Yehoshua: The Man & The Book (Pt II) | Rabbi Neil Winkler | January 22nd 2026

At any rate, I have to begin and not with a um as I did last week with apologies. I actually came with a a new um source sheet as you see. Um, and part of what I'm going to do, and I guess I have to apologize to a certain am that uh there will be things that I had mentioned last week that I may review this week uh for a number of reasons uh for the way it will far better flow in that way and also because I don't remember everything so that way it's easier for me too. But at any rate, let me see what I have here. Oh, my luck. I only gave me Anyway, this one came. Um, let me be over here. I have this. Anyway, um, I gave you the introduction and it really was an introduction of the book and uh, and of the man. That's what it is. And that's what the the theme is. Um, but I've continued that that here. If you'll notice the um you'll notice here the source sheets uh the book and the man I've de divided it to the sources of what refers to the book and what refers to the man himself. Um and again if I repeat something um I uh apologize but helps us remember and there are people who weren't here so even better. Um I have to I have to also say that I did I think uh without hurting my arm by patting myself on the back. I really feel felt like I did a wonderful job of asking having you leave last week saying so why was Yahushua Yahushua you know did a good job didn't I ask what he want >> so so we're going to uh repair that please God on this year okay now one of the things that I did um mention was the difference between the book itself as far as um it was you know different from the Torah. I said it's connected in that in in that in that we actually have certain sects that believe in the six books and nothing else. uh they told you the in Islam and the Samaritans do that. Um but uh it actually is not only there that I mentioned it was okay the basic things and I touched touched upon this last week was that the um Torah was written hashem God's word it is God who in effect told Moshe what to say admittedly Dvarim may be a little different but it was Moshe in his own words but basically what God had told him he should say. Um and um the other books of Na'vi are not from the word of God but rather we would use a term of buashem when God's spirit was certainly properly done with God's spirit. Um I would even say you could see that difference sometimes in parts of um the third part of Tanakh. You for example I I have a whole different story when I would ask you about Mila Esther which I find very problematic. One of the things that's difficult about is that God is never found there. Entire 10 proim of they forget about God. Um um of course not. I'm just saying it's not you we can't say oh it's a godly the spirit of god where that's in kuvim of course it is but in other ways um you can go through other things people can argue with cohellet and uh which which is a really also a difficult book to understand but at any rate the the books of the vim though not written by god or from the word of god certainly were written buuahash um and God's spirit and what was meant that way and um the Gomorrah itself says this and that was what I did not um did not include last week and there you have in our first source where in the in the says um Abi Aba Abba said the following quote, "Had Israel not sinned, she would have been given only the five books of Torah and the book of Yahosua." So here it is. The six books are together. And I mentioned this last time and if I go through it you would understand that because the first books are not the first books of the Tanakh are not sinreated. Yes, there were sins there but what happened was not was not uh was not how can I say pushed on by the sin itself. Um if we just forget about the first um parts in the Torah, the c the um the first few years in the desert. Think about that. It's only the first two years except for one or two things in the 40th year. It's the first two years that have all of the sins, the big ones of of the andagim of of the golden calf and the um spies. Uh their rest of it are laws. Yes, we have in Balot province of Toea and so on and so forth in Yodal in Bidbar and we have in the for in the 40th year and we have in um also inim this the sins with Benan and also about the problems they had their complaint about man. There are others but the bulk of all the sins are in the beginning. After that there was nothing less shall we say. Naveim and the the books of Nvim are completely involved with sin. That's what it is. I mentioned last time were it not for the failure of Israel to do the one thing that Yahushua told them. God said it. Yeah. Moshe said it. Yoshua reminded them and that is that you have to get rid of the pagan idolatrous um culture within the land to keep the land holy and to keep you holy. the so human type of excuse of of you know that yeah yeah yeah okay well we're going to do that but you know let's let's set you know build a house first I mean the sh have a mikvah every make everything