The Shabbos Parsha this Shabbos between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur is Parashas Haazinu . The Shabbos before Yom Kippur is called Shabbat Shuvah , reminding us that we have sinned and are to do Teshuvah ( ' Shuvah ' ) - Return To HaShem . The Haftorah contains the same idea of Teshuvah return To HaShem and is found in Hosea 14 : 2 - 10 ; Joel 2 : 11 - 27 and Micah 7 : 18 - 20 . HaShem Instructed Moshe To Write This Song Of Haazinu , to remind our Jewish people that when we stray , Chas Ve Shalom , From HaShem , the punishment that comes upon us is due to our own wrong - doing . We are to change our wrongful ways and return In Faithfulness To HaShem . Seeing that Moshe knew his time to return To HaShem was near , HaShem Instructed him To mention witnesses that will be there long after Moshe's present time and so , Moshe calls to Heaven and Earth to stand as witnesses to these words , for so says Moshe , " Haazinu HaShamayim Va'adabeira V'Tishma Ha'Aretz Imrei Fi , " - " Give ear , O Heavens , and I will speak ; and may the Earth hear the words of my mouth . " What a thing for a man to tell the Heaven and the Earth to stand and " Hear . " Only HaShem Commands His Creations , but Moshe on Har Sinai , had earned their respect when he silenced the Malachim Angels of Heaven And Earth , when they approached Moshe to try and dissuade him from bringing down to us HaShem's Torah and Moshe's words of persuasion were such that he persuaded them of how Torah Was Written By HaShem for humans to keep and how The Holy Torah Is Israel's Guide To HaShem and so these Malachim Angels acceded to Moshe and so Heaven and Earth would be the perfect witnesses to watch over us that we keep HaShem's Holy Torah and Heaven and Earth would be HaShem's Tools of either Reward or Punishment , if we keep The Holy Torah , or Chas Ve Shalom , if we do not . So Moshe said the perfect thing , in starting this song with Heaven and Earth . We are told that there will be Ten Holy Songs - Shira before The End Of Days . Adam wrote the first one in Gan Eiden , when he composed the Psalm ' Mizmor Shir Leyom HaShabbat , " for the Sabbath day . The Second Shira was sang at the Yam Suf by Moshe and the Children of Israel , after HaShem Saved our Jewish People . The Third Shira , was sung in praise of the Well of Miryam. ( In Parashas Chukas ) . The Fourth Shira was this very Parsha Shira of Haazinu . The Fifth Shira was sung by Yehoshuah Joshua in Givon , when he fought the Emorites And HaShem Commanded the Sun to stop in the sky . The Sixth Shira was by Devorah and Barak , When HaShem Delivered their enemies into their hands , which also included Sisera , the Canaanite general ( Shoftim 5 ) . The Seventh Shira , was sung by Chana , When HaShem Gave her Shmuel , after being childless for many years ( Shmuel 2 ) . The Eighth Shira was composed by Dovid Ha Melech at the end of his life , In Thanks To HaShem For Saving him So Many Times From his enemies ( II Shmuel 22 ) . The Ninth Shira was written by Shlomo Ha Melech which was the well known ' Shir Ha Shirim . ' The Tenth and final Shir will be sung by the Jewish people When HaShem Redeems us from the present exile . ( Midrash Says - Devarim - Rabbi M . Weissman ) . We note that all the first nine Songs are called by the feminine gender ' Shira ' but the last Tenth one is called by the masculine ' Shir ' for it says in Yeshayahu Isaiah 26 : 1 , " On that day shall this Shir be sung in the land of Yehuda . " What A Sweet Way HaShem Gave us to know when the True Moshiach finally comes. ( For no one may be called Moshiach , till The Final Days When HaShem's Moshiach comes ( Yechezkel 34 , which must be before the Third Temple ) , for this last Shir , will be publicly known and sung only at the Time of Moshiach's Arrival and only then will the one who is the true Moshiach , be able to be called Moshiach , not before . This is a secret sweetness of knowing the True Moshiach , for then the final Tenth Shir will be sung , where the number ' Ten ' will signify The Coming Of The End Of Days , Completing Creation That HaShem Started With Ten Pronouncements From HaShem , In Creating Creation And Bringing us To The End Of Days With HaShem's Revelation , where we will remember clearly HaShem's Revelation To the Jewish people At Har Sinai , Where HaShem Revealed To us , HaShem's Ten Commandments . May The End Of Days Come Soon In our days and may we all come To Meet HaShem when we Jews finally sing this one and only Tenth Shir With HaShem . Moshe asks that his teaching drop like rain , so that it will penetrate within us and that his utterance flow like dew , so that it may gently be with us always , being the life-giving nourishment , that water is to nature . Moshe asks , that when he calls out HaShem's Name , greatness is to be ascribed To HaShem , which teaches us the power of a Brocha ( and the Commandment of saying Brachot ) and of the word " Amein , " for when someone says a Brocha , the one hearing it , must say ' Amein , ' which is also a reiteration Of HaShem's Name , for the letters of ' Amein , ' spell out the words ' El Melech Ne'eman , ' - ' G-D , Faithful King ' ( which is also added to the start of the Shema when praying alone the full Shema ) . HaShem Is Our Rock , as Moshe teaches , Perfect Is HaShem In All That HaShem Does And In HaShem's Every Judgement , even though we may not always understand . G-D Knows All . G-D Is Always Righteous And Fair . We are the blemished ones . Moshe warns that after his passing , when we grow in abundance in the Land , we will do wrong . Moshe Tells us To Remember HaShem , our Master . Moshe Reminds us here , That It Is HaShem Who set the borders of all peoples . It Is HaShem Who Set the borders of the other nations , according to The Children of Israel . We see this in the fact that there are the 70 Nations and when Yaakov came to Mitzrayim , 70 souls are counted that started Yaakov's family of Jews . Moshe then tells us That HaShem's Portion Is HaShem's Jewish people , the Children of Jacob , who became HaShem's Covenanted People , " in a desert land and howling wilderness , " wherein is Har Sinai , when we became HaShem's Covenanted People , To Spread HaShem's Oneness And Light To All . Moshe Compares HaShem's Care Of us Jews , to an Eagle with its young . This is a beautiful analogy , for the Eagle is unlike any other bird , for when it flies with it's young , it puts its young on its back , thereby facing the Earth and dangers there with it's own stomach , thus shielding its young from the arrows of man . So Does HaShem Shield us , HaShem's Chosen People Of Israel . Chosen To Teach HaShem's Oneness To All . HaShem Guides us With His Holy Torah True , For Torah Is HaShem's Lighted Pathway To HaShem , the milk and honey Of Torah . We Jews will , in Moshiach's time , be called " Yeshurun , " which has the word ' Yashar ' in it , which means ' straight . ' HaShem , In This Song written by Moshe From HaShem , Then Continues Telling How we will rebel against HaShem And His Torah And Commandments . How some of our people will sadly follow the beliefs of the other nations , that will lead those who follow them , astray . How some will offer to demons while others will follow falsely deified idols and other beliefs , even new ones of beliefs in following any form of deity-ship , other Than G-D Alone And His Oneness . For the Nations seek to make physical , their beliefs and follow that which has a physical reference , whether it be wood , stone or human . Such things are an abomination To HaShem , Who Is Not a physical being And Never Will Be And Can Never Be Contained in a physical human that is born , For G-D Alone Creates all humans and all things And G-D Alone Is One And Beyond Any Physicality And Cannot Ever Be Contained in anything That HaShem Creates ( Numbers 23 : 19 and Hosea 11: 9 , where HaShem Is The One And Only Saviour Hosea 13 : 4 ) . HaShem Will Then Hide His Countenance From us So As Not To Be Hurt And Also So As Not To Take full cognizance of our sins of idol-worship and other sins , For Then HaShem Would Be Fully Concentrated On our total Punishment . HaShem Says , " My arrows shall I use up against them . " This sounds very final , but in fact this is actually also a positive reference , For If HaShem Uses Up All His Arrows Against us and we are still there , it means That HaShem Will Certainly Limit our Punishment and we will still survive By HaShem's Caring And Compassionate Mercy . HaShem Will Punish all those that have turned away from His Commandments , whether the young man , or the virgin who then cohabits with that which she claims is other - worldly from whom a young man comes , HaShem Will punish them , from the suckling youth , to the elderly , who do wrong . HaShem Says That He Will Scatter them . We are to be a Nation of counsel and discernment and be wise . HaShem Will Cause our enemies to see our disobedience . This Song Of Haazinu , will stand up and show why these things come upon us , That It Comes From HaShem , our Rock . Says The Song , Even our offerings and fruits , we will sadly not give correctly as offerings , but will give them with idol worship , which is exactly what happened in the time of the Kings . How Prophetic Is This Song Of Haazinu From HaShem Through Moshe . Just As HaShem Prophecies our Punishment , So Does HaShem Prophecy our Redemption Here In This Shira Of Haazinu . Just as the one has come true in history , so will the other , including As Is Mentioned Here In The Shira Of Haazinu , The Punishment And Destruction At The End Of Days , of all those through history who have in any way hurt Jews through time . HaShem Directly Says Here In Verse 39 , " See , now , that I , I am He - and no god is with Me . I put to death and I bring life , I struck down and I will heal , and there is no rescuer from My Hand . " How Clear Does HaShem Put It , Saying That there is no other god , no other saviour with HaShem , For HaShem Is Alone , no other parts To Him , no son part , no holy spirit part as a second part . HaShem Is One . Only HaShem Brings Life And Death . Only HaShem Heals And Only HaShem Rescues . There is no parts with G-D . G-D Is Not Physical And G-D Is One And Always Will Be One And Will Never Ever Be , At Any Time , Anything Else But One . HaShem Will Then Take Vengeance On all those who have gone to other deities and who followed other parts to deify them , For HaShem Said , ' I am One . ' HaShem Then Clearly States , " O nations - sing the praises of His people ( the Jews as mentioned earlier in this Song ) , For He ( HaShem ) Will Avenge ( against the nations that hurt the Jews through time ) the blood of His Servants ( the Jews - who keep to and follow only His Oneness and Do Not stray to other pagan beliefs ) ; He ( HaShem ) Will Bring Retribution Upon His foes ( those nations who hurt His Jewish people ) And He will appease His Land ( Israel - removing all traces of idol worship and anything that goes against HaShem's Oneness And Holy Torah ) and His people ( The Jews ) . " So ends the Shira of Parashas Haazinu . Moshe came with Hoshea ( Joshua ) and spoke All The Words Of This Shira to the people , to their ears that they might hear within . Moshe told them to apply their hearts to all the words that he testified to them that last day of his life then and they are to instruct their children to be careful to perform all the words of this Torah , for it is their very life and the prolonging of their very days on the Land which they go over the Jordan to possess it . It was On That Very Day , That HaShem Told Moshe To ascend the Mountain of Abarim Mount Nebo , in the Land of Moab , before Jericho and see the Land of Canaan That HaShem Gives To the Children of Israel as an inheritance . And then will Moshe pass away on this Mountain , With A Divine Kiss Of Love , just as Aharon his brother did . Moshe again asked to be let into the Land , But HaShem Said ' No , ' again reminding Moshe of his trespass against HaShem among the Children of Israel at the waters of Meribath - kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin , because Moshe did not sanctify HaShem among the Children of Israel . HaShem Told Moshe that he would only see the Land from a distance , but shall not enter there into the Land That HaShem Gives To the Children of Israel . HaShem Told Moshe , that in Moshiach's Time , Moshe would then rise and lead the generation of the Wilderness , into The Land Then . So ends This Holy Parsha . Isn't it interesting that this Shira begins with the word " Haazinu , " - " Give Ear . " Giving Ear , means listening wholeheartedly . What does listening wholeheartedly mean ? It means listening with ones all . It starts at the Ear and then goes throughout one's whole being coming deep into one's Soul , Straight From HaShem . Listening Only To HaShem , means that we must not listen to or go and follow anything else . Anything that humans do that is against HaShem's Oneness , is totally wrong . Giving one's " Ear " To HaShem , Giving one's total obedience Only To HaShem's Laws , closing off one's Ear , from listening to anything else , For Only HaShem And HaShem's Holy Torah , Are True . If we listen closely , To Only HaShem and call on His Name Only and denounce all other beliefs , then will we Be Properly Tuned Into HaShem's Creation Of Heaven And Earth . HaShem Gave us two ears , so why is one Ear mentioned ? That is possibly because we must keep an Ear toward the one witness Shamayim Heaven and also keep an Ear ( the other Ear ) toward Eretz Earth and work to make them One , by making Earth a place That Heaven can dwell . This means using our body and soul to work toward making every moment on Earth , A Holy Moment Of Obedience To HaShem And HaShem's Holy Torah , Which Is How Shamayim Heaven Is , An Obedience To HaShem At All Times and then , the two witnesses of Shamayim Heaven and Eretz Earth , Can Become One . This is one of the reasons we are here , To Work For HaShem , Keeping HaShem's Creation Holy . When we do this , it will be as though we are listening with one single " Ear " and one purpose and that purpose , Is HaShem . If we do that , then the secret of the Word " Haazinu " - " Give Ear , " will then show itself , for this word " Haazinu " contains the words " HaShem Az Yanu , " Which Means " HaShem Will Then Be With Us " This is what we are also here for , To Bring HaShem's Oneness Into Everything . When we " Haazinu , " - " Give our Ear " To HaShem And HaShem's Oneness And Follow Only HaShem And HaShem's Torah Commandments and when we remove all forms of idolatry , thus believing and following HaShem Only , Then HaShem Will Be With us And HaShem's Creation Will Then Reach It's Intended Goal At The End Of Days , With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . We are also about to celebrate Rosh HaShanah , starting tonight , The Day That HaShem Created Adam Ve