Sequence of Events in Yehoshua | Rabbi Neil Winkler | February 5th 2026

be with you again and I'm sorry that I missed you last week but my doctor was very happy anyway but he gets paid so um [gasps] I do want to uh take you up to what we were doing what I'm going to be doing and it's difficult in what I'm hoping to do in so far as there's so much to say about Yahosua and about Yahushua himself and then to put it in a um logical whether chronological or whatever way to uh of the events is a little different. We did start actually with two shiim I believe about Yahushua the man and then the book but I really did not I did not really go into the book itself. We we noted a few things about it. We did begin for example with the um first perk in which I showed you how there everybody was telling him I was trying to show you how there wasn't so much confidence into what type of leader Yoshua would be. Indeed that God tells him that in the Torah and so does Moshe tell him that in the in the Torah. I even somewhat uh or I won't say jokingly but I I think seriously said you know how many times did anybody ever tell Mosha Kazak you know he was telling them that no one ever told him obviously this Yoshua was not a a wellknown for leadership um person and there were ner they were a little nervous and the irony being uh he was a an outstand standing leader and showed you that throughout his time as the Torah as the uh Tanakh tells us at the end of Sephra Yosua that there was no his his leadership was so great there was never a complaint during his years and he was successful the whole time. All right, good. [snorts] But let us go now into some of the events and some of the texts that um teach us something. And uh it begins with the first the very first source that I have in the very in the first chapter. Not only was everybody telling Yoshua, be strong, be strong, be strong, but uh Yoshua begins as a real leader by commanding the leadership, the chrea um uh what they have to do. So that in itself was a uh you know a beginning of his leadership. You know, don't be so nervous about him. Um I have here wonder we'll have a guest with you. [clears throat] >> You know how they sit over here? They sit over here. Good. Very good. And um we're s we're he tells the the officers the we're so used to using the word as a policeman. Uh but it means officers. Um he said go through the camp and tell the people quote get provisions ready for in three days time you are to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that Hashem has given you. So it was now three days before they were to cross the yard, the Jordan, which means at this point they are on the eastern side of the Jordan. I vote mo they're actually in shitim uh where they had the first time we saw we saw them or we read of their encampment there is at the end of the para of balaka bashim and so from that should I say uh book and a half for the last half of um the midbar and then the next uh um book of Dvarim. They remained there. It's right on the eastern part of the uh uh of the Jordan. It is on the banks almost of the Jordan in the area of Moab or Moab whatever. And um they they are there till this point. Uh in fact if I wanted to go to the very beginning the first verse of the second per it says there is that Yeshua sent spies mehashim from to go over. So, we know they were there. Anyway, here they are on the eastern side of the Jordan. And they're told by Yeshua, of course, who was told by God that in 3 days they're going to be crossing the ordained to enter the land. This is something they've been waiting about for about 40 years. You know, [laughter] you know, sometimes we get some wonderful, wonderful um discussions. You know, we go to Israel, you want to learn something, go to a police, a a um cab driver. They know everything, right? Uh I was once I this wasn't a cab. I'm thinking now back from it, but I remember someone uh conversing with me obviously. He said, "Well, you know, Mosher Rabenu obviously wasn't a very good tour guide. He got lost in the desert and so I was biting my tongue so that I shouldn't say anything. I said you know so [clears throat] brilliant. Um anyway uh so here he got he didn't get lost in the desert. They knew very well where they were and why they were and God told them and God led them. of course. But at any rate, um here he is knowing that finally after 30 40 years having left um Egypt, they are about to cross the Ardane and three more days. By the way, it does tell us I think I may have it here, but I'll There goes my surprise. They crossed the yard on the 10th day of Nissan. I would love to have a wonderful somewhat little a little celebration 10th day of Nissan the first time that Ben Israel not as Ben Israel but as AmI is cross into the holy land. Yes. Aam lived there instead of Yako and the kids they were there but as a nation >> celebrate me ali your aliyah every >> it was the it was the first of aliyah correct um indeed the very first time the people of Israel are regarded as ami Israel was in the beginning of shimote up until there it was always ben Israel Benov but never am Israel and that was given him by parro who said he am Israel behold they're too big for us too great for us or too powerful to us for us so they're going to cross over in three days and therefore he says you have to start and prepare for that he told the tribes of Ruvane God and half of manasha as we are reading here th those are the two and a half tribes that will be in the forefront of the war and and uh that they told them you remember what Moshe commanded you when he said Hashem is granting you a haven and assigning this territory to you. He told you that only if the condition is that you will lead them