Parashas Nitzavim - Vayeilech : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is a double Parsha of Nitzavim - Vayeilech , and the Haftorah is Yeshayahu 61:10 - 63:9 , speaking of the Redemption of Israel , one of the Haftorahs of consolation , before Rosh HaShanah . The Sedras start out with Parshas Nitzavim , where Moshe reminds us that we are all standing before HaShem today , that day , men , women , children , heads of the Tribes , elders and officers and proselytes and also the water drawers , to pass into the Covenant of HaShem our G-D . Our Rabbonim note that this is a renewal of the previous Covenant made at Har Sinai . HaShem establishes us Jews , as a people unto HaShem . This included , not only those alive in that day , but HaShem Brought the Neshomas of all Jews through time , past , present and future , to this moment , to enter into this renewed Covenant , with HaShem . The " hewers of wood to the drawers of water , " referred to here , were Canaanites , whom Moshe did not trust their sincerity and so , did not allow them conversion , but gave them a task still , as hewers of wood and drawers of water . They had pretended to be from a far off land , for they knew those close Canaanites were set for destruction , and so pretended to want to join us . This is similar to what happened in Yehoshuah Joshuah's time , when the Gibeonites also approached Joshua and deceived him , and so Joshuah also gave them the same task as Moshe . In Dovid Ha Melech's time , these very Gibeonites demanded the lives of some Saul's children , for they felt that they had been affected when Saul had killed the Priests of Nov , who used to assist them with food , and a famine had ensued , and so , the only thing that was cruelly satisfy their lust for revenge against this action , was to have Saul's family members hanged and only then did the famine stop . Due to the cruelty of the Gibeonites , Dovid Ha Malech , stopped the Gibeonite encroachment into our people , and completely forbid their conversion . Such cruelty should not be accepted into our Nation , from another cruel people , as were the Gibeonites . Moshe warns against Idolatry , and the detestable idol following actions of the nations , and Moshe warns strongly against it , even referring to some that were in front of him at the time , that HaShem Let him know , were secretly carrying little miniature idols on their person . Moshe warns of the Imprecation From HaShem , That HaShem Will Send on that person or persons . Moshe Tells us how the other nations will ask and be told when they see our punishment , that this be the result of forsaking the Covenant and of idolworship . Though HaShem Will Love us With A Forever Love , And Will Never Forsake us and Redeem us In The End , as our Haftorah Teaches . Not just our Haftorah Teaches this , but this Parsha Teaches us this too , For HaShem Then Says that after our punishment , when we are sent into Galus Exile , HaShem Will Take us from out of these Nations , And Bring us Back From our captivity , Having Mercy Upon us , , Gathering us From all the peoples , Where HaShem Scattered us , and all the Imprecations that HaShem Mentioned , will then be placed upon our enemies , that have hurt us and mocked us and insulted us and tortured and killed us , through time . Any person that has ever through time , ever hurt a Jew , in any way , will then , suffer severely the consequences , of their evil action against us . None , from the Nations will escape HaShem . Then will we Jews hearken to HaShem And His Commandments , And So Will HaShem , Bless us in all our handiwork , in the fruit of the womb , the fruit of the animals and the fruit of the Land . So Will HaShem Return To our fellow Jews and People , when we listen to the Voice Of HaShem our G-D , to observe His Commandments and His Decrees , that are written in this Book of the Torah , when we will return to HaShem our G-D , with all our heart and all our soul . HaShem Through Moshe Reminds us that HaShem's Commandments of the Torah , are not hidden from us , for HaShem Revealed His Holy Torah to us , At Har Sinai , for the Torah that was written two thousand years before Creation , waited till Har Sinai , for HaShem To Reveal It . The Torah is not distant , but very near us , within our heart and soul , to do It . The Torah is not anymore just in Heaven , where It waited all the years to be brought down to us at Har Sinai , but is now and since Har Sinai , very near us , on Earth , for us to keep It . Though if it was in Heaven , we would be obligated , to earn our way there , so that we can go up and be at one with the Torah . The Torah is not across the sea only , so that we can wonder how we can go far away to keep It , but if It was in a distant , land ,we would be obligated to go as far as far can be , to make an effort to be at one with It . For As HaShem In Torah Says , " Rather The Matter ( The Torah ) Is very near to you - in your mouth and your