Already, I am preparing a rough draft in my head of my next Torah commentary. It will be on the parashah of Vayelekh, covering only Chapter 31 of Deuteronomy. In this parashah, Moshe is being told to prepare for his own death by Adonai; having recently lost my mother to cancer, this may end up being a very personal commentary.
It’s not like Moshe is sitting around giving out his secret recipes for sweet potato casserole, either; he’s being told by the L-RD that despite of 120 years of faithful service to Adonai and standing in the gap between Adonai and the Jewish people, they will still break covenant with Adonai one Moshe is gone.
What a burden to be given just prior to death! Like a parent being told, “After all your prayers and worry over your son or daughter, they are still going to go mess up their lives.” Certainly, there is the messianic hope to sustain Moshe at the hour of his death, but there is little else.
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Preparing for my next commentary
September 22nd, 2008 by Craig Hansen
Already, I am preparing a rough draft in my head of my next Torah commentary. It will be on the parashah of Vayelekh, covering only Chapter 31 of Deuteronomy. In this parashah, Moshe is being told to prepare for his own death by Adonai; having recently lost my mother to cancer, this may end up being a very personal commentary.
It’s not like Moshe is sitting around giving out his secret recipes for sweet potato casserole, either; he’s being told by the L-RD that despite of 120 years of faithful service to Adonai and standing in the gap between Adonai and the Jewish people, they will still break covenant with Adonai one Moshe is gone.
What a burden to be given just prior to death! Like a parent being told, “After all your prayers and worry over your son or daughter, they are still going to go mess up their lives.” Certainly, there is the messianic hope to sustain Moshe at the hour of his death, but there is little else.
Tags: commentary, Moshe, sweet potato casserole, Vayelekh
This entry was posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm and is filed under Torah. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.