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Beit Yisrael International Parashat Ha’azinu-Listen-4 October 2025 / 12 Tishrei 5786
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Parashat Ha’azinu-Listen-4 October 2025 / 12 Tishrei 5786
GADDI’s Notes from the Sages Writings:
“Ha’azinu: The Song of Witness, Israel’s Failings, and Moses’ Final Ascent”
“HA’AZINU: THE ETERNAL SONG OF COVENANT, WARNING, AND REDEMPTION”
1. The Song as Covenant and Witness
Rashi (Deut. 32:1): Explains that Moses calls heaven and earth as witnesses because they are eternal and impartial; if Israel fulfills the covenant, they reward (rain, crops), and if not, they punish (drought, famine).
Midrash Tanchuma: Adds that the heavens and earth were present from Creation and remain until the end—living testimony across generations.
Chassidic Insight (Sefat Emet):Heaven = spiritual inspiration, Earth = material reality. Ha’azinu binds both, teaching that Torah must penetrate life both above and below.
2. “Remember the Days of Old ”
Midrash Rabbah (Devarim 8:3): This verse instructs Israel to learn from history— God’s justice unfolds across generations; nothing is random.
Ramban: “Ask your father” refers to the patriarchs; “your elders” to the prophets. Moses is urging Israel to anchor faith in collective memory and tradition.
Ohr HaChaim: Remembering history prevents arrogance— prosperity without memory leads to rebellion.
3. God’s Care in the Wilderness
Rashi (32:10): Like an eagle carrying its young, God shielded Israel with His wings, never letting an enemy strike from below.
Midrash (Shir HaShirim Rabbah 2:14):Israel in the desert was like a dove in a cleft of rock—helpless but utterly cherished.
Zohar: The desert symbolizes spiritual emptiness; God’s presence turned desolation into a place of revelation.
4. The Danger of Abundance: “Yeshurun Grew Fat and Kicked”
Sifri:Israel is most vulnerable not in suffering but in comfort; prosperity breeds forgetfulness.
Ramban: The verse warns that material success is the root of idolatry, as pride blinds the heart.
Chassidut (Baal Shem Tov): Physical abundance is not evil, but it must be spiritualized—wealth without gratitude becomes poison.
Zohar (III:305a): Forgetting “the Rock” means cutting off from the divine source of life, leading to exile.
5. Calamity and Hester Panim (God’s Hidden Face)
Talmud (Chagigah 5b): When God hides His face, even the righteous suffer— but this concealment is temporary.
Rashi:Hester Panim is not abandonment but concealment, a chance for Israel to awaken.
Midrash: Like a father hiding to awaken his child’s longing, God’s hiddenness is itself an act of love.
Zohar: Even in concealment, divine light flows in hidden channels; the Shekhinah never fully departs.
6. God’s Vengeance and Final Reconciliation
Verse (32:43): “For He will avenge the blood of His servants, and be reconciled with His people and land.”
Midrash Rabbah: Just as God scattered Israel, He promises to gather them; exile contains the seed of redemption.
Rambam (Hilchot Melachim 12:2): Redemption is inevitable—it is embedded in the covenant.
Ohr HaChaim: Even when Israel is undeserving, divine mercy ensures reconciliation.
Chassidut: Redemption is likened to a symphony—where past dissonance resolves into harmony.
7. The Song as Eternal Torah
Talmud (Sanhedrin 21b):Ha’azinu was to be memorized by all; it is the Torah’s testimony across history.
Rashi (32:47): “For it is not an empty thing for you; it is your life”— Torah is not abstract philosophy but the very breath of Israel’s existence.
Zohar:Ha’azinu is more than poetry—it is a spiritual map of history from Creation to Redemption.
Shem Mishmuel: The song’s structure mirrors the soul’s inner music— Torah resonates as melody within the Jewish heart.
Essence According to the Sages
Parshat Ha’azinu is not merely Moses’ farewell—it is a prophetic song, weaving history, morality, rebuke, exile, and redemption into one eternal melody. The sages reveal it as the covenantal soundtrack of Israel’s destiny: a reminder that prosperity demands humility, suffering conceals divine love, and history always resolves in God’s ultimate reconciliation with His people.