heart - to perform It . " HaShem Through Moshe Again Reminds us that to keep the Torah , is Life , not to keep is death and evil . We are to love HaShem our G-D , to walk in His Ways , to observe His Commandments , His Decrees and His Ordinances , for then will we live and multiply HaShem Will Bless us , in the Land to which we come to possess it . But if our hearts stray and we don't listen and are led astray ( by foreign Nation's ways ) and we prostrate ourselves to their strange deities and beliefs and serve their deities ( whether objects of deified men or anything else but HaShem or anything but HaShem Alone ) , Chas Ve Shalom , then will be surely lost ( which happens to a Jew and his or her family after him or her , when that Jew strays ) their days will not be lengthened upon the Land That HaShem Gives us . Moshe calls ( seeing that two witnesses are needed ) Heaven and Earth as witnesses , to watch all we do , and Through What HaShem Will Use , To Either Bless us or Punish us . For By Heaven's Blessings From HaShem , HaShem Can Bless us , or through Earth's Physicalities and necessities of body , HaShem Can Punish us . HaShem Thus Places Before us , Life and death , Blessing and Curse , and HaShem so desperately wants us to " choose life , so that you will live , you and your offspring - to love HaShem your G-D , to listen to His Voice and to cleave to Him , for He Is your Life and the Length Of your Days , to dwell upon the Land That HaShem Swore To your ForeFathers , To Avraham , To Yitzchak , and To Yaakov , To Give Them ." So ends this Sedra of Nitzavim . The Sedra of Vayeilech , Starts by Telling us how Moshe finished his Beautiful Talk to us then and told us how he is now One Hundred And Twenty Years Old Today , and can no longer go out and come in , " for HaShem Has Said To me , ' You shall not cross this Jordan . ' " HaShem Will Have Yehoshuah Lead us into Canaan , destroying the nations before us there for us to possess this Land of Israel , ours Given By G-D Himself , To The Jews . It is not that Moshe did not have the strength to ' go out and come in , ' for as HaShem Tells us later in Torah ,that ' his strength was not abated ' but he no longer had Permission By HaShem , to Continue after this point . Moshe had reached the age of a Tzaddik , as HaShem Spoke in the Book of Bereishis , of the Age of a Tzaddik . Moshe summoned Yehoshuah and said for him to be " strong and courageous , " for he will lead the people for HaShem , to the Land That HaShem Swore To Give us and inherit , where Yehoshuah " shall cause them to inherit it , where Yehoshuah will stand with the People and Fight the Wars of HaShem , to Gain the Land . " Moshe Tells Yehoshuah , How HaShem Will Be With him , Walking Before him . Our Rabbonim teach us that Moshe wrote this Torah on his last day and gave it to the Kohanim , the sons of Levi , bearers of the Ark of the Covenant of HaShem , and to all the elders of Israel , for Moshe wrote for each Tribe , a separate copy of the Torah and another one , which he Gave to the Kohanim , for safekeeping , that all other copies of the Torah may be compared to His Kohanim-Kept Copy , for all time , for exactness and Truth . so on Moshe's last day , he wrote thirteen Torahs , one for each Tribe and the one that he gave to the Kohanim for safe-keeping . Moshe Commands that at the end of seven years , just after the time of the Shemittah Year , during the Succos Festival , when all Israel comes to appear before HaShem our G-D , in the vicinity of the Temple , all the people shall be gathered , men , women and small children , and the Ger in our cities , to hear and come and learn and fear HaShem our G-D to be careful to perform all the words of This Torah . This was the ' Hakhel , ' the public reading of this book of Devarim , by the King of Israel , to all . Our Rabbis teach that HaShem Also Made a Command to bring the children , not just that they may grow into Torah Observant Jews , but also , seeing that parents would have brought their children along anyway , the Command would also give parents an opportunity for the very Mitzvah of Obeying Hashem , in the Commandment of bringing the children . This opportunity for a Mitzvah , that we would do even if not commanded , shows HaShem ' s Love For us . HaShem Then Told Moshe of his days drawing near to pass and to summon Yehoshuah , and for both to stand in the Tent of Meeting. , where HaShem Would Instruct him , and so they obeyed . HaShem Appeared in the Tent of Meeeting , in a pillar of cloud . HaShem warned how after Moshe's passing , the people would stray after foreign ways and deities , and How HaShem Would be angry with us and Conceal Himself From us , For A Time , and during that time , we would become prey to other nations and distressed . HaShem Tells Moshe to write the Song , which is thew Song of Haazinu , in the second last Sedra of The Torah . HaShem Tells then that He Would Bring us To the Land , He swore to