V’Zos HaBerachah - 7th Portion

Join me as we conclude the final Torah reading of the Torah of the five books of the Torah. Seventh Torah reading of the verse chapter 34 verse1 and Moshe ascended from the plains of Moabis the top of the mountain the peak of the mountain which is facing Jericho and God showed him the entire landiladon from Gilead to Dun. verse one. How many steps were there? How many times did he have to go up that there were so many steps that there was an entire area of the mountain was able to do it in one giant leap. He showed him the entire land of Israel. How it's sitting there in peace. He also showed him those that are trying to bother the Jewish people and then eventually and the and the people that were and hurt the Jewish people that are there done until done as Moshe saw all the different things that may happen to the Jewish people at the time as well at the time of their independence and the time when they're going to be subjected to the different powers around them. done. Why does he go back until done? Because he also showed them that the people of D when they were serving idolatry as it says he showed them done how they would put up the idolatry but at the same time also who came from and he was the one to save the Jewish people. Verse two and all the area of in the land of the whole entire land of Yehuda until the western sea the Mediterranean is called he showed them this place of when it will be sitting in peace and when it's destroyed showed them the time and barak who came from the area of Naftali as they are waging war says he wages war with and his army again he shows them the while they're destroyed and while they're in peace and while they're being destroyed he shows them Yeshua waging war with the kingdom ofan because Yeshua came from the children of Afraim and Gidonash and Gidon who came from a nil Ionik who's waging war with Midionite nights at the time and a malik saving them from their hands and the entire land of Yehuda which is again as he shows them the land of Yehuda as they are in peace and way they are being destroyed he shows the kingdom of King David how he's able to wage war and conquer the Jewish people conquer the the places for the Jewish people as well and the victories that King David had until the Mediterranean that's the western land while it's in peace and in its destruction. Another explanation of what it means until the Mediterranean until the last sea. Don't say the word the word without the vowels. You can either say it as the sea or you can read it as the day until the final day that God showed Moshe. He showed him the entire history of the Jewish people until the final days of the resurrection. Verse three, he showed him as well the south and the plain of Jordan, the valley of Jericho, the city of the palm trees and rashi the south. Another explanation which that was the cave of the patriarchs as it says and he went off went up in the south and he came to he showed him the area of where King Solomon was making the vessels for the holy temple as it says that it was in the plain of the Jordan that that's where Mos Schlommo made the vessels for the holy temple verse four loving God said to This is the land that I swore that I was going to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Lamer saying to your children, I'm going to give it you've seen it with your eyes. However, you will not be able to cross over there. Verse four. So you are now able to go and say to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the promise that God swore to you that he made an oath with you kept was done. That's why he says so to say. Why did I show it to you that you should be able to go and tell them that the oath was kept? However, the decree that I made that you will not that you will not be able to go there because if not for this decree, I wouldn't give you this uh knowledge. I wouldn't I wouldn't tell you about the actual oath. If not for the oath, if not for the decree that I made, you shouldn't be able to go into the land of Israel. I would wait for you to actually go into the land of Israel and then go tell Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. However, because you're not going into the land of Israel, just the very fact by seeing it with that you have to go and tell them that my promise, my oath was kept. Verse five, and now the Torah tells us about the last few verses about the passing of Moshe. And Moshe passed the onashem a servant of God in the land of Mov by the mouth of God. Can we even say that Moshe died? Why does it say that he died? How can Moshe write that he died? But up until here Moshe wrote from here onward Yeshua Yeshua wrote that says how is it possible that the Torah should be missing any words? Didn't God tell Moshe take this entire Torah? So how can it be that Mosha would be missing a few verses in the Torah? God told him what to write. Moshe wrote it with his tears and therefore the following verses which talk about Mosha's passing Moshe wrote but with tears according to what God told him to write. Alashem what does it mean by the mouth of God besa in kissing that he didn't die through the angel of death as we mentioned that he saw the way iron passed and he asked that he should have the same kind of death and that's as if a person kisses his friend and wishes him well and that's the way that God hugged Moshe kissed him and that's the way Moshe connected to God and passed on and God buried him then in guy in the Ali in the land of Moab opposite. No