The Truth About Israel – Torah, War, and What Really Matters - Parshat Matot-Masei - Rabbi Kaplan

I want to go back to the war for a second. Alfdal is on page 9004. So the Torah says they're going to war against Midyan. And if you look in three lines from the top, it says la. So we're talking about yesterday about a thousand from each uh thousand from each tribe. So the the the the medish does I forgot if Rashi brings it down or not. Um or does he say Rashi the mate? I can't even see. Um [Music] I don't remember if Rashi brings it down or the medish brings down or the brings down. They there were 12,000 that went to war. 12,000 watch the equipment and 12,000 davins. So there are 12,000 of each. And 12,000 went to the war. 12,000 move this uh move this thing over here. Thanks, Hilly. The uh 12,000 went to war, 12,000 uh uh uh watched the equipment, and 12,000 do. But it says that when they dive in, they do at the battlefront. 12,000 were there at the battlefront ding. So the question is why? Why why were they why why did they have to d it at the battlefront? You know, go to Schul, open up the encoder, say some to why you're going off to the battlefront to dab it. So, the obvious answer is twofold. Uh the number one, it's you dab it. You know, they say that when a band plays, when a band plays like at a wedding, they play to the dancers. The better you dance, the better they play. You know that you you create the enthusiasm. You never heard that? You ever heard that? the idea that the the band plays plays based on on on on the response, you know, the audience as they play better. The better they play, the better they dance. So what's that? >> Oh, so the better. Oh, so when when they d when they went to the battlefront, when they went to the battlefront, when you see the war going on, it's one thing that we know intellectually, yeah, we're going to die in any way. We know Hashem is going to protect us and we know that all 12,000 of the warriors come back. Nobody was killed here. Nobody gets killed. And we're even told there are illusions and based on the sukim when they're told go to to go to the go to the war that that's all they're going to do is just approach and hashem will take care of it. So we all know we're all we're all good to go. But when you're actually there and you're seeing some stabbing and and and clubbing and and blood and everything else that gets a it creates a different type of dominating sometimes when you go to visit a sick that's why sometimes it's good the mitzvah of bother the mitzvah of visiting a sick person pushed it over to me because I'm going to forget it before if I don't have it now I'm going to forget it before I leave I will forget it I can forget it over here too it's not the the uh the the the if you go to visit a sick person sometime you hear somebody is not Well, okay. Then you go to visit him and you see he's really not well. So it creates a different type of ding. You know we ding for the guy. We heard the guy was sick. You're ding. When you go to visit him and you see that he's sick, that he's serious, then you dab in differently. It's a different type of ding. So when they're at the battlefront, it's going to be a different ding for them. Number one. Number two, it's going to be a different battle for the Jewish people because again, intellectually we may know that is doing it for us, but when you're the guy stabbing people and you're guy clubbing people, there's a very big danger of kiodi that I'm accomplishing it myself and watching the 12,000 people who are standing there doing. I mean, I don't know exactly how this worked. You know, they're dotting. They're they're doing. I could just imagine, you know, he's about to he's about to stab some Midionite. He says, "Just one second." Yeah. Okay. Now that and and take him out. So it it it just is a reminder that it's not you. It's a reminder it's not you. It's a reminder that it's like is doing it for you. Number one. Number two, they come back from the battlefront and Mosha Rabenu is is upset. Now, if you'll notice, take a look at uh at the bottom all the way at the bottom of 9004. So, it says two lines at the bottom. Moshe gets upset. The next puk says now it could have also said it could have also said uh um vom because it already told us Moshe got upset with them and the next pa could have started and he said to them yet it says alle mohea it says his name again why does it say mo's name Yeah. >> Excellent. That means very good. That means it's a different Moshe now. It's a different Mosha. It's a new Mosha. It's a new Mosha. That means he got upset. But before you speak now, calm down. Somebody once said, "If you ever feel like telling somebody off, don't. That's the worst possible time to do it. When you feel like doing it. It's not the right time to tell somebody off because it's not going to come off right. just gonna come out in anger. And so Mosher Raenu understands that the f again it's a lesson that we learned from Mosher Rabenu. This is something by the way that comes up in life all the time. I this is extremely important. You know sometimes let's say you're in Shaw and somebody's not doing something right in Shaw. Somebody's talking during laning or somebody's you a couple guys are smoozing or joking around in Schul. Should you say something to them or should you not say something to them? Should you should you should you tell them to stop it or should you not tell them to stop it? Now the the the says that somebody who's talking during ding it says gobo you are supposed to say something but it doesn't say who's the one who's supposed to say something who should be I know of a sh there's sh in Chicago where they have a rule in the shul nobody is allowed to shush anybody except the rough you're not allowed to shush other people because usually when you shush people you're very selective about it you usually shush people that you anyway don't like oh my wife nailed me bad once real had was the early days of marriage. He hasn't nailed me since then. But she nailed me. Yeah. I came home from Shaw. I told my wife, I think we were married two years. I said, "Wife, I had a confrontation in Shaw." She said, "What happened?" I said, "These two guys were talking and I told him to stop talking." And she so she said to me, "What else don't didn't you what else don't you like about them?" I said, "What do you mean?" She said, "Well, if they were good friends of yours, you wouldn't have done it." Oh, that hurt. She was because she was right as usual. So, so here you have now two guys. I have a rule. I have a rule and I'm going to tell take this rule to a step further. In Shul you don't have a right to say you shouldn't, we shouldn't. We're not at that level. Leave it for bigger people to tell people if they're doing something. It depends. Is it bothering you directly? Another the guy next to you is dobbing too loud. Okay. You can't think what you're saying because he's dobbing too loud or he's crowding you on the bench almost sitting on your lap or or he's shaking he's shaking the bench. You can't have that. Then you have a right to nicely ask, "Oh, by the way, could you I I have trouble concentrating. Blame yourself. It's always good. I I have trouble concentrating. Maybe I could ask you just to to or or I know that you have intense cavana because you're a very high level, but I I I'm having trouble. Can maybe I could ask you to lower it that you're allowed to. Two guys in the back where you're d where you're bothered by the principle of the thing, don't get involved. That's a good rule in life. When you're bothered by the principle of the thing, don't get involved more even more than that. I think it was Reba Victor Miller saw somebody doing something wrong and he didn't intervene. He didn't say something. Not in his own sh. I don't know where it was, but he didn't he didn't get involved. This is a man who who got involved on a regular basis when he had to. And somebody asked him why he didn't get involved. He said because there's a principle in Gomorrah that says your life comes before somebody else's life. The classic example of the two guys in the desert and only one guy has there's a one guy has a jug of water and there's not enough for both of you. If you both drink both if they both drink, they're both going to die. And if one of them drinks it himself, he'll make it out of the desert. The other guy will die. So Gomorra asks, "What should you do?" So the first opinion is that you share it with the other guy. Don't watch the other guy die. Says, "No, your life comes first. You have to keep yourself alive. You're not allowed to tease the other guy, you know, like boy, this water is good." Yeah, you can't can't do that. But your life comes first. Revdar Miller said my spiritual life comes first also on the one hand I could correct this guy because he's doing something wrong on the other hand that's not good for my own meos for me to correct people is not good for my own midos right now that's because when I correct people I tend to get upset and I think I tend to get upset I tend to say it incorrectly for me at this stage in life it's not a good thing to do it's a very important point very important point you're correcting somebody else and what's that doing to Maybe you feel high and holy now. And a person has to assess this. My rule is if it's not bothering you directly. If it's not bothering you directly, interfering with you directly, if it's only the principle of thing, don't get involved. Don't get involved. And if you do get involved, it's got to be very calm. I had a guy yesterday again, you know, that happens on the bus, and this is the bus without the air conditioning, too. That was not a good that was not a good start. So, this guy was at the bus stop. I see him every morning at the bus stop. He has a cell phone. He talks loud and he paces back and forth in front of the bus stop where I I usually have a mission open and he he paces back and forth talking loudly. Okay. The bus finally pulls up. He sits in the seat the front seat to the right and that was the only available seat on the bus. So I sat down next to him and he was kind of sitting at an angle with half of his thigh on