{"id":2876,"date":"2025-08-24T06:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:16:59","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-reeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cRe&#8217;eh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8220;Re&#8217;eh&#8221; (for &#8220;See!,&#8221;Behold!,&#8221; or even &#8220;Check it out&#8221; &#8212; Deuteronomy 11:26-16:18) begins with a blessing, and a curse. And, as Mark points out up front, the fact that even the significance of the distinction there is so often missed is a major indicator of why there is &#8220;no power in the [modern] &#8216;church&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and includes what amounts to a great summary of just why that is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SSM-8-22-25-Re-eh-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the parsha told us, &#8220;Do not even bring an abomination into your house,&#8221; lest you be accursed like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, the admonition is to utterly destroy anything and everything associated with them. And as for false prophets, who try to get us to serve those fakes? Scripture prescribes &#8212; in no uncertain terms &#8212; a death penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How is it that a &#8216;church&#8217; which claims to worship &#8216;him&#8217; has fallen into exactly that trap?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa answers that question, as He does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as for &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Re&#8217;eh: &#8220;Other gods not known to you? &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026now they&#8217;re taught in &#8216;sun-god day&#8217; school. Even though the idolatry is soft-pedaled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a fact that, once seen, cannot be un-seen. But it certainly must not be ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WT-CooH-8-23-25-Re-eh-Other-gods-you-have-not-known-but-They-DO-NOW-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-reeh\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-reeh\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parsha &#8220;Re&#8217;eh&#8221; (for &#8220;See!,&#8221;Behold!,&#8221; or even &#8220;Check it out&#8221; &#8212; Deuteronomy 11:26-16:18) begins with a blessing, and a curse. And, as Mark points out up front, the fact that even the significance of the distinction there is so often missed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2876\">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":[19,30,5,1891,69,1949,35,1898,11,12],"tags":[2166,88,132,671,63,2024,104,1268,1746,2168,2167,457,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}