Ki Savo - 3rd Portion

Join me as we learn Chumash for Tuesday, Parshas Ki Savo, the third Torah reading, chapter 26, verse 16. Yesterday we read about the different tithes that a person would give and the declaration that he would make and asking God's blessings because we have given our tithes. Today we continue as Moshe reminds the Jewish people with the covenant that they enter the spec- the specific instructions given to the Jewish people as we are the chosen nation. Verse 16. Today at this very day God your God is commanding you. to do the statutes, the rules, to fulfill the rules and the ordinances and you shall you will follow them, you will safeguard them. You will do them with all your heart and with all your soul. Rashi Why does he say today that God command them today was already 40 years since the 10 commandments? But he's telling them the whole Every single day it has to be as if God told you just these mitzvahs today. That same excitement, that same energy, that same enthusiasm that you have that is if something was brand new, that's the way all the commandments have to be. That this is not only a commandment, but this is also a blessing and a promise. When you go and you bring these things to God a voice of heaven comes out and blesses you. You brought your first fruit today? So too you merit to bring it in next year as well. Verse 17. Today you have singled out God to be for you as a And to walk in his ways and to safeguard his rules, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and to obey him. Here and Martha The word here and Martha in this case says these words in we don't have similar words to this in other places. Therefore I seem that what this means of here in this case should wash and have dollar of a fresh of adult. This means to segregate, to separate, to distinguish. And therefore God singled out today to take except God upon yourself. Therefore as he says he you separated from the idols and from the foreign gods to take God as your God. Who is and he separated you may I mean others from the nations of the world that you should be for him I'm school as a chosen nation. Rashi does say that I found one similar case where is into him some 94 where it talks about this idea of beauty and talking about that the evil are great about themselves and they applaud their own successes. And of here is meaning that you have pick chose God to be and to show your splendor through God. Verse 18 for a sham in your English school of and God therefore behave reciprocally reciprocally to you as well that he has set you apart today from all the nations just like you set singled out God to be your God God singled out you to be his nation to be for you as a treasured people got your deeper love like he spoke to you all the and you should safeguard all his commandments. Like he spoke to you when did he tell this to them in the book of Exodus that you will be to me a treasured nation from all the nations of the world. Verse 19 all the secret alien going and to make you supreme above all the other nations. I said also that he made this healer to praise or the shame and for a great name all this he found and for glory for the use and courage of the camera camera and you should be for a holy people to God your God as just as he spoke and commanded you to be. Rashi Kashi and Kadesh Kashi where did he say that you should be a holy nation the book of Leviticus is dedication that you'll be to me for a holy nation. This concludes the third Torah reading of partial Kisa.