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Nitzavim-Vayelech: Standing Still and Moving Forward

Rabbi Jay Kelman

It is the rare year in which none of the parshiot of the year are doubled. Being that a lunar year is 11 days shorter than a solar one, and that often one or more of the holidays fall on shabbat, there are just not enough weeks in the year to read…
Article
Sep 27, 2024

Parshat Shavua 5784 with weekly guest speakers (Nitzavim/ Vayelech)

Rabbi Steven Gotlib

Audio
Sep 26, 2024

Parshat Shavua 5783 with weekly guest speaker (Nitzavim_Vayelech)

Sarah Gordon

Audio
Sep 7, 2023

Vayelech: Helping Others

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The time has come for new leadership. “I am no longer able to come and go, and G-d has told me you will not cross the Jordan” (Devarim 31:2). While the people complained plenty about Moshe's leadership, clearly they were very nervous about him…
Article
Sep 30, 2022

Parshat Shavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker (Vayelech_Yom Kippur)

Shalhevet Schwartz

Audio
Sep 29, 2022

Vayelech: Time for a Change

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"And G-d said, 'My spirit shall not continue to judge him forever; he is nothing but flesh, and his days will be 120 years'" (Breisheet 6:3). Man had gone from the Garden of Eden to the depths of depravity, and the days of lifespans of hundreds of…
Article
Sep 10, 2021

Parshat Shavua 5781 with weekly guest speaker (Parshat Vayelech)

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Sep 10, 2021

The Haftarot: How to Profit from the Prophets (Parshat Nitzavim)

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

Audio
Aug 25, 2021

Vayelech: Naming Rights

Rabbi Jay Kelman

We tend to think that the names of the weekly parshiot have little intrinsic meaning; they are just taken from the opening word or two of the parsha. Thus, breisheet, being the first word of the Bible, becomes the name for both the first book and…
Article
Sep 11, 2020

Vayelech: Poetic Licence

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"Now, write for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites, so that this song will be a witness for the Israelites" (Devarim 31:19). The simple meaning of this verse is a command to write shirat Ha'azinu, the Song…
Article
Oct 3, 2019