(30.) See the parallel in Sifre
Devarim Pisqa 182 (Finkelstein, Sifre, 224; Hammer, Sifre, 458n2; Hezser, Social Structure, 341).
Jacob ben Sheshet's Meshiv
Devarim Nekhohim, 179; see also R.
in the
Devarim Rabbah, a compendium of classical Midrashim (rabbinic exegetical commentary) ...
However his final legacy to the Jewish people was the speech he left to the Israelites in The Book of Deuteronomy, Sefer
Devarim, "the book of words." Even though spoken words plagued Moses in his youth and indeed all of his life; his self-consciousness, his inability to articulate, his greatest and lasting gift to humanity were his
devarim, his words.
Bava Kamma 26a at "Nezek 'In 'Arba'ah
Devarim La." If a person is suddenly knocked off a roof by a wind of normal velocity and he injures someone below, he is considered to have acted inadvertently but close to intentionally and is therefore liable for depreciation, pain, and medical expense.
Our sojourn through the weekly Torah portions; from Bereishis through
Devarim (Genesis to Deuteronomy) is brilliantly enhanced by the profoundly personal, highly original and erudite interpretations of both authors; while their cogent concepts remain traditionally predicated upon the teachings of our commentators and sages of blessed memory.
Fortunately for Kraemer and Maimonides' other biographers, and despite the Talmudic rabbis' dismissal of historical and biographical writings as "things of no significance" (
devarim shel ma bekhach), we also possess a rich trove of material from Maimonides' time and place: the vast Cairo Genizah, taken from the storage house of the Ben Ezra synagogue in Fustat (old Cairo) where Maimonides spent the last four decades of his life.
And accordingly we heed Your warning, as it is written: 'Take heed to thyself and keep thy soul alive.' (
Devarim 4:9) Therefore we beseech You that You will keep us in life and establish us and redeem us speedily from our servitude so that we may in time come to perform Your statutes and carry out Your will with a perfect heart.
Zikhron
Devarim (Remembrance of Things) was first published in 1977, four years before Yaakov Shabtai died at age forty-seven.
Ha'azinu (The Song of Moses) in
Devarim presented another typographic challenge which yielded a solution less perfect but quite attractive.
(198) A contract that does not create a proprietary obligation is considered kinyan
devarim ("the appropriation of words") and is invalid.
Articles in the collection are: "Reflections on Role Models for Spirituality and Prayer" ("
Devarim She-Ba'al Peh al Avobah She-ba-Lev") (Chaim Brovender); "Response" (Joel B.
In 1995 he brought out the first in the series, a version of Yakov Shabtai's extraordinary novel Zichron
Devarim (Past Continuous).
(3.) Cited by Nehama Leibowitz, Studies in
Devarim (Deuteronomy), trans.