Parshat Matot-Masei: Cousins by Rabbi Ari Kahn

okay we're going to start today with bot love Hood I don't want and maybe we'll end up there as well there's three different focal points I would say main focal points okay one is the second source which is really the place that introduced which is perov Zion or where the issue is introduced that's even better the the other is in this week's par show which is the first source which is imp paric lamid afterwards there's also in for Yeshua in chapter 17 where it actually gets played out more in real time we're going to start reading it but I want to ask the following question as we as we begin what's their interest in their request and maybe that just seems like too obvious of a question but when I say what's their interest I want to focus it a little bit more is it perhaps purely Financial listen there's money to be made over here there's property to be owned why should we lose out and lose on on the property now it could be that all of you will say to me I don't like that suggestion that's fine but I just want to explore what the various possibilities are so one I can call Financial the second I can call Zionist that this is an expression of the and and you do understand how that would be a popular type of way of interpreting it especially among zionists third if you want I can call it a completely it's a feminist issue and I wonder out loud if we were to go back and to look 2,000 years ago or so 1500 years ago for that matter thousand years ago and start looking at all of the interpretation start looking at all the commentaries and see how many of them are reading into it more of a Zionist objective and how many are reading them into a feminist objective I think I would be fair to say that in today's world it would be much more certainly among a certain population it would be much more popular to call this a feminist section and on the other hand you can say to me that the question itself is in a sense not fair the very fact that they have a voice and the Very fact that they have agency the very fact that they're able to turn and to make a request may actually be feminist in a certain sense no matter what you say certainly in terms of a text or a time or a place where Women's voice was not necessar or names were not mentioned and voice was not necessarily heard so as much as I'm going to ask or try to make this distinction you could tell me that that distinction is a completely unfair distinction because you need to plug in at least that feminist part of it however you want to Define feminism which itself I mean we're not necessarily going to get involved in feminist theology we're not going to the first wave or the second wave or the third wave or whatever other waves that you may have of this but it as I said it that's a far less interest to me there is a there's a fourth possibility and again you can read this into any other POS because you obviously can combine them and that is that is this a question of respect for their father and and and what I what I what I mean by that respect for their father is they don't want their father's name to be forgotten because as soon as uh you know if the property okay the father dies with that sons and therefore in a certain in a certain sense his name is not carried on now you can say that itself is a function of a of a sexist type of perspective but let let's read let's start again with this week's para and then we'll go backwards a little bit and then we'll go into some unexpected places so let's we're halfway through the but let's let's pause there for a moment first of all identified very clearly as yose on a midrashic level we will find various expressions of the tribe of Yosef being people who are Zionist again maybe that's the wrong word to use oh is there's only one of the sons of yov in the Torah at least who makes a request to be buried in the land of Israel right and that and we're told clearly about it and you could have asked about the others so you'll find mad will say of course all the others were buried there but we just don't have any clear description in the text that Yosef has to make this request and it's not so obvious that all the others yes you can pay a tour guy to find you the various Graves of the various shim but I hope you realize that that's um it's not as obvious as some people were to think let's continue in that P because as I said it goes back to Y but let's look at the exact family that comes now keep that in mind keep the gilad family into all of this so this is a issue it's a y issue issue and finally from the family of G that we acknowledge completely that the divisions of the land is all being done based upon God so therefore you know we completely accept God's word and and you gave the command based upon God so you notice God is in both halves of the verse and they're not challenging God's word whatsoever and you commanded to give the inheritance of our brother and I love the Brotherhood in this because it didn't have to use that word and there is this sense of Brotherhood and there is going to be a sense of caring over here and you said to give it to the daughters he goes but there's a potential problem with that is and that is that these girls get married by the way the problem right now is the shid crisis because they're not married and they're not all that young so that that's another part of all of this but they're going to marry somebody they could marry from any one of the tribes and when they do that then the land which is ysf Mas again you want to keep going M gilad land will end up then being lost and being moved over to a different tribe by the way