A Promised Land or a Conquered One? (Pt II) Rabbi Neil Winkler | September 11th 2025

moves with me. You know, my biggest problem I I the uh principles used to tell me in the olden days, you know, uh this is where you sit, you'll sit over here in the desk and this is where you teach. I couldn't sit down and teach. I would walk around the class. First of helped tremendously. You know, the kids who were, you know, fell asleep, I could spill water on them. You know, little things like that. So, you could go around and I can tell they you explain to you, you understand what I'm saying? Said, "Okay, fine. If you have a problem, let me know. Uh oh, are you going to do I see you're not writing. I was I was able to see the kids. I was able to to connect with them and and find out who really doesn't know what's happening. Which is also important is to tell my students I said if you're if you don't understand something, it's my problem. That means I didn't do a good job teaching you. Said so let's try this again. That's why I used to tell the kids didn't do well in in tests. I know the real reason. You were too lazy to study. I know that. But I would tell them it was my fault. Obviously, I didn't let you. So, tell you know what I'm gonna either I'll give you this test again or let's sit down and I'll see if you understand better orally, which I find that you I remember as a as a student I I I was in college and we I loved history. I ma I majored in history and I we had a very good teacher of American history at YU and I was there every day. I was taking down notes and everything and uh but it was it was tough for me to do that but it was very interesting and I wanted to get everything done and one of these was to the students unfortunately you know God is has a has a wonderful uh sense of humor he goes through and my says okay this is a wonderful I'm going to give you all the all the brains and then goes to others like me and says sorry we ran out of brains over there you'll just want Uh so in one of these kids in my class uh who was a brilliant brilliant guy who came the first day of the history and he never showed up again. Never showed up again. Took whatever test he had came before the big test, you know, the finals. He said, "Can I borrow your notebook?" So being a nice guy, let alone being an idiot, I gave him my notebook, but make sure I have it back. I have to start studying. Yeah. So he mailed it back to me a day before the bed test. He was living someplace else. I see it comes in my mailbox. He got an A in the class and I got a B. He never came and I did and I took notes and that was my mistake. So I figured from now on never go to the class. They'll do much better. >> That's a story. >> She have an excuse for the people. >> Yeah. Right. Do you ever you were a Jewish mother so what happened at 95 what happened to the other five points? Yeah. Um, at any rate, I left off last time in our discussion of uh are these parts of the land that were taken over by um these two and a half tribes or really two tribes and then the other half uh uh these parts of what we call Son and Og. Were they really part of what God promised at the promised land which by the way is very important as far as the kaduca about whether Truma and Taser and so on and so forth. uh or is it something that merely said that gee I hadn't thought of it but as long as you conquered it I guess you can have it and I was giving you different sources as to that seemed to uh conflict but then at the end at when I left you um as I do often purposely making sure you're confused uh I I gave the idea that well it doesn't seem to be that they really are supposed to be part of the land it seemed to I just was at an add-on. Does that mean it's holy or not? Yes or no? But at least there wasn't really God's original original one. And I left, if you recall last week, because I know this week was so crazy, I don't remember anything from then. But I do remember that I had gone through the source found in Sephra Yahushua. There there was a source at the end of Sephra Yahushua when the um two and a half tribes had fulfilled their promise to Mosha Rabenu and to Yahosua that they would lead the uh army in the invasion and the conquest of the lands in the uh western part of the Jordan that um they had finished not only the battle years, but the those years of settlement. What that means, by the way, it wasn't just settlement of uh I'm trying to put a pool in the backyard and it wasn't that settlement. A settlement was to make sure that they can in go into the each specific tribe because there were still the um the um can I call them? Yeah. the the originals you know the aboriges who were still there living there the shata mameim as it's called you know why it's never called amame not amim which is correct I know somebody was could be that couldn't speak well they were they were it's amim it's notam it's an am those that were still living there God's uh charge to them was fine. Yoshua did his job in defeating the major alliances that had the powerful uh um armies. But you're going to be responsible each and every tribe to remove the idolatry from your area so it not uh