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Hamelekh Hamoel, Hagoel.

Dr Mori Bank

A Guten Erev Shabbos everyone. This weeks parsha is actually a double header. Parshas nitzavim and Parshas Vayelech. There is so much to explore in these parshas that we would need thousands of years to contemplate the treasures and insights into, not just each parsha, but maybe each word. We see that the written Torah is unlike any other book ever written. It was the unedited first draft, first edition, on a first take, it was perfect to alettter and a dot. When you contemplate that, you have to contemplate something even greater. That anybody in the history of the world could write a book that was relevant not only at that moment, but even in their generation it didn’t need a second edition, or a second transcript. It remained relevant then, the next day and still 2-3000 years later, the same draft, the same words. Not only was it talking to that generation 2-3000 years ago, but it is talking to us today. How can we say such a thing?

ט אַתֶּם נִצָּבִים הַיּוֹם כֻּלְּכֶם, לִפְנֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם:  רָאשֵׁיכֶם שִׁבְטֵיכֶם, זִקְנֵיכֶם וְשֹׁטְרֵיכֶם, כֹּל, אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל. י טַפְּכֶם נְשֵׁיכֶם--וְגֵרְךָ, אֲשֶׁר בְּקֶרֶב מַחֲנֶיךָ:  מֵחֹטֵב עֵצֶיךָ, עַד שֹׁאֵב מֵימֶיךָ.

You are standing this day all of you before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, every one of Am Yisrael, your little ones, your wives, and the stranger that is in the midst of the camp, from the hewer of wood to the drawer of thy water.

Kol Am Yisrael, every one of Am Yisrael, I am talking to you, H says. In which generation and on which day? Today. That means since the second that Moshe Rabbeinu brought it down from Har Sinai and gave it over the first time, until today, this Torah is speaking to every one of us and it will be speaking to every one of our descendants and Am Yisrael, for every generation to come. Three things were created before creation. Toras Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael Ve Am Yisrael. Reishis. This is the beginning of creation. H had these three things in mind for the completion for the crown of creation. Without these three things, H would reduce this world in a split second, to nothingness. This is the crowning purpose of creation.

Heaven forbid we should have a sense of arrogance. On the contrary. We should have a tremendous sense of humility. We should ask ourselves, are we listening? Fr the last 2000 years, did we get the message? Our home exists in this world, but what about H’s home? Who is H speaking to? Everyone, in every generation, on every day of creation.

There is a remarkable idea in the following pesukim;

טו כִּי-אַתֶּם יְדַעְתֶּם, אֵת אֲשֶׁר-יָשַׁבְנוּ בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם, וְאֵת אֲשֶׁר-עָבַרְנוּ בְּקֶרֶב הַגּוֹיִם, אֲשֶׁר עֲבַרְתֶּם. טז וַתִּרְאוּ, אֶת-שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶם, וְאֵת, גִּלֻּלֵיהֶם--עֵץ וָאֶבֶן, כֶּסֶף וְזָהָב אֲשֶׁר עִמָּהֶם

15 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the midst of the nations through which we passed; 16 and you have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them.

There are many pesukim that say wood and stone. We can understand in our generation that people worship the power of silver and gold, money and gold. But was there anybody stupid enough or idiotic enough to bend down and worship a pebble in the street? If he falls on his face and starts kissing the stone. They would take him away to a secure hospital. The guy would be deranged. I can understand a person who comes to Israel for the first time, after the holocaust, or anybody that has a sensitivity to making aliyah thanking H for this holy land. But what is the Torah telling us about wood and stone that is relevant for today. It seems very strange.

At the beginning of creation wood and stone were very common items. Stone being the earth and sand beneath the sea, and everything the earth contains, and wood being everything that grows on the earth. These were the most common things people saw, and other nations worshipped them. H said, do not worship these.

