Torah Reading: Deuteronomy 29:9 to end of chapter 30.
Haftarah Reading: Isaiah 61:10 to 63:9
This week's Torah and Haftarah readings are always read on the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which will be observed beginning Sunday night. Moses's final oration is drawing to a close - God has told him that he will soon be dead, likely right after he finishes his speech. But Moses's thoughts are not on his impending death; Moses has only one concern and that is for the Jewish people to obey the laws God and he have laid down. The law is not something the 1% imposes on the 99% while the 1% can steal from the 99% at will.
No, the law, the Torah, is for everyone: Your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, your children, your wives, even the strangers within your camp, from woodchopper to water drawer.Nor is the Torah only for the Israelites born is the wilderness of Sinai during the 40 years of wandering:
Deuteronomy 29: 9-10.
I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone, but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the Lord our God and with those who are not with us here this day.
Deuteronomy 29: 13-14.
