Daily Chumash Thursday Ki Savo – The blessings and curses on Har Gerizim and Har Eival

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  1. The blessings and curses on Har Gerizim and Har Eival:
  • The tribes on Har Gerizim for blessing: Moshe commanded the Jewish people that day saying: After passing the Yarden, on the side of blessing on Har Gerizim will stand Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Yissachar, Yosef and Binyamin.
  • The tribes on Har Eival for curses: On the side of curse on Har Eival will stand Reuvein, Gad, Asher, Zevulun, Dan, Naftali.
  • The Levites are to stand and proclaim to the Jewish people in a loud voice, the following:

 

  1. The curses:
  • Cursed is the man who makes idols. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who degrades his parents. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who moves back the boundary of his friend’s property. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who fools the blind. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who perverts the judgement of an orphan or widow in a court case. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who sleeps with his father’s wife. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who sleeps with an animal. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother in-law. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who discreetly hits his friend. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who takes money to kill the innocent. The entire nation is to answer Amen.
  • Cursed is the man who does not fulfil the Torah. The entire nation is to answer Amen.

 

  1. The blessings
    • If you listen and follow all of Hashem’s commands He will elevate you from amongst all the nations of the world and you will receive all the following blessings:
    • You will be blessed in the city and field.
    • Your children and animals and land will be blessed.
    • Your fruits and dry goods will be blessed.
    • You will be blessed when you enter and when you leave.

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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