Give our ForeFathers , a Land flowing with Milk and Honey , The Sweetness of Torah , and how we will Be Blessed With Abundance , and sadly forget HaShem , and follow and serve foreign ways and deities , provoking HaShem , and so will distresses come upon us , and how Moshe's Song of Haazinu , will be a testament of HaShem's Covenant we are to stick to and how , not listening to HaShem , brings us distress . When Moshe finished writing the words of this Torah onto a book , until its conclusion , Moshe commanded the Levites , bearers of the Ark of the Covenant of HaShem , to take this Book of the Torah and place it at the side of the Ark of the Covenant of HaShem , and it shall be there and a witness . Moshe ends this Sedra by saying , " Moses spoke the words of this song into the ears of the entire congregation of Israel , until their conclusion . " So ends this Sedra Parsha . Our Parshas of " Nitzavim " and " Vayeilech " both speak of Keeping HaShem's Commandments . The Parsha of " Nitzavim " and " Vayeilech " speaks of " Standing " and " Going " and put together , HaShem Is Asking us to " Go " from our own ways , and " Stand " before HaShem , following only HaShem's Ways . When must we " Go " from our own ways and " Stand " before HaShem , " following only His Ways ? At all times , for at all times , the Yetzer Horah , tries to get us to " Go " away from HaShem , " but Parashas " Nitzavim " Gives us the helping hint , of how to beat the Yetzer Horah , that attempts to pull us away from the right Path , and that hint , to beat the Yetzer Horah is to remember , that at all times , wherever we are , we are always " Nitzavim , " - " Standing " before HaShem . We may think we are alone , but we never ever are . At all times , HaShem Is There , and so , at all times , we are " Nitzavim " - " Standing " before HaShem , " and thus we must conduct ourselves with proper obedience to HaShem . When HaShem Said in Parashas " Nitzavim , " that we are " Standing " before Him " Today , " that " Today " is Every Day . For Every Day , we " Stand " Before HaShem , and account for ourselves , even though we may not realize it . So to " Nitzavim " - " Stand " before HaShem , we must " Vayeilech " - " Go " out from ourselves and the pull of the Yetzer Horah , for before us , at every instant , Stands HaShem ,Watching every move we make and every thought we have . To HaShem , time is beyond Eternal , where for us , time is , relative to past , present and future . So from HaShem's Point of View , When HaShem Reminds us that we are " Nitzavim " - " Standing " before Him , all those years ago , To HaShem and True Reality , you , me and all us Jews ( for it said that Jews past , present and future stood then before HaShem ) , are in reality Standing there , before HaShem , Within That Very Covenant . The Same is with every Festival we celebrate . In reality , what was the Beauty of the Emotions of that Festival starting Point , is Happening at every Festival we celebrate . This could be a deeper reason , for why at Pesach , we say that not just our ForeFathers , but us as well , are redeemed from slavery , so must we lean as freed-from-slavery people , at the Seder . To HaShem , Time is a Creation , like all others things in Creation . So when we " Vayeilech " - " Go " out from our own Yetzer Horah and " Nitzavim " Stand " before HaShem , in those days , in reality , we are still " Standing " before HaShem Today . As with Har Sinai and HaShem's Revelation , where there too , we were all brought from the past , present and future , to agree to the Covenant of Torah Law , so is it binding on each one of us today and beyond , fro we were all brought there to be a part of it , for even today , we still Stand at the Foot of Har Sinai , with HaShem Before us , as we hold fast and strong to HaShem , in Faithfulness and Love , to a Covenant that we all entered into , with HaShem , with Obedience and Love . HaShem's Voice Is Never Ending , so When HaShem Speaks , His Voice Carries Through our Created Time , Till today And Beyond , and if we truly listen closely and realize , that Spiritually , we are still with HaShem , Hearing His Voice At Har Sinai , we can hear His Voice Reaching us from then , to Within us . When today , we might ask a question on a Torah point and we feel later on an answer coming into our soul , that could also be HaShem's Voice , Answering our question from Har Sinai , for He Knew , that even generations later , that today , we would ask that question . HaShem's Voice Is Sweetly Never-Ending , and so if we listen closely enough and " Vayeilech " - " Go " out from ourselves and our own wishes and Yetzer Horah , and " Vayeilech " - l Go " Only Toward HaShem And His Torah , Then we will hear HaShem Sweetly and Lovingly Close , for at all times , we " Nitzavim " - " Stand " before our Beloved HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Utmost And Forever Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .