Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech - Rabbi Aaron Dov Friedman - 09.3.26

Okay, we are today Parshas Nitzavim Vayelach.

Two small Parshas.

One is 40 Pesukim and one is 30 Pesukim.

So no one complains when we put those together.

Totally of 70 Pesukim.

Still considered a short Parsha.

And this is always, they're always together when we don't have a Shabbos in between Yom Kippur and Sukkos and therefore Shabbos Shuvah most years is going to be Parshas Hazinu which is called the Shira and this is also the last Shabbos of the year It's always the last Shabbos of the year.

Parshas Nitzavim.

And the Chazal tell us that Taisa says in Megillah that we always place the Toichacha of Kisavai before Rosh Hashanah to end the year.

And all of the Klolois, however you want to translate the Klolois, the admonitions, the non-blessings, or the... telling us to keep on the straight and narrow, the Torah always says that the Shabbos, right before Rosh Hashanah, is always parashas, need tzavim to give us a little consolation.

Speaking about consolation, this is also the seventh parasha of the shiva, the nechemta, the seven haftoras that we have read since parasha's v'ezchanan, after Tisha B'Av, which was prefaced by the three of Pur HaNusah, where we read about the where the Navi in Yirmiyot was telling us that we better shape up or there'll be a Hurban and we didn't listen and those are the three Haftaras of where Yirmiyot came and and foretold the churban habayis after that came the seven weeks starting with Nachamu Nachamu Ami and this week's Haftorah is the seventh one which ends off with on a positive note the Haftorah starts off Sois Osis Bashem that we will be in jubilation, we will be in such happiness.

And this is just like we say at Sheva Brachas, which also is Sheva Brachas, the seven days after a wedding.

So the where we say there's the Bracha of one of the Sheva Brachas.

Here we start to have these parishes in We started off with there's going to be consolation.

I'm going to pick you up off the floor.

Like many of the stanzas are fashioned after the Haftaris that we have just read in the Shivah, the Nechemta, if you will look.

And here also we have which we say in one of the stanzas, which is read in the Chodeidi.

So it's the last of the shiva de nechemta.

We're ready for the, which follows with the two of, the two haftares, which are called the beis dit yufta of tshuva.

And so this is the, so we're coming to an end, the last Shabbos of the year, the last of the shiva de nechemta, and It's also we're going to start this Moshe Shabbos Slichas.