{"id":2874,"date":"2025-08-17T06:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:51:08","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-ekev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cEkev\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8220;Ekev&#8221; (for &#8220;Because,&#8221; or &#8220;it follows,&#8221; Deuteronomy 7:11-11:25) is<\/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-8-15-25-Ekev-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa muses about the &#8216;giants&#8217; (Rephaim, Anakim, Zamzuzim, et al) that Moses warned the mixed multitude they would deal with in the land. And HOW, since they were promised to prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were big and scary, but just how intelligent were they? Arguably, perhaps more so than we might think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme again has idolatry at heart, and His hatred of it. &#8220;Do not even bring an abomination into your house,&#8221; lest you be accursed like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could it be that He is also talking about the newly created AI gods, made of a different form of stone &#8212; silicon? But the lesson is the same, although the threat is greater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ekev: &#8220;Ekev Big Scary Giants &#8211; Then and Now\u2026But were they Smart, too?&#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-8-16-25-Ekev-Big-Scary-Giants-and-ASI-too-podcast-xxx.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-ekev\/\" 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 Ekev. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2874\">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":[5,69,151,35,9,11],"tags":[1684,2159,88,127,120,63,1260,104,244,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874"}],"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=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}