into the uh land itself. And I've discussed a number of time the concept of being in the first in the times of the wars in ancient land. Of course the if you're in the first line uh that is the very difficult life that's the beginning uh of being you know you're the targets basically and to take that very very courageous stand was a very important thing and indeed they did so so they're told that very nice good has control clearly he begins to speak like a leader and the events proceed deed according to plan. In fact, when they go into the third chapter gimmel, we indeed find that that's exactly what they do. That's the second source that I have you here by Yahosua Baboker early the next morning and all of Israel sent out from Shim told you uh and marched to the Yardain. They did not cross immediately. They spent the night there. Uh, and three days later, the officials went through the c camp charging the people. When you see the holy ark being borne by the kohanim, born as an eel, being carried by the kohanim, you shall move forward and follow it. As we go in there, the go entering into the uh um holy land crossing the yane. They are being led by what? >> What does it say? >> The the kohanim with the >> ark. The ark of course is symbolic of but god himself. >> Huh? >> It's not a bad tour guide. They went into a dangerous to a possibly very dangerous situation carrying the ark in the car in that didn't have arms probably in >> Yeah, they probably knew there wouldn't be right away the the a fight but anyway um they they are going to be led by the ark. Is that questionable? Why do you think perhaps should be leading >> more than Yosh more than the >> Yoshua should be leading? Shouldn't he >> do did Moshe lead the people into Yamamsuf? He should not did not. He stood there and made a crow right behind them. They were there were it was the cloud that led them. Who was a cloud? >> Hashem. >> Hashem. And so it's the same thing here. So though we might ask, well, why didn't Yoshua do it? So clearly the message both when they left Mitzim and when they entered Erit Israel was yes, you have leaders, but it's doing this. God says God is going to lead you whether through the holy ark or whether through the cloud that led them into the sea. Very good. Anyway, um so the three three days we read about in the first par says they immediately went down to the uh sides of the the banks of the Jordan and waited three days for the three days that they were told to do so and everything fell into spa place very well. But if you did um realize something or I said nothing, we didn't have you didn't have a Tanak in front of you. So I can't blame you. But if you have a um I don't know computer in front of you or even just something to know how to count. I started with Peric Alf and went with Perkimo. I did skip Perrick Beck. The second chapter, the second chapter is well known. That's the chapter which we'll get to a little bit to uh of the spies sent by Yahushua, right? That's by So that happens now when that's a good question. Um and if you look um if we would skip the perbat completely and go from alf to gimmel it really flows very easily. God Mo Yoshua tells the people prepare yourself because in three days you're going to be crossing the Jordan and Gimmel says so they went down to the Jordan and waited three days till they come there was it was it flows very easily makes sense that that's what happened but we have to ask what so what happened now these these these days that the spies were in with Raav in the Jericho and what happen. Um more than that if you read the chapters let's say the proim from a from first to six from alf to vav without the ch the second all it goes in chronological area um chronological order it is also flows very very nicely ly no problem at all else. So we have to look at the second chapter perkbet and the story of the moragalim and ra to see well where did this fit in and to find out that you know what maybe it wasn't quite in chronological order. Let me explain to you not only maybe but for sure and you'll see why perk bet could have very well been per olive and then comes peret of course per alf starts mosha right after the mosha died then comes ahead so that makes a flow from the Torah but chronologically when of of the events this is this was not chronological and I'll show you why perkbet is basically a a a an independent part of the safe Yoshua because Perkbet tells that one story uh again the independent story if I want to use that state of of the I'm sorry of the the of the spies going into Urio good um and that is important for a very simple reason. Um, it isn't a story that the spies are so relevant, so important. It's not that relevant. I suppose it's nice to know and it's interesting but we could have still we should have we still could have understood the safer Yahosua and the flow of it and what was happening very easily without having the whole details of well Raab was there she was over there and they came they nice story but it wasn't that c crucial but it is important because it's more than just an intrusion intrusion between what was happening is actually shall I say a chronological puzzle because look what it says when uh the in the second chapter when the spies are having a conversation with Ra who is hosting them there we see in the third source ra says says to the spies after the um the king and the officers of Uho had left them. She says to them, "You can't hang around here. Obviously, it's dangerous." Says, "And she says to them, hahara in Hebrew, go to the hills outside of here so that the pursuers do not catch you." Has anybody here been down to if you're going down to the emo there you go down um beautiful play. I was just