September 1, 2021
Radically Inclusive High Holidays Coming Your Way!
As we move into September(!) and towards the end of Deuteronomy, this week's Torah portion, Nitzavim, opens with a famous set of verses:"You stand this day, all of you, before the LORD your God—your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to water drawer— to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions; to the end that God may establish you this day as God's people and be your God, as God promised you and as God swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone, but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the LORD our God and with those who are not with us here this day." (Click here to read the Hebrew text as well of Deut. 29:9-14.)