Sequence of Events in Yehoshua (Pt II) | Rabbi Neil Winkler | February 12th 2026

We started with the safer Yahosua. We went through the surprising leadership that he the better way of putting it. Uh and we um >> please walk outside >> and we had the barm uh last week we started to go on into the book itself and I began to touch upon how it's not always uh what what guess with George Gian but really Ira his brother who said it ain't necessarily so you know um it's not always ch chronological and we showed last time that perk alf really wasn't the first thing and what happened in the beginning of perk bet really took place before perak alf uh and I went through why and so on and so forth but it was logical uh that thing things that first were done secretly are not going to be written now so anyway we went through that but that was just a a taste of what we're going to do today. And I think we'll do it one day and one year or maybe another one. Um, and I in in doing so, I'm going to be somewhat pushing off more of uh the events that do happen in Sepher Yahosua. In truth, Sephri Yoshaw with its 24 um praim very important uh very interesting but about uh half of it are are merely stories of which which part of Israel was being uh settled by which tribe and that was that's 8 to 9 10 a lot of crockim like that so we won't be going into details about that. But other stories and whether other events we will be going through, but I'm going to pu push that off a little bit. I'm not going to go through for example now the uh importance of these carbine pes that happens when they first crawl. Remember they cross over the Jordan on the 10th of of Nissan. We've gone through through through that. That's what we found out why they say that Zion Adar is Moshe's um death, you know. Um uh but um if you understand that Corban Pesa didn't happen on the five the 7 day uh holiday. It is the day before the 14th of Nissan. Well, if you take out your calculator and you figure out, well, they crossed on the 10th of Nissan. Um, and they have to do Corbin Pesak on the uh 14th. And by the way, if you didn't have a Brit, you can't partake of that. And we know from the story about the inlah that usually three days taken for recovery. So wait a minute, that's ninth. They got a 10th, 11th, 12th, the 13th, the 14th. They got to do it. Yeah. So that I'm not going to tell you that now. Now that we'll get to eventually uh that uh the um costing of the yard and the and the of course preparations to that's a great story. Uh we're not going to do that either. Good. A lot of things we're not going to do now, but we'll get to them. I want to do first continuing about the sequence or the lack of sequence of the events as they are written in the uh the book of Yoshua and why it was written the way it was and why it could be and sometimes it has to be not in the right order if I can put down the right order as a chronological order. So uh bear with me and hopefully you will follow along and then we can go on to the other stories uh and uh they're very interesting including the grace the defeat in that first war of uh in the uh city of I and and and the punishment and anyway um I'm giving out Now, the um source sheets some of you had from last time. We're not going to need that. I I actually just set up a whole new sort sheets. Uh but it took me a long time even though my son came in and came over for us and I said, you know, I try to be a good host and I said, I got to do this work. So, uh I hope you actually appreciate all the work that I do. But but this I think is very interesting and as soon as you get it you'll see >> okay when you see this you'll see how I divide it up and I hope as I said to be able to con continue and actually to complete what I wanted to you know so I have the sequence of the ev the of the events in sephosua notice the two number two those two eyes are actually supposed to uh Roman numerals but anyway that's what it is. So um and I begin as you see in the source a with braot and clout what are we talking about very simple we um find out in the Torah in Dvarim that upon entering the land that one must uh proclaim the blessings and the curses. Harrisim, Harriim and Haral, right? Mount Gizim and and the mount aval. Um and as the first source tells us this is in the para of um key we find originally it says big and generally it says you're going to have to do this in the beginning of parad a but here it says specifically how you're going to do that and you see that in the 27th per of where and I'll do it in English which is part of my work that I do here so that I make it easier for everybody where it says Moshe and the elders of Israel charge the people saying observe all the instructions that I I enjoin you that's why I love getting the uh enjoin like I something that I'm it's a word I use every day so I command you upon this day as soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that God is giving you. You shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster and inscribe upon them all the words of this teaching. Okay? When you cross over to enter the land that Hashem is giving you, a land flowing with Mary as God promised you, you shall upon crossing the Jordan, set up these stones which I charge you this day and har and uh bless and there too you shall build an altar. Do not w I wield an iron tool over them. You must build an altar of Hashem with Yun and upon it you shall offer the burnt offerings and there you shall sacrifice so on and so forth and on those stones you will inscribe as every word inscribe every word of this teaching most distinctly. And it goes on to say of course then but that specifically has to be included. That's where you're going to offer up the uh curses and the