Parshat Devarim: A Dignified Legacy by Rabbi Ari Kahn

so we get to start a new book this week safe devour par and I'm going to ignore or avoid or step aside from some of the larger issues in terms of style in terms of authorship and and and such things and what I really want to focus on is one specific thing let me just say something a little bit PR first and then we'll get to the specific thing in order to properly learn safe it's VAR you need to read through the whole thing chart it try to figure out how many speeches there are you one long speech two speeches three speeches when they're given context what the point is and so on which means they that needs to be done I'm not doing that I'm leaving that for you you have all the rest of the summer to uh keep yourselves busy the second thing is well let me start that one again I'm just going to go through the first chapter really and this is the introductory talk which therefore I'm going to be able to ignore everything else the when I said in the beginning I'm ignore the authorship issues is God speaking is Moses speaking I mean it sounds like mosha speaking as mosha speaking based upon himself based upon his own Divine understanding he's based upon his own prophecy is this some is this Divine ventriloquism is God speaking through mosha which means that there's all kinds of I'm going to call it authorship types of questions nonetheless either because God told Moshe to say it or God said told mosha to write it I mean either way it has authority of being Torah because God tells Moshe to write it now where the words came from so I'm saying that's that's a really interesting subject but that's not what I'm talking about today nonetheless I'm am going to go with the approach that Moshe is speaking because that is what it sounds like and with that let's begin and the thing that I want to keep in mind and this may be a little bit unfair but I at least want to say it so then when you say it then it's less unfair than if you don't say it and that is here have a leader during the last moments of his life and that I'm exaggerating a little bit which goes back to how much time is elapsing throughout the whole book but here we are a man who's led the people for 40 years and now we're at the end of that so some people now here's where I get a little bit into trouble Moshe for us is a religious leader a religious leader is not necessarily the same thing as a political or or a military leader it happens to be that mosha was also a uh in a certain sense to a great extent he's a political leader also and he's a military leader as well which means I can't separate one from the other because mosha really is all of those things mosha is a freedom fighter Moshe is the man who takes us out of Egypt so all of that is a part of it even though all of of us know from our pesak experiences that mosha is in there in the back burner and we're really focusing on God because God is using mosha there as utensils and and for that matter how often is God using Moshe as utensil once again by speaking through him and using him as the conduit whereby the word of God reaches the people nonetheless if I were now to push the god issue on the side for a moment and I'm saying that's where it's a little bit unfair and speak about a leader go making his last couple of speeches in our world we live in maybe it wasn't always that way but I suspect it was even worse in the past you would have somebody very concerned with their legacy and you all you need to do is just to think outside of this room for a second and you realize that that's something which takes place very much you'll be thinking about the Legacy and you want to set the tone with how that Legacy is going to be reported and how it's going to be remembered and really what were the contributions and mosha does some things over here which therefore are so unusual and maybe this is part of what speaks towards greatness but let's begin and read I'm going to point out a couple of issues and then we're going to try to focus on those issues and it goes on which means just giving you the context over here right great deal of focus on the context but nonetheless we're much concerned with the first couple words these are the things these are the words that mosha says to the whole people and again I skipped and hey Torah mosha explained the Torah saying now one of the things that people who don't actually read saer DM carefully think or maybe there's a different agenda they think that what is is it it's called mishna Torah it's the repetition of the Torah so once again in order to really evaluate that take every single aspect of Torah that was stated prior to this and take every single aspect of Torah which is stated in Dum and see statistically to what extent this is a repetition of the Torah right there you go you want more homework there you go you have a lot more homework to do one of the things that you may find is that it's a little bit overstated second point is we're going to spend this whole para you're going to be very hard pressed to find your reput ition really of any law maybe one we could talk about one law if you want yes one we'll be happy with one what you do have is a repetition of narrative so right there to divide between narrative and to divide between law is interesting because so often people think about Sav as the repetition of law okay once again how many new laws how many old laws how much repetition how much repetition of narrative now let's start all over again if you're mosha and you tasked with and we don't know exactly what he's tasked with and and you are tasked with or you decide that you want to tell over the story where do you start the story where do you start telling it from so I would say you could give a whole background of the book of braet and how we got here which he doesn't do means Brit's not here Bible scholars and drive themselves crazy what does the deuteronomist know or not know does he talk about the flood does he talk about the a does he talk he doesn't talk about braus let's just leave that he talks about one really one thing about basus and what's that that God promised the land of Israel to of Al which and by the way why is that because this book like