Parshat Pinchas: Succession Intrigue by Rabbi Ari Kahn

what I'm going to try to do as we proceed is to note a larger Motif which perhaps is a little bit harder to see because we don't necessarily collect all the pieces but then again there's a downside when you connect the pieces and sometimes you may be tempted to connect pieces which don't really need to be connected because they're not really pieces they're they're they're not really there so that that's that's always like the problem is that once you see the patterns you fit everything to the pattern you too much into the pattern so we're going to talk about a pattern and then you could decide at some point if we're uh if we're overdoing it or not but let's at least begin we are in Source number one which is per and by the way note that P because I don't know how many times it's said in the Torah but that's a really really popular verse the reason I know this is because of something which is going to come soon wrote so essentially what we have over here is again jumping in the middle of this there's an there's an argument which is put forth what was discussed earlier is that we have a census and then we know how many families we have and then we have we're going to divide the land according to those families and then another voice a bat call as it were comes out and says hold on a second you know this not is not really fair cuz you you're going to give it to each of the children or each of the sons then what happens to sons who only have daughters why are they taken out why are they excluded and so on and so so forth and again one could begin to analyze larger issues over here in terms of uh of inheritance of what a potential fear could be is that the sons will keep the tribal affiliation while daughters will marry arguably into a different tribe and therefore it's a very good formula all the daughters were included to lose for a tribe to lose a large part of its tribal land and not saying there are no other solutions to this at the end of the day the solution with the bot is after they were told that they were right was that they did marry within the tribe as well but I'm saying that that seems to be a larger concern over here well it's the kind of concern that we really don't identify with today because the land of Israel in terms of its tribal affiliation is not something which you normally think of I will uh again point out that for those who believe that very soon or maybe already in you know I don't know how you count these things that most Jews are in Israel at this point and therefore that will cause various laws to become or laws which are dependent on land to become on a Torah level so what they may not remember or may not know is that according to many including the rambam and Rashi and I can keep on going because it's it's it'si and it's what the way that Rashi understood the B is that let's say shmita for example does not become a Torah law until something else happens and that is the majority of each one of the tribes are in their tribal land so uh because shmita is part of a larger ecosystem or halakic ecosystem and that's YoVille and yoil is each land returns back to the original owner so therefore unless YoVille is operative and that requires the tribes on both sides of the Jordan including ruen God and and minan God and so on so that's not the case right now so according to what the way that they understand you need to there to be a majority of each tribe in its tribal area in order for these laws then to be on a on a Torah level so as much as people can say that oh look most Jews live here which unfortunately is sometimes a factor of Jews coming here as much as it is the unfortunate part is of people assimilating and disappearing in in other places but that itself would seem to be according to a lot of opinions not enough so therefore someone thinks that oh by the time the next rolls around everything been Torah law so I'll just say Hali and then I can get arrested from the international court for advocating taking both sides of the Jordan so uh so I'll uh leave that to my wife so bot are correct and therefore what we have over here is a perhaps complex perhaps not so complex issue of inheritance and then that that's the word that I want to stay with today it's inheritance right so I don't know what we're going to title this when there's a will there's a relative or something like that but when there's a this is all about inheritance so and then it goes on and and it sets this into law so the the daughters of put forth an argument God agrees with them and a law gets established which by the way does directly follow which means this is now the next thing so we have a similar kind of phrase and God says to Moshe go and take a look take a good look because that's as close as you're getting that when the decree was given against mosha and Aon Aon already has perished so now Moshe is being told your turn is coming very quickly and just in case you lost focuses telling us over that that was the conclusion of the episode of what happened with the water on the rock over there and moshe's punishment is still coming and here we have the reversal it's the easy to miss so that's that that's uh I I said it all the words fit all the words are there but it just a little little awkward I mean if you're wondering are there any other instances like this so there's at least one which is very very similar you definitely don't want me to tell you where it is you'd ra you so for example per you have so that's that's pretty close that's in and we will leave it at that but anyway we have over here A reversal and God and mosha says to God saying the question is what's the lay more over here and we're not getting into that we're just pointing it out that there is something very familiar and also something very awkward about that P if so we know that that turn of phrase has been used before we'll try to find it soon again that God needs God the god of spirit of All Flesh which is again really interesting turn of phrase there needs to be that there needs to be somebody in charge and this is a real interesting description or job description of why you need someone someone to go out in front of them and someone who will bring them back as it were bring and bring them in and let not the flock or the congregation of God Be Like A Flock that does not have a Shepherd which is interesting I I I'm just pointing out Source number two even though you all know it that mosha originally perim andot before he was kind of coerced where God gave him an offer that he couldn't refuse and he was and he was told to take this leadership position Moshe was in fact a Shepherd a mosha own and that's when God comes