Ekev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25)
081614tp by Rabbi Paul Falk (Sound starts at 1 min 15 secs). Torah portion as a whole talks about his judgments. Then it shall come to pass because you listened to my judgments. It’s going to happen because you listened. Shema. Listen. Whenever Messiah said, “He who has ears to hear let him hear”, what he was saying in Hebrew was shema. It had nothing to do with literal ears. What he was saying was, Listen so intently that when I’m done you won’t have to ask me any questions. You can realize how much concentration went into listening that intently. What I am going to cover today is this concept, the heart, remember in the heart, don’t forget in the heart. In fact Deuteronomy is one of the books in the scriptures specifically where heart is mentioned more popularly than most other books…