impact you and not really uh destroy your belief. Um and that and that's each tribe had it and that was a national guard for each Yehuda and God and whoever it was they had to get rid of them. Um so that settlement was that act either getting rid of them or finding settlements where they could live in this areas with the others around them and that took another seven years. uh and after those 14 years and I'm going to go back to the quote so that you can again uh perhaps refresh your memories and there that quote uh on our seventh source you see the last passage there is a source which seems to indicate that it was a understood by the other tribes that these two and a half tribes. These parcels of land on the eastern side of the Jordan, northeastern of the Jordan really wasn't the holy land and that, you know, you guys wanted to live there, but that's really not go what God thought of. And they say that in in the English as you see on source number Zion 7, the um tribes had gathered together having heard what that when the three the the the two and a half tribes had left and had moved back northeast to get to their homes where their families were, where the they had built these areas. as these cities if you wish and they were going home and before they crossed over to the eastern side they had built an altar a misbeha something which the Torah seems to it doesn't seem says that you one should not do for all sacrifices should be given on the misbehan which at that time was in Shilo. So when the other um tribes had heard what happened, the other the the tribes on the western side were going north also to their place and they saw what these other tribes told. So here you say this is what we read in the book of Yahushua the end of Yahosua and perbeck the sec 22nd chapter all of Joshua Yoshua has only 24 chapters. It is at the end there. >> Okay. >> And it says there when um then they came to the Reubenites, Gadites and the half tribe of Manasha. So they came to this two these two and a half tribes up north and they said to them, "What is this treachery that you have committed this day against God? Turning away from him and building an altar and rebelling Hashem." Again it's the top of page number four uh the seven thing and in English there um is a s sin of poor we read the sin of poor at the very end of parat balak of where Israel were tempted by the daughters of Midian and Moab and they uh they observed they they actually worshiped the idolatry of poor he says and that sin caused the destruction of thousands of Israelites and says is a sin of poor which brought a plague upon us such a small thing. We have not even purified ourselves to this day and now you turn away from God again to worship something else. That's what the whole point is. If you rebel against Hashem today, tomorrow his anger will be directed at the entire community of Israel. You think that you're going to do something bad and it's okay. We'll be okay. Call is we are committed for one another. Your sins we will be punished for. Just like the des the spies did, we all were, you know, so how can you do this? And then they say the following which I felt is a very very powerful thing in giving up what I said and what we were discussing about the holiness or nonholiness of these po portions of land that they took over. And they said these are Israelites turn to the two and a half tribes and say to them if it is because the land of your holding is impure cross over to the land of Hashem's holding. Now, is there anything more clear of what they were saying? That's not really God's holding. That's not what he really wanted. You just saw he wanted to live there and not there. If you think it's so terrible that you had to make a a a some sort of worship, so why don't you come to our side? It's a powerful thing. It means that's not your land isn't holy. Your land wasn't what God wants. And he says, and they go on to say, where the tabernacle, the Mishkan abides, and acquire properties properties among us, which is by the way exactly what God said to the future leaders. I mean, what Hashem said to the f I should have got Hashem. Moshe what Moshe said to the future leaders if they don't they don't deal the deal you know of leading you in war if they don't do what they supposed to then let them get back and you will they'll find their portions in the um western part of the Jordan you know so they're only it's only because of the condition they that they did fulfill they have this eastern part so they're saying so if you don't want the eastern part because you think it's not you know come over to our part that's where you should be anyway. But do not rebel against God or against us by building an altar other than the altar of the eternal God. The uniqueness of of Torah and of the belief and faith of Israel, there are many uniquenesses, but they have this thing of Israel. The concept of monotheism is still to this day not widely it is widely but it's not completely accepted. It's not even >> Huh. Yeah. You know, I used to get I I used to get I still get set when we were kids where I've seen in some shoes they still sing. All right. And they finish with Shimo Shimo. It's so wonderful. It's a trinity. His name, his name, his name is all one. It's not our religion. But that religion which is monotheistic in quotation yeah there's one god but there are certain different parts of him we don't believe in that that concept of oneness means also we have one bikdash we have one mskan yes we can pray differently but giving corbano giving really ritual sacrifices only one because that's the uniqueness of Israel and of Judaism. That's the the purity of the understanding that there is no power that has anything that to overdo because then gone. I mean the villa for example and many don't like that when we Yoshi was sounding the chauffeur on on Shana. So they have in between the sounds this the chauffeur sounds the first ones there's a you think that all the angels should bring our prayers up the go says I don't pray to to angels the angels should pray to god for us we pray and he takes it out of his m and most today have it in parenthesis or some don't say this because of that that's the oneness that we have it's the one which we cannot understand. So that's what they're aggravate. They were aggravated at there's only one place you should be dabbling. You should be coming to Sheilo and that's also the brilliance of the oneness. How do you keep a one nation that will eventually get spread around the world, exiled not once but twice, maybe even three times all over the place and keep them just as one nation? How does it do it? And when your bet mikdash is destroyed and there's no one place to go to, how do you keep it that way? What is the one thing that takes keeps us together even without a a a holy temple and a one altar? What is the one thing that we all commonly have the Torah and that's what kept us going you know whether it's Ashkanazi even somewhat they also believe in the Torah they also have so this is what keeps us together and I may not know the tunes what the Yemenites Jews are singing and I may not understand the exact uh um the the exact translation that you find in Hong Kong with Chinese that. But you know what I do know? I go into a shore. I know what the dening is. I I recognize the this I recognize all of this. That's the magnificent. And that's the secret of the unity and the existence, the ability to exist for 2, 3,000 years when we're all over the place. And God knows we never agree with anybody. So given the fact that we still imagining us still together as one nation, it's the oneness the you the next book the uniqueness of oneness and that's the crucial thing of our amuna. That's what it is and that's what they were getting upset about. how what are you doing with this? Now, it was explained to them, um, you misunderstand, you know, um, and they explained to them, "No, we weren't making an altar to God. It was merely a monument." And you know why? Because what's going to happen in a couple years, not a year, not two, not even 20, but in 200 years, and we're going to be living over there, and you're going to be over here, and you're going to say, "Well, you're outsiders. You're foreigners. God is our God. This Torah is our Torah, not yours. And I wanted to make sure that you understood that we wanted to that we're part of you. So we put up this monument to people should know for years and years and years in Evan like that and a rock, a stone monument. You understand what stone is? Evan is Evan is two words of Ben. It's an a and a Ben. a father and a child. It is generations and that's what the Evan it will survive for generations onward and onward. That is what that and they made that stone monument. So for in the future when they're not around and you guys aren't around, you weren't here, you don't remember that was leading you in the wars, you would know that we're part of this nation. Beautiful idea. But what it teaches us, going back to my point, being a rabbi, of course, I go off on a tangent. Um, that it seems to be saying, this really was not the real land and you're just uh, you know, you just broke away and went over there. That's what they were saying. Your land is not holy and our land is. And as I finish that and I've hurt my arm a little bit for you know patting myself on the back the truth is that we make unfortunately we have to go and learn safer and then let me see the opposite seems to be true and that's what we're going to go to now. Okay. Um and we begin with the story that we began with here, the story of uh in Bidbar, the book before about the conquest of the lands of Sikhon and Og. And then we listen to the same story as being told by Mosher Rabenu in Sepher Devarim. And I think I may have touched this last time and if I did, please forget it. Uh, and it says there we see >> now. Well, we finished number seven. Guess what we're after now? >> Good. Yeah, figure that. I have my calculator. I got it together. I went from seven to eight. So, we are in still page four. We are in seven where it's from Dvarim. Yeah. And there we see that uh in the very second chapter of Dvarim in paratim Moshe reminds them of what had just happened to them. Remember this is in the 40th year of the desert when Moshe starts his speech and he starts it just a couple of weeks after the um war with. So he now reminds them what happened just a couple of weeks ago and he says remember how God told me to let you lay more so I should tell you this I want you to get up um and go. He says arise and cross the unknown body um behold I will give you and his land. I'm going to give it to you. He's not saying maybe the two and a half tribes will fight for it. Doesn't say that. He said I'm giving it to you. So begin the occupation and engage him in battle. Now maybe you remember the story and maybe you do not. And that's okay because God knows I don't remember anything either. And that is back in why was there a war with Sonog? Was it because God said to them, "I want you to go and I want you to take over this land." Why didn't they fight have to fight with And >> they they didn't let him. Okay. The other one, but they came out to fight them. They attacked Israel. They attacked the nation and therefore they had to defend themselves. Nowadays, we don't believe in that. Nowadays we have wars that they're allowed to you know to attack you and to kill you but you have to sit there and say gee that was bad. You have to understand that but in those days when you were attacked you have to defend yourself. And yes I know I have to stop getting a political but I can't I'm not being political. I'm just being truthful. And that is very simple. You have an obligation to get rid of those people who want to destroy you. As simple as that. Is it not complicated, right? Today it is. That's what it is. So therefore, he's back in the midbar. There we read that everything was going well. They went to the uh the Amal Lake. I'm sorry, not Amal Lake because I'm not a lake. Uh it went to um uh the the the the nations of Moav, Ammon, Edom, asked them, "Please, can we go walk through the uh highways and we won't take it?" They said, "No, you can't. I can't blame them. You know, what do you like? Let's take three million immigrants come right in here." And uh you know, you know, they didn't want to do that. I understand it, you know. Fine. Um and they said just don't don't you dare come in. And so God told them this is the land I had given to uh the the descendants of Lot and of Asaf. That's theirs not yours. So don't you touch them. When came they don't say no you can't. They come back and they attack. comes to him and says, "Even before they attacked, even before perhaps they said you can't come, God tells Moshe, tell the people go and fight cuz I'm giving them the land." Now, this seems to tell me that God always had the plan that this is part of this was part of the promised land. That seems what it's telling me, not true. That's why this is such a fascinating discussion. You have proofs one way and proofs the other way. After all, the the in Yahushua the the Israelites are saying that's not a holy land. I I have an answer to that. You know, I don't know if it's a good answer or not. God knows that the ones who were living on the western side did feel that they were outsiders. God didn't think so, but they felt that was wrong that you shouldn't you should be here. Kenzine as we say in a part of the you know British English could be but in here in it's clear it says behold he says he said uh at this day I I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the the peoples everywhere. It's not just you're going to defend these two powerful nation, but when people see that they're going to sit and they're going to really start trembling and then they shall tremble and quake whenever they hear your name mentioned. We do the same to you today. Now they curse and then tell the same thing. Behold, I have begun placing and higant at your disposal. Once again, I'm giving it to you. begin the occupation and take possession of his land. Wow. Gee, Mosha, you're changing the story a little bit. You forgot that old thing about the doesn't mention it. Doesn't me does it. It God says after the war, he says, "You know what? I'm giving to them motion." And now Gibb is the story that the heck with the hat that you you came and to and to to defend and to take over the Israelites. No, God has made a decision now that you showed that you're going to do something that you're not going to stay back and say, "God will help. He'll make us do it. It's okay. We don't have to do anything." He saw that you went and fought and defended. God says, "I'm giving you the land." And that seems to be what's happening over here. Uh and so and so forth. So here we see that God had promised he's going to do that. Now think about this when we go back a little bit to the other wars and battles even from the ones in the desert, right? This is the first time this happens when Amale came and attacked Israel in the beginning or their first a couple of weeks after they left uh Egypt, right? They defeated Amale in the desert, right? God didn't say go occupy their land. No. uh they defeated in par beginning of and there we read that the Canaanites came right from and they defeated them also right and they and that was just months before did he tell them okay take over their lands No, that was the 40th year in the desert. The only time God