Shabbat

Portion: Ki Tetzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) - and 100 years of Daf Yomi

Portion: Ki Tetzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) - and 100 years of Daf Yomi
 
Idea of the week number 1.
100 years ago in Lublin the idea of Daf Yomi - all the world studyig the same page of Talmud each day - became accepted.
 
It takes a little over 7 years to review the whole Talmud (codified in Babylon 1500 years ago.). Thats called The Oral Tradition.
 
This Shabbat is the anniversary of starting that enterprise.
 
I have been following the routine over 30years. I - just wish I could remember all I have studied!
 
Imagine if every Jew studies  only one of the 613 Mitzvot in the Torah each day - 
they could review the whole WRITTEN Torah in less than 2 years1
 
Idea 2.
 
 
What does it mean in the portion by "key"? Ki?
 
There are a number of uses for that word.
 
But in the Kabbalah - 
written about this week by Rabbi Abergil (a scholar son of a great and renowned scholar/teacher )
there is a SPECIAL TEACHING.
 
He quotes Rabbi Ginsburg - from Tel Aviv-one of the great teachers and Kabbalists of our times -
 
who remarks that 22 of the 44 sections of our Portion start with the word "Key",
 
Hebrew letters 
Kuf
Yud
which stands for 
Knesset Yisrael (Israel) - the people of Israel-
Who should Study This!
 
Meaning it is the WHOLE PEOPLE TOGETHER
THAT 
The Torah was Given for and to-
 
To share as our true inhèitance
 
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz