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Shoftim Lecture

In this week’s Torah portion, Rabbi Fohrman brings up a unique law God gives to the Israelites: that four types of people, on the eve of battle, can turn around and go home. What are those four groups, and what does it mean that they are allowed to return home? This week, we will analyze this section of text and use it to answer the same question as Rabbi Fohrman’s recent audio series: what is the meaning of life?

 

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Rabbi David Fohrman is the dean of Aleph Beta Academy. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, and was a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Aleph Beta creates videos to help people experience Torah in way that is relevant and meaningful to them. for more videos, visit: alephbeta.org.