Devarim - 3rd Portion

Join me as we learnish for Tuesday parasim chapter 1 verse 22. We continue as Moshe tells the Jewish people and rebukes them about the events that happened during the 38 years and 40 years that they traveled through the desert. He continues to tell them about the rebuke about sending the scouts. And you all approached me and you said, "Let us send men ahead of us, and they will search throughout the land, and they will return and tell us about it, the place that we will should go, the way we should go up, and which cities we should approach." verse 21. You all gather together, meaning the important people and the simple people as one. Because later on it says in chapter 5 that you approached me, the leaders of the tribes and the elders and said, "Look what this land is all about." That time you approached that was proper that was respectful the children respected the elders and they sent them before and to speak and the elders respected the leaders to go before them. But in this case where he mentions that all of you together here when you say all of you came together as the children were pushing the elders the elders were pushing the leaders and there was no respect in how you approached this idea. They should come back and tell us what language what was the enemy speaking. So this should be able to help us approach the enemy and deal with the enemy. which way we should go because there is no way that there is no detour. There is no that you have to take a side road with. And therefore they said which is the best out of all these side roads or out of this crooked way which is the best one we should go and the cities we should approach which should be the first city that we should approach. Verse 23. And this uh this plan pleased me. And I took from amongst you 12 different men, one one man per tribe. Continues. In my eyes it was fine, but not in the eyes of God. But if seemed good, then why does it rebuke them? If Moshe agreed with what the Jewish people said, so why is he rebuking about it? It's like a guy tells his friend, "Sell me this donkey." He says, "Fine. Let me try it out first." He said, "Fine." Can I try it out in mountains and in valleys? Sure. Once the buyer saw that he's not holding him back from trying it out wherever he wants. The buyer says in his heart, "But I'm sure this is going to be a perfect donkey because if he lets me take it for a test drive in any places, that means it's no problem." Therefore, he says, "Tell me, here's your money." I'm not going to test it anyway. So, Mosha says the same thing as well. I agree to you to send spies because I believe you'll go back on your words. You'll see I'm not withholding you from sending spies. That means I'm not worried about what you're going to find in the land of Israel. And still I said go ahead. So therefore I thought you're going to regret or going to stop at that already. The problem is that you continue to persist to send the spies and I took from you from the best of your people from the crap. There were 13 tribes. So why? Because with counting and ley comes at 13. So why does he say only 12? This teaches us that the tribe of Ley did not participate in sending spies to the land of Israel. Verse 24 and they turned and they ascended the mountain. They came until the valley of spied out the land. It was called the valley of because of eventually what would happen that they would take the vineyard from the the grapes from there. That means that it teaches us that they went in four rows and each one crisscrossed each other to the length and the width of the land. Verse 25 and they took from the some fruit of the land and they brought it down to us and they brought us back word of what was going on. When they said the land that God is giving us is very good. What does it mean? They went out. It teaches us that the land of Israel is higher than all other lands. And they said the land is good. So who are the ones that said it's good? Yeshua and Yeshua and Khif. Verse 26. But you still refuse to go to the land. Go up to the land. and you rebelled against the commandment of God your God meaning rebelling meaning you rebelled against his statement verse and you slandered in your tents because of God's hatred towards us he took us out of the land of Egypt to put us in the hands of the Amorites to destroy The words tells us is means slander. You find in the book of proverbs the words of slander like a person who puts that puts out bad words against somebody else. God loves you but you decided that God hates you and you hated God and therefore you believe that God is your enemy. For example, like an individual like people say what you think about somebody else, you think that person thinks about you because you hate that guy. Therefore, you think that person hates you. You took us out of the land of Egypt because you hate us. Like an example like a king of flesh and blood that he had two sons and he has two fields. One that is watered all the time and one that you have to depend on the rain. The one that he loves, he gives the field that is watered automatically. And the one that he hates, he gives the one that you need to depend on rain. This is what the Jewish people said. shall you the land of Egypt gets watered by the Nile River and therefore doesn't need rain because the Nile River goes up and waters everything that's needed and the land of of Israel depends on rain and he took us out of Egypt which is a land which gets watered automatically. Why? Because he hates us to take us to the land of Israel which the land of Israel is dependent on rain. Verse 28. Where can we go up? Our brothers have discouraged us of saying we saw there of great people and taller than us. Great fortified cities in the sky that go all the way to the sky. We also saw the descendants of the giants there. The Torah is talking about in ways of trying to exaggerate and talking about how something that they saw that was massive and they came up with different types of exaggeration even though it's not exactly the way it was but they came and told us about this exa and exaggerated about the things that they saw. Verse 29. And I told you at the time, do not be afraid of them. Verse 29, don't be broken because of it. Like broken uh the person that's broken and broken rivers as he talks about in different places. Verse 30, God who goes before you. He will wage war for you. just like it did for Egypt right before your eyes for you because of you. Verse 31 and is in the desert you have seen and experienced that God carried you like a man that like a man that carries his child along the whole way that you went until you actually came till this place. It's going back to the continuation to what he said before that God is the one that wages war for you. Like everything that God did in Egypt, so to you, so in God continue to carry you through the desert. As it says, like a like a man that carries his childh like I explained this already previously in the book of Exodus, there was an angel that went before the camp of the Jewish people and he came between the Egyptians just like a person who's carrying his child and robbers come to attack him from the front, he puts his child behind. They come to attack him behind, he puts him in the front and he they come on both sides and therefore he carries them and he wages war against the individuals. So to God they were coming from all sides and God were protect was carrying us and protecting us from all the enemies from all sides. Verse 32 and in this thing despite all the miraculous events that you have witnessed you do not believe in God regarding this matter meaning about this thing. God promises you he's going to bring you to the land of Israel and you still don't believe in what he says. Verse 33, the God that goes before you to give you a place to to search out a place that you should be able to camp with with fire at night to show you the way that you should go and during the day with a cloud to show you over here. The hay is missing and all of these places the hay to show you should be really there. But the lament there is missing the the word is missing the lament to continue with verse 34 is called and God heard your word your words and he became angry and he swore saying verse 35 if none of these men of this evil generation will get to see us the land that I swore to give to your forefathers. Verse 36 besides or accept the son of he will see it to him I will give the land that he would trod upon to his children because he was loyal to what God has said the land that he went on was we mentioned previously in the book of numbers that he went to the to pray by the cave the patriarch so therefore It says later on as it said I'm sorry in the book of numbers that he came into verse 37 God was also angry at me because of you saying you too will not come there 37 he became angry Yeshua the son of who stands before you today to serve you he will come there. Make him strong because he will be the strengthener because he will be the one to take the Jewish people and to enter and to inherit the land for the Jewish people. The word means get filled with anger. This concludes the third Torah reading of paras.