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1st Portion Re'eh Part 4 (Deu 12:8-10)

8 [(11:31): “You are about to cross the Jordan, etc.” and you are permitted to sacrifice on temporary altars all the fourteen years of conquest and apportionment of the land]. You are not to do [i.e., you shall not sacrifice upon the temporary altars] as we do here today [in the tabernacle that is with you and which is anointed and fit for sin-offerings, guilt-offerings, and vow and gift-offerings, but], everyone [may offer on the temporary altars, only] doing as they see fit [i.e., vow and gift-offerings], 9 since you have not yet reached [all those fourteen years] the resting place [Shiloh] and the inheritance [Jerusalem] the Lord your God is giving you. 10 But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance [after you apportion it and each one knows his portion and (that of) his tribe], and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you [which he left there to test you] so that you will live in safety [(this did not
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1st Portion Re'eh Part 3 (Deu 12:3-7)

3 Break down their altars [of many stones], smash their sacred stones [of one stone] and burn their Asherah poles [trees that they worship] in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places [by giving it a new, demeaning name]. 4 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way [to offer sacrifices in all places]. 5 But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling [the sanctuary of Shiloh]. To that place you must go; 6 there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices [obligatory peace-offerings], your tithes [the beast-tithe and the second tithe] and special gifts [first-fruits], what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks [to give them to the priest to be sacrificed there]. 7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your h
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1st Portion Re'eh Part 2 (Deu 11:31-12:2)

31 You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you [the miracles that you experience then will be a sign to you]. When you have taken it over and are living there, 32 be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today. The One Place of Worship 1 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. 2 Destroy completely [(whence it is derived that in destroying idolatry one must uproot it entirely)] all the places [which are] on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. Rashi’s Commentary 11:31 You are about to cross the Jordan — The miracles that will be wrought for you during your crossing of the Jordan shall be an omen for you that you will indeed enter and inherit the land (cf
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1st Portion Re'eh Part 1 (Deu 11:26-30)

26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse [those (to be) pronounced in Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal]— 27 the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28 the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known [whence it is derived that serving idolatry is tantamount to denying the entire Torah (“the way”)]. 29 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses [The blessers face Mount Gerizim and recite: “Blessed is anyone who does not make an idol,” and then they turn to Mount Ebal and recite the corresponding curse, viz. (27:15): “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol,” etc.]. 30 As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh [Shechem], in the t
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