Difference between Devarim and previous Sefarim | Rabbi Neil Winkler | November 13th 2025

So there are many things that I still have to that I realized yesterday I really make it a more complete thing the discussion on on Dvarim remember the first time I did it I could do it one two thing I started really working on this there's so many things to say so many things to to add to it I made the mistake I was learning and I told you I did it again I said no I got to say this I have to say this everything develops tremendously Now, it's gotten up to the the introduction, right? The first five prom of um of seafood varim in which I started saying exactly what they were doing. We went through why it is that it jumps from year number two to year number 40 and we went through. Okay, once we've done that, that's of the first para along that we went through. I showed you how the other parts also were part of the introduction and the introduction as I did as we finished last time was really the ends with the hadro and as I spent time with you last time and the time before that it wasn't because God wanted Moshe wanted to tell you by the way in case you forgot the debro here they are that's not why the primary reason why Mosher Abenu had to repeat the asserot is not because of the asserot themselves but rather because he was trying at the very beginning in his introduction to said look I told you I'm about to teach you and review with you is a better word I'm using all the mitzvah we've been discussing uh up through this time in uh uh in uh in um in ini and I'm reviewing it because you're about to enter initan is um and therefore before he could do that he said I want to remind you why I'm doing this like I said you know you know that what happened to God what are you doing here uh and he had to say and had to explain to them that you were the ones who asked me not you but your parents and grandparents because most of you weren't around at the time when God came down on Hashi and I remember God split um initial concept was to teach you 630 mitzvah. They had a tough enough time with the first 10, you know, [laughter] they get afraid and that was very difficult. And therefore they said mo they ran away and he told Moshe, you you speak to us, you explain to us, you go to God, let him tell you, you know, and let not God speak to us lest we die. Who have ever heard of a human being listening to God's words and seeing is it's a frightening thing. You can't blame him. And that is why I'm teaching you and I put I added to the other I think very important thing that God said, "Hey, great idea." You'd think God was saying, "What's wrong with you?" Yeah, Jews. Okay, I'm trying to teach you something. You know, I'm I've had students like that. I'm trying to teach them something. They're running out. Anyway, but uh the and and God says this is a wonderful the concept of setting of of passing down the msora of passing down [clears throat] what I'm teaching to has to be done not be with me. It isn't because of every four and a half months I'll come come back on a mountain and tell you what it is. You needed that. So you but and you're asking for it. I really wanted that and that's terrific. So therefore, says mo m um Moshe said before I begin to review all these mitzvah, I got to tell you why I'm doing it because you asked me to. That's why you think I I you think I wanted to be a teacher. What did it pay for me? Nothing. But I had to be there to teach you because you wanted me to and I'm going to do it for you. So that's what we more or less finished last time. And I told you that it begins the second section. Now after the introduction section, we got to the uh the what I call the the the the mitzvah section number one. It is the in Hebrew they say a great word. It's called bigole. the general concept and important mitzvot that will take us from perk vavv to perk y ud and then uh after that we go per the more detailed things especially what you're going to do when you enter the land you know given the fact the idea that yeah they're about to enter the land and I'm not talking about in a couple of years in a couple of weeks they were going to go in so he had to refresh them for all the mitzvah that they didn't have to do in when they were in the midbar. They have to do that when you enter the you know so often do we hear that concept and when you enter the land you'll be doing ABCD EFG so therefore that's what comes on after per no starting with the ending being just the braot and stuff and I believe I told you something to prove the point and the point that I wanted to prove is that you I had I didn't make up that this is a big mitzvah with a little mitzvah but rather because back in after the given he says and it says there God said I'm going to give you but we never find out what were the you know what are they are yeah we saidim was there but we didn't hear and that's what he's doing now he had taught it to them in the midbah then didn't then put it in the Torah he's putting in the Torah now and I showed you that why because in the beginning of it says it says and now here I go says Moshe these the following are the mitzvot that I will teach you that God told me to teach you so it says it very clearly you couldn't do much more than that and unfortunately one of the things that's difficult is that We meet Dvarim uh in the shul in the in the summer and who's going to listen to