Anonymous
Beloved of All
Our Torah for this week (Nitzavim) is always read on the Sabbath immediately before Rosh Hashanah, and therefore it is the last portion read for the current Jewish year (in many synagogues, the opening and concluding paragraphs of Nitzavim are also read during the Yom Kippur morning service, however). The portion begins: "You are standing here today, all of you, before the LORD your God (×Ö·×ªÖ¼Ö¶× × Ö´×¦Ö¼Ö¸×‘Ö´×™× ×”Ö·×™Ö¼×•Ö¹× ×›Ö¼Ö»×œÖ¼Ö°×›Ö¶× ×œÖ´×¤Ö°× Öµ×™ יְהוָה ×ֱלהֵיכֶ×) ... so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is making with you today, that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob" (Deut. 29:10-13). After this Moses went on to review Israel's history and future -- i.e., the great prophecy of the Exile and Return of the Jewish people -- and then he solemnly appealed for us to turn to the LORD for life.