blessings. That's what it is, right? Uh and then that that continues over there. I just gave you this section. That's when you have to do it. But clearly what does it say? When you cross the Jordan, this is what you have to do. Good. Well, we are told in the eighth chapter this ceremony of blessings and curses at Haral and Harrisim um um is also given here in the eighth chapter per of Yoshua and there in the second um resource I've included included here at the Yoshua. It is that time that Yoshua built an altar to God on Haral as Moses as Moses the servant of God had commanded the Israelites as is written in the Torah of Moshe. An altar of unhuneed stone. Exactly. Which by the way we just read the source upon which no iron had been wielded. Exactly. Wield and iron. We exactly that they offered on it burnt offerings to God and brought sacrifices of well-being and that's all. And there on the stones he inscribed a copy of the teaching of Moses that had written had that Moses Moses had written for the Israelites. Exactly the last part that we read in the Torah that you shall inscribe every word of this teaching most distinctly. Okay. So there he's doing exactly what uh the Torah tells him to do, right? Well, yeah. um when you cross the Jordan as the Torah said would seem to say okay when you cross as soon as you cross well this is in the eighth chapter right it wasn't exactly that maybe it's just the beginning we'll see very soon okay um that would seem okay but when we look into it more clearly ly when indeed this did this take place I told you it's in the eth chapter and I wasn't lying it's in the eighth chapter but is that in chronological order did it happen right then right after the wars against and I I don't know according to the text in Yoshua it happened after the or the war against I. It's a city of I hat I you know I used to love hatang my students because I I did speak in Hebrew so that they would not understand it and I would tell them you know everybody knows about the ear I you know everybody know that so they got they were very happy it's foolish however they always remembered it anyways um the story here after the fall of uh of Yo of Jericho, you know, when the walls came tumbling down. Remember that? Yeah. Um the next war was against I we're going to do that next time. We're going to get into the detail about it primarily because they lost. They were defeated and they had a uh had to fight again. But right after that, that was in Peric Zion. So in now we see that it's harim and har just like they were told in the Torah to do. So it would seem to be pretty much in the beginning of after crossing the Jordan uh after Harris and after uh the two battles. All right, good. Um which of course makes sense because it does fit into what the Torah says. The Torah said to on the day that you crossed the Jordan. Well, this isn't the day they crossed the Jordan. They marched, as we'll learn, they marched around Jericho before them walls walls came tumbling down. Uh that for for a week, so that wasn't the day when they crossed, you know, and and it was by the way um after Coran Pak that was 4 days after that cross. So it's clearly wasn't right afterwards, right? Um, one would have imagined therefore that before all of these things happened, it would seem that the Torah demanded that as soon as you cross the Jordan, you should be doing this, you should go to Harim, Haral, you should take those heavy stones, shle them over there and do what had to be done. uh Rashi asked this question intercept uh in fact the the Radak and the Rashi said yeah that it really did happen then just hard to understand when others see that um and we can un perhaps accept this seeming delay of this mitzvah by saying God didn't mean by the very day they crossed it was a busy day after All you got 3 million people or 2 and a2 million at least crossing the ardane and the ardane isn't what it is now. The Ardan actually had a lot of water crossing it. We see in the time of you of Davidid another time they actually had to have a rafts to a to course. One of the reasons we'll read that we'll eventually get to it. We should all be well and be able to in the story of David when he was running away from uh the revolution uh just his son who wanted to assassinate him. Nice guy. Anyway, when he was trying to run away from his son Ab Shalom uh and he ran out of Yalim, he left his throne, which his son Abel took over and he had to get away from Absalom's army, which was primarily once David's army and now uh it was more powerful than the men he had with him. So, he had to run away. How you going to run away when you So he crosses the Jordan to cross the Jordan was so who knows I paid 100 but how it was was okay by the time Abalon fig figured where he was go take thousands of men across a Jordan by raft says no problem give 10 we'll stand here throwing spears at you on the way so it was a good defense let's you say that um I'm just saying that to let you know that the Yardine was not a simple little river. It was quite wide. That's why God had one of these goddy things that he does. He splits it for you so they can go through. That's so he went through the Jordan as we'll see. So any rate um so it could not necess could have not necessarily meant the very day when they cross but soon could be even the standard or you know the right time the better the best time to do it that's also could be a time um now the reason why there's a good explanation as to why it couldn't be done right away really couldn't. They had two to three million people and everybody had been at Harium and Harv. For those who don't know where that is, I'm sure that many of you have been there. Maybe not. You've heard of no god forbid. You know what is