The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Eikev and the Haftorah for Parashas Eikev is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 49:14 - 51:3 and here , Isaiah speaks of how special To HaShem we Jews are as a People . In the Chapter of this Haftorah , we read the famous verse that we Jews are a " Light unto the Nations " and so must we Jews be , in every action that we do and with every interaction that we have with others , so must we be that very Light unto the Nations , to be as Witnesses to and to teach the World About The Oneness Of HaShem . The Beautiful Laws That HaShem Gives us Jews , even in this Sedra , are a most beautiful Testament to our Task For HaShem , to bring the physicalities in Creation To The Oneness Of G-D . This Parsha begins With HaShem , Through Moshe , Telling us about the " Eikev , " - the " Reward " For Keeping HaShem's Laws . This should not be the only or even the first reason to keep The Laws Of HaShem ,even though HaShem's Laws Do Bring " Eikev " - " Reward . " When Doing HaShem's Mitzvos , this physical World is not adequate enough to pay a " Reward " worthy enough for the value of doing a Mitzvah and the True Depth Of Value That Each Mitzvah Is and so the true " Eikev " - " Reward " still awaits in Shamayim - Heaven And At The End Of Days - ' Olam Habah ' - ' The World To Come . ' HaShem Does Assure us That there will still be Physical " Rewards " in this present World , For Fulfilling The Mitzvos like those mentioned here at the beginning of this Sedra , Such As The Most Beautiful Reward Of Being Loved By HaShem and other Beautiful Rewards like Being Blessed and us Being Multiplied , Having the Fruit of the Womb being Blessed , that we will grow into a Blessed Mighty Nation , Holy and Good , Having the fruit of our Land Blessed , Our Grain , Wine and Oil ( our staple needs ) , the offspring of our Cattle , flocks of Sheep and Goats Blessed , On The Land That HaShem Gave To our Fore-Fathers . HaShem Assures As An " Eikev " - " Reward , " That we Will Be The Most Blessed Of all the Peoples , that there will be no infertile male or female among us or our animals And That HaShem Will Remove From us , every illness and all the bad maladies of Egypt And HaShem Will Put them on our foes . We are not to worship their deities and we are not to follow pagan beliefs and idols , be they wood , stone or man . Only HaShem Who Is One Is The One And Only Creator And G-D HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . HaShem Assures us That He Will Be There For us and that we are not to fear the enemy , where Moshe here reminds us What HaShem Did For us In the land of Egypt , a place filled with impure negativity , a place That HaShem Would Not Have Come Down To Otherwise , due to its Tum'a - Impurity , But Out Of Mercy And Love For His Jewish People , HaShem Came Down And Saved us . We Jews should be Forever Grateful To HaShem . HaShem Tells us How He Will Send the " Tzir'a , " - the " Hornet Swarm " Against our enemies And That Is Exactly What HaShem Did To the Canaanites when we were coming into Canaan , For HaShem Lined Up the Hornets like a Row of Soldiers and they spat their Poison right across the water of the River Jordan at the Hittites and also at the Hivite and Canaanite enemy's eyes , killing them . We are to then destroy their idols and carved images of their idols , which are to be burnt in fire and we are not to take their silver or gold , for they used it for idol worship and even the mere possession of it can by it's having been used by them for idolworship Tum'a , give off Tum'a itself , for it gains an intrinsic negativity that can ensnare and so , we are to remove these abominations from Israel . This also teaches us that if something before , was connected to idol worship in any way , whether it be a word , stone or anything at all , it is not to be used in every day language or at all . There is so much of that in the English language . So careful must we be . Moshe then tells us how the Manna Was A Test For us Of Faith In HaShem , as we had to have The Faith That HaShem Will , Every Day , Give us our daily need of food . Moshe Reminds us Of How HaShem Is Bringing us To A Good Land flowing with Milk and Honey , Streams of Water and Underground Water , A Land of Abundance of many delicacies , especially the Seven Main Species for which Eretz Yisrael is Praised , the Wheat , Barley , Grape , Fig. , Pomegranate ( that has 613 seeds within like the 613 Mitzvos incumbent on a Jew ) , Oil Olives and Date Honey , a Land where we will eat bread without poverty , where nothing there will be lacking , whose stones are iron and mountains that contain copper for mining ( for strong building with iron and to earn for our daily living necessities ) . We will eat and be satisfied And Bless HaShem our G-D . It is the Verse In Devarim 8 : 10 where our Rabbonim get The Mitzva to make a Brocha after eating and to eat and be satisfied ( where in days of old , the Brocha would be said on us eating our fill and today even if we have just eaten a kezaiyis ( the size of an olive ) we are to make a Brocha Acharona and for bread , the full Bensching Brocha . Our full Bensching was written paragraph by paragraph and added to , along the generations by Moshe , Yehoshuah , Dovid and his son Shlomo and the last part , by our sages at Yavneh , after the Jews in Betar , who were slain after Bar Kochba and their bodies lay for many years , where the Romans did not allow them to be buried , but just left them there and finally Antoninus came and allowed them to be buried and so , the Sages wrote their Praise To HaShem in the fourth part of the Bensching . HaShem Then Warns us Through Moshe not to get complacent when we are in Israel and given such abundance , that we are not to forget That All Things And Blessings Come From HaShem . This is one of the Aveirahs that happened at the time of Noach , Where HaShem Gave In Abundance To the World in its first thousand years ( Allied To HaShem's First Day Of Creation , Where HaShem Flooded Creation With His Light And Love ) and the people of Noach took this for granted and prayed to fake idols and physical stars ( a star simply being a sun like our own sun but far far away ) . We are warned to remember that all things Come From HaShem Only . HaShem Warns us That if we become complacent and forget HaShem and go after idols Chas Ve Shalom and worship them and prostrate ourselves to them Chas Ve Shalom , we will perish , like the nations That HaShem Caused To Perish , before us . We are To Listen And Hearken To HaShem our G-D . Moshe then reminds us of the sad happening of the Chait Ha Eigel , the Golden Calf and how Moshe shattered the Tablets at the foot of the Mountain before the people were given It , for it was like a marriage contract Between HaShem And us and rather than us receiving it and being judged more harshly by a contract that we would have received , Moshe broke the Tablets so that we would not be judged being held by it's written agreement . Moshe reminds us of places where we so wrongly tested HaShem and also how Moshe supplicated himself for us for forty days and forty nights . Moshe reminds us of how he hewed the second set of Tablets And How HaShem Wrote On Them what was on the First Set . Then Moshe refers to Aharon's passing and refers also to the appointment of the Levites . In Devarim 10 : 12 - 13 , HaShem Writes In His Torah , " Now , O Israel , what does HaShem your G-D , ask of you ? Only to fear HaShem , your G-D , to go in His Ways and to Love Him , and to serve HaShem your G-D , with all your heart and with all your soul , to observe the Commandments of HaShem and His Decrees , which I Command you today , for your benefit . " . In Dovid Ha Melech's time there was a plague where 100 died every day . So King David and the Sages of the time referred back to this verse 12 which has 99 Hebrew letters in it and also the word " Mah " - " What " ( for " What does HaShem Ask of us " ) which is like the word 'Meiah , ' ( with the addition of a letter ' Alef ' to bring it up to 100 words in the verse ) , where the Hebrew word ' Meiah ' means ' One Hundred ' ( the Hebrew word Meiah ) , so they instituted the Law that goes along with this verse of " What does HaShem Ask of us , " and that is also , for us to say One Hundred Blessings Brochas per day and when the sages did this , the plague stopped in King David's time . Also according to Aish Ha Torah , the Hebrew Letter ' Kuf ' in the word " Tzaddik " - " Righteous Person " has the Gematrical value of One Hundred . So We Jews need to say One Hundred Brochas per day . Even though after King David's time , this fact of saying One Hundred Brochas a day was stopped , the Sages later on reintroduced it and so we say our Hundred Brochas Only To HaShem , every day , spread out in our Davening Three times a day and also in our Blessings of various foodstuffs and other things throughout the day that we Bless and in our Bensching and Blessing after the meals . It Is HaShem Only That we are To Fear And Love Only As The One And Only True G-D And Saviour ( also in Hosea 13 : 4 ) And Follow Only G-D And His Laws And His Torah And His Tanach . G-D Is The One And Only Creator Of Creation , G-D Alone Made , Makes And Will Make all things . G-D Is One - Devarim - Deuteronomy 6 : 4 . The Sedra Then features the second passage of The Shema Prayer , where here , It is partly in the plural , for we are a whole nation and we are to come together and stand together as one , in following HaShem's Every Word . It features the Reward For Keeping HaShem's Commandments and what will happen if we do not listen To HaShem . HaShem Ends the Parsha , Reminding us that if we Keep HaShem's Commandments And Love HaShem And Walk In HaShem's Ways And Cleave To HaShem , Then HaShem Will Be With us And Drive Out all these nations from before us , nations greater and mightier than us And HaShem Will Give us every place there where our foot will tread , from the Wilderness and the Lebanon , from the river , the Euphrates River , until the Western Sea , shall be our boundary And HaShem Will Give it To us And That no man will stand up against us , For HaShem Our G-D Will Set Terror And Fear of us on the entire face of the Earth where we will tread , As HaShem Spoke to us . So ends The Parsha . Though we will Receive " Eikev " - Reward " For Keeping HaShem's Commandments , this should not be our reason for doing Them . We should Do HaShem's Commandments because we Love HaShem And Trust Him . A person who goes through life doing things only for themselves , is a person who ends up losing themselves . We are not in