what it says? But it's fascinating when you look what it's saying. You say, "Oh my god, I didn't realize this." And what I I blew you out of the water with was what was the first thing that it says? Okay. What are these ma major things to know of the fir of that prayer? The first things he starts to teach is that you got to know there's one God. What is that? Remind him of what's the first look and that's the beginning. You know how it ends per olive. Lovely thing. The end of that section. You know why keep on yelling at us? You got to say the twice here and there. Why was it so important for Yeah, I know. There are things we we exactly saying this is the beginning of the most important mitzvot the most basic um mitzvot that Moshe begins to tell the Israel before they enter the land he's reviewing all the mitzvot and he starts with this he starts with and he ends got the hint and that's why we do that fascinating At any rate, as I told you, I made the mistake of learning this this and reviewing this. I said, I got to tell you something else before we even go on. One of the great I say problems but questions that we often face and Kazal face it gamar has it all the time is when we see the mitzvot invarim it's not exactly what we remember that's being told earlier remember we meant that I spoke about that a little bit that's why I told you the well you know the debt was never meant to be exactly the same thing it was never meant to be that but but It's okay if Moshe didn't give the exact words. You know, the the idea seemed to be the same thing. I want to show you that it wasn't true either. I wanted to show you I have a number of things. So, I just going to show two um two examples of mitzvot that are written in Dvarim and were written earlier that aren't exactly the same. And in fact, it's not just them not exactly the same. It's problematic because you know so what do you want to do God but which is the mitzah which is not I'm going to start because we did the brought and we're going to finish with it we're going to start first with the bro let me give this out this is one of the um okay as long as nobody bought crayons you can just read it okay see the colors on this one that was very practical >> it also helps not running out black ink, you know. Um, so let's see in the very beginning, you see on top this this is a a list a list that was given by Rav Amnon Bazak, a wonderful teacher and I listened to his shir he gave a whole bunch of things. I'm just giving two examples okay and the first example comes from the Hadibro. Now if you look at the number one there as found in the mitzvah of Shabas seems to be simple enough right so there it says because some nice guy I gave into English also right we all know the zakur versus shamur wow they did it so that they can make um interesting that's the only reason so kazal say not zakur not shamur They say actually first and what what does say why did say does it say zakur and the other shamur who knows what you know what but the well known I thought everything I know something I feel must be well known you know why why does that did it say in one zakur one do you know what the mid says that both were said at the exact same You know when you're singing whatever tune it is that was say that both were pronounced at the exact same time. It's one of those um goddess tricks that no one else can do. Yeah. Um and uh I don't know if they explained how every human being could hear both at the same time but anyway um that is the approach to the problem. It says here in it says more. Okay, but that ain't the big problem. So as you see I put it here. Remember, I underline it. That's different as you'll see. Okay. The Shabbat day, keep it holy. Six days shall you labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is the Shabbat for your God, Hashem. You shall not do any work. You, your son, your daughter, male or female, slave, your cattle, the stranger, and your settlements. Okay. What reason do we have in schmot? For in six days, Hashem made heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them, and then rested on the seventh day. Therefore, Hashem blessed Hashem blessed the Shabbat day and hallowed it. Very clear. That's what we say all the time, right? That's what we say all the time. You see on Shabas, right? And then Moshe had to give us had to build in. So he starts with shamur which I told you. Okay fine. One thing you understand by the way it's not a big problem because we we have a number of times in the Torah that shamur isn't a considered a synonym to zakur. You know it says uh in in parad I think in you bet you gimmel where it says that uh you have to remember what they say and then in it says so so we have that but okay So I I'm not concerned with that so much. But when I looked at two and see some more and um you'll note in blue that what's what was not mentioned in Al but it isn't that you know contrary because I told you it wasn't meant to be exact for inim it's it's added um as your God Hashem has commanded you which is totally logical when you understand as I've been telling you that Moshe wasn't planning on quoting exactly but rather telling them this is what it is as God knows you when back in Yro so no problem even the fact that he he he um adds your ox and your ass and any of your cattle doesn't have that's not found in but it says all the cattle but they added this to no big deal either but