between harim and haral one of my great experiences and you know coming here was always a great experience but many years ago when I first got here and we had one of the uh uh once not one of my missions but one before then when I was going as a tourist and we were taken up to at the time and there I actually stood there I see Haruri Ziman Har right in front of me that's just what the Torah There it is. It It's exactly there. And the And I promise you this is true. It was in the somewhat in the summertime. One mountain had greenery on it and the other one was like completely desert. Kazal say clearly high the h mountain upon which the blesses or torch which the blessings would be given would have greenery on it. and her aval towards which the curses were given would not >> and I said they weren't kidding they were right that's exactly what it looked like so it was very very moving it was the same day we were able to go into terror safe because at the time before they went over although this week they now officially knew it they didn't do it uh very very interesting I won't go through the story of the our tour guard American who was very close there he lived lived there and he took care of Kio because uh when the first father was I forget he was murdered in the and he was running as they were burning down the toas in he knew them all there knew the Arabs they knew him he was going to save the toas they said well I'll kill you we killed him um terrible remember every interesting story always has some tragedy it's going to happen We we're Jews after all. At any rate, to go up from the Jericho, uh you know, even even from the from the from not from the Ardane, from the Jordan to go north, you got to shle up there because remember uh Jordan lowest spot in the world is the Dead Sea there, not far from there. You got to shle all the way up to the har sh. That's where harriim har try to get two and a half million Jews to get up there. What do you think is going to happen? It's not easy. So the concept that right away they're going to go there is a difficult one to really realistically understand, right? Um, if as we know they weren't going to be invited in. Oh, the Jews are here. Hey, come on. I'm sure there were some demonstrations against them. They weren't letting this foreign power come just march through the land. They had a first fight. They had to fight their way up there. So, the concept that he would just walk from there to there is just not realistic. Um, they're going to stop all the military action so they can go up there. What about the where was where was the camp? You know where the camp was at the time? In Gilgal. Gilgal was still in the we it's called the big Uho. Still in the valley of Uho of of the Ardan Ardane, I'm sorry. And it's still down there. So that's where all of Israel is camped over there. That's there were more or less defending there. You're going to pick up pick pick them all up and go up. Difficult to really see that. Um and uh then they have to go to the have this ritual. The ritual didn't take you know a minute and a half. It's not like unfortunately it's a three four hours at least. Let alone how much time the people to come up there and get there. It's a long time and so to go there there back to Gilgal you know it's rather inefficient to do so right and in fact I left here exactly what the tu shami said and there in the shami s it says the following all the braot found in the Torah were given only after the first 14 years that is 7 years of conquest and 7 years of dividing the land only then logically think about that they had now conquered the that area and they were able to march there they could do it right similarly it states the blessings and curses were not pronounced until after the first 14 years so was said by Rabbi Khan NA as well the blessings and c curses were given only after 14 years but nonetheless it's a per where where after this we're going to go on and go through the um battles against the um the people living there the nations giving there but it's put here in so um it could be that This going and marching up to uh Harval and Harrisim and giving the bre blessings and the curses may have been one of if not the final thing that they did before they settled down clearly. Um and uh it's logical to say that rather than oh at the very end because at that point at the 14 years they were still together as a nation. Otherwise what would happen with the two and a half tribes who were leading the battle? they would have gone back to the eastern side of the Jews of the Jordan where they had their families were there. You know, they started the yeshivas already over there. They had to do, you know, pay the tuition. So, they had to go back to see the families over there. So then how you going to call everybody over there? Okay, but now come over here. So it makes logical sense that before they would go out when still there was a army together to defend themselves and the people were still could march together as a nation then everyone could go up to highim and haral that would make a lot of sense that's where Yoshua gathers them perhaps for the last time I mean let's because what does yoshua do Now after all once he finishes with the battling and everything. So therefore he goes for the final time. Now again let's figure what he's doing here. All Israel is standing in front of the um two mountains, right? To accept the blessings and curses, what they have to do and what they're not allowed to do, right? It reminds them and and you have to keep in mind that at this point very few of the people who were at Mount Si the first time are still alive. Right now we're talking about 54 years after this happens. Right? So they you don't have that many of the