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Daily Chumash Summaries

Sarede Rachel Switzer

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Frequency: 1 episode/2d. Total Eps: 382

Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”L

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Vayelech, 1st Aliya

Sunday, September 21, 2025 • Duration 03:28

Moshe’s Last Day

Moshe passed away on the seventh of Adar, which was also his birthday, alluding to him having had a complete life.

On the day of Moshe’s passing, his powers were just as strong as before, however his authority was taken away from him and his powers of transmission closed off from him.

Moshe told them on that day that he was 120 years old and not permitted to continue into the land with them.

He reassures them that G-d and Yehoshua will cross the Jordan river before them to lead them there and that G-d will destroy the nations they are to encounter in the land so the Israelites can take possession of it.

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Nitzavim, 7th Aliya

Friday, September 19, 2025 • Duration 03:28

Choose Life

Moshe relays that he has today set before them “life and good” and “death and evil”. Juxtaposing these things is in order to illustrate that doing good grants one life, while doing evil grants one death. This works as follows:

The “good” refers to loving G-d, walking in His ways and observing His commandments, statues and ordinances. Doing so will cause them to “live and increase” and G-d will bless them in the land of Israel.

The “evil” refers to them not listening and bowing down to and serving other gods. If they do this, they will not live long in Israel.

Moshe says that he calls upon the heaven and earth that day as witnesses to all of this, as they are eternal and thus will bear witness when evil comes upon them. An alternate explanation to Moshe calling upon the heaven and earth as witnesses, is to demonstrate that the heaven and earth obediently act as G-d wills them to despite not receiving reward or punishment for this, so all the more so should the Israelites who do receive reward and punishment obey G-d.

Moshe beseeches them that in spite of the fact that they have free choice, they are to choose life. Rashi explains that this is like a man who tells his son to choose a nice portion of his estate and then shows him the best portion and tells him to choose that one.

Living in the land that G-d promised to their forefathers is their life, which they are choosing when they obey G-d.

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Nitzavim, 6th Aliya

Friday, September 19, 2025 • Duration 02:20

Curses on Israel’s Enemies. Return to G-d.

Moshe prophecies that G-d will put all of the curses on the Israelites’ enemies and those who chase after them, that the Israelites will return to listening and obeying G-d’s commandments and that G-d will make their work produce abundance for them.

When they obey G-d and return to Him with their full heart and soul, G-d will celebrate over them the way he did over their ancestors, Moshe says.

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Nitzavim, 5th Aliya

Thursday, September 18, 2025 • Duration 02:24

Curses on Israel’s Enemies. Return to G-d.

When they obey G-d and return to Him with their full heart and soul, G-d will celebrate over them the way he did over their ancestors, Moshe says.

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Nitzavim, 4th Aliya

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 • Duration 02:47

Ingathering

Moshe prophecies to the Israelites that after the blessings and curses previously spoken of come to pass, and they contemplate it all and subsequently return to G-d fully in heart and soul and obey Him, G-d will have mercy on them and gather all of the Israelites who will have been scattered around the world, even from the “end of the heaven” and return them to their Land. This ingathering will be such a monumental and difficult procedure that it will be as though G-d is taking each individual Jew out of exile with His hands.

Once returned to the Land of Israel, this later generation of Israelites will re-possess the Land and G-d will make them more numerous than their ancestors.

And G-d will circumcise their and their progeny’s hearts so they may love G-d with all their heart and soul.

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Nitzavim, 3rd Aliya

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 03:47

Reminders and Collective Responsibility

G-d says that they must vow not to practice idolatry since they may feel tempted to after living in Egypt and having seen other nations do so. Whether they were idols of wood and stone which they kept out in public as they did not fear that anyone would steal them, or of gold and silver which they kept hidden away for fear that these would be stolen.

Moshe now warns that if there is someone among them who practices idolatry or makes or adds evil, who upon hearing G-d’s vow to them, thinks to himself that he can still have peace even if continues to do what he wants and disregard G-d’s Will, such a person will not be forgiven by G-d. Rather G-d’s anger will cause his body to flame up and have fumes come out of his nose and will be subject to all of the curses mentioned earlier and G-d will delete his name from the world.

And in the future, their progeny as well as future converts will see the plagues in the land and diseases and liken it to the downfall of Sodom, Gemorrah, Admah and Zeboiim which G-d upended out of His anger. And this later generation will understand that this is an expression of G-d’s anger for abandoning their covenant with Him by serving other gods that G-d did not designate for them. And out of anger G-d threw them out from the Land.