fine and you know these guys yeah they like the worshiping idols but they're nice people they're okay you know and who's going who's going to build my ports for me can't do that you'll get somebody on the will come and do it for you. The point and you need a shop is going. So they were able to say, you know, we can deal with this. And of course, it blew up in their face exactly as God said would happen because it wasn't just one or two. It was the bulk of all of the of the tribes had within them a large amount of pagans and idolatry. they became perhaps I'm not know for sure a minority um but certainly there was a very powerful in uh impactive uh re reality in the land of Israel that no longer was a could be an arith it's very difficult to be hakesh when there is widespread um idolatry. That's the one thing God wanted. Get the idols out of here. I mean, if in case in case you forgot, God had this thing about, you know, monotheism was one God. You know, that was him and that was that was what it was about. You have to get rid of those who don't believe in that. And that exactly what it was. It says you don't have to get rid of evangel if they agree with one God. If they stop idolatry, they could stay there. that's okay. >> That was it. But they didn't and they didn't do about it. And the beginning of of the uh when we get to the book of and we will please God. Um you will see that the very opening was look at all the things and it starts with that. It said and they didn't do what God and Yoshua told them to and they let all of the people and exactly what it says. We happen to also this was their sin. The result of that and the rest of the books of the n of the nim are all what's happening because of the sins we go through what a terrible 350 plus years in that time and we don't there's so much you admittedly I also I also am I speak a I speak about um history Jewish history too many of us don't know the concept of what happened in 350 years. Oh, we have nice stories. We know about Samson. That's a good story. It's a terrible story. It's a tragic story of Shimsh. The stories of even the wonderful Dvora probably the best of all the chaim and she was chauffeet wasn't successful. She was successful for what she had to do. What was the point of for the team? What were they supposed to eventually do that was had not been done? And that is to again get rid of the foreign influences and to do that you had to you had to unite as a nation. At that point they are as one who studies also American history what we called in American history. It was a time of the uh was it of of well when I had I remembered this you teach it and then it takes a while for remember the articles of of feder of yeah articles of of federation is it >> confederation. Yeah. Right. The article is when the between about uh the 1782 8182 to 1787, not 8 until No, >> they had the the states all were agreed to each other. They had their own thing. They weren't one country. They all had their own thing and they were very nice. They liked each other. That's exactly what the tribes were. And and I I say it in terms of of reality. I am a a a Judeian, which is great. We're all Judians, right? I am a Isacharite. I am a Zebulite, you know, I'm I'm all different types of lights. Uh but they weren't Israelites. That's what was lost. And that was and that's what you'll see in cypher sha when we get to it that the wars that were primarily uh local ones you know in one areas you know in one or two tribes they couldn't get the other parts of Israel to fight for them and with them they couldn't voa did a a good job she gathered a number but in her shirat which if you listen to the Torah next Shalak she she says oh no you had to sit there listening to the the bleeding of the sheep right that was more important to you than to help your brother your brethren who were fighting I won't say anything so um that is the failure even among the best you couldn't get them together that's why by the way when we start the great the great um success of Sha. Although we always think about him in a negative way, he was a great. Why? Because he was the first one to gather together an entire army of Israel to fight again for one city, a city that was not light, by the way. And that put them together. He united them. Anyway, I'm getting beyond what I want to say because as I told you last week, I am a rabbi. Anyway, the um the era of Yoshua despite what I was trying to bother to tell you all this time was a tremendously successful one. And that is expressed in the best way at the very end of Sephra Yoshua. And the Yoshua it's written in although between you and me probably was said a little earlier but anyway the last per of Yoshua says the following thing again our second source and there it says Israel. So, so Israel served God throughout the lifetime of Yahushua and the lifetime of the elders who lived on after Yahosua who had experienced all the deeds that God had wrought for Israel. So though that that era of him and right afterwards they still they still felt close they were still part in