{"id":2872,"date":"2025-08-10T17:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:51:26","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-vaetchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cVaetchanan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8220;Vaetchanan&#8221; (for &#8220;And I pleaded,&#8221; Deuteronomy 3:23 &#8211; 7:11) is arguably THE portion that contains some of the most important &#8220;statutes and commandments&#8221; in the Bible. Not only &#8220;the Ten,&#8221; but also the one known often simply as &#8220;The Shema,&#8221; for the first word, and the fact that Yahushua called it the Greatest Commandment of all, &#8216;Hear, O Isreal\u2026YHVH Elohenu, YHVH Echad.&#8221; And you shall YHVH with &#8220;all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading includes that, and more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SSM-8-8-25-Vaetchanan-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests that there are several elements in the &#8216;theme&#8217; of this parsha that are not only central to our understanding, but also must serve as a basis for some of the most important questions &#8211; and the tests that will answer them! &#8211; that explain what has gone wrong with a nation, and a world, that has not only forgotten Him &#8211; but apparently HATES Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they are fundamental to what we must &#8216;come out of,&#8217; and thus Who we serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This portion is, at least in part, about idolatry, and certainly obedience to His &#8220;statues, judgments, and commandments.&#8221; And He says THREE TIMES, in this parsha alone, that He is the &#8216;Jealous God,&#8217; literally, &#8220;El Kana.&#8221; There is an important connection in that theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Mark suggest that He has told us EXACTLY what we need to know in order to &#8220;rightly divide the Word,&#8221; and discern the difference between the fake and the Real. Both &#8220;adding to,&#8221; and &#8220;subtracting from&#8221; His Word, as Written, are flashing red warning signs that there is Major Deception Afoot. And Exile was, and remains, the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vaetchanan: &#8220;A Jealous El Kana &#8211; don&#8217;t Add To, or Subtract From&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WT-CooH-8-9-25-Vaetchanan-El-Kana-NO-Adding-to-or-Subtracting-Frm-podcast-xxxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-vaetchanan\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-vaetchanan\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2025 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Vaetchanan&#8221; (Deut. 3:23-7:11) and related Scripture.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,69,151,35,74,11,1698,1739,12],"tags":[200,46,28,88,1020,2017,2162,2161,1284,315,1248,63,104,208,212,422,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}