Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Confidence breeds Success Shelach 5778

[Music] okay hi everybody and well and the Parcher for this week is Shailaja and the haftorah for this week is has a very obvious connection to the to the parsha shellac was the decision of the Jewish people to send spies to check out the land of Canaan and there were 12 spies and they went for a period of 40 days and when they returned ten of the 12 spies can be very devastating reports about how fearsome was the land and the inhabitants and they would have no way of succeeding et cetera only two of the spies said we have to have faith in Hashem this is the oh sure been doing and college been yamuna and as a result the spies came back on the eighth day of of that night which is the ninth of us all of the jewish people all of the men actually the women did not accept this for the report but the jewish men cried and sobbed and complained and it was therefore decreed that all of those men would die in the desert over a period of 40 years this was a pretty tragic statement or event and indeed the gomorrah tells us that this is why the ninth ABAB became the day of destruction Hashem said on that day the night to believe about 10 but he sympathia Shekinah thank you at empathy sympathy Shekinah you cried a sobbing for no reason I will make this day a buffet of the dojos a day of eternal crying so basically the mission of the spies as is described in the Torah was a monumental devastating catastrophic failure go forward 40 years or so after the death of Moshe we read in the time of Yeshua had been done yoshua who after all knew very well about the event of the spies he was one of the spies decides to send two spies to check out your become Jericho which was the first city that was energy throughout and that was a mission that was successful so it's very very interesting the tourist description of the Murad Lim was a catastrophe yoshu have been knowing the slickest of the moroccan turned out to be quite proper so in order to understand the relationship or so really the relationship here is one of contrast kind of the same thing was done and in one case the ending was very very bad and in the other case the ending was very very good the conquest of Erie folk the beginning of the conquest of marriage as well so in order to understand the dynamics here we have to really focus on the parsha itself and then we'll go back to that Toa first what's there a sin in the sending of the spice in other words put putting aside what they reported and how they reported it was it legitimate to have a mission to scout out the territory prior to their entering and prior to their making war so there really is well this is the discussion according to Rashi Rashi actually seems to take the position several places in the narrative that it's not just the report of the spice that was sinful it is even the sending of the spice that is sinful because if one had belief in God that God will give them victory why is there a need to have spies to check things out because they swore who promised you the lands you will therefore be successful so according to Rashi Moshe Rabbeinu himself made a mistake after all matura Bain who authorized the sending of the spies my share of a know himself made a mistake in authorizing the she lua Hammurabi that's what Rashi says now the Rambam says that is absolutely incorrect because if you're going to tell me the she lua of maragua is a contradiction to a moon in a sham then how could you oshu ascend the spies later and not only that but later in the commission selfs only that one verse Moshe sends two people on a spying mission to conquer Yasser we just went in the in the Golan Heights Moshe obey no sense Marat glim after this state on morality so they're on bond says it's a double portions that Emunah and Hashem is not inconsistent with what we call these toddlers human efforts to try to actualize the divine blessing after all Hashem is the source of health and healing but you're obligated to go to a doctor and utilize medical science Hashem is the source of pernessa but you have to get a job this is what they say people always look for sakulos some type of magical thing that will get you what you need so it's been pointed out the best Sagawa for pregnancy is to get a job no doesn't always work but you know usually it works on one level one level or the other so there are man says it's entirely compatible with a divine promise Hashem says I will give you victory you will be successful that you have to have a military strategy you have to kind of look where are the vulnerable one of honorable points where are the strong points where is it easier to attack where is it more difficult to attack so the ROM bond says for a doubler pushes the SMC Luis Mogollon the sending of the spies was perfectly legitimate but the problem was the report that the spies gave was editorializing and going beyond their assigned mission their assigned mission was tell us where is the best place for us to attack do not give us an opinion whether we will be victorious or not victorious that's none of your affair Hashem promised us victory the problem was editorializing they were supposed to report on the fact just the facts please and instead they expressed opinions and those opinions demoralized I'm used to and it played on their fears and they played under insecurities and that became like a cancer which spread throughout the people resulting in this Gazzara that that entire generation died this is what the run bond assessed the people listened to their native report why didn't the people just say look we didn't ask you for your opinion about the future I will address