this could happen at any point in any time in history but nonetheless they're saying there's a problem which itself is interesting and made it all the more complicated and that's why we're going to ignore that even though I bolded it now notice again that Moshe says to the children of Israel again God is all over this this is being done with God's absolute approval and it says correct and by the way interesting it's was similar to before we saw right yes the correct so now you have a problem of God saying yes they're right and yes they're right because there is somewh of attention it's not impossible at all and it needs to be nuanced a little bit and therefore the instruction that Moshe says based upon God is again God all over this so I love that I I wonder why we don't put this on uh on wedding invitations that means that they should marry the people they choose they should marry anyone that they want from their choice which means there's no Force marriages over here there's no shotgun weddings right this is but they should only marry within the tribe now before you get yourselves all excited because of the incredible limitation that that just now put upon them I will note that as of this moment the as the last census that we had not that long ago there were 52,700 men between the age of 20 and 60 in the tribe of manasha which was an increase of some 20,000 from the previous census which means the tribe of manasha is trending upward there's lots of them there's lots of people being born again that's interesting that there's a 20,000 increase over the 40 years in the desert which means there's lots of young people right I hope that that we need mathematicians to uh to work this out but but just note that differential because that then does make a difference so say listen there's plenty of people to marry God didn't say this because you can all be saying to me oh only marry within the tribe so how many people are in the tribe you know there's 35 people they can choose from so no it's not just a question of 35 people there there are is a much larger L ger much larger pool of individuals that one can think and by the way think think this way okay you know we we have some of us ended up marrying people that were grew up in the same neighborhood as us how many real choices were there within the neighborhood that we grew up in was there 50,000 was it 20,000 whe or was the number somewhat less especially when you then subdivided into all kinds of other things that people have on their uh sh list or resume or request or dreams or fantasies that could be great book sh fantasies okay so they should they should marry you know whoever they want but from within the tribe but you know rather it should stay with by the way this is going to be a problem which is not just a problem for this is going to be problem eventually at some point in all kinds of places in all kinds of tribes and all kinds of families essentially the dream of keeping each land mass of each tribe absolutely quote unquote pure in terms of that tribe is not as simple because of this problem and as God really saying that for every single point in history that that woman who inherited because she's the only daughter or there's no Sons they they can only marry so again just just think about this for a second because you know what really is the long-term solution here if there is one and we can just sign it off with they followed the instructions of God and if you just want some good news here even though it's three weeks we can talk about the weddings they married their cousins what do mean their cousins people from the from the tribe of Masha some of safe they they they became they were married and therefore the land remained within the tribe of manasha of Yos I just want to make a comment that confirms what you were saying they told L to the best so one could interpret that perhaps saying that there were many good choices but you get to choose from the best so you did have selection it doesn't say lto l so they can pick the choices of the choice and and and again I feel like they're settling I feel they're limited and so on but it's really interesting over here that all this had to be introduced and God had to get involved and there was this concern about the losing of the land so which again it takes me back to my original question what was the concerns of the daughters of slud and then now how closely is that correlated to the the concern of the others from the family others from Masha and is there certain type of a mindset over here there that that's taking place so let's just keep that in mind for a second now let's work backwards and see to what extent we can try perhaps to determine our initial question is what really is the motivation over here so we look at source number two which is back in per now you you see again exactly which family they they came from now now when they say that's interesting and I'm sure many many could be given on that point which sin is he is he the Moses is there really any sin over here is that just a turn of phrase so let's leave this and let's not and they ask so what words they actually say why should our father's name be erased forgotten taken out be limited from the family which means what they're saying is is that if there's no inheritance our father is is wiped out from the family so when I asked my question before is it that they want to pad their bank accounts they want to make some money is it out of a Zionist issue is it is it really a feminist request or is this kod of and so far just reading these words it very much sounds like keep it and again I admit what I said before the fact