Ki Tavo

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The end of the book, from the end of parashat Ki Tavo, Ki Tavo, Nitzavim, Vayelech, Ha'azinu, and Zot Ha'brachah, they are different Brits.

They are the last words of covenant.

We can differentiate between the covenant.

Parashat Ki Teitse is about Milchama.

And it finishes with Amalek.

Parashat Ki Tavo is about bringing first fruit to the Beit Migdash.

How can you go out tonight after you've heard that? What are you going to do? Eating pizza, you'll be thinking, Wow, it's just going to get caught in your throat.

you do it is first read the Hebrew without any tamim, and then I read it without any tamim, and then I read it with the tamim.

Okay, from Kitavo?

Yeah.

Perfect.

It is one single literary unit.

And it is also in and of itself a Haftarah for Parashat Ki Tavo.

It is the Haftarah we read every year in one of the weeks after Tisha B'Av.

It is one of the most beautiful Haftarot in Sefer Yeshayahu.

Pam? Well, it's coming up that the hidden things are under God's realm.

And then all the curses that were in the previous in Kitavo, I guess is what will happen to that person.

Okay, beautiful.

Beautiful that you brought us to Kitavo because that's where we're going to go.

Thank you, Pam.

You'll get your check in the mail.

How beautiful is this Midrash that Rashi brings, right? Rashi says, why does it say, here are y'all standing today before your God, period, period.

End it there, says Rashi.

So, Rabotai, we have to understand why Parashat Nitzavim always come to Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah.

Don't give Nitzavim today to all of you, all of you today, in front of Hashem, All of you, all the different kinds of Jews, the greatest one, the worst one, all of you standing in front of Hashem, after they heard Parashat Ki Tavo with 98 curses, they felt they're all dying from fear.

And Moshe said to them, don't worry, you see, you're still around, none of you died yet.

And not only that, And also to break the end of the year from the beginning of the year.

Who is the person answering them? What are the stories that have shaped my soul? And perhaps more importantly, what do I want to do with what I discover? If Elul is asking us to take inventory of the stories that shape our souls, the Torah offers us a model of how to do it.

In our Parsha this week, Ki Tavo, the Israelites receive instructions on what to do when they first enter the Promised Land, beginning with the ritual of the first fruits.

They are to take some of each of the first fruits of the land, bring them to the Kohen, the priest, in a basket, and recite a declaration that is likely familiar to many of us.

My father was a fugitive Aramean.

Instead, I want to talk about our Torah portion this week.

Parashat Ki Tavo.

Which begins in Deuteronomy 26 verse 1 with When you have come to the land which Adonai your God is giving you for an inheritance, take possession of it and settle there.

And you are to take of the first fruits of the ground, which you harvest from the land that Adonai your God gives you.

And the cause of that was this stress, this anxiety, this upsetness, this let down, this frustration, you know, this feeling inadequate, feeling like a yo-yo, because I wasn't matzleh, I put in all my energy, right? All those things.

Now, if I go into the new year, and I can align my... myself, with that tachlis, put my same life, with my tachlis, that's a big change, that's birya chadosh, because I put tachlis in, and I thought about that, and I realized, that I wanted Rabbanu Shalom, in my life, in my regular life, that change, is really what brings all the bracha, the etzim, I mean, I have to stop soon, but that's the sugya, because the sugya says, and the gemara says, that we read the klolis, And Ki Tavo, before Rosh Hara, because we want the Kelalot to end and the Barachot to begin.

The Chazal refer to that as Toichokha.

It means, what the Chazal is saying, the Iker of the Klolo is the Toichokha Shaboy, and that's going to make the Klolo go away and the Barachot come back.