V'zot Habracha
Deuteronomy · 8articles
Parashat V'zot Habracha - Seventh Aliyah
The last aliyah of the Torah: Moses sees the land from Mount Nebo and does not enter it, dies in the land of Moab with his burial place unknown, Joshua takes up the leadership, and the Torah sums up the uniqueness of Moses before the eyes of all Israel.
Parashat V'zot Habracha - Sixth Aliyah
The blessing of Moses closes with a picture of all Israel: God as a dwelling and a refuge whose arms support from beneath, a secure life in a land of grain, wine and dew, and the call Happy are you, Israel, a people saved by God.
Parashat V'zot Habracha - Insights and Questions
Parashat V'zot Habracha seals the Torah: Moses blesses the tribes before his death, sees the land from Mount Nebo and does not enter it. Five insights, a homily on the last words, before the eyes of all Israel, and the breaking of the tablets according to Rashi, and 25 questions.
Parashat V'zot Habracha - Fifth Aliyah
The blessings of Dan, Naphtali and Asher: the leap of a lion cub, contentment and an inheritance, oil and plenty alongside iron and copper, and in the last verse the gaze moves from the tribes to God, who has no equal and comes to the help of Jeshurun.
Parashat V'zot Habracha - Fourth Aliyah
A shared blessing for Zebulun who goes out and Issachar who sits in his tents, plenty from the seas and from treasures hidden in the sand, and the blessing of Gad, which joins the might of a lion and the first portion of the land to the righteousness of God and his judgments with Israel.
Parashat V'zot Habracha - Third Aliyah
The blessing of Joseph gathers plenty from the heavens, the deep, the sun, the moon and the mountains onto the head of the one set apart from his brothers, and ends with the strength of an ox and the horns of a wild ox, divided between the myriads of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.
Parashat V'zot Habracha - Second Aliyah
The blessing of Levi places loyalty to the covenant before family ties and charges the tribe to teach Torah and to serve at the altar, and the blessing of Benjamin describes closeness, security and a constant divine presence.
Parashat V'zot Habracha - First Aliyah
Moses opens his final blessing of Israel with the revelation of God from Sinai and with the Torah as the heritage of the congregation of Jacob, and only then turns to the blessings of Reuben and Judah: life and continuity for Reuben, a voice that is heard and help against his foes for Judah.
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