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Hello, this is David Alowski and welcome
back to the para in five where in five
minutes we give you an insight into the
para. We missed bidbar. We missed our
whole safer but we're starting now.
We're back and uh I hope you missed us.
That's all I'm going to say and uh we'll
try to give you a little insights into
the paras as we go in. So uh I was at a
kdish for somebody who was leaving a
sudas praa on shabas devarim some years
ago and someone asked me the following
question
is
that is how the para starts where
Mosherenu said
he was about to die it was
and he died on Zion. So for five weeks
he reviewed the Tory and he gave to and
that's why right at the beginning he
gives illusions to all the different
topics that he's going to talk about and
he goes down the list and he starts
right at the beginning in Dvarim of
course talking about the Moragim and how
we lost
and the consequences of that decision.
And then he says the following at the
end of the 40 years.
Now it's time to go to
don't bother Moab. I'm not going to give
you the land.
And this nation lived there who were
very powerful.
And the giants who were the Rafaim were
there and uh the Moab called them AIM
because they filled you with fear.
Yesim.
And when
conquered Har the lived there beforehand
and they destroyed them and chased him
away.
They destroyed him and took the land.
Yeah.
Why is this here?
is
the from language of white cuz people
would see them and their face would turn
white because they were so scary and so
frightening. What is this doing here? We
weren't going to get har
that wasn't part of it that we have to
explain. Rashi explains that the rafoy
was one of the lands that was promised
and you might have thought that that's
going to you but it's not. is going to
but
that wasn't part of
so why are you telling us that
Asov and his people destroyed the kori
who were one of these powerful giant
people that's what he asked me and I
said
lot the benet lot and as were given
three of the 10 aris that were promised
to benfel
And they were populated by giants.
People who were called scary am who were
called uh anoim giants who were called
because your face would turn white when
you saw them. And they weren't afraid
because they said we're coming with this
of
and we weren't afraid. But but you were
afraid.
you afraid to go and fight theim. You
panicked. You said it's too hard for us.
You said, "Hashem won't help us." And
these people went and did what they had
to do in this of Abraham because they
knew that Abraham was Hashem's chosen.
And they knew that if Hashem promised
that they would get this land, they
could stand up against anybody.
And that's what's scary when you see the
mysterious nephesh of the nations of the
world and you see how much other people
are willing to sacrifice for what they
believe in. The rishonim say and you
know we say akin tishab for uh the
crusades they say the one of the reasons
for the crusades
say is because when you saw that the
nations of the world loved it so much
that they were willing to sacrifice to
go and redeem it and you don't that was
a terrible complaint against cla
so all of us need to step up be brave
brave, be courageous, and do that which
has to be done. And in mitem, we can
reverse the mistakes that we've made in
history as a people. Chavis.
