“These are the words that �Moses spoke to all Israel.”�Devarim 1:1
אֵלֶּה הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר� דִּבֶּר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־כׇּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל
שַׁבָּת חֲזוֹן
Sabbath of Vision
חֲזוֹן֙ יְשַֽׁעְיָ֣הוּ
“The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For HaShem has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up— And they have rebelled against Me!”
Isaiah 1:1-2
“A father once prepared a beautiful suit of clothes for his son. But the child neglected his father’s gift, and soon the suit was in tatters. The father gave the child a second suit of clothes; this one, too, was ruined by the child’s carelessness. So, the father made a third suit. This time, however, he withholds it from his son. Every once in a while, on special and opportune times, he shows the suit to the child, explaining that when the child learns to appreciate and properly care for the gift, it will be given to him. This induces the child to improve his behavior, until it gradually becomes second nature to him—at which time he will be worthy of his father’s gift.”
Shabbat of Vision, Yanki Tauber, Chabad.org
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"Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad with her, all who love her, rejoice for joy with her, all who mourn for her” (Isaiah 66:10). From here it is stated: Whoever mourns for Jerusalem will merit and see her future joy, and whoever does not mourn for Jerusalem will not see her future joy."�Taanit 30b, William Davidson Talmud, Sefaria.org
“A basic tenet of our faith is that “The entire earth is filled with His presence” (Isaiah 6:3) and “There is no place void of Him” (Tikkunei Zohar 57); but G‑d’s presence and involvement in His creation is masked by the seemingly independent and arbitrary workings of nature and history. The Holy Temple was a breach in the mask, a window through which G‑d radiated His light into the world. Here G‑d’s involvement in our world was openly displayed by an edifice in which miracles were a “natural” part of its daily operation and whose very space expressed the infinity and all-pervasiveness of the Creator. Here G‑d showed himself to man, and man presented himself to G‑d.”
Shabbat of Vision, Yanki Tauber, Chabad.org
וְקָרָא זֶה אֶל־זֶה וְאָמַר קָדוֹשׁ ׀ קָדוֹשׁ קָדוֹשׁ יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת מְלֹא כָל־הָאָרֶץ כְּבוֹדֽוֹ׃
“But Moses said to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now that You have spoken to Your servant; I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
Exodus 4:10
Sefaria.org
“You have circled this mountain long enough:
turn northward.”
Deuteronomy 2:3
“The word “northward” indicates that the Holy One, blessed be He, says to Israel, “Wait for the King Messiah �to come and fulfill the words, “How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you.”
Deuteronomy Rabbah 1:19
Cited in Torah Club, Shadows of Messiah, Volume 5, pg. 929
“From Bereishis through Bamidbar, the first four books of the Torah are written in the third person, as in, “Hashem spoke to Moshe….” This book is Moshe’s own voice, as in “I said to you….” Although Moshe wrote the first four books, he was not directly present in them as a speaker or an individual. In the fifth book, however, he is speaking as himself ( Megilah, 31b) — even though, of course, his words are spoken through Ruach HaKodesh / Divine Inspiration…The Shechinah / Divine Presence spoke through the throat of Moshe”...This is the highest, deepest level of human existence: being ‘no-thing’ and ‘something’ at the same time, in the context of Yesh HaAmiti — being the fullness of who we really are.”
Pinson, Dovber. Awakenings: Drawing Life from the Weekly Torah Reading (p. 369). IYYUN PUBLISHING. Kindle Edition.
“He who said "I am not a man of words" becomes, at the end of his life, the most eloquent spokesman of God in all of history. The speeches of Devarim are the most visionary ever delivered. They reach to the furthermost horizons of the prophetic imagination. And they are Moses' words. That is the point. In the other four books of the Pentateuch the narrative voice is anonymous -- "And it came to pass" - while the commanding voice is the voice of God - "And God spoke these words, saying . . ." What is unique about Devarim is that it is the reported speech of a human speaker. But how can the words of a human being be Divine?... At the highest point of the encounter with God, we do not speak: we are spoken. We open our mouths but the words we utter do not come from us, though they come through us. Prayer, like prophecy, is an extinction of the self (known in Jewish mysticism as bittul ha-yesh) in the presence of the One-who-is-All.”
R’ Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversation, Words
“Deep within each one of us, there is an aspect of Moshe (Tanya, 42. Kedushas Levi, Re’eh). When we lay aside our ego, we too can become a conduit of Hashem’s Infinite wisdom. However, like Moshe, we also have the ability — and ultimately the responsibility — to be a Mechadesh / innovator in Torah, to reveal new ‘Divine insight’, in a state of profound humility. To do this, we must not only lay aside our ego but paradoxically maintain our transparent individual ‘I-ness’, including our own unique way of thinking, our own Seichel / intellect and understanding of reality. To be a Mechadesh in Torah, we need Yiras Shamayim / awe of Hashem…Our small i is nothing but an expression of the Ultimate I.”�(Pinson, Dovber. Awakenings: Drawing Life from the Weekly Torah Reading (pp. 373-374). (Function). Kindle Edition.)
אֲדֹנָי שְׂפָתַי תִּפְתָּח
וּפִי יַגִּיד תְּהִלָּתֶךָ׃
“O Lord, open my lips,
and let my mouth declare Your praise.”
Psalm 51:17
Sefaria.org
“Yeshua knew that they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking each other about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again in a little while, you will see Me’? Amen, amen I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will celebrate. You will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will turn to joy! “When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world. So also you have sorrow now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you!”
John 16:19–22, TLV
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never �pass away.”
Matthew 24:35