Category: Parshat Nitzavim
The story of Moses’ death in this week’s reading has received extensive literary treatment from Tannaitic times through the Middle Ages, in a wide variety of Jewish works.The narrative told in the Bible reveals...
Rabbi Yaakov Cohen brings down a beautiful lecture on connecting to HaShem at Rosh Hashanah. Nitzavim, Nitsavim, Nitzabim, Netzavim, or Nesabim (נִצָּבִים — Hebrew for “ones standing,” the second word, and the first distinctive...
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: NITZAVIM: Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20 VAYELECH: Deuteronomy 31:1-30. DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING “Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done,...
Parshas NITZAVIM is always read on the last Shabbos before Rosh HaShanah (New Year) and is often (though not always) coupled with its sister parshah of VAYELECH, with which it shares the same theme....