the last part is phenomenally not puzzling but really challenging J again. What did God tell us? This is why I want you to observe Shabbat. Why? because I'm the creator basically and I created you are in effect um admitting that I am the creator of the universe and by not by not working by not doing maha you are by your actions saying that you see and let me give you a few moments Yeah, God created human beings. Yeah, most of us anyway. And um human beings are meant Shamra to create to do more things to uh he didn't have to stay in caves all the time to get up and do things and pre and create. I would look at this world we have. It's unbelievable what man has indeed. I just created that has made make life easier. Think about that. They couldn't find any air conditioning in the caves. Actually, they found but they couldn't find any outlets to put the thing in. So, the what we have as a life was not the average uh age in the middle ages of is 29. That that's scary. You want to know why girls were getting married at 12 and 13? Because people were dying at 28, 29. They have to carry on the next future. But Barak Hashem, we're living now, even this crazy country that has so many neb deaths and so many wars and terrible. We're the fourth highest uh age, average age. This came out two weeks ago. the fourth highest higher than the United States >> because we care about our old people. >> That's a good point. Good point. >> I like that. Very nice. Also because they like the the uh socialized medicine that's anyway. Um, so what man in his development, in his creating, I hate to use that term because God creates, but I'm going to say it anyway. What that does to a human being is a very simple thing. See what I did? Look at what we did. We created this. We have done everything. And when that goes generation after generation, I don't need God because really we're doing it. I got AI now, right? Don't have to think. >> Scary. >> Very >> like that. >> It's good for me because I can't remember things anymore. But anyway, this is true. So what happens? You actually a man begins to change and he begins to exchange. I'm God in effect. I create I do it. God says tatalas do that six days. On one day when you stop in effect what you're saying is that I'm no longer going to mess around with the uh with nature. God's going to run the shore. I have to show it's God who's running the the universe, not me. And I do that by you're not going to plant. You're not going to do things. Look what I did. You're going to sit back and say, "Look what God has done." That's what Shabbat is. It's a powerful thing. You know, we crazy Jews 3,000 years ago, we're still doing Shabas. Of course we shop elevators make things a lot easier but it's it's really remarkable and that's what kept us alive and it's keeping us alive. Even the non say from poet Zionist poet I forget who it was who said you more than um the Jews have have preserved Shabbat Shabbat has preserved the Jew. That's very true. Huh? >> I just read that. Yeah, I would say that. >> Yeah, that if I knew that I would have told you I know, but I know it was about when it was in the 18th 19th century. I think it was one of the white briders. It's a very powerful thing. >> Great. So, why am I making a big deal about that? Because Moshe forgot about it in Dvarim. Look at the reason that he gives why we observe Shabbat here in Dvarim. He said, "You're not allowed to get have these people work, right? So that your male and female can may rest as you do. Remember, it said that I made the world that I'm the creator." No. That you were a slave in the land of Egypt and your God. Hashem freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore, God, Hashem, has commanded you to observe the Shabbat day. Not because I'm the comm I'm the com say the words creator. That's not what he says. Says because you got to be nice to everybody. You got to be good to your servants. And that's why what's happening here? >> Because he's teaching us. Ah, this is the beginning of the hint of the difference between and as they're entering into Israel, it's crucial of building a community and how you deal with other people. And you know the biggest problem he had in in in the midbar was getting the the sand out of your toes. But when you come to build a community, you must watch yourself. So what reason do you have Shabbat? Cuz you have to be sensitive and know what people are. And that's why it's very important when I am just weeks ago from going into the learn you know about Shabbat. You know about God. This is not about my relationship with God that we didn't but now it's how you treat others and as we'll go on if I have time for it if I remember you're going to s see the mitzvot in in are very much how you deal with your community with your people see that's what happens if we be leaning the um dev [music] sometimes in the winter time. So, you know, I didn't pay a long time. >> No, thank you. >> So much power. It's amazing. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yes. >> The one is much more spiritual. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> And the other one is much more >> absolutely correct. That's exactly a point they're making. You made it even um more in a stronger way. The relationship with man rather than relationship to God. It's therefore more spiritual there. Hey, amen. when you're hanging around with Mishkan and God's got a flat, you know, go and every morning you wake up and you have man in the morning, man in the evening, man in supper time and you got yourself food in the desert and then you're going to get to ain't no ain't no uh clouds to make sure you're not going to get too hot, you know, or too cold or anything. You got to deal with reality. And when you have to deal with reality, you have to deal with your other people. And that's this. This is what this is. >> See, I bet you didn't know that. Now you do. This is great. It's okay. I didn't know know it until I realized it myself. Okay. All right. So, that's the that's the just the thing about the Hadro. The second thing we have under the line. That's a lovely DNA line. I actually didn't do on purpose, but it came out nicely. So, I'll do Yeah. A number three there. You probably might as well turn around. I turn it over because the English is over there. And this has to do with treatment of the slave. Uh the servant is a better way of putting it because slave conjures up in our mind, you know, 1863 and before Abraham Lincoln and on on January 1st, you know, he he actually freed all of the slaves. Unfortunately, he wasn't the president of the south at the time who had the saves, but anyway, he did that the um emancipation proclamation. But so in is in the Torah and it's more the servant is a better way of saying it. The the the demands it gives on one who is who has a servant is right. But anyway, so here we find it. I'm going to compare here with what we see readed in Schmote and what we hear still here. Okay, good. >> You don't have to be politically correct to be here. It's okay. >> Depends on which politics you're on. [laughter] Um it's very hard for me, believe me. Not that anyone has any question what I stand on, which side, but I'm not allowed to say these things. >> [snorts] >> um in Schmote um where we see now I'm sorry it's at the end of Bahar it tells something about the laws of the the servant shall we say and and mostly quote unquote the Jewish the Hebrew slave as they we call it was not one who they who who you know had to come and wash the dishes for you. This was somebody who Nebak Nebach uh had lost his uh um economically he became very poor lost his business. He was in a reserves for two years and is they had closed down. I mean it's a I think about this and it's it's killing me. It's killing me. So why in the world is it that Israel's economy went so up? >> These Jews are crazy. It's unbelievable. I know that because every time I change my um into shekele, I'm getting less shekels than I did by my hair. >> Yeah, it's down to 3.19 today. >> Wow. >> L help us. It's okay. [clears throat] >> I don't know how it's crazy. Why did you doing it? It's it's the United States is having a problem with the economy. Yeah, that's why the dollar is weakening and the shekele is getting stronger. Go. >> It's a shame. >> Yeah. Nah, he's not that good. Come on. It's crazy. [snorts] >> Anyway, so usually someone who has lost job, remember most of the people were agricultural, they're involved, they everybody had a piece of land if except you're if you're a coane, you know, then then you got so much money you bought a piece of land. But anyway, um, >> talking about a Jewish >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. >> a Hebrew. >> I'm talking about here because this the Torah is going to speak about here the Torah the about Hebrew slaves. I'm not talking about non-Hebrew slaves. So that is okay. [sighs and gasps] So in English if the kin your kin say relative is a kin. If your kin under you continue in straight if your relative is poor. Isn't that easier? >> Yeah. >> Uh and must be given over to you. You can't pay your debt. What are you going to do? Up until the 19th century, they got thrown into jail. >> Yes. It's unbelievable. somebody you know I have come to the decision and and I don't know if I'm correct but I am that the concept of a culture of civilization is how much of the Torah have they taken in do they now observe this is one of the persecut examples I mean the Torah tells us about about um just scales if you're if you're running a a butcher and you have a stale a scale, you have to make sure that it's checked out and that it's really weighing correctly because people pay upon that. And you have it in the United States, too. All that the people take that in. It's from the Torah. I mean, Jews did that. Well, it's just remarkable. And by the way, tell you a little unfortunate story. I was for a number of years. I was the head of what's called the vat raanim the RCBC in B in Bergen County. I was the president twice. The other one who got that bro anyway. So um it's a very sad thing that there was my wife always had a still had a small little scale when she bought something from the butcher. you know, I want five pounds of of hakm, you know, some some chopped meat. And she'll she always put it in just to say, "Oh, this how much?" She said, "Trange this second time. Doesn't seem to be the right thing." And somebody else said the same thing. Complaint went to the RCBC to the Van. We went in and we found indeed he was this person butcher was cheating. We removed our ashka and said, "You cannot buy over here. How much was it? So, it's a quarter of a pound. >> Mits de Risa, how dare you? You think you're a kosher shoe because you're cheating Jews? Yeah, but I'm kosher. No, you're not. No, you're not. At any