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The Chief Rabbi's D'var Torah for Nitzavim - Vayelech
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Chief Rabbi Mirvis
What is the significance of every single letter of the Torah?
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe gave a beautiful explanation. In Parshat Vayelech, which we’ll be reading this coming Shabbat, the Torah presents us with the last of the Mitzvot. Mitzvah number 613 states “ּׁירההַ ּ֔ ֹזאת וְלַ ְמ ָ ּ֥ד ָ֣ ש ּ ִ ַתה כִ ְּת ֤בּ לָ כֶם֙ אֶ ת־ה ּ ָ ֗ ַוְע יהם ֑ ֶ ׂימּ ְב ִּפ ֣ ָ ת־בנֵי־י ְִש ָׂר ֵ ֖אל ִש ְּ ֶ – אand now, write for yourselves this song, which is the Torah, and teach it to the children of Israel. Place it in their mouths”. Why is there a mitzvah to write a Sefer Torah? We can fulfil this Mitzvah by writing just one letter of a Sefer Torah and it’s attributed to us as if we’ve written the whole Sefer. But why this imperative to be engaged in the writing of letters of the scroll?
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