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The Book of Deuteronomy – ‫חומש דברים‬ 30

Torah Portion Re'eh

In the Torah portion of Re'eh there is a verse:

"See: I give before you today blessing and curse." (11:26)

They asked the rabbi of Kovrin:

What is the most important thing that one needs to do in life?

He answered that what one needs to perform today (each and every day) – that is
the most important.

For example: the commandment of blowing the shofar is a very important
commandment, but its time is specifically on Rosh Hashanah; the
commandment of eating matzah – its importance is only on Pesach, and so too
with all matters.

Therefore, one needs to fix each day what is relevant to that day… and what is
possible to fix today is impossible to fix another day.

The Rabbi of Gur (the "Sfat Emet") says that the word "today" in the verse hints
to every day, for each and every day God renews the work of Creation, and
when there is a new creation, there is also a new blessing. And therefore every
day one needs to choose one of the ways (either blessing or curse).

Every day we have dilemmas – good and evil, truth and falsehood, blessing and
curse.
What was yesterday is not valid today because the world of yesterday is not the
world of today.
The opinions change, the norms change, and also the people change.

If we connect to "today", to the reality of today, we will be able to connect to the
era when Torah was given out of the feeling of relevance to our generation and
our era.

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