Chava And Put them Into Gan Eiden . Rosh HaShanah comes just before Shabbos this year . How Happy HaShem Must Have Been And How Much Love HaShem Must Have For His Creation Of the human being , Into Which He Breathed A Living Soul . HaShem Gave us This Beautiful Creation , For us to make Holy and Pure and Welcome HaShem's Shechinah Into all things . If we take a good look around us and we see what we as human beings have come to , since those Beautiful Holy Days Of HaShem's Creation , we can all certainly agree that we have travelled far From HaShem's Beautiful Wish Of us . At this time of Rosh HaShanah , HaShem Comes Down Closer To His Creation , for on this day of Rosh HaShanah , HaShem Created man and woman And HaShem Was Surely Close To them then and at this time of year , HaShem Remembers that Closeness And Longs in memory for that very Closeness again . So on this day of Rosh HaShanah , let us remember while we stand and pray before our Beloved HaShem , That HaShem Is So Close To us now and may we all acknowledge To HaShem , our full selves , our full Haazinu - our full ear to properly hear HaShem and give over to HaShem our full being , so that we can bring this Creation back to where it was headed , before it all went of the Derech Path That HaShem Had Set For It When Creating Adam Ve Chava . Let us take these Holy Days and Return To HaShem In love and stand up and follow , from now on , HaShem's Every Word In HaShem's Holy Torah and Return To The Closeness With HaShem , That HaShem Gave us In The Beginning and finally accomplish For HaShem All HaShem's Hopes And Wishes Of us then , When On this day , HaShem Created Man and Woman And Put them Into Gan Eiden The Garden Of Eden . I wish Ever Most Eternally And Forever Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Most Beautiful Everlasting Special Love , A Very Beautiful Shanah Tovah Umetukah With Forever Love And Thank You HaShem For All That You Have Done , Do And Continue To Do For us In Creation . Wishing You Ever Most Eternally And Forever Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Most Beautiful Everlasting Special Love A Most Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love and to all of my fellow Jews , A Most Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Beautiful Shanah Tovah Umetukah with love Kesiva Ve Chasima Tovah and a Meaningful Fast . To all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Blessed Shabbos Kodesh with love and Shanah Tovah Umetukah .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is a double Parsha of Nitzavim and Vayeilech and the Haftorah is Yeshayahu Isaiah 61:10 - 63:9 which speaks 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 teach us that this is a renewal of the previous Covenant made at Har Sinai . HaShem establishes us Jews , as a people unto HaShem . This includes 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 , " that is mentioned here , were Canaanites . 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 they 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 did . In Dovid Ha Melech's time , these very Gibeonites demanded the lives of some of 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 would 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 forbade their conversion . Such cruelty , as the Gibeonites were , is not acceptable into our Holy Jewish Nation of Kindness . Moshe then warns strongly against Idolatry and the detestable idol following actions of the nations , even referring to some that were in front of him at the time , That HaShem Let him know , who were secretly carrying little miniature idols on their person . Moshe then warns of The Imprecation From HaShem , That HaShem Will Send and then Moshe tells us how the other nations will ask and be told when they see our punishment , that this punishment is the result of forsaking the Covenant and of following idolworship . Yet 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 also , 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 Has 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 To HaShem's 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 . HaShem Will Return To our fellow Jews and People when we listen To The Voice Of HaShem our G-D , To Observe HaShem's Commandments And HaShem's 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 Holy Torah , are not hidden from us , For HaShem Revealed His Holy Torah To us At Har Sinai , for The Holy Torah That HaShem Wrote 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 could 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 every effort to be at one with It . For As HaShem In The Holy 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 and not to keep It , 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 For HaShem Will Bless us in the Land to which we come to possess , The Land Of Israel That HaShem Covenanted To The Jews . But if our hearts stray and we do not 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 we be surely lost ( which happens to a Jew and his or her family after they stray or intermarry ) and 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 that we do and it will be thrpugh these two Witnesses of Heaven and Earth That HaShem Will Use to either reward us or punish us - 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 was 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 there , the nations before us , 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 On In The 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 in order that all other copies of the Torah may be compared to His Kohanim-Kept Copy for all time , for Exactness and Truth . On Moshe's last day , Moshe wrote thirteen Torahs , one for each Tribe and the one that he gave to the Kohanim for safe-keeping . Moshe Commanded 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 to get reward 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 Meeting , 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 the Song of Haazinu , in the second last Sedra of The Torah . HaShem Then Relates 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 then we will 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 that we are to stick to and how , not listening To HaShem will bring 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 as 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 so must we 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 are making and every thought we are having . 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 that we celebrate . In reality , what was the Beauty of the Emotions of that Festival's 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 and every one of us today and beyond , for 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 , we will realize that Spiritually , we are still With HaShem , Hearing HaShem's Voice At Har Sinai . We can hear HaShem's Voice Reaching us From then to Within us . For 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 HaShem Knew 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 " - " Go " Only Toward HaShem And HaShem's Holy 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 Ever Most Beloved HaShem With Utmost And Forever Everlasting Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Shanah Tovah With Eternal And Deepest Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Shanah Tovah with love . Kesiva Ve Chasima Tovah May all be Written and Inscribed for a Good Year .