the in the in the desert. they still could see the uh the clouds leading them. At least the older people knew that. So that impact that that that still that that culture stayed but only for a while >> after that did not. But so I say and I want to show you how remarkable it is um that Yahosua did this cuz he took over a generation who complained in the invar about a couple of things about the sin of shitim and so on and so forth. These were a another generation because it was a later people most of them didn't even know what Egypt was because they had to be all those who were 20 and above had died. These are only youngsters in effect and now 40 years later they're oldsters but they were the ones who are primarily educated in a culture of uh not slavery as opposed to their parents and grandparents had did. But nonetheless, they were, you know, they were Jewish. What can I tell you? They complained. How could we don't like the man? We didn't have this is bad. You know, that's where they are. The entire era of Yoshua, there's not one complaint. He they don't complain to Yahushua. Even as we will see soon when they were um defeated in the very first war they had when they entered the land of Cananan. Don't tell me Jericho they didn't fight that the next war they'd fight in Jericho. They just sat there and watched the the walls come tumbling down. Um but they did not. So they didn't complain to didn't say, "Oh yes, what did you do? you told us you're going to bring us into the land and let's go back to Egypt and what can we do? They didn't see that. Yoshua complained to God. What am I? What happened? What are you doing? You know, but they never got against Yoshua. That's a phenomenal concept, an idea that this same generation had such respect for Yahushua. And after what I tried to tell you last week, why should they had that? Aren't you a little nervous about this guy that God tells him And Yoshua and Moshe tells him, "You got to be strong and brave." And the three and three of the tribes who were leading the the um the army into the land said to Yoshua, everybody's telling him to be fair, to be strong, you know. So we say, you know, not too many people seem to have much trust in this guy. And yet here he was. He was a phenomenal leader. >> Is it possible that they did come Jane? It's just not recorded. No. Why? Why wouldn't they? If anything, it wouldn't be the first thing they would have done. Especi And does Yoshua say as Moshe had to, God, what am I going to do? They're complaining against me. He doesn't say that. It was he himself who came. And but we find that they they um they cried over the over the loss of the defeat. They were upset, but they didn't complain. They did not complain. Torah is I mean the Tanakh is very very truthful. It tells you this is what happened. You don't messing around with that. Now given that that's why I said this would be a perfect time to stop. What a perfect era. Everything is good now and because of it didn't happen. You know we would have had a midn could have been built. We would have had Mashiach Benavid. everything would be happy, you know. I don't know if they would had computers, but other things were pretty good, you know. Um so it was the sins that does that and um taking an amache or as did he took this stiff necked um people and he was able to um to take over the greatest of the great of Mosher Reno. Let me tell you about the rabbi and it happens other things. The worst thing for a rabbi to do is to take over a shul that has a great rabbi. The guy after him be okay because they'll compare him to the guy who came before but not the guy before that. It's a tough tough thing. It is I have great great um uh appreciation to those rabbis who are able to be successful even in shors where the other rabbis were very very successful and very popular. Um so here is Rabbi Yoshua who has to take over from Rab Mosha Rabenu. Not a good idea to do. I mean, if I had to check with your business and your VA and your board and it couldn't have been too easy. And he does so so tremendously successful. It's remarkable. >> He could have complained to God the same way as Moses complained. >> That's right. What do you do to me? You know, um, and anyway, let's go to the man. Who is Yoshua? We know Yahushua is Yoshua bin Nun. Um, who was his uh grandfather? I'm not saying who was his son because as far as we know. >> Who? >> Yoshua's son. You know who show son is? >> Son. >> Yeah. Leroy. No, he doesn't. We don't have We have no As far as we know, we don't know. >> Anything about his father either. >> Well, we know his name is Nun. far behind that was me and then there was no but Yeshua bin and no one says about it his father but you know what his grandfather his father's father was an important person read next source from where you do find it you don't find it in the Torah and you don't find the relationship but you do find that person there we read the following right we knew that Yeshua was save was from the pro the tribe of Ephraim. No other details do we find in the Torah nor in the but here