every other book is about the land of Israel that that's the focus don't lose the focus and I'm sorry for the Zionist uh overtones over here but that's but that that is that is what's important which means we're are we'll see how much so in a moment where are we how do we get here where are we going you don't need to go back into tell the whole story there's really one issue over here and what's interesting is really where he starts the story cuz I'll say it again he could have started braus he could have started from the moment where God spoke to him which means by the burning bush and then God appeared which means again talk about your right your legacy right try to craft you know and the moment that God chose me and so on I mean you can imagine other people going and giving that speech you could talk about how I took you out of Egypt you can talk about or you could talk about you want to go back to the religious element you can talk about and we you know we arrived at Sinai and got spoken to sin especially if you're talking repetition of law that's really where you should be focusing on but that's not where we start let's continue it says as follows again it's interesting because hey is T and got and explain the Torah now the word Torah means instruction don't get fooled explain these instructions lore stop right there half of a p God at Sinai spoke to us now you realize he could have said a lot of things he could have said Ani which by the way later on we're going to get to right next week's par we're going to get to repetition of the BR but where does he start the story from or the narrative from God spoke to saying you spend too much time over here by this mountain why are you here so long that's really interesting because where's the starting point of the mountain if you want you continue I skipped a little bit I've given you the land get up go and inherit the land which God promised to your forefathers to give them and their Descendants the land so you see the braa just now got mentioned one really narrow Focus what is it land of Israel what's the beginning of the book the beginning of the book is why are you sitting here so long by the way we've been there for a while why why why we've been sitting what don't listen to him don't listen to him why we why have we been sitting here so long and we already should have been somewhere and the where the place we should have been again let's go back I mentioned the burning bush as a possibility of where we could have started the story from and the burning bush mosha received two separate interrelated messages one was the first one time to take the people out again Brit Bay abatar keep in mind the Covenant I've promised the land take them out and bring them straight to the land the land was the issue and then there was a second message is oh when you come out you'll serve God on this mountain okay and for how long don't answer me for how long how long should have it been now the whole time with power we kept telling him three days we have no reason to suspect that we needed to spend more than three days by our whole seni experience n by the way things happen now we all know Rabbi at least mosha ads a day right we have three days preparation Moshe adds a day we know that a couple of other things happen that people say no we don't want God speaking to us it's too intense we could die no talk to Moshe and Moshe then subsequently goes up the mountain and then what happens is then they think that mosha 40 days go by and they think that Moshe is dead and then they make a golden calf and then we have to go and try to fix the golden calf and then we go and we build the Mishka and then and by the way now you'll notice back to my verse we spent too much time by the mountain how much time should we taking we should have been there receive the word of God and then get our marching orders and March straight don't pass go don't collect $200 go straight go to the land of Israel and that's and and that's the next stop and over here God is saying you know you spend too much time over here now this is not the kind of thing listen we all get company call people come to visit people come to shabas it's next Wednesday they're still there you know sometimes you say say listen you spend too much time here it's time uh it's time no I my my uncle jack would say thanks for coming thanks for going right it was the last thing he ever said to me I came to visit him it was right before my mother's 80th birthday I wanted him to make a a video so he didn't want to do it he was embarrassed what I so I recorded him being embarrassed at the end he said no like enough already thanks for coming thanks for going he want me out the door thanks for coming thanks for going zark if you want I can send you the video of it it's great anyway God is saying over here again that's what mosha is saying you spend too much time so let's let's continue let's continue but you you already just now heard exactly precisely no confusion what the objective the starting of the book what the objective is the objective is go inherit the land continue PK Ted then is really interesting that's one we're going have to come back to and I said to you at that time now part of the issue will be what is that time what is the and we have a lot and we have a lot of these dangling references taking place Throughout the chapter and I said to you but at that time what did you say sorry well okay good good so hold so hold on to the whatever our possibilities are good I'm in I am ink said go to the land the is then says said to you at that time I cannot do this by myself continue God has made you so numerous and you are like the stars of the sky there's so many of you by the way that's really interesting when you're back in braet and you're sitting around the table and you say God promised to make them as again braate reference God promised to make you as numerous as the stars in the sky when does that come to fruition according to MOS here you have't say it's mosha says it comes to frion by the way you could say this as a blessing or you can say it as mosha saying listen this is overwhelming there's an awful lot of you and I I I cannot do this by myself now that's one thing we're going to come back to continue I'm skipping a little bit how can I possibly do this by myself now what the thing that I already hinted at before I started these comments are interesting course here mosha instead of trying to build his legacy he's mentioning his vulnerability instead of saying well look at the wonderful job that he did he said he's admitting saying and I had a hard time doing this again you go back to Moshe the SN and you have an honest reporting of what happened there mosha then said you know I'm not the one you have better people to do it and over here mosha says this was an overwhelming thing and I felt I couldn't do it now right over there at the end of posk YB I skipped I skipped from y I skipped from yud giml to calive but what I skipped over there is God's response okay you need help and then appointing people so at this point they want to stop there are two times in the Torah where we find this support staff being appointed one was when yro arrives in parro and the other one is in par now if I wouldn't know better my Focus would have been or should have been or is on par B for a very simple reason the starting point was that we spent too much time on the mountain and it was time to move in which para when did we leave the mountain when did we arriv by the mountain by the way takes us to the other one we arrived in par right that right in paret in we ar that's when we arrived by the mountain we were by that mountain throughout the rest of saot throughout all of sa VRA beginning of sa midbar and at which point do we actually start moving so then we start so then we get to par in B we start to go in in like inro you have in both of them although he's called kov in the other one we assume our favorite con Right theory of conservation of characters and they're both called M's father-in-law so we assume that this is the same person that's the Rashi tells us that that he had seven different names and you know all of that what happens afterwards is that other people are appointed now one year I gave a sheare comparing those two sections and because they sound completely different until you read those verses I just now skipped which is why I skipped them again you need more homework because again I don't trust you during the summer off on on your own I don't know what kind of trouble you'll get yourselves into so another thing that you should do is to compare the section which is in B with the appointment of the people compare that to yro where we have the appointment of the people and then compare it to how it's described over here because this is actually the link between those two because those two sound different until you read over here and this actually merges those two sections together and it at least creates some kind of a challenge at least in the way that mosha is telling it over but I'm skipping that because that's not my interest right now but I do have two possibilities when mosha is going to need help this one here by saying that I can't do this on my own that reminds us of B where Moshe says I can't do this on my own so therefore if I had to then fill this in that's what we're up to but nonetheless it's the vulnerability it's the humanity that's part of it you know we never crossed over that step of turning mosha into more than he was we actually did the opposite we turned him into less than what he was but it's it's very very human and mosha is saying I can't do this and then we're skipping how God solves the problem again we're right back to the same point so now we have the whole support staff now we have people so now what is it time to right that's what the Torah just now said time to go move on I mean are you getting the focus yet of of what we are dealing with and then it gets to the next point you all approach me and you said which is the suggestion to to send the spies over here the way it's presented here it starts as a Grassroots movement the people come and say that we think that we need to send people for Again The Next Step let's do this in a responsible way you don't want to be irresponsible in terms of how we're going to do this and mosha says something that he doesn't have to admit or he doesn't have to say or in retrospect you know whatever and I thought it was a good idea and we all know this is not going to work out very well if you don't we can read the rest of the section over here and so it's interesting we spend too much time in the mountain so you all know the Rashi probably know the whole thing about the days have too much gold and about the and beneath the surface here is the golden calf but the golden calf is beneath the surface not because of days a have really why is why is it beneath the surface because you spent too much time on this mountain that's why it's there beneath the surface which means there's a hint at that sin and that causes this whole delay and then you have over here we're getting up to that next sin and what do we have in the background get up and go it's time to move you've been here too long what's the next step in history but we have to by the way keep on repeating that to people what is the next step in history God gave us the land what's the next step pick up and move go and to the land which God has given us do do I need to be any clearer over here right so I'm just again I'm not this is what MOS is saying and then he admits and again this this is just so remarkable because you would not have leaders today possibly admit they'll say you guys had this idea and just leave it at that and and say oh look how this worked out terribly but instead mosha says something which is absolutely completely fascinating he continues and he says and and then it talks a little bit about the spies I skipped over here there should be a couple dots pause just understand what just now happened the spies come back with their negative appraisal and how we can't do it and mosha says to them you didn't believe in God because God who's been carrying us out taking care of us this whole way dealing with all the issues that we have so what in the world happened to you now the word used inam I'm going to come back to M name I'm B of that I want to come back to that because that also is really interesting so