These punishments that Moshe warns will be inflicted upon the entire nation is only for the sin of a few.

Rashi comments upon how this teaches that the entire nation is responsible for the sins of even a few people. However this only became so after they crossed the Jordan River after having accepted the oath at Mount Gerizin and Mount Ebal where they accepted this collective responsibility.

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Nitzavim, 2nd Aliya

Monday, September 15, 2025 • Duration 02:58

Exclusive Relationship

In exchange for G-d going to the trouble of being so exclusionary about Israel, vowing to the patriarchs that He would not exchange them with another nation, He expects them to be faithful to Him in kind.

Rashi explains here that this Parsha of Nitzavim comes right after that of Ki Tavo as when the Israelites heard the 98 curses written in Ki Tavo, they feared it would be too much for them to handle. Thus Moshe calmed them down with what is written here in Nitzavim that in spite of having angered G-d many times, He has not destroyed them and that in fact the curses and suffering are what allow them to stay standing before Him. The curses do so by deterring them from sinning and the suffering by cleansing them of sins.

Moshe tells them that G-d is saying that He is including all future generations of Jews in the covenant, not only those who were physically there that day.

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Parshat Nitzavim

Sunday, September 14, 2025 • Duration 03:18

Receiving the Covenant

On the day of his death, Moshe brought the entire nation together in the presence of G-d to enter them into a covenant with Him. The text details the various factions of the nation he gathered in descending order of importance: The leader of the tribes, the elders, the officers, the other men, the young children, the women, the converts and finally the woodcutters and water drawers. These woodcutters and water drawers are listed at the end and separately as these were the Canaanites who pretended that they wanted to convert to Judaism during Moshe’s time however Moshe was on to them so in failing to trust them, he made them into woodcutters and water drawers. The same thing happened later in Yehoshua ’s time with the Gibeonites who similarly pretended to want to convert to Judaism though Yehoshua didn’t trust them and similarly made them into woodcutters and water drawers.

Moshe made the nation stand in ranks, as a way to encourage them in transitioning from him to another leader (Yehoshua). Yehoshua acted similarly before his death as did Shmuel the prophet when his leadership was about to be passed to Saul.

The way covenants were set up is that there would be demarcations set up on two sides and those parties to the covenant would pass through it.

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Tetzavei, 6th Aliya

Friday, March 7, 2025 • Duration 04:11

Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”L

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2 Lambs. The Ohel Moed

Two lambs in their first year should be sacrificed daily - one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

The Morning Lamb

Together with the first (morning)lamb, 1/10 of an ephah* of fine flour should be mixed with 1/4 of a hin of crushed olive oil and 1/4 of a hin** of wine***.

*Side note: This equals to the volume of 43 1/5 eggs. One ephah is equivalent to 72 logs or approx 22 liters (one log is approx 0.3 liters) so this would be about 2.2 liters.

**Side note: One hin is equivalent to 12 logs, or approx 3.6 liters, so 1/4 of one hin equals to 3 logs, or approx 0.9 liters

***Side note: This wine was poured as a libation into 2 silver basins which were hollow at their bottoms (like nostrils) which were situated on top of the altar and would flow from them to the roof of the altar and then through the holes in the altar to the foundations of the copper altar and then to the ground.

The Afternoon Lamb

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Tetzavei, 7th Aliya

Friday, March 7, 2025 • Duration 03:28

Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”L

The Incense Altar

G-d now gives instructions on making the altar for burning incense. He says that it should be made out of Shittim wood.

It should be square shaped, 1 cubit long x 1 cubit wide and 2 cubits high with horns emerging from it. It should be covered in gold and it should have a golden crown, symbolizing the crown of the priesthood (kehuna).

On either side of the altar, under the crown, at two opposing corners, they should make golden rings.

They should make two poles out of shittim wood and covered in gold. These poles should go through the above mentioned rings.

This altar should be placed right outside of the Holy of Holies, i.e. in front of the curtain that covers the Ohel Moed.

Aaron is to burn incense on this altar every morning, while cleaning the lamps from the ashes of the wicks that burnt the previous night as well as every afternoon while lighting the lamps.

Nothing should be burnt on this altar other than the designated incense for it. Not any donated incense nor any meal offering (i.e. of bread) or burnt offering (i.e. of animal).

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