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Eliyahu Between Two Mountains
Rabbi Ezra Bick
תאריך פרסום: תשסט | |
Eliyahu's triumph at Mount Carmel is followed immediately by the mystery and shadows of Mount Chorev. What is the connection between them, and what is the point of the story?
The Jewelry and the Tent (Audio)
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman | 21 minutes
After the Sin of the Golden Calf, the Torah relates that the people took off their jewelry at Horeb. Why is this emphasized in the midst of Moshe's impassioned pleas on the people’s behalf? Is God's mercy inevitable? Determining where the jewelry comes from helps us to understand how casting the jewelry off symbolizes the crucial beginning of repentance and reconciliation.
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.
Eliyahu in Horev (Part 1)
Structure of the Story
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
The chiastic structure in chapter 19 utilizes parallels in language, themes, characters and geography in order to highlight Eliyahu’s revelation at Mount Horev as the central axis of this narrative.
Eliyahu in Horev (Part 2)
Eliyahu's Flight (Part 2)
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
If Eliyahu runs away from Izevel to save his life, why does he then ask God to take his life? One approach suggests that Eliyau expected a political revolution on the heels of the miracle at Mount Carmel. Izevel’s ability to continue to reign in her previous manner leaves Eliyahu with the understanding that miracles exert power only for a short time, and a profound, thorough, long-term change in consciousness was not thereby achieved. Eliyahu realized this the very next day, and it caused him great despair.
Eliyahu in Horev (Part 3)
The Double Revelation of God's Angel to Eliyahu (Part 2)
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
Eliyahu flees from his mission and from his nation. Against his will, Eliyahu’s legs carry him to the wilderness, to the exact spot where the historical foundations of the nation lie – Mount Horev. Mount Horev is meant to remind Eliyahu of Israel's merit before God, for having accepted His Torah at this mountain and having entered into a covenant with Him. Does Eliyahu accept this lesson?
Eliyahu in Horev (Part 3)
The Double Revelation of God's Angel to Eliyahu (Part 3)
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
The narrative draws a clear parallel between Eliyahu and Moshe after the Sin of the Golden Calf at Horev. Eliyahu is expected to examine the ways of Moshe. Even when the prophet comes to convey stern reproof, when he is with God his task is to be a spokesperson for Israel's defense. Eliyahu, in contrast, has the opposite intention.
Eliyahu in Horev (Part 4)
"He Announced Rebuke at Sinai, and Judgments of Vengeance at Horev"
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
God asks Eliyahu “why are you here?” The question can be interpreted to mean: why are you here in the desert away from the nation? Or, according to another possible interpretation: Why are you here at Horev, where Moshe asked for mercy for the nation, when you come with the opposite intention? According to both interpretations, Eliyahu holds fast to his point of view, disregarding the events on Mount Carmel as passing. Not only is he unable to ask for mercy for the nation, he also asks for the nation to be punished.
Eliyahu in Horev (Part 7)
The Mission (Part 2)
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
Eliyahu runs away to Be’er Sheva to be far from the nation. God commands him to go to Horev in order to reconnect with the nation. However, after Eliyahu rejects God’s message and maintains his ways, God sends him back to Eretz Yisrael – the place he was trying to escape – in order to bring the punishment he had desired upon the nation, and end his role as God’s prophet by appointing Elisha as his replacement.
The Waters of Sinai
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman
Why does the Torah repeat the requirement to distance the nation from the mountain? Is this the first arrival of Bnei Yisrael at Sinai, or had they been there before, in the story of Massa u-Meriva? Why does the Torah parallel God's revelation at Sinai with the nation's previous request for water?
The War against Amalek
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Bnei Yisrael were unprepared for their redemption from Egypt, and God places them in various situations of peril, encouraging Bnei Yisrael to raise their spiritual level high enough to enable that process to continue, and work toward real independence from their captors.
Prophet in Distress
Rabbi Alex Israel
Eliyahu had orchestrated a three-year drought that had brought the nation to its knees. This had culminated in the decisive religious contest at Mt. Carmel that had exposed the falsity of the Baal, bringing king and country to proclaim faith in God alone. It had been an excruciating process, with Eliyahu living in exile for three years. Indeed, he had succeeding in turning the king around. But now the entire project, this huge educational endeavor, lay shattered, in ruins. It was not Izevel's death threat alone. Izevel's confidence highlighted the understanding that she was in control, and that the transformation of national priorities would be a more arduous, complex, and protracted process. All of this leads to Eliyahu's feeling of dejection and his rejection of his role as a prophet. Unlike Moshe, he is unable to be zealous towards the sinner but to invoke God's mercy on the nation as a whole.
Parashat Shemot - Sneh and Sinai
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman | 30 minutes
We will talk about story story of the sneh (the Burning Bush)- the first encounter between God, Moshe, and Bnei Yisrael and the beginning of Moshe’s Divine mission. It is a story of theophany at the sneh, but also the story of the recruitment of Moshe. Why does God choose Moshe? What special aspect of his charater makes him the right person for this mission?

Moshe is the first one to ask this question. Many commentators look to the past (Chapter 2 of Exodus, for example). In this shiur, we will pursue something a bit different. We will look at God’s response toanswer why Moshe is the one, and we will look for the significance of the parallels between the story of the sneh and the story of Bnei Yisrael at Sinai.

Sinai is an expansion- a macrocosm of the event at the sneh.