{"id":2371,"date":"2016-06-03T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2371"},"modified":"2016-06-03T00:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:16:37","slug":"nitzavim-5765","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2371","title":{"rendered":"Nitzavim (5765)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Nitzavim (5765)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All sages bu Sa&#8217;adiah Gaon include tsehuvah as one of the 613 mitzvot, but disagree where it is found.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rambam says that Ch 30, v2 the Torah refers to tsehuvah &#8212; confessing, regret, forsaking sin<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Ibn ben Baqya in\u00a0<em>Duties of the Heart<\/em> says that Ch 30, v11-14 is incumbent upon all of us &#8220;this commandment&#8221;, &#8220;this instruction&#8221; \u00a0&#8212; what is it?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a0Commentators answer this with 1) the entire Torah; 2) all the commandments; 3) return to God<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rav Soleveitchik says &#8220;God demands not tribute from man, but man himself &#8212; total and unreserved offering of soul and body is the foundation of Judaism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We don&#8217;t need to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">go anywhere<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span>to return to God<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Harold Kushner asks &#8220;What does Moses receive at Mount Sinai?&#8221; and gives the answer &#8220;Permission to bear what is within him &#8212; and all of us &#8212; and God saying &#8216;Return to me&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Nitzavim (5765) by Marc Mangel \u2022 All sages bu Sa&#8217;adiah Gaon include tsehuvah as one of the 613 mitzvot, but disagree where it is found. \u2022 Rambam says that Ch 30, v2 the Torah refers to tsehuvah &#8212; confessing, regret, forsaking sin \u2022Ibn ben Baqya in\u00a0Duties of the Heart says that Ch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions\/2372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}