that why did it hit such a responsive note in people's hearts yes in effect they were leaders and in fact Rashi even makes the point that motion deliberately chose people who were righteous who loved on the shim all of them were righteous and yet this happened how could it be how could that happen so let me guess first two they thank you for supporting 20% notice yes we need to see which was zero percent response wow yeah yeah it wasn't it wasn't twenty it was it was winner-take-all right and what's not their proportional representation yeah that's that's very true I'll try to explain that but first let me go back to the more or more general point before we get to the actual problem how the spies reported it and that is Ron bonds point seems to be extraordinarily powerful that there is nothing wrong soozee there is nothing wrong in sending spies this is legitimate Estados so in what way does Rashi mean that there was something wrong in this what was wrong in sending maragua motions in it later yoshua did it later and this is normal military procedure so then it's if offers the following explanation you know he says he cites a story in the book of shmoop if you remember at some point when shall all failed to carry out his duty to eradicate a molecule so Hashem told Schmo L go and anoint double hemella double or a Sunnah be shy to be the successor and show ask Michele how do I dare do this shallow will hear about what I'm doing and he's gonna kill me so Hashem said well the way you cover yourself is bringing an animal this is before there's a temple so you bring for bonus everywhere and make it look like you're only going to bet slit base let them to bring a carbon and that will cover your bases so that it's if raises the following question why didn't I shall give him that suggestion at the beginning other it's a gem told them go double ask God I'm sorry there's more last time but how will I protect myself and God gave a man sir shouldn't God have given him that protection before the question that should have been part of the initial mission so that itself says the following idea and it's it says that the degree of divine providence that you get from a college Bartow is kind of a circular idea the more you believe that a shame is protecting you the more is the reality of that protection and the less confidence you are that Hashem will take care of you then the more he will leave you to the vagaries of nature Emunah builds on itself the greater the Yamuna the greater the hash darker the Providence the lesser the Yamuna the lesser - God so every diminution in a Munna becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy the green and therefore the native argues that hatched oil not expressed fear or hesitation or insecurity he wouldn't have needed to engage in some type of trick so that show wouldn't kill him he would have been protected by special divine providence but once he's worried once he's insecure once the Emunah in his heart is not strong enough to give him a sense of safety then a sham says you are living in the world of fish toddlers you are living in the world of human effort you are living in the world of political strategies therefore based on what you are what would have been somewhat undesirable now becomes mandatory you must cover your tracks this is rather than it Civ understands the story of well I'm not sure that this comes from really from the commissar above us so it's much much earlier than than than its Civ and the covers all of us simply makes the point that the truth of matter is everyone's life is connected to God in one way but sometimes God acts through nature and sometimes God actually specialized divine providence and the closer Lovato says the less omona one has the more they will have to struggle to connect to God's divine providence it will not be a parent it will be covered up it will be masquerading behind various veils which means it is actually still there but it's not there in a way that they will they will perceive well in a sense that would be the case but normally it works the opposite through its if I struggle and I see less that hardly is going to increase my faith in many cases but if one has this teaching in mind it night and the doctors and at that point the struggles might might produce themselves now the Mississip says this idea let me give you another text a TX locates with this understanding and that is the famous question that all the commentaries ask again in the book of Shmuel when the Jewish people ask for a king they want a king this is shortly before she moves death so she mu L says no no no a king is not a good idea a king will oppress you a king will be abusive he will take your sons for slaves and your daughter's for maid servants he will impose taxes why do you want a king is not God your king is not God enough why are you seeking a flesh-and-blood king and small even cult calls on God to do a miracle that there was a thunderstorm in the middle of the harvest season to show that I Shem despises the fact that you want to King now the big problem is in the book of devar impartial shoved him it is one of the 613 mitzvot of the Torah that the Jewish people should appoint the King it's a myth it is a mitzvah so when the Jewish people are asking for a king they're not committing a sin they are actually doing one of the mitzvahs of the Torah fact is all question why didn't they asked for a king before so there are many many interpretations by the way the the only interpretation that is against this idea that there's a midst without McCain is the Abbar bunnell and that's that's very very fascinating the barber Nell had extensive experience with at least Christian monarchies the