregation to read from the Torah, the passage Deut.

In ancient Israel there was a Sanhedrin headquarters ; it had 71 judges who judged special high profile cases, such as a judge who deviated from the majority opinion, false prophets, and the execution of the occupants of an entire city for idol worship per Deut.

Occasionally such names are also found in early Egyptian texts ; and one place-name — " Sənīr " ( ש ְׂ נ ִ יר ) for Mount Hermon — is known from the Bible ( Deut.

It was the chief site of encampment for the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness of Zin ( Deut.

The Hebrew term shechita ( anglicized: ;, ), also transliterated shechitah, shehitah, shehita, is the ritual slaughter of mammals and birds for food according to Jewish dietary laws ( Deut.

'" To pay attention to the course of the sun and to the revolution of the planets is a religious injunction ; for such is the import of the words ( Deut.

* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).

Moses was warned that he would not be permitted to lead the Israelites across the Jordan river, because of his trespass at the waters of Meribah ( Deut.

The most famous of his enactments was the Pruzbul, ( προσβολή ), an institution that, in spite of the law concerning cancellation of debts in the Sabbatical year ( Deut.

He was the very one whose endeavor it had always been to reconcile the brothers, especially when they disputed as to who among them was destined to be the ancestor of the priests ( Sifre, Deut.

But the first-born of these she was obliged to give to Aaron the priest ; and at the time of shearing he required the first of the fleece also ( Deut.

He is in the tradition of Abraham who was called by God to " walk before my face and be upright ( Gen: 17. 1 ); and of Moses who was told to be " entirely sincere ", " entirely faithful " ( Deut: 18. 13 ).

This place was usually described by its situation, in order to distinguish it from other localities of the same name ( Deut.

According to the testimony of scripture, such a precept was already made by Moses ( Lev. 19. 19 ; Deut. 22. 5. 11 )".

8 ; Deut.

On the verse, “ He set the borders of peoples according to the number of the Children of Israel ,”( Deut., 32: 8 ) Rashi explains: “ Because of the number of the Children of Israel who were destined to come forth from the children of Shem, and to the number of the seventy souls of the Children of Israel who went down to Egypt, He set the ‘ borders of peoples ’ be characterized by seventy languages .”

The Biblical Amorites seem to have originally occupied the region stretching from the heights west of the Dead Sea ( Gen. 14: 7 ) to Hebron ( 13: 8 ; Deut.

As further disseminated through the teachings of the Yisrael Ba ' al Shem Tov, the pursuit of permitted physical pleasures is encouraged as a means to " serve God with joy " ( Deut.

# One of the " five cities of the plain " of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah ( Gen. 10: 19 ; 14: 2 ; Deut. 29: 23 ; Hos.

The following ancient midrash is especially interesting, in connection with Deut.

3: 10 ), with the Jordan valley on the east of the river ( 4: 49 ), the land of the " two kings of the Amorites ," Sihon and Og ( Deut.

One person is given the privilege of completing the reading of the Law with Deut.

In regard to the levirate marriage Daniel agrees with Anan that " ahim ," in Deut.