{"id":3010,"date":"2026-09-06T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:51:54","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-nitzavim-vayelekh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for parsha \u201dNitzavim &#8211; Vayelekh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8220;Nitzavim&#8221; (Deuteronomy 29:8 through chapter 30) &#8212; contains what Mark calls the most concise &#8216;two-word summary&#8217; of His Word in the Torah, &#8220;Choose Life!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is SO much more in this one. And, it&#8217;s a &#8216;double-parsha&#8217; this week, which includes chapter 31, &#8220;Vayelekh.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the most <del>important<\/del>, ok <del>fundamental<\/del>, er <del>central <\/del>&#8211; all of that, but perhaps the best word is &#8216;concise,&#8217; paraschot in Scripture. And it combines some of the most important &#8216;debunking&#8217; of Big Lies, and even the first description of one of the most important prophecies, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Call, of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, covers all of it in the Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SSM-9-4-26-Nitzavim-Vayelekh-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of &#8220;choose life!&#8221; is so vital to our understanding of His Instruction [or &#8216;torah&#8217;] that it goes way beyond just a summary, or even a &#8216;razor&#8217; to &#8220;rightly divide the word.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is more to that in this parsha: it goes to the heart of Who the Messiah IS, and what He is NOT (a liar, who changed his word, when He said the opposite)\u2026<br>\u2026it gives us the first prophetic promise of the &#8220;Greater Exodus&#8221; or regathering\u2026<br>\u2026and it succinctly debunks one of the other Biggest Lies in &#8216;sun-god-day skool&#8217; &#8212; that &#8220;only jesus could possibly keep &#8216;The LAW&#8217; &#8211; &#8217;cause it&#8217;s just plain too hard for the likes of you and me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahushua, the Real Messiah, said that the path that leads to Life is, &#8220;narrow, and FEW there be that find it.&#8221; [Matthew 7:13-14] Which should concern those who bought into the big lie that He somehow &#8220;did away with&#8221; what He Wrote for us, and came in the flesh to teach &#8211; correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The test is &#8216;open-Book.&#8217; And it&#8217;s straight-forward. But we had better read what it really says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Nitzavim-Vayelekh: Choose wisely &#8211; &#8216;Choose Life!&#8217; &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WT-CooH-9-5-26-Nitzavim-Vayelekh-We-STILL-HAVE-the-CHOICE-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Service information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship worship services and teachings are broadcast live every Sabbath, via Paltalk. (www.paltalk.com has both the link, and the app.) The &#8220;room name&#8221; is &#8220;Walking Torah with Shabbat Shalom Mesa,&#8221; and can be found via the paltalk search, then bookmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erev Shabbat services begin at 7:00 PM Mountain Time Friday evenings (9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live Sabbath teachings begin shortly after 11 AM Mountain time on Sabbath day (Saturday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>email: mark@markniwot.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-nitzavim-vayelekh\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-nitzavim-vayelekh\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via HNR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2026 Torah-cycle teachings for double-parsha Nitzavim-Vayelekh, and related Scripture, including Romans chapter 10, and Isaiah 61-63. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=3010\">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":[1742,69,35,1898,11,1,12],"tags":[1033,46,88,63,2408,121,2401,104,277,697,212,1041,2407,318,92,101,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010"}],"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=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}