hold on to that for a moment we're just making a note of that and God was quite upset with you I mean they're all distraught and they're all upset and they're all crying and so on and so forth and God swore again the land is still the focus you have proven yourselves undeserving of this land the exception will be he's going to receive the land the land which he tread upon right again Echoes of Abraham and because he followed God and then Moshe adds in something which will again need us to you know to understand this and to explain this and God got upset with me because of you saying you're also not going to go there yesu is gonna lead so and sorry and yesu or both mentioned but they're separated by a PK and the PK they separated from is where MOSI is doing in a sense the opposite of what we had noted till this point where he is admitting his own weaknesses and his own problems over here he's saying yeah and I'm not going also because of you now all of us know that mosha is kind of skipping over another episode which happened and why is he pointing the finger at them instead of taking responsibility here which means mosha is taking responsibility in places that he shouldn't necessarily take responsibility and he's not taking responsibility in the place that that he should be taking responsibility and being that all of this is within a couple of verses one of another we are somewhat confounded and I hope now you understand what we're going to be trying to figure out over here so what exactly is taking place and what is mosha doing is there more us to say right you guys are not going this is already the continuation the wanted to go anyway we spoke about whatever month ago or so it's just not going to work I told you not to go you rebelled against the word of God again some people went nonetheless they brazenly went up the mountain they and so on and they and they beat you and so on and you came back by the way this is actually much more of a religiously Justified and understandable response you came back and you cried in front of God and God did not listen to you right and did not hear what you had to say and then you spent a lot more years in Kadesh now all of this is interesting because later on in Paran we're going to hear that Moshe is going to pray and God's not going to listen to his prayer over here he's saying and about the same point about you know could we go in anyway and the answer is no and if the starting point was you spend too much time on this mountain you had the next chapter in history you're supposed to go to and right the destiny that you're supposed to head towards and you you know just kept delaying it and now what are we told as we end this chapter chapter and now he ended up delaying it you know a lot more time which means till now the delay was roughly a year and now the delay is going to be another 38 plus years so essentially you realize how tragic this whole description is moshe's focus is what that next chapter is supposed to be and what it is right now I mean that's what we're up to now don't mess up again what are we up to now this Perpetual next chapter in history it's always Hab sh but people can't take that next step you know I've said before that for a lot of people it's always going to be Laha I mean the only thing is they buy graves in Jerusalem and they don't want to say Lan because that's the only way they see themselves getting here but I'll behave so look I even got to her look at that but again it's always but it's always tomorrow it's always next year it's always going to be later and that's part of what we're up to right now how long are we going to keep on pushing this off it was supposed to be all along the way the next step and look what's happened so I'm saying that's the speech essentially I've already said to you what I want to figure out I want to understand some of the references that what was mosha is making I want to understand what mosha is taking responsibility I want to understand those there were a couple of words along the way that we needed to come back to and then the time that mosha turns around and does the opposite and says you know guys it's your fault so what just now happened because it seems to be a little combination of opposites is that good yes that's good so going back to which we really where we began in a sense this I can't do it by myself in Source number two the villone and I don't want to fool you here it was a lot longer and he gave all kinds of other interpretations but at some point he has an admission and that's what we're about to read what's right Source number two Source number two which means where is this it's in exactly where we thought it should be why because that's where Moshe says I can't do this mean he actually says it much stronger right that's when goes meaning what the Von is saying is what I had suggested before is the obvious interpretation of what's taking place in this section is that this verse references when we actually left the mountain and when did we actually leave the mountain and we left them mountain and by the way we didn't didn't work out well there were all kinds of problems and mistakes we started complaining and and and so on and and so we know that that didn't work out well but let's continue which means again parber was okay from peric Olive through peric yud at the end of peric yud we already getting the hint and then from yud right I've always say that chapter 11 is bankruptcy moral bankruptcy spiritual bankruptcy Chapter 11 very easy to remember okay in Source number three the writes now that's fascinating because he completely ignored a lot of what it said over here but he he noted what I noted and what's that that there's a similarity to the way that the description which I skipped here with what was described in parro so therefore instead of bringing it at the time that yro leaves which by the way at the moment that yro leaves what does mosha feel mosha feels very vulnerable yro was a person who was probably again I'm I'm filling in blank spaces here I don't know how long mosha lived with hitro was it 20 years was it 30 years was it 40 years could have been 40 years that he lived there with yro yro himself is described as coin midan it we