The Shabbos Parsha Sedra is Parashas " Ki Tavo " and this Sedra is a beautiful continuation of the last Parsha as I mentioned there in the last Parsha , " Ki Seitzei , " if one goes out from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , one removes oneself from Blessings , but if one " Ki Tavo , " Enters Into or Comes Close To HaShem , then one brings oneself to Blessings and one Is then Sweetly Blessed By HaShem , The Source Of All Blessings . The Haftorah for Parshas Ki Tavo is Yeshayahu Isaiah 60 : 1 - 22 . This Haftorah begins by speaking Of How HaShem Returns To us And Shines Upon us , which is such a fitting Response From HaShem , when we " Ki Tavo " - " Come Back to or Enter Back Into " HaShem's Commandments And Love . This Parsha starts , by telling us that when we " Ki Tavo " - " Enter " the Land That HaShem our G-D Gives us as an inheritance and when we possess it and dwell in it , that we are to take the First Fruits and bring them to the Place That HaShem Chooses , coming to the Kohein in the days that we bring it and making the declaration that is written in this Parsha Devarim 26 : verses 5 - 10 . This was such a beautiful procession that people used to make to Yerushalayim with their baskets . It was certainly such a special beautiful sight to behold , as they walked in procession , playing their flutes and lyres and singing along the way. They needed to be very careful not to stay within lodgings along the way , lest there be contamination within the lodging , as this could , Chas Ve Shalom , contaminate their First Fruits that they were bringing to Yerushalayim . There was even a special order in which they would pack their First-Fruits Bikkurim in the baskets . Chazal says that these Bikkurim comprised the seven species for which Eretz Yisrael Is Blessed With By HaShem , which are Grapes , Figs , Pomegranates , Dates , Wheat , Barley and Olives . As the procession neared a city , people in that city would joyously go out to welcome the travellers as they passed , with songs and dances and blessings . This would take place from city to city , until the procession arrived at the outskirts of Yerushalayim , when people from the Holy City would go out in lines to welcome them . When the travellers would come to the Temple , they were to make the declaration as stated , before the Kohein and so give their Bikkurim And Thank HaShem For Watching Over us And For Making us a great and populous nation And Hearing our afflictions And For Taking us Out of Mitzrayim With a Strong Hand And An Outstretched Arm , With Great Awesomeness And With Signs And Wonders And Bringing us to Eretz Yisrael And Giving us This Land , a Land that flows with Milk and Honey and so , with these beautiful processions , we could Thank HaShem For All His Bounty And Holy Goodness , when we would bring the Bikkurim of our Land That HaShem Gave us . The Laws of bringing Bikkurim , was such a holy concept , for like Judaism that it is a part of , it teaches how all things Come From HaShem And HaShem Comes First in all things , where a farmer who waited years for his crops and fruits to grow , as soon as it does and the first of the fruits blossom , he ties a ribbon around the branch to designate that blossom fruit as " First Fruit " and so puts his own wants aside and long wait for the fruit to grow and Remembers HaShem First To Whom Is Due the First Fruits Of his Blessings From HaShem . The travellers would spend the night in Yerushalayim and so take in the Holiness of The Temple Surroundings , the Avodah Work of the Kohanim And The Holiness Of The Holy City . HaShem Then Speaks Of Ma'aser Tithes and the declaration made when giving Ma'aser . HaShem Wants us To Be With Him , Inseparable From Him and thus must we be forever Holy , Keeping HaShem's Commandments And Statutes Always And Forever Walking In His Ways , Observing His Decrees , His Commandments And His Statutes And Hearkening To His Voice . HaShem Distinguished us to be for Him , a treasured people , As He Spoke To us , observing His Commandments , For HaShem Made us supreme over all the nations That HaShem Made ( Devarim 26 : 19 ) , for praise , for renown and for splendour and so that we " will be a holy people to HaShem , our G-D , As HaShem Spoke . " HaShem Then Commands That when we go over the Jordan , we are to set up large stones and coat them with plaster and upon these stones , HaShem Commanded That we put on the stones , all the words of this Torah . That was quite a miracle , for to fit the entire Torah on these stones , was only a feat That HaShem Could Accomplish . Our Rabbonim discuss this point in detail and some think that it was The Taryag Mitzvos , the enumeration of The 613 Commandments Of The Torah that were put on these stones . Other Rabbonim think that it may have been the Blessings and the Curses that are still to follow in this Parsha . But With HaShem , all things are possible and so , if Moshe was Commanded that all the words of this Torah were to be inscribed on the stones , Then HaShem Would Make it possible That The Entire Holy Torah could be inscribed upon them . And So As HaShem Commanded when we entered the Holy Land under the leadership of Yehoshuah Joshua With Help From HaShem , after we went over the Jordan , Yehoshuah Joshua obeyed HaShem and this Commandment was carried out and so these stones stood as a testimony that who ever enters The Land of Israel is to Strictly Keep HaShem's Holy Torah And Every Commandment Within It , for these stones were put at the entry into Israel . Israel is to forever be a Land where its inhabitants keep The Holy Torah . That Is What HaShem Commands and we are to put our own feelings and wishes and wants aside and we are all To Listen And Do As HaShem Wants And Commands . Our Rabbonim say that The Torah was also on these stones , put in all the 70 languages of the nations , so that they too could follow HaShem's Word and know that staying in the Holy Land , meant strictly adhering To HaShem's Forever Unchanging Laws . Some of the people from the other nations came to view these stones at the time and even copied or noted down the Laws written on them , For HaShem Tells us That His Laws Are Forever and all those who want to be Faithful To HaShem , need to abide By HaShem's Wish . Our Rabbis teach us that these stones were coated with plaster just in case the other nations may come and try to change the Laws that were inscribed on them . It Is Only To HaShem And To His Voice that we are To Hearken to And It Is Only HaShem's Laws And Commandments And Decrees that we are To Obey . HaShem Then Commands That when we enter The Land of Eretz Yisrael , that we are to stand Six Tribes on Mount Gerizim to bless the people and Six Tribes on Mount Eival , standing for the curse , while the Levites remain down in the valley in between these two Mountains at the entry into Eretz Yisrael and the Levites shall speak up and say to both the set of Six Tribes those proclamations that are in The Holy Torah and the Tribes are to repeat the words written here in this section of The Torah , which was first said as a Blessing for those that keep the verse mentioned and then said as an " Accursed , " for those who do not . Our Rabbonim teach us that these specific Blessings and Curses mentioned are those that tend to be very easy to commit as Aveirahs and that also these specific ones mentioned are also those Aveirahs that can be committed in secret , That Only HaShem