V’Zos HaBerachah - 3rd Portion

Join me as we learn Humash for Tuesday. Parshat V'Zot Ha Brachah, which is the third Torah reading, chapter 33, verse 13. Yesterday we learned about the blessings that were given to Levi and Binyamin. As we mentioned yesterday, Levi, which they were doing the the service in the Holy Temple, next to it is Binyamin that the Holy Temple was going to be in his parcel of land. And today we learn about Yosef because the Tabernacle was also in the parcel of the land of Yosef, which was from Ephraim in the area of Shiloh. Verse 13. And to the tribe of Yosef he said, God, may may his land be blessed by God. May 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 more the soil very wet. As we'll soon see, Moshe is going to be giving Yosef 10 distinct blessings. We mentioned two of them so far, the delicacies and the heaven with the dew, by dew. Let's see Rashi. His land is going to be more blessed than anyone else's. He says this specifically by Yosef, >> [clears throat] >> even though the entire land of Israel was blessed, but it wasn't because it wasn't as good as all the other parcels as Yosef's. And therefore he tells them as follows, what's so special? Delicacies, sweets. And from the underground, from the from the deep soil below, should the oil 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 front of 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. The these are those cucumbers and pumpkins and squash. Another explanation of what it means The word garnish comes to mean that it 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 that 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. Rashi 15. Blessed that the first one of his fruits become ripened because 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. Telling us that when God created the universe the mountains that were in Joseph's domain and parcel were created before the others. Give me asylum. This is valleys that continuously produce produce and they don't stop because of the lack of rain. Where as we mentioned there are 10 of them so we're now we're up to numbers seven and eight. 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 there may the blessings rest upon Joseph's head. And upon the crown of the one who has separated from his brothers. Let's see Rashi. 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 thorn bush. The desire the pleasantness and appease and appeasement. The king called Rashi anytime we find the word Rashi comes from the word appeasing pleasure. May this blessing come to Joseph. What does it mean that Joseph was separated from his brothers when he was sold to down to Egypt. Verse 17. The higher surely other light, glory has been given to Yeshua eventually with this refers to his preeminent descendant, his ox. The carnate him carnif. May his horns be the horns of an aurochs, type of ox. But him I mean I get you after this. With those horns he will gore at once at to the end of the earth. After the others in I get you after the others to the end of the earth. The hammer of the visit frame, which this is the thousands of a frame him off him and ash and the thousands that will be that will be slain by a descendant of Manasseh. Rashi will explain what all this refers to. Verse 17. The higher surely yes the higher there's a firstborn. But not a firstborn to his to his brothers. So it's who washing the dollar mouth was but he's great and higher and superior than others. She never as it says after he be here at me I will also make him a firstborn. The same many because he's also to the Jewish people are called the firstborn. I am a lucky at some a minute because the king that comes from him, the successor of Mosha who Yeshua she kosher cashier become a lucky and this is referring to Yeshua was strong as an ox that he will be able to conquer the kings at once. Hotter light, it's beautiful. Nothing like given to him she never even sat on my head to phone a love that you give him your beauty on him. The carnate him carnif. Sure kosher been kind of nice. An ox is strong but doesn't have beautiful horns. However I would aim the other animal which we refer to our aurochs. It's animal it's it's a horns are beautiful but they ain't kosher but it's not strong enough. Therefore, not so Yeshua therefore he gave him the strength of an axe and the horns of her aim. 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. You think that all of these kings were in the land of Israel. What is it 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 like ambassadors, like embassies there. To say that says in Jeremiah that God gave us a land that all nations of the world wanted. And therefore it says that Yeshua to wipe out 31 kings. Who were these 31 kings? This was all the people that had embassies, mansions in the land of Israel. We're talking about the thousands that Ephraim would wipe out. Those are the thousands that Yeshua wiped out when he came who Yeshua came from the tribe of Ephraim. The thousands of Manasseh wiped out. Those are the thousands that Gideon killed in the war of Midian. The amount of people that he killed at the time were 120,000 Midianite soldiers that Gideon wiped out. This concludes the third Torah reading of Parshat V'Zot HaBrachah.