Our Parsha this Shabbos is a double Parsha of Parashas Nitzavim and Parashas Vayeilech ,this year coming just before Rosh HaShanah, the New Year on the day Adam Ha Rishon was Created.
In Parashas Nitzavim,Moshe , who now speaks on the very last day of his life, reminds us of the Covenant we Jews have.Moshe assembles the men, women and children , who stand there that very day and this is a spiritual call to their descendants too,who will stand with before HaShem .
Moshe warns against Avodah Zarah Idolatry and he refers to the fact that there is , even on that very day someone considering Idolatry in their heart , which he could spiritually see,and that this person and all , who would consider such a detestable Aveirah must desist from such unfaithfulness to HaShem and that we are to remember all that HaShem did for us in Taking us out of Mitzrayim. We are warned of the curses mentioned previously , that will come upon people who turn away from HaShem and how , we will be dispersed and then we will repent and HaShem Will Have Mercy upon us and HaShem Will Bring us back to our land from where we were dispersed into exile, and HaShem Will Redeem us.
Moshe reminds us how accessible The Holy Torah is , that all Yidden must keep It, that It is not distant or high up or across the sea, but Torah is very near us in our mouth and heart to perform It.
Moshe tells us to choose life, which is HaShem's Path of Torah Law and that Heaven and Earth, Created in the beginning , will be the two witnesses of this Covenant.The choice is ours to choose Life and Blessing, us and our offspring.We are to Love HaShem our G-D , for He is our Life and the length of our days, to listen to His Voice and cleave to Him , to dwell on the land that HaShem Swore to our ForeFathers Avraham , Yitzchak and Yaakov that HaShem Gives us Jews .
Then Parashas Vayeilech continues with Moshe telling us that he is One Hundred and Twenty years old and how Joshuah will now take our people the Children of Israel over the River Jordan and how HaShem will lead us with Joshuah as our physical leader, into Canaan and How HaShem Will Fight the battles with us.Moshe summoned Joshuah in the presence of the entire people and charged him with HaShem's Word.
Moshe wrote this Torah and gave it to the Kohanim and Commanded them about the Sabbatical year during the Succos Festival that all Israel are to come before HaShem in the place HaShem Chooses and how the Jewish King or leader will read from The This Torah and that all members of the people young and old, men and women and children will hear and learn to fear HaShem our G-D ,The One and Only G-D .
HaShem then Tells Moshe to summon Joshuah and for both of them to stand in the Tent of Meeting,HaShem Tells of what will occur in the future.
Moshe tells the Levites , the bearers of the Ark of The Covenant, to take this Book of the the Torah and to place it at the side of the Ark of the Covenant of HaShem ,as a witness.This Torah was to stand as a witness to all future Scrolls written, that they would be kept the same with the same words as Moshe wrote, to stand for all time through every generation, till today and forever . Infact,as the Midrash tells us,on the day of Moshe's passing, he wrote Thirteen Torah Scrolls on this Seventh of Adar 2488, giving a copy of The Torah to each Tribe and giving one for the Levites to keep in the Aron. May HaShem Always Bless the beloved Neshomele of Moshe .
This Parsha finishes where the Song of Moshe is introduced, the song which comes in the next Parsha.
The Names of these two Parshas , is Parashas Nitzavim and Parashas Vayeilech which means 'Nitzavim ' - 'Standing' - and 'Vayeilech' - 'Went or Going To.' Put together these words say that we are to go constantly to HaShem , for we Stand before Him all the time .We stand before Him when we awaken and are to go to Him with alacrity . We wake up to Him every morning and we are to go to Him and Stand before Him with alacrity . Our day is filled with Mitzvos , where we Go to Him and Stand before Him with alacrity.
At all times, we are to ' Go ' to HaShem , who ' Stands ' in front of us , day and night, in the light and in the dark , at all times, are we to Go to HaShem and Stand before Him with each step we take.
When Moshe said we. 'Nitzavim' ' Stand' before HaShem that day,,that day is every day,for it is every day that we all stand before HaShem and thus we are to always behave with Holiness and Righteousness. HaShem could have used the word 'Omeid,' for ' Stand,' so why did HaShem use the word Nitzavim?' It is possible , as one of the reasons, that HaShem used this word , as within this word , is the word 'Tzav,' which means 'Decree or Command or Order, ' for to Stand before HaShem , and be in HaShem's Sweet Presence, we are to be keeping HaShem's Order and Commandments and Decrees.It is not just enough to wait till we need to do something good. We are to 'Vayeilech go out of our way to seek the sweetness of the Torah Law to go with alacrity to follow The Torah.
In keeping HaShem's Torah Mitzvos, is if for our benefit.We see this within the word 'Vayeilech ,' for within this word is the word 'Lecha,' which means ' For You.' HaShem is telling us that when we go out to keep HaShem's Laws , it is for us and for our benefit , so that we may 'Nitzavim,' stand before HaShem with love .
The Torah is our life and the length of our days and is in reach of each and every one of us Jews, to follow its beauty and Holiness so that we may 'Vayeilech ' - 'Go ,' and 'Nitzavim ,' - ' Stand ' before HaShem in purity .
HaShem Alone is G-D . His Law , is His Sweet Hand stretching out to us and bringing and carrying us up to 'Shamaim' Heaven .
All we have to do is show Him our love and choose. HaShem and His Torah Law , choose Life , choose G-D in everything we do .
We 'Nitzavim ' 'Stand ' now , on the threshold of a New Year , as Rosh Ha Shanah is approaching, the time in Creation when HaShem Created Adam Ha Rishon,the time when HaShem feels ever so close to His Creation and actually comes down closer to us . So at such a time , I ask most humbly , that all of you , look deeper into yourselves and step toward life , and from now on follow HaShem in all that HaShem Wants , following in His Way , following His Beautiful Commandments that lead to Life , that lead to HaShem and follow HaShem Only and nothing and no one else but HaShem , Who is G-D and let us all , now as we approach Rosh Ha Shanah 'Vayeilech' - 'Go,' and 'Nitzavim' - ' Stand' before HaShem and follow His Commandments as HaShem Wants us to and may HaShem surround us all with the Light of His Loving Shechinah .
With Love to HaShem , I wish HaShem with Love, a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love and Shanah Tovah with Love and to all my fellow Yidden , a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and Shanah Tovah Chasima Ve Kesiva Tovah.
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