Goodnight Moon—Repetition and Transmission in Parshat V'etchanan

Parshat Ve’etchanan contains some of the most iconic passages in the Torah—including Moses’ retelling of the Ten Commandments and the Shema. As Moses continues his final address to the Israelites, he revisits earlier moments with new urgency and emotion, inviting us to hear the familiar in a different key. And yet, for all its poetry, the parsha delivers precious little new information. What do we do with passages of Torah that loop back in on themselves? What can we glean when we feel we already know what is going on? How can the familiar surprise us? We will discuss these questions while looking in depth at the first few aliyot of the parsha.

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