my side of the seat. So, I tried being uh I tried I tried being a little bit uh uh uh to kind of hint at it. I just kind of put my hand down to just first I want to check to make sure that I'm not on his side and who's crowding who over here. So, I put my hand down to see, you know, there's a little crack between the seats and he I couldn't even get my hand through because his thigh is overside. I said to him, you know, just very nicely. So he he moved his thigh over a little bit, but there was still we were still bumper to bumper and uh and and uh and and the bus the air conditioning wasn't working and so it was hot and I I really didn't feel like having his thigh against my thigh and then he takes off I can make this up if I wanted to. He takes his hat off and started fanning himself with his hat, but he was fanning himself in front of my eyes. So So I didn't say anything at that point. And I'm saying to myself, okay, I am obviously being tested here. This is a test. This is all a test. We are This is only a test, right? So, I'm being tested. And then he pulled out. He stopped fanning himself. Then he pulled out. I think it was a Gomorrah. And he kind of leaned part of it on my shoulder as he was holding it. Part of it was leaning on my shoulder. At that point, I said, "You know what? I I I think I've I've had about enough, you So I just kind of got up and not not I didn't storm out of the seat which I would have done when in my younger days I would have kind of made sure he knew that I'm so I just kind of gently got up and went to you know to a different place on the bus and I got even a better seat. See Hashem loves the righteous. But the uh but you see there's no end to that sort of thing. If you're going around correcting people there's no end to that because people are always doing things wrong around you. But if it's not bothering you don't get involved. That's my rule. Okay. Now we go to a new section here. Um just right this is we're going to start this new section just right after uh uh uh Hilly makes it colder in the room. So on page 910 on page 910 that's a very fascinating section. Thank you Hilly. There's a fascinating section. Page 910 they come back and we yesterday we learned about all the utensils and what they they they they took the gold and the silver and they donated. And then on page 910 it says like this there was a tremendous amount of cattle for the tribes of Ruvane and the tribes of God. Meodsum means they already had a lot of cattle and now that they divided up the cattle that's for what they what they what they uh the booty that they captured from Midyun. Now the cattle there it even increased their cattle got tremendous amount of livestock gill mo they noticed that this other side of the Jordan what we what we call the occupied east bank the occupied east bank of the Jordan is a beautiful grazing area massive grazing area and there's a lot of a lot of grazing landuh they come to Moshe and the sons of God Ruven. They come to Moshe and they say they say the following. Now first of all do you notice any problem here between these first three between Pagalof and Pug Giml and Pug Bay? Do you see do you see a problem? >> It mentions that they come in twice. >> Okay. What else? >> The order. >> Yes. Yes. Excellent. First, it starts out there was a lot of cattle for the ben ruin and the benet god. And then it says they approached Moshe, the benet god and the ben ruin, right? It reverses the order. There are no accidents in Torah. You're not like, oh, somebody, you know, wrote this at the commercial real quick, so he wasn't paying attention. You know, this is, you know, that needs it needs to be explained. And then they say the following. These various cities, towns, whatever you call them, the land that Hashem has smitten, which is the land of and og, which are the last two battles. You know, that's great grazing land. We have a lot of cattle. Then the next bus begins. Vom they said. Now why is it saying vyu? Why say they're in the middle of talking? Why do they have to say and they said? Why say and they said? >> Why was there a break? You're right. There must have been a break. Why was there a break? >> Probably blew his lid. >> It doesn't say yet. Doesn't say he blew his lid. >> Probably that was the request. You know, when you you're weedling somebody. >> So, so what you call weedling, imagine a wife coming over to her husband and she says to her husband, a wife wants to buy a new couch. They always want to buy a new couch. And a wife wants to buy a new couch. So, she comes over to her husband says, "You know, uh uh you know, uh uh Yitzk, you know, we've had this couch for a really long time." At that point, a smart wife will pause because most husbands at that point will say one word, which is no. No, stop. I know where this is going. So, the wife, you know, she goes, you know, we've had this couch for a long time. And the husband isn't saying anything. So, now she's encouraged to continue. They understand when they come to Moshe and say, you know, uh, you know, there's a lot of good grazing land here and uh, we have