tells them go and take over the lands would seem to be only those lands that he had promised that he was going to give them. I didn't promise these lands. You got to go around them. You be you can defend yourself, but you're not going to take over the land. Comes now. He said take over the land. And that included the lands of and og I have given you and that's what it says that words of by the way you'll find that in this week's part of at the very end. Listen carefully last the last few verses of the maf. It says exactly that that God says I'm going I'm giving to you and therefore go and take over the land. I'm giving it to you. God says it's my gift to you. See so it seems right. And that's why by the way he also says later on he goes over here we read that in this eighth thing the when he says he said go be begin the occupation and engage him in battle. That's what he's saying. And uh that's by the way I'm not going to spend my time now uh even though I did give you a ninth source which um we actually have it back in in the fourth source. I put it down at the bottom of the page, but it's actually back in that page. I guess it was two the s the dalled this source of how they also uh defeated and took over the land of og but he also used the tati not I've given you I've given you I've given you not go and and go take it over take it over and you know conquer it. That constant repetition would seem that even though um the individual families of the two and a half tribes independently it seemed had conquered the specific areas which of course was some specific areas now which wasn't 100% true. In other words, it was really conquered big adul we'd say the whole area by the Israelite army. But these specific areas where they were going to settle and they eventually uh uh took away and that was by the families of the two and a half tribes that Yer and Manasha did this and that was certainly Manasha. Manasha wasn't in the beginning the ones who were going on that so they they didn't so on and so forth and uh this concept this idea that God gave it to you and the the the idea that the usage here of rash or laet is not only as it's usually translated by the way as um um to chase them out uh to defeat them to conquer for them. The word yaleset ties into the word, you also know this. What's a yusha? What's a yusha? Right? It's a heritage. It's yours. How can you be a how can it be a heritage to you? How can it become how can it be inherit a heritage to Israel if they're first coming in? Answer. >> Three answers. That's your heritage from your forefathers. That's why it says laet doesn't mean as it keep on meaning and you shall cap you know you shall conquer it you sell it you're going to inherit it it's an inheritance to you it's giving nati it's my I'm I have given it I have given it to you back in the time of in fact we have who often will comment comment in the Torah when it says You see that in in you see that in all over that I've promised to and it says yeah even though they hadn't given it he hasn't given them specifically it's their inheritance to give over to you and that's what this is about also um and that lets us such now we're going to have the time available say okay this is wonderful. I have an idea. It's true. We have two things I'm beginning to understand. But let's see now. The first time the land is promised to Aram is in back in Parli. It's called the Brit Bhabitim, the covenant of the pieces. What a horrible name. Anyway, uh the brick binarim was when God tells um Abraham. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm sorry I um I didn't have this as a source because I was tired. Anyway, so there we come in brait. It says, "And Bayu at that time that day after God appeared in a dream to Abraham was in effect not sleeping but almost unconscious. Um, I have given this land to your descendants. I have given it to you." Right. Um, and which ones? Minim from the the river, the whatever the stream of Egypt. We don't know exactly what that is, but we have an idea. Huh? >> You found it. >> No, you get it. >> Yeah. Okay. Um, I'm glad I found it. Hagadon. So it's in, let's say, the Sinai all the way up to the Euphrates River. It's a big piece of land there, right? And that includes, listen to me, I'm giving this to you. We had we had we had we had a lot of them. Let's see. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 nations that God told Abraham, I'm giving it to you and your descendants. Wow. What did I mention a couple of you weeks ago, a couple of minutes ago? What were the nations? How many nations were there? You're not listening. I'm a little disappointed. What nations did they take over? >> Seven. >> The seven nations. Seven of them. But he's telling me 10 here. A little strange, is it not? Abraham was promised 10 nations and we always go on throughout the Torah of the seven nations to Torah says the five nations right there is a difference. Those seven nations were basically on the western side. Some are on the eastern side of the right. So if the 10 nations really however encompass all the both sides of the Jordan um how is it that n Israel take over seven nations not 10 and if they