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NITZAVIM-VAYELECH 5759

PARSHA SUMMARY
Nitzavim-Vayelech

"Today you are all standing before G-d, your leaders, tribal chiefs, elders and officers, every Israelite man, your children, women, and proselytes in your camp, even your woodcutters and water drawers."

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ADVANCED STUDY
A Foot Ahead

Should the objection be raised that at the present time and in our given circumstances, it is hard for a Jew to keep his Judaism intact, without compromise, throughout the year, the Torah itself answers, "You are standing today." This is not a command or a prediction or a promise. It is stated as a fact. The fact is that every Jew stands before G-d, who is his life and his strength. The duty is to bring this fact into the open, from the potential to the actual.

And with the assurance implicit in ths, each Jew, and all Jews, come to the coronation, as it were, of G-d on Rosh Hashanah, the acceptance of His sovereignty and the proclamation of His kingship over Israel, and over all the world.

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CHILDREN
The Boy who Loved Horseback Riding

The young man went galloping into town. Little did he know that the errand was really a pretext for his father’s friends to get him to the Rebbe’s house. Shortly he found himself facing the Rebbe, who greeted him warmly. "But why did you choose to ride into town on horseback, instead of in a buggy?" the Rebbe asked.

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INSIGHT
Drawing Vitality From The Torah

Man's life-force is equally present throughout the body, in the toes no less than in the head. Some higher soul-powers (such as intellect, vision, hearing etc.) are indeed in the head, but these are merely specific soul-powers. The life-force itself, that which makes us living beings, is equal throughout the body, in the heels of the legs no less than in the brain of the head. So, too, it is with the Torah.