Guiding Questions: Deuteronomy 8

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Does Deuteronomy 8:2 appear to be addressed to those who left Egypt or to their children?
  2. According to Deuteronomy 8:2, were the forty years a test or a “punishment?”
  3. Who/what, according to Deuteronomy 8:3 makes for human survival?
  4. How is the land to be entered described in Deuteronomy 8:7-9?
  5. What is the responsibility of the Israelites as set forth in Deuteronomy 8:10?
  6. What can surfeit lead to (Deuteronomy 8:14)?
  7. And, in Deuteronomy 8:16, what is repeated as to the purpose of the 40 year wilderness experience?
  8. What is the relationship between human initiative/creativity and the Divine (Deuteronomy 8:17-18)?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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