Would Know and seeing as Only HaShem Knows All , HaShem Would Thus Bring About the Blessing for upholding these and the punishment for breaking these . So every one of us by doing this process That HaShem Commanded when entering the Land , has thus acknowledged To HaShem that we know that we will Be Blessed By HaShem For Keeping His Commandments and bring down upon ourselves a curse , should we stray From HaShem And His Commandments . It is after this section of this Parasha That HaShem Mentions all the Brochas Blessings that will come upon us if we Hearken To HaShem And His Commandments and the Tochachah Admonitions, lest we do not listen To HaShem And His Commandments . The more we do not listen To HaShem , the more becomes our punishment , for the further away that we travel From HaShem , the colder we spiritually make ourselves and the further away we go From HaShem's Blessings And Protection . Therefore it is we ourselves that bring about the curse that comes by the path that goes away From HaShem's Commandments And Ways . We note that in history , so many of these Tochachah have taken place and a lot of them took place at the time of Rome , when Rome came upon us after our kings strayed for generations before that . HaShem Brought Upon us , at that time , the result of our negative choices , even though it was us ourselves by our own disobedience and actions , that took us away From HaShem's Loving Protection . But even though we wrong HaShem And HaShem Sends us punishments , within each punishment , even though we would Get Greater Protection From HaShem if we would not stray , With HaShem's Merciful Love Always , there is a hidden Blessing even in our hardship and punishment , for in our exile as Jews , we can never be totally destroyed by our enemies , for when we are scattered , we can never be destroyed by a nation's antisemitism , For With HaShem's Help Always , we Jews survive there and elsewhere . We must also always remember that in our punishment , we get to atone for what we have so very wrongly done and hopefully still get the opportunity to work off our Aveirahs and learn to be more obedient servants of our Beloved HaShem And So Be Redeemed , At The Eternal End Of Days . HaShem , With Moshe , Ends The Parsha reminding us of how we have seen everything That HaShem Did Before our eyes In Mitzrayim To Par'o Pharaoh and all of Pharaoh's servants and land And All The Miracles That HaShem Performed And How HaShem Had Moshe lead us for forty years in Bamidbar And Miraculously From HaShem , how our garment did not wear out and nor did our shoes from on our feet and how we arrived at this place where Moshe is speaking , on the borders of The Holy Land And How HaShem Saved us From Sichon and Og And How HaShem Gave us their land as an inheritance to the Reubenite , the Gadite and to half the Tribe of the Manassite . HaShem Through Moshe Ends this Sedra by saying , " You shall observe the words of this Covenant , so that you will succeed in all that you do . " This is the secret to life , To Observe Forever , HaShem's Covenant And Laws Forever , no matter how many others try to falsely persuade us that things have changed , they have not . The Laws Of HaShem , The Torah Of HaShem , Is Forever And Ever , Never To Change Devarim 6:1-3,24-25 ; 12:28 ; 32:45-47 ; 30:10-20 ; 5:29 ; Exodus 19:5-6 ; Bereishis 26:4-5 ; Proverbs 29:18 ; Psalms 119 ; Isaiah 40:8 and Psalms 119:155 and throughout The Torah , HaShem Gives us Laws And tells us That They Are Forever. You Shall not add to or subtract From HaShem's Holy Torah in any way . It Is Holy And Complete As It Is - Devarim 13:1 . So ends The Parsha . As our previous Parsha and this Parsha teaches us , to go out from " Ki Seitzei / Teitzei " HaShem , is to bring upon us a lack of Brochas , but to Come Into And Come Closer To , Entering Into HaShem's Ways , " Ki Savo / Ki Tavo , " Brings with it , Bountiful Brochas . So we are reminded of the choice put before us , that the last few Parashas have been teaching us . There is always a choice . If we Follow HaShem , we Receive HaShem's Beautiful Blessings , but if we choose to turn away From HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , we are denied His Beautiful Bountiful Blessings . How Totally Fair Is HaShem . This choice has been given to us since the beginning of Creation When HaShem Created Heaven and Earth , a place For HaShem's Bountiful Blessings - Heaven and a place of test and to earn Blessings , where on Earth , we get to choose positive or negative ways to live . The Choice is always before us - just like it was for Adam Ve Chavah to either Listen To HaShem and receive Shamayim Heaven or to disobey HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and so , get punished and go into exile , further away From HaShem's Closeness , which is Earth . This choice From HaShem has always been with us since the Beginning . This choice was again clearly made to us when we entered the Land of Israel and had to stand on two Mountains . The very names of the Mountains show us this . The Mountain on which was for the Blessings , was Mount Gerizim . The Hebrew word ' Garuz ' means , ' Greasing ' ( Zilberman Dictionary ) and can refer to the Blessings of Oil that gets put on certain offerings and as we know , richness and abundance comes from the possession of Oil , as we know Asher's Tribe was Blessed with Olive Trees and Olive Oil , A Great Blessing From HaShem . Oil , like Olive Oil that is sweet , is also like being Showered With HaShem's Sweet Love . Oil is also reminiscent of the Holy Anointment Oil , which is as if to say We Jews , if we Keep HaShem's Commandments , We Are Blessed And Anointed Into HaShem's Holy Service . The other Mountain where the curses were responded to , was Mount Eival where , if we look into the Hebrew of this word , it spells ' Ei ' and ' ' Bal , ' where ' Ei ' refers to the ' Eye of ' and ' Bal ' means either ' Do Not or Without , ' and ' the Hebrew word ' Be'lo ' ( Zilberman Dictionary ) , for being cursed and not Blessed is certainly a reminder of the Things That HaShem Said To us ' Do Not do ' and not receiving HaShem's Blessings is certainly being ' Without ' them . So here again , even on the Mountains that are peaks that would appear to be places that go higher than the Valley in between , where the Levites would stand , even these Mountains' names , give testimony To HaShem Telling us That if we Listen To And Hearken To All That HaShem Tells us To Do And Keep HaShem's Commandments , Then we Will Be Blessed , but if we disobey and not listen To HaShem's Commandments , then we will most certainly lose the opportunity From HaShem Of HaShem's Many Beautiful Brochas Blessings . We can choose to step Closer every moment To HaShem , or we can waste our lives by straying or doing our own thing and following our own wish and thus waste The Beautiful Holy Opportunity For Life That HaShem Has Given us . The Choice is ours and so is the result that follows it . So let us really choose wisely and never waste a single moment Of The Life That HaShem Has Given us , to grow into the Holy Creations , That HaShem Made us to be and Forever follow HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He , Always With Love And Faithfulness and thus do our part in completing Creation's Intention for us and so be Forever living Within The Everlasting Arms Of HaShem , in Gan Eiden and The End Of Days , With HaShem . Each of our steps that we