The final Mitzvah of the entire Torah appears in our Parsha, but it is slightly hidden. At the end of Parshat Vayelech, God tells Moshe: “And now write for yourselves this song and teach it to the Children of Israel to place it in their mouths;...

Parashat Vaylech is the shortest parashah in the corpus of the lectionary, the weekly readings of the Torah as we have them in our shuls. Yet despite its brevity, it possesses several critical teachings intended not only for our ancestors, the Ancient...