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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9551| Title: | After leadership: Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelekh |
| Authors: | Brown, Erica |
| Keywords: | Moses (Biblical character) retirement Leadership |
| Issue Date: | 6-Sep-2023 |
| Publisher: | The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership |
| Citation: | Brown, E. (2023, September 6). After leadership: Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelekh. The Torah of Leadership. YUTorah.org. Yeshiva University. |
| Series/Report no.: | The Torah of Leadership;Parshat Nitzavim-Vayalekh |
| Abstract: | This week’s sedra, Vayelekh, means literally ‘and he went,’ but ironically opens with Moses’ confession to the Israelites that he could no longer go on: “He said to them: I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer be active” (Deut. 31:2). Moses, for the past four books of the Torah, was always on the move. But at 120, he told his followers that he was unable to continue. Rashi explains that this was his announcement that the end of their journey and the end of his days would coincide: “Today my days and my years become full.” Moses was to die on the seventh of Adar, the same day that he was born (BT Sotah 13b). |
| Description: | The weekly Bible portion |
| URI: | https://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecturedata/1074084/After-Leadership https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9551 |
| Appears in Collections: | The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership -- Weekly Parsha |
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