The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Re'eh . Today is also the first day of Rosh Chodesh Elul and so we add to the Parsha also the verses of Numbers 28 : 9 - 15 in reference to Rosh Chodesh . Also in the month of Elul , we start saying Psalm 27 , which makes reference to the subject of Rosh HaShanah , Yom Kippur and Succos that comes up in the following month of Tishrei . The Haftorah for this Parsha of Re'eh Rosh Chodesh is the Haftorah of Shabbos Rosh Chodesh in Isaiah 66 : 1 - 24 and seeing as the following day is also Rosh Chodesh , some congregations add also 1 Samuel 20 : 18 , 42 . Here in this Parsha , Moshe continues teaching us HaShem's Commandments and Moshe so very importantly reminds us that we have a free choice in life to follow HaShem's Commandments and do As HaShem Commands and thus be within HaShem's Blessings or to choose to disobey HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and so bring upon ourselves a Curse . The very stepping away from HaShem , is a curse in itself and so brings about its own coldness , in a path away from HaShem . HaShem's Torah keeps us safe and protected in this World That HaShem Gives . Torah Keeps us far away from danger and the pitfalls that are out there . A Torah Life is an Eternal Life of Spiritual Brochas , Closer to HaShem . A Torah Life , should we choose it , is our trip Home to HaShem And His Beautiful Gan Eiden , His Beautiful Garden Of Eden . Yes , HaShem Does Command us to follow Him , But HaShem Still Gives us the choice to choose the Right Path and earn our own Kavod Honor and Brocha . At this time in Elul coming to Tishrei , HaShem Is Closer To us , Coming Down Closer To us From On High , for at this time nearing the New Year of Rosh HaShanah , the New year of Man and Woman , HaShem Wants To Feel Closer To His Creation That He Made On Rosh HaShanah , by Coming Down To us . It was near the end of this month of Elul That HaShem Created Creation and it was at the beginning of the following month of Tishrei That HaShem Created Adam Ve Chava . It was in the month of Elul When HaShem Created Creation Where On The 25th of Elul , HaShem Said " Let there be Light . " As I mentioned , it is during the month of Elul that we say every day Psalm 27 twice a day , right up until Shemini Atzeres , so well chosen , for it includes in the Psalm , a reference to the upcoming Rosh HaShanah , the day of the Creation of man and woman , a reference to Yom Kippur and a reference to Succos as I mentioned and we blow the Shofar during this month of Elul , every day except on Shabbos , for it was on the first day of Elul , that Moshe went up the Mountain of Har Sinai with the Second Tablets , thus showing HaShem's Forgiveness For us for the sin of the Golden Calf and so , when Moshe went up the Mountain , the Shofar was blown and so we continue to blow the Shofar the whole month ( Artscroll Siddur ) . Tradition also teaches us that we also blow the Shofar this month to confuse the Soton , the prosecuting Angel , so he will be confused on which day to bring his case about us to the Heavenly Court , for it is Rosh HaShanah that we are to blow the Shofar . This is thus certainly a month of Love Between HaShem and His Creation , the Month in which HaShem Started His Creation , An Action Of Beautiful Giving Love From HaShem To us , Giving us a Beautiful Creation Out Of Pure Love and this is so sweetly shown in the very word Elul , of this Month Elul , where the letters of the word Elul , are also the first letters of the words of Shlomo Ha Melech's verse in Shir Ha Shirim 3 : 6 , ' Ani Ledodi Ve Dodi Li , ' - ' I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine , ' in reference to HaShem's Love For us and our reciprocal love for HaShem . Moshe starts out the Sedra with HaShem's Answer to life . He says , " Re'eh Anochi Notein Lifneichem Hayom Berachah U' K'lala , " - " See , I present before you today a Blessing and a Curse . " This is the choice From HaShem for us all . The Blessing that we hearken to HaShem's Commandments today , which is every day and the Curse and lack of Blessing , if we do not hearken to HaShem's Commandments and if we stray from HaShem's Path and Chas Ve Shalom follow other false idols and false deities and other beliefs that are not in the Torah . Moshe mentions how , When HaShem Brings us To The Land of Israel , we are to deliver ( announce ) the Blessing on Mount Gerizim and the Curse on Mount Eival , where half the Twelve Tribes stand on one mountain and the other half of the Twelve Tribes stand on the other , with the Levites between them in the valley . More details of this and what is to be said , is given in Parashas Ki Savo in Devarim Deuteronomy 27 later on in the Torah . HaShem Cautions us To be careful to perform all the Decrees and the Ordinances That HaShem Presents To us . HaShem Tells us That we are to utterly destroy all the altars in The Land of Israel where the nations worshiped their idols on the high mountains and on the hills , for the nations would often put their idol on a mountain or hill where it would be Physically higher . In fact out of all the mountains in the Sinai region , it was only on Har Sinai that no idol worshiping ever took place on , unlike the other mountains around It . This was obviously one of the reasons For HaShem Choosing this Mountain . Har Sinai was a humble Mountain , not as tall as some of the other mountains in the region and it's Spiritual Essence did not come arrogantly to HaShem , like the other mountain's Spiritual essences did , to try to be the mountain On Which HaShem Would Come Down Upon . In fact Har Sinai humbly chose to quietly remain in the background and so It Was Chosen By HaShem , For HaShem Wants Humility from His Creations . Torah Learning increases with one's humility . Torah Learning can only take place if one humbles oneself . HaShem Tells us that we are to break apart their ( the nations before us who resided in The Land ) altars , to smash their pillars and that their asherah trees shall be burnt in fire and their carved images are to be cut down and we are to obliterate their idol names from the Holy Land . Thus we are never to allow , into Israel , any other belief but HaShem And His Torah . All other foreign ways and beliefs are , According To HaShem , to be obliterated from the Holy Land . It must be a Land For HaShem Only And His Holy Torah Laws , So Speaks HaShem At the start of this very Parsha . From this time , As HaShem Commands , when we come into the Holy Land , we are no longer permitted to use private Altars , but we are only to come to the Main Altar in the Place Chosen By HaShem , Who Gives To His Kohanim the right of the Altar Service , only at that Place Of HaShem's Choosing , in reference to the Temple and Tabernacle , where only There , may Offerings be brought to the Kohanim and Altar and then we may eat that which is permitted from the basar after the Offerings , from what we bring , but Blood and the eating of blood is totally forbidden , as given also in Vayikra Leviticus 17:11 . It was the practice in those days , for some of the other nations to drink blood and also as a ritual for some of their idol worshiping ways , including the Egyptians , where we Jews spent many years in slavery . Such practices are totally forbidden . HaShem Commands us about Tithing and Offerings and how we are to Set aside Maaser Rishon and Maaser Sheni and Maaser Ani and the different Tithes . Maaser Sheni and the Sacred Food from it as this Maaser , is to be eaten only in Yerushalayim , which would bring a person to Jerusalem and they would gain in the Beautiful Essence of The Holiness of Yerushalayim and by being around and viewing the Holy Avodah of the Kohanim and the Temple Services , for this would , within them , help them to learn more and get deeper into Torah and Judaism , bringing them closer to HaShem . HaShem Warns us Through Moshe , that we are to safeguard and hearken to The Word That HaShem Commands us , that it be well with us and our children after us forever , when we do what is good and right In The Eyes Of HaShem our G-D . It must be In HaShem's View , not just in our view , for we really do not know on our own what is totally right , for we each have different moral standards And Only HaShem Is The True Judge And Only HaShem's Ways And Commandments Are The Only True Right Path . How true that is , for so often do we make our own ways and thoughts to do what we think is right in our own judgement of what is good and right , But HaShem Knows Best what Is Good And Right and so , we must abide by What Is Good And Right By HaShem And His Laws and not by our own thoughts and ways , or the ways of other people and their beliefs . It Is HaShem And HaShem Alone , To Whom , we must abide and listen . It is HaShem And HaShem Alone , Who we must follow , no matter how logical we may think or believe something of our own ideals may be . If it in any way contradicts What HaShem Says In His Laws That He Tells us Are Forever And That Will Never Change , then we are to disregard those others that try abrogate and cancel HaShem's Laws , Chas Ve Shalom and we must disregard those that Chas Ve Shalom say , HaShem May have made new ones , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Tells us Over And Over Again , How His Laws must be obeyed , How They Will Never Change And How They Are To Be Kept Forever . Our own logic is too minute and small and close-minded to be the truth , for we see so little of everything And Only HaShem Himself Knows All and what is necessary for Creation and thus must we put our own wishes and desires and logic aside , for we do not even see a speck of the whole picture of What Truly Is . HaShem Does And Sees all . It Is Only To HaShem And What HaShem Says Is Good And Right , that we are to abide by and follow . HaShem Tells us Clearly In His Torah That we are never to copy any of the ways of the other nations , not in their way of praying , not in their way of following their belief and not in the rites that they use to follow their beliefs . HaShem Forbids us to pray to anyone or anything else but Him , For HaShem Is The Only And Forever Only G-D And Savior ( Hosea 13 : 4 ) . Anything that has to do with a way in which the other nations serve their beliefs , we are not allowed to do . As HaShem Says in this Parsha , " You shall not do to HaShem , your G-D ( How these nations worshiped their gods or beliefs ) , for everything that is an abomination Of HaShem , That He Hates , have they done to their gods , " for HaShem Warns us , " lest you be attracted after them ( their ways and or beliefs ) and lest you seek out their gods , " thinking to do the same , as the nations do in their beliefs , such is an abomination to HaShem . Only HaShem The One And Only True G-D , are we to follow . Only to HaShem are we to pray and Only HaShem and no intermediary , are we to Listen to and pray to directly ( and never through any false intermediary ) , For HaShem Alone Is The Only Saviour , As HaShem Says in Numbers 23 : 19 and Hoseah 11 : 9 and Hoseah 13 : 4 and Isaiah 45 : 6 - 7 for as Isaiah Was Told in Isaiah 45 : 20 - 21 , there is no G-D but G-D and No Deliverer but G-D and the belief that the nations think will save them , HaShem here in Isaiah 45 : 20 states clearly that they pray to a deity that will not save them . Only HaShem Saves And It Is Only To HaShem that we must pray to and not through anyone or anything else and not through any intermediary as I just mentioned , For G-D Is G-D and not a man or a son of man As HaShem Clearly States In His Torah in Bamidbar Numbers 23 : 19 . How interesting that in Torah in this Parsha , just after this , HaShem Warns us of the False Prophet , who comes and makes miracles or signs or makes a prediction of something that something will come about and it does , yet claims a new belief or idea that is not As G-D Told us to do , or comes and tries to change in any way , shape or form , The Commandments Of The Torah Of HaShem , or in any way shape or form , tries to come and make out that any Law of the Torah of HaShem , has now changed or no longer exists Chas Ve Shalom , or tries to bring new concepts about more parts to G-D or as paganism used to do which came and made out any form of false human deification , or made out a false prophesy incorrectly mistakenly by mistranslating the Bible and by incorrectly making out a false prophesy that actually does not exist , by mistakenly misunderstanding the words of the Bible and falsely saying that such a thing and coming was prophesied when it never was and was mistranslated by these people , such things are against HaShem's Commandments , For HaShem Told us that they would never be and so are we to disregard such a belief or beliefs , so Says HaShem And So Says HaShem So Very Clearly In This Parasha Sedra . HaShem Warns us , not in any way , to hearken to the words of such an individual like I just mentioned as HaShem Mentioned In His Torah , no matter how many signs this individual gives or shows , For HaShem Tells