Abravanel was the finance minister of Spain during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella this was during the Inquisition and in 1492 when those Jews who did not convert were ordered to be expelled from Spain tradition has it on the ninth of I've although historical records are not exactly in agreement to that but that was the tradition that happened the ninth of I've as well so the embargo knell was given special permission that if he wanted to good if he needed his financial acumen he would be allowed to stay he can even practice Judaism but the Bernal totally rejected that offer and indeed he was at the head of the procession leaving leaving Spain so the Abravanel understood that monarchies can be abused in many many ways and they're buried all spent the rest of his life the first in Portugal and then in the city-states of Italy Florence and Milan and that is where he wrote a number of his commentaries and in his commentary on this he is he has a whole essay it's very unusual very unusual deaf political commentary of this nature but he has a whole essay on the evils of monarchy and absolute power and he praises the Italian city-states because they have representative governments with term limits so that those who are governing cannot abuse their power because in a few years then will be subject to the people that they were ruling over and he learns as a document he the only he's only the only one that understands in this way that the Torah never encouraged monarchy the tourism we permitted it and some to similar hemella is a permission to have a king if you want it it's a grudging permission but it is not a disinter adamant it's not something that is desirable that is the ax bar bonel now the only problem is it what's interesting is though that even the ax bar banal and maybe especially the barber now certainly certainly concedes that Messiah will be a king and affecting Bernal was one of the most prolific writers in Jewish history mushiya he wrote over and over and over in commentaries and O'Neill and freestanding books on a machine so it's interesting that the Bernal does acknowledge that at the end of days monarchy will be it but he did have a very healthy suspicion of monarchies it's reminiscent I think of Winston Churchill's famous remark that democracy is the worst form of government ever invented except for everything else and so sure there's all sorts of problems but now but I do but again they by banal is it does your kids all the other commentaries and indeed Rosalind Gomorrah look at me no I'm Ella as a mitzvah if so how do we understand schmorl's consternation over asking for the king so here is what the descendants have says and the tip adopts the same type of approach and that is had the level of a muna been very very great in the Jewish people they would not have needed a centralized government God would have taken care of them you wouldn't need a structured society in that way but once they asked and once they express a need that indicates that they are living on the level of insecurity so that which was inherently undesirable now becomes necessary so she was criticism is not that they're asking for a king it's that they reached a level of the munition in there Emunah which compels them to ask for a king because they are no longer secure that God will protect them without a centralized government so that's his interpretation of me no MLS and that's his interpretation of Schmoyer and Schaal and the like and then he swings back and says that's how we can reconcile the issue of the maragua had the doorknob mid bar been perfect in faith they wouldn't have needed the parabola but once they asked Moshe became duty-bound to fulfill that request and that is why we use it later because we're no longer on that level in other words the missives contribution here is that it's not an either/or binary question is it good to send Marah Glen or is it bad to send barackman rather something would be good if the people would be on a certain level but that very thing turns out to be bad when people are in a different level and based on their mod raiga Shelia Hamelin was absolutely necessary because they lived in the world of his toddlers but it would have been better had they been on a higher my dragon and certainly actually I think the truth or I can give you a simple distinction between Yahshua's time and Moshe Stein in moshus time people were living under open miracles there was the man coming from heaven there was a traveling well so at that level what do they need Morocco later after Moshe Rabbeinu dies there's no monsters no bear there are no clouds of glory so then you can understand there's a need to resort to more more natural needs right so this is the Mohammed this is the approach of rusev yeah without taking us tangent this reminded that that Schmoyer was advised by Hashem to pretend that he went to Bethlehem for for a sacrifice isn't there an issue of illusion there when when I'm recognized engages in a flagrantly dishonest act which will become known to be dishonest as time goes by well no this was not I mean this was not a front meaning he actually taught you actually took an animal and he did offer it as a corpsman it's not upbeat it's not that he made believe he was doing it he did it so the problem was there was no line over here because nobody bothered to ask in other words when show so he was doing that so no questions were asked it's so small was not even put in a position where we have to lie so there was no lie so he said I didn't deny anything didn't confirm I didn't I didn't deny I said okay all right so now though I I want to talk about the the second part of this the issue and that is