and says listen you know I I I got a job for you and and it's interesting because mosha as we know very much tries to talk his way out of it and now mosha is coming back and saying well you know God you know that the people need a leader now now the question is what exactly does mosha have in his mind and there are various ways for people to read this some want to read it directly in terms of the N argument to make it very personal and actually take mosha a little bit out of character and say that mosha was trying to set up his kids to become to take over so which one are my kids is taking over now I just want to point out that other than the word Nala being used right before and then the connection over here because this is right afterwards I think it's a very weak argument to make I'm again I'm not saying that that no one has ever said it or try to convince that that's the case it just would be out of character so then even the out of character part of it then you say well yeah mosha never does it otherwise which why he needs to now do it now he's told that's it it's the end and now mosha is a little concerned and let's admit something mosha is not really uh he his children are not well known his children are not really involved salvic like to say that mosha could not be a regular father or husband for that matter because he had responsibility for all of CLA Israel and he have responsibility for all of cloud you can't quote unquote play favorites and there rather you need just to take respect responsibility for everybody equally so to say that mosha is really acting out of character right now is both the argument for and the argument against this and uh so I'm I'm just going to leave it at that on the other hand mosha could be putting forth a different argument not a personal one but let's take mosha at his word you can't have the people of God which without a leader so now mosha is turning around and saying so who's going to be the leader not that he's looking for himself and by the way you could nuance and you could Nuance the first wouldn't saying and saying well you know you said you need me so now how can you replace me and therefore it's not for M it's it's for I'm Israel and and yeah there were those who try to take it that way as well or you can just take it the way that it really sounds and that is that that he's looking as a leader should I mean that this itself is important there is sometimes a terrible terrible consequences when a leader or C CEO or Rabbi or a Reb or whatever it may be does not create some kind of a system whereby there will be somebody else to take over sucession a succession which is there and everyone knows and everybody's clear what you'll end up having inevitably will be fights and or you can have Discord or you can end up having uh having a situation that uh that the group just ends up not lasting afterwards so it's interesting that that that mosha o here and I would love to read this in the most positive way and I have no reason not to and on top of everything else let's let's look at God's response of all the candidates that exists let's admit it we're not shocked about Yoshua for a couple reasons one is we read this last year and and it said it last year so therefore you know some of us we still remember what it said last year so we're not completely um surprised and some of us were not surprised cuz we know that after Dum there will be safe for yahushua and that's going to come next and some of us you know a little more Rabin will remember per yes and uh I may want to come back to that as well but either way we know that yua is there so this is not terribly surprised but but here we see God Cho God says take yes now the first thing that I want to know especially because we're going to have another term very very soon is what the turn of phrase AER Ru means or more specifically what does Ru mean over here Ru means spirit Spirit can be can mean different things over here is he talking about a physical trait or is he talking about a spiritual trait is he talking about somebody who is very motivated and very strong and very uh and he's a good leader he's got all the he's got he's got what needs to be a leader or is it talking about something which is more spiritual and and by the way I think part of our challenge is going to be a there's an A A and A B here a to what extent is anybody taking over going to be a replacement of mosha in right taking the place of mosha and and therefore needs as much as or close as you can mosha traits mosha has multiple traits so which one of Mosa's traits is most important and B we're about to enter into a new reality it's not out of E Egypt and having fights with parro and standing by seni and then praying for people at various times it's entering the land and Conquest so are we looking for the same type of leadership or perhaps different times in history we need different types of leadership if I'll make a semi-political statement I think that uh in Israel There is almost inevitably a overc concentration of former generals who are involved in all types of political leadership and I'm not even going to say right now is it good or bad I think by the way it's bad but aside from that it creates a certain type of group think because they're all coming from the same kind of perspective and and for that matter can happen in any types of leadership if everybody went to Harvard Business School they're all going to be essentially trained in a similar type of way even though they're all individuals but there's going to be a certain type of group think over there so I'm going to say in any type of leadership positions it becomes interesting are we have coming in with diverse opinions or are they essentially the same opinion being articulated by different people and it could be that in a in a country like this we need people who are not only coming from a military perspective perhaps we need people I'm saying perhaps but perhaps we need people coming from other perspectives on the other hand and then you find yourself in war and then you have a war cabinet and then you very much want people who understand what really is taking place militarily so I'm just pointing out that all of this is uh is sometimes complex but getting back to this point of leadership so what kind of leader is it that mosha asked for and what kind of leader does God respond to and then more specifically what did this particular turn of phrase mean when it says and now you're going to place your hands upon him that's really interesting turn of phrase we don't know how literal to take that how figur will take that but what it does mean is that you should end the argument and end the discussion as far as who