Hamas in the Torah Throughout the Ages - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

in last week's Torah portion I really want to speak to you about how the Torah is literally speaking to us all the time when it's a Divine word a Living Word where it's Torah in Hebrew isn't even a a noun it's not a book it's a verb it is a Torah it is guiding us it is teaching us and everyone knows that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights in the flood but not many people will know that Noah spent one year on the water and he lived one year in his ark and every day he was exhausted the MJ says he barely slept because he had so many animals to take care of I mean imagine you're taking care of all of the living beings and God puts you into an impossible scenario where it was forcing him to develop the attribute of caring for the other you're going to build a new world you're going going have to love on this world you're going to have to take care not only of your children that's obvious but you're going to have to take care of all of God's creations but for one year he lived in his own Ark in his own bubble as the floods of chaos were all around him and I look back to parat Noah and going into one year ago and it really sinks in we have spent one year now because it's really been exactly one year since Israel retaliated from October 7th October 7th it was like we were stunned we were shocked and then it was like Israel had to call up reserved call up reserves call up reserves get people ready make a battle plan and I remember the feeling it was like when are we going to respond when are we going to crush these enemies we're g to destroy Amal what is going on what's taking so long and it was right around the para of Noah that Israel actually went into Gaza and started bringing light to that Darkness and it's amazing that all of us have been in this Ark surrounded by the floods for a full year and at that time the Kamas actually called the war the AL AXA flood the flood of the Temple Mount it's almost like God was speaking directly to us I'm G to put you guys into a flood and you're going to have to live in an ark for a whole year and all we talked about in the fellowship for years before the war was friends we we have to build our arcs and I think that was inspired originally by Jordan Peterson and we just kept on it pounding on that build your family build your values build your mission make sure you're strong on the inside because who knows what's going to happen on the outside and all of us now have lived through an entire year and amazing when did this flood happen when the world was filled with Hamas that's the first time the Torah uses the word Kamas and the world begins filled with Kamas and a flood comes and destroys it all and last year tahila gave the most beautiful understanding but this year it really sunk in and what she did was she went through all of the oral Torah and she said what does that word Hamas really mean and what that allows us to do is not only see the Brilliance of scripture because of course the scripture is beyond brilliant it is by far the greatest literature ever written but what is even more revealing of the Torah is the oral Torah the Torah of the Jewish people throughout the centuries and we can actually now track it and we can learn it and we can absorb it and then you can see that the Torah through Zion through Israel is still speaking to us in the most profound way so I'll just go through what deila taught last year but quickly Moses was the first one to talk about Kamas and what he says in Deuteronomy 19:17 is there's a thing called an edas which is a witness that is saying a reality and blatantly lying about what they saw claiming someone did something that they didn't and so Kamas according to Moses in his words in Deuteronomy means the evil of lies and manipulations Moses died at about 1,271 before the Common Era then Isaiah the prophet he says in chapter 59: 5 and six they hatch Viper eggs and weave the spider's web he who eats their eggs dies their works are works of iniquity and the acts of Kamas in their hands so Isaiah is saying Kamas actually means murder and Isaiah died at BCE then uncus is one of the oldest Jewish interpreters of the Torah he lived in the times of the temple itself he died after the second temple was destroyed he lived between 35 and 120 of the Common Era and he is one of the most famous interpreters or translators in the Torah and he translates the Hebrew into Aramaic so but every translation is a commentary so his translation of the word Hamas he translates it as kidnapping and taking hostages then a little bit later the most famous of all of the Jewish commentators his name is Rashi he lived around the year 1,000 and he died in 1,15 and he says and this is almost every Jewish translation in parat Noah says Hamas means violent theft meaning robbery you're not stealing in secret you're going up to the people bullet to like gun to the Head give me your wallet and when God saw that the world was filled with violent theft everywhere like Society couldn't function he's like all right we got to start all over and Kamas according to Rashi is violent robbery the Eben Ezra was a little bit after Rashi still a Reon but maybe a 100 years later he died at 1,100 67 and even Ezra says the word Hamas in par Noah means rape men were just going around and just raping women without any no family no children were being born and God's like whoa this is not a society that can sustain this world delete we need to bring a flood it's over and Kamas according to the Ean Ezra is um rape and that's 1,167 then the holy his name is literally the Holy Light of Life he lived in the 1700s and when our Jewish rabbi gets to get the name the Holy Light of Life it's worthwhile to listen to what that man has to say and he says what do we think the word Hamas means in parat Noah I mean is it murder is it rape is it kidnapping and the orad in the 1700s says it actually means all of the above it was such a corrupt society that they were doing it all and like a prophet in his day he said one day people will know that Kamas is exactly that combination of evil thead the Holy Light of Life he died in 1743 and was buried in Jerusalem now just watch this because I made a slide for you of all of the dates of the oral Torah we start off with Moses and then we go to Isaiah then we go to uncus Rashi iben Ezra in the orim and here we are now October 7th 2024 and what do you see lying murder kidnapping hostages robbery rape and now years hundreds of years later after the or kados we actually see that all of them were right that is the definition ofas the definition of Kamas that the Torah is speaking us today took almost 2,000 years of the Torah to actually come into the world to allow us to understand what God originally said with the word Hamas we just couldn't understand it because there were so many layers and then the layers are contradicting each other and the Jews love to argue and at one point one Rabbi had the courage to say I want you to know all of them are right that is Kamas and today I just feel like the Torah is speaking to us louder than ever before hey this is Jeremy gimpel if you enjoyed that content then you will enjoy all the content on the land of Israel Network at www. thelandofisrael domcom and if you want to take it up a level you can join our Global community of people that learn together that work together that are all a part of a global movement of over 1,000 families all over the world and you can join the land of Israel Fellowship check it out on the landof israel.com [Music]