Parashah 52 - Vayelech (And he went)

Torah Reading 

Deuteronomy 31 : 1 - 30

Chazak! Be Courageous!

1 Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

2 He said to them, “I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. Adonai has said to me, ‘You are not to cross over this Jordan.’

3 Adonai your God—He will cross over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross over before you, just as Adonai has promised.

4 “Adonai will do to them just as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them.

5 Adonai will give them over to you, and you are to do to them according to all the mitzvot that I commanded you.

6 Chazak! Be courageous! Do not be afraid or tremble before them. For Adonai your God—He is the One who goes with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.”

7 Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong! Be courageous! For you are to go with this people into the land Adonai has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you are to enable them to inherit it.

8 Adonai—He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you. Do not fear or be discouraged.”

Public Torah Readings

9 Moses wrote down this Torah and gave it to the kohanim, the sons of Levi who carry the Ark of the Covenant of Adonai, and to all the elders of Israel.

10 Then Moses commanded them saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of cancelling debts, during the feast of Sukkot,

11when all Israel comes to appear before Adonai your God in the place He chooses, you are to read this Torah before them in their hearing.

https://www.bible.com/bible/314/DEU.31.TLV

Hosea 14 : 2 – 10

2 Return O Israel, to Adonai your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

3 Take words with you and return to Adonai. Say to Him: “Take away all iniquity, and accept what is good, so we may repay with offerings of our lips:

4 ‘Assyria will not save us. We will not ride on horses, and we will never again say, “Our god,” to the work of our hands, for with You, orphans find mercy.’”

5 “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for My anger will turn away from him.

6 I will be like dew for Israel. He will blossom like a lily, and thrust out his roots like Lebanon.

7 His tender shoots will spread out. His beauty will be like an olive tree and his fragrance will be like Lebanon.

8 Those dwelling in his shadow will return. They will grow grain and bud like a vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

9 Ephraim: “What more are idols to me? I have responded and observed Him. I will be like a luxuriant cypress tree. From me will be found Your fruit.”

10 Who is wise? Let him discern these things. Who is intelligent? Let him know them. For the ways of Adonai are straight, and the just walk in them, but the wicked stumble in them.

https://www.bible.com/bible/314/HOS.14.TLV

Micah 7: 18-20

He Will Again Have Compassion

18 Who is a God like You pardoning iniquity, overlooking transgression, for the remnant of His heritage? He will not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

19 He will again have compassion on us. He will subdue our iniquities, and You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

20 You will extend truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, that You swore to our ancestors from the days of old.

https://www.bible.com/bible/314/MIC.7.TLV

Joel 2 : 15 - 27

Blow the Shofar

15 Blow the shofar in Zion! Sanctify a fast; proclaim an assembly.

16 Gather the people; sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even those nursing at breasts. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her chamber.

17 Between the porch and the altar let the kohanim, ministers of Adonai, weep, and let them say: “Have pity, Adonai, on Your people. Don’t make Your heritage a scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’”

18 Adonai will be zealous for His land, and have compassion on His people.

19 Adonai will answer and say to His people: “Behold, I will send you the grain, the new wine, and the fresh oil, and you will be satisfied with it. I will no longer make you a mockery among the nations.

20 “But I will remove the northern invader far from you—yes, I will banish him to a dry and desolate land— his vanguard into the Eastern Sea and his rearguard into the Western Sea. His odor will go up— Yes, his stench will rise.” For He has done great things!

Rain and Restoration

21 Do not fear, O land. Be glad! Rejoice! For Adonai has done great things.

22 Do not be afraid, beasts of the field, for the desert pastures have sprouted, for the tree bears its fruit. Fig tree and vine yield their strength.

23 So be glad, children of Zion, and rejoice in Adonai, your God. For He gives you the early rain for prosperity, Yes, He will bring down rain for you, the early and latter rain as before.

24 The threshing floors will be full of grain and the vats will overflow with new wine and fresh oil.

25 “I shall restore to you the years that the locust, the swarming locust, the canker-worm and the caterpillar have eaten— My great army that I sent among you.”

26 “You will surely eat and be satisfied, and praise the Name of Adonai your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. Never again will My people be shamed

27 You will know that I am within Israel. Yes, I am Adonai your God —there is no other— Never again will My people be shamed.”

https://www.bible.com/bible/314/JOL.2.TLV

Luke 24 : 13 - 43

Eyes Open in Emmaus

13 Now behold, two of them on that very day were traveling to a village named Emmaus, a distance of about seven miles from Jerusalem.

14 They were speaking with one another about all the things that had been happening.

15 While they were talking and discussing, Yeshua Himself approached and began traveling with them.

16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.

17 Then He said to them, “What are these things you are discussing with one another as you are walking along?” They stood still, looking gloomy.

18 Then the one named Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that happened there in these days?”

19 Yeshua said to them, “What kind of things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Yeshua from Natzeret, who was a Prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people—

20 how the ruling kohanim and our leaders handed Him over to be sentenced to death, and they executed Him.

21 But we were hoping that He was the One about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.

22 “But also some women among us amazed us. Early in the morning they were at the tomb.

23 When they didn’t find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said He is alive!

https://www.bible.com/bible/314/LUK.24.TLV

Matthew 21 : 9 – 17

9 The crowds going before Him and those following kept shouting, saying, “Hoshia-na to Ben-David! Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hoshia-na in the highest!”

10 When He entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

11 And the crowds kept saying, “This is the prophet Yeshua, from Natzeret in the Galilee.”

12 Then Yeshua entered the Temple and drove out all those selling and buying in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves.

13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of thieves’!”

14 The blind and lame came to Him in the Temple, and He healed them.

15 But when the ruling kohanim and Torah scholars saw the wonders He performed, and the children crying out in the Temple and saying, “Hoshia-na to Ben-David,” they became indignant.

16 And they said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” “Yes,” Yeshua said to them. “Haven’t you ever read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing toddlers You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

17 Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He spent the night there.

https://www.bible.com/bible/314/MAT.21.TLV