📜 Daily Chumash & Rashi – Parshas Eikev – Sheiyni: Moshe warns Bnei Yisrael not to become accustomed to the luxuries and forsake Hashem

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Sheiyni

1. Moshe warns Bnei Yisrael not to become accustomed to the luxuries and forsake Hashem:

• “Be careful that you do not forget Hashem by not keeping His commands. Perhaps you will eat and be satiated and have good houses built and settled, and have much gold and silver and you will become haughty and forget G-d who took you out of Egypt. You may tell yourself that your power and strength is what made you accomplish this and not Hashem. Remember that Hashem is the one who gives you strength to be successful.
• If you do forget Hashem and sway after idolatry, I am forewarning you today that you will be destroyed.”

2. Conquering the land:

• “Hear Israel, you are going today to the promised land which contains nations that are mightier than you, and have cities fortified to the heavens. You shall know today that Hashem your G-d is the one who will pass before you, and He will destroy them.”

📘 Rashi Q&A — Devarim 8:11–20 & 9:1–3

Devarim 8:11–20 — Beware of Forgetting Hashem

8:11

Q1. What danger does Moshe warn against?

1. Forgetting Hashem by failing to observe His commandments.

 

8:12–14

Q2. When is forgetting Hashem most likely to occur?

1. After prosperity, success, and material abundance.

Q3. What signs of prosperity are mentioned?

1. Full satisfaction, fine houses, growing livestock, and increasing wealth.

Q4. What spiritual danger accompanies prosperity?

1. Arrogance and self-satisfaction.

Q5. What must Israel remember?

1. That Hashem took them out of Egypt.

 

8:15

Q6. How is the wilderness described?

1. As great and terrifying, filled with snakes, vipers, scorpions, and thirst.

Q7. What miracle did Hashem perform there?

1. He brought water from a flint rock.

 

8:16

Q8. Why did Hashem feed Israel manna?

1. To test, humble, and ultimately benefit them.

Q9. Why was the manna unique?

1. Neither they nor their ancestors had known it before.

 

8:17–18

Q10. What mistaken belief might success produce?

1. “My power and the might of my hand made me this wealth.”

Q11. What should Israel remember instead?

1. Hashem gives the ability to acquire wealth.

Q12. Why does Hashem give that ability?

1. To fulfill the covenant He swore to the Patriarchs.

 

8:19–20

Q13. What happens if Israel forgets Hashem and serves idols?

1. They will surely perish.

Q14. What comparison does Moshe make?

1. Israel will be destroyed just like the nations Hashem removes before them.

Q15. Why would such destruction occur?

1. Because they refused to obey Hashem.

 

 

 

📘 Devarim 9:1–3 — Crossing the Jordan

9:1

Q16. What announcement does Moshe make?

1. Israel is about to cross the Jordan.

Q17. What kind of nations will they confront?

1. Nations greater and stronger than themselves.

Q18. How does Rashi explain “greater and stronger”?

1. Israel is strong, but those nations were even stronger.

Q19. How are their cities described?

1. Great cities fortified up to heaven.

 

9:2

Q20. Who are the people inhabiting the land?

1. The descendants of the Anakim (giants).

Q21. Why were they feared?

1. Their great size and strength.

Q22. What famous expression about them had Israel heard?

1. “Who can stand against the descendants of Anak?”

 

9:3

Q23. Who will go before Israel?

1. Hashem Himself.

Q24. How is Hashem described?

1. As a consuming fire.

Q25. What will Hashem do to the nations?

1. Destroy and subdue them before Israel.

Q26. What will Israel then be able to do?

1. Drive them out and destroy them quickly.

Q27. Why can Israel succeed despite the enemy’s strength?

1. Because Hashem is the One fighting on their behalf.