inim we read the there beginning it goes down of all of the the all the families and who it was and there it says I didn't I did not translate I'm sorry because I figured you know Ben means son. Okay, good. So, we read in going through the the uh the line of um the tribe of Ephraim after Ephraim there was Ladan Beno is Beno uh Amihood is a son of Lad Beno and Al Shama Beno and Al Shama was a son of Amihood. So that's Eli Alishama Amihood. That was who? And who's his son? Nun, you know, and non says he was non not um is a son of Elish Shama and Yoshua, you know, Yoshua Nun. So it's bin. So what? Very simple. If you look at the next part of the third source, we find out who are the heads of the tribes. These are the heads of the tribes that who will be the leadership in the tribes. Lib as far as the sons of Yoseph Ephraim the tribe of Ephraim. Eli Shama Ben Amihood Zadi. Yahosua Zadi was the head of the tribe of the of Ephraim. one of the 12 most important people for years and years in the in the midbar. You don't mention anything about it which is amazing to me nowadays people was like you know who my grandfather was nothing it's fascinating I gave a few others we find the leader here again who's the head of again or in we in giving up the It says who is so he was a very important man it's never mentioned one would wonder why can I say all those all those words with a W and a one would wonder why why doesn't it mention interesting any ideas why do you think maybe why they didn't say anything >> because it's not Minimum to mention any more than just the father. >> No, >> I don't know. I know Abraham's grandfather. I mean, I know uh you know >> his grandfather. I know I know Moshe's grandfather. I know's grandfather. >> They didn't want to say he got it because of your >> You betcha. >> One of the most important things we learn in Tanakh, certainly in Torah and here too, is that it ain't that makes you so great. Okay. You have to prove yourself. >> That's exactly right. We can go through all of the stories. David, the great king was not the eldest. You know, you go through all of these things. Very few were the eldest. Yiz wasn't the eldest. Yaka wasn't the eldest. Yos wasn't the eldest. Yehuda wasn't the eldest. Because it's what you do, what you accomplish, what the potential you have that you proof being that was the eldest and he lost the that position sits clearly in in he lost it. He's still considered the eldest where he lost what the rights would be as the eldest one, you know, so on and so forth. Anyway, so that I think may be a very good reason why God specifically didn't want to make a big deal that Sure. Yeah. You know, sure you sure big guy because his grandfather was so important. We're talking about a man who at 40 years old, maybe a little younger or not, uh bec leads the leads the um army against Amal Lake. Remember I said it last time that God never tells Moshe to pick Yoshua. It says Ryoma Moshe El Yahosua that Moshe goes and chooses Yeshua and says put together an army and fight against Amalik, you know. So he had obviously a tremendous potential at that point. So this is uh Yoshua uh the man not the grandson and that's a very important thing generally anyway and we know there the whole story of what happened with Amale um and as I may have mentioned last time and I said I I am somewhat um apologizing At that point when the Torah introduces us to the Yeshua, we know nothing about him. Let's say what's Yeshua's father's name? Doesn't say it. The first time we meet it, it just says Yeshua. Say Yeshua Benoon. So we have no idea who he is. Why was he chosen? I don't know who did. All we know is that he seems to be eventually as the Torah goes on. I can't say sharing leadership with Moshe, but certainly he's a guy, right? When um when it was time for to win the uh to to fight Amale, it was Moshe who goes up to the ga, right? And Yahosua leads the army. Um and uh we get a we get a hint of the importance of this uh Yahushua because at the end of the whole story of the battle with Amalecch Moshe um God clearly upset what was happening. He says the following. Okay, I've had it. You you victorious. He said hashem eloshe god said to Moshe and this is the fourth source sort of the last uh verses I don't the first source is uh they're not that important now um then hashem said to mosha to mosh you see the last two three lines he said in Hebrew which means inscribe this as a document. Okay. Um as a a reminder, right? Yahosua literally and place it in the ears of Yoshua, the translation I picked up for some reason, which says, "And read it to Yahosua." But have Yoshua know this. And what is that? I will utterly blot out blat out the memory of Amale from under the heaven. Why was it so important to tell? Why did God say to Moshe at a time when we have no idea who this Yoshua is at all that we should, oh, you better tell Yoshua he should know about this? Why? >> It's like a hint >> to that what? >> That Yahushua is going to be with God. >> Exactly. Right there we have a hint that Yoshua is going to be taking over. No, and