rate, don't tell me you're a butcher. Yeah. Anyway, [laughter] so there in Vayikra, it tells how you do. If your if your relative has become poor, impoverished, do not subject them to the treatment of a slave, right? Rather, remaining with you as a hired or bound laborer and they shall serve with you only until the jubilee year. Now the jubilee year is >> Yeah. Yo, Jubilee, I believe. Yeah. So it's it's 50 years 50th year. Then they along with any children shall leave from you and they shall go back to their family and return to the ancestral holding. Why? For they are my servants whom I freed from the land of Egypt. They may not give themselves over to servitude. It's not because I want to be nice to the other people. What does God say in why you can't do these things? Cuz I'm God, not you. It's a relationship with God. It's unreal. Of course, yeah, be nice. Blah blah blah blah. But don't you dare think that anyone is going to you can lord over anyone. I'm the Lord, not you. That's the reason. Good. Any difference? Let's see. So, you s Okay. You they they they serve until the Jubilee until ye, right? And then when they leave, they leave with their families and so on and so forth. inarim there inv here we read if a fellow Hebrew man or woman is sold to you all right he shall serve you for six years not for 50 for six years and in the seventh year you shall set him free there's a crucial difference hereby >> that says you they shall leave here. You're setting him free. When you set him free, do not let him go emptyhanded. Furnish him out of the flock, threshing floor, or vat with which your God, Hashem, has blessed you. What are you going to do? This poor poor guy who worked for you with six years or five, however it is, right? He's going to leave with no money anyway. He's better off than he was. So, you know what? You got to do Niklo. You've got to give him a tip. That's how Jews started with tipping. You got to give him a tip. You got to give him something so he can start life again with his family. And not that he goes back to be terribly, terribly poor and have [clears throat] to sell himself again to another. That's why um bear in mind that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and Hashem redeem you. Therefore, I enjoin you this commandment upon you today. Not because I don't want you to think that you are a boss and because I am the Lord. That's the last time. But remember how you suffered. What is this about? It's not about how you your relationship with God. Who's the relationship with? with each other. >> Sensitivity to somebody else should blow your mind. >> But you rock the ball. >> It's your relation. It's definitely sensitivity. Hashem is teaching a sensitivity to other people. But don't forget what Hashem blessed you with. This is not yours that you own >> also. Very good. >> No question about it. But the point is in Vikra he never says that uh you know they shouldn't be serv you should not you know you know that that you have to give them money or anything like that didn't say that at all just said let them go fine because the focus there was not to believe that you can be an owner of any individual you cannot own that and over here the focus is though it does include like you said because you Uh the focus here is that you got to be careful with how you treat other people. That's why. Yes. >> Yeah. So in the first case, it's it's it's a real problem because this slave served for between almost zero and 50 years. Whereas in the other one, it's a fixed a fixed period. Slaves are treated the same. When do you what do you think they're talking about when it says uh he leaves only in the jubilee year? >> Right. It's too late. >> These are those who said we don't want to go out in the sixth seventh year. >> We want to save because we have a great owner and his wife gets a best you know >> Google. That's why I we want to hang around here. >> That's then you know he gets a lovely true story. I love stories when it happens because I I taught in school. Uh well I taught for much about 50 years in a different school but last years when I had my when I was rabbi in the shul for 37 years I was teaching in a school 37 years. I chose a school that was actually an elementary school even though probably it' be better for me for older kids but it was closer to the hospital in the area and being the rabbi of Rashul I said in case I have to go and see a balab somebody I'll have a break in the school so I can go there. So and uh I loved it. I love I talked to uh but you used to call junior high not allowed to say that. I want to ask myself they change it to uh when they said to middle school what's wrong I had to go to you know little middle Jew. Wow. Hi. So what's what is middle joint? Listen to this just different generations. So the the uh assistant uh secular principal lovely woman said don't understand rabbi it's too much pressure on the kids when you say junior high school so we call it middle school said very nice and what do you do in seventh grade when you start giving them tests they have to have to get into high school they're going to get it anyway I shut up I just teach what I have to do I just laugh at Yeah. >> Um, at any rate, so I'm teaching this uh I'm a seventh grade kid, something like that. And uh I've been going through not this specific thing, but the the about a person who is a a um servant to another Jew and who says, "I