Parashat Ki Teitzei contains 74 of the 613 mitzvot – more than any other Parashah in the Torah. 13 of these 74 mitzvot relate specifically to warfare and how to relate to enemy nations. The Parashah ...

Va’eschanan means Moshe tried to find chen – favor – in the eyes of G-d. How did he do that? Before asking G-d for what he wanted, he told G-d, as we do in the Shemoneh Esreh, that G-d is “gadol, ...

Several years ago as I was preparing to teach a class about the 613 Mitzvot, something struck me. If I added the digits it equaled 10 for the commandments. Could I have discovered the root of the 613?

The parasha we read today opens with the glad tidings (7:13) , that Hashem ‘Will love you, bless you and multiply you..’ - when? (7:12) ‘When you hearken to these ordinances, and you observe and ...