Shabbat Nachamu Shabbat VaEtchanan Commentary...

The Shabbat after Tisha B’Av is also called “Shabbat Nachamu”, Shabbat of consolation, for now, after three weeks of mourning (Bejn haMejzarim – between the afflictions) to the destruction of the temple, seven weeks will follow in which the life in full color splendor is to return. “Nachamu Ami” (“Be comforted my people”) the people will sing … … the Sabbath...

Shabbat Va’Etchanan – Sabbath Readings and Com...

Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11; Haftara: Isaiah 40:1-26 Extracts of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, Israel today, Jerusalem: Our weekly reading begins with a moving prayer by Moses requesting that God allow him to enter the Promised Land, despite his earlier sin of striking the rock for water when he was instructed to merely speak to it.