love being here." And that in the beginning of Mishbatim it says he shall go and have his ear put pierced by the door and so on and so forth. So he got this idea by the door by by the doorway. [sighs and gasps] And he asked him Winkler I said what's wrong? He says but he has to be stuck to the doorway all of his life. [laughter] I have 12 about 130 pages that I wrote after classes. Brilliant statements. It kept me going, I tell you. When eighth grade girls came came over to me about just about two years before I met Ala and they said to me before we started Rabbi Winkl, they were arguing and something. I said, what's wrong? He says, well, are are drugs illegal? And so, and this eighth grade man, come on. Anything that has to do with love and romance, they'll tell me about, you know, I could but you don't know. So I said I I look I was being very patient. I said, [clears throat] "Well, of course it's very dangerous. They're very dangerous. Should be careful about that." So, he goes that then how come there are so many drugstores? I said that was it. I was that went down in the book. I called the Hall of Shame. But anyway, then one [snorts] of these days I'll But this week, I'm just [laughter] Anyway, that's a kids thinking about. So anyway, this is fascinating because what we're having here is a remarkable thing as I said there are quite a number of um bazak goes through my goodness about uh about Yonov about other things about the story of Amale and what the difference is in in Shalak and and um you know what they skipped in very interesting but he makes the point And it's pretty powerful that it depends why because they're going into what is into Israel here in what's important for them to wield a a know uh and uh as opposed to inote and what was important to know um >> you'll notice that in for example God says a story the about says I will get rid of him you know when in in it says now you're going in. You're going to have an army. You have to get it. The amalake culture cannot live with a Jewish culture. And you're going to get moved by that. Unfortunately, you can get twisted with that. You'll think that baking babies in an oven is okay. People want to know it was so terrible. Why? Why do you have to kill Amale? Why? How do you allow? You know, there's a mitzvah of of part of a having and building a moral community is one that has said, but we have to remove evil >> one way or the other. So, in the beginning, God says, have the people leave all the pagans and have this type of thing. Let them leave. They don't want to leave. Then we got to kill them. But just have them leave, you know, let them get out of the tunnels and get the heck out of there. But they're not going to stay. They cannot stay in a Jewish community, in a Jewish culture. As much as people think, it's just so terrible. It's not terrible. Unless you recognize what evil is and how it rots the comm the the um society, then you're blind. Look around. >> What's happening? >> What was never happened 50 years ago? What's happening now? My god. Did you ever imagine in 1960s that there would be anti-semitism so unbelievably so that I I'm I'm thinking it's unbelievable. What did I just read? Oh yeah. What was it? Where was it? But court decided that it's okay for them to get that a there was a singer or a rock guy who got up and says let's kill the Jews. We kill all the IDF and kill it. And they was just they were they brought them to court and the court says that's okay. He can say that >> freedom of speech. >> But but but but when they had in the same country they beat up the Jews and everything. They couldn't find anything. They didn't know how to stop that. Mhm. >> The rot that comes along are for those people who love Amalg so much. They're such good Jews. We're so sensitive to everybody that we don't care if they kill us. >> That is the rot. And that is with Amma Lake also. And that was a concept of Amma Lake that people say, "Oh, you know, down in that ancient world, they kill them all." No. When you're building, what's the job of a Jewish community? When you move to Erit Israel for the first time, your job is to build a Torah society. >> In the beginning, it will just be you, but then it'll develop. And if you are successful, you will then spread it around. I just said before that a real surah society are those who take on more Torah. That's exactly what the Jews did. That's exactly what they did. They were successful in that way. And that but that meant there is right and there is wrong. I mean just that 20 years ago was it 10 15 years ago they said well you know it's all in the way you look at things. No, it isn't. Murdering children for no good reason is wrong. Period. >> Yeah. >> You know, at least Stefanic when she when she uh >> once she got there with a wonderful >> interrogated these I love it. >> Depends on the context. >> Yeah. >> No, it doesn't. >> I don't mean to diver. >> Yeah. Now she's running for >> governor. the garments have just >> it is you're not allowed to be political, but let's face it, as an American, uh I'm I'm seeing >> you're having what's happening to the Democratic is a very sad thing. I don't want that to happen. I may not vote Democratic, but I want to have two sides that can have discussions about that. But when you're run and and the people who were most open to have conversations are now afraid and they go over a little woke side and and and they're saying