Ki Tavo (When you come) D’Varim (Deut.) 26-29

Torah Portion: Ki Tavo(When you come) D’Varim (Deut.) 26:1-29:8

Haftorah Reading: Isaiah 60:1-22

Messianic Scripture  Matthew 13:1-23; Luke 21:1-4; Acts 28:17-31

Today we read a Torah portion that takes place on the east bank of the Jordan river. It contains some of Moshe’s remark’s to the people that are meant to sustain them after they cross over the Jordan.  I believe all of us can take comfort in these words as we walk through our days.

I would like to begin with the words of Deut. 26:5-8, “And you shall declare before the L-rd your G-d, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. Then we cried to the L-rd, the G-d of our fathers, and the L-rd heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. And the L-rd brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.”