it is that's taking over because you are going to the one who's going to appoint or even anoint if you will this next leader and now let's go even further both in terms of the religious leadership elzar in terms of the entire Community you're going to stand and you're going to command him what this word Vita means is also interesting over here in front of their eyes and then paku as something else and this other Dynamic is interesting now here it says you're going to give something of yours to him you're going to give from your hod you're going to give from your glory and again I'm going back to the question I asked earlier are we discussing something right here which is more of a physical kind of trait is or we talking about something which is a more spiritual kind of a trait going back to what mosha had asked for who's going to lead the people going out and how they going to go out which now God is actually saying this in a spiritual sense yosua is going to do it based upon a Divine instruction based upon the so here you're going to have a combination of various elements I have not described all of them yet but that's going to be what this new leader would be like and Moshe once again really Moshe the the servant of God does things immediately when God asks him to he goes and he places his hands upon Him and He commands him as God had said so therefore when I would say over here I have issues of inheritance I don't know or succession but there is a commonality between the two of them and as I said some try to push the second one a little bit further to match into the first one and I don't have to do that but I can say that there's essentially the same concern which takes place in both of these instances so what we have over here are two inheritance succession stories one is about the land of Israel and one is about the person who's going to lead them into the land of Israel and again that's what we're seeing right now now I just want to go back a little bit and what we're going to do is we're going to try to fill in a little bit more information about yosua and to try to understand why Yeshua should have been the obvious candidate for all of us and Source number three is something that we all should have remembered and this is the other place that the same turn of phrase is used the only place turn of phrase is used this is in the middle of our episode where God says to mosha and Aon know step aside and we're going to wipe out all of them again this is the same turn of phrase of of the god of the spirit of All Flesh and so on But realize that there's also a succession issue over here because but but by force that what korak is trying to do or perhaps d air and perhaps the 250 they all trying to take away or become the successors of either mosha or Aon either by replacing as we think that D of were doing or replacing Aon the way that we think that korak and perhaps the 250 were doing and over there most use the same ter of phrase as I said you can Nuance that and do what you want with that what you want with that and build V Torah based on this on the two times that that phrase is used and what the similarity or dissimilarity may be going back to the question I raised before so what exactly did that phrase mean back in P what did it say it says it said so over here the tangum unus again this is unusual because he generally is very literal over here he felt the need to add in a word you'll all see the word immediately so he added the word n so he understands the spirit that spirit means that his ability of Prophecy so therefore God is saying to Moshe take yosua a man who is full of the spirit of Prophecy now I go back to the various hats that mosha wears one of them is that Moshe is the greatest Prophet who ever lived so therefore how could the man who is the greatest Prophet who ever lived or ever will live ever be replaced well here's a man who's a prophet maybe not the same level but here is a man who could take over um on the other hand if this does mean prophets so then we're going to have a little bit of a problem and that is so what does it mean two verses later in so now what is this hod as opposed to the R so what else is mosha giving so Rashi has a real interesting interpretation of this that's the glow that Moshe had now this this will then become an entire interesting theme whereby in kazal they're going to compare Moshe to the Sun and Yeshua to the Moon which again goes back to to everything mean it goes back to the to the to the prophecy as well is that mosha is the main Prophet Yeshua is going to be a Min Pro or or the what I quoted before from p vot Yeshua so Yeshua is almost as authentic as you can get but you're just missing one step and that's mosha bringing it from SII and and then Yeshua so Yeshua is this conduit whereby something the power of mosha so but what he's adding is is this glow that Moshe has which presumably is a little bit beyond simply I'm sorry if using the word simply his ability of Prophecy oraely lots of people of Prophecy we'll see that in a moment but how many of them see have this you know glory of God upon them so therefore God is saying to mosha you know give him a little of that you know Glory dust if you will and now and and I don't want to say fairy dust and and and he throws it upon Yeshua and now Yeshua suddenly glows as well so that's just a real [Music] interesting so just in in case you thought I was making that up or even making up that connection absolutely not that's exactly how Rashi continues it again that's another but he plugs it in over here so that again is interesting yua already has the prophecy right two verses earlier as the tarum points out but not everybody knows it people can look at him and say okay it's Yeshua and again there's a bit more to talk about Yeshua but not realize that Yeshua actually has the same now question is what word or phrase to you us to describe what was just now described it's this uh it's this blessing from God and you know what I'm not going to go any further because we already told something it is this glow about that Moshe has that that people see and this realization that mosha is on such a high level they can't even look at him so may perhaps with Yeshua now they're going to realize that he is on such a high level even if they perhaps can look but they realize that there's something very mosha likee about him which seems to be exactly the way that Rashi is pushing this look at the so the the way that he's taking it is TR again it's not as clear if he's saying like Rashi is looking at something a little bit perhaps more metaphysical he say no treat him with honor make him the king and waiting make him the person that everyone's going to