Ha'azinu - Shlishi

Greetings and welcome to Shnayim Mikra, the podcast series developed and sponsored by the Orthodox Union, hosted here at OU.org.

In each one of these podcasts, we read, translate, study, analyze, and discuss one of the aliyot from the current week's parasha.

My name is Yitzhak Et Shalom, and I am delighted and honored to be studying this most beautiful and central parasha of Ha'azinu.

With you, we are now about to begin the third aliyah.

Each of the first two aliyot was made up of six verses.

We are in chapter 32 now, verse 13.

And as I mentioned in the last podcast, the rabbis developed a mnemonic for remembering the Aliyah breakdown, which paralleled the six-week cycle of the psalm sung, or the song sung, by the Levim with the Korban Musaf for Shabbat.

Every week they would sing one of these, effectively, Aliyot, And we are now on the third one, which starts with Yod, Haziv Lach, Hazinu, Zochoi Motolam, and now Yarkivehu.

I have to remember that the first Aliyah, and I'm following here the Sforno's direction in understanding the structure of the Shira.

The first one, of course, is an introduction to the Shira as I've presented.

The second one is an exhortation to learn from history and to remember the essential piece of Yitzhak Mitzrayim.

The third is the as we will see in this Aliyah, the wealth and protection and security that we enjoyed as a gift of God coming into the land and our reaction to that or our response to that.