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So, we have arrived at the end of the book of Leviticus. The nation of Israel is poised to finally move on from <\/span>Har Sinai<\/span><\/i> (Mount Sinai) and set out on their long journey through <\/span>Midbar Sinai<\/span><\/i> (the Wilderness of Sinai)<\/span>. <\/span><\/i>For 27 chapters we have been instructed in the details of how to offer the various sacrifices, as well as in dietary laws and laws of marriage and ritual purity. But one important reminder is given before we go:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel in Mount Sinai\u201d (v. 34).<\/span><\/p>\n

With these words Leviticus, the <\/span>torat kohanim<\/span><\/i>, draws to a close. This last verse reminds us that the mitzvot, commandments, were given <\/span>by <\/span>God <\/span>to <\/span>the children of Israel: God is the <\/span>Commander<\/span><\/em>, we the <\/span>commanded<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>In commenting on this verse, Rabbeinu Bahya quotes R. Ilah in the Talmud Yerushalmi (Shabbat 13:3): \u201cIf the people of Israel will perform these commandments . . . as commandments, then they are <\/span>mitzvot<\/span><\/em>;<\/span><\/i> if not they are not counted as <\/span>mitzvot<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span> In other words, the <\/span>mitzvot<\/span> take on the nature of commandedness only in the context of our relationship with God. When the Israelites are able to acknowledge, both individually and collectively, that our observance of the commandments is a vital component of the covenantal relationship that was sealed at Sinai, then, and only then, does that observance take on any meaning for us. Without that acknowledgement, the mitzvot are mere words and their observance nothing more than an empty, hollow performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

As each of us walks through the wilderness of our own journey through life, may the purposeful adherence to the commandments lovingly given by God at <\/span>Har Sinai<\/span><\/em> be the cloud of glory that guides our path.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":74102,"id":74102,"title":"ez20-mitzva train","filename":"ez20-mitzva-train.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez20-mitzva-train.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-singular-commandment-that-defines-our-relationship-with-god\/ez20-mitzva-train\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez20-mitzva-train","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":74101,"date":"2020-05-03 11:18:35","modified":"2022-07-17 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