Shnayim Yomi - Chukat - Rivi'i - #4- Rabbi Avraham Benhamu

[Music] In order to understand the story a little better, let's go to our quick map over here. Just a quick review. We left Egypt to get from Egypt to Israel from the side door over here. It took us 40 years. This happened in the first year and a half. This happens over 38 years. It's now the 40th year. It's now time for us to get closer to Israel. We're now going to the land of Adam. Oriah discusses that as we come to the land of Adom, Moshe sends messengers to Adam to ask permission to go through land so we can go into Israel. And Adam and when he goes to Adam, he tells Adam, you know, we were brothers. Adam is we're sure you heard, but we made a wrong turn. We went to and we're slaves these past 400 and somehat years and now we're free. Obviously, you have your land and we're now asking permission as you know the not so lucky people. Can we go through your land just so we can go in to Israel? We won't go through your fields. We won't take anything from you. Just we're going to go through King's Highway and go right into Israel. To which Adam says, "No, you cannot cross through our land. You cannot drink our water. And if you come here, we'll come out with swords." To which Moshe responded and said, "Listen, if we do drink from your water, we'll pay you for it." that water theme is still plag. And he says, "We won't go. We'll go. We'll go on your side of roads in case you're worried about us hurting your highways." Edom comes out with their men to greet Moshe. At that point, Moshe says, "Okay, we're not going to have any problems." And now they have to walk around Edom. So, they shouldn't have to walk through the land. Going around them takes them to a place called Hahar. Here I want to point out that this is how we Jews fight our wars. We don't. We always ask permission. We push and we beg and we offer to pay. And if at the end of the day they tell us no and there are other options for us to go to, we walk around. And that's what we have done our entire lives. If we cannot do it with the permission of people and there are other options, we take the other options. [Music]