that they can articulate and they can speak and they have a voice and they have agency is it isn't of itself something which is interesting as an additional point but necessarily as the main point and they continue and they say a so also over here A A the brothers and they refer to it our our brother so it seems to be that there really is a a nice tight even loving family relationship over here and they're saying is that if we don't receive this then essentially our father is forgotten and and and is essentially written out of the family again among the it could have said among the tribe but again there is the sense of Brotherhood which is over here and therefore it should be given to them so I I assume you all agree with me that the the stated or the more obvious or the more revealed issue here here really seems to be this other one of respecting their father and not wanting their father to be forgotten okay let's place all of this aside for a moment and we're going to we're going to come back to it just going to take us a little bit of time to come back to it but we're going to do is to explore another issue that takes place in this para or these parote and that is the story of the Benet God and the B Ruan and just again I don't really want to ruin this and ready tell you the end of it but some of us some may remember and that is it's not just b b ruin there's also and that becomes interesting because of first of all it's interesting just to start off if we speak about Yosef and B Manas and being Zionist and so on so what in the world are they doing on the other side and how did they get dragged into this and what's going on over here and yet there's other problems as well and one will be very obvious very soon and you know what we always try to do is turn the problems into Solutions but let's just start reading source three they a great deal of flock which is great I mean if you follow up on the the war against midan and they captured so many things and now and now they have all of this money which means essentially people that are poor are going to have problems and people that are rich are going to have problems people that are poor are going to complain people Rich are complain here's the complaint we have so much flock what are you going to do with it and before I go any further I just want to State something which is obvious and should have been the suggestion and once you see this you can't unsee it you can forget it by next year don't worry about that and that is that they could have requested actually the land that Minasha ends up getting and we're going to come back to that which is along the the Jordan River but on this side of the Jordan River and then they could have requested to use for their flock the land on the other side for grazing which means there's no reason in the world that they should have to build houses build cities build homes and have their families and children stay there if it's a land for grazing and it's a very big land very you know which which is exactly the point so you can live in the Jordan Valley and then you can course over with your flock every single day and take them and have them graze or you can graze for days or weeks at a time however people you know I don't know how many of you are Cowboys in the waiting but there's many you don't have to live in that place that you're grazing so over here this starting point oh we have lots and lots of flock okay which means let's just continue with this request there is something over here which I'm just going to say it all depends on what your starting point is from my starting point and I think most Shan is starting point there's something fundamentally wrong with what their request is and let's read it now with that in mind because all that I just now did is I just suggested that there is a very simple another solution which means we've captured all this land let's turn this into grazing land for any tribe that needs to graze in it and there's there should be no problem whatsoever so let's now right oh that solution occurred to you before no so it was worth coming today just for that even it was worth it was worth coming today okay we'll rethink so let let's get to States the objective facts atum which by the way should be thank you very much look at how much money I have you know I I I started our other discussion with is this a financial issue is this a Zionist issue you you all realize now that I can actually play the same almost the same thing over here now that right there I want to pause right here I want to pause with ER because we've already just now so lad a couple of times and is this just a coincidence or is there something else going on you and the order gets reversed before it wasu and God now it's God and Hashem notice God is in the story God struck this place by the way that actually makes turns this almost into Manifest Destiny look what God did how can you turn down God how can you turn down the gift that God wants to give us M it's a land of great for grazing and we have a lot of flock now I'm going to pause right there what should be the solution can we use this to graze and what should the answer be sure what's the problem with using this for grazing instead we want that land we do not want to CR the Jordan now it's at this point that things got a problematic which means the essential re request or observation that we have lots of flock and this is a great place for grazing itself should not have been problematic and even say oh look what God did for us all of that could have been utilized and mosha does not like this and and let's just put this in context mosha who's being told