There is a deeper message here. When you contemplate the religion of Esav, 2000 years ago when the Temple was burning, they outlawed Torah. Jews were nailed to trees to die a most heinous death, bleeding to death while hanging on nails from the hands and feet. This was the Roman execution, that was the way they did it. Possibly the most cruel way possible. That was where the Romans were really experts. Somewhere along the line they made a whole religion out of it. The irony of it is, that they use that religion to persecute the Jews. They say, you Jews killed our god. What kind of a god is it that can be killed? We say in Hallel, their gods have eyes but cannot see. They have a nose but it is blocked. They have ears but cannot hear. Eliyahu haNavi said to the 400 priests of baal assembled on Har Carmel, ‘Maybe your god is sleeping, so shout louder to wake him. Maybe he went away to create other worlds, hit yourselves and gash yourselves more. Or maybe he has gone to the toilet. They became more hysterical with each word he said. He eventually said, enough, and took a huge amount of water and poured it over his wood, his offering and dug a deep trench and filled that with water. Then he asked h, ‘If this is an acceptable offering, please accept it”. A fire came down from H’shem. Not only did it consume the offering, but also the wood, stones, and the water. Everybody agreed to accept H and his Torah there and then. But they were liable to the death sentence, and so Eliyahu destroyed them.

So the generation of the desert were fence sitters. But this is defensible, because something in the kernel of the heart of every Jew wants to believe in H’. So, Am Yisrael were saved.

The wooden cross of Esav, worshipped for hundreds of years, reminds us not to bee too confident of the physical things of the this world. Don’t think that you could feel cozy in the home of Esav. Just remember what he did with his cross to your forefathers 2000 years ago. It should stir up the memory of the pogroms and crusades, the holocaust and all the Jewish blood spilt because we were confident that if we befriended them, they would befriend us. We shouldn’t rest on our laurels because all too often the laurels end up on our graves, has veshalom, when we feel comfortable in exile. We should know that we have to strive for our self perfection. We know how many innocent Jews were falsely accused and killed for crimes that Esav really did commit, and their defamatory lies, such as the blood libel, whereas they killed an enormous number of Jewish children. We see from the parsha that when there is no hester panim, nobody can touch a hair on our heads. We see how far we have strayed from the protection of the Torah, if we go after the idolatry of the nations and trust in their faith. A classic example is Mordechai, who wouldn’t bow down to Haman, despite the whole nation being at risk. Haman managed to persuade the King to give him an enormous sum of money and the royal signet ring, which eventually was used to turn the decree against Amalek, that being, leharog, leabed ulashmad. In place of the decree Haman and his sons were fully punished.

That was wood, what sort of people worship stone? In the previous generation there were lots of kids who worshipped the Rolling Stones. They worshipped Rock idols, but that is a different symbolism. 4,000 years ago they had Gehenom, the Valley of Henom, just outside the Old City. They would throw their children into fire, offering them to idolatrous gods. They had drummers to block out the screams of the children. Now they also have music to block out the screams from the children on acid trips and all kinds of other things, drugs and who knows what, and tragically, they throw their children in to the fire of another type of idolatry, movie idols, pop idols etc. They give musicians the same if not much more respect than that which they would give to their teachers and parents.

Rabbi Avigdor Miller refers to the other major monotheistic world religions as the great falsifiers because they attempt to change the Torah.

Millions of people flock to Mecca and Medina at certain times of year to worship to their prophet and to a certain rock that they say he was at. How can a rock be so holy? If the Cohanim forgot to wash their hands and feet before the avoda, they were liable to the death sentence. Why is this so important? So as not to be like other nations that worship the dust on their feet or hands. Don’t let the avak, dust (or trace), of Avoda Zora affect you, walk with a pure heart and clean hands. If anybody not of their religion went on that rock, they would chop him to smithereens. No mercy and no prisoners. We see the centrality of the rock to their religion, that if it was treated with disdain, every follower would go mad.

H warns us, don’t worship wood like those billions, and don’t worship rocks. They call themselves monotheistic. What are the real mitzvos? The 7 Mitvos Bnei Noach. [17.40]. What an awesome tragedy this is. People earn so much money in galus, how can they think of letting go of that. The Torah warns us, even before we cointemplate such a thought, “don’t worship silver”. Even if you have all the gold in the world and have golden calves that can be thrown into fire and come out with interest, that you throw your money into a risky investment and it comes out even more profitable, don’t you put your faith in those gods, because they wont save you.