take can either lead to Shamayim Heaven , or away from It , Chas Ve Shalom . The choice is and has always been ours . So let us make very sure that each step that we do take , Always Leads us Closer And Toward our Beloved And Ever Loving HaShem . I wish Ever Most Eternally Beloved HaShem With Everlasting And Forever Sweetest And Deepest Love , A Most Special And Ever Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Much Beautiful Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Ever Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Ki Seitzei and the Haftorah for this Parasha is Yeshayahu Isaiah 54 : 1 - 10 . This Haftorah is one of the Haftorahs of comfort after the period of Tisha B'Av and Speaks Of HaShem Returning To us To Save us And HaShem Reminds us that we are not forgotten And That HaShem's Kindness Will Not Be Removed from us And HaShem , Our One And Only Redeemer , Will Eternally Show us Kindness And Mercy , as a Jewish People . Our Shabbos Parsha Ki Seitzei Begins Speaking Of the " Yefas Toar , " - " The Woman of Beautiful form , " where a Jewish soldier goes out to battle and while in the enemy's territory , sees among them a woman , a foreign woman , not of Israel , not a Jew , a woman of beautiful form , among its captives and he desires her . The Sedra mentions that he can take her for a wife , but certain things need be done first . It was the way of the nations at the time , to dress their women up very beautifully in times of war so as to attract and catch the eyes of the other army's male soldiers . HaShem Understands That at a time of war , a man's Yetzer Horah may be heightened and so , Mercifully Permits him a way of overcoming it , But At No Time Does HaShem Ever Agree With a Jewish Soldier doing this , for a true proselyte is one who comes to Judaism , For The Love Of G-D , not for the physical-only love of a partner , as would be in this case at a heightened time of war , which is only a physical desire for the sake of physical reasons which is certainly not a holy and correct reason to become Jewish . We see that in this Parsha , the opinion of the " Beautiful form , " is only in the eyes of the man that is taken by what he sees And This Is Why HaShem Commands That when she is taken back to the Israelite Camp , she is to shave her head and let her nails grow , thus making herself less desirable , in the hopes that the Jewish soldier's desire might lessen so that he changes his mind about wanting to marry her for the possible reasons he may have wanted her in the first place out of physical desire only , which is heightened in times of war and which will hopefully dissipate when he sees her afterwards , away from the war situation and with her less physically made-up appearance . This woman shall live in his house and mourn for her Father and her Mother for a month and thereafter be converted to Judaism and marry him if he still desires to marry her . But if he does not desire marriage with her , then he is to send her on her own and he may not enslave her or sell her as a slave , but he is at all times to treat her with respect . HaShem Wants us Jews To Follow His Laws and not seek out foreign women that will lead us astray to their own nation's idol worshiping ways . However HaShem Looks Most Kindly upon a true and genuine Ger Proselyte Convert , who chooses with full love , The True Ways Of HaShem and Full Torah - Full Commandments for a Jew - Judaism . HaShem So Much Respected the true Proselyte , That HaShem Even Put The Sedra Of The Ten Commandments in the Parsha of Yisro , who became a Righteous Proselyte . The case here of a " Yefas Toar " - " A Woman of Beautiful Form , " surely teaches us many lessons , that we are not to just judge by the physical , but to look deeper , because Physicality Changes , but the goodness within is The True Gem . HaShem , as I mentioned , Prefers that soldiers do not get taken in by Physical Beauty , skin deep , but rather that the Jew and the Jewish soldier should keep holy , for the Jewish Army is to be unlike other armies , where a lot of negative things take place in some of the secular Nation's armies . The Jewish Army is to be different . The Jewish Army is to be comprised of Learned Holy Men , like King David's general and nephew Yoav ben Zeruyah was and careful selection would take place , as we learned before in Torah about how the Jewish army was spoken to by the Kohein anointed for war and officers , before they would go out to the battle , for the Jewish Army Walked With HaShem Before them and was to be most Holy . So such an action of the " Yefas Toar , " was certainly not encouraged among the Jewish Army . Our Sages taught that a " Yefas Toar " and the very action of marrying a " Yefas Toar " starts a roller - coaster of problems that lead to the very next Law Mentioned In This Parsha , the case of possibly such a Father who married a Yefas Toar , putting the son of the woman that was a Yefas Toar , before his firstborn son of the original wife , for he may have more physical desire for the new wife and this then may lead to The Next Law Mentioned In The Parsha , the case of the wayward and rebellious son , who comes from the result of a " Yefas Toar , " marrying for physical desire reasons and not the right holy reasons and this could then lead to hanging and burial of this resultant rebellious son , so teach our Rabbis , who tell us that this is possibly why HaShem Put these Laws one after the other in the Torah . Such an idea was certainly proved , in the case of the happenings of Dovid Ha Melech , who went out to war and in fact married a " Yefas Toar " called Ma'acha , daughter of Talmai of Geshur , who was the Mother of Avshalom and Tamar . Exactly As Torah Teaches us In This Sedra of what will happen in cases like this , Avshalom rebelled against his Father King David , where everyday that King David would go and Judge the people , Avshalom would stand outside and turn the people away from his Father and it got so bad , that Dovid Ha Melech and his wife Bas-Sheva and their son Shlomo had to run from their own palace because of Avshalom , who even took his Father's Concubines ( as many concubines , as spear thrusts that were put into Avshalom at his death by King David's General , when Avshalom was running away and got his hair caught and left him hanging in a tree ) . Torah Talks of Hanging and so Avshalom faced the result of his own actions . Avshalom , who was a most beloved son of Dovid Ha Melech , where Dovid Ha Melech looked up to Avshalom at times , before his other sons ( like the Torah Parsha Tells us will happen ) , ended up hanging as he was riding away on his steed . The physicality of the whole story of the " Yefas Toar , " certainly came out in this happening with Dovid Ha Melech , for Avshalom spent much time on his looks and prided himself on his physicality , where he even became a Nazarite , not wanting to cut his hair , the very hair that ended up entangling him when he was fleeing from Yoav . The same physicality came out in his sister Tamar ( daughter of Ma'acha the " Yefas Toar " ) , who also prided herself on her looks , spending much time on her hair and physicality , which ended up attracting David's other son Amnon , where she was very over friendly with Amnon , beyond the Tznius of a part sister and the results were sadly very tragic , for Amnon wrongfully forced himself upon her at the end and so is the results of a " Yefas Toar , " - marrying