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Welcome to Vayelech (And He Went), this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion).
This is the portion of Scripture that will be read in every synagogue around the world
this Shabbat (Saturday) during the morning service.
Please follow along as we study this week's Parasha.
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VAYELECH (And He Went)
Deuteronomy 31:1–30; Hosea 14:1 (2)–9 (10); Joel 2:15–27;
Micah 7:18–20; Isaiah 55:6–56:8; Romans 10:14–21
“Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God,
He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”
(Deuteronomy 31:6)
Last week, in Parasha Nitzavim, God emphasized that we have
freedom of choice to follow after the way of life or the way of death.
In this week’s Torah portion, Vayelech (וַיֵּלֶךְ)—Hebrew for then he went out
— Moses invests Joshua with leadership and initiates the writing down of the Torah.
Vayelech is the shortest Torah reading of the year, consisting of only one chapter.
The reading for this particular Sabbath, which comes after Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah) and before
the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), falls during the Ten Days of Awe (Yamim Nora’im) during which
time we are to seek the Lord with sincere teshuvah (repentance) for our sins.
This special Shabbat is called Shabbat Shuva (Sabbath of Return) because the special prophetic
reading from the book of Hosea starts with Shuvu Yisrael (Return O Israel).
It is also called Shabbat Teshuvah (Shabbat of Repentance) as it calls the people of God to turn
from their sins and rebellion and to return (shuv) to God.
Shabbat Shuva actually has two special Haftarah readings. Hosea 14:1 (2)–9 (10)
emphasizes the importance of heartfelt repentance and Micah 7:18–20 praises God’s mercy.
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Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Vayelech (And He Went)
- When God Hides His Face !!!
Shabbat
Shalom
Welcome to Vayelech
(And He Went),
this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion).
this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion).
This is the portion of Scripture that will be read in
every synagogue around the world this Shabbat (Saturday)
during the morning service.
VAYELECH (And He
Went)
Deuteronomy 31:1–30; Hosea 14:1 (2)–9 (10); Joel
2:15–27; Micah 7:18–20; Isaiah 55:6–56:8; Romans 10:14–21
“Be strong and of good
courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord
your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not
leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6)
Last week, in Parasha Nitzavim, God emphasized that we
have freedom of choice to follow after the way of life or the
way of death.
In this week’s Torah portion, Vayelech (וַיֵּלֶךְ)—Hebrew
for then he went out—Moses
invests Joshua with leadership and initiates the writing down
of the Torah.
A Jewish scribe hand writes a Torah scroll.
Vayelech is the shortest Torah reading of the
year,
consisting of only one chapter.
consisting of only one chapter.
The reading for this particular Sabbath, which comes after
Rosh Hashanah (Yom
Teruah) and before the Day of Atonement (Yom
Kippur), falls during the Ten Days of Awe (Yamim
Nora’im) during which time we are to seek
the Lord with sincere teshuvah
(repentance) for our sins.
This special Shabbat is called Shabbat Shuva
(Sabbath of Return) because the special prophetic
reading from the book of Hosea starts with Shuvu Yisrael (Return
O Israel).
It is also called Shabbat
Teshuvah (Shabbat of Repentance) as it
calls the people of God to turn from their sins and rebellion
and to return (shuv)
to God.
Shabbat Shuva
actually has two special Haftarah readings. Hosea 14:1
(2)–9 (10) emphasizes the importance of heartfelt
repentance and Micah 7:18–20 praises God’s mercy.
Symbols of the Days of Awe
Succession Planning:
Moses and Joshua
“Then Moses went and spoke
these words to all Israel. And he said to them: ‘I am one
hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out
and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, “You shall not
cross over this Jordan.”’” (Deuteronomy 31:1–2)
In this Parasha, Moses faces his imminent death. At the
age of 120 years, he prepares his people for a future without
his leadership.
Moses knows that he will not be the one to take the
children of Israel across the Jordan River into the Promised
Land.
Although Moses would not go with the people, he assures
them that God will go with them and give them victory against
their enemies.
God also gives a word to the people of Israel
through Moses: “Be strong and
of good courage.”
Why did they need this encouragement?
It is because in the Promised Land they would be facing new
enemies and challenges that they had never encountered in
the wilderness.
They would also need to learn how to work the land instead
of having manna rain down each day from Heaven.
Aerial view of Jerusalem looking toward the Temple Mount and the
Mount of Olives.
Moses, however, was not about to leave the people
leaderless, like sheep without a shepherd. He ordained Joshua
as his successor to take over the leadership role.
