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Archive for September 24th, 2008 - 24 Elul 5768
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
“Even if you are dispersed in the ends of heaven, from there will HaShem your G-d gather you in, and from there He will take you.” (Deuteronomy 30:4) Parashat Nitzavim, the final parasha before Rosh HaShana, contains within in the Divine promise that G-d’s children will repent, and that, having done so, G-d will turn back their captivity, and gather them in.
Even if our teshuva - repentance – is not totally pure, but is done for reasons other than purely for the sake of heaven, that is, is done for reasons that are merely “dispersed in the ends of heaven,” even then G-d will accept our teshuva - and gather us in.
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Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20)
Parashat Nitzavim is read on Shabbat:
Elul 27, 5768/September 27, 2008
Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on October 8, 2008, (Tishrei 9, 5769).
Chana, the mother of Samuel the prophet, was a women of incredible spiritual depth, whose prayer, as recorded in the opening verses of the book of I Samuel, forms the structural basis for Jewish prayer to this day. Rena presents part two of this two part teaching as a preparation for the Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur Holy Days.