“HEAVEN AND EARTH AS ETERNAL WITNESSES: RASHI, IBN EZRA, AND RAMBAN ON HA’AZINU”
“GIVE EAR, O HEAVENS” – THE WITNESSES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
1. Rashi – Eternal Witnesses of Reward and Punishment (Peshat / Drash)
Moshe, being mortal, knows his words must endure beyond his life. He therefore calls upon the heavens andearth—permanent, enduring entities—to bear testimony to the covenant.
They are active witnesses:
If Israel is faithful → heavens give dew, earth yields crops.
If Israel sins → heavens withhold rain, earth denies produce, nations attack.
Ethical Insight: Rashi teaches that Torah is not abstract; it lives in the natural order. The very cycles of nature reflect Israel’s covenantal behavior.
2. Ibn Ezra – Permanence and Symbolism (Remez / Philosophical)
Alternate Ibn Ezra view: The testimony comes from rain (heaven) and crops (earth), visible reminders of covenant blessings or curses.
Deeper Insight: For Ibn Ezra, the key is permanence. Heaven and earth, like mountains or Joshua’s stone (Josh. 24:27), represent unchanging witnesses.
Philosophical Layer: The human soul bridges heaven and earth—it elevates the physical and lowers the spiritual to its level of understanding. Thus, calling heaven and earth mirrors the human condition itself, balancing body and soul underGod.
3. Ramban – Mystical Dimension (Sod)
On the peshat level,Ramban agrees withIbn Ezra:heaven and earth = enduring elements of creation, similar to Micah’s “Hear, O mountains.”
On the Kabbalistic (Derech HaEmet) level, however, Ramban reads the verse cosmically:
The heavens and earth here are the primordial heaven and earth from Bereishit (Gen. 1:1).
These primal forces are drawn into a covenant with Israel.
Moshe is not merely addressing physical heaven and earth, but cosmic foundations of reality—higher heavens and earth that sustain all creation.
Mystical Insight: The covenant binds not only Israel but the entire structure of creation itself; the upper and lower realms are witnesses to, and participants in, the destiny of the Jewish people.
Unified Teaching from the Sages
Rashi grounds us: Heaven and earth testify in practical, tangible ways— rain, crops, drought, famine.
Ibn Ezra elevates it: Heaven and earth symbolize permanence, human soul mediation, and the bridge between spiritual and physical.
Ramban expands it: Heaven and earth here are cosmic archetypes, the very building blocks of existence, joined in covenant with Israel.
Essence
The opening cry of Ha’azinu—“Give ear, O heavens… let the earth hear”— is not just poetic flourish. The sages reveal it as a cosmic covenantal moment:
Witnesses of nature (Rashi).
Symbols of permanence and human duality (Ibn Ezra).
Mystical archetypes of creation itself (Ramban).
Moshe, at the threshold of death, engraves Israel’s covenant not only into history, but into the very fabric of heaven and earth.
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Shalom Am Yisrael,
I would like to call you up, please come and help me? As an Orthodox Jew for many years now I am reaching out to The Lost Sheep from the House of Yisrael. With my friend Gaddi, from India, we started to gather The Lost Sheep from the House of Yisrael in India. As the non-profit organization Beit Yisrael International. Groups of people with diverse backgrounds becoming associated with Beit Yisrael International as: Ultra-Orthodox Chassidic/Lost Tribes of Efrayim/'Ger Toshav', Israelite by accepting the Shulchan Aruch and Chasidut, the teachings of CHaBaD in hearing and doing. The goal of Beit Yisrael International is that they find a way to come home, to Eretz Yisrael, under rabbinical supervision.
Today, because of the war that we have with Amalek things are changing…….. At the end of the war, when we come to total victory over Amalek, we shall start to build a House devoted to HaShem and near His House a house for the great Sanhedrin.