a foreign woman just for her physicality . Such are the risks and dangers of going out from Holy Judaism . In the case of the rebellious son , this is the case where the son becomes a glutton and a drunkard and shows by his behaviour , that he must already be of an age to become accountable for Aveirahs and such actions at such an early age , show that when he becomes an adult , he will very likely get worse and commit robbery and so he is brought for judgement . Also is mentioned are the Laws with regards to hanging and the Jewish Laws of not leaving a body hanging over night , for it is an affront To HaShem , Whose Image , HaShem Gives to each human being . HaShem Then In The Parsha Teaches how we are to respect another's property and if we find an article belonging to our neighbour , we are to return it to them and if they are not near , we are to keep their article in our home until they ask for it and then return it . If we see the donkey of our brother or his ox falling on the road , we are to go and help ease the burden . Our Rabbis say that if we come across two people we know and their donkeys are struggling and one of the people we like and the other person we do not like , we are to help the one we dislike first ( the one that is a bigger attack on our Yetzer Horah ) . If it be a case of both people that we like , we are to help the one with the most burdened animal , for we are to be kind to animals . HaShem Commands That a man and woman shall not wear each other's garb . Such is an abomination To HaShem . HaShem Created each of us with our own special and specific roles in Creation and we are to totally respect that . Thus things that are known to be women's garments or of things women do for their own physicality , a man is forbidden to do and women are forbidden things that are pertaining to a man . HaShem Commands About The Chok Of " Shiluach Ha Kein , " the Law of sending away the Mother Bird " And Then HaShem Commands us that if we are building a new house , we are to make a fence for the roof to protect anyone from harm . Such Is The Beauty Of Judaism , that we must not just think for the here and now or just for ourselves , but we are to act only in ways that always can lead to goodness and not act in any way that can later on , cause harm to others , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Commands us Again About our Holy Garments Of Tzitzis and then The Sedra Talks of defaming a married woman . Torah then mentions the very heinous crime of Adultery , for faithfulness between a couple , Is Very Important To HaShem , just like The Faithfulness that we are To Keep To HaShem . HaShem Even Compares the two as being alike , in the beginning of the Book of the Prophet Hosea . Faithfulness between a couple Is So Important To HaShem , That HaShem Even Allows His Own Holy Name to be erased in the test of fidelity and faithfulness , In HaShem's Law Of The Test of the Sotah . HaShem In Torah Then Discusses the Betrothed Maiden and the sanctity of Marriage and Betrothal . HaShem Cautions us not to behave like the other nations that at times married incestuously and even HaShem's Dislike And Law against the forbidden Marriage and those that come from it , Are Mentioned In This Sedra , Where According To The Holy Torah , Mamzerim may not ever marry into The congregation Of HaShem . Nor are we to ever let a Moabite or Ammonite male ever enter into the Congregation Of HaShem , as a Jew , for the Moabite men made the plot to entice the Jewish People to sin using the women , this wicked plan put forward by Bilaam ; and the Ammonite Men , never showed us a drop of kindness when we Jews were coming forth from Egypt and they never even gave us bread and water . Kindness Is To HaShem , Very Important and a Nation that displays no kindness , cannot be a part of the Jewish People . Our Holy Fore-Father Avraham was known for his sweet trait of Chessed Kindness , constantly offering wayfarers lodging and even had his tent open on all four sides so as to accommodate guests coming from all four directions and would offer them a meal and have them Thank And Acknowledge HaShem The One And Only True Creator . We are reminded to allow an Edomite ( our brother ) and an Egyptian ( in whose land we sojourned ) in the third generation , to allow them to enter into The Congregation Of HaShem . We are to keep our camps holy and pure , even of waste , to keep our Camp pure , For HaShem Walks In The Midst Of our Camp . Should a Slave be rescued from his master and thus escape his master to you , we shall not return him and we are to let him stay in our midst and not taunt him . Our Jewish women are to be Holy and Pure and not promiscuous , but they are to be filled with Tznius and Modesty . We shall not take interest from our fellow Jew , not interest in money or food or even in emotional ways . When we make a vow , we are to keep to it , whatever emerges from our lips , we are to keep . We are also to respect the poor in our land and as Boaz did with Ruth and those whom he used to allow to glean in his field , we are to permit them to glean and pick up the fallen stalks or left bundles , or unpicked grapes left after harvesting . We are not to mix two kinds when planting and we are not to mix wool and linen in garments ( Shaatnez ) and we are not to mix two kinds of animals . The mixing of garments among some of the other Laws are Chukkim , Laws that have a deeper reason for their keeping , a reason or reasons beyond just logic . Our Rabbis have put forward that a possible reason for the Law forbidding the mixture of wool and linen , may go right back to Kayin and Hevel - Cain and Abel , where Hevel Abel offered the firstlings of the flock , their choicest ( allied to the wool ) , while Kayin Cain offered the fruit of the ground - that which had already become overripe and that had already fallen on the ground , termed as fruit of the ground being allied to flax linen and so acts of generosity and selfless giving should not be mixed with acts of greed and selfishness . Also , the mixing of different species to make a new one , is very wrong , For The Way HaShem Made Creation , Is Perfect As It Is and with no more species needed in Creation , Than HaShem Created . HaShem Alone Knows all that Creation needs , to be Perfect . HaShem Allows for Divorce And Gives The Laws regarding it and one that has divorced a woman , shall not after marrying another and divorcing her , return again to the first wife . A Husband who wants to divorce his wife , shall write her a " Get " - " A Bill of Divorce Document . " One is not to take a Millstone as a pledge , nothing that is the man's food , for it is like taking his life , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Feels Very Strongly about kidnapping another person and the punishment for that , is death . HaShem Strongly Warns us against Loshon Horah Slander , Reminding us That HaShem Gave us the Tongue and Mouth to speak Words Of Holy Torah and Kindness and not to down talk and slander others , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Created the Creation Via Speaking And His Holy Hebrew Alphabet and so Speech is there to make Holiness around us . HaShem Put the tongue behind the guard of the teeth , to keep it in check and so we must always watch our words . When we lend to someone , we are not to enter their home to take security for it , but must , with dignity for them , wait outside for them to bring