there actually when I drove um on Thursday afternoon. Uh we went we went uh up to Lvie and they ways told me what to tell you know I went down there to what they call the big a right do you ever go down there by the before you make that left turn to go north in the big ah that's at uh you pass that and make a left turn and you're going north. If you look to your left that is you look now westernly what do you have there is all what >> hill >> huh >> hills >> like cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cliffs mountains hello you but you're ra the dead sea only the lowest place in the face of the earth so anything over there goes up so she's saying go run into those hills go up over there and then she says cru Crucially, he says, "Go to the hills so that the pursuers do not catch you. Hide there for how long?" >> For 3 days. They have to stay hiding after they were in for whatever time overnight. We know it was plus now three days that they had to hide until the pursuers returned gone away. So look what happens. So they went straight to the hills and stayed there for 3 days and until the pursuers turned back having searched all along. They were not finding them. After the three days plus the time they were in Eureko, the two men came down again from the hills and crossed over the Jordan. And they came to Joshua and reported to him all that had happened. Joshua hadn't changed, hadn't yet crossed the Jordan. So if he says if we read that in Alf in 3 days we'll be crossing and yet the spies >> clearly were there longer than 3 days and then they came back and they were still hadn't. So when did he send the spies? >> Not when when he told them three days you're leaving before that >> probably before they ever knew anything he said to him before I tell the people we're getting go to. So the story of the Moragim really begins at the beginning of Sephra Yoshua >> before >> before Allah you minus or plus what you want to say it right it happens the event happens there now I understand why the perak begins as it does because we're literally flowing from Torah to Na'vi and it reads in the end of the Torah the death of Mo Moshe and Yoshua begins with beginning of Moshe and after Moshe died, Yoshua now becomes the leader. So it's understandable they did that way. It also helps us to have Torah because it goes one to the other. But eventful wise actually Yeshua had already at that point sent the the Miragleim. fascinating. >> What is fascinating also just I'm throwing it in because I like to throw things in according to tradition and it's not written in the Torah. We are told by tradition that Mosher Rabino died when [snorts] >> what date. >> Thank you. Zion Adar the right seventh day of Adar obviously like many people you don't want to see poor not anyway uh Adar [snorts] that's what it is why does tradition say that we read that the people of Israel mourned for Moshe 30 days Yoshua tells them seemingly when it's over, you'll cross the Yard in three days. That means they crossing the 10th of of Nissan, which it say in the text. So when did he tell them to go to go over? Three days earlier is what day? >> Seventh. >> The seventh of Nissan. If they if they were mourning for 30 days, right? That means he died when the seventh of Adah. That's why kazal say that the death of Moshe was the seventh of so now you know why this is always correct that way but that's a most things tale makes sense it makes sense all right of >> it does say that in the text in it says on the cross day. So that I know that's the one thing we know. We don't have dates often in Tanah, but when we have them sometimes they're very very important. For me, one of the most important dating we have, we find in the beginning in Malakim Alf in the opening verse of the sixth perk of Alakim Alf where it says uh 480 years after uh they they uh left arthrit after they uh Schlommo begins building the beta mikdash >> which helps us understand and put things into perspective. You know, it's it's not like we're writing we're watching TV. I'm watching some movie. So, oh, it happened now and then a minute and a half later it happened. It's it means that think of it 480 years after. So, it means there's 40 years in the desert. So, it's 440 years after Yoshua first takes over, right? >> And so, so think about that. How long was it? Yeah, David, let's say uh ruled for 40 years, right? 40 years. Okay. So, that means he he began his rule rule about because you can't tell really specifically each year. It means that he started to be about 400 years after they first go into after Yoshua dies. 400 years we think about oh yeah well shim is just one book so that was over and I'll say brother but was 350 360 years then there was and so on and so forth then there's the 400 years you know it's a long way so whenever people come down and say now they want to build the mdash you got 480 years to wait from the time you get in here understand has his own his own calendar. Don't think you have a calendar for him. >> Kings for about 300 years. >> Yes, they have no that's that's why I always tell you and we'll go when we get into shim that's another wonderful time we're going to have. It is oh it's a very difficult difficult time was one of the worship when I when I first as a young man or a youngster if I say youngster I think I was smarter than I was but I have to say it was a young man I think was already in university be thinking of this and I wrote someone had asked me I don't know how it was a a a teacher or reb I don't know said how would you plot the uh um the era of shim, good, bad, whatever. And I plotted it as going down, down, down, down or almost like steps. And he said, "Why?" See, because if you look at it, you see