Nizawim

Nizawim (also: Nizzawim ; Biblical Hebrew נִצָּבִים “You stand” - to be added: “Today before God”) is a reading section ( Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Deuteronomy / Dewarim 29.9–30.20 (29.9–28 BHS , 30 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 4th Shabbat in the month of Elul (even if connected with Vajelech ).

Essential content

Moses makes a covenant with Israel and its future generations that they should belong to God and that God will help them
Proclamation of calamity if the covenant is violated and the people succumb to idolatry
Threat of expulsion, parallel to Sodom and Gomorrah
Promise of gathering the scattered and returning them to the land of the fathers after repentant repentance
The commandments presented are obvious (“not in heaven”, “not on the other side of the sea”) and easy to keep; observing them is life and happiness; Failure to do so leads to ruin

Haftara

The associated Haftara is Isa 61.10–63.9 (61.10-11 BHS , 62 BHS , 63.1–9 BHS ).

literature

David Sander: NIZZAWIM . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 1 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 513 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
Selig Bamberger (translator), Raschi's Pentateuch commentary , Goldschmidt, Basel, fourth edition 2002, pp. 573-584
Sidratext Dewarim / Deuteronomy 29.9-30.20. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
Haftaratext Isa 61.10-63.9. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .

Web links

Gesa Shira Ederberg : Nizawim - interpretative sovereignty. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 13, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Elisa Klapheck : Nizawim - About the inaccessible hidden. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, September 17, 2015, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Elisa Klapheck: Nizawim - God is responsible for the hidden. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, September 14, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Nizawim - Wajelech - way back. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, September 22, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Tom Kučera: Nizawim - Wajelech - teamwork. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, September 29, 2014, accessed April 28, 2018 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 189 (414 pp.).

[1] Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 189 (414 pp.).