Parsha Perspectives for Today (Nitzavim, 5781) - Not Just To Hashem, But Unto Hashem

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

your elders your officers khali shisrel everyone you are all together you are all standing there it's a very very interesting opening position first of all hayom i many already have said describes hayom is a reference to rosh hashanah we always read this parasha right before rosh hashanah and there are many reasons which are given we've shared and explored some of them together in the past but it's interesting that we begin who is standing before moshe moshe is who is standing before moshe moshe is addressing all collectively a community everybody together and then we spell it out each one distinctly and then we come back we return to kohl ish israel so we start with the whole united kuchem we then divide out the individual we then come back to koh ishi israel everybody together and i think the significance i think it's a very powerful message and really in many ways it's the mission statement of the jewish people how we statement of the jewish people how we are to see ourselves on the one hand we are we are united we are a community on the one hand we are a whole we are a people on the other being a whole being united unity is not uniformity being united being together being whole does not mean erasing our differences so we are able to be rash israel were able to be separate and apart distinct and different and at the same time see ourselves as

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1. 1:31your elders your officers khali shisrel everyone you are all together you are all standing there…
2. 6:39contrast of our parsha and next week's partial we don't read it together as a double…
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