Nitzavim – Vayeilech

This double portion contains Moses’ appeal to all of Israel across all of time to be faithful to God and to His commandments. He places before them the choice of life or death, blessing or curse. Moses tells them to emulate two qualities of their past enemies Pharaoh and Sichon. We discover an amazing prophecy about Israel’s current exile in the 5708th verse of the Bible. We then discuss what a “root of bitterness” actually is. (And it’s not what you think.) Then we end with a question: when will the Song of Moses at last be sung?