did also now with and did they not also take over these nations too what's happening well The reality is and that's where we get to the map. I don't know if you any of you have this map. I gave it out I think before and some people are smart enough to keep it. Others were smart enough to give it back to me. Um this is good. This is a map. It will help you understand the kingdoms of Son. You have it right? >> No, no, no. I think I have another one. Okay. Here. >> Okay. I'll keep listening. Okay. Right. Very good. >> Um, so you see that though you can if you can share that would be great. >> So why you see here the territories of Ru and God and half of Manasha. Do you see uh it is see it says it says Trans Jordan. I mean it's a very old map. They're still transing it. Um that's above. Now look on the other side on the right side you'll see where og ammon and moav are and og are. You see where the moabites and the ammon ammonites and you have the also the others others of the um also on the east of that but not above that. So what they took over Son and Ogue were not the three the three um the three nations that were you know part of the 10 cuz God didn't lie. God told Ara I'm giving you 10 nations right for your future generations. The seven we know of. The three were the descendants of Lot who was in effect because it was brought up by Aram though it was his his nephew it was it was his this generation's future and Asaf who is believe it or not though he may not have bragged about it a grandson of Aram. So therefore given that truth these were all given to all 10 were given to Abraham but seven of them were given to ye and Jacob. The other the three that is Ammon, Moav and Edom. They were the three on the eastern side of the Jordan that were descendants of Aram um but not of Yakov. And this is why we don't have to feel guilty about what they were doing. That's what it is. And um in fact, you see it in you see it all the time. And God says to them, you may not war with these nations. And he says, and I'll give it to you again. It's not there. It's and it says to them um and is when he came to the uh the um he said you are now crossing the or near the um borders of the ben as of the descendants of Asavosim. They live in which is Edom. Uh and um they're afraid of you but you be very careful. Don't start up with them. Garubam don't start a war with them because I will not give you any part of their land even one footstep of it because I gave this to the the descendants of Esau of Asov not to you that's your descendants of Abraham but not you and therefore that's one and then when it came to Moab to the Moabites same thing the same thing don't you dare without a war with them. I'm not going to give you any part of the land because it is an inheritance to Benet Lot and therefore that's theirs. Um and in fact it adds a very interesting thing and that is oh you know the people who lived there uh was a great people called the aim and also they were al and these this these aim were also called um rifim and it was the moabites who called them aim but they were really rifim that was their original side. Why is that important? Because when I go on later on, you see that uh it talks about the but okay skipping right and then to Ammon also the same thing. He says you're getting close to Ammon. Ammon's not allowing you to cross through their land but don't start up with them. Just say okay no shrug your soldiers and go around. And that's what they did. They shrugged their shoulders and said God said I'm not allowed to. Do you understand the powerful here that this story is? Let me show I'm going to give this to you in our next class. I'm going to give you a next I I'll jump to the next class and I beginning the laws the stores of of you understand the power here in year number one and it was the time that was number two you know it was a it was the sin of the miracle right God said to them okay it was before this the sin and therefore they were planning to go right into the land you know after one here. Um, and he said, "Go and go and fight and take over the land." What happened? What did the moral said? We can't. We not going to fight because they're too strong for us and we'll never convince the mim they're called. And they said, "We were wrong. I have another telling me that we're going to hang around here for 40 more years. Uh we changed our mind and we're going to go in and we will fight like God told us to. And Moshe said this is really a little bit. And he said, "God said, no, God's not going to help you here. No, we're going to fight. We're going to fight." So they went up and guess what happened? When God told them not to fight, what did they do now? They went to Fort and they lost. Now, what happens now in year 40 when they're very close to entering the land? They come to a land that they could take over, that they had every right to take over. But God said to them, "Don't you fight against them. This is Ammon. This is adome. This is um Bo, not yours." So, what did they do? They didn't fight. And then comes it seems to be the exact same thing. They also said no. But God said you can fight them and take over. And