that it was this they were getting worse and worse and worse and worse. Um they're they were not doing any every time they said, "Oh, sorry. We were sin." And God helps them. and they get a big hero said isn't that great okay we don't anymore and and they do say again and even when you see who the leadership is but we'll get to that when I get to shim and will be all here to do that so here they are figure that out it's amazing actually they um it would seem that the the moragal were sent uh really before the story of begins the events begin the events that are told in perak alf. Okay. So um that is why by the way the Radak and and Rashi say that they said that in they say we always say but Torah there's an argument but when it comes to you can't say that it's exactly um chronological and they say that that's what people were in ais for Moshe for 30 days they crossed three days later that's why it has the zion and so on and so forth and um if we have any question now is okay good uh so why don't you start perk alab and then it will be chronological um so I there was one approach which I really am not that um happy with but there is an approach like that um and that is uh in Schlah you'll find that and in part and the midbar when they send the moragim there are no criticisms by God why' you send the moraglin right in fact the whole story starts with that that in the moraglin that God said to Moshe So God told him to do it in Vim. However, when we see a little different thing when God Moshe said between you and me that is not exactly what happened first you came and said we don't want to go into the land until you send send these spies. So there that's what it says um and and therefore in the beginning of Dvarim where it says in the fourth source um that before they asked for the right Ben Israel asked Moshe Moshe tells Ben Israel okay exactly what Yahoshua says in Al in Peric Alive he says It's time for you to cross the ordained. Time for you to go into the holy land. You'll reach the hill country of the and which Hashem is giving you. God has placed the land at your disposal. Go up, take position. God prompt you, fear not. Don't be dismayed. Said it's time for you to go in. All right. Here it is. We waited almost two years. A little less than that. time we we can go into Israel now into the holy land. Uh and what happened of course is they said um um as goes we want to first send agents ahead you know to uh recon order the um land for us bring back a report you know that happened already in Dvarim and therefore um in Dvarim we see Moshe criticize izing Israel for having asked to send raglim and perhaps um Yoshua who authors now his book doesn't want to start with doing exactly what Moshe told you shouldn't do in the beginning of Dubarim then in the beginning of Yahosa he's going to say okay send so one of approaches I think is a little as we'd say in the prefer perfect uh Kingh names English but nonetheless that is an approach. Um and and some say that is the reason. Others may say that Yoshua maybe has frightened because um as as in fact if you look in per we see that ra says arts with everybody's afraid of you. We're all afraid of the occurrence. So therefore, um maybe the the author Yoshua who writes the Yosh the the safer Yoshua wants to use that idea of how they're all fearful before they go in Pak to find out that all of the populists there are fearful of the uh approaching powerful people of Israel. Um but I think that what I told you before is the continuity reason very simple. You start by peric alaf with the ending of Mosha's leadership and you want to start with the Yoshua's leadership. Yes, it's possible for them to then in the middle of then send and at that point he sends this the spies and then you tell the whole spy story and then he goes and says okay in three days you're going across but be between you and me it would have been a it's a lousy literary thing to do you won't be able to follow the all the story so well whatever the reason isn't that problem problematic but I just wanted to open that to you also Okay. The next thing I want to go through now now [snorts] after we go well I know I'm going to I'm going to go a little um I'm going to not skip around uh but skip around my um my notes. We never went through this the full story of Rakava and the spies. I do not believe that we did. No, even though we're there, you heard me. That's good. Good. Um, Yoshua and Moragim, he sends these Moragim. Please be aware it never tells us who the Moraglim are. I know when we were busy with our um coloring books in the fourth grade and we we know had to be pin and you know we had to know oh we know who it was you know and that's not it doesn't say that anywhere there there's no kinas [clears throat] doesn't say that logically they figured it is going to be I don't know how logical it was to have pinas who would be the next gad you know but okay fine they were the big guys there and Okay. But it doesn't say that. So these two spies agents um on this mission they went immediately to have one thing to have one job and that is and that as Yoshua says um uh he said go and he says [snorts] That's the go and see the land and that's not really and see the land the see the land in why that's going to be that's going to be the first populated area and you know enough large enough to have real population and an army and uh and check out there not ask them are they strong or weak as Moshe was told to do or he did himself. Not that just tell us what what it is. Just tell us what you see that he simple words. That's it. Six words. That's all he said. Then they went and they entered the home of what we call Rael um Rakav. Um and as Raal is depicted in in the Tanakh