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
Returning to Israel
The Vilna Gaon brought down a kabballa that all parshaiot in the book of Devarim represent a different century between the years 5000 and 6000. It works out that ..
Written by Anonymous
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7 years ago
The Power of Positivity
It is a really short sedra this week; with 40 psukim, it’s more of a rugby score than the usual cricket score. But as one of my [short] friends used to say to me, good ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
Changing from singular to plural???!?
If you look carefully at our sedra, Moshe constantly switches between referring to Bnei Yisrael in the singular (lecha) and plural (lachem). ..
Written by d fine
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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