what did they do? And they did. In year number two, when God said fight, they said not going to fight. And when he said don't fight, they fought. In year 40, they now come when God said don't fight, they didn't fight. When they said fight, fight. You see the difference between the generations over year two and year 40. Wow. You wouldn't realize that until you come to my next week's class. I'm not going to teach you this. So that's exactly what why Dorian started. So here we are. And that is what's happening here. That is why it was okay for them to take over in the lands of Sikhon and O because they were not the ones promised to a to Abraham. Abraham prom the three that they didn't fight with were given to Arab's descendants but not Yah's descendants but the others with them and I mentioned about about um that was called powerful and called amim and so on and so forth. Um you look back at in the parad is it let's take and there's a fight of the three kings against the four kings so on and so forth who were fighting leading the fighting um astro kayim the three the actually the four kings the kingdoms defeated the five kingdoms among them Rifaim, the people who live right exactly there. uh and the Zuzim and the Amim all of them were the people the they were lands in the hand lands of the the Emory as in you know but this part was the northern part not the part that was going to be given to the others and that's why they were able to go and defeat and take over and that's why And then finally, I'll finish here because uh it's gotten we still say, hey, great story, Rabbi Winkler. Wonderful. But the end of Bidbar, it says this is the portion portionating to portioning to all of these uh the tribes and it goes through and it gives us a border of the Yard, not the other side of the Jordan. That's the Jordan and the Sa and the Yam, you know, from the from the the from the river to the sea. That's Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Anyway, they that that that was their um and it wasn't any of this and and didn't aortion it to any other part, but that's true. However, however, that it says this is a heart big goal that you'll be given big goal. You know what goal is? Oh, come on. Live in Israel, huh? Lottery. said they a lot of you know then put your hand in come out you know that that's your portion those of the nine and a half tribes were given big goal but the others weren't given by lottery they were given by God's gift to them as he had they had he had planned to have and because they wanted to live there he said fine you don't have to be aortioned out because We know that's a and that's why it doesn't indicate any type of contradiction that hey how can you tell me that this is only the go borders and that's all those the only borders that were given by lottery the rest of the stuff is still part of it that God wanted to be and therefore it wasn't given by lottery and that takes care of that problem so I thought that was very interesting and um in the end I guess it's The story is that um this land was meant to be divided among the nation of Israel as part of the promised land. But God waited to hear the requests from the two tribes, right? He wanted to hear not that okay, we're going in, but it was I think the first time that we hear a desire that we want to come into the land, we want this land. Okay. Admittedly, the rest of Israel didn't say, "Oh, we don't want it." Like they did back in the tent with the spies, but they didn't say, "Okay, we can't wait. Let's go in." They don't say that. Those two tribes do. God waited for that to happen. And therefore, he commanded it to the tribes that they have to get this, giving them credit for that desire, that yearning to take over the land. Um and uh what >> I have a question. >> Thank god only one. Yeah. >> Um I see and but I don't see adome is more to my this this um map did not include Edon. Edome is a little south and east of the Moabites and the you know and that's actually probably lower than that. >> Is not on the map. No, the the map wasn't big enough. >> Okay. >> Okay. But it is and it is >> south. >> Huh? It's south and east. >> Southeast. >> Yeah. So therefore, it wasn't even part of the thing. Right. Exactly. Right. So in effect, that's what happened here. I think Ra made in fact I remember saying and I wrote it down for me that um in effect therefore Moshe really did enter the land of Israel. Oh, >> that he did enter the land of Israel because uh indeed he conquered part of it, did he not? When he took over these lands, you and um all because there were two tribe who expressed their love for the land, a land they knew that was promised to the children of Abraham. And God rewarded them and all of Israel with that only because they love to be in the land of Israel. Even though the five towns is very nice. So >> you see what I said? Stay. I remember they this cry. I started this this year with the cry of the 19 in the 1940s. Both sides of the Jordan belong to us. Well, God God thought so, too. But God thought so. All right. Thank have a wonderful Shabas and a good year beforehand. Come back with a love of Israel and the desire to be there.