08/30/2026
VERY NEAR YOU
Parashat Nitsavim opens with an entire nation on its feet. Every head, every elder, every child, every sojourner in the camp, down to the one chopping wood and the one drawing water. Moshe has just walked us through the full weight of the covenant curses, the exile, the scattering, the uprooting, and instead of raising the bar he lowers the distance. This mitzvah is not too hard for you, he says, and it is not far off. It is not in heaven. It is not across the sea. It is already in your mouth and in your heart, so you can do it.
This teaching follows that nearness from the plains of Moav into Romans 10, where Rav Shaul names the two errands nobody has to run: no one needs to ascend to bring Mashiach down, and no one needs to descend to bring Him up from the dead. He already came down. He already rose. Along the way we look at the heart Yahweh promised to circumcise Himself, the outcasts He gathers from the uttermost parts of the heavens, and the reason Yochanan could still write, generations later, that His commandments are not burdensome.
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