Blessings Within the Land

This is the blessing that Moses, man of God, bestowed on the Israelites just before his death.         Deuteronomy 33:1

                 Thus begins the final parasha of the Torah.

           Ba'al haTurim notes the juxtaposition of the opening verse of our parasha and the last words of the final verse of the previous one [32:52]: "which I give the children of Israel," and comments that this teaches that God agreed with Moses' blessings to the Tribes of Israel.

               My father added that the context of the verse from Parashat vaYelech is giving the Land to the Children of Israel, and therefore, the juxtaposition can also be understood to imply that the blessings will take effect specifically when the people of Israel are within their Land.