Deuteronomy 4
Va'etchanan ( — Hebrew for "and I pleaded," the first word in the parashah) is the 45th weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises . The parashah tells how Moses asked to see the Land of Israel, made arguments to obey the law, recounted setting up the Cities of Refuge, recited the Ten Commandments and the ''Shema'', and gave instructions for the Israelites' conquest of the Land. The parashah is made up of 7,343 Hebrew letters, 1,878 Hebrew words, 122 verses, and 249 lines in a Torah Scroll (''Sefer Torah''). Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in late July or August. It is always read on the special Sabbath ''Shabbat Nachamu'', the Sabbath immediately after ''Tisha B'Av''. As the parashah describes how the Israelites would sin and be banished from the Land of Israel, Jews also read part of the parashah as the Torah reading for the morning (''Shacharit'') prayer service on ''Ti ...
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Moses Pleading With Israel (crop)
Moses hbo, מֹשֶׁה, Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, ); syr, ܡܘܫܐ, Mūše; ar, موسى, Mūsā; grc, Mωϋσῆς, Mōÿsēs () is considered the most important Prophets in Judaism, prophet in Judaism and one of the most important Prophets of Christianity, prophets in Christianity, Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islam, the Druze faith, the Baháʼí Faith and Table of prophets of Abrahamic religions, other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran, Moses was the leader of the Israelites and Law of Moses, lawgiver to whom the Mosaic authorship, authorship, or "acquisition from heaven", of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is attributed. According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in population and, as a result, the Pharaohs in the Bible#In the Book of Exodus, Egyptian Pharaoh worried ...
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