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Post by alon on Oct 17, 2020 16:14:49 GMT -8
Name of Par’shah: 52.3 52.3-54.3 Par’shot Vayelekh, Ha’azinu v’ Vezot HaBrakha
He Went, Hear, and This is the Blessing
Par’shot- Deu 31-34
D’rash: There are only a few commandments in the last three parashot, so we will wrap up by doing all thee at once. A week late, but we (mostly me) took a break through the fall moedim. Since Sukkoth and Shemini Atzaret/Simchat Torah fell on Shabbat this year, it was nice to sit in my sukkah and just relax and read my Bible.
Deuteronomy 31:10-12 (ESV) And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, On Sukkoth following the end of the the seventh year the people should assemble and read the book of Devarim (or could read the entire Torah) over the seven days of the feast. This actually applies to going to the Temple in Jerusalem, however we can (and should) keep this one with holy convocations in our synagogues, or individually in our sukkoth.
Deuteronomy 32:39a (ESV) “‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me;’” This one verse encapsulates the theme of the entire song, and can be taken as a commandment to know that there is One supreme God who alone we are to worship and obey. And He does not share His glory with any other.
Deuteronomy 32:46b (ESV) “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.” We are to teach this law to our children.
Going into the new year I will be organizing the commandments/instructions/mitzvoth and giving each section as I complete it. And there will probably be some revisions as I go. I’ll try to write something each week. And as always, comments. critiques, additions, etc. are always welcome. This is a discussion forum, and anything written is open to discussion.
I urge everyone to continue doing the parashot each week on your own. And there is nothing to stop anyone posting their own insights on the weekly readings. In fact, I urge you to do so! When I do them I can say HaShem richly blesses me. Mark was the same way. We both love doing them. He still does them for his synagogue, and I look forward to getting back to them here. However I really look forward to having the list of actual mitzvoth as a reference. These are by no means the only instructions we get in our Bibles, but they are the foundation for all that comes later. All other instructions just expand on what we are given in Torah, and if you can’t trace the origin of a commandment or instruction back to Torah, I’d say either it is invalid, our understanding is incomplete, or we just plain misunderstand what is being said.
So this should not be looked at simply as a list of do’s and don’ts. Certainly if God said it in Torah, we should strive to do it; not saying it isn’t important in that regard. But more than this, it is the foundational instruction for the whole Bible! Baruch HaShem!
He Went, Hear, and This is the Blessing
Par’shot- Deu 31-34
D’rash: There are only a few commandments in the last three parashot, so we will wrap up by doing all thee at once. A week late, but we (mostly me) took a break through the fall moedim. Since Sukkoth and Shemini Atzaret/Simchat Torah fell on Shabbat this year, it was nice to sit in my sukkah and just relax and read my Bible.
Deuteronomy 31:10-12 (ESV) And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, On Sukkoth following the end of the the seventh year the people should assemble and read the book of Devarim (or could read the entire Torah) over the seven days of the feast. This actually applies to going to the Temple in Jerusalem, however we can (and should) keep this one with holy convocations in our synagogues, or individually in our sukkoth.
Deuteronomy 32:39a (ESV) “‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me;’” This one verse encapsulates the theme of the entire song, and can be taken as a commandment to know that there is One supreme God who alone we are to worship and obey. And He does not share His glory with any other.
Deuteronomy 32:46b (ESV) “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.” We are to teach this law to our children.
Going into the new year I will be organizing the commandments/instructions/mitzvoth and giving each section as I complete it. And there will probably be some revisions as I go. I’ll try to write something each week. And as always, comments. critiques, additions, etc. are always welcome. This is a discussion forum, and anything written is open to discussion.
I urge everyone to continue doing the parashot each week on your own. And there is nothing to stop anyone posting their own insights on the weekly readings. In fact, I urge you to do so! When I do them I can say HaShem richly blesses me. Mark was the same way. We both love doing them. He still does them for his synagogue, and I look forward to getting back to them here. However I really look forward to having the list of actual mitzvoth as a reference. These are by no means the only instructions we get in our Bibles, but they are the foundation for all that comes later. All other instructions just expand on what we are given in Torah, and if you can’t trace the origin of a commandment or instruction back to Torah, I’d say either it is invalid, our understanding is incomplete, or we just plain misunderstand what is being said.
So this should not be looked at simply as a list of do’s and don’ts. Certainly if God said it in Torah, we should strive to do it; not saying it isn’t important in that regard. But more than this, it is the foundational instruction for the whole Bible! Baruch HaShem!
