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his summer, there have been
that they influence our daily lives and
many television commercials become part of us.
for the DVD version of the
Lest we think that this is too dif-
film Frost/Nixon. The movie tells the
ficult, we learn in Parashat Nitzavim:
story of ex-President Richard Nixon's
"Surely this Instruction which I enjoin
famous interview with David Frost
upon you this day is not too baffling
in 1977, three years after
for you, nor is it beyond
Nixon resigned from the
reach. It is not in the heav-
presidency. The commer-
ens, that you should say,
cials show a brief part of
`Who among us can go up
the interview:
to the heavens and get it for
Nixon: "What we were all
us and impart it to us, that
doing was not criminal.”
we may observe it?'
Frost: "Are you saying
"Neither is it beyond the
that a president can do
sea, that you should say,
something illegal?"
`Who among us can cross to
Nixon: "When the presi-
the
other side of the sea and
Rabbi Amy B.
dent does it, it's not illegal."
get
it for us and impart it to
Bigman
I find President Nixon's
us,
that
we may observe it?'
Special to the
comment to be quite inter-
No,
the
thing
is very close
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esting, especially given
to you, in your mouth and
this week's parashah. In
in your heart, to observe it."
Deuteronomy 17, the people are told
[Deuteronomy 30:11-14]
that, once they settle in the land, "you
The month of Elul is upon us.
shall be free to set a king over yourself, During this month prior to the High
one chosen by the Lord your God ...
Holidays, we do a cheshbon nefesh
"When he [the king] is seated on
(spiritual inventory), seeing where we
his royal throne, he shall have a copy
went wrong and making amends to
of this teaching written for him on
those whom we have hurt. We pledge
a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it
to do better this year.
remain with him and let him read in
And how do we know what is
it all his life, so that he may learn to
appropriate? By having God's teach-
revere the Lord his God, to observe
ings near to us, studying them
faithfully every word of this teaching
throughout our lives and making
as well as these laws." [Deuteronomy
them part of our very essence.
17:15,18-19]
The idea that the king must know
Amy Bigman is rabbi of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in East Lansing.
the laws of the Torah, and must abide
by them, is unique. After all, in most
cultures, the king sets the laws and oth-
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ers are supposed to abide by them. But
What leads a person to think
not in this case. The king is to have his
that he/she is better than others
own copy of the teaching and he, like
and above the law? How do we
everyone else, is subject to God's laws.
take inventory of our actions
Like the king, we must have a copy
this past year? How can we keep
of the Torah next to us at all times, if
Judaism's teachings close to our
not literally, then figuratively. We must
hearts?
continually study the teachings so
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