the security and return it to them when the sun sets . We are not to cheat people and we are to always be honest to those working for us , native or proselyte and we are to pay them on their day . No man is to die for the sin of another . No man is to come to die for the sins of the World , For HaShem Tells us , " Father shall not be put to death because of sons , and sons shall not be put to death because of Father , a man shall be put to death for his own sin " Devarim Deuteronomy 24 : 16 . HaShem Forbids human sacrifices for the sin of others , for human sacrifices and ideas of a human dying for the sins of the world , comes only from and originates only from pagan beliefs . HaShem The One And Only Is our One And Only Saviour ( Hosea 13 : 4 and Isaiah 45 :21 ) . HaShem Commands That we Not pervert the judgement of a proselyte or orphan . Torah Commands About Lashes that need to be given and the amount by the count , not a single one more . We shall not muzzle the ox in its threshing , which would be cruel to prevent an animal working around food and wheat , to prevent it from nuzzling too . HaShem Then Commands About The Law Of Levirate Marriage , where a man who dies childless , his brother is to marry his wife , referred to as the " Yevamah " performing " Yibum " , so as to bring up children in the deceased brother's name and if he decides not to marry her , a ceremony called Chalitzah - the Removing of the Shoe , is performed , for as our Rabbis say , he becomes like a mourner , not bringing up children in his late brother's name . HaShem Is Strict On The Laws Of Embarrassing another And On keeping strict fair weights and measures and it is even an Aveirah to keep such things in the home , even if they are not used to cheat people . The Parsha ends with a reminder to Remember Amalek , who struck down our rear weaker ones when we had left Egypt and were on our way to Canaan . HaShem Says " And He ( Amalek ) did not fear G-D . " HaShem Tells us this , for at the time when we left Egypt , all the other nations at least acknowledged HaShem's Miracles And The Power Of HaShem , but Amalek did not , making light of HaShem And His Miracles . It was only Amalek that put HaShem Down as if trying to lessen The Value Of HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , which no one can ever actually do , for Amalek would like to try to completely eradicate HaShem from existence , Chas Ve Shalom , which they could never actually do and no one else could ever actually do . Thus Amalek , is a direct attack to G-D Himself And HaShem Has Made It A Direct Commandment To us Jews , to Remember what Amalek did to us ( which we fulfil just before Purim by reading these verses - that is a true story of Amalek and Haman , who wanted to wipe us out completely But HaShem Turned it around and they lost ) and we are never to forget . We are Commanded That Even When HaShem Has Given us rest from all our enemies all around , in the Land That HaShem Our G-D Has Given us as an inheritance to possess it , that we are to wipe out the memory of Amalek , from under the Heaven - we shall not forget . Had our first Jewish King , King Saul , listened To HaShem and destroyed Agag and Amalek totally , we would have overcome them long ago , but now we will have to wait until The End Of Days , to destroy them , for their ' Sar ' - ' their defending Angel above , ' who is ' Samael , ' the Angel that tempted Chava Eve in Gan Eiden , will only be destroyed at The End Of Days . Until then , we are Commanded to wipe them out , wherever they rear their ugly head . May it come soon in our days . So ends The Parsha . This Parsha is called Parashas " Ki Seitzei " - " When you will go out " and these words so deeply and aptly say so much , for when we go out From The Protection Of HaShem And HaShem's Holy Torah Laws , we will encounter much strife and problems . The first thing mentioned is " going out to war , " so when we go out From HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , to foreign ways , Chas Ve Shalom , we will encounter war , of different types , strife and enemies will abound . We will then be enticed further From HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , with their foreign ways and marry out of the faith and lose our Judaism , Chas Ve Shalom . This will surely lead to loss of our Land and possessions and we will become very wayward , drifting adrift without proper truth and direction , among wayward and rebellious people , who rebel even more against HaShem's Ways . And where will this eventually lead ? To hanging and death and burial . That is the result of " Ki Seitzei " - " Going Out " From HaShem And His Holy Commandments , His Holy Torah And His Holy Ways . Being enticed by worthless physicalities which lead nowhere . They have no long lasting worth and disappear with the wind . Destruction is their only result and that is as clear as it can be . The following Parsha after this one , is called " Ki Savo " - " When you enter / Come in " And Speaks of the rewards For Following HaShem And HaShem's Holy Torah And HaShem's Holy Commandments And HaShem's Holy True Path Of Holy Light . " Ki Savo " - " Coming in , " Toward HaShem , Brings us Light and Life , but as this week's Parsha " Ki Seitzei " Teaches , going out From HaShem's Light , Chas Ve Shalom , leads us to Darkness and Death and Destruction . How Clear And Beautiful Is HaShem And HaShem's Holy Torah . The Choice , HaShem Gives To us . As we learned in last week's Parsha and in the week before , in Parashas Shoftim and Parashas Re'eh , that we are given a choice to choose the good or the bad , to correctly choose HaShem , or to wrongly choose negativity and here in this and next week's Parsha , the results of our choice , are most plain to see . A Good and Correct choice Leads us To HaShem , HaShem's Holy Light And Life Eternal , but a bad choice leads us to war and worthless physicalities , loss of the physical Blessings HaShem Blesses us With , a Home Land , homes and rights , our very selves and our True and Only Path To HaShem and a wrong choice sadly results in our complete loss of Life and our very destruction . The Right Choice Leads To HaShem's Sweet Holy Light In Gan Eiden Shamayim . Torah Is HaShem's Holy Gift To us . It is our Lighthouse Home To The Shore Of True And Everlasting Light And Life . It Is our Passage Home To HaShem . Torah , just like The Clouds of Glory That Surrounded us and our Jewish Camp in the Wilderness , Is our Protection from the " Ki Seitzei , " - the results of what will happen if we Chas Ve Shalom " Go Out " From HaShem . While we were within The Clouds of Glory , We were Protected , but when we strayed , we left HaShem's Protection and as happened to those hinder-most outside The Clouds of Glory , they were attacked by Amalek . The Answer Is So Clear And So Sweet . We Must Always Stay Within HaShem's Loving Arms And HaShem's Holy Gift Of HaShem's Holy Torah And Then Gan Eiden Will Be our Final Home With HaShem's Beauty And Sweetness And Love , Within The Loving And Protective Arms Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Ever Most Beloved Ever Most Holy HaShem With Everlasting And Forever Sweetest And Most Beautiful Love , A Most Beautiful And Special And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Everlasting Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a most Beautiful and Special and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .