V’Zot Habracha: The End and The Beginning
V’Zot Habracha: The End and The Beginning
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This week’s Torah portion is V’Zot Habracha: The End and The Beginning.
In this week’s Torah portion, we have one job: to let go of Moses.
In a scene of remarkable tenderness, Moses climbs the mountain and looks at the land that his people will enter. God then takes his life with a kiss and then buries Moses in a mysterious and unknown location. With Joshua in position to take over, Moses’s only job is to let go of his life.
The text itself says that Israel never knew another prophet like Moses. Why does he have to die? Why does everyone have to die?.
About the Author
Special thanks to Yael Shy and our friends at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for joining us in creating weekly Shabbat moments for your Friday nights.
Yael Shy is the CEO of Mindfulness Consulting, LLC, where she teaches and consults on mindfulness for universities, corporations, and private clients around the world. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the US. Yael is a graduate of the IJS Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification.