We started with Beit Yisrael International. Now I think we should start with a new social network something like ‘Facebook’ but only for all Israel Lovers: Jews and Ger Toshavim. Please think about the words of Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, The founder of the Yeshiva Har Bracha,
‘Ger Toshav’: Obstacles and Aspirations
The Torah’s vision is that in the Land of Israel, besides the Jewish nation, only those who share in Israel’s mission of being a ‘light unto the nations’ may live here * The controversy surrounding the issue of non-Jews residing in the Land of Israel today, when the status of ‘ger toshav’ (resident alien) does not apply * The Druze meet the conditions of ‘ger toshav’, as opposed to those Arabs who support terrorists, and do not recognize Israeli sovereignty * Presently, fulfilling the mitzvah to expel the hostile minority is impractical * In spite of this, the concept of ’ger toshav’ should be studied in depth, and aspire to implement when possible * Once we delve deeper into the moral logic of the mitzvah, it will serve as a model for all countries coping with immigrants
Non-Jews Residing in the Land of Israel
The grand vision of the Jewish nation in its land is for the land to be inhabited by the Jewish people, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem the Holy Temple will stand, all forms of national life will be conducted according to the teachings of the Torah morally and with holiness and the people of Israel will be a light unto the nations who will come to visit Israel and receive inspiration for their nations’ betterment and that of the world, as expressed in the words of the prophet: “In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of all— the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there to worship.People from many nations will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of Jacob’s God. There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.’ For the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion; his word will go out from Jerusalem.The Lord will mediate between nations and will settle international disputes. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore” (Isaiah 2: 2-4).
In order to achieve this vision, the entire land must be inhabited by Jews, and only non-Jews wishing to be part of Israel’s grand vision will be able to join the Jewish people in the status of a ‘ger toshav‘, or technically, a ‘resident alien’. While the road to realizing the vision is still long, we should nevertheless strive to the best of our ability to achieve it.
According to traditional interpretations, for a ger toshav to be formally recognized and permitted to reside in the Land of Israel, their commitment had to be accepted by a rabbinic court (Beit Din) during a time when the Jubilee year (Yovel) was observed.
To ALL Yisrael Lovers: Do you like to help me with a donation? I need 300 dollars. For the creation of this special Social Network.
Ultimate goal of this Social Network: in Love to each other creating a community ‘a light unto the nations’ coming from The Har HaBayit by our Prayers on the Har HaBayit.
Please send your donations, with the description: ‘a light unto the nations’, to:
I do this work on a volunteer basis, out of Love for the Lost Sheep from the House of Yisrael. I was born as a Lost Sheep from the House of Yisrael...... But HaShem brought me home (more than 30 years back) as one who is born of Zion......
Tehillim (Psalms) - Chapter 87
6[When] the Lord counts in the script of the peoples forever, [He will say,] "This one was born there."
Rashi:
The Lord counts in the script of the peoples, “This one, etc.”. This is a transposed verse, and סלה, forever, which is said at the end, refers to the beginning: When the Lord counts in the script of the peoples forever. That means that in the future, when the Holy One, blessed be He, inscribes the nations for an abhorrence, He will count the Israelites who are assimilated among them and those who were coerced [to abandon Judaism] among them and extract them from their midst, and [He shall] say, “This one was born of those of Zion,” and He will choose them for Himself. This is what Isaiah says (66:21): “And from them, too, will I take for priests and for Levites.” From the nations bringing them for tribute, I shall take those assimilated among them. And there will be among them priests and Levites who are unrecognizable, but they are revealed to Me, says the Lord. Now where did He say it? (Deut. 29:28) “The secret things belong to the Lord, our God.”
Together, I and Gaddi from India, we trying gathering in ALL of Lost Tribes of Israel who have the intense desire to come home, united with Judah, under rabbinical supervision.......
Donations, support for our work are very welcome, to hold on the website and the funds that I like to create, arranges for Beit Yisrael International:
1. The Kohanim of every group (we are starting in India) are learning Parsha Hashevuah, Shulchan Aruch and Mishnah Torah (Rambam) on a weekly base via Video Calls by me. What they (the Kohanim) need to teach to everyone in their communities. As it was originally under Am Yisrael.
2. Starting to learn Hebrew. Following free 'online' courses. They are in need for a good Ulpan.
3. The first group had teaching the of the Shulchan Aruch for more than one year from an Israeli Jewish Orthodox Rabbi. Who gives now on a weekly basis Torah Studies (in general) to the leaders of the different associated groups with Beit Yisrael International through video calls.