Moshe will not be cuz you need to know Yoshua cuz I'm not going to blot out Amal now. It'll happen in the future and you know in the future it'll be there. Yoshure will be. So already we have a hint that uh the guy must be pretty important. But I said he was really kept as almost anonymous in this very important section. So much so that we don't even know his name, his uh his father's name. And we don't know, as I mentioned before, that wasn't his real name, >> right? We find out only later that he, you know, his name was Lefty. That why his real name was Hosa. Now, if you're changing the name as they do at the time of the Moragim, why not tell us that in the beginning? Tell them this is Yeshua Bin. this is his real name was OA but you know nothing we keep it anonymous which I think fascinating and I'm sure there's reason for it and I think it has to do with what we were saying don't look at his don't look at but he's going to be you just look at he's obviously an outstanding person chosen by Moshe probably by God and God is already telling him he's going to be something in the future yeah >> how many rabbis when we're going over this will say to the people in the cong congregation. Judge your children who they are and what they accomplished, not what you accomplished and who your grandfather was. It is up to each one of us to prove to Hashem who we are. >> I know, but 114 rabbis we do that some can't tell you the number. No. Um, at any rate, I went through the times where we were questioned about Yahosua when Yosh when um Moshe comes when they go when Moshe goes up to to Harai. It's very interesting. It's not now time to do it. That's another year maybe sometime. And that is when God says the only Moshe and Aaron and maybe the will go up to Harai. That's all it said about three or three times and then it comes up. And so Moshe um went up to Harai with Yoshua. What it says there nobody's allowed to go to Harai. They must stay back except for these groups who can. And then when Mosha goes up, it says they went with he went with Yahosua and Misharto. Yahosua. So again we see ah he is pretty important. We also learned go that again when he came down that he said he thought it was a war as signs of war and Moshe said you're wrong. You know I told you Mos po Yoshua spoke twice in the Torah each time he was wrong. But um this is again we're beginning to see something about Yeshua. We do see there that Yoshua though he was somewhat young and I also told you na is always always a very misleading idea who knows what n means. Um uh everything young man young man and I told you last week sure Min was 37 years old when he stood before um you know Yose but he called oh you know so but it some a youth in maybe in experience whatever but he was oh he doesn't want leave the oh who's oh is only one oh at that time before they built one it was Moshe. Oh, hell. >> He was He was a mate as it was. He was one like I told you. Now, he set up the the chairs. He made sure things are okay. Yeah. It means something else. If he already was known to be a remarkable military man, given the fact that he, my god, he must have had a lot of a lot of military um shall I say um training in the month and a half you left being a slave because that's what it was. It's a month and a half. Yeah. Amale came a month and a half before the first of because they arranged on at Barcai at al the beginning of Sivan on the lake happened when they were on their way to go there. So that was the end of um they were took taken out in the middle of Nissan. It's a month and a half. So obviously he was he led a a group over there, you know, a mafia and but he was had this unbelievable but he also was which means he not only learned military before maybe what did he also learn if he was hanging around with Moshe? Oh yeah, okay. Maybe learn the Torah, but you know, hadn't put a Torah came. >> Take action when >> leadership. He learns what it means to be a leader. So when we look in the how could you have chosen um you know Yoshua, maybe Khal would a better choice. No, he stood with his Rebi. He learned not only, you know, what the Rebi was teaching him, not only what he could see from Moshe's leadership how one leads a people even they're if they're um stiff necked, >> how he judges, >> huh? >> How much they judged you. >> How judged them. You're right. And if now we ask, how could it be that the same generation Yahosua could was it can handle them? because he learns from motion. So that's another reason why as shocking as we were and I gave you last week why it may have been very problematic why he should be the leader now you begin to realize that he had a lot of good things going for him. He did exactly that. Um, so this is the man, but part of the man Yoshua and why I will quickly go through the other parts that made us question. All right. um the fact that um he was wrong as I told you when he when the two times he spoke and you know where he also um where he wanted to imprison those two people who were and who were prophesying in the uh in the pe among the