out outrageous things, outrageous and it's sadness, Jews and non-Jews that when they have an election, they say so what? No, don't believe when they say you know that 65% of the Jews in New York voted for that's not true. They're about 30 33 which is much less than they usually have but even that's too much. So it's it's a sad thing. Men cannot recognize evil >> evil grows. At any rate that's that's enough politics. Like I said I avoided but I'm right. So um but that's fascinating. Now about wow. So now we're saying that it's not just Moshe reviewing mitzvot but as Rav Bazak points out there are specific mitzvot that are being used for the uh preparation for this generation not only to fight and to get in the land but to settle the land and to build a Torah society. And what was if you can think of it any failure of this new generation which is a good generation at least a second generation after that they didn't do it. I may have once mentioned it to you and if I did I I I'm sorry but at least three out of four people here uh weren't here. I'm hoping that you forgot it. Um [snorts] number Were it not for that sin, which I'll get in a second, Tanakh would have ended after six books, five books of Moses and one book of Joshua. Because at the end of Yeshua, there's not one complaint against Joshua. This is the same generation mind you that was complaining about uh to Mosha about they can't stand it's one in the morning and one in the evening and m at supper time it's too much we don't like it we don't like that and so on and so forth these are the people that who who um who sinned with the midan you know they go into Israel under Yoshua not Moshe never a complaint never a sin per se except for the one other one person and even when that happened and they lost the first battle you know the first time they f they had a battle and then and they entered what was the first battle they had to say of course no it wasn't because they didn't they didn't fight you remember when the walls came tumbling down >> yeah God did it they didn't do anything they came in and they they picked up uh you Well, whatever they could, but they couldn't use it because God says, and this is very important from thing to finger also when I do it, I get, you know, to the victor goes to spoils, says God, I'm the victor. By the way, that was, by the way, by a uh representative in the 19th century who said that in in American Congress >> or mayor or something, whatever. He wasn't Jewish at some point. Um, but that was the truth that God says if you take a Buddha, you're saying that this is we've, you know, it's we we deserve part of it, right? You don't do a darn thing except marched around. They have a wonderful time blowing the horns and the chauffeur and then everything blow down and and they killed. You didn't do anything. The first battle afterward was again when they came to a smaller town by the name of I Right. Yeah. Uh and um I tell my students that everybody knows about I but anyway um they and they lost the first battle. They lost. Did they complain? Did they yell at God? They didn't. They said, "How did we sin? What was wrong?" sure yells cries to God. He said, he didn't say that, but he says somebody took the booty of somebody thought it was his victory, not mine, and therefore he deserves it. Says, I'm going to show you what happens if I'm not with you. You see, had you done? And that's what happened. And except for that it was a great time era of Yoshua. And as Yoshua's last words at least in the last paragraph where he says remember now your job my job was to was to defeat all the major alliances and the big armies which I did. Now you have a job. Each and every um tribe has their own national guard, not national but the goddess. They and you have to now fight and kick out the that God says the pagans and the idolattors. I think two tribes did. 10 did not. And that was what haunted Israel until hub because of that. That's why shaft was a horrible time. We'll get to shaft. We should all be well get to do Yoshua. will do was how to prepare someone to be to to to be a king to be able to do that, right? And that's was all about kings and find out that uh 80% of them were lousy. And then comes the who spend the time yelling and screaming at the Jews because they didn't do the right thing. Why not? Because they hadn't gotten rid of pagans and their idolatry and it spread through them and that's what happened. All of this happened. Yes. this wonderful Tanak. We wouldn't have had it if it weren't because the Jews didn't do what they done. So all of this is just I do as I said stand up because I get very excited about it because I have so much to say. Uh and I apologize for you. But these are very important things to understand when you step back a little bit and begin to see a little more what we're talking about here. That's a tremendous logic to say for understand where they are at what time why Moshe is doing it and say ah it is just those things we got to listen to when it's hot but >> we don't listen >> huh we don't listen [snorts] >> well of course not is on the table you know that >> listen anyway I'm not going to be here for the next month and I'll be hopefully celebrating my grandson's thank God, I shall be returning at the end of December. >> Okay. So, I look forward to hopefully getting you here again. Um and um I hope I remember what I'm up to. Okay. Thank you so much.