that his punishment is that he can't cross the Jordan and needs to stay on this other side they are essentially saying can we please have some of your punishment as well but they're not phrasing it that way of course and I know that there are commentators who try to twist this into a uh somehow a love from mosenu let's just realize that's pretty farfetched and Moshe responds I want to go back to that point of Brotherhood because we're not necessarily talking literally our brothers we're talking about the next tribe but it's Brothers I mean just like brothers were mentioned in the previous section and there was a sense of warmth and caring and and and so on over here is it's it's actually the opposite what happened to your sense of Brotherhood how meaning on the most basic moral level how how can you say this and how can you do this and he says because they said we don't want to cross over your brothers will go to war and you're going to sit over here is and this is a second Point why do you want to cause fear among the Jewish people in order to move over from the land which God has given them which means if you've noticed so far mosha has just now already thrown out three different issues this is the land that God gave do you have any sense of of Jewish history do you understand anything about Jewish history do you understand what the whole story was going down to Egypt was in order to come back and to get this land on top of that your insistence of staying away can instill fear and by the way there are Reon him who will discuss in situations of war that if somebody does something to cause fear among those who are fighting they are over a MIT maybe they're breaking a l and so on that causing fear especially in a time of war is something which is horrific and over here Moshe is accusing them of a lack of Brotherhood of being part of Amel one of the things if you look at the rambam he says that somebody who does not feel the pain of Jews they don't have he writes in H ofil that you don't even for such a person and any Mitzvah they did God throws away that you need to feel the pain of Amro to be part of amist in that sense because otherwise there is just something lacking and and mosha just is warming up here because then mes it's about to get worse again you can judge what's worse because so far he's he's accused them of not being part of the people right and you should be part of the people again your brothers will go to war and you're going to stay here and he's accusing them them of instilling fear and he's accusing them of not understanding Jewish history of rejecting the land which God has given but then as I said maybe to get worse because how many how much worse can you get in he says that was done and of course he's referring to the morum so comparing people to the morum is obviously not going to be a great comparison I mean just in terms of uh the the moral statement which is being made and they also cause the people to be afraid to not want to go to the place the land the place which was given by God so again you have this double-edged issue causing fear and therefore a rejection of Jewish history not understanding what the next chapter supposed to be and not not understanding what this whole larger story is and if that wasn't enough and God got angry with them and God swore towards them and going on with the whole punishment then none of the people from the age of 20 will go into the land yov again very clear don't you understand what history is or Jewish Destiny is for that matter it it revolves around this land and the rejection of land is something which is morally horrific and Sol if is not good enough now you've come to stand in for this terrible generation these terrible people people of a of a sinful culture if you will by the way that's I don't know about you but somebody else at this point probably should have backed down and said you know what maybe we didn't think this through well enough and as I said there is is another compromised position that you could take where you get to use the land and so on and and instead they come back and they say right no look they double down we're going to build places for our animals we're going to build homes and so one and but we're going to come and fight so therefore your first objective your brothers going to fight you're going to stay here no we're going to fight with them and then we're going to go back and then we'll stay over there and that is something which at the end mosha accepts and I'm not reading all of this right now I I just want to move a little bit further here and let's go to I noticed that is in that in their description oh no we're going to go we're going to fight the war of God we're with God and so on and so forth but of course you realize you know that there's something very wrong about this they're going to fight the war of god but which is the right thing but the wrong thing is then they're going to go home if they go and they CR over and they fight again hasem is there as a part of it again they finally came to the point of understanding that so mosha responds yes the war then give them so we're just right back now again to the gilad which is interesting and yes I sat with maps during the week and and looking and comparing and fig trying to figure certain things out but let's just go a little bit further and you know they that both sides connect except this becomes the fundamental way of creating uh vows and then let's get to the point that it becomes a little bit more interesting because they're given this they accept it they say Yes again that is our inheritance on the other side of the Jordan which