1. The first few words of this Sidra by Mosheh our Teacher can be taken to mean a number of things, one of them being that he intended them as a reassurance. What need was there for reassurance?
2. How can the Covenant (the promise to be loyal to each other) between HaShem and the Jewish People who stood at Mount Sinai, and at the Plains of Moav, and so on, be binding on all future generations of the Jewish People?
3. What does Mosheh warn will happen to a man who decides on his own to walk away from the Covenant?
4. Does this warning apply also to women or only to men?
5. What happens to others who know of this disloyalty of this particular individual and they don’t do something about it?
6. When precisely did the collective responsibility of each of us for all of the Jewish People come into force?
7. From where in this Sidra do we know that when HaShem’s People is in exile and in pain, HaShem too, as it were, is in exile and in pain?
8. “Even if your scattered ones are at the ends of the heavens, even from there HaShem your G-d will gather you and will take you!” Do you think that we can derive anything from this Possuk about the Torah’s use of exaggeration?
9. Mosheh our Teacher tells us, “This Torah is not in the heavens, that you could ask, ‘Who will go up to the heavens and fetch it down for us and let us hear its words and teachings and then we will do it all!’” What are we to derive from this Possuk?
10. Where in this Sidra do we see in the words of Mosheh our Teacher an allusion to the Oral Torah?
11. What does Mosheh our Teacher mean to tell us by poetically calling upon heaven and earth to be witness that he has warned us not to forsake HaShem and His Torah? What lesson does Mosheh mean to teach us by this choice of witnesses? Can there be a practical outcome from choosing heaven and earth as witnesses?
12. In the Sidra, Mosheh our Teacher implores us to “Choose life!” But how is it possible for a person to “choose life”? What does Mosheh our Teacher mean by his exhortation?
13. What four mistakes will the Guardian Angel of Seir (that is, those people who have hated and persecuted the Jewish People throughout the ages) make in the great future to come when HaShem comes to settle scores? And what has this got to do with the Shabbos Zmiros?
Question for Haftorah נצבים