people. Um, nonetheless the um he does he he is successful because of those other things that I all right um so I'm going through all these things I had because I know I did them last time I'm not going to repeat you keep it going okay keep you interested okay the only last things I will say Um is that the time when we expected Yahushua to speak up, he doesn't. Remember I said that we don't see him speaking up. You know, not not only when he speaks, he's wrong, but when he when he should be speaking up, he's silent. In the first part of the whole story of the Morag limb, it's only K who stands there. In fact, there are those who say when it where it says in parakeet Gimble in that first chapter about the story of the Maragle there it says you know you know K spoke out but the other people who went along all said no we're not going to be able to do it. Well that would include would it not Yahushua because he hadn't spoken up yet. There are those who say that. No one wants to, God forbid, say that, but but it, you know, the text may hint to it, but one hopes it would not. Um, and so the um the questions about Yahosua are many and they're all really solved when you see what he did and his success. Now, why he was so successful? Obviously, he was a talented guy. Moshe would not have chosen him as a military leader nor as a misshare. And when you spend 40 years listening to the Rebies and staying with him, you learn a lot including not only Torah and not only you know the mitzvah you but also leadership and that's indeed what he did. um the choice of Yoshua which God makes when he tells when Moshe goes Moshe actually says that he's uh I uh I know I'm not going to lie uh go on and um he said I will not be going on please choose choose another a successor to me. Uh so here if I want to I if I want to compare or contrast interesting when God said you know when comes and attacks don't say God saying anything he doesn't say now what we expected to say you know doesn't say that who responds to the war to the attack immediately the leader Moshe and he he chooses Mo uh Yoshua but here he needs a successor does he choose a successor no there's a difference between choosing a military leader and the leader of Israel needs much more than that so therefore he asks God You see a parat that please find somebody. I told you I think have the idea that that Moshe was hoping about that God would choose >> his own sons. >> His sons, right? One of his sons. Anybody know Mosha's sons name? >> Gom. >> And um >> it's a good Jewish name by the way. Eleazar. >> Elzar. Good. Goma and Eleazar. Correct. Um but they're not chosen. Not chosen. Um why? Because God knows what's needed to lead Israel. Something that even Moshe would not know. and therefore he chooses him. Does he then just choose Yoshua or does he do anything else? Ah, he does more than that. I'll tell you in a second. First of all, I skipped down a number of these um sources uh because I get carried away too often. Um and uh I'll just point out uh the fifth source shows how Yeshua was an attendant of Moshe. The sixth one from Cohellet to says that there were two two times did Yahushua speak to and and and to Moshe and it did not please him. And those are two things that I told you about also. And what I just said to you in the seventh source was where it says in the 13th chapter all the other um spies who came back with a report except for Khal they said all the other men who had gone up with him with Kh they said we can't attack the people which would imply that that includes Yoshua but we like to go to the 14th parac and say, "Well, wasn't Yeshua, but uh says something there." At any rate, when you look in the eighth source, which is what we're getting to now, here we find out that most God chooses Yeshua. And here we see in fact what why we see the the characteristic of Yeshua and why he was chosen. said, "Hashem and Moshe, single out," which is they put that um he said I should tell single out an inspired man and rest your hand upon him. Who was that inspired man? And that was of course Yosh sing Yahosua, an inspired man who rest your hand upon him. Have him stand before Elazar the priest and the whole community and commission him in their sight. Place put him on it right and invest him with some of your glory. Uhhuh. God cheats a little bit. He's great. He's wonderful. He needs a little help. So, you know, I'm going to give him something. I'll give him, you know, I'll give him something some of the answers to the to the test. So, he gives something of the talent of the greatness of yo of Moshe to on Yahosua. That's what you're placing your hands on him would be. That is it all of your Moshe. No. That is why um we say that Yoshua was wonderful. He wasn't the Mosha. He's the rabbi after a very important government. He was okay. You know, we look back and say, "Wait a minute. He wasn't just okay. Look at his accomplishments." Um but we have to he had to be really more than just a human, a regular person. He had because in effect really yo Moshe himself had God's ruach in him. So you know