Nitzavim-Vayelech: One Kind Word Can Bring a Jew Back | Rabbi Rakhmin Dodobayev

Shabbat, we read the two parashot Parashat Nitzavim and Parashat Vayeilech. Nitzavim, we all stand in front of Hashem. Vayeilech, these are the days of Moshe Rabbenu when he passed away. Why we're reading these both parashot together right before Rosh Hashanah? For us, we should all stand up in front of Hashem while we're praying, not sitting down. We say Kiddush, we stand up as a witnesses. We say Shema Yisrael, we all stand up. When we say the Slichot, when we say the 13 attributes of Hashem, Yud Gimmel Middot. We blow the shofar, we all [music] stand. We bless each other while standing, not sitting down. >> [music] >> We speak with Hashem while standing up all the time. And this tells us when a person >> [music] >> is standing, he focuses more. So, Moshe Rabbenu in the Parashat Vayeilech, he goes around 3 million people >> [music] >> and he says, "Do the Teshuvah. Do the repentance." Why does he have to go through 3 million [music] people and tell them to do the Teshuvah, to do the repentance? So, the Rabbenu Or HaChaim HaKadosh, he says a beautiful thing. So, people should not say, [music] "I did not hear from Moshe Rabbenu personally telling me to do the Teshuvah." Why? Because Moshe Rabbenu felt for every Jew. >> [music] >> In these days, each one of us should stand up. It doesn't matter [music] who is, a rabbi, a gabbai, a mother, a father, >> [music] >> a grandfather, a close friend, you should tell them good words to do the Teshuvah, to come close to Hashem, especially to those children, especially to his grandchildren, especially to those who are far away from the Torah. One nice words will bring another Jew closer to the Hashem. One nice word will bring [music] a blessing to the entire world. May Hashem write us in [music] a book of life, a book of repentance, a book of >> [music] >> joy and happiness and mazel. Ketima u'chatima tova.