an awful lot of cattle. And Moshab gets it. He got it. I didn't understand where they're going with this. What? What? They just they they decided to to to smoo. They understood where he's going with this. So, at that point, now now let's go for the request. let us have this land as a portion. Do not cross us with the the Jordan. Now, you have to understand that this request is not only for their benefit. This is going to be a benefit for the entire Jewish people because if they're going to get their portion on that side of the Jordan, that means that there's more to be divided on this side for all the other tribes. The other tribes have probably have no objection either on that on on those grounds. Okay? So why is it? Why is it? So what then happens? So Moshe says to them, what you're going to gosh, what your brothers are going to go to war and you're going to stay right over here. And then he goes on with the whole, why are you discouraging the people? The spies did the same thing. Why are you doing this? This is not a good thing. You're going to discourage the people. We've gotten in trouble this once before. He goes a whole smooz here. So the uh uh uh the end of the story, if you skip on, then we're going to go back to that first question that Bini asked. The end of the story is on page 912. And what do they say to Mosher Rabu? Mosher says, "What? They're going to go to war. They're going to go into Israel. You're going to stay over here." Seven lines from the top. We will build pens or corrals for our for our sheep. Will make cities for our children. We will head we will go at the head of the armies of the Jewish people when they go into the land of Israel. We bring them to their place. We never had in mind that we're not going into the land of Israel to fight. Not only we don't not only will go in to fight, we will lead the battle. We'll go in first. Now, this answers that question. You see, the the tribes of Ruvane and the tribes of God, and it may have very well been Ruain's idea, might have been the tribe of Ruven's idea because they're mentioned first. But the tribe of God were known as fierce warriors. And in Yako Ainu's braha to the tribe of of God, they were not only fierce warriors, they had a distinctive way of killing people. Most of the armies when you went to war, you chop the guy's head off. The tribe of God had a certain type of uh motion with the sword. They had they cut off the head with the shoulder. It was one chop. They chopped off a head. You could tell victims of God, invert victims versus victim, the victims of God were missing their head and their shoulder. They were known as the Head and Shoulders shop. They probably started a shampoo company later on in life, but they they were known as Maybe that's where Head and Shoulders came from, you know, who knows? They they started they were the they they it was they a head and should so they were fierce warriors. So they're specifically the tribe of God that comes to make this offer to Mosher Rabenu. So that you see that see we're the warriors. We're coming forward and then eventually they're able to present. We're going to go ahead of the army. We're going to go into the land of Israel. At that point most well that's different. That's different. If you're willing to do that, that's great. But they're going to get a criticism for something else. Take a look again at Puzz. Take a look again at Puzz. Uh seven lines from the top. Now look at their terminology. We will build corrals for our for our sheep and cities for our children. What did they what did they put first? >> They put the sheep first. Take a look at Rashi. It's a right column. Three lines from the top. They cared more about their their their money, their property than their children. Said, "No, no, make the main thing the main thing and make the secondary thing secondary." In his response says to them, "Build cities for your children. of so you know Ravine Zatsal Rainebar Zatsal said that uh this is the classic symbolic of the classic idea. We want to provide a solid financial basis for our children. We want our children to make sure they have a degree and we want to make sure our children even some couples don't even want to have children until they have enough finances for them. And you see that the Torah says don't worry about that first first take care of the children. Worry about the children. What's best for the child let the child study Torah let them learn Torah. Everybody not everybody in the world with a degree makes a partna. And not everybody who learns Torah ends up I don't know anybody in colo who yet who has starved. I don't I still haven't met anybody who starved to death who's only learned Torah. Uh and and and you want to make we we're always saving. What are you saving for? For our kids. And what do your kids do? They're saving for who? For their kids. And what do they do? They say for who? For their kids. Where is this mysterious kid? We never we never get to meet this mysterious kid who everybody's saving for. So that's why it doesn't mean to be reckless. We don't we never promote recklessness