Blessing for the Torah:
Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch ata YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam
asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.
Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all
eternity.
Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe,
you have selected us from among all the peoples and have given us your
Torah.)
The
introductory verses (vv. 1-5) of Deuteronomy is set out in the form of a
chiastic structure:
A. What-Where: Words of
Moshe; in the Desert (1:1)
B. When: Fortieth year,
first day, eleventh month (1:1-2)
C. Key theme: ALL YHVH
COMMANDED MOSHE (1:3b)
B'. When: After Og and
Sihon were defeated (1:4)
A'. Where-What: East of
the Jordan; this Torah (1:5)
“Chapter 1:6-46 also forms a classis chiastic pattern and
example in history for Israel's trajectory of failure, fuelled by her
incorrigible unbelief and rebellious ways.”
A. go in and possess the
land (vv. 6-8) – Jn 3:3-6 &36; Mat 7:21