not just the sending of the maracas but the way the Mourad one responded and the way the people responded to that and first of all if the Mogollon were righteous how could they come back with that type of type of reports so here too we have a very very interesting approach of the nasir the malbim of Hirsh many of the commentary taters give us a very similar approach and they point out that there was a fundamental distinction between the way Hashem treated B'nai Israel in the desert and the way they're going to be treated once they come to Erica's Road in the desert all existence is supernatural they get them on from shamayim they have a traveling well with them that gives them water they have clouds of glory that protects them and this after all was the generation that experienced Marcos and Mitzrayim and Chris Young Sethe so their relationship to God is open and obvious and clear supernatural there was no room for denial although we had the trait of a go but basically the hand of God is crystal clear now when we come to the land of Israel things are going to be very very different of course it is the land that God takes care of but there's not going to be mod working out the plant and plow and harvest there's not going to be the traveling well of water we're gonna have to dig for our wells and the light in other words we're gonna have to have an army we're gonna have to fight in other words God is no longer going to be open and obvious we're going to have to build a society we're going to have to have medical clinics and law firms and accounting offices and stores and fields and companies and basically what is going on is the following and of course worst of all the Jewish people know that they're gonna lose moshe rabbeinu let me point out this obvious point although the particular Avera for which reason moshe Robina was denied entry into the land does not yet take place but it was already known through prophecy that moshe will not be entering Iran we know this because we read in last week's barcia about the two prophets l dud who made us miss na them they were doing prophecy and yoshua goes to Moshe and says arrest these people imprison them and Rashi says what were elder who may not saying motion Mase yoshua mullahs Moshe is gonna die and it's yoshua that's gonna take them to where is just round so this was known this was known back in Egypt what God said yeah but you see but I dropped a dresser like that is really an after-the-fact meaning Hashem said it in such a way not that Moshe understood that but then I said it because I said knew what those words meant it was not necessarily apparent to everybody else but this was an explicit message so now put yourself in the minds of the people there living in the desert now I remember if I gave I could use a trivial example maybe it's not appropriately reverence but anyway there's a similar point you may have enough any of you remember the cartoon doonesbury so indeed whatever it is one of the characters in the Doonesbury cartoon was a person who didn't want to didn't want to finish school he wanted to just keep on being in school so he wouldn't have to get a job so he got every degree that the university offered he got an MD and I got a JD and they got different PhDs in many many different fields and he was panicking because he literally had gotten every single degree that the university awkward and he didn't know what is he going to do he wanted to stay in school his whole life now the hospital the hospital was a very very different issue the mid border was the great formative educational influence the Jewish psyche implanting in our personalities that God takes care of us that he is our Creator he is our sustainer and that's so obvious and undeniable and we needed to absorb those lessons because as we transition into a new level of existence where the hands of God is not going to be so apparent it's going to be so easy to forget that and that can result in two negative reactions on one hand it could lead to despondency and hopelessness as we think we're just overwhelmed by the odds against us or the other way around it could lead to arrogance and complacency as we think we are masters of our fate so the door amid bar feels we're not yet ready for the challenge of transitioning away from this life we need more time so we and our children and our children's children will absorb Emunah inertia in over such a prolonged period of time that when we enter erage Israel the hester prynne in the concealment of the divine will not throw us off track so really in many ways the fact that God decreed they will wander for 40 years instead of looking at it as a punishment in us in a sense they got exactly what they asked for they said we need more time we need to be in this school a little bit longer and Hashem said that's what you need that's what you will get but you will not be the ones who will be entering your ages realms so it turns out that the sin of the Marah Glen and the sin of the people were believing that they were not capable of confronting an existence where God's presence would be concealed and not obvious especially without the without the leadership of Moshe verbatim and therefore one might say that the fate of the door amid bore was not a lack of galuna in God in a sham but there was a lack of a muna in their capacity to navigate a world where the presence of a Kaddish barcode is not going be as obvious and open as it was in the dorm apartment this is what the before team say was their face they didn't believe they could handle it at that time they wanted more time with the Haskalah of miraculous divine intervention to beat that idea into them so that they will see the hand of