and and irresponsibility. And if a person has to have a you have to have a parosa and sometimes you have to go to school and get a degree and get a profession there are obviously person has to behave responsibly but it's not a Torah it's not a Torah value first establish a firm foundation some people never establish firm foundations what about a guy who never makes it financially so then he should never have children I should never get married have children because he doesn't have guy could be 90 guy could be 49 years old and he's never made it financially plenty of guys who are married they struggle their whole life that happens because comes from so you try to do the best you can and realize that it's not in our hands anyway so the Torah comes along and says that's not the right priority that's not the right priority number one number two I had a different idea here about why it puts the benet first if you look back and I I I think that I I haven't seen any commentary say this but if you look back let's look at the history of the tribe of Ruvine let's assume this was their idea let's assume it was Ruvine's idea the tribe of Ruvane and yet they told the tribe of God, you know what you guys presented. Why would that be? Well, if you look at the history of Ruven, Ruvane does not have a good track record. Number one, the first time we find that Ruvane Ruvane got involved in something and it didn't work out was with the sale of Yoseph. He had a whole plan that he would, you know, come back and he'd rescue Yoseph. It didn't work. The next time Ruvane gets involved is when Raul dies and Yakov Aino switches his main tent becomes Bilha's tent and Ruven gets involved and moves his bed over to Leia's tent and he gets criticized for that. And the next time it happens is when uh they send the brothers down. Yakov sends the brothers down to Yoseph who's now the viceroy of Egypt. And Yoseph keeps Shimon over there. He says, "I want to see your youngest brother." And Ruain says to YaKob Au, "Send them with me and if I don't bring him back, you kill my first you killed two of my children." And YaKob rolls his eye. What? They're your children. They're not my my grandchildren. So that's rejected. Everything Ruvane touches got rejected. So you know the tribe and not only that, what else happened from Ruvane? Who else? Who comes from the tribe of Ruvane? Dustin and Avirum are from the tribe of Ruvane. The perpetual the perpetual White Sox fans, right? Dusten and Aviram are from the tribe of Ruvane. They're no good. Everything in the tribe of Ruvane, it's somehow it doesn't work out well at that point. Ruvane's the tribe of Ruvane has an idea. You know what? Let let us present it. You know, the tribe of God come, you know, they come walking in over here. You know, uh we'll we'll take them out. we'll go to war with them. You know, the the we're the warriors. It'll come off better. Do you know that there is a Muslim safer? I forgot where it is. I think in the I think it's in the or I don't remember for sure. If you ever have a good idea in your community, if you're a community member, you're a member of a scholar community and you have a really good idea for the community, tell it over to either a or a wealthy man and let him present it because they'll be listened to. People listen to Tom and even more people listen to rich people. If you're just an ordinary guy and you got a great idea, let somebody else present it because when an I every, you know, every cab driver in Israel knows how to fix the Israeli economy. Is it interesting? He has a lot of time to think about it because he's in his cab. >> Yeah. They all know >> he's in his cab. So he knows how to think. I mean, if you're, you know, if you had such a great idea, if you're so good at this, you should own the cab company. So, so, you know, it doesn't mean anything. If all of a sudden, you know, if if Warren Buffett would visit Israel and talk about fixing up the Isra Oh, oh, would people listen? Warren Buffett, you know, that everybody would listen because because and so, so, so the tribe of Ruain seems to give it over to the tribe of God to do it. So Bossha Rabbenu makes this agreement with them and he makes a condition. Now take a look at um take a look at Peric Lammed Bammed Bay. Uh it's on the next page 914. So they go back and forth with all the conditions here. And then uh is seven lines from the top of the tribe of God and the tribe of they say We will go at the forefront, armed at the forefront before Hashem in the land of Cananan and our portion will be on the other side of the yard. So if you notice over here, it says we will go before Hashem into the land of Kanan. And what that means is that going into the land of Kanan has to be before Hashem. What is the good of having Israel? The good of having Israel is that we can do we can learn Torah and fulfill Torah better initem. That means we go into as long as we're leaf hashem. We're loyal to Hashem then is worth something to come to Israel and not be observant not be Torah observant. I mean frankly why would you want to be here? You know, just