don't know if it's religious or or if it's political he's a leader he has a leadership position for him to walk in and to analyze how Mosa's leadership is being utilized and you may get overwhelmed like this here it's an idea to be a little bit more pragmatic and practical on how to do it so therefore the appointment of all these people did it take place when yro comes and then gives his suggestions or is it when yro leaves and then mosha feels overwhelmed because yro is the one guy that he could probably turn to who's had experience as a leader and say listen you know what do we do now and don't leave I need you with me over here which again is a sense of vulnerability but as I'm going to say it again what the Bor Shore just now did is that he moved this over to when yro arrives instead of when yro leaves and that's interesting I'm not going to get into all the details of what motivates him that I've already given you enough hints about that but nonetheless that moves things dramatically and Source number four the ramban the ramban's always going to be inter in when he deals with timing because you know the ramban's default always going to be is that there's chronological Integrity everything follows the proper sequence unless there's some kind of manifest reason to say otherwise so we're going to read the ramban you're going to see how how he's like dancing over here to try to avoid something which he considers to be a problem he just now did invert the sequence he said that this happened before God said by the way all that he just now did he's making reference in pket to something and he was making reference in P to something and now the ran is claiming that that didn't happen in that sequence that when MOS is telling things over by the way this doesn't deal with real sequence issues but he's just saying that MOS is not telling things over in the order that it happened and he says no this happened beforehand if one is going to claim that yro came before matar now he's bothered by the same thing that the B is bothered by now just I don't want to overly complicate this when does yro come some say he again he heard what did he hear some say he heard about all the makot or he heard about the splitting of the sea he heard about mamake or he heard mat Tor especially when he's telling them when you're going to sit and judge the People based upon what so there's an argum to be made that you arrival is after the Torah is given and now you need to know how to adjudicate and so on so I'm going to say it again the ramban is dancing a little bit over here so just note that and then he says we receive the Torah so you know what the ran just really did he tried to bring together moshe's speech what does the appointed people have to do with the morim and he's essentially seeing that the leaders which are approached are part of this Coalition which is now is being formed which are going to approach mosha for the next episode essentially the ramban is trying to tighten everything that we've read till now but along the way to do that he probably confused most of us yes yes okay and that's okay because at least when you know you're confused then you're not as confused as when you don't know that you're confused I want to now go back to parro and point at something which arguably we never paid attention to and then we're going to see how it's important and how it's used but it's going to help us to do what the ran just now wanted us to do and what's that tighten everything and understand how this was a really well-crafted speech and what exactly was that mosha is doing and how we got to where we got to in Source number five arrives and then he says but you need to divide and you need to have the judges of the whatever it was the 500 and so on and so forth and again big things go to you small things go to the judges and so on if you do this with God's approval you'll be able to survive and to standom and all these people then will be able to go to their place in peace now what in the world did that last phrase mean so note the ezzar in Source number six note the ezzar in Source number six is his Parish it's his long commentary that's the way it's called and he had multip commentaries he tells us again right all these people were fighting and so on and so forth and I'm skipping a little bit here shom so he's saying everyone go back to their tent in peace which means this really is going to lead us to the everyone's going to be H essentially you have people fighting you have the judges making peace and everybody can goes to their tent at the end of the day and everybody's happy and we're therefore going to have a unified Community which is able to live together in peace and that's the way the izra suggests that's what it means in Source number seven you have the izra in his Parish aatar which is a bit longer than his parish and he says El Mak erit Kanan and then he let the Zionism slip out and he said that you know if we do this and we become unified then we we can go to our place so what's our place so that's really interesting that in one commentary he writes what and and by the way even better in the next line he writes El one second in Source number seven and some people say it's their tent yes that was you who wrote it I'm sure there are others as well but that's really that's really interesting because in his two commentaries he says two different things and in one of them he quites what he wrotes in the other one what he writes in the other one and then he like kind of disassociates himself from it but this is radically different yes where is our place is this totally going to be a diaspora perspective right in terms of each person in their own in their own communities and their own tents and we live in peace and Harmony and everything is great or do we have this macro view of Jewish history and saying where where is our place where is home where are you supposed to go and therefore you you just now understand that th those are just two so radically different understandings of reading that section you don't know where I'm going with all of this yet just give it a second and uh look at number eight the rers rers says it says Alo and not ELO and then he takes it and he goes