person knows the exact burial place of of burial site of Moshe until this very day. What does it mean? Who's the one that buried him? God himself is the one that buried Moshe says who covers that actually he buried himself. asked this is the three S's in the Torah that we mentioned once before that explains that they don't talk about somebody else but they talk about the actual individual himself as we find the other three places are that the day that Nazarite finishes his uh period of of Nazarite he has to bring himself to he brings himself to the tent to the holy temple as well that the people who um have a guilt offering. They're the ones that cause themselves to eat that uh sacrifice at the time or other people have to be take the guilt for them. They are the ones that have to take the guilt for themselves. The coimm have to responsible to take for the guilt. So those are three places where S generally an S refers to somebody else. These are the three places where the S refers to the individual himself. And therefore learns where it says that Moshe was the one that buried himself. Why does the Torah tell us a place and by designating a place and saying opposite an idolatry? His burial place was there prepared already from the time of the six days of creation. Why to atone for the sin of the idolatry of poor? This is the one of the 10 things of the wondrous things that are mentioned in ethics of our fathers in chapter 5 that was created at the time of twilight in on the eve of Shabas when God created the universe on the sixth day of creation. An interesting thing. How is it that um Moshe's place if it was all created already before God's creation? This is what was the wondrous thing of it is that God created the burial place of Moshe and still it is unknown where he's buried. The Talmud brings a case that there was once a king that wanted to find the burial place of Moshe and he sent guards to find by this place of as they came to the top of the mountain they saw on the bottom of the mountain. when they went to the bottom of the mountain, they saw it on top of the mountain. And so he put guards on top and guards on bottom and the ones on the top saw it on the bottom. The ones on the bottom saw it on the top and therefore the Torah says it is unknown though we know the exact mountain but don't know exactly where Moshe was buried. The Torah goes on to describe Moshe's greatness. Moshe was 120 years old when he died. His facial color did not pale. nor did his body lose its natural freshness. It did not decompose. Even once he died, it did not change. The moisture in it, the freshness, his face did not lose its complexion. Verse eight. And the Jewish people cried and wept for Moses for Mosh the plains of 30 days and the days of weeping of the morning of Moshe came to an end meaning the males. But when it comes to the passing of Aaron, if you recall previously in the beginning of the book of Deuteronomy, it's mentioned because he was a person who pursued peace and brought peace amongst man and his friend between husband and wife. Therefore, it says all the Jewish people males male and female. Verse 9. Now the Torah tells us about the successor of Moshe. Verse nuhuin who was full of the spirit of wisdom. Why was he full of the spirit of wisdom? Because Moshe placed his hands upon him and the Jewish people obeyed him and they did as God has commanded Moshe. Verse 10. And there never arouse a prophet in Israel like Moshe. him who knew God whom God knew face to face. He was usual that God was always talking to him and spoke to me whenever he wished as it says and now I will go up to God or he would say to the Jewish people stand and listen what God will say that at any time and at any moment Moshe had the opportunity to speak to God while other prophets God had to call upon them. Verse 11 and to all the with regard to all the signs and the marvels that God has sent them to perform in Egypt to before Pharaoh and all the servants and to all his land I'm sorry the verse 12 the first 12 we come now to the final verse of the entire Torah and to all and with regard nor with regard to the strong hand, nor with regard to the great awesome experience which Moshe did in full view of all the Jewish people. What does this refer to? the great arm that he received the Torah with his own hands and he brought them down to the Jewish people to all the great miracles that happened in the desert of here it's talking about in full view of the Jewish people going back to the sin of the golden calf that the very fact that Moshe carried the tablets in front of the Jewish people as he says I held the tablets in front of you and I broke them in front of your eyes in your view. He's telling the Jewish people that God agreed to what he has done as God tells him that you broke that God told Moshe, "Thank you and great is your strength that you broke the tablets." as the Rebba discusses why does the Torah conclude or why does Rashi conclude with this episode to teach us about the greatness of Moshe that he put his life for the Jewish people and how God showing that every single aspect of Mosha's life even a thing of breaking the tablets was something which would came with the agreement and the acknowledgement and the courage that God gave him showing the true leadership of Moshe being there for the Jewish people in every step of the way giving his life dedicated for the Jewish people the greatest lesson that Mosh gave to the Jewish people. This concludes the entire five books of the Torah.