us In This Very Parasha Sedra and later on in The Holy Torah ( Devarim Deuteronomy 13 and 18 ) That He Is Testing our faithful Love for Him Alone , So Hashem Says , In His Holy Torah . We are not to listen to this claimed false prophet . We are to serve Only HaShem And His Torah That HaShem Has Told us Many Times , Will Never Change And His Laws As He Gave Them , Are Forever Eternal . HaShem Calls such a false prophet who brings up any new idea or tries to use our Torah to prove his existence by changing the meaning of the original Hebrew Words , to make it appear as this false prophet says , HaShem Calls such an individual , a perversion against HaShem Our G-D , for such a false prophet , tries to get us to stray from the Path That HaShem Has Commanded us to stay on and so must we destroy this evil from our midst . When HaShem Came Down on Mount Sinai And Gave us His Holy Torah Commandments , this was witnessed by millions of our people , not to mention all the Jewish souls still to come , including the 600 000 of our people between a certain age . No other belief can claim such a revelation , for others only claim an observance possibly seen by one person or by a made-up select few . Torah Is The Truth And HaShem Is The Only G-D And Saviour And It Is Only His Laws That we are to follow And HaShem's Laws Are Eternal And Forever as it says so many times in The Holy Torah - Devarim Deuteronomy 29 : 28 ; 4 : 40 and 11 : 1 and 12 : 1 ; Bereishis Genesis 17 : 12 - 13 ; Shemos Exodus 12 : 14 , 17 ; 31 : 12 - 17 ; Vayikra Leviticus 3 : 17 ; 23 : 27 - 31 , 41 ; Bamidbar Numbers 15 : 38 and also 2 Kings 17 : 37 and 2 Kings 21 : 8 and Tehillim Psalms 111 : 7 - 10 and Joshua 1 : 7 - 9 . HaShem Even Warns us That we must take action against such a person , a false prophet , even if that person is a member of our own family and also if it is a whole city , a wayward city . We are to destroy the evil from our midst . HaShem Tells us that we Jews are a Treasured people unto HaShem . We are not to cut ourselves or make a bald spot as the nations used to do for the dead . We are not to eat any abomination And HaShem Tells us what is permitted and what is forbidden to be eaten . HaShem Names four animals that are forbidden , three of which bring up the cud but do not have a fully split hoof , being the camel , the hare and the hyrax , and the fourth is compared to Edom , being the pig , that has a split hoof as if to show it is ok , but inside is far from Kosher , for it does not bring up the cud . Scientists have for many years travelled the World to find other animals besides these four that have these specific traits , but were unable to , which surely shows The Truth Of HaShem And That HaShem Wrote The Torah , For Only HaShem , The Creator , Would Know All That He Created And Would Have Known That In All Of His Creation , There Exists Only these four like this , And Only HaShem Could Have Told us This Through Moshe , For Only HaShem Could Possibly Know This . HaShem Also Explains what water creatures Are Kosher , that have fins and scales and also what birds are Kosher . HaShem Also Talks of the Tithes . The very separateness of Kashrus , keeps us Jews Kosher . HaShem Then Teaches about the remission of loans and how we must help our fellow . Then HaShem Teaches of the Jewish bondsman or bondswoman and how after six years we are to lavishly set them free and treat them as we treat our fellow and as we would want to be treated . Our Rabbonim say that if we have a Jewish bondsman and we only have one cushion , we are to give him the only cushion we own , for him to sleep on . HaShem Then Talks of the Pilgrimage Festivals of Pesach , Shavuos and Succos and the Laws appertaining to them and ends the Parsha with how we must three times in the year , come and appear before HaShem our G-D , in the Place That HaShem Chooses , on these above mentioned Festivals Yomim Tovim and that we are to bring our offerings As HaShem Has Blessed us And Given us . A most beautiful procession was made to Yerushalayim in days of old , may it come again soon and may our Holy Temple Be Speedily Rebuild in our days . So ends The Holy Parsha . This Parsha of Re'eh , as I mentioned , Gives us a choice , From HaShem , where we can either do As HaShem Commands us To Do and be Blessed , or disobey , Chas Ve Shalom and be Cursed . HaShem Wants