in Source number he goes even further and he says that each person should know their place which which just it's a very nice teaching but has nothing to do with other way nothing to do with judges read what he says everybody should know their proper place and they're leveling what they do that's the main job of a judge I don't know what he's talking about so but again it's so interesting how you can take this and contextualize it within your own lives and what what you think it means or you say now what's the bigger story over here we're going to skip and go over to Source number 10 which is the by the way the the the I won't skip the the in Source number nine says what does it mean is that by having so many judges then you don't have to go far to find litigation you don't or in pres to solve any kinds of problems everything's local right here which means you don't have to go and travel a long way to go to court everything gets solved immediately and that's the way and he says there'll be peace in Lo locally and everything's great cakar does what he's supposed to do and it's it's great what he does and I'm going to explain why I'm saying that first of the kakar is not in schote where is it it's here in thear what we're up to what is the clear trying to understand he's trying to understand mosia speech by the way that's what they was doing as well what exactly is the flow over here between mosha saying with too much time in the M when I can't do them on myself appointment of others in order to help and then the morum and then and so on which means what is the flow of what just now happened now all of you can just now say to me well that's what happened but you realize that Moshe is starting at a particular place he's leading particular episode he's including certain things he's not including everything which means what's here and why so now go to the cleak like pointing at a finger which means this what is this point the point is that God said you're too much time in the mountain go to the land now Moshe is really referring to what to The Next Step what's the next step is the conquest going to the land so in order to go to the land we need certain things in order and he says now just look down at source number 11 to see exactly the context right the laws of appointing judges by the way it's one of the seven noahide laws you can say to me okay why is that special over here it's not just one of the noahide laws you look at and three him down there in Source 11 you all remember that P except for the second half of it what's the reason that you need Justice in order to be deserving to live in the land the land is a land which desires which needs certain type of behavior and the basic thing here is we need judges now go back to the cakar because what he's writing is fascinating he says that okay time to go to the land and mosha says I need help why cuz we're going to need to create a justice system when we're going to get to the land because that's one of the laws which which are required in the land having proper Justice is part of what's going to allow us to be there and then he continues and that's how I explained it back inro when it said El Shalom the appointment of Judges is going to allow us to live in the land by the way just think a second back in yro we we made our short stop not a short stop Michael I don't want you to think I say Short Stop he's thinking Derek Jeter still okay I we were supposed to make our Short Stop in sini receive the Torah and what's the next step well that's interesting what's the next step what's the next step is we need to create a justice system where in the land of Israel what are we not supposed to do spend too much time by the mountain so the cleak saying yes is that this is part of the setup in order to go in which actually therefore means that when we have this whole issue of the judges the first time and the second time it's dealing with the same larger issue and that is the judges in context of going into the land of Israel and he goes and connects them but he also brought it into our narrative and he made our narrative a little bit tighter good let's now move over to the second part in uh right before Source 12 I quoted a verse there and the verse is and mosha says no I thought it was a good idea as well right so that that that is despise and mosha is saying yeah I approved to this and we all realize he didn't have to do that Rashi points out and again if you want you can have Rashi as for more homework but he does point out that I thought it was good but nonetheless well let's read but a i but God didn't think it was good which is also really interesting yeah God thought this was bad so why proceed why is he giv them rebuke about this now well we know why he's giving rebuke because of the horrific consequences I'm going to skip the rest of rash3 why did I agree because you all agreed now this is actually really interesting and I want you to understand it much more in terms of the flow as we had just saw a moment ago we create a justice system to create Justice creates peace different opinions we're able to work it out and then we could be of one mind the entire people of one mind and they come to me and says let's do something so now should mosha be against them or mosha should support them because that's the will of the people now I'm not going all the way to uh to La I'm not going to talk about democracy I'm not going to talk about the will of the people and so on and so forth but what I am going to talk about is what the ezzar just now said is that mosha sees H there's a sense of unity so why I don't want to break that Unity the fact that everybody wants something that itself is good which means it is more of a question of procedure than it is a question of content and mosha goes along with it because okay the people the people are all together okay let's go that's a good meaning the fact that people are unified is itself something which is good so that is a really that's I'm saying that's a really interest that itself is a really interesting comment look right before 15 when it comes to this you did not believe in God now over here I brought you a number of different comments regarding this to try to explain this