Daily Chumash Thursday Nitzavim Vayelech – The Mitzvah of Hakhel

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  • Moshe appoints and encourages Yehoshua: Moshe summoned Yehoshua and said to him in front of all the Jewish people to be strong, as he will lead the Jewish people into the promised land and conquer it. “Hashem will lead you and be with you and will not forsake you. Do not be afraid.”

 

  1. Moshe gives a Torah scroll to the tribe of Levi:
    • Moshe wrote this Torah and gave it to the Kohanim who carry the Aron, and to all the elders of Israel.

 

  1. The Mitzvah of Hakhel:
  • Moshe commanded them as follows: “At the end of the seventh [i.e. Shemita] year, during Sukkos, when all of Bnei Yisrael come [to Jerusalem] to visit Hashem, you are to read this Torah before them.
  • Gather the men, women, children and converts so that they hear and learn and install fear of Hashem in their hearts to perform all of the Torah commands. Their children who are ignorant will hear and learn to fear Hashem throughout all the days that you live on earth, on the land that you will inherit.”

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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