Friday 11 October 2019

Shabbos Tzetl: Haazinu

CANDLE LIGHTING 
6:16pm - earliest candle lighting, Friday
7:15pm - Candle Lighting, Friday.
8:14pm - Havdalah, Saturday.
These times are for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Shabbat Shalom! 


*SUKKOT TIMES
Sunday 13 October
7:17pm Light Candles
Monday 14 October
8:16pm LIght Candles after (pre-existing)
Tuesday 15 October
8:17pm Chag ends


YESHIVA SHULE TIMES
Please click here to view the Yeshivah Shule Tzetel for Parshas Ha'azinu and Succos.

PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL
Deuteronomy 32:1–52

The greater part of the Torah reading of Haazinu ("Listen In") consists of a 70-line "song" delivered by Moses to the people of Israel on the last day of his earthly life.

Calling heaven and earth as witnesses, Moses exhorts the people, "Remember the days of old / Consider the years of many generations / Ask your father, and he will recount it to you / Your elders, and they will tell you" how G‑d "found them in a desert land," made them a people, chose them as His own, and bequeathed them a bountiful land. The song also warns against the pitfalls of plenty—"Yeshurun grew fat and kicked / You have grown fat, thick and rotund / He forsook G‑d who made him / And spurned the Rock of his salvation"—and the terrible calamities that would result, which Moses describes as G‑d "hiding His face." Yet in the end, he promises, G‑d will avenge the blood of His servants, and be reconciled with His people and land.

The Parshah concludes with G‑d's instruction to Moses to ascend the summit of Mount Nebo, from which he will behold the Promised Land before dying on the mountain. "For you shall see the land opposite you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the children of Israel."


HAFTORAH IN A NUTSHELL
II Samuel 22:1-51.

This week's haftorah describes the song King David composed in his old age, echoing the weekly Torah reading, where Moses delivers his parting words to the Jewish nation in song form.

David's song expresses gratitude to G‑d for saving him from all his enemies. He starts with the famous words, "The L-rd is my rock and my fortress." He goes on to describe the pain and hardships he encountered and reiterates that he always turned to G‑d in his moments of distress. He recounts G‑d's reaction to those who tormented him: "The Lord thundered from heaven; and the Most High gave forth His voice. And He sent out arrows and He scattered them, lightning and He discomfited them. . . I have pursued my enemies and have destroyed them; never turning back until they were consumed."

The King attributes his salvation to his uprightness in following G‑d's ways: "The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He recompensed me..."

The song ends with David's expression of thankfulness: "Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the nations, and to Your name I will sing praises. He gives great salvation to His king, and He performs kindness to His anointed; to David and to his seed, forevermore."


SAGES ON THE PARSHAH
When I call out [and mention] the Name of G‑d / [Respond and] ascribe greatness to our G‑d.
-- Devarim 32:3
Rashi: "When I call out the Name of G‑d"—when I call out and mention G‑d's Name, you should "ascribe greatness to our G‑d"—and bless His Name. From here, they derived that after a blessing recited in the Temple, one responds: "Blessed be the Name of His glorious Kingdom!" [rather than "amen"].
Sifri: From where do we derive that one must answer "amen" after a blessing is made? From the words, "Ascribe greatness to our G‑d."
Gur Aryeh: The verse cannot refer to answering "amen," since "amen" is not a phrase with which one praises the greatness of G‑d, and the verse stresses: "Ascribe greatness to our G‑d."



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