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What is the meaning of the verse "These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan in the desert of the Arabah"? Rabbi Josiah Pinto explains


Just before he was about to die: the lawyer began questioning the old man

What is the meaning of the verse "These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan in the desert of the Arabah"?

Rabbi Josiah Pinto explains, just before we read on Shabbat the Torah of Deuteronomy in which Moses outlines for the Israelites the path they will follow even after his death

David Berger, submitted on behalf of Shuba Israel

04/08/2022

Thursday, August 4, 2022, 10:08 a.m. Updated: 11:50 a.m.

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This coming Shabbat, we will read in the synagogue the Deuteronomy passage in which Moshe Rabbino outlines for the Israelites the path they will follow even after his death.



The Rebbe Rabbi Yosiah Pinto - the head of the "Shuba Yisrael" institutions, expanded on the verse "These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan in the desert in the Arabah."



And so Rabbi Pinto said:



In this week's parshah we find "These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the desert in the desert in front of Mol Suf between Paran and Topel and Laban and Hatzerat and Di Sefer" say our holy rabbis who began to say three things before his death.

Let's come and ask Moses, after all he studied the holy Torah with the Israelites every day, why then did he have to repeat the Torah and say the book of Deuteronomy before his death with all the enormous importance of the book of Deuteronomy.

And one should also ask, why does Moshe give them details "beyond the Jordan in the desert in the desert opposite the end" after all everyone knows that Moshe our Lord was in the desert and was not allowed to enter the Land of Israel, why did he have to tell them the places again?



Rather, our holy sages say, and this is how it is brought out in my book, that before the death of Moses, the Almighty God showed him everything that was going to happen to the people of Israel throughout the generations. Good times, bad and difficult times, God showed everything to Moses.

And our sages emphasize the desert in the Arabah, which symbolizes the destruction of the house and the desolation that will be in the people of Israel.


And the courtyards also showed them the comfort, that they would have beautiful courtyards and houses, and enough gold that everything would be gold.

"Phrase Jerusalem will be restored" (Zechariