{"id":2761,"date":"2024-10-13T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2024-10-13T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T17:02:25","slug":"parsha-vzot-haberakah-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cV&#8217;zot HaBerakah\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, because of the Fall Holy Days, and as we near the conclusion of the Torah cycle, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship elected to take a look at the final parsha in the Torah, where Moses wraps up his final address to &#8216;kol Israel&#8217; with blessings of the tribes, and is then allowed to see the promised Land from Mount Nebo just before he dies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there is here at least one tradition that seems to make a wonderful point, even if this portion will be read a bit before most of those on the more &#8216;rabbinic&#8217; calendar do: When we reach the end of the Torah at the end of the Book of Deuteronomy,we continue right back into Bereshiet\/Genesia 1:1, since the intent is to show that the study of His Word is a continuing cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SSM-10-11-24-V-zot-HaBracha-podcast-x.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day midrash examines a contrast: Moses addressed a people who were about to get a new leader, and finally enter and then begin the battle for their long-promised land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We currently have no leader, and are evidently closer to losing a land than entering it, although there are certainly battles ahead, one way or another. But, as the Bible shows, the reasons for judgment are the very same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is where the paths, on every level, and the stories, too &#8212; diverge. Call it a &#8220;fork in the road,&#8221; and a fork in the Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continue into Genesis\/Bereshiet because ALL of His Word is built upon &#8216;the Rock,&#8217; that He was there, &#8220;in the Beginning,&#8221; and &#8220;knew the end from the beginning,&#8221; &#8220;changes NOT,&#8221; and Wrote for us what we needed to know, and do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the &#8216;mixed multitude,&#8217; under the leadership of Joshua\/Yoshua, both the Namesake, and &#8216;type and shadow,&#8217; of that prophet Who was &#8220;like unto Moses,&#8221; proceeded to enter the land, and begin those battles. And that story continues in the Book of Joshua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both roads apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>V&#8217;zot HaBerakah: &#8220;The Fork in the Road&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WT-CooH-10-12-24-V-zot-HaBracha-The-Fork-in-the-Road-and-in-Scripture-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part teaching is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-vzot-haberakah-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-vzot-haberakah-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>,  via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s final Torah cycle teaching for 2024, and then into Genesis 1 and Joshua 1, V&#8217;zot HaBracha (Deuteronomy 33 and 34). <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,5,1891,151,35,1898,11,12,1892],"tags":[461,46,88,291,2037,121,456,104,212,288,318,101,450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}