All posts in: Nitzavim
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7 years agoStanding before the King
You are standing today — all of you — before Hashem your God (29:9) In this verse, Moshe is telling the Jewish People that they are standing before Hashem, about ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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7 years ago
Ain’t No Mountain High, Ain’t No Valley Low…
In this week’s parsha, Nitvazim-Vayeilech, we read a famous few verses: “For this commandment that I command you today, it is not hidden from you and it is not distant. ..
Written by Tal Segal
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7 years ago
We’re in it together; nitzavim and yamim noraim
Parshiyos Nitzavim-Vayelech; we’re all in it together! These 2 sedras are almost definitely the shortest a double can get; and are indeed probably the 2 shortest ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
Who’s a mover?
There is a very sharp contrast between the two titles of these 2 inseperable sedras (netzavim-vayelech) that bring out the greatness of Moshe Rabeinu. And this is relevent ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
Lunar Lessons of the Large Letter Lamed
“G-d removed them from upon their soil …. and He cast them (Vayashlicheym) to another land, as this very day.” (Devarim 29;27) The lamed ..
Written by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag
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7 years ago
Middle class
The sedra opens with the words ‘you are all standing today,’ which the Ibn Ezra explains to mean that Klal Yisrael were encamped around the Aron. This represents ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
A right hiding
Rabeinu Bachayei cites an important principle and novel understanding of the pasuk (29:28) ‘the hidden things are for HaShem, our God, and the revealed things ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
The best mohel ever!
Pasuk 6 of perek 30 reports that HaShem will help us reach a level of love for HaShem by removing (lit. ‘circumcising’) our decontaminating aspects that repel ..
Written by d fine
