Haazinu – Rereading Torah Towards Liberation

Haazinu: Crooked, Twisted, Bent, and Wet

Maybe crookedness is, contrary to Moses’ perception, part of how we survive, retain, and share essential aspects of Torah and divinity.

Haazinu (Deut 32:1-52)

“Haazinu” means something like “Give ear!” The Torah portion, Haazinu is comprised of Deuteronomy 32:1-52, and most of it is set as poetry. This makes the penultimate portion of Deuteronomy, which closes out the desert story, a kind of bookend to the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-18), which marks the crossing over into theContinue reading “Haazinu (Deut 32:1-52)”