{"id":2882,"date":"2025-09-14T06:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:52:55","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-ki-tavo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2882","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cKi Tavo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8220;Ki Tavo&#8221; (Deuteronomy (26:1-29:8) is almost certainly the most famous, and foreboding, set of blessings and cursings in the Bible. But, notably, it begins with &#8220;when you have come into the land,&#8221; and a set of instructions, such as the &#8216;Bikkurim&#8217; or offerings of First Fruits, that are to take place there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we remain in exile, have been &#8220;shalach&#8221;-ed for cause. So what does that mean about those curses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and the specifics, to set the state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SSM-9-12-25-Ki-Tavo-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa addresses exactly that question. But it begins with an observation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plagues are certainly &#8211; undeniably &#8211; &#8220;well deserved,&#8221; not just by the US, but the world. And many, at least, already seem to be in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet we are told, repeatedly, in Scripture, to &#8220;have no fellowship,&#8221; with the unfruitful works of darkness. To &#8220;flee from idolatry.&#8221; And not to &#8216;keep company&#8217; with, or even eat with, the kind of people who commit the kind of perversions we routinely see promoted on CNN. Or taught in the public &#8216;schools.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark argues that we have been told to &#8220;come out of her,&#8221; to not participate with those sins, so as to &#8211; hopefully &#8211; avoid the promised plagues. The prophet Amos tells us that, unless they are agreed, it&#8217;s difficult for two people to &#8220;walk together.&#8221; And we saw this week there are, unquestionably, a large demonic army of people with whom reasoned dialogue, discourse, debate, and now arguably even peaceful coexistence have been demonstrated to be impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, do those plagues in Deuteronomy 28 still apply? Or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it relevant that the FIRST three plagues in Egypt hit everyone? But, during the fourth, of flies, YHVH &#8220;put a difference,&#8221; made a distinction, between the pagan Egyptians and His people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promised plagues are here, and we&#8217;re already in exile. So what now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ki Tavo: The Plagues are OPTIONAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WT-CooH-9-13-25-Ki-Tavo-Plagues-are-OPTIONAL-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-ki-tavo\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-ki-tavo\/\" 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;Ki Tavo,&#8221; Debarim\/Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8, and related Scripture. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2882\">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":[5,69,35,9,11,1865,1698,12],"tags":[46,441,693,88,1026,1810,2175,63,199,104,2174,212,2176,318,101,2177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882"}],"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=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}