know give him honor which means let and which also will take us back to but what was Yeshua prior to this because he seems to have a very good position before this I I will point out that rashi's understanding of saying that it's this light so if if you follow the gamar with the light right the the light or that Moshe has the gamar sees that as being the remnant of all the crowns that all of the people received by herena when they said Nas vishma and then when they send with a golden calf keep all this in mind this is all going to be important and when they send with the golden calf it's taken away and then all of that collectively becomes upon mosha so mosha now has the collective glow of 600,000 people and then that glow of mosha which is you know obviously it's it's incredible but remember now it's connected to the crowns so as much as I'm saying oh Rashi said that's the glow and the sperno said no treat him with Mal they may not be as different from one another as you may have heard the first first time I went through them one is saying I'll treat him nicely and the other is saying right going back to in order Rashi is saying oh he's going to have a glow on him and the SW is saying I'll treat him with royalty it may be that no now he has the crown on him as well which is what is glowing and therefore it's much more of a metaphysical thing even though there's also this obviously this way that he needs to be treated as uh as well the the ALS plays with the idea that perhaps mosha he's going to say two things to us let's do it in order the first thing he's going to say is that no this should not come as a shock course the is thear and the is the Rashi on the and that is that we already heard the prophecy of that's read it was already known he's saying to mosha so mosha over here saying you know so just now read this into it because the ALS just did something really interesting mosha knows mosha knows maybe everybody knows or maybe not everybody knows but mosha knows mosha knows that this is what's going to happen and now he's turning to God and's saying there is this uh there's something that still needs to be done and God says okay make it formal let's yeah there was a rumor in the camp there was a prophecy in the camp there's a voice in the can and now let's formalize it and you're going to appoint him as the king in Waiting then the AL turns it around and says but and this is a couple this is like it's not the next word in the in the AL it's a little further down the line and still in Source number seven bottom of the page and he's saying that maybe Moshe actually over here is praying and he's not praying for himself he says the people need him and and and again there's a funny thing about all of this mosha is the most modest person and just ch he is the most modest person doesn't mean that he doesn't know who he is and he's saying how could okay fine I deserve to be punished but how can you leave the people without a leader and he's saying it that there's a possibility of reading this as if Moshe is saying that no maybe God now is going to reconsider what was uh told before it's worthwhile looking at this collection ofs vers ver number eight end of D this is it this is the end of the Torah right there's a couple verses but this is essentially the end how do you know it's the end look at M first thing to note is that Moshe dies and we are in erit moav which the only reason I'm making a little bit of a deal about that because in Pinas as well we're we're going to come back to Moab Moab is in the you know in the background of everything which has happened just just now the other thing is not just moav is in the background in this week's par is also there in the background and so [Music] on so again is being mentioned here yeah so MOS been dead now Mo this is 30 days after Moses died which is why I'm going to stress yes this is the end of the Torah by the way that same word is used now but it added another word so perhaps maybe perhaps maybe we need both perhaps maybe we should have a we should interpret the other Ru based upon this and maybe not like go like the tum went and said that that was but now hold it he had by himself naturally or and all that I'm doing right now is I'm just pointing out that maybe this should be read together with that to help us understand a little bit more so I'm I'm just pointing out that the prophecy issue yua taking over all of this should be staring at you why because it's staring at you it's all right here and and don't ignore the end of devarim and more than that we should be paying attention to it in Source number nine there's another thing which is in the background of all of this and this is bidur peric yud and you'll see why this is important as well and and as we do this we're going to start going further and further back but over here mosha turns to somebody and he says that that we need you because we need and for very specific things which actually sounds remarkably similar to what God Said to what mosia says to God as far as why we need a leader to take them out and to take them back and to know when to travel and so on very functional um part of the leadership position we're going to the land which by the way is exactly the issue in this week's par we're going to the land and now we need somebody who's going to be lead and Mos turns to so that's really interesting why he's doing this so now what exactly does that mean compared to what mosha described over here as the need for the leader and therefore what exactly is mosha saying and then just compare immediately afterwards ah look at that they have other spiritual things that can direct them to where they're going they have the Aron and they have the clouds and thenon and so on we're told as the it's really as the Aron travels right that should be the name of this story in the desert as the own travels right and as the the cloud travels and now we're wondering what exactly is mosha thinking one is that if again we'll argue that kov vro so and earlier he had told mosha that you need there to be at least some type of uh delegation to delegate so maybe now he's delegating and he's saying yeah you know why don't you help me with this particular thing and maybe that's what yra was hinting at all along you can't do this yourself you need somebody else you need somebody else with leadership experience you need somebody else who's been a Cohen midan by the way now we're back to midan in terms of the background of this which makes all of this a little bit more interesting again moov and midan Mo and midan just keep all of this in mind and he's turning to him to help and at the end of the day you know who actually leads them or supposed to is it going