4. Soon we start to ask more Rabbis that they can give Torah Studies to the leaders of the different associated groups with Beit Yisrael International through video calls.
5. In India, in general the people are very poor...... The first things what they need are:
Tallitot, Tefillin and Prayer Books..... For their way back home, Eretz Yisrael, to start to live their Jewish Lives complete in unity with the Jewish people.
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If you are interested in helping Beit Yisrael International, it is a non-profit organization, with one of the above, please contact me.
Contact me, Ariel your Representee, Representee of Ephraim and adviser (not a rabbi but friendly adviser) of Bet Yisrael international on the Har HaBayit: WhatsApp +972 54-568-3031, For all your questions about Beit Yisrael International. We can talk about it, come let's make an appointment.
My dear people, I find it very difficult to 'work' on Facebook. I think to be on Facebook shall ONLY 'work' when you pay a lot. The 'free Facebook' doesn't exist anymore...... I will try what I can do.
Face book is still blocking in some way, what makes is very difficult for me.
For to let you know for all what I publish you can find it on my website,
I am thinking of building a new Social Network like Facebook.......
Until now I don't have the budget for it for now I need at least 200 dollars for it. My goal is that I may build a Social Network for ALL Israel Lovers Jews and non-Jews (who like to become Ger Tu-Shavim - Pious of the Nations). I still need a lot to think about how I shall do that. It has to be completely free for everyone except for people who like to advertise.
Ger Tu-Shav has now become important because we are close by building a House for HaShem and building a House of the great Sanhedrin near the House of HaShem.
I ask you please to Pray with me for it?
Ariel your Representee, Representee of Ephraim and adviser (not a rabbi but friendly adviser) of Bet Yisrael international on the Har HaBayit.
יקרים שלי, אני מתקשה מאוד 'לעבוד' בפייסבוק. אני חושב שפייסבוק 'יעבוד' רק כשמשלמים הרבה. ה'פייסבוק החינמי' כבר לא קיים...... אנסה מה שאני יכול לעשות.
פייסבוק עדיין חוסם בצורה כלשהי, מה שמקשה עליי מאוד.
כדי ליידע אתכם על כל מה שאני מפרסם, תוכלו למצוא אותו באתר שלי,
דף הבית:
https://harhabaitjewishsovereignforallisrael.blogspot.com/
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https://beityisrealinternationaldailytorah.blogspot.com/
לעדכוני חדשות של בית ישראל הבינלאומי:
https://beityisrealnewsupdates.blogspot.com/
אני חושב על בניית רשת חברתית חדשה כמו פייסבוק.......
עד עכשיו אין לי תקציב לכך, כרגע אני צריך לפחות 200 דולר. המטרה שלי היא שאוכל לבנות רשת חברתית לכל אוהבי ישראל, יהודים ולא יהודים (שרוצים להפוך לגר טו שווים). אני עדיין צריך לחשוב הרבה על איך אעשה את זה. זה חייב להיות לגמרי בחינם לכולם מלבד אנשים שאוהבים לפרסם. גר טו שב הפך לחשוב עכשיו כי אנחנו קרובים לבניית בית להשם ולבניית בית הסנהדרין הגדולה ליד בית השם. אני מבקש ממך בבקשה להתפלל איתי על כך? אריאל, נציגך, נציג אפרים ויועץ (לא רב אלא יועץ ידידותי) של בית ישראל הבינלאומי בהר הבית.
אני עושה את העבודה הזו בהתנדבות, מתוך אהבה לצאן האבוד מבית ישראל. נולדתי כצאן אבוד מבית ישראל...... אבל השם הביא אותי הביתה (לפני יותר מ-30 שנה) כמי שנולד מציון......
תהילים (תהילים) - פרק פז
ו[כאשר] ה' יספור בכתב עמים לעולם, [יאמר,] "זה נולד שם".