us to Live . HaShem Wants us to be close to Him . HaShem Created Creation As A Blessing Of Giving , For us . So HaShem Desperately Wants us To listen and Obey Him and so , Receive His Beautiful Blessings . The very act of disobeying Him and thus putting ourselves in the position not to receive His Blessings That He So Deeply Wants To Give us , is in itself a Curse that we bring upon ourselves , for not receiving His Blessing because of our bad actions , is like a Curse . HaShem Uses the word " Re'eh " - " See , " When HaShem Asks us to choose , for it is our own eyes that can desire the negative and thus cause us to be deprived of Brocha . So HaShem , In Mentioning the eyes that " Re'eh " - " See , " Is Giving us the answer to protect ourselves from the negative and protect ourselves from that which would pull us away from listening and that is that what we see , we want and what we want , we desire . So if we turn our sights away from what is forbidden and look to and do only What Is Commanded By HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He , we Will Be Helped in Keeping HaShem's Commandments and so , Receive The Blessings That HaShem So Wants To Give us . But if we make light of and take very lightly , which in Hebrew is the word ' Kal ( like the word " K'lalah " - Curse " ) , we will bring down upon ourselves , the very result of the road we chose and deprive ourselves Of HaShem's Blessings , and this deprivation is like a Curse . Within the word " Re'eh " is the word ' Rah ' - ' Bad ' for if we look toward our own desires and disobey HaShem's Laws , we do ' bad . ' But if we Obey HaShem , And " Re'eh , " - " Look " toward HaShem And His Laws , Then HaShem Will Lead us , by our own choice , toward the ' Ohr ' - ' Light ' ( also within the letters of the word " Re'eh " ) and so we will have chosen The True Path Of Light to HaShem . The Free Choice Is There For us to choose . We must always " Re'eh " - " Look " toward HaShem and we must always " Re'eh " - " Look " toward HaShem's Commandments . Doing so , will Lead us to The End of Days , where we will go with Moshiach ( Gematrical value of 7 ), into the World to Come , and that stage after Moshiach , into the Spiritual , brings us into the level of 8 , which , is the Gematrical Value of the word " Re'eh . " ( 200 + 1 + 5 = 206 and 2 + 0 + 6 = 8 ) . HaShem So Desires To Bless us With His Blessings And He Only Punishes us For our own good . HaShem Wanted A World At The Beginning That Was Filled With His Brochas Blessings , So His Desire Is that we obey Him And That He Bless us . We have been given the choice so that we can have the opportunity to choose the Good and thus earn Rightfully and grow towards The Blessings That HaShem Holds In Store For us To Shower us With . The whole of Creation Is A Blessing From HaShem in all its Myriad Beauty . We " Re'eh " - " See " His Blessings In The Myriad Beauty He Created And Continues To Create . All we need to do is open up our eyes , the eyes being A Wonder Of HaShem , in itself , for with the eyes , we can see light-years into Space and just " Re'eh " - " Look ", at The Many Things Of Beauty That HaShem Created And Creates . So little Does HaShem Ask Of us And So Much Does HaShem Give us every day . So let us choose to follow HaShem , His Way , following HaShem's Very Holy Torah Commandments , Which Leads us to ' True and Everlasting Life ' - the True Form of Life , that is with HaShem And HaShem's Torah . Let us forever be grateful and thankful and appreciative to our Wonderful And Most Beautiful HaShem The One And Only True G-D And Creator Of Creation , Who Blesses us daily With So Much And What HaShem Asks For , To keep His Commandments , is One Of The The Greatest Blessings Of All , For HaShem's Commandments Are There To Help us , And To Bring us To HaShem In Love And Light And Peace , And So , Showers us With Even More Blessings Beyond our dreams and anything sweet and Holy that we could possibly imagine , In The World To Come , In Total Peace And HaShem's Tranquility , climbing ever higher and closer toward our Most Beautiful Blessing Of All , our Beloved HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Forever Everlasting Sweetest Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov Elul With Everlasting Forever Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Elul with love .