God gave Moshe also an inspir inspiration and spirit. So Yoshua needed it also. And uh boy cuz I know Jews that's what God didn't say that because he's nicer than I am. They're going to complain and not say, "Well, yeah, this guy, he should he should be the head of the Jews, right? I I see it right now. He should be I ask any new rabbi coming into this if the board and the everybody voted for him. I know you think he's good enough. I don't think but that's what people are." And so he said the reason I want to give a godly spirit upon him so that the those Jews will now accept him and know that he is my choice and he will continue and that's indeed what happened and before we end up oh good I have time yetra it's also I think the mal says this is just phenomenal Um, and Baba Basra the Gumar points up about this. Well, he's he's good, but he ain't no Moshe. And it says the following. You see in the ninth source. Let me tell you what it says. I feel bad you haven't got it. >> It's okay. >> It's amazing. You have >> It's in your mind. Boy, you know it like that, huh? Fantastic. I have a good pen. He's a good obviously I have a good memory as well. In the ninth source, we say it says the following. You know, maybe I can hear. Let me I feel bad here. >> Thank you. >> Would you like to borrow mine? But I want >> No, I'll just stand there saying like this. No. Okay. Yeah. Um Gar said the following. says it says in a in a sim in a in a similar mash manner you can say that God said to Moshe about Yahosua and you shall invest some of your honor upon him that's what we just quoted right which indicates that you should put only some of your honor but not all of your honor right the elders of that gener generation who lived there in time of Joshua I told you to compl complain, right? They said, "Oh, the face of Moses was as bright as the face of the sun of of the sun. The face of Joshua was like the face of the moon. Woe for this embarrassment. Woe for this disgrace that they didn't marry a leader the stature of Moshe. Told you the Jews are going to complain about something, didn't I? And um this brings me to really something that's really I think uh very good. Um I'm I'm almost positive it's the Malim, right? Um I believe so. the um the mal says the following. He said if you look carefully there is a very very interesting um almost repetition in um the story of Yahushua in the beginning and that of Moshe. When Moshu Rabenu is for the first time um in introduced to God at this burning bush, God says to them first of all take your shoes down take off take your shoes off of your feet because the place upon which you are then it is a holy place. When Yoshua now doesn't talk to God, but suddenly seems to meet up with God, he meets up with the angel of God, the agent of God, right before the battle against uh Uho. The walls were still standing then. So um the angel says see seems to be a military person and Yahosu asked said are you with us or are you part of our enemies I don't know nowadays if someone comes over to you well are you an enemy going to kill me or not but the does enemy says no I'm not malik I am an angel from God. So Yeshua sends you know once bows down he says take Yeshua off because where you're standing is holy. The exact same thing that was told to Moshe one small little difference. Not even a different word. Moshe said take off your shoes. Yoshua was take said take off a shoe. one he had another shoe just only take off one of them and the Min said I think this is a beautiful concept. Malin said Moshe Moshe was half of him was in the heavens take off your shoes because you deserve God. This is a holy land and you sustain on you stand on holy land because you're Moshe your holy holy Yeshua however needed to be a different type of leader dill little dumpling my son John went to one off one day oh yeah that's one why Because Yahosua understood and God understood the different generation and a different challenge in front of them and therefore needs a different leader. I want you to keep one foot in the holy land but you have to have one foot off of that and know the reality and know people and understand people. That was the success of Yeshua that perhaps one can say Moshe did not have because of the generation they had. Moshe had to take slaves. He had to treat them so and so. That wasn't the generation he had. The generation that Yahosua had was not a generation of slaves who didn't know how to be independent or anything. And he understood that. So you don't see him screaming at the people or anything. And that's why the people loved him. He understood people. He only had one foot on the holy land and the other foot he looked around see how are people? How are they? And that was a greatness. A leader can be great not because he's very holy because he understands people as well. That's a story of the man of Yahosua. That is why I've shared that with you. And I just realized now I have to tell you I just got a phone call before I got here. I'm not going to be able to be here. My doctor wants me to come in uh next week.