רש"י:
ה' יספור בכתב עמים, "זה וכו'". זהו פסוק משולב, וסלה, לנצח, שנאמר בסוף, מתייחס להתחלה: כאשר ה' יספור בכתב עמים לעולם. פירוש הדבר שבעתיד, כאשר הקדוש ברוך הוא ירשום את הגויים לתועבה, הוא יספור את ישראל אשר נטמעו בתוכם ואת אשר נאלצו [לנטוש את היהדות] בתוכם ויוציאם מתוכם, ואמר: "זה מציון יליד", והוא יבחר בהם לעצמו. כך אומר ישעיהו (סו, כא): "וגם מהם אקח כוהנים ולויים". מן הגויים המביאים אותם למס אקח את אשר נטמעו בתוכם. והיו בתוכם כוהנים ולויים אשר אינם ניתנים לזיהוי, אך גלויים לי, נאם ה'. ועתה, היכן אמר זאת? (דברים כט, כח) "לה' אלוהינו הסודות".
יחד, אני וגדי מהודו, אנו מנסים לאסוף את כל שבטי ישראל האבודים בעלי הרצון העז לחזור הביתה, מאוחדים עם יהודה, תחת השגחת רבנית.......
תרומות ותמיכה בעבודתנו יתקבלו בברכה, לשמירה באתר האינטרנט והכספים שאני אוהב ליצור, מארגנים עבור בית ישראל הבינלאומי:
1. הכהנים של כל קבוצה (אנחנו מתחילים בהודו) לומדים פרשת השבוע, שולחן ערוך ומשנה תורה (רמב"ם) על בסיס שבועי באמצעות שיחות וידאו שלי. מה שהם (הכהנים) צריכים ללמד את כולם בקהילות שלהם. כפי שהיה במקור תחת עם ישראל.
2. מתחילים ללמוד עברית. עוברים קורסים 'מקוונים' בחינם. הם זקוקים לאולפן טוב.
3. הקבוצה הראשונה לימדה את שולחן ערוך במשך יותר משנה מרב יהודי אורתודוקסי ישראלי. שמעביר כעת על בסיס שבועי לימודי תורה (באופן כללי) למנהיגי הקבוצות השונות הקשורות לבית ישראל הבינלאומי באמצעות שיחות וידאו.
4. בקרוב נתחיל לבקש מרבנים נוספים שיוכלו לתת שיעורי תורה למנהיגי הקבוצות השונות הקשורות לבית ישראל הבינלאומי באמצעות שיחות וידאו.
5. בהודו, באופן כללי האנשים עניים מאוד...... הדברים הראשונים שהם צריכים הם:
טליתות, תפילין וסידורי תפילה..... בדרכם חזרה הביתה, ארץ ישראל, כדי להתחיל לחיות את חייהם היהודיים בשלמותם באחדות עם העם היהודי.
לחץ:
אם אתם מעוניינים לעזור לבית ישראל אינטרנשיונל, זהו ארגון ללא מטרות רווח, עם אחד מהנ"ל, אנא צרו איתי קשר.
צרו איתי קשר, אריאל, נציגכם, נציג אפרים ויועץ (לא רב אך יועץ ידידותי) של בית ישראל אינטרנשיונל בהר הבית: וואטסאפ +972 54-568-3031, לכל שאלותיכם בנוגע לבית ישראל אינטרנשיונל. נוכל לדבר על זה, בואו נקבע פגישה.
As the Representative of Beit Yisrael International I collect the weekly YouTube Torah studies from Gaddi (President), and I give you weekly news-updates about how that Beit Yisrael International is developing in a world association of Torah Observants Ephraimites (Yisrael): individuals, groups and organizations associated with each other in Torah. With the goal the 'restoration' of the Kingdom of Ephraim (Yisrael) into unity with Yehuda (Jews), the restored Kingdom of Hameleg ben David, under 'supervision' of Jewish Orthodox Rabbis.
כנציג בית ישראל אינטרנשיונל, אני אוסף את שיעורי התורה השבועיים של גדי (הנשיא) מיוטיוב, ומביא לכם עדכונים שבועיים על התפתחות בית ישראל אינטרנשיונל כארגון עולמי של שומרי תורה אפרים (ישראל): יחידים, קבוצות וארגונים הקשורים זה לזה בתורה. המטרה היא "שיקום" ממלכת אפרים (ישראל) לאחדות עם יהודה (יהודים), ממלכת המלך בן דוד המשוקמת, תחת "פיקוח" של רבנים אורתודוקסים יהודים.
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