God even in Mihama and in agriculture and in business and in commerce and in everything they do throughout society not to be tainted or thrown off track with the coach Evo Sanyasi that it's my strength that did it which is the Nissan of arrogance and in the other direction not to be thrown off with hopelessness and despondency now this explains a very interesting thing you know yoshua been doing this original name was Hosea Hosea and only at the time of this shillitoe somber rock level did Moshe change his name slightly by adding the earth and it says well you drop shame Hoshea abandon yahushua moshe called it yahushua and Rashi explains Yahshua's actually a prayer may God save you car Yoshioka Piazza summer a little now Moshe apparently had an intimation that this mission would go bad he understood that these were some of the currents that are going on and therefore he prayed that yoshua should not fall prey to this now he didn't pray for colleagues who was the other good spike why does he only pray for Yahshua well because he knew in other words basically he knew in their heart that this is what they would do so you can't really pray to change somebody who's decided something but he knew for the reason I'll explain in a moment that you're sure did have this symbol not but he knew Yahshua was weak and vulnerable in a way that Cullen was not now why is that so the reason that so is if the murat whims argument is we are not good enough we are not strong enough we're not brave enough why not righteous enough to be able to achieve this victory without a prolonged exposure in the door amid board and to moshe a famous leadership then who would feel that insecurity more than the designated leader who would succeed moshe rabbeinu see unlike without saying anything about Mike Pence in particular but unlike the typical stance of the vice-president who is kind of waiting for the president to get out of the way one way or the other so that the vice-president could take over the true Jewish leader is always a reluctant leader Moshe Rabbeinu himself was an extremely reluctant leader oh sure a bane you argued that too couldn't get Ezeli argue too much with God not wanting the job get somebody else I'm not adequate I don't deserve it get somebody better because if you want to be the boss you want to be the leader then you're bringing in ego into it and the true leader does what needs to be done but does not do so for the car boat and the consumer so as a result yoshua is not waiting for Moshe a Bader to die so he can take over it's the other way around yo sure would also like to keep moshe rabbeinu alive as long as they put so moshe understood but now how he knew we don't know for sure and he was a nothing moshe understood that the direction of the miraculin would be to prey on the insecurities of a jewish people without mushroom angus leadership some ocean knows colleg will be firm in his trust in yahushua's leadership but yahushua himself might be plagued with self and therefore your Xuan needs the music and by the way there's kind of a textual indicator that maybe yoshua was wavering you know it's very very very interesting the ten spies give their negative reports it's a land that consumes the inhabitants and if you look it is called life who makes the big speech that you have to have faith in my shaman a sham promised us and you sure doesn't say anything now why isn't your shoe Itachi so I think you might suggest here that your shoe is well give you two reasons but but based on this my Alice your shoe is not talking because you're sure himself is wavering a little here in other words it's only colored that gave you a retreat so not to give in because after all if you're the one that's gonna replace Moshe Rabbeinu and people are talking about what type of life can we have without without motion remain and without the miracles of the mid bar that's gonna affect yoshua in a very very deep way now some some fortune given an opposite answer some of fortunes say like this why why you're sure is Soak a severe they say the opposite if yoshua would have been active he would have been accused of acting for an ulterior motive so according to this approach he needed to be quiet so that people would understand that colleagues arguments were objective and they were not based on political power so these are two opposite approaches one is yoshua was quiet because he was insecure the other is he was quiet so that he should not be accused of acting out of self-interest to gain his position or whatever it is yeah and I think that that's very very truly I mean we have to understand how enormous lis difficult it would be to succeed motion or a baby right there not an easy job at all the shoes that one is filling our shoes that are beyond anyone's ability to fill them and indeed because I'll describe the face of Moshe was like the Sun and the face of Yahshua was like the moon and this is not just a difference in size this is the very nature is different the Sun is a source of its autonomous light and the moon can only be a reflection of the glorious light of the Sun yoshua could reflect some of motions glory but on the other hand it's interesting that Yahshua does have the credit of conquering the lands settling the lands he translated Moshe as directives into an actual society on the ground and that is also a monumental achievements fact because I'll actually say if the Jewish people wouldn't have sinned we wouldn't have needed all the other prophetic books which are full of muster but we would have had the five books of the formation and we would have had the book of Yeshua which is how those five books were implemented in the building of a Jewish society column