Then it says, later, don’t you even throw your children into the fires, like the other nations that were in the land before you. It was an absolute abomination and one of the reasons that h drove them out. Don’t think that because of your worship of H you are being given this land. Ratherm it is in the zchus of your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the depravity of the nations that throw their children into fire. So, we can contemplate why all the fires of the philosophies of the world, be it Shapespeare, Bethoven or Bach, all those things people might worship, love with all their heart and soul and would pay anything to have an original work of the Bach versus our Ba”ch who wrote a commentary on the Gemora, It’s a tragedy that he picked one Bach instead of another. Because of it they experienced Beethoven’s last movement. They don’t even finish their lives in this world and they are playing the wrong music. We also learn something practical. 3/4000 years ago, they would take their child physically to Gehenom and throw them into fires as offering. That wasn’t what H wanted. The real fires are the Eish of Torah. Not the eish of Avoda Zora. What was the madness of a parent who lovingly brought their child up, fed them, nurtured them, gave them everything the child could possibly need or want and much more, they wake up in the night to care for the child. Then one morning they throw the child into a fire. Can we contemplate the depravity of such a thing? It is beyond our imagination. You say, OK that was then, this is now, we are more intelligent. We’ve got internet, cell phones, televisions. We are a generation transformed, nobody is going to pull the wool over our eyes. Its just that Hamas teach their children to be suicide bombers. How does a 3,4 or 5 year old read the textbooks he is given. Through their mass media, poetry, puppet shows, teachers and religious leaders they learn to shed their own blood as suicide bombers and murder other people. That is the greatest accomplishment they can get, and they will get heaven, according to their philosophy. Not only that, but there will be a whole lot of virgins waiting for them there. This is strange in a world which we believe has no physicality. What about the female suicide bombers? What a disappointment for them to find a whole bunch of women waiting for them. They will probably want their money back. But anybody who sheds Jewish blood, their blood will be shed. In Haazinu, we learn that H Himself avenges every drop of Jewish blood shed. We see that in 3D in the world. All the nations of the world rose up and united against the Jewish community. Especailly the ones that wanted to assimilate and be kegoyim baolam, they rose up ands annihilated that remnant, then H rose up and anihlated them. What was left, the remant of Am Yisrael, rose up and became the curators of the museum. We take people through museaums and show them – that was the ancient Egyptians, they started up with our forefathers, the Arameans, the Babylonians, where are they today? They are consigned to being artefacts. What happened to the enormous philosophy and famous leaders of ancient Greece. Pompey was swallowed by a Volcano. The rest by History books, without anything left. All those ancient Roman beliefs were also put in the archive. As Mark Twain once put it, we were placed on the road map of world history with our eyes tied behind our back, bearing incredible suffering, walking straight forward, yashar bakoach, through the inferno of world history, without any sings of infirmity. This nation goes straight, with strength, and forward – Yeshurun. Tragically there has been on occasion the element that grew fat and gross and rebelled, which we will try to explore a little later. But H promises as long as you cling to Torah with all your heart, might and resources, there will be no signs of infirmity – a full healthy heart, is guaranteed to all genrations. We see the prophecy that the old people and children will be laughing together in the streets of Jerusalem, celebrating the blessings of Torah. We look around today and see these blessings being brought back to us from the four corners of the world. Here we are today, celebrating the sweetest blessings that H could have. In Yerushalayim 2000 years later. We see about wood and stone, H gives us a reminder, don’t throw your children into the fire. We see bvy the enemies of Israel, that the best thing they can choose for their children is to throw them in the furnace of the suicide bombings. Many times it is described as a work accident. Where did it really happen? In their own home. Day by day we here more miracles of foiled plots and missiles landing without injuring people, Has Veshalom. 4,000 missiles landed in Israel with much less damage and injuries than the terrorists had planned. We see on a daily basis in Sderot the are targeting schools and kindergartens. But whenever they fire their rockets and nobody is killed, rachma litzlan, there is a holocaust of silence amongst the nations of the world. If any Jew rose up to eliminate the rocket launchers, and by accident kills children being used as cover, whose parents sent him to be with Hamas soldiers and rocket launchers, if children are hurt or killed, what hysterics, what a tragedy. So we see the hypocrisy of those out there who claim to be just. We can be absolutely sure that they will receive their just deserts from H’. At the end of days, H will take revenge against all those who plot against Israel. We go further – even the gold and silver will not save you. How many people built massive pyramids to the Pharaoh, and then they were buried in them.

