This fundamental question lies at the heart of two stories: God suspending Mount Sinai over the Israelites to compel them to accept the Torah, and Joshua, with the Jordan River suspended over the Israelites, compelling them to accept mutual responsibility for each other's private sins.
Dr.
Tzvi Novick
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Before the Five Books of Moses were compiled as a complete work, evidence from Deuteronomy as well as from Joshua and Kings shows that Deuteronomy itself was known as “the Torah.”
Dr.
David Glatt-Gilad
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A Devar Torah on the occasion of the third anniversary of TheTorah.com
Rabbi
David D. Steinberg
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An In-Depth Study of Deuteronomy’s Polemical Revision of the Yitro/Judges Account
Dr. Rabbi
David Frankel
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