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WHY ALL THE FANFARE?

This week’s Parsha, Ki Savo, opens with a very unique mitzvah, the mitzvah of Bikurim. While every mitzvah is unique in its own way, Bikurim is distinct in the manner which it is fulfilled. The mitzvah itself is for every landowner who has fruit trees to take his very first fruits of the season and present them to the Kohein in the Bais Hamikdosh. The way this mitzvah was performed was outstanding. 

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REACHING FOR PAPA

Our Sages who arranged the calendar and the order of the weekly Parshios designed it such that we should read this Parsha of Ki Savo two weeks before Rosh Hashana. The reason for this arrangement was because a large portion of Ki Savo contains a prediction of a horrific period of our history.