Perek 30, posuk 1,

א וְהָיָה כִי-יָבֹאוּ עָלֶיךָ כָּל-הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה, הַבְּרָכָה וְהַקְּלָלָה, אֲשֶׁר נָתַתִּי, לְפָנֶיךָ; וַהֲשֵׁבֹתָ, אֶל-לְבָבֶךָ, בְּכָל-הַגּוֹיִם, אֲשֶׁר הִדִּיחֲךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ שָׁמָּה.

1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, you will take them to heart among all the nations, where the LORD your G-d has dispersed you.

This had to happen. Bnei Yisrael had to go to the 4 corners of the world. H had to collect us from the heavens. [28, 31].

I would like to call this parsha HeMelech, Hamoel HaGoel. The King. The one that does a bris mila that nothing and nobody else can do. And the one that is our ultimate redeemer. It is reflected in the first sentence of the shemoe Esre but in a sense, it is an aspect of the infinite quality that H, and only H, can bestow upon his loving nation and all those who go in H’s ways.

So it continues, posuk Beis, “You will return to H your G-d, and listen to His voice, according to everything I command you today, You and Your children, this only because you took it to heart, you follow, amongst all the other nations when everything looked hopeless, you, your children, with all your heart and all your soul. Then H your G-d will bring back your captivity. H has sent you to captivity and nobody will pay for your captivity, no nation in the world even wants to trade you for money. Then to contemplate that when you have done Teshuva, H personally will come and redeem, without money, every one of Israel that does Teshuva Gamur. Bechol nafshcha, uvol levavcha uvchol meodecha. H will return you from your captivity and have mercy on you. He will gather you in from all the people where H your G-d has scattered you. If you are dispersed to the end of the heavens, from there H will gather you. From there he will take you. How is this possible? From the distant ends of the heavens H has not forgotten your ancestors nor will he forget you. If every one of us does teshuva, H wil rescue, H will redeem, H will return Am Yisrael to its original destined place in History, As Rav birnbaum said, History is the cryptic word for His Story, H’s story throughout world history. Whoever does not see the hand of H in history is in Hosehch behoshech. Pure darkness in darkness.

“ H’ your G-d will bring you to the land that your forefathers possessed. AndYou will possess it” We see today what is hapenning after thousands of years of bitter exile, Am Yisrael are returning from the 4 corners of the world to Toras Yisrael, which is the key to Eretz Yisrael, which is the key to bringing olam haba into olam hazeh, turning this world into the Garden of Eden which it will soon be BeEzras H.

“He will do good for you and make you more numerous than your forefathers”. Not only will it be good for you, but what you could never have contemplated, the number of Am Yisrael will excel exponentially, and this little land which you say cannot house, support and feed and supply the water for one million Jews, 60/70 years ago, is today supporting about 7 million Jews plus the visitors who come every year, a total of something like 9 million people. Eating and drinking and feasting from the blessing of this land. This tiny little land as small as the state of New Jersey. Icluding the negev Dessert which was a desolate waste land, which is now blossoming producing some of the most sought after produce in the world. The desserts are starting to blossom. Not because of our technology and ingenuity but for the grace of H’. In one second if H’ were has veshalom to turn His fface away from us, the other nations would incinerate this place into oblivion. Every crumb of earh, every blade of grass and every leaf in this land is individually blessed by H’. So how is it possible that when a person goes up to Mount Scopus, that he sees, towards Jerusalem, luscious green fertile land. When he looks the other way, desolate barren, harsh wasteland across the Jordan all the way to Saudi Arabia and beyond. Every drop of rain has an address. As H tells us in the Shema Yisrael, if you keep my ways y ou will have the former rains and latter rains, your fields, pastures, food, cattle and flocks, everything will blossom and will be overflowing. If not, H will just lock up one key, the key to the rain. The heavens will dry up, the earth will become like steel, and you will whither away. You would have to leave and would perish. So we see that of those two choices we cannot be sure which is the best one. To be annihilated at the hands of Esav and Ishmael and the other nations of the world, or heaven forbid, on all acoounts, to experience the curses of H’. Ultimately, we have the potential in this world to make shamayim al ha’aretz. To be a light unto the nations, to teach them their torah, the Sheva Mitzvos bnei Noach, and for us to rise up to our Taryag 613, mitzvos, to keep them mehudar mehudarim, with the ultimate beauty and spiruital excellence that can be applied. So we see a most amazing idea here which is maybe one of the greatest secrets of the Torah.