to be kav is it the clouds or is it mosha is the one who's supposed to lead but notice that that was mid with peric yud and then in peric Ali we have this whole demand of the people and they need all these things and mosha now turns to God similar MOS elhem remember we were looking for that it's not the lay M El hasem and here he says you know why do you treat me so badly why do you put all this upon me why you give me all of this thing and you know can I do all of this so it's interesting because a moment ago he asked orro to help with this particular position and now he says I can't do this by myself and what's God's response God's response is okay and then he gathers 70 people and what happens in the context of these 70 people what we find is that two people continue and they prophesies in the camp and who are those two people El and who responds and and by the way let's just read that verse because it's really good let where should we start let's look at p c Source 10 C so this peracute Al of C but so now you also realize why the tarum understood that the ru the spirit of Prophecy goes together because it does go together over here so even though I brought as possibly a counter argument over here is where you see to one would think it's connected which is upon them of Prophecy which is a real which that exactly is the turn of phrase we're looking for that Yeshua who's been Moses now whatever the word sh means it sounds like he has been moshe's servant from from back in the day you know silence says to we're back to the here so I'm going to say it again is that now we realize that if we're going to talk about Moshe and yosua and talk about prophecy and talk about giving over of your spirit all of those elements are here all those elements were there in and all those elements are in our paraa so now I just gave you three different places to to look at Rashi of course on the spot tells us and we could have looked for many places for this we could have looked in the gar or the mid and 21 what was in Source 11 what was the source 11 what was the content of the prophecy of el that we already saw this cited before that Moshe going to die and Yeshua is going to take over and take them into the into the land um let's just go one step further because we just now looked at pericu perak Alf and now perak bet in bidur which just continues along the prophecy issue and now um Mo now Miriam and Aon turn and they say what did God only speak to to him and God and His God's response is that no you're not the same level of prophets and P this is in ver 12 I speak to him face to face which is of course what we just now saw at the end of so what happened to the last 5 minutes we we realize that there is a lot more Intrigue here there's more Intrigue in who else is a prophet and lots of people are prophets most which is everyone's a prophet we see that this idea of the ruach is probably more connected to prophecy than we perhaps realized in the beginning maybe we thought that the tarum uncus overstepped a little bit he doesn't seem to overstep at all when you realize how often the word r over here is used along the way we did meet yosua who over here is described in perhaps a fuller way than he is in any other place and he is the m of Moshe from back in the day so that and that's all that we know about him we don't know about his prophecy or his abilities or anything else but there is still nonetheless something else that I would uh suggest that we need to pay attention to go again going backwards in uh well it's a little backwards because realize now we are we just now looked at peric bet and now peric giml so this is actually all in sequence in per giml of midbar which is the par which is where the spies are introduced and among all the people of the called the so-call spies so now we're told yes that there's another person yosua and originally he wasn't Yoshua and now he becomes yosua in Source number 14 right afterwards we're then told right so so again Source 14 is peric yud so again per bet and now we learn about how Yeshua is the successful spy the one who comes back after having successfully defended God moshe's Mission ER Israel Isel and if you need to read a little bit yes so they're the ones who are the dissenting opinion they're the ones who come up and they say exactly what it is that needs to be said they're the ones who claim that the land is in fact a wonderful land and they continue Yu as the name of God in his Essence now says if God Wills itan says by the it's interesting God is going to lead us so it's also interesting to go back and think of mosha already knows that yosua is the one who's going to lead them in and it's yosua God is going to lead and Yeshua gets the sense that God is leaving does Yeshua already have somewhat of the spirit of God with him but now let's go back cuz all of you have been so eager so eager so we'll go back to the first time that we see yosua and that's in Source 15 but immediately before that the verse said again again a water and rock incident which is interesting and then Amal comes and attacks them and the word and rock incident ends you know is god with us or not and then then they're attacked by amalik and mosha chooses Yeshua and right there we need to pause and to stop and to think to contemplate and say okay why is Yeshua over here the one who is chosen one possibility that some of you are going to try if you're overly impacted by theological considerations you say well of course Yoshua because Yeshua is from yosf and we know that ysf defeats ASA and amalik and I'll say that's great was he the only person in Yosef or were there any other candidates and you'll have to admit there were probably other candidates which then leads me back to the same question and that is so why yoshu and I'm going to give the simple obvious answer which we kind of danced around all day today and I didn't say it but we of course we should have said it it must be and this is the first time we meet him it must be that yosua is a very strong Brave Soldier okay just just say say say what it is his first time we meet him he's chosen to lead a military battle to go and defend the Jewish people so who are you going to choose you're going to choose somebody who knows military strategy you're going to choose somebody who's going to lead his soldiers the guy who's going to come and say AAR which means essentially he is he's going to be the Ramat right he is the one who is in Special Forces if you will he's the guy who is part of the elite unit and he's leading the elite unit and he's the one who's chosen when there is a moment of fear to defend the people against the attack which is against them so I'll say it again who is Yeshua the first piece of information that we have about Yeshua is that Yeshua is a warrior that's what we know about Yeshua he's a warrior that's the only word you should be thinking right now that he's a warrior here at the end of this section though we're told in and all that's great he is Victorious he weakens them he stops the the onslaught write it Mark it down write it down which means Yeshua is not a leader he's not somebody just for one time but and disposable but rather he's going to be back in the story this is what we call foreshadowing which means we're told right now yesu is going to be back I'm GNA God I'm going to wipe out and so on and so forth so over here we have Yeshua introduced as a leader he's introduced as a military leader he's introduced as a warrior and God says when we need to continue this Mission we're going to pull him back out so I'm going to say it again I did not need the NOA of elad and made to tell me that when it comes to the next chapter in Jewish history that the person who should be leading them right I already should have known it right over here from parot now this doesn't mean necessarily that Yeshua is to replace Moshe because it could have been the exact same Dynamic Moshe prays mosha is in the background mosha is the spiritual leader and he's the warrior if you want he's Bara and Moshe is RAB AKA if you want because but that that seems to be exactly what it's saying over here but now when we get up to this point and I I try to say this but not clearly say it before now we're at a new stage of history mosha is about told that you're about to die and now the next thing that we need is the conquest and now we need someone who's going to take over so now what do you need do you need somebody right now who's going to be an economist somebody who's going to bring up you know in in order to create you know really good economy is that what's necessary right now well that's an important thing but that's a little bit down the line you need somebody who knows how to deal with the unions well okay I'm going to say it again think about all the things that a leader can possibly do and you know what we need right now right now we need a warrior and therefore the and therefore the CH therefore the choice of Yeshua becomes one which should of course have been obvious it only became stronger when we're told and now the addition of the N vad Maad is not the thing about yua is going to lead them in is not the surprising part the only surprising part is Moshe which means it could have been that Yeshua leads them in but with mosha but now we're told that mosha dies and Yeshua leads them in so again that that should give us a little bit more knowledge a little bit more information but let's let's yeah so yeah so the commentaries ask that and they say okay no once his name is gets changed to Yeshua so then we go back and we always call him Yeshua but it's telling you and all one say that mosha called him Yeshua it doesn't mean that mosha called him Yeshua then it could be that mosha called him Yeshua maybe he called him right now before he go to battle especially with the background being that they say you know it's got with those or so you need somebody and and and also noticed immediately afterwards if we're still there then at the end of um we're in Source 15 at the end so therefore go into this point about God's name not being complete God's is not complete God's name is not complete and therefore Yeshua gets a bit of God's name but it's also not complete and we need and we can discuss or argue that but that that's part of What suggests that perhaps Yeshua was ready Yeshua here the other time that Yeshua is going to stand out now we're just going to do this for the sense of completion is going to be sources 16 and 18 but let's obviously start start with 16 it's um and and a surprising Rashi which will be 17 s 16 is perid over here starts off mosha sorry so we're told who who the leaders are that's what is we're told then okay so we we we're seeing who was invited and who's there and thenar and mosha is invited to come to the mountain and then says so his servant so therefore as we were told once before which is after this actually that Yeshua has been moshe's you know right-hand man or he's his servant if you will we find him over here and I'll just suggest something which perhaps is obvious perhaps not maybe it's not obvious is that till now the only thing we knew about Yeshua he is he's a warrior so now mosha is about to go up on perhaps a mission which could be perceived as being dangerous so who does he take with him he takes him his own secret service you don't want to trust you know anybody else we'll just we'll just we'll just leave it at we'll just leave it at that who do you take you take a warrior with you you take the person who is the most able and the strongest and uh and and bravest and he's your and he's the guy who comes with you so I'm saying this in terms of the obvious which of course is not obvious to anybody um right and says okay to the elders you know any issues come up you just you know talk to Aon and and we know how that works out but Yeshua is not there Yeshua is really much more halfway up the mountain with mosha now rashi's great over here because whenever Rashi does this it it completely floors you because you're saying oh I don't I thought I understood this I don't understand anything butash writes from Yeshua KH what's Yeshua doing here he goes I have no idea what Yeshua is doing here and I already explained what Yeshua is doing here and therefore we have but but it could be that what Rashi is really saying is on a different level it could be that Rashi is articulating that this not in terms of functionally what he's doing there but really under whose authority is he's there because God was really specific in terms of giving giving instructions the other time obvious now this all everything that was obvious is in Source 18 per why why L that's when mosha comes down from the mountain and so and what is he hearing he's hearing the one second what is he hearing he's hearing the whole golden calf celebration this is a sound of Battle of War taking place now why would yosua of all people hear War because that because he's the warrior so the warrior yosua hears all kinds of things there must be a b battle taking place and Mos says there's not there's no sounds of Victory or of of losing and then they come closer to the to to to what's going on and then mosha breaks the and and by the way I don't know to what extent you ever we'll have to ask AI to make a picture of this also now of Moshe breaking the L we'll see if they caught that Yeshua should be in that same picture Yeshua should be