Torah: Dt 32:1-52 JPS
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Haftorah 2 Sm 22 JPS
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Aliyot:
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1. Dt 32:1-5
2. Dt 32:6-12
3. Dt 32:13-18
4. Dt32:19-28
5. Dt 32:29-39
6. Dt 32:40-43
7. Dt 32:44-52
OVERVIEW:
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Parsha HaAzinu, the shortest parasha section, is called the Song of Moses. It is the last parasha read on a Friday evening following Yom Kippur before the Torah is begun again with Bereshit. The last parasha, V'zoth HaBerach, the Blessing of Moses, is read on Simcha Torah. HaAzinu is tightly related to Yom Kippur in which we stand before God as in the court of a King, pleading forgiveness of the sins we have committed in the previous year. Public confession of sins is chanted in unison in a formal setting of words and music for all people have committed sins together. We have lied, we have bribed, we have scoffed, we have slandered... In confession, we recognize the sovereinity of God our King whose rule is from eternity to eternity and whose throne is in the ehavens and footstool upon the earth. We stand humbled, aware of our mortality and fallibility. No one person is holier than another, but all stand before God for his justice, mercy and redemption. The Song of Moses recounts the exodus from Egypt and the erring ways of the Israelites, their Sinaitic experience and the rebellion of Golden Calf and Korach; the mumblings and groanings of a discontented nation. Moses, confronting his final moments, knows the immediacy of final judgement as he submits to embrace his death.
IN FOCUS
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"May my discourse come down as the rain
My speech distill as the dew
Like showers on yong growth
For the name of the Lord I proclaim;
Give glory to our God!
The Rock! His deeds are perfect,
Yea, all His ways are just;
A faithful God, never false,
True and upright is He."
Dt 32:2-4 JPS
"To be My vengeance and recompense,
At the time their foot falters.
Yea, their day of disaster is near,
And destiny rushes upon them.
For the Lord will vindicate His people
And take revenge for His servants..."
Dt 32: 35-36 JPS
"To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste,
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left.