about anything material, you could do much better in other places. Entertainment. Make me laugh. In Israel, entertainment. Yeah. If you want to see movies from 20 years ago, uh if if what do you call it? Uh finances, the shekele. Really? You know, why would you want to stay here with the inconveniences, the D, you know, it's it's a Middle Eastern country. It's not, you know, go to America, go to Los Angeles, go to New York, go to London, go you can do much better materially somewhere else. The only benefit of it is lash. So Israel is not a Israel. That is one of the reasons why Mosher Rabenu is compared to the sun and Yeshua is compared to the moon. Moshe is the sun. Yeshua is the moon. What does the moon do? It reflects the light of the sun. What did Mosher Raenu do for the Jewish people? Brought down the Torah. What did Yeshua do for the people? He led them into the land of Erit Israel. That means Israel the same way that Yoshua is a reflection of Mosher Rabenu. His rebi Israel has to be a reflection of Torah. Yeshua is Mosher Rabenu. He didn't even go into Israel. He's Torah. Yeshua. Erit is to reflect Torah. That's why somebody once said the best, this is the best uh summation I ever heard of of Israel. Somebody once said, "Nothing in Israel is real. The money isn't real." You know, they kind of got that monopoly money feel. Uh the driving is certainly not real. Uh you know, I told you if a bus could drive up on the sidewalk and honk you out of the way, uh simply because you're on his sidewalk, you know, that's not real. Uh the the uh entertainment industry is not real. The sports in Israel, the Israeli soccer, the Israeli basketball team, the best team is called Makabe. Makabe is the name of a team and it's also the name of a beer. And neither of them are very good. And and the nobody's ever going to get Makabe got get Makabe mixed up with Michelob. That I can tell you. and and uh uh the the politics in Israel is certainly not real. Nothing here is real except the Torah except that's what's real. Everything else is a it's all a backdrop. It's all it's all background for for a for a Now it doesn't mean that we we don't neglect materialism. We need we need our we need you know Israel's come a long way by the way. Israel's come a long long way since I first got here. When I first got here, not everybody had telephones. You know that 1980 when we moved into our our neighborhood, we didn't have we had seven people hooked up on one telephone. So on one telephone line, telephone would ring and you'd pick it up. You'd pick it up. You have to figure out which family the which family it was for till we finally got our It was great fun especially when you get to listen in that. Don't tell anybody. I once not only that I was living here in Malfta was my first year of marriage. So, I pick up the phone and I pick up the phone to make a call and I hear somebody else on the line. Two guy two guys are talking. So, I I'm like, "Shalom." I said, "Ma, maza." I said, "I just got to make a phone call." So, they said, "Well, what you know, we're you know, we're on the phone." So, I said, "Yeah, how long are you going to be on the phone?" They started yelling at me. They said, "Get off, get off the phone. Get off the line." So, I said, "Okay." So I hear one of the other guys said and I kept the phone on and I hear one of the guys said see I told him and I said no you didn't I'm still here and they start hollering oh did they get upset and that was this is the place where the phones were working. This is the night I'm talking about. Stores used to close, you know, so you couldn't buy anything between one and four. A siesta like a lot of mil Mediterranean car a siesta till they realize if you got Hey, if you want to make money, you got to work, you know. So, we've come a long way. They're better roads. There's a train, the Jew, what they call the Jerusalem light rail, which is neither light nor a rail, but all right. At least they call it that. Everybody have a choo choo train. and and they and they okay it's all it's all but at the end of the day it's all for it's all just to help us to be able to grow in the that's now one more point if you take a look and it's a very powerful idea take a look at perman uh yeah so it says Manasha now the half tribe of Manasha doesn't mean half part of Masha apparently it doesn't say where and where they jumped on the bandwagon also so part of the tribe of Minasha decided to join them he gave them the land of gives these lands. Now, I want to tell you something, gentlemen. We learned that Mosher Rabenu, the last battles they fought were against Sikhon and Og. Og was a giant. Og was a giant, a famous giant. And the Gomorra and Braha says that Mosheru killed Og because he Mosher was 10os tall. He jumped 10 Amos, took a hatchet that was 10 almost long. That means he's 30 off the ground. And he swung the hatchet and hit Og in the ankle. So I made a calculation once that if OG's ankle was 30 almost off the ground based on our measures, you know, that means he was about 4 fifths of a mile tall. What's that? What's that? The tallest just