there uh is Zona Zona almost everywhere in Tanakh means she was a harlot. She was a prostitute. Um we get very nervous about that. Don't uh it's a different thing than one would imagine. It was a very very um popular should I say in in the ancient uh cult cultures cultures you had that so it's somewhat logical as well because who would know the best thing about uh the people in the place but the prostitute they know the men right exactly like almost is like the taxi driver. I just want Yeah. I like taxi drivers. Right. When I was learning Yahushua in I think fourth grade, which I think is wonderful. That's where you should be starting. I get very upset as a teacher for many many years. Specifically in Tanak that they're starting they start now they're starting to teach maybe in fifth grade which means by the time they finish in seventh grade they don't even touch. But three years ago when I went back I started asking it uh the teachers one of them is now a principal who is a student of mine and learned with me. I said to Avi, "What are you doing with Navi? What do you get up to?" Said, "The truth of the matter is we we finish sometimes." I said, "How do you do that?" They're going to go into high school and they're going to tell them all about Yes. Yahoo. And they're going to say, "Who?" >> And Schlombo who? They won't know Schlommo. They won't know the anything. none of the kings is mentioned in they would know about that. So I I very upset about it and he told me something which is true where he was from and though it was true I didn't care. He said what can I tell you? He said they want to get into the yeshivas and the yeshivas they want to get to they have to know Gamarra really well. [snorts] So they give him extra charm of garam and they cut out anything. So they know Gamarra and they can give you a but they can't understand what Tanak says. [snorts] Another one of my uh I'll get off on one of those two things. Terrible educationally. >> Huh? >> The girls get it cuz they're not going to learn. >> No, it's a boys. >> Uh no, this actually the one I went to has both separately but boys and girls. That's a very good question. because I' I've always heard that women generally know Tanak better because of that. >> Yeah, could be. I don't believe that they didn't act because he say God for that should know more than the boys. Um but how how painful it is to me. How painful, >> you know, it's a it's like baking a cake, but you really don't even know the recipe, but you know the you know how to eat it. That's what the not not knowing Tanakh and knowing tears apart and historically it actually happened. Tak was very important even she was in the early uh after the middle ages a bit about the 18th century when there is a uh uh the um railhousing and there were the reform movement and stuff like that who said we what do we are biblical scholars and Arab and Jews they're just rabbitic and since rabbitic is less important than biblical so we follow the Bible We don't have to listen to the rabbis which is by the way what they said back with the in the times of the Mishna as well when they have the in so it was something almost every time they broke away some some sect breaks away from the traditional Judaism it always was by we don't need to be so detailed about the rabbis we're going to say what the you know it says in the uh in the Torah itself help which they ignore also. But anyway, um that's a a tragedy in my view. Uh and okay, I I I have a admittedly a soft spot to Tanakh. I find it interesting and it's tragic to me when I write my articles for the Torah. I I try very often and often that's how I get my ideas is to say, don't just look at the Torah. Thank God you know the after because you've heard it all your lives when you go to sh but you know what happened in the per before unless you understand what what was this what the theme was before when we we reach the Torah or even after you don't fully understand why the Nav is saying whether it's why they're saying these things then because you don't know what was happening in the reality then it's sad how okay I know this you know you know what it is though anyway way. Um, they go into there to Raav and I started saying to you about my fourth, see how when I started just saying I started in the fourth grade, they would never tell a fourth grader that she was a harlot and a prostitute for two reasons. How can you do that? And secondly, they don't know what it is. So, thank God. Nowadays, I'm not saying that, but in those days, they know what it was. So, the the old thing I hear it now as my father teacher teacher was telling me because they we learned it in Hebrew. Isa mazone. It's a woman who who actually sold mazone meaning food. She she was a she ran the molite basically. Is that what it is? And after we got old enough to realize, we start chuckling at that. Oh, they try to keep our uh wonderful, you know, virgin ears away from hearing this. But just recently, I had the argument that said, "Don't laugh at that." It was very very um common that right in the beginning when you enter the the city you had a mol people were getting the food and it isn't so terrible to think that maybe she was mazone of course try and find any other place in the entire Tanak where somebody who sold who was running a was called a zona I don't know anywhere but it's a possibility Wasn't she also supposedly an inkeeper? >> That's why they say inkeeper for that reason. >> Oh, an inkeeper is the same as >> that servant. >> Correct. >> She ended up marrying, >> huh? According to tradition against she married, >> huh? Yoshua. >> Who? >> Yahosua. Remember him? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> That's a pretty good year. >> Yeah. Uh, [snorts] right. Right. Interesting. By the way, we don't know Yoshua if he had children did not cuz he don't find that want to look for the for you she go into the where they go down all of these. Anyway, and so you know she hides them the uh it was known that the Jews have come you know I must building I don't know if they were you know could be in shant or something but they knew the Jews had come they looked to find something like that cuz they were afraid if they knew they were on the the banks of the Jordan and if you're going to be you can see the Jordan where you are and and at those times the Jordan was even wider than it is now. U not that it's that's hard to be wider than what it is now, but it was really much a lot wider. Um they had rafts to go across one of the other here. You sort of walk across anyway. So the um they they come there, they come and they say to her, "Where are those men? They're coming because they really came here to spy out the city." And she who had hidden them on top on the her roof underneath some uh pist it's called which is huh >> straw straw >> not quite straw pish pistim is uh linen right so the there are rods or of how what's linen come from >> flax >> flax very good you know Um they there were these rods were I shall always say those branches of flax that eventually they they soften and everything they make into linen but they were hidden under there so they didn't find them and in fact she says oh they did come here you're right it's a very good as it says in my a good libashi says this a good lie always has some truth in it you're right they were here but they just left. If you hurry now, maybe you'll catch up to them. Oh, thanks. And she they run over there. I Good job. So that's when she says these things and they make a deal. She tells them, "Everybody is frightened of you. We know what your God did. >> We know what your people what your people have done. What your God has done, how he split the sea and so on and so forth." and we're all frightened. We're all afraid. That's what she tells them. And uh and then she saves them and tells them what to do. And she says, "Now you got to, you know, I I I risked my life here. So when you come and we know you're going to come to invade, please, they, you know, save my life and my family." And they said we agree but you have to have them all in your house. I see because her house and it says very clearly that her house was in the wall itself. It says um and therefore if they're there we can we can tell you we will be careful that we know where you were and that nothing will happen to you. However, if you that they're not there or if you leave there it's not our fault. And they said, "Fine, good, good, good." And that was ill. And in order to let them know where her house really was, do you know what she did? >> Yeah. But it wasn't uh it wasn't a yellow ribbon on the old right. It was a reed a red. No, a red ribbon. So that they would see that in the window, they'll know. Uhhuh. How do they get out? How did she sneak them out? Anyone know? >> She went down a They went down a ladder or rope. >> That's right. She left She let them down by rope. >> Huh? >> Yeah. Yeah. Rapunzel. No, not Rapunzel. Um, anyone else? I I thought to give you these little questions. Anyone else that you recall a woman who who um put down or what's the word I'm saying? Some from the window saved a life >> the no >> that's that one. No, she didn't do that. Believe it or not, David's wife when her father Sha sent his servants his guards to go and grab to um Davidid and to kill him. In fact, she hides him by putting in putting a a something under under the under the coverings her bed over the head that with hair. It looks like it was him. I think probably something red because he was a red head. Um and she let let him got down by a rope. So she he that's how he was able to uh you know to to actually survive in that court. In fact you know one of the one of the one of the uh tell about that when David was saved when his when his father-in-laws bought it. So that's an interesting other thing. I just threw that in there because why not? So anyway, they do go for that time and they return to um Yeshua and it's still he hadn't crossed the and they said indeed to Yoshua they said call everybody's afraid the as we would say they're all nervous and and uh now you know that indeed God has given us the land because they're all afraid of us. Now I'm going to end now a because it's time to but also because keep these because we're going to continue a little for next time but also to tell you something very interesting. I know this is very interesting because when I had it in my head it was very interesting unfortunately now I can't remember what I was going to say. Uh the the um yeah the idea that now they come down and they tell the When go Moshe sent the spies, [clears throat] [snorts] >> how did he send it? >> Chose them. >> Huh? >> He chose the one. >> Yeah. He chose how many? >> 12. >> 12 from each >> tribe. >> Tribe. And he missioned them publicly. This is what you have to do. when they come home um they they tell what happened >> and saying we're not going to be able to do it. They went crazy and everybody cries and the whole story and welcome to right sends spies. What does it say there? It says listen the words to more. You know what karesh means? Secretly. >> He sent only to and secretly. So now when they come back to whom do they report? >> Only Yeshua. No one else. It was all done privately, secretly the normal and proper way. and therefore it was successful because I'll say that very clearly very it's good to know that very simple you want success >> shut up that's what it is don't talk [laughter]