is enumerated as a prophet as well not necessarily I don't I'm not aware of any proof that their numerators prep while she was just an even motion at the time of his segue away yes yes yes if you have to remember yoshua is actually very much involved with Moshe way before that official designator is leadership yoshu is described as mischievous motion he was moshus assistants according to Kazan yoshua was involved in cleaning up after Torah classes and delight and he had a very close personal association with Moshe Rabbeinu it is only later in last week's partial yoshu is designated as as a leader but cuz I'll say from here a very famous statement Gaddafi Musha yo share melee muta that means when you personally serve or work with a great person that's even greater than just learning Torah from them because you actually see how to translate Torah values into everyday living and yoshua merited this because of his great personal devotion to moshe rabbeinu and he spent all this time with him so that is why he was chosen to be leader precisely because of the quality of his willingness to be mischievous moshe he apprenticed with moshe well well as you point as was pointed out you know I Jem says repeatedly kazakian months Kazak fear must be strong and of good courage so Hashem infused young schewe with great strength of character great determination I'm not aware of a specific gift in that sense of Hakodesh or whatever but Yeshua is considered to have been given prophetic inspiration he is one of the prophets the 48 prophets and and the like and of course let me remind you yoshua himself did what is an enormous and great miracle however you understand it to be shine him of a lot of problems scientifically that is stopping the Sun do you remember in fact there are two miracles Yeshua did two miracles one is he split the yardang River when we crossed it which is a minute yes lemsip and number two he stopped the Sun as the Jewish people were fighting a battle and they were given extra hours of daylight to be able to wage one where there was another 18 hours 24 hours different interpretations in the Gemara now then we shown him already were aware of astronomy have tremendous difficulty exactly what exactly is the mechanism of stopping the Sun given the fact that in either case the Sun does not go around the earth the earth goes around the Sun so the way you would stop the Sun is by stopping the rotation of the earth well what does that mean exactly if you stop the rotation of the earth you know things happen you fall off you know whatever whatever it is so they're showing them have a lot of problems scientifically how you describe that particular change of nature but it is recorded that the day did not end for many many hours so apparently if the Osher was given this power to do supernatural mirror that was something he got as a result of his leadership about but you ever used to say this so people would talk about why but you ready to do this and that you know whether we get him at climbing on whether it was or not but he once remarked he says everything a Rebbe can do comes from the casino that need him and rely upon meaning without the Hasidim that need and rely upon him the Rebbe cannot do anything and the Jewish leader is the same way in fact with Moshe Rabbeinu with the Saito a go when Moshe Robina was still on her scene a mash em says go down because your people have corrupted themselves Rashi says later aids doesn't just mean physically go down you could do lots of time you are no longer in a position of greatness because your greatness comes from them in fact we see this with mushroom a new sin in a few weeks when Moshe Rabbeinu hits the rock instead of speaking to the rock and Moshe Rabbeinu calls them rebellious the Rambam explains when a Jewish leader loses his faith in his people Hashem says that's it meaning I shadow forgave all of the sins the Jewish people did against him but when Moshe sins against the people Shem says that's it you know one strike and you are and this is very very important a a monic Israel has to have faith in his people because then people rise to the faith that the leader has in them same thing with parenting really the faith we have in our children lifts them up if we believe they want amount to anything you know usually what that's it becomes perceptions become become the reality same thing with spouse's husband and wife what's the old saying you know behind every great man is a great woman but some say it this way behind every great man is a surprised woman but ok say good surprise mother ok that's good too but you know but it does both ways I don't mean to suggest that it's the woman that is there to support the man it also goes and the other in the other direction as well that a man has to have faith in when his wife is able to accomplish whatever sphere she chooses to accomplish and then through that faith and through that result we become the best that we're able to become so it's an indispensable quality of leadership in fact even in a secular sense if you talk about a good business leader I mean that this is like standard business school writing that a good leader is one who gives people a sense of their potential and they're capable of accomplishing great things and that's certainly a Montague through a Montague Israel and you know so even if you take someone like we've cooked for example so that's why one of the reasons why we've cook again some people called it naivete but he was unrelentingly optimistic no matter what he saw he always interpreted it in a good light so if Jews were playing soccer and Shabbat he said well you know it's not good they're doing in the Shabbat buts they're building