Our Parsha this Shabbos Shuva, the name of the Shabbos before Yom Kippur. ( The Day of Atonement on the Tenth of Tishrei ) comes , where we do Teshuva, is Parashas Vayeilech where Moshe 'Went out,' and spoke to the people that he was about to pass on and that now the people have to learn to be good and follow HaShem on their own. It was on Yom Kippur according to Rav Chrysler's Luchos , that Moshe descended with the Second Luchos after HaShem Forgave us for the Chait Ha Eigel and it was on Yom Kippur that Avraham's Bris took place and it was on Yom Kippur that Rabbi Akiva was killed by the Romans and it was on Yom Kippur that Yitzchak was taken up to the Akeidah and so , at this time also , we blow the Shofar to also call HaShem to our Teshuvah for a Ram's Horn represents the Ram that replaced Yitzchak.
As I said, Moshe was the one who 'Went out,' to speak to HaShem on our
Behalf and constantly got HaShem to forgive us.No more would our most precious Moshe,be here to persuade HaShem ,to forget our Aveiras.Now we would have to make sure we were good and not have a Tzaddik speak for us to get HaShem to forgive us even though we could speak to HaShem then, Moshe always stood up for us to persuade HaShem to forgive our wrongs.Now it would only be ourselves , that we would have to face HaShem without help.
It was time to grow up.
While Moshe was with us,we had this most holy Tzaddik who could beg for mercy and plead with HaShem to forgive us, but now, it was our time to face all the consequences , our actions deserved .The very merits of HaShem's Tzaddik Moshe covered the generation.Tzaddikim of all generations cover their generation.
It was the time that came ,that Moshe had to leave us and so,it had become time that we must learn to grow on our own.
The word 'Vayeilech,' starts with a 'Va,' which means 'And,' showing that Moshe's 'going out' to us was a continuation of the previous verse where Moshe told us to love HaShem and listen to His Voice and cleave to Him for He is our Life on the land we are entering and everywhere we may find ourselves, so it is for us to 'Vayeilech,' - ' Go out to' HaShem wherever we live and also in Israel where Jews must never forget that HaShem is our Creator and the Giver of Life.
Moshe uses the term 'Vayeilech,' which means 'And he went out,' for even though Moshe was the honored Tzaddik, he still humbled himself and 'Went out' to us to plead, even just before his passing.This was a total act of selflessness.Within this word 'Vayeilech,' is the word 'Lecha,' which means 'To you / For you,' showing that Moshe again 'Went out,' for us .But did we go out for him ? Sadly not. So many times did he pray on our behalf, yet this once that we could try to help him, we didn't. We ignored his situation even though he never once ignored ours. So HaShem said, 'Lecha,' - 'For you Moshe,' your time has come , to come to Me on high , as for now,for this people , you have done enough . As Moshe said, even though he had just 'Gone out,' to the people, he says just a few words later , that he cannot go out and in anymore, this did not refer to his health, for Torah at the end talks of his strength not being dimmed, so it was referring to the fact that HaShem no longer called on him the task of our people in the Wilderness.
It was now time for Moshe to rise and get his well deserved spiritual reward.It was on this day that Moshe summoned Yehoshua in front of the people and charged him with the task of taking the Children of Israel over the Jordan River into Canaan.
Moshe then commands that the Torah be read every Sabbatical year during the Succos festival,where all of Israel be present to hear,men ,women and children.Children too were to attend as they are our future generation and also, if we bring up our children with a proper Torah Way of Life following HaShem ,in the way that HaShem Wants us to go 'Vayeilech,' they will remain on HaShem's Path,as Shlomo Hamelech said , 'Bring up a child in the way he is to go and he will not depart from it.' So all had to attend this Torah reading done by the King.The King of Israel was not to be like any other nation's King, for the King of Israel was to carry with him a Torah Scroll always and meditate on it day and night.
It was also on this day that thirteen Torah Scrolls were miraculously written by Moshe ,one Torah scroll for each tribe of the Twelve Tribes of Israel to keep and another one to be kept by the Kohanim in the Aron , for all generations to ensure our Torah remains pure.
This , Moshe did , on his last day.While others on their last day would worry about themselves, Moshe continued to selflessly care for only HaShem and the people.
Never was there ever a holy man like Moshe and never will there ever be such a man as Moshe.Even on his last day, he spent his last breath in service of G-D and His people.
Within the word ,'Vayeilech,' is 'Va Yah Lach,' - ,'Which translates as ,' And To You O G-D,' which shows that even before Moshe passed on, his every word and action and his action where he 'Went out,' to the people , was to serve HaShem with every breath he had and to even give his last breath back to G-D Who gave it and the people he so cared for .
Is it not time that we 'Vayeilech,' - 'Went out,' and did the same.Is it not time that we 'Vayeilech,' - 'Went out,' to G-D instead of G-D constantly coming to us ,begging us to be good. Isn't it time that we 'Vayeilech,' - ' Went out to G-D .'Isn't it time that we 'Vayeilech,' - 'Went out,' for Moshe's sake to plead Beloved Moshe's cause and give back a little bit of the caring Moshe gave us .
So many people today, around the World and even sadly in the Holy Land of G-D , prefer to use the breath G-D Gave them , for their own personal enjoyment, forgetting to even show a minute amount of gratitude for the very breath that G-D Gives them to breathe and live.So many people ( as Moshe warned us about ) have turned toward their own way and rather chosen to live a physical life of insignificant pleasure and sadly forget the very Giver of Life HaShem .
As we approach Yom Kippur, let us once and for all come back to the very Creator and Giver of life and return in Teshuvah as the word means, to HaShem , the Only True Worthy Reason for Living.
Let us 'Vayeilech,' - 'Go to HaShem,' for it is only to HaShem we must 'Lech' - 'Go .' The whole World right now,stands on the top of a New Year. The time is now. The time is here . Turn your life around and live the life The Creator Gives you to live and let all your actions from now , for HaShem's sake and for Moshe's sake, be for the sake of HaShem , and for the sake of Heaven .
May this time, this hour and this minute , be the minute we 'Vayeilech,' - 'Go to,' HaShem .
I wish HaShem with love, a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and Good Yom Tov and to all, a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Good Yom Tov to my fellow Yidden and a Leichten Taanis ,a Meaningful Fast.
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