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Parsha Nitzavim, Judaism & Rosh Hashanah – Jewish Teachings: Born Into A Covenant Or Free To Choose. Which Is It?
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You didn't choose Avraham. You didn't choose Sinai. You didn't choose the covenant. You didn't even choose to be born Jewish. Yet Parsha Nitzavim tells us we are part of it all anyway.
And then the Torah tells you: Choose Life. So what is it? What are Jewish values? Do we get to choose or not?
Torah Study: As Rosh Hashanah approaches, parsha Nitzavim confronts us with a fascinating tension at the heart of Jewish life: between what we inherit and what we choose, between who we already are and who we might yet become.
Every Rosh Hashanah we tell ourselves that this year will be different.
But will it? We carry the same personality. The same weaknesses. The same habits. The same things we promised ourselves we would change last year.
Can a person really choose to become different? How much of who we are is fixed, and how much can still be changed? Parsha Nitzavim contains a surprising answer.
And it begins with a covenant made thousands of years before we were born.