up their strength so they will build up this land like you see tried to see everything positive because his sheet that was that by accentuating the positive within people that is the direction that they're going to they're going to move in that direction the sages who explained for us the motives of the rabbis who did that be that we're being rather rather unfair in attributing to them dishonest motives normally when someone tells you the reason for a decision unless there's some reasons to suspect yeah we accept that and they're the and they gave a reason they said these guys these the inhabitants of that land are bigger and stronger than any any enemies that we've ever encountered on the battlefield we remember that that we came close to losing our war against our leg would win Moshe oh if they hadn't figured a way to keep Moshe his arms up yeah we would and we sustained losses yeah so so we knew we had we were acquainted with warfare against adversaries of normal size right and we know from the episode of defeated Goliath that physical stature can be a great advantage in battle that's why they said Goliath out to challenge you know the best that we had to offer right isn't it possible that they were sincere they just said these guys are too big we're gonna lose well you know again I'm not saying that's the simple explanation would be implausible but on the other hand there are some questions with that and that is after all this was a generation that saw supernatural interventions the the template splitting of the red sea and they have divine promises so see so so in a sense why would they have the naturalistic fear of an enemy that is too powerful for them yes oh right the storm is giants yes in fact I wanted to add this stuff from the cut secure very very famous tussock that also goes to the notion of inner insecurities lack of security that famous verse where they said and we were like we were grasshoppers in our eyes meaning when we looked at them we felt we were grasshoppers and so we were in their eyes so the Casa Caribe who always has very sharp observations says it starts off with you if you look at yourself as a grasshopper that's what they will see us all the people were dying because God wanted to decimate their enemies and they turned that into a sign that God maybe is rejecting us well they say the two major ones in the Torah are the intima are the Moshe banners sending the 12 spies and then yoshua sending two spies and you're me so those are the two major stories I'm not aware of it later I think this is the literally last story where moraga Lamar mentioned very very explicitly now so it really turns out that's the message and the Moose are of the Marah Glenn is to have confidence that if a Shem has given us a task we will be able to accomplish it that Shem told us I'm giving you a lance and I'm giving you the wherewithal to conquer it to build it to sustain it and for you to be afraid is really a betrayal not only of your faith in God but also your faith in yourself a person has to know that if a Shem gives you a mission he's given you the ability to carry through with that with that mission and that is why when you compare the story in yoshua you have a very different story this is 40 years later the old generation is dead yoshu has already crossed the yard a river with all of the Jewish people the very first city then a Shem has chosen for conquest is the City of Eureka Jericho and yoshua sends two spies to check out your weasel now the the the Parekh in your shoe it doesn't tell you who these two spies honor but the mattress actually gives us names amazingly enough they were call a's Yahshua's colleague for 40 years before and they were Pinkus the Kohen Gadol very very fascinating colleague is not a young man colleague was 40 years old at the time of the first mission of the miraculous this is 40 years later kalle was an 80 year old man that's correct no couldn't overall be that maybe senior spies are a good thing to do because nobody suspects some 80 year old gentleman is engaged in Spanish although I know of course he was retired but I knew very very nice by the bus and my show us he made all the honest 90s and very quiet very quiet modest he had been a CIA operative but he never had he never talked about it and you know wouldn't answer any questions about it but you never know behind the quiet exterior you never know what's what's actually going going on but okay and you're sure and colleagues seek refuge in the house of these women Pincott centrally Pentecostal talent and they seek refuge in the house of rock Huff has onna rocket pods ona the word zone odds interesting actually means prostitutes she was a prostitute target me honest son tries to take it down a little bit by saying zona simply means a seller of food most Arizonans he should be shot right so he doesn't want to call the repressor and yeah and yes it's very very clear from the Gomorrah itself that Russell was a prostitute it says she had practiced her trade for more than forty years she was also a senior citizen prostitute and it mentions that her beauty was so renowned that if anyone would even mention her name they would become aroused and like just by remember men you know I'm just mentioning her name and thinking of her and delight so she was a prostitute for many many years and her house was situated in the wall this is actually very similar to me assured me the mayor it was originally I mean there's still remnants of it but I was it's really a walled a walled section a walled neighborhood on all four sides outside of the old city eventually available got most of the sites but under code mayor Sharon that continuous building is the wall