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Sep 10, 2026
Yosef MizrachiHOST
We are now to the, uh...
Yosef MizrachiHOST
On Shabbat we read two parashot, Nitzavim and Vayelech.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Today I'm gonna speak about Nitzavim.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Tomorrow, BeEzrat Hashem, in Brooklyn, I will speak about Parashat Vayelech.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
This is two parashot that are relatively short, uh, we normally read them together every year, almost every year.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Uh, when they...
Yosef MizrachiHOST
when we read them together, then we read the Haftara of Parashat Nitzavim, and then the other Haftara we read on Shuva, "Shuva Yisrael ki kashalta be avonecha, shuva." Because it's between Rosh Hashanah and Kippur, it's Zman of Teshuva.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Usually when you have two parashot attached, you read the Haftara of the second parasha, usually.
Shelby FriedmanHOST
As we said, there are shiva de-nechimta, seven haftarahs of comfort, that take us from Motzei Tisha B'Av to Erev Rosh Hashanah, and we're on the last one.
Shelby FriedmanHOST
And that last one on Parashat Nitzavim has three different perakim from Yeshayahu which we read from.
Shelby FriedmanHOST
We have a piece from Perek samech alef.
Shelby FriedmanHOST
We have the entirety of Perek samech beis, and it's gonna end on here, the last nine pesukim of Perek samech gimel.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Today we have the privilege of studying Yeshayah Perek Samach Gimel, chapter 63.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
This is the continuation of chapter 62, which we began yesterday, and it is also the continuation of the Haftarah for Parashat Nitzavim.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
One of the fascinating things about today's Haftarah, today's chapter, is how it takes the confidence and surety, which we saw reflected in yesterday's material, in chapter 62, and moves with it through a series of questions that the people have.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
The people question whether God is in fact going to save them and move towards not only questioning, but also pleading with God, God, please save us.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Those are the announcement.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Yesterday, I spoke about Parashat Nitzavim, and today I'm gonna speak about Parashat Vayelech.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
We read it on Shabbat.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
We have two parshiyot.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Two out of the 11 parshiyot that Moshe Rabbeinu say the last 36 days of his life.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
But before I start the parasha, first I want to speak a few minutes about the Haftara.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
The Haftara of Parashat Nitzavim.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
That's the Haftara we actually read, or we read on Shabbat, the Haftara.
speaker_0HOST
And there you'll end up in that situation.
speaker_0HOST
Then, the week before, you'll have to do Vayelech with Nitzavim.
speaker_0HOST
Okay, let's just do the Mishra Brutal there.
speaker_0HOST
Now, it says Hey Zayin because we're talking about the first day of the Yom Tov.
speaker_0HOST
So Tzumu V'tzalo means that Tisha B'Av would always fall before parashas V'eschanon, like we said before.
speaker_0HOST
So Tzvarim is always going to be Shabbos Chazayin, and V'eschanon is always going to be Shabbos Nacham.
speaker_0HOST
Kumu V'tiku, Haynu Nitzavim.
speaker_0HOST
Kumu means a reference to Atim Nitzavim, Nitzavim means to stand, Kumu means stand.
Zev CohenHOST
If you don't have, it's fine.
Zev CohenHOST
We're in Parshas, Nitzavim, Lamed, Lamed Pasek Vov.
Zev CohenHOST
Lamed Pasek Vov.
Zev CohenHOST
Now, the Pasek is very easily translatable, but at the same time, the Pasek is difficult to comprehend.
Joshua BrumbachHOST
And these beautiful... portions, Moses is speaking to the entirety of the Jewish people as a part of his closing instructions before his death and just before their entry into the promised land, the land of Israel.
Joshua BrumbachHOST
And Nitzavim begins, Today you are standing, all of you, before Adonai, your God, your heads, your tribes, your leaders, and your officers, all of Israel.
Joshua BrumbachHOST
along with your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are here with you in your camp, from the ones who chop your wood to the ones who draw your water.
Joshua BrumbachHOST
The purpose is that you should enter into the covenant of Adonai, your God, and into his oath, which Adonai, your God, is making with you.
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Joshua BrumbachHOST
We need to actually schedule a time every single day when we're going to put our phones and other screens aside and just spend a little time with God.
Joshua BrumbachHOST
As we approach Rosh Hashanah, it's time to recalibrate our spiritual compasses and realign our values with our choices.
Joshua BrumbachHOST
In the closing verses of Parashat Nitzavim, we read, I call upon heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing of and the curse.
Joshua BrumbachHOST
Therefore, choose life so that you will live, you and your descendants, and to love the Lord your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him, for that is the purpose of your life.
speaker_0HOST
But since we usually do parasha, I'm going to use that as our springboard and start in parashat Vayelech.
speaker_0HOST
We know last week we had Nitzavim and Vayelech.
speaker_0HOST
So this week in shul, Since Rosh Hashanah is on Shabbat, during the week we read Parashat Vayelech.
speaker_0HOST
I want to look at the first few Pesukim because I think they guide us perfectly into our Rosh Hashanah and Shofar prep.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
All right, last week we took a look at the Ger, and I noted that at the beginning of Parshat Nitzavim, including in all of the people who gathered together in our Vot Malav for Moshe to do the brief, he included Ger HaShab Beker of Machanecha, which is source one, which is really kind of weird because where are Gerim coming from? So I stepped back and asked sort of a more Breishiti question, sort of a beginning question, which is, we know that there were numerous people, and perhaps tens of thousands or maybe even more than that, of people who were not members of any of the tribes, meaning not born Ivrim, who joined Am Yisrael as we left and through the Midbar, and they're what we call the Erev Rav or the Asaf Suf or whatever you want to call them, but they are taggers on.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
They might have been Hanakhshalim or mentioned in the war with Amalek.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Okay, but there are people there who were not born of them.
Susan GoldbergHOST
And what we, I guess we can now call it a tradition, is on this Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, it's become our custom, our tradition, of spending some time in a very specific and, yeah, pointed, I'd say, way of really entering into a process of tshuva.
Susan GoldbergHOST
So the portion for tonight, Nitzavim, and Vayakhel, it's actually a devil portion, is at the very end of Torah.
Susan GoldbergHOST
So we're in this interesting moment where we have these last Torah portions from the book of Devarim, the book of Deuteronomy, and then we get into this like weird liminal space where it's Rosh Hashanah and it has its own and then it's Yom Kippur and it has its own things, and then it's Sukkot and it has its own things, and then we get to Simchat Torah at the end of Sukkot, and then we finish the reading of Torah and begin again.
Susan GoldbergHOST
So right here, we're in that very last place, these last chapters of the book of Devarim.
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