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Parshat Vayeilech/Shabbat Shuvah October 5, 2019 6 Tishrei, 5780
Rabbi Sacks on Vayeilech
TORAH
ARTSCROLL 1094 What do you do when Lord has told me, ‘You shall family and career. They had
HERTZ 887 you have achieved it all, not cross this Jordan.’” Rashi a vision of the self they
when you have risen to points out that the “I can no wanted to become. By age
HAFTORAH whatever career heights longer” does not mean that he 70, some had achieved it
and were happy. Others had
fate or providence has in lacked the strength. It means
ARTSCROLL 1204 store for you? What do that he no longer had achieved it only to find it
HERTZ 891 you do as age lengthens permission. The moment had not entirely satisfying. Yet
its shadow, the sun sinks, come when he had to hand on others had been knocked off
and the body is no longer the role of leader to his the mountain by
Times as resilient or the mind successor and disciple, Joshua. misfortune. At a certain
as sharp as it once was? He himself stayed full of vigor, age, though, many
That has become a major as the passion of his speeches identified a second
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problem as life in the book of Devarim, mountain they wanted to
expectancy has increased delivered in the last month of climb. This mountain was
Mincha 6:15 pm in most parts of the his life, testify. not about achieving but
world. There has been about giving. It was less
Hashkama 8:00 am nothing quite like it in To understand what Moses about external
history. In America, in epitomizes at the end of his accomplishment (success,
Parsha Shiur 8:30 am 1900, average life life, two closely related fame) than about internal
expectancy was around concepts are helpful. The first accomplishment. It was
Main 9:00 am 41 years, in Europe 42.5. is Erik Erikson’s idea of spiritual, moral; it was
Today in Britain, for men generativity, the seventh of his about devoting yourself to a
eight life stages. Relatively late
Beit Midrash 9:15 am it is 79, for women 83. in life, he argues, many cause or giving back to the
Much of that has to do community. It is often, he
with a huge reduction in people’s perspective changes. says, a yearning for
Mincha 5:45 pm They begin thinking about
Eat SS at home infant mortality. None the legacy, about what will outlive righteousness, an inner
less, the sheer pace in them. Their focus often shifts voice that says, “I want to
Shabbat Shuvah 6:05 pm the rise in longevity – from self to others. They may do something really good
Drasha every decade since 1900, with my life.” This second
life expectancy has risen devote more time to family, or peak, associated with later
Shabbat Ends 7:20 pm by about three years – community, or care or life, may well prove more
remains remarkable. voluntary work. Some mentor significant to our sense of
Sun. - Fri. See Page 3 What will keep you young young people who are self-worth than the ego-
Week’s Schedule in spirit even if the body following in their career path. driven ascent of the first
does not always keep They make commitments to mountain.
pace? others. They ask themselves,
Latest Times for how can I contribute to the The case of Moses sets all
Shema/Shemoneh Esrei The biblical case study is world? What trace will I leave this in dramatic perspective.
Moses, of whom we are on those who will live on after What do you do if you have
told that even at the end me? What, in the world, is already achieved what no
Oct. 5 9:49/10:47 am of his life, “his eye was better because of me? human being had ever done
undimmed and his before or would ever do in
Oct. 12 9:51/10:48 am natural energy The second and related idea is the future? Moses had
unabated.” At the David Brook’s concept of the spoken to God face to face.
opening of today’s parsha
Next Shabbat second mountain. Speaking to He had become His faithful
Ha’azinu he says, “I am now a people over 70, he found that servant. He had led his
hundred and twenty early in their lives they had people from slavery to
years old. I can no longer identified the mountain they freedom, put up with their
Candle Lighting 6:03 pm were going to climb. They had
come and go, and the complaints, endured their
specific aspirations about
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