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Standing as One

Weekly Sidra: Nitzavim/Vayelech (Standing ones/And He Went) Torah Portion: Devarim / Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 61:10-63:9 The future belongs to us, as well as the past.  This Sidrah takes us back to the future when we all stood together as one people, committed to the covenant a new covenant… Devarim 29:9 (10) ”You are standing today, all together, before Hashem your G-d: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,hayom today – “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts[1]” This passage  comes to teach us that the new covenant will begin in the Malchut Shamayim, the Shabbat of the world, as we know the author of Hebrews teaches us about the use of this word in a drasha.  This passage is the predicator of the Brit Chadasha that Moshe, the Redeemer, brings the new generation into as they are [...]