U'vcharta B'chaim - Choose Life!

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life—if you and your offspring would live.

He would say: Those that are born will die, and those that are dead will be revived, and the living will be judged. [It is necessary] to know, to make known, and to become conscious that [God] is God ... [God] is the Judge...the future Judge. And do not let your [evil] impulse assure you that the netherworld is a place of refuge for you; because against your will you were created, against your will you were born, against your will you live, against your will you die, and against your will you are destined to give account and reckoning before ... the Holy One, blessed be [God].

(1) (Devarim 11:26) "Behold, I set before you this day blessing and curse": Because it is written (Ibid. 30:19) "Life and death I set before you, blessing and curse," lest Israel say: Since the Holy One Blessed be [God] has set before us two ways, the way of life and the way of death, we can choose whichever we wish. it is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "and you shall choose the life, you and your seed." An analogy: A man is sitting at the crossroads, with two paths stretching before him, one, whose beginning is level and whose end is thorns, and one whose beginning is thorns and whose end is level. He apprises the passersby: This path whose beginning appears level — for two or three steps you will walk on level ground, and, in the end, on thorns. And this path whose beginning appears thorny — for two or three steps you will walk in thorns, and in the end you will walk on level ground. Thus did Moses speak to Israel: You see the wicked prospering — For two or three days they will prosper in this world, and in the end, they will be cast away.