5 ‘H your G-d will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring to love H your G-d, with all your heart and all your soul, that you may live. This one sentence says everything. This requires a tremendous sense of awe and overwhelming introspection to try to understand this posuk. Without that, isn’t it possible to love H? The heart is blocked up, metamtem. Hysicaly, it is called sclerosis and stenosis. A cardiac surgeon would have to do a bypass to bypass all those false blockages in the heart. The surgeon may even have to do a heart transplant. The first heart transplant was Chris Barnard. A tremendous irony that the heart had to be replaced, and unfortunately it didn’t last long. The heart starts to beat form the day it is created until the neshama leaves the body, it keeps beating like a test of serv ing H’. A Mohel can do a physical circumcision on the 8^th day but by one act with a gentile that bris mila can be destroyed. Although the father gave the son a bris mil and tried to keep him on the easy of H’, it says in maseches Menachos, when that neshama goes over the waterall into the furnaces of Gehinom, Avraham Avinu who recognises every Jewish neshama, does not recognise the neshama of somebody that destroys his bris mila. So that neshama goes into gehenom and roasts in the eternal furnaces for eternity with no possibility of redemption. Somebody who destroys their Bris Mila with one moment of licensiousness with an idolatress, with somebody that isn’t Jewish. So, it is a terrible thing, but the answer is that it can be repaired. Through one tiny thing called Teshuva. We are coming into Rosh Hashana and yom Kippur now. A person Has to contemplate with all their heart, soul and resources, the power of tehuva. By just saying to H I regret and I resolve, I return, through that quick split second decision a persons life can be changed for eternity.

There was a young man born into a religious home in Maale Dafne. Over the years he went after his own heart which led him astray. He went to other places and other cities. One evening at about 7 in the evening he decided to meet with a friend at the midrechov on the Ben Yehuda walkway in downtown Jerusalem. As fate would have it that was the evening of the triple suicide bombing. Hundreds of people were murdered or severely injured. As the bomb blew up he was standing next to his best friend, he was thrown about 20 into the air and his body was doing somersaults, he said if I live through I swear by every fibre of my existence, I will do Teshva Gamur, I will keep all your Torah. As he was doing somersaults, he landed on the ground and was found in a pool of his own blood. They rescued him and he was in hospital for months. X rays showed that a hundred screws and nuts filled his body, had punctured every organ, bolts coated ith cyanide to try to maximize the harm. So we see in retrospect, through that onesplit second of Teshuva that he did, within 6 months he was out of hospital. Within a year or 2 he was standing under his own chupa with a wonderful woman, an eshes chayil, and they ent on to build their bayis neeman. It wasn’t easy. Most of the bolts couldn’t be removed surgically from his body. Slowly, after he had done teshuva, those bolts started to be extruded and exuded from his body. Next to him was his best friend, also a secular guy. One bolt pierced his brain, and until today, almost 7 or 8 years later, that young man has still not recovered. He was wheeled into his friends wedding. The friend, who received one hundred bolts to his body and did Teshuva in one split second, in that split second h received and redeemed. The other friend who didn’t even think about Teshuva, one bolt pierced his brain and he is paralysed, probably for the rest of his life.

So the Chumash says ‘H will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love h your G-d. This is something that a physical mohel who goes to a school to learn bris mila and learns to be a Rabbi, and he can do bris mila with all the right intentions, all the right prayers. It could succeed. It could be that the son brings forth children that are Yorei Shmoayim, and they could keep Torah and their generations. Historically, statistically through all the generations, 80% over the last 1000 years, 80% of each generation did not survive. They married out or they were murdered. Smad but not leabed. Leabed is Amalek’s ultimate desire, to destroy the last of the Jewish nation. That H guarantees will not happen, because H says that as long as there is heaven and there is earth, there will be Am Yisrael. So the greatest mohel, Hagoel, the one that redeems, the one that rescues each individual Jew.

