Hearing, Sound Meditation and Parshat Vayelech In this week’s Torah portion, Vayelech, the people of Israel are commanded to listen to the entire Torah at the end of every seven years. Everyone. When we received the Torah on Mount Sinai, we heard the blasts of the shofar and said, “We will listen… to the commandments of the Torah” And one of our most important prayers that we recite three times a day starts with Shema Yisrael, “Hear o Israel…” On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish

In this week’s Torah portion, Ki Titzei, 74 of the Torah's 613 commandments are mentioned. A few of the commandments have to do with...