Creation just for ourselves . We are in Creation For HaShem and other people and for the rest of Creation . Ramban and Onkelos puts the word " Eikev " as coming full circle which means completing things and coming back again to the same point . If we just Do HaShem's Commandments just to complete Them and not put any real meaning or intention into doing Them and how we do Them , then we will have just done them by habit and will not have gained anything . And so , we will have just come full circle back to where we started and will thus not have gained much or anything at all In Growing towards HaShem . If we remember where else we saw this word " Eikev " in The Torah , it was at the birth of Yaakov who was holding onto the " Eikev " - " Heel " of Eisav . We know that it was Yaakov who was to have been born first and thus to have been the first-born , but Eisav pushed him aside and so Yaakov came out holding onto Eisav's heel , at the bottom . Only later in life was Yaakov renamed Yisrael , after he had grown Spiritually and become much more Holy then the already very holy person he was . So " Eikev " - " Heel " showed at the time how Yaakov was in a position where he had to climb higher Spiritually and reach his own very much higher level Of Holiness as we all need to do . This " Eikev " - " Heel " is the " Foundation " of learning that we all have to go through . Thus if we do The Laws And Commandments only for " Eikev " - " Reward , " we are putting ourselves at the " Eikev " - " Heel " of our own Level and we thus need to climb much more and much higher . But if we do The Commandments For Selfless Reasons For The Purposes Of Loving HaShem And Having Full Faith , Emunah And Trust - Bitachon In HaShem and not just do Them for ourselves , then we can truly grow leaps and bounds In Holiness and will really start to fulfil our desired reason for being here . If we Follow HaShem's Commandments For HaShem and not for the Physical " Eikev " - Physical " Reward " we get , then we will have accomplished Some Of HaShem's Beautiful Reasons For Creation And HaShem's Ten Pronouncements In Creating Creation And For HaShem's Selfless Giving Of The Ten Commandments , To Bring us Up To Him . We can see this in the very word " Eikev " which is Gematrically 70 + 100 + 2 = 172 and 1 + 7 + 2 = 10 , The Number Of Creation , The Number Of Pronouncements That HaShem Made In Creating Creation And The Number Of Pronouncements Of Commandments In The Ten Commandments . The number 10 is also the number of Completion which in Hebrew is ' Shaleim , ' which also has a Gematriah that comes down to 10 ( 300 + 30 + 40 = 370 which is 3 + 7 + 0 = 10 ) , which is like the word ' Shalom ' - ' Peace ' which is what will be at The Completed End Of Days , Taking us into The End Of Days and so if we Do HaShem's Commandments , For HaShem and not for Physical Reward , we will finally realize What HaShem Has Wanted us to learn all along , that we are all to make ourselves Emulate HaShem and thus become One ( 10 is 1 + 0 = 1 ) With HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu and we can then bring on The End Of Days . May it come soon in our days . And At The End Of Days , we will finally all realize That HaShem Did Not Do Creation For Himself , But Out Of Total Giving And Selflessness And Total Beautiful Pure Love From HaShem , Only For us . In fact This Sedra shows that directly , for if we put the first word of this Sedra with the last word of this Sedra , we get " Ve Hayah Lachem " - " This Shall Be For you . " Which Is Why HaShem Created Creation So Selflessly , Only For us . Thank You HaShem For Doing All Of This For us . May we all learn to change this World into a Selfless World and do all things for You HaShem And Follow All Of Your Commandments As You Ask Of us to do for our benefit . May we all work together To Bring On The End Of Days where we all , all of Creation , Follow Only You HaShem The One And Only True G-D , Keeping Your Holy True Torah . All of Creation is A Masterful Show Of Love From You HaShem The Creator . May we all Show You The Appreciation that we have so long deprived You of . It Is Only To You That we must Pray To , Follow And Adhere To . It Is Only Your Laws That we Must Obey . It Is Only You HaShem That we Must Follow Always And Forevermore And Also Always Be In Total Love And Appreciation For Your Selfless Creation That You HaShem Have So Lovingly Made For us And Given us . HaShem , You Gave For us Jews to be a Light Unto The Nations , not to be better than anyone else , but to bring all people , To The Oneness Of G-D . May we Jews , all of us together , Be As You Want us To Be and never follow the negativities and beliefs of others , which is totally contrary To You And To What You Want Of And From us And To What Your Commandments To us Are . May we be , as a Whole People , the ones who lead others away from such negativities and wrong beliefs And Be As HaShem Wants us To Be , That Holy Light unto the Nations , leading all To Your Oneness And Holy Light , The Holiest And Truest Light And Oneness , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Ever Most Eternally Beloved HaShem With Forever And Eternal Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Forever And Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love . Thank You HaShem For Beloved You .