right there as he's breaking it and of course then you have to imagine what's Yeshua doing he's going to try to stop him not try to stop him or is he the M Moshe so all of this is interesting and all that we just now did is even though Rashi said I don't know what this is doing here we just now strengthened why who yua is and he is the warrior the military leader and that's why he goes up and that's what he hears when he comes down and he's there to protect mosha he's moshe's he's Mosa's uh body body bodyguard right muscle he's Mosa's muscle right right so so again maybe I just took you to a place that you weren't thinking the ran says right over here Rashi said I have no idea what's going on rash it must be that he's one of the 70 because otherwise he should not be here at all so now he just turns this into the rabbi and the student and of course as he continues the student accompanies the rabbi and of I'm sure there's so many images in the Ran's mind right now to see that and then don't bother me about later on we're back in Bal exactly where we were before where the elders end up getting punished Kain because yesu was worthy so it's interesting so what the raban really did over here and we can discuss this and argue about this because I really don't feel comfortable um where Rashi says I don't know and I say I do know and the ran gives one read on it and I have a different read on it because who in the world am I to argue with Rashi and the ran but I just tell you very simply what I'm doing I'm reading Yeshua in terms of a person who starts one way and then ends up developing or being blessed with other gifts as well and what they're doing is they're looking at the later gifts not reading it back into the earlier stories and I'm pretty sure that what we noted along the way is that there are gifts that are given at certain times and therefore there's a change in the character that happens which means that yua is somebody who undergoes some type of a metamorphosis if you look at the the NV in Source number 20 he also seems that he can't uh move away from a certain conception which means till now every time mosha goes up and there were m going up and going down we never saw Yeshua go with him only now it must be that God had said it to Moshe because it can't be that that that he just does this on his own it can't be that just by himself he does this so the just did the same thing he turned into who eventually is the one who receives the T and so on so he goes on to that same path that same idea of Yoshua who eventually becomes someone I do want to read to you something which the rambam writes again clear clearly based on that first turn of phrase in this is the the introduction you don't have this in front of you of the r to the this is like middle the sent instructed the elders and then yua elders and then Yeshua MOS taught to the seven the elders so now just remember because this is actually what the had in his mind as he was telling us what he was saying is that yeah mosha is one of the the elders clearly there were three special people who were on a different level than everyone else and who's that by the way not his own kids who is it elazar pinhas and Yoshua osua three people learn but only one received that's just so interesting it means that he's the only one who had the real Authority mosu which means is the one you can have somebody with lots and lots of students but he's the one who's going to follow so I I just want to point out what we just now did we just now read the RAM and read the the NV who's Thea and we read the rambam who's writing a book about H and they're reading the MOs relationship about the Torah and therefore mosha goes up the mountain and Yeshua comes with him because Yeshua is the real student the authentic student and Yeshua is is the closest person he's with him there all the time and there's lots of things to say about this additional relationship that Yeshua has the midash articulates that he set up all the chairs in the tent yeah the mid midash says it like that which means he was there and he saw mosha during his downtime and he learned certain things about Torah that no one else saw but it's not just that it's that but all of this is looking at yosua in terms of the person who he ends up becoming I'm going again stress something that there is this metamorphosis that takes out takes place but there's something else that we need to see now so far I've spent 58 minutes two more minutes I spent 58 minutes or so dealing with two points of inheritance right one isot and at this point that's obvious the other is mosha giving over to Yeshua which ends up becoming one which is all encompassing but but again we can think about in context which one is most important right now you could say who's going to take over mosha rabenu so that's Yeshua that's the rambam and others on the other hand who's going to take over in terms of who's going to be the warrior that's obvious we knew that sinote who's going to be the warrior because that's who Yeshua is and maybe that helps us with various episodes that we see here along the line including choosing to send him as one moram it's like a no-brainer who am I going to send I'm going to send you know my chief of staff my Ramat cow my special for's guy my guy I'm s Mo MOS is saying I'm send I'm sending my guy where there should be no question about all that but then Yeshua under goes a transformation and God says you know what we're going to do with yosua we're going to give him prophecy we're going to give him Spirit we're going to give him all kinds of things and therefore yosua who changes becomes something else and that's what's really interesting so now with one minute left I want to point that two more possible inheritance issues over here one is we're not going to talk about it but it is ramban which is in Source number 22 it's about Saker and the ramban reads it very differently from everything we know about it and he also sees AAL issue over here as well I'm just telling you that she's mentioned in this paraa and the ran reads it and ran reads it differently than everybody else but he also has look just look at the end of the second line in the ran should just read read realized he thinks that the Sak ISU is one of nakala as well stop Full Stop on that and now we're going to go back to the beginning of the par or the end of last week's paraa and that's when the bote Moab show up and then this princess from midan show up now midan and moav were both there in the beginning last week starts with moav they bring in midan midan disappears and now Mo no I I I don't want to be disrespectful now and you know whenever I say that that I'm not being truthful but the fact that