V’Zos HaBerachah - 3rd Portion

Join me as we learnish for Tuesday parishes which is the third Torah reading chapter 33 verse 13. Yesterday we learned about the blessings that were given to Ley and Binyammen. As we mentioned yesterday, Ley which they were doing this the service in the holy temple. Next to it is Binyammon that the holy temple was going to be in his parcel of land. And today we learn about Yoseph because the tabernacle was also in the parcel of the land of Yoseph which was from Ephraim in the area of Shilo. Verse 13. And to the tribe of Yseph, he said, "God may may his land be blessed by God. May he be blessed with delicacies by the heaven and by the dew, with the water that lies deep, the deep that lies below, which because it lies deep below, it makes it the soil very wet." As we'll soon see, Moshe is going to be giving Yoseph 10 distinct blessings. We mentioned two of them so far. The delicacies and the heaven with the doom by doom. Let's see. Rashi his land is going to be more blessed than anyone else's. So he says this specifically by Yoseph [clears throat] even though the entire land of Israel is blessed because it wasn't as good as all the other parcels as Yoseph's and therefore he tells them as follows. What's so special delicacies sweets and from the underground from the um from the deep soil below that the water comes up from the bottom and makes the entire ground moist. So therefore the produce is always wet. Rashi notes over here as well that you will see that many of the blessings that Moshe gives are very similar to the blessings that Jacob gives as well. Verse 14 with the delicacies that are produced from the sun and with the delicacies that are ripened by the moon. That's three and four. Because his land was not blocked in from by mountains. It was open. So therefore, the sun was shining in it constantly. And the sun makes the fruit sweet. There are certain fruits that become ripened because of the moon. And these are those cucumbers and pumpkins and squash. Another explanation of what it means. The word garish comes to mean that it um it causes it to come out. Meaning that because of every month it causes it to come out more produce and more produce meaning the amount of produce that would be growing from it because it's such a moist land would continuously grow every month more and more stuff would come out. Verse 15. with the first fruits ripening on the mountains early with the delicacies of the hills coming every rainfall even during rainfall that he was blessed at the first one of his fruits become ripened because because it's because on its mountains they were higher up. So therefore their fruits would come out before all the other mountains and all the other lands. Another explanation telling us that when God created the universe, the mountains that were in Yoseph's domain and parcel were created before the others. ly. This is valleys that continuously produce uh produce and they don't stop because of the lack of rain. As we mentioned, there are 10 of them. So, we're now we're in up to numbers seven and 8. Verse 16, with the delicacies that are produced by the land of its fullness and with the favor with the favor of God who dwells in a thorn bush rest upon may may the may the blessings rest upon Yseph's head and upon the crown of the one who has separated from his brothers. Let's see like resting in a thorn bush. Meaning that may the land of Joseph be blessed with the will and desire and the ease of the presence of God. The God, the almighty God who has revealed to me at first in a thornbush, the desire The pleasantness and appeasement. Anytime we find the word comes from the word appeasing pleasure. May this blessing come to these. What does it mean? He was separated from his brothers when he was sold to down to Egypt. Verse 17. Glory has been given to Yeshua eventually. What this refers to his preeminent descendant, his ox. May his horns be the horns of an orus, a type of ox with those horns. He will gore at once at to the end of the earth. to the end of the earth which this is the thousands of and the thousands that will be that will be slain by a descendant of manasha rashi will explain what all this refers to verse 17 there's a firstborn but not a firstborn to his to his brothers But he's great and higher and superior than others. It says, "I will also make him a firstborn also to the Jewish people are called the firstborn because the king that comes from him, the successor of Moshe." This was referring to Yeshua was strong as an ox that he will be able to conquer the kings at once. It's beautiful given to him. fun love that you give from your beauty on him. An ox is strong but doesn't have beautiful horns. However, the other animal which we refer to its animal it's its horns are beautiful but but it's not strong enough. Therefore, therefore, he gave him the strength of an axe and the horns of what does it mean? The edge of the land or the edge of the earth. These are the 31 kings that Yeshua wiped them all out at once. After you think that all of these kings were in the land of Israel, what is this telling us that they were every king from all over the area, they all owned palaces in the land of Israel. And therefore, even though these kings did not officially live in Israel, but they were from all over the universe and they came and they had kings and they used to live there because it was important for everybody to have some type of uh like ambassadors like embassies there to say that God says in Jeremiah that God gave us a land that all nations of the world wanted. And therefore it says that Yeshua had to wipe out 31 kings. Who were these 31 kings? This was all the people that had embassies, mansions in the land of Israel. Talking about the thousands that Aphim would wipe out. Those are the thousands that Yeshua wiped out when he came who Yeshua came from the tribe of the thousand wiped out. Those are the thousands that Gidon killed in the war of mid. It says the amount of people that he killed at the time were 120,000 Midionite soldiers at Gdin wiped out. This concludes the third Torah reading of