Read our latest issue or browse back issues. All of that changed in a glance at Deuteronomy 28: the blessings and the curses. I fell in love. This chapter should not have compelled me. Biblical ...

The individual blessings listed in Deuteronomy 28:1-14 are also in the second person singular. Traditionally, only a male Kohen can offer this blessing as part of the Amida section during certain ...

What about blessings? With Rosh Hashanah around the ... and not the tail” (see Deuteronomy 28:13 — “And God will make you the head, and not the tail”). We then eat pomegranate seeds ...

Deuteronomy portrays God as a gracious giver of gifts. It describes God as giving (n-t-n) Israel blessing (12:15); rain ... (16:5); sons and daughters (28:53); and the power to get wealth (8: ...