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#81: "The Sermon Was Too Short"

#81: "The Sermon Was Too Short"

Rashi on Parashat Ha'azinu, Devarim/Deuteronomy 32:2

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Gimme Some Torah #81

May my discourse come down as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
Like showers on young growth,
Like droplets on the grass
. —Devarim/Deuteronomy 32:2

Ha’azinu is a biblical poem that contains Moses’s final rebuke of Israel. In the second verse, he prays that what he says will “come down as the rain” …

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