Shortly we will be going into Rosh Hashana. We say, Utefilla, uteshuva, utzedaka, maavirin es roa hagezeira, redeems from the ultimate death sentence. We are rescued through charity, through returning to H, and through prayers, HEART FELT PRAYERS, NOT repeating off by heart, but from all one’s heart. Crying out to H’, not knowing who by fire, who by water, who by sword, who by war, who by many millions of different things, has veshalom will not make it through the next year. Then we reflect back on the last year and think who did we know that was saying these words last year but will not be saying them again this year because they have left this world. We tremble and we hav to take every sentence and every thought seriously. These are moments of infinite potential on Rosh hashana and Yom Kippur. If we do a total Teshuva, H will then do surgery spiritually on our hearts, like no surgeon and no mohel can do, he will return our hearts to him, and he will return the hearts of the sons to the fathers, and the fathers to the sons. And we will experience that which was predicted from the beginning of creation, the geula shleima.

I want to quickly reflect on this weeks haftora which, when Netzavim and vayelekh fall together is the and they shall call them the holy people, haftora of netzavim. This, the seventh and last of the Specail Haftorahs of Comfort (Sheva Denechemta) speaks of the the time of redemption and also years of exile in its final throes. H says, for Zion’s sake I will not be silent. The Targum Yonasan explains, that as long as Israel is dispersed amongst the nations, there will never be tranquility in the world. History guarantees and bears this out just as it will bear out the rest of the prophecy. H is described as the mighty one, the warrior of Israel. H personally goes out after the enemies of Israel, including Edom, the descendants of Esav, the most viscious enemies of Am Yisrael. The ancestors of the Roman Empire, which brought about not only the current exile, but infinite destruction. Not only the destruction of houses of millions of Am Yisrael, in the holocaust and over thousands of years, but also Edom destroyed the Beis haMikdash. H guarantees that, asYitzhak Avinu cried out to H’, shall the one, my son Esav, who did tremendous kibud Av, tremendous, that he honoured his father as much as possible, surely there is something about him, shall he not receive a place in heaven? So H replied, the one who destroyed my house shall not have a share in heaven. So we see Edom is guaranteed a fiery destruction for Eternity. Then we go forward in this haftara. H swore with His right hand and by his powerful arm, I will not give you as prey any longer as fod for your enemies. The alien shall not drink the wine for which you have exerted yourself, You shall heartily eat and praise H, veachalta, vesavata uverachta. It says in Haazinu, You were blessed with all these things, grew fat and gross, kicked out against the Torah, and turned your back on H’. H wages his war and they shall call them the holy people. So it says, ‘go through, go through the gate, cleave the people’s ways, lay down the highways”. We see today the highways lead to Israel and across Jersualem. Behold H has made heard unto the end of the Earth, behold your salvation has come, behold his consolation is with H’. He wages his war before the nations. They shall call them the holy nation, those that have been redeemed by H’. And you shall be called sought after. The nation is not forsaken, but blossoming more than ever before. After destroying the enemies of Israel, we get to the ultimate Geula in the final posuk of the seven haftoahs of Comfort. The kindness of H will I mention, the praises of H. In accordance with all that H has bestowed upon Am Yisrael and the abundant goodness to the house of Israel which he bestows upon them in his compassion and his abundant kindness, where He says, H’ says, my children will not be forsaken and I will be unto them a Redeemer, that in their troubles, H was troubled. The angel that was before H saved them with H’s special love and in His compassion, he lifted them and carried them all the days of the world, throughout the times of our exile, certainly from the times of our redemption. H’ bore, H’ carried, H’ redeemed, H’ will make great. Our nation are meant to be a light unto the nations, it is happening very fast in our days, we have to hold tight and please G-d, very soon, the geula Shleima, Moshiach Tzidkeinu, Beis hamikash, and Kol Am Yisrael with the Techias hameisim, will celebrate the Mishkan Hadash the Eternal, the Ultimate, redemption of the whole world. And all the Righteous Gentiles with Am Yisrael, with Moshe Rabbeinu, Aaron haCohen, the ultimate Shabbat Shabbaton. We’re going into Shabbos now, the last Shabbos of the Year, we’ve got to give it our everything. We’ve got to keep all the prayers and the order of the mitzvos. We are going into Shmitta, Yom Kippur which is called Shabbat Shabbaton, the Shabbos of Shabboses, so I wish you all the brachos, all the blessings of Torah and in the meantime, Shabbat Shalom to Kol Am Yisrael and Shalom Lekol Haolam. Yihye Shabbat Shalom. And Shabbat Shalom. Next week will be Rosh Hashana so I wish you andkol Am Yisrael a Shana Tova Mevorechet Ad Bi Dei. h