but I I I need to uh I I need to give you a little bit more information part of what bothers me with this is that it's a really interesting word for mosha to use of all people in in this speech when mosha sins by hitting the Rock God comes and says because you did not believe in me and when Moshe is now going to speak about and you didn't believe in God so it's really interesting because of lack of belief is uh is something which should be a sore point but nonetheless mosha over here identifies this um by the way the sequence we need to pay attention par takes place before that episode in terms of hitting the rock but nonetheless it's interesting the other thing is is always to pay attention with mosha with amuna I mean you go back to the other Rock story hitting the rock right afterwards you have and then it says that MOS right the hands of mosha which means try to go by the way also with the staff and with water right right splitting the sea there's also this whole idea that mosha instilling them in faith or not is interesting when he says well you guys didn't believe so I again I need to explain that a little bit more let's see how much time we have and let's uh let's try to uh let's try let's try to do as much as we can sour 15 he says then and you didn't believe Rashi is saying that's talking about you didn't believe that God had promised lands again the context here is the spies the spies come back and they IGN right and they and it says that you didn't have belief and rash didn't belief in terms of the land that God had really promised the land shall only say no it's exactly what it says over here if you read the verses again it says you didn't believe God is the one who Carri carried you along he did all the Miracles for you and essentially your lack of belief is actually Preposterous how do you ignore all of the evidence standing in front of you and suddenly oh no we can't just do that next step right this is not possible um this in 16 the you didn't believe right again getting the larger context of this speech you didn't believe in terms of the next stage go and conquer the land you just didn't believe you could do it the 17 now I want to explain to you why I'm here I'm here because I looked for the thing I just now told you a moment ago what is it that by Moses hitting the rock it talks about a lack of amuna and here it talks about a lack of amuna and I looked and I searched does anybody connect them and the answer is the only one I really saw was the schah M saying they're no none there I'm saying this is what I found so he starts off by telling us something which is uh it's not so simple he says now he's in parat where ISAT where Moshe hits the Rock and he's saying is that Moshe hitting the rock is not really the reason he's not going to go into the land he says right away G that this punishment already had existed prior to this and the punishment was not on Moshe the punishment was on the people the people had received the punishment what's the punishment shal they were undeserving to have a leader like mosha bring him into the land of Israel essentially he's going to tell us that the whole rock at episode is not what you think it is because there already was a decree that these people can't have mosha leading them oh no this is absolutely frightening he continues and and he explains um we're going to skip a little bit and now you understand why Mo this is our other problem why Moshe says I'm because of you what what want after the other why did Moses say because of you I can't go in again that was the part that was a little difficult it says here it says because you didn't believe in me because you don't believe the secret behind all of this is as I explained there already was a prior decree that God had given that the people were already guilty because of their earlier sin that had taken place and now it switched from the theoretical into the actual is and these are the waters which the Isel quarreled with God the heav and understand this so again this is perhaps a radical interpretation but we're just warming up the it's interesting the SCH is always called thead and the is called thead and apparently they understand kadha maybe a little bit better than most and the over here is going to do something similar but a little bit different he's also troubled by the same thing what does it mean when Moshe says and God got upset with me because of you go read through you don't find it all that God was upset with mosha remember mosha says yeah I agreed I like the idea and God was mad with me what what in the world are you talking about and the ran says it is a what's the what's the word for this it is a um it's disconnected that that MO is kind of like free wheeling over here right and it's it's just disconnected and he mentioned it in passing he goes and and on top of all other things that you've done you got me so angry that I had to go and hit and so he goes I don't know what he's talking about no but right after the next he goes back to and it's it's exclusively about the from this point onwards like why did he stop in the middle and then add this point about oh and God was mad about me that which the suggested I have no idea why he thinks that this makes any sense then taking a deep breath and again this is the here in and then he says but the proper understanding of all this is and now he turns this all around a little bit and it's not that different from the but he cites this teaching that says that had mosha gone into AR Israel and Moshe built the beta mikdash that beta mikdash would not and could not have ever been destroyed because again go back to Holiness something holy built by someone holy it never could have been destroyed but what's the problem what happens when God gets angry at the Jewish people he goes at that point will God take out his anger on the people instead of at the building and therefore Moshe couldn't go in because of them which means the Morag the sin of the Morag and so on mosha says now I can't go in because you're going to sin again it's called right why you crying for nothing I'll give you a reason reason to cry and they're going to mess up again they mess up again what's God going to do is he going to have this