{"id":2997,"date":"2026-08-08T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:31:44","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-reeh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for parsha \u201dRe&#8217;eh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa in this week&#8217;s Torah midrash suggests that Parsha &#8216;Re&#8217;eh&#8217; (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) is unique. Not that it covers territory that the Torah hasn&#8217;t addressed before, one way or another. But that this time it is far more\u2026blunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even the title is straightforward. &#8220;Re&#8217;eh,&#8221; can be translated &#8216;behold.&#8217; Or just plain, &#8220;See!&#8221; As if what He was saying could be missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SSM-8-7-26-Re-eh-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s not really the problem. It&#8217;s not that the message is even remotely ambiguous. In fact, it&#8217;s even beyond &#8220;self-explanatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that &#8212; for those that most need to &#8220;see,&#8221; it&#8217;s beyond uncomfortable. It is threatening. Which is perhaps why, Mark suggests, the &#8216;whore church&#8217; that should take it to heart, evidently prefers to deny it, ignore it, and, most tellingly, just lie about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is thus a very &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; portion, because it is also a matter of life and death.<br>And &#8216;curses&#8217; that are already very clearly in play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three elements that make up the heart of the lesson are just plain damning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Re&#8217;eh: The UN-holy trinity of things Removed and Replaced &#8212; that explains EVERYTHING<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">!<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WT-CooH-8-8-26-Re-eh-The-UNholy-trinity-subtracted-out-replaced-added-in-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Service information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship worship services and teachings are broadcast live every Sabbath, via Paltalk. (www.paltalk.com has both the link, and the app.) The &#8220;room name&#8221; is &#8220;Walking Torah with Shabbat Shalom Mesa,&#8221; and can be found via the paltalk search, then bookmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erev Shabbat services begin at 7:00 PM Mountain Time Friday evenings (9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live Sabbath teachings begin shortly after 11 AM Mountain time on Sabbath day (Saturday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>email: mark@markniwot.com<\/p>\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-2\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-reeh-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa in this week&#8217;s Torah midrash suggests that Parsha &#8216;Re&#8217;eh&#8217; (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) is unique. Not that it covers territory that the Torah hasn&#8217;t addressed before, one way or another. 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