building in the world, the B what's it called? >> Birch. >> What's the Birch part? Burj Khalifa, which is I think if I'm not mistaken, it's about 600 meters. Okay. Which is slightly over half a mile. Og was taller according to the medish whatever whatever that means whatever that means maybe he helped them build it you know he put the lights and switches up at the top I don't know the light fixtures so whatever it is og is a giant mosha kills og and there's obviously symbolism about who he was intimidated o had a certain merit and the merit of og was he was the one who brought a vid to the message that his nephew lot was given but there's a medish a remarkable medish listen to this medish the medish says like this Melikabashan if you make a calculation when do we first meet him when does first enter the picture >> before even before that >> where no that ogar says og survived the flood by hanging on to the on the outside of the tava the water around the table was cooled off and Og held on over there whatever that means and now we find him hundreds of years later when the Jewish people are ready to enter the land of Israel. Now Mosher Rabenu kills him. So the med says, "What did og melabashan do that he deserved to live so long and what did he do that he ends up getting killed by Mosher Abedum?" So the Medish says when he saw Aram and Sor back in the day, he said to Aram and Sor, "The two of you are beautiful like a tree alongside a brook." You ever see these, you know, they have the greeting cards? They have these birthday cards. Some of them are these sticky cards, you know, the sticky cards like, you know, you know, Hallmark sticky cards and some of them are like these soft focus, real sincere ones, you know, that the girls sent to each other and real sincere. So, like thinking of you, you know, and you know, and they always have a picture sincere. You always see a picture of like a girl in a pony in a tree and there's like a little a little lake behind them, right? That's all somehow the combination. So they said to Mosher Rab, they said to Abra and Sarah, the two of you are beautiful like a tree alongside a brook. For that compliment merited long life. So why was he killed? Because of the next sentence he said but you don't produce fruit for that insensitive was decreed that was going to kill him. The person understands if a person builds people up person encourages people compliments people to actually extend their life and if a person is insensitive with their mouth it could actually cut their life short. So he's the last one that Mosherenu kills before they go into the land of Israel. Then they have this battle with Mya. Now one last point we stop. Take a look at P me. The Moshe bottom of 9:14 Mosherenu awards the Gill to Mo the son of Manasha. He takes over this land, this area of Gilead, another son. He captured the suburbs is what we would call suburbs, the surrounding areas. He named them after himself. He didn't have he didn't have offspring. So he named them after himself. So take a look at Rashi. Sorry, one more puzzle. Now, if you look carefully, it's going to sound technical, but it's not. There's a guy named Novak and he goes and he captures it. Now, that law normally would get a dot in the hay. What we call a dugish. It should be read normally would be with the emphasis on the hay but there's no dish here grammatically there should be a dugish in this hey and there isn't says rashi why right column of rashi second line it doesn't have that we don't read it as law possessive why not this this name did not endure the name he named the city novak and it never it somehow it didn't last therefore it's a soft sound it's not a it's not letter is that is law because the name didn't last what's the lesson gentlemen you cannot perpetuate your name through bricks and mortar he tries to build a city that's going to perpetuate his name that's not how one perpetuates his name there's A Washington monument. It's a Washington monument. Okay. Well, Washington doesn't appreciate it. You know, it's just a just a big a big way to go. That's a Okay. So, what we know it's a Washington monument. >> Clinton monument. >> The what? >> The Clinton monument. His personality. >> The Okay. He was a brick. But but at the end of the day, at the end of the day, you're not going to perpetuate yourself through buildings. You perpetuate yourself through your actions. But there's one last cute point before you point out. What is the what does the word novak mean in Hebrew? Noveak. Novak >> bark. >> To bark. Dogs bark. The garra says a person who speaks lash, it is fitting to throw him to the dogs. Person who speaks lash should be thrown to the dogs. That's what the garra says. Take a look at the word right before Novak. Law. What does law stand for? Lashhara. What comes after a law? You speak lashhara. Novak, you're going to end up barking. They call it Novak. You end up getting thrown to the dogs. All right, gentlemen. We continue. We might not be Shear tomorrow. There might be a guest speaker, but we have to go to Par's mass. We got a double header this week.