so there are people who had their houses literally in the thickness of the wall and that is ruckus allegorically Samba fortune want to say that her house in the wall indicates she's part of the Canaanite culture but her neshama is also outside of that culture around the world you're straddling the fence part in product that's exactly you know what she was and she gave shelter to these maragua and she gave them a report the prostitute is actually a very good source of information because she had all sorts of nobility and etc political officials who were with her so they got a very good report and she gave them a report that is exactly the opposite of the way the maroc would reported things 40 years before she said that people are so frightened of the Jews their hearts have melted they know they will not be able to withstand courage and success in everything and she protected them when people were coming to look for them and she then left gave them a way of escape and the only thing she asked for was that when they destroy Lisa they will spare her family and the sign was let the road by which we were let down and let it hang outside of your house and we will know that is a safe house that we will not attack according to rabbinic tradition Rockoff converted to Judaism eventually and according to at least one view she actually married yahushua she became yoshu a--'s wife I don't know I don't know if we know but but his children came from ronsis children came from from this way which is interesting to know she was also 80 years old so it's interesting that he didn't get married before then college by the way also had an interesting life according to Cesaro Cubs first wife was Miriam now Miriam died in the desert color is married Miriam now that's interesting because Miriam was much much older than colors Miriam was let me put this way Miriam died a Miriam died Miriam was older than motion Moshe tied 120 Miriam died only a few months before Moshe so Miriam was 126 colleg at that time was 80 so color married somebody that 40 years older and call a second wife in Eretz Israel was none other and bicha or Bochy of actually the correct pronunciation Abbas Poirot who told her that even motion alderman Maryam that is about spiral was Pyro's daughter that rescued moshe from the Nile and raised him as a baby and she was soaked as an extraordinary extraordin arrow the old woman to come to Aries Israel and she was the second wife of Cullen so some of these marriages are very very interesting but Joshua married raka raka zina and again she was able to inspire confidence in every user in her report unlike the Moroccan that created terror and fear and insecurity no insecurity is an awful thing you know the old idea Franklin Roosevelt said the only thing to fear is fear itself it really is like a fire meaning people might be confident and ready they got a challenge and if there's just one like negative thoughts in the room that kind of spreads and grows and can take away a person's enthusiasm and can take away a person's confidence so one has to be very careful is the church I love a therapy is his son yes yes in fact there was anything I just read an article III don't I know nothing about the subject but apparently there was a very very phenomenal baseball pitcher who's just one day in the middle of a game he just felt like a panic and he couldn't do it anymore and he totally lost his confidence yesterday we had to relieve baseball because that one day that he couldn't do it took away his belief that he was capable of doing and on one hand he knows that's crazy he knows physically he has all of the abilities that he had but he was so debilitated by that sense that he couldn't do it that he couldn't do it it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and you know the you know the old saying that mothers always tell their kids anything worth doing is worth doing well so but why mother she bombers man was not alive anymore he said he would say it a different way he would say anything worth doing is worth doing poorly that's that's actually profound if you think about it because very very often we are inhibited from doing something because we are afraid we're not gonna do it perfectly and we're gonna be embarrassed and as a result we never expand our horizons beyond our comfort zone because we think if it's not going to be perfect and I make a mistake people are gonna laugh at me or I'll have a sense of my failure so we're blind but made the opposite point that if something is truly a good thing to do it's worthwhile to try it even if you're not gonna do it so great because that way you build up confidence and after all if you did something partway it's better than not doing it at all and therefore anything worth doing is worth doing poorly don't don't inhibited because it's not going to be perfect and volt Harrison the enemy of the better is the best that when I have this mentality I have to be the best and I never become better because I'm so afraid of not being able to do it a perfect day project all right so these are at least peripherally some of the lessons of the Moraga l'm of having confidence in your ability to do the mission and mr. chef Matt we should realize that number one obviously living in error as well is full of challenges and sometimes we both us as individuals and collectively as a society don't always know how to navigate through this and whether we'll be able to accomplish what needs to be accomplished but we have to know that if Hashem gave us this Mitzvah and gave us this opportunity he will give us the ability to accomplish what we need to accomplish Ezra so Gemma we should be so sure to be to be able to do that [Music]