we don't know where that came from there was no reason there was no hint that that got added in half of so on all the names of all of these cities and so on and so forth forth you had all of their cities and okay so now we're back to a specific family in manashe by name you can go back now start comparing Gil so they went to a place called gilad now of course you have to realize that the name gilad is something that we've been paying attention to and they went to Gad Thea and they captured it and they defeated and they inherited from the that were there and then Moshe gives the gillad now that's very interesting because earlier on it's not what we were told what we were told earlier on that the gillad were given to the Ben Ruan and the Benet God so now we're told that actually when everything got played out Minasha went and took and for for which is interesting because they actually said oh the fight already took it's about it's about tashas not to take the land to this point right we already capture it you know we don't want to just let it go to waste on the other hand and they actually go to war and they capture other land and they're taken by the way in terms of maybe we'll seei about this that there may be a afina at least according to one opinion there may be an afam regarding the laws of BM on the other side of the Jordan between Masha and between ruin and God if you would bring bikum from th from those places or Not by the way the answer is there's M but there in the mishna and later on there's m in the gar there it continues and it says not to be confused with the book which is called the which is not called the rather the book The safer from if you read it introduction it's also Yiddish not like far-fetched but it's real Yiddish because he calls his book because his grandmother's name Wasa so he is so therefore the is it's like if somebody says oh it's written in the it's just really I mean you can call that I'm fine with that but it's not what he called the safer he his safer I mean by the way if you read the introduction if you want to go back to feminism his his grandmother apparently was really an exceptional scholar one of the women who was really well known if I'm not mistaken she was a granddaughter of the maharal and she was very well versed in all areas of tah and he calls his so getting back to this we're told that he captured it and was called and there and that we pause there Rashi in Source Four says cuz he didn't have any children then they called the land as a memorial for him so it's at this point we have to stop because now we realize that there may be a little bit more of a parallel or at least a comparison or contrast with the benot over here there's somebody again without children they're without Sons they're without children and they decide we're going to name a place we're going to name a city after him which means there are ways of solving problems when we're afraid of somebody being forgotten so I'm just saying is that Rashi becomes a little more interesting but there's actually a lot more Intrigue over here just in order to understand why you would say he doesn't have children so now we always have to be careful about interpreting evidence correct yes you have to be more careful about interpreting evidence which is missing which means when evidence is missing then you can draw other conclusions as well so look what happens in Surf number five here it is the list of the BHA and and by the way can we all be honest for a moment these lists are the ones that we skip or we don't pay attention to or we just read we DAV them right you don't learn these you Daven them and you say daving with them but you don't actually pay attention you don't pay attention to what's there what you what do you certainly not pay attention to what's not there so who's missing from this whole list over here and the answer is yeah Mas we're just told that he went and he fought how was he introduced now you look at all the list of B and what are you going to notice that lo and behold there's nobody named what does the say in Source six and this is great he says he's not there he's not counted by the way everything was good to the last word it's he go that by the way I I'll help him a little bit maybe the whole list of people over here is only with an eye towards inheritance and he's never going to inherit because he doesn't have any children he's going to die without any children and therefore it's just going to get lost so therefore he's not mentioned over here by the way I don't know if any of you are satisfied with that but but so but look what happened there is a lack of evidence and the m is learning from the lack of evidence saying oh that actually proves the point of Rashi over here that this yir died without children are we good and therefore there and therefore this was our solution the memorial which was created have children have that's very good but it sounds like he didn't have children but let's continue on the other hand if you look at source number seven the Ezra is going to shake everything up and that is he writes is not from Masha which of course is a little bit problematic because then why Isha called manasha if he's not from Minasha now where does he get off saying this but by the way just notice something you also now realize that his not being mentioned in the earlier place from the children of manasha would have a really good reason why of course he's not from Minasha so look at look how you can look at the lack of evidence you can do this in different ways one is that he was there he's he's from the family but the other is he's from the family but he's a cousin