Parashat Vetchanan
Parashat-Vetchanan
Prayer of Moshe
Moshe recounts how at the time he had begged Hashem, saying, how He had begun to show His greatness and strong hand. For who is a God in heaven or on earth who can do as the deeds and might of Hashem. Moshe then prayed that he be allowed to cross over and see the good land that is on the other side of the Jordan, the good mountain and the Lebanon. But Hashem was angry with him because of Jewish Nation, and He did not listen to him, telling him that it was enough and he should speak no more regarding this matter.
Hashem told Moshe that he should go up to the top of the hill and lift up his eyes westward, northward, southward and eastward and see with hid eyes, for he will not cross the Jordan river. Instead he was to command, strengthen and encourage Yehosuhua for he was to cross the Jews over the Jordan river and make them inherit the land which Moshe was now going to see.
Across from Beis Peor
The ews camped in the valley opposite Beis Peor
The Warning
Moshe proceeded to warn the Jews to listen to the statutes and judgments that he taught them, in order that they may live and conquest the land that Hashem the G-D of their forefathers was giving them. They are not to add to the word which Moshe commanded them, nor diminish from it, when it comes to observing the commandments of the Hashem. Moshe then reminded them what they had seen Hashem to at the incident of Baal Peor, where every man who strayed after Baal Peor, He exterminated from their midst. But those that cleave to Hashem are all alive on this day.
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