“Then Moses called Joshua
and said to him in the sight of all Israel, ‘Be strong and
of good courage, for you must go with this people to the
land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them,
and you shall cause them to inherit it.’” (Deuteronomy
31:7)
Moses gave us a beautiful example of someone who
knew how to exit his position of prominence with grace and
dignity. He knew when it was time to step down.
He not only passed on the torch to the next generation
without any display of resentment or hurt feelings, but he
also publicly bestowed blessings, encouragement, and
affirmation upon the one who would take his place “in the
sight of all Israel.”
Joshua ben Nun of
the tribe of Ephraim was groomed for this leadership role.
He was a skilled military leader of the campaign against
Amalek (Exodus 17:8–13) and loyal disciple of Moses.
He was also the first to greet Moses after waiting patiently
for 40 days for him to descend from Mount Sinai (Exodus
32:15–17).
It seems that Moses made a wise decision in choosing
Joshua—even over his two sons (Gershom and Eliezer)—for Joshua
followed God's directions, trusting Him to successfully lead
the children of Israel into the Promised Land.
As a result, Joshua conquered Jericho and eventually the
rest of Canaan.
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We, too, when embarking upon a new venture, need
to have the strength and courage to trust that God will be
with us to help us overcome every challenge and to meet
every need.
“Through God we will do
valiantly, and it is He who shall tread down our
adversaries.” (Psalm 60:12)
Moreover, people may
come and go in our lives, but God is the faithful One who
will never abandon us.
We may come to depend upon people, even those who are
capable, strong, spiritual leaders, but ultimately we need to
trust that it is God who will be our “ever-present help in times of
trouble. Therefore we will not fear.” (Psalm 46:1–2)
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man with payot (sidecurls) prays at the
Western (Wailing) Wall.
Succession Planning
and the Torah
Succession in this Parasha was not only about
leadership. Moses ensured that the people had what they
needed to bring them into the future.
He wrote down the Torah and commanded the Israelites to
read it every seven years in the year of the Shemitah (Sabbatical
year) at the time of Sukkot
(Feast of Tabernacles).
Moses entrusted the safekeeping of this Torah into the
hands of the sons of Aaron who were the Cohanim (Jewish
Priests) as well as all the Levites, who were charged
with carrying the Ark of the Covenant, among other duties.
In this way, the
Torah was to be taught and handed down to generation after
generation, in order that they would fear the Lord and
keep His commandments.
We also have a responsibility to teach the Word of God to
our children—that they may teach their children and so on down
the generations—to fear God and obey His Word.
“Gather the people together,
men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is
within your gates, that they may hear and that they may
learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all
the words of this law, and that their children, who have not
known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as
long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to
possess.”
(Deuteronomy 31:12–13)
(Deuteronomy 31:12–13)
Torah scroll
The responsibility to diligently teach our children the
Torah is still taken seriously today by much of the Jewish
People, based on the command:
“Hear,
O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love
the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
and with all your strength.
“And
these words which I command you today shall be in your
heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children,
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you
walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.” (Deuteronomy
6:4–7)
Passing on our faith in God to our children is
not the job of the youth ministry teacher once a week during
congregation services; it is meant to be a lifestyle of
living out faith and obedience in front of our
children, as well as talking about God and His Word throughout
the day—every day.
Jewish children at the Western (Wailing) Wall Plaza in Jerusalem.
Sin, Repentance, and
the Glory of God
In this Parasha, we come to realize that God knew that
despite all His warnings, the people of Israel would go astray
and commit spiritual adultery by seeking after other gods and
worshiping the idols of the pagans around them in the Promised
Land.
“And
the LORD said to Moses: ‘Behold, you will rest with your
fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with
the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be
among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant
which I have made with them.
“‘Then
My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I
will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and
they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall
befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not
these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’”
(Deuteronomy 31:16–17)
Twice, God says He will hide
His face (hester panim) from His
people because of their sins. This term does not
indicate the lack of Divine Providence but the concealment
of it.
We can see this at work even today. God is maintaining His state of
being hidden from the people of Israel—but the Father is
revealed through Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah).
“Anyone who has seen me,”
Yeshua said, “has seen the Father.” (John 14:9)
In Yeshua, we see God in all of His glory:
“For God, who said, ‘Let
there be light in the darkness,’ has made this light shine
in our hearts so we could know the glory of God
that is seen in the face of Yeshua the Messiah.”
(2 Corinthians 4:6)
(2 Corinthians 4:6)
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