Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52
Moshe delivers a poetic song that frames Israel’s history as a covenantal drama between God and the people. The poem moves from rebuke to promise, from judgment to ultimate redemption. Ha’azinu transforms law into art and memory into prayer.
Moshes’ final ascent in Ha’azinu is not a defeat but a masterclass in how to die—by first learning how to live. Ha’azinu invites us to hear life as a composition: rehearsed through daily practice and resolved in a final, dignified cadence. To live and die with grace is not resignation but art: shaping a soul that can leave a world more awake than we found it.
Israel's dilemma in the wake of the withdrawal from Gaza
In Contemporary Issues, Israel & Zionism and Parashat Ha'azinu
In Parashat Ha’azinu, the Torah warns of the severe consequences that the people of Israel will suffer if they do not live up to their religious and moral mission. However, it's possible that these verses also prove that what is now happening to the Jewish people and to the State of Israel is not the result of random forces or political turmoil. They prove as clearly as can be that God is in charge and that His providence is at work through its very apparent absence.