by the way notice cousins are also interesting in all of this because that's really where we started today with some girls who were encouraged to marry their cousins again first cousin second by the way cousins are great cousins are like brothers or sisters that that you can only have the good part of it you don't have to have all the fighting with unless you're really practice than you than you can um I growing up I uh my my father's only child so I've no first cousins from my father's side and uh not all that many on my mother's side either so it's like for us certainly on my father side second cousins were like uh were like family so over here what we have again even as is interesting I I hope that some of you are wondering well that's really nice thing to say but how do you know this where does that come from so let's let's continue in the Ezra because it says so so let's just pause a second stop thez and look in this is another book we tend never to look at I'm going to skip a little bit this is all the HUD family there whole discussions on how to understand this do you recognize any of these names all of them from and then he married somebody who is abat Mahir if you marry abat Mahir the father of of gilad do we recognize any of those names right now yes we recognize those name because we've seen all of them before so when izra tells you that this year well what's interesting is that he's called Minasha so is he a manasha well depends how you define the word Ben if you're going to say a descendant of manasha he is a descendant of manasha what's the more important point of all this if you're looking at the bigger Story the family of manasha they go to war and they capture some area including this fellow named y who if you look inim what do you now come to this realization that he is from the tribe of Yehuda so now do you like the Ezra's point a little bit more and would you be going back saying to the why are you doing this why you bringing proof for a Rashi that may actually not be shot rashi rashi did come on why are you using this as your proof that he actually comes from Masha and and bringing a proof for something which is not really the case so we're going to right Rashi doesn't touch that point look what Rashi writes it's the that did it to you what does Rashi write he didn't make a it's it's the that did this to you let's go to ran in Source number n that I don't want to say he takes his mother's name but that's really what he does why because he lives with mashe so he's their cousin and they all go up to this place and he joins them over there and he goes together and and therefore he lives with his cousins and he lives in manasha now some of you can say hold it what what happened to this issue about living in your with your tribe and the whole concern about the tribes and holding on to their land which means I'm going to do this again now the concern that the family of Minasha had about the daughters of SL are going to go marry somebody else and we're going to lose the land but it looks like it just now happened the exact same thing over here where a daughter of manasha marries someone from Yehuda and someone from Yehuda comes up over here now again then is it that now they're going to lose this land to yehud he's going to live together with manasha I'm just pointing out that all of this is at least ironic and I hope interesting because there is this parallel which is over here taking place and the ran a little bit further down tells us it doesn't mean to a tribe it means to a family and once it's the family the family includes people who married other tribes so but by way this is not a simple ramban but on the other hand what's the problem masas is the problem so it was given to the family of mashe even though it's not strictly speaking tribal he writes at the very end these people were warriors and therefore and because they're Warriors they went and they captured it and therefore they had this capability the adds a little bit more he says in the early Parts like the don't start with me he says and start complaining or asking how is it that someone from Yehuda takes inheritance together with tribes with the tribe of he says this whole issue of dividing property on one side of the Jordan and the other side of the Jordan are not the same are not equal which means it would be a question if this happen on this side on the ER Canan or ER Israel part of it but on the other side everything goes and therefore it's not a question and then he adds shame so now you just added another part with unfortunately we can identify a little bit more today and he was killed in war and therefore was very important in for them to put some kind of Memorial that he will not be forgotten because this was a soldier who was killed and again just reading that today at least changes everything because it obviously gives much more power he does know that he's killed by mmed and again you can ask well how do you know that and essentially that's based on on the gorah in Source number 11 the gor in San hedrin which following the sin of aan right aan sins he takes from the spoils which also is just an interesting parallel to our whole story begins after The Spoils of War in midan but now he was not supposed to take from the spoils he takes from the spoils and what happens is that we end up having trouble in the next battle the battle of I and it says look where it's bolded later on the gor Source 11 the gor is going to wonder why it says around or like 36 it's going to say later on SEC last line Lon which is an interesting way of using the number 36 it's most of the sun hedrin if you're 70 36 is most I wonder how much that could be connected L sikim and so on but he says that over here is the only one person was killed there and that was y b man that means this is the Y this is the Battle of a and that's exactly what thisi just now did for us and essentially saying that this person was uh was killed on the other side the malim in 12 follows what I think we already could have understood from the ramban and thei and he says nobody cared so much about what happened on the other side because it's just different kind of rules and different kinds of approaches the usian 13 raises the question regarding uh regarding the B on the other side and whether has different status cuz they captured it and maybe that's different from having it been given to them by mosha if you're interested in the you'll learn thei and the commentaries now I just want to move over the time that we have left I actually have two more things but I knew that I was not going to get to both so I'm going to uh at least mention now one of them why was okay there was something that I kept pointing out and I really didn't come back I really didn't explain it it wasn't just that went and captured this land called the gilad they actually named one of their kids gillad so there was this gilad issue over here which you have to then ask ourselves what's going on so in order to do that we need to go back and to say well where did we first see the gillad where where where meaning what's the origin story of all of this and it takes us back to Source 14 and that is when Yakov vinu was running away from Lan which realize that there's a parallel that we need to pay attention to the one who who stress this as far as I know the most I'm I'm just going to jump to this in Source 16 is the gr it is not in a obvious or famous place it's the gr commentary to theun zash I once had a whole sheer on this if you want we could do it again he says if you pay attention to The Narrative of Yakov running away from Lan he runs away and uh he get gets he goes for three days and then after 3 days then par Lan hear about it and they catch up they catch up on the seventh day and on and on and onov right just right they were struck called and he took and at the end he writes right he okay I didn't give the whole quote a little bit further on he goes if you pay attention everything over here is similar to leaving Egypt to to yakob going to Israel which means the the gilad episode over here as far as the Von's concerned of course there's going to be a Gad episode because there is a template and this is in a certain extent going to follow the template even though there will certainly be differences but essentially that's why we're in Source 14 because we find the G exact same regarding same kind of verse with so now you see is the location and and God Comes to Love in a dream at night right be careful be careful and he chases him he catch he catches up up to him by Gad accuses him why did you steal the why did you steal the traim and why you let me kiss my children goodbye and so on and the children of my children and so on and so forth Yakov unfortunately says sorry that if you're idolatry is found but however person has it they shouldn't live some connect that with the death of Rael by the way Minasha may be very interested in the death of Rael just just saying that as a as a point of possible interest he goes and searches all kinds of places raal had them and they're hidden and so on at the very end they make a pact right and then you'll notice something else I mean all kinds of we find yov he makes gather it's also interesting yov when he leaves there's this Gathering of stones and someone and the use of stones and that itself should be compared they make a g a gall of stones what is a gal of stones it's some kind of uh like a small kind of a wall which would be made by piling Stones one on top of another it is the the stones of testimony that's that be Aramaic and Yakov calls it the same exact same word galed right but yeah but it's interesting because you have the gal over here by the gilad and this is where so one has to wonder a little bit about the sequence about when it got named is it called the gilad because of the galade but I just want to note what what's said and we'll skip a little bit right don't do anything negative to my children and so on now what would just now happened by the gilad something happened and that is a border was created and what's the significance of this border that love one's going to stay on one side to the north and Yakov is going to stay on the other side which means it's at this moment one could argue at least it's at this moment that amist on some level is created why am I saying that because a nation is connected to land they just now created the boundary of the border of their land and that's the significance of this skull Lovin says I'm going to stay on this side and if you go back to the whole thing Lovin hears that they left and he goes chasing and God comes at night and dream and says you better not do anything and you better not say anything and so on and he goes chasing afterwards and he's looking for his idolatry right and but he he he's limited to what he can do and they create a pact they draw a board and that's the gilad so what's interesting about this is that the family of yose feels this need to go back to this gilad so as I said there's something that needs to be added to all of this when bam comes and that's in Source well let's let's go back to 15 first God only appears at night to the nations of the world which makes this direct comparison between the two next point in Source 17 so if you remember when is on the way he gets pushed into this into this Gad this fence Rashi writes what is this Gad that it is actually something was which was built out of stone the tan in Source 19 which is translated back into Hebrew will tell us something remarkable but we don't really don't need the tum because we have the in Source 20 now what exactly does this mean that billum is Lan the way it's normally stated you could you want to be mystical say he's a reincarnation others will say he's a grandson it's family of lovan he comes from the same place as lovan but what did he do he broke the vow how did he broke the vow because God said not to do anything and they set a boundary and he had to stay north and instead he comes traveling because he wants to curse and God said to love one shh be quiet which means now where we're up to in B midbar following the story of bam the whole story which goes back to the original creation of this boundary of the gilad becomes something much more interesting but I just want to finish this up by saying the following uh couple of thoughts one we can't ignore this and it was easy to ignore it because it almost seemed natural the fact that we have someone from Yehuda living together with somebody from Yosef should really be much more interesting than you let me get away with the first time I said it which means there mean if you're going to talk about am Israel coming together then you have to fix the problems which existed before and a safe bra perspective on this but look what we just now did this is the beginning of Amel as a nation why do I'm saying that because they just now separated from the place they used to live when they were growing up they always could have said you know who are we well we live you know love on our grandfather and we live over here this is our citizenship and we have the right to vote and we care about the elections and this is this is who we are or you can say that no I have another grandfather and he was and he comes from a different place and we're going back there but not only going back there we're making a boundary and the creation of that boundary is the gilad which means that even though it's not there it's Canan it is someplace really interesting and historically important it's historically important because that becomes the beginning of a border which is going to con create a people which means this is ours as opposed to that is yours which means the border and the boundary are interesting and and by the way all this you can now go back and anytime you discuss the goal on Heights you can be thinking about this particular area which and what's going to happen is the children of Yosef decide again they named their kid gilad they feel connected to this particular place and they go and they capture this place and they think that this is part of the story of the creation of Amis and now I'm going back to this point of Brotherhood and their cousin from Yehuda comes and says I'm with you and I'm going to fight with you because this is where we became one people together as opposed to the love and family as opposed to everybody else we are one people which is interesting again that this this is manasha the these are the same people that on one side of the Jordan are saying well we have to be able to hold on to ter Land one of the daughters May marry out and on the other AR quote unquote a different tribe and on the other side they welcom their cousin in and not only that they named the place after their cousin because he unfortunately is killed at some point along the way again there one can argue exactly at which point he's killed it's described to the to the battle of the eye but one could argue that he was killed in the actual capturing of uh of the area over there so again it becomes a little bit more interesting but my my larger point over here was to keep in mind the various stories that we just now read because we read the story about shav Ru and God there were other options over there which means the relationship between one side of the Jordan and the other side of the Jordan is interesting you can own the land without having to live on that land it could be property again am I interested in wealth am I interested in Zionism am I interested again what exactly is the interest over here but now we find something else but I I I want to I want to stress this apparently the daughters of slud they could have gone on either side just think for a second if they went to the other side they could have married anybody they wanted to marry just like we see that yir ends up over there and then the whole problem is solved so now after everything else that I said apparently we have evidence that the daughters of SL were zionists because they chose no no we want to stay this side we want to be on this side and therefore oh you be on this side that you marry somebody Masha that's okay course they easily could have said but hold it a second what about yir didn't he marry and what about you know married I mean they have cousins who married other people and moved to the other side they could have done that but they chose not to do this so as I said from the very beginning how can I actually prove what was the motivation of not by unpacking the whole story of Y we now realize that bot who decided to stay on that side decided to marry people from manasha that was not the only solution again what what we did today is just try to work out what the other possible solutions were and now you learn you can say that they're feminists you can say that they're zionists and you can certainly say that they were interested in keeping their father's name alive