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Perfect (baseball) play: set- pitch- catch
Topic Started: Aug 20 2011, 07:47 AM (130 Views)
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The book of Deuteronomy is called "the Second Torah" because it is a rehearsal through Moses' eyes of all the elements that we get from the first four books of the Bible. It is, in fact, the very first commentary on the Bible. That's actually why it is called "Deuteronomy" which is literally translated "second Law" from Greek. Devarim, the Hebrew title of the Book means "words" or, more accurately, words that have order and substance. Looking at the progression of the first three portions of the Torah as they are separated for us, we have an important lesson for us in the titles alone: Devarim, Va etchanan, Ekev.

Va etchanan is Moses' appeal to God: asking to be relieved of his personal and passionate burden. Ekev is translated a number of ways: "if", "since" or "because". However, it visually is represented by the heel of the foot: stability, hard, firm.

If you put these three ideas together, I imagine, for myself the perfect pitch in baseball. The pitcher focuses intently upon the task he is about to perform. He then delivers the ball through adversity and it lands solidly in the hand (mit) of his teammate. This is what we come to in Parashat Ekev and it it posed to us as a question.

Devarim Va etchanan Ekev as a singular phrase says to us, "The Words have been delivered into your mit..." the implied question that hangs before us in the silence is this: "What are you going to do with it?" The ball is in your court.

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