population who have gone through this. Right? So this is primarily people who were never at hari >> and they're suddenly in front of a mountain or two mountain and they're hearing the pronouncement of blessings and of curses and what do you think it's going to remind them of this is in effect mad haray number two it was a somewhat experience that was happened that 54 years earlier of standing at a at a mountain and listening to the laws. Now, I'll agree and we'll see that again. God wasn't doing the job, right? He was busy someplace else. So, he didn't announce like he did at these are the laws, right? He didn't. And there wasn't the rumblings of the mountains and the volcanic volcanic po pouring out of uh fire and smoke and all that said. It wasn't as as uh much fun as it was back there. This is a little more a more more natural >> very more natural which of course is what an essential essential teaching of Israel. Hello. There ain't no man over here anymore. No more splitting of the no more water coming in for nothing. The miracles of Egypt and of 20 years in the desert were wonderful. God had to do this for you. And now on get off your seats and start doing it yourself. Now it's your job. So we're going to have some very very impressive things, but it's not going to be gone. It's going to be done by people. What a crucial crucial uh um lesson for Israel to go and learn before they settle in the land and start now and start building their um homes and start uh pl now plowing and growing their things, you know, ripping up streets and putting Oh, never mind. else in anyway. Um so that's why that happens here and um it makes so much sense for now they are uh the traveling and not in uh into territories that they have conquered already and um and uh not the enemy territory, it's their territory, right? And it was again to to really impact the people to realize, yeah, you are one nation. You're going to go now spreading around. You're going to be up in the north of the Galan and you'll be in the Galil. You'll be down in the Negv. But it doesn't matter. You're still one nation. And the last thing to really hit them well, impact them there before you just remember you are one nation. so important. Um, God could have had, you know, FaceTime that would be easier also, but he didn't. So, he did, but they couldn't find any uh outlets. Anyway, this is exactly why it makes sense that it took place and why when it took place, it makes logical sense that this is probably going to happen. Um now we are still trying to struggle with why if this is correct was it placed in per why is it so early you could put that after the the conquering of the no I'm going to say this and I meant to say it in the beginning and I apologize it's not fair to me nor is it fair for the person who who who created or uh who taught me though not directly but indirectly about these things. So um Rabbi Dr. Angel his name was Angel. He's a head of the Tanak in Wu and other places now brilliantly has some books out really I found things so wonderfully uh uh eyeopening and this is one of them. This idea of showing the the sequence or the lack of sequence in Yeshua is I learned that from him. So I do want you to know that as much as you think I'm brilliant, I I just thought I learned somebody else. >> You he was Spanish and Portuguese. >> His father His father was father was first KJ and then he took over the for Yeah. Um No, I'm sorry. His father was Yes. A rabbi. Now, by the way, the rabbi is Huh? >> Mark. >> Yeah. Mark Angel, right? uh uh now in the uh that that synagogue very beautiful synagogue. I was there a couple of times. It is taken over by Rabbi Salvich was the um the grand nephew of the of the um anyway brilliant by the way he's brilliant uh politician as well. He says he's had the debates and he's very very smart guy you know now what God does God says okay and gives out all the brains to the where you know make them brilliant wink left sorry I got none left for you you know and then but he's got them for them the family is just remarkable um at any rate um why it would be logical that it be centered on a peric yudet for example after basically the the uh conquest of the areas of done but why did I put it so angel angel's name but whatever he he he said that um it was purposely centered or placed right after the story of I which I told you it was a battle which they first lost and then they were victorious and it was placed there because as we'll see when I we we go into the story of the battle of I um it was the the defeat was based upon a sin and their defeat was because of punishment and then when they when they fixed that and when they returned from the sin and they you know did the chuva they then were successful. So it was a perfect time to explain that now okay now you understand the punishment and the reward the braha and the kala. So he said that's a very very logical reason why it was put it right there. It may have happened later on but it was a very important lesson and therefore it was placed there. Um now he also says that perhaps the flow of the narrative is so um for example in the sixth chapter we'll see in per we find that Rav who was the one who took in the Magalim she was saved from the destruction of Right. And uh even though she wasn't a Hebrew, he was, you know, not Jewish. He's a nice guy. You hear these awesome things. And then you see in the seventh chapter, we read the sin of Ben Zabi. that the one who sinned which caused the defeat at eye was punished. He was put to death. Even though he was a Hebrew, he was Ben Israel. Not only was he, he was from the the head family of of the most important tribe, Yehuda. Yehuda. The head of Yehuda was Dra. This is his great great grandson who did