bote moav behave the way they do should not be the biggest surprise in the world you know the these their origin story as a people their origin story as a people or or people I don't know how do you want to put it should I should I try to be nice I'll be nice I'll be nice I'll be nice they're they're they're very giving girls right and and by the way the worded is actually used later on in VRA to describe inappropriate relationships which is actually interesting because you look at the people who surround aaham who's a real bed and there seems to be with others this breakdown in terms of morality as all boundaries are broken I mean in the 60s which some of you remember I'm not saying that you remember more than I'm about to say is that they there was uh they spoke of free love so I remember one rabbi said what they call free love we call right this is this is not free love as much as its inappropriate behavior so I'm going to say it again I'm I I know I knew that I knew that I I know I know and we're not going to we we we we're not going there but the and therefore root that's exactly the point about root to then do in the proper way is part of the story but over here what you have is just a lack of boundaries and the fact the fact that they show up with and that these people are sleeping okay that should not have been a shocking turn of phrase for us say yeah that's what they do the problem though is what is midan doing over here and now let's just note something about midan there is a Rashi later on in par matot in Source 24 and it says that you're going to go out to go to battle against midan and by the way I could have said who should have led the way over here it should have been Yeshua over here but no instead we're we're choosing at this point now how in the world did we just now get to and and oh because M was involved in that as as we know from the from the verse itself I mean if you look at uh Source number 2 where it says right go and sell him and then it says right 26 and they got involved so in the middle suddenly the get involved and you have to ask yourself how in the world do they get involved over here as well the midan show up on why they here now the first thing I will say which I'm sure I've said before is the they show up in places not supposed to show up and that's the common denominator on top of that I can say is these guys are businessmen and then what everything they can make a buck they're there it's not enough there's another point over here let's go all the way back now who is midyan midan is the son of Abraham from the benur PK says that God gives sorry that abam gives everything by the way yusha he gives everything that he has to Y and he sends them away they don't get a yusha why don't they get it yusha because Y is chosen why is y is chosen well Y is chosen now Y is supposed to be better and Yakov is better and am are better and they're going to get the Torah and they're going to be better isn't it interesting that when Jews do horrific things that midan shows up which means maybe that's exactly in their interest not that they're going to show they're better but show that amus is just as bad oh there's which by the way just as easily could have been what are you talk somebody else and another a brother could have come over midan could have come over and said you can't do that he's your brother take take it from me because we're relatives you don't treat Brothers this way somebody else could have said that and and Yehuda almost said it but he just got it wrong which is completely tragic and now you'll say oh we're going to go back to rud again with Yehuda yes yes that that that that is absolutely connected over here but let's let's stop is that what we could have over here is a really interesting play by mid done to become deserving of yusan to become deserving of The Inheritance why am Israel act just as bad as we do which means that we're sent away because we're not as good well look how bad they are and look who helps facilitate them to be bad so oh so they're right there to make sure that it happens when it comes over here that sinning with they're right there and they're going to lead the way in order to make sure that happens you say but how can you do something so bad because that's exactly the point because am Israel is no better than we are and I'm going to say it again over here we're about to find out that what's that what's really at stake and is going to happen next is going to be the divisional land in terms of inheritance I'm saying I can read this earlier section as an inheritance story as well as going back to their origin story and their origin story is be sent away and now they come back and they say well we're back and you know you guys are no better than we are so almost turning to so why exactly are we not inheriting the same way that you are why why are we inferior why are he not the same which therefore would be a whole another way of reading how midan shows up the the other thing that that we should note about Yoshua is that somehow he avoids the two major sins that took place he avoids theel because he's halfway up the mountain and he avoids theim which is not as easy so therefore he say so what do Yeshua ever do well he stayed away from trouble sometimes staying away from trouble is not a very simple thing and again just think about it what a way to define as a leader well he has a clear record well how hard is that well that's not such that's not such an easy thing but what we've seen today is Yeshua is going to inherit Yeshua is going to lead in in order to do that Yeshua needs to become somebody who he wasn't necessarily in the beginning he starts as a warrior but now what happens when you take a warrior and then you give him Spirit what happens to take a warrior and he gets prophecy what happens in a warrior and he has modesty he has humility he has humility and he's the one who learns Torah with Mosher raenu to the extent that he is the one who receives the Torah well you you correct you have a d h type of a figure and that's why I'm saying is that Yeshua becomes so much more interesting which means instead of reading backwards and say everything we know at the end is there all the way from the beginning why don't we read it in the proper sequence and see how Yeshua develops along the way and then you realize why Yeshua is chosen he is the and it wasn't obvious because till he has prophecy until he has has Torah until he has everything else but as as we continue on it emerges that of course he's the right person of course he's the one with all of these skills and of course he's the person who is more appropriate than anybody else to lead to lead Amis to the next chapter