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Vayelekh | Hakhel in Yavneh... And Beyond
Vayelekh | Hakhel in Yavneh... And Beyond, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
What is the impact of Hakhel in our day?
The penultimate Mitzva found in the Torah is the command to assemble all of the people at the end of the Shemitta year, to hear a public reading of the Torah (התורה הזאת) - including the men, the women and the children. In a famous story recorded in Tosefta Sota, a homily of R. Elazar b. Azariah's about Hakhel is recorded, and is followed by two more homilies which all seem unrelated. Tying R. E;lazar b. Azariah's revolutionary approach (see BT Berakhot 27b) to education, we tie these…
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