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Okay, good morning, friends.
A good Erev Shabbos.
Actually,
in a way, it's like the last
regular Erev Shabbos of the year.
In a way. I mean, next week it's it is
Erev Shabbos, but it's the last Erev
Shabbos of a parsha.
It's the last Erev
sha parsha Shabbos of the year.
Um so, we're approaching Yom Kippur.
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Upcoming sheer. So, we have to um
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is not correct. Um Smuchim
Miyad. Smuchim Miyad. We're connecting
parshas
Nitzavim
to
to uh the end of last week's parsha,
which is Ki Savo.
>> [clears throat]
>> Here we
go.
Okay.
Tell me if you could see this up on the
screen.
>> [clears throat]
>> Okay. Regarding the smichus of parshas,
a parshas Nitzavim
to the end of Ki Savo. You know who
addresses this question? Since we're
coming up towards the end of the Torah,
and we're literally almost finished the
cycle. I'll tell you the truth. When we
started this, wasn't sure how long this
could carry, how long this would take
us. Baruch Hashem,
we're
we're most of the way there. We we got
pretty far. I mean uh we only have after
this this week two more to go. Rashi
himself
is mefaresh two perushim of the smichos.
Rashi says, "U'medrash Agudah l'man
smichas parshas Atem Nitzavim
l'klalois." Why is Nitzavim juxtaposed
to the klalois? Cuz when Klal Yisrael
heard 100 klalois minus two, besides the
49 in Toras Kohanim, "Hireeku paneihem."
Their faces turned white. When Klal
Yisrael heard about all the curses, they
became pale. They became frightened.
They said, "Who could possibly stand up
to all of this?" So Moshe began to
appease them. He said, "Look, with all
the scaryness, with all the frightening,
with all the tochacha, atem nitzavim
hayom. You're standing.
You made it. You got to the finish line.
You survived. You got Hashem angry many
times, but he didn't destroy you. You're
still kayamim lifanav. So amazingly,
Rashi, Rabban
Vavihan shel Yisrael explains the
smichus of nitzavim to the end of
kisavai.
By the way, Rashi continues
to explain [clears throat]
the smichus.
>> You will.
>> Namely,
uh Rashi says, just like today,
kindly mute.
Just like today,
which stands
and [clears throat] the day became dark
and the day became light,
so too Hashem illuminates for you and
Hashem will illuminate to you for you
and the klalois and the yisurim preserve
you and give you stability.
And even the parsha
>> [clears throat]
>> above
are divrei tochacha. Namely,
atem re I'm sorry, our our words of
consolation and appeasement. In other
words, Rashi's saying that the
appeasement of parshas nitzavim is
juxtaposed to the appeasement at the end
of kisavai.
Hashe Moshe Rabbeinu's talking klal
Yisrael. Look, it's just like the day.
Atem nitzavim hayom.
Just like the day, it became
it became dark, but it became light
again. So too, after all the darkness,
Hashem will bring you light.
And even
the previous parsha are words of
appeasement. What was the appeasement at
the end of kisavai? The end of kisavai
it says atem re'isem ishkasha asa.
You saw everything that I did for you
when I brought you
out of Mitzrayim and I defeated your
enemies in the Midbar. So, according to
Rashi, there two levels of the Smichos
between Nitzavim and Kisavei. Number
one,
Moshe's Tan Chali so despite the
Toichacha of Kisavei, you're still
standing today. And number two, Moshe
appeased them at the end of Kisavei, you
saw all the miracles Hashem did with you
when he when Hashem took you out of
Mitzrayim. And now,
uh Nitzavim also begins with
appeasement.
The Tzur Hamar
has a beautiful approach to the
juxtaposition.
The end of Kisavei, it says, "Ushmartem
es divrei habris." Preserve the
covenant. So, immediately in Parshas
Nitzavim, it says, "Atem Nitzavim hayom
kulchem la'avruchah bivris."
At the end of Kisavei, Hashem said,
"Preserve the bris." And now, in the
beginning of Nitzavim, Hashem is
bringing us through the bris
in a way where nobody could possibly
say,
"Uh you know, I wasn't there on the day
of the bris."
So, Hashem says, "Rasheichem,
shifteichem, tapechem, nasheichem."
Then Hashem says, "Nobody could excuse
themselves. I'm not impressed with
anybody's credentials. Everyone's equal
before me.
The heads, the mechubadim, the
policemen, the regular people, the
woodchoppers, the water drawers,
because you never know, maybe the small
people are really the great ones and
vice versa."
In the world of the neshamos,
all
gedolim and ketanim stand equal before
Hashem.
>> [snorts]
>> In this world, we don't really recognize
them.
>> [clears throat]
>> Okay.
The Tzur Hamar continues and the Tzur
Hamar says
that the bris mentioned in the beginning
of Nitzavim, you know what the covenant
is? The covenant is the curses mentioned
in Ki Savo.
The Indian is
this bris that we talk about le'avricha
b'vris.
This bris was not a bris chadash.
He already made the covenant with them
when they left Mitzrayim.
The bris
So therefore this is not a new covenant.
The bris is what's mentioned earlier,
ele divrei habris, namely the tochecha.
So what is being guaranteed here and
secured here is the bris, but the bris
is the 98 colors of last week's last
week's parsha, which is a juxtaposition
of parshas Nitzavim to parshas Ki Savo.
>> [snorts]
>> That is offering number one.
Juxtaposition of
parshas Nitzavim to parshas Ki Savo, but
don't go anywhere.
