Thread by @GREENESJ333

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Haazinu
Deuteronomy 32:1–52

The bulk of this Parsha is a Song, sung by Moses to the people marking the final day of his life.
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The core of his lesson, is to tell the people to remember, to never forget the history that has made them, that has prepared them for the future, but, again, only if they continue to remember.
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The Parshah ends, with the order from Hashem that Moses should climb to the top of Mt Nebo to look in the distance, across the river, at the land his people have been promised and to which they will go and settle. Then Moses dies.
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There are two things, maybe a bit less than conventional, that I see in this Parsha.

The first points to us, Am Yisrael, not just remembering history in general, not even our particular people’s history, but how we remember it.
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It points to the need to remember it & its cultural context, not through the cultural beliefs & norms & ideologies of others, & though the lens of our own language, Hebrew,...
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and not through the translations to other language systems that lose 25-35% of meaning that the Hebrew carries within it.
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Finally, I identify with this Parsha in a another way. I look at my life, the good & bad decisions I’ve made, &, frankly, I feel like Moses, seeing what could be, what should be in the future of our people, & knowing that I won’t be a part of it by the time it happens."
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