building to take down if mosha goes in then he can't or is he going to have the people to take down and essentially what theim does for all of this Source 18 he goes and he explains that no it can't be that way in in the also in Source 19 in on bid on the place over there he does the same thing he he goes a little bit further there and explains that had Moshe and Aon again had they created more that MOS and Aon perhaps could have elevated the People by doing speaking to the Rock and making a and they could have somehow look at the last couple of lines hasm Moshe and Aaron perhaps could have done something which would have elevated the people and they would have gotten to this point where they couldn't have sinned um couldn't is a strong word I just want to add a little bit to this you know theoretically by har the same thing could have should have happened but what happened after Hara then we have an agel what happens over here we're going to have another opportunity to elevate them in front of everybody to see the Kusa and instead that and instead of elevating them something happens and and therefore mosha can't go in so again the is trying to explain why mosha would mention this in the middle The Source number 20 and you need to know thisel it's radical and he thinks it's radical and he says look in second paragraph in 20 same question why is he bringing this in over here in order to do this you need to understand and the real idea behind what the sin of mosan Aon was it's the reason why they had to die and they couldn't go to the land and and it's very deep for those you know can actually go and be able to penetrate this and my opinion is different from everybody till now and then he goes on and explains it and if you want it's bold a couple lines later and we have the ab barbanel here in verm and Again by The Hitting of The Rock and what does he say here words bold in Source 20 he writes so he just now said and Aon did not die because of hitting the Rock and just think for a second hitting the rock it seems minor in terms of Look At Large issues how could it be this is part of where he's coming from how could it be that Aron who who's involved actively in the AEL and you could defend him if you want is going to not be punished for that but when it comes to the hitting of the rock where you're standing on the side as mosha hits the rock oh now you can't go now you're going to die he says what are you talking about think about consequences that's part of what this is think about consequences that mosha the consequence of mosha agreeing to send them is that they're going to come back and it's all going to mess up and they're going to to be punished for 38 years the consequences are so much stronger than the consequence of hitting the Rock and so on so what he's saying over here is that's reality God doesn't want to say it that way which means those people who actually did the agle are sinners and those people who Morag actually the Sinners and there's something inappropriate or saying yeah Aon was one of them and mosha was one of them because that's not right but nonetheless he says but that's the truth and mosha knows it and what's really interesting then then is do you realize what mosha then is doing by saying oh because of you I got punished as well mosha is actually not pointing accusative finger mosha is actually taking responsibility for being involved in the a as well when I told you that mosha over here talk about the Legacy and being worried about how he's going to be seen for posterity what mosha is doing every step of the way over here is taking responsibility and that point to bamun then becomes also a little bit more interesting which means we have a people who are unified right and we have the judges and trying to bring them all together and they're unified and they have belief I you know I miss said that before they had belief what was the problem they believed in morim and they don't believe in mosha and by the way that's the problem all the way through they don't believe enough in Moshe if they would have believed more in mosha then all the problems that we had all along the way again every time they get worked up and get upset they don't even believe in mosha think about the agle why they don't believe in mosha oh mosha is not here he must be dead no this is mosha Renu he went up to God mosha is going to be back but they don't believe in mosha enough so this lack of belief is what's really interesting over here and mosha instead of accusing them is actually taking responsibility because he's he is including himself in the Sin of the spies and and I am involved in this also so therefore at least according to the barbanell question is if we convinced any of you to accept the aranel but the aranel works really well to understand the pum over here because other otherwise you just have this disconnect in the middle over here and it just doesn't it doesn't make sense why this fits in so then I'll say it again mosha speech from the beginning of this this par to the end of the par is about one thing it's about going to the land of Israel and what's the problem the problem is that we've delayed and we we've taken missteps and uh and we did not do what we needed to do when we needed to do it and essentially there's one reason why he's giving this speech what's the real reason the real reason is what's the next step going to be are you going to repeat the same mistakes or are you going to go further which means they needs to be belief there needs to be belief in their leaders there needs to be belief in God not suddenly find your inner belief when when the morum come up against the evidence which is staring in front of you and mosha all along the way over here includes himself in the problems which exist which is absolutely fascinating but he's doing this as I said because he's honest and because he's taking responsibility and he wants to make sure that the mistakes that have already happened don't happen again so what's the next step in history the next step is it's time to pick up and move to Israel that's what it says if you know if a couple days before Tish a person can't understand it they don't know when they'll actually be able to understand this