Reeh - 2024

Chevre, this week’s parsha is Re’eh (רְאֵה). We have a pretty large smathering this week of things including: the sanctity of the land, what to eat or not eat, sanctified foods, false prophets, tithes, shemitah, the treatment of a Jewish bondsman and then we get into the festivals (again). Amongst all of this we find this line after it’s stated that you shouldn’t cut yourself when someone dies. For you are a people consecrated to your God ‘ה: your God ‘ה chose you from among all other peoples on earth to be a treasured people.