the son. who did the sin and he was punished. Doesn't matter who you are. God is saying you're not Jewish but you did the right thing, you will be rewarded. You are Jewish but you did the wrong thing, you're going to be punished. That's what punishment and reward is. And when you're coming before harimal, how important it is to understand you're not going to bribe yourself out of this. there's right and there's wrong nowadays we don't believe in that but that's what it is and that's what the Torah is so clearly telling us and it's telling us that here as well um it's important in fact it's important that uh the wars that Israel went through are not ethnic no cleansing or wasn't genocidal. It was just simply religious wars of correctly doing the right thing or the wrong thing. You know, if you're bad, you're doomed. If you do, if you accept God, then you're spared. That's all. Um, and to emphasize this, to emphasize um what I touched upon over here about the rewards and so on and so forth, look what we have here. And I think it's the fourth um yeah source that I brought to you and that is from uh still the se the eighth per where they had where they detail the um blessings and uh and the curses and there we read the following. I said to you, he says, "No, um, you have come, this is Yoshua says this, you have come to the hill um country of the Amor, the Amorites, which Hashem is giving to us." Okay? See, God has placed the le the land at your disposal. Go up, take possession. God promised it. Fear not. Do not be dismayed. And then it says this, "Then you all come and said, oh, I'm sorry. This is called I made a mistake. I obviously when I I I I took the the translation and I I I accidentally got translated the um the translation I'll give it says the following. Okay. administration says all of Israel uh the elders I mean the leaders and the and the the judges were standing from either side of the uh holy thing uh opposite the kanim and the levim who are carrying the aron hashem and uh kagzra both the g the g being what uh the convert or others or thing and the Ezra and the citizen strange >> right not the born Jew those who accepted God though they were there too right half of them elimin har just like you had six uh tribes uh of Israelites on one side and the other six on the other side. Included also were the gay rim. There too as God had had uh um taught had had commanded um as God had commanded Moshe to the to bless Israel. Okay. First first thing the first blessing of Israel. Okay. And after that it says kor he they read the entire to the the Torah the the blessing and the curses as it's written in the Torah in Dvarim. Uh there was not one thing that Moshe had uh commanded that Yoshua did not read publicly in front of Israel. Nashim have women, children, the hag and the convert and and the I can't really say convert per se but one who has accepted God doesn't mean that they went through the ga means they've accepted to we not to be pagan and not to be to worship um idols but to believe in God the there the who were working with him who were walking with them traveling with them who have joined up with them. So it was also the g that was he says beautifully why it's here because there are two chapters sixth and seventh one proving that the non-Jew is saved and is um rewarded and the seventh that the Jew who sinned was punished. So now I'll show you that it's true. I don't care if you're, you know, this or that. Do the right things, you get it beautifully done. Good. Um, others Angel says here that there's a third possibility. This is his idea. In fact, um, why har a val ceremony was done in the eighth chapter and he says had to do with I touched upon before the concept of self initiative and acceptance the conquest of eureo as we will say and I I hate giving it up to you because that's what I would have told you when I this was called the first battle there was no battle the Jews had a great time you Oh, they had an orchestra. They played. They had a good time. Then they marched. They had a parade. It was terrific. >> They didn't pick up a a sword. They didn't do anything for that victory. >> Blew the trumpets. >> That was God's. They blew the trumpets. That's right. So did Gabriel, right? Um they they h did nothing. The victory of Jericho was not Israel's victory. It was God's victory. And that is why, and I'm going to repeat this again. Hopefully, you won't remember. Uh that's why God says you can't keep the booty, the spoils of law of law. As was said in the beginning of the 19th century by a senator of the United States Senate, he said, "To the victor goes the spoils." You ain't the victor, man. We I am. So therefore, you can't take the spoils. So that's Jericho. But the next thing when they lost, who did that battle? That was Israel and their men. That was again, we're moving from divine miracles to human efforts. And that's what happens. precisely at that point. And so yes, there will be divine inspiration, but only with human initiative. And that's how life is going to be from now on in Israel. And that's why right after this happens, this has to be told to them. So DKA after the loss in the defeat, the battle of I um the author places this story of uh of blessings and curses right here in the eighth chapter. the acceptance of God's code without thunder, without the fire, without the lightning and without the chauffeur. Um, it now was not God. It is you who is accepting. Whereas in it said, what did they say here? This isn't okay, God. You we'll do it. No, now it's all human beings. This is in just a a judicial point. You accept it or not. What do they say? Amen. True. We will. That's what they say. Not the big NAS of we will. They agreed to it, but they did because the people were saying the blessings and they accepted the blessings and the curses as the people said it. Hello, welcome to the real world. That's the way he says it's true. And the parallels are very powerful. If we have time to go through them, I think we do. Sure. That bene Israel stand at a mountain. Laws are read to them. They offer by the way the uh schlamim the peace offerings uh the sacrifices that only happens and and when that happens was only at matan tora yes and shabu you know that's when we see it and here again it does the engraving of God's words also on those remember I I read that how they engraved it on on the um stone well hello when's the last time great things on stone. God did it. Who did it after that? 20 40 54 years later, God says, "You will now exly an unbelievable reflection of exactly what happened 54 years earlier." Pretty amazing, right? uh there's no divine uh display but there were people people speaking to people not to God and the mountain as opposed to Mount Hi who was holy don't touch it wasn't holy it wasn't considered um in fact the tribes stood on the diff the those different mountains Yeah. So this why I told you in the beginning it's Hari times two. The second time that happened but a different generation with a different power not that of God but of the whole nation agreeing to this legislative uh judicial laws that they're hearing now. Very powerful. Very powerful. >> Yes. So at Sinai the first tablets were inscribed by Hashem but the second tablets by Moses right second was they were etched by God and written down by Moshe. Correct. But they was taken out the other way around. Either Moshe took it out and God I think no I think God God wrote it but Moshe took it out of the stones. Not sure. I'll I'll you know if I had the time I I' I'd open up the hum some reason again. See age. I thought to remember that. All right. Um All right. Good. Now the third poem C I said. There's also a problem with the uh sequence at the end of the book itself. At the end of the book, there's also another challenge that we have to face. We're not going to get to the whole thing, but I don't want to just stop here in the middle. So, I will start. That way, next week I'll start again. That way, you can't tell me I cheated you. Okay, whatever. um the last chapters of um Sephra Yoshua the 23rd and 24th also. Okay. Um in the in the 22nd chapter in per cuff bed, we have that um after the prim primarily having defeated the uh the enemies, not all of the enemies, but the but but those uh um enemies who had an alliances and the large large um armies that are therefore a real challenge for Israel. That is uh only the the only challenge that was given to Yeshua. Don't believe the concept that no is supposed to was supposed to chase away all of the um enemies. That's not true. He took away the threat of the larger armies so that they can go into these areas. But it was the job of the different tri tribes themselves to fight for the local areas where they go belong into. So don't you know get mix mixed up about that. So there in the 22nd one of >> one of the last chapters uh we read um how he tells the two and a half tribes that um they can go home. uh it's time to go home now and uh you know and it becomes now really a full circle uh from the beginning and I'll show you what I mean uh well we'll get to in a second there I'll just touch on it because we're not going to be get much of it anyway because when you look at the beginning um of um the Torah I'm sorry of Yoshua You know what it says? It says kazak. Remember we said that and then when was told to be strong and resolute to observe f uh faithfully the teaching that my servant Moshe enjoined upon you. That is what God told to you could be a break to Moshe. Do not deviate from it to the right or the left so that you can be successful wherever you go. That's an emperic. We did that over again. Remember I always play around with idea like Mo who ever told Moshe Moshe told that to every people but this new leader they weren't too sure how he's going to be so they had to give him that. Look how it ends in the 23 to the end of Gimmel. It says in Yeshua, look, but be most resolute to observe faithfully. No, it's okay. I'm finished already. Faithfully all that is written in the teaching of Moshe without ever deviating from to to the right or left. Almost word for word that they tell Yeshua in the beginning, right? in the beginning of the chap he uses it to tell the um two and a half tribes who by the way said the same thing to him but be that you have to begin. So it's a fascinating closing, a wonderful closing of the book that in the beginning it was uh it was God telling and and the two and a half tribes telling uh Yeshua to be strong and resolute and follow what God says and at the end it's Yeshua who is telling the three two and a half tribes and those who are leaving the exact same thing. So it's a wonderful closure there and understand what's happening. But that's just the beginning. That's just the beginning of what happens at the end of this. Um when you realize that in this gimmel, you know, how would we say Yoshua was no longer a spring chicken. Yeah. Yua was well on in his probably not I think he leave dies at 110 m. Yeah. I'm sure social security was happening that was happy they didn't have to take care of things anymore. But he was elderly and yet still rather strong, right? And um here he is reminding them what they had reminded him. And um this is wonderful. It's the first and then the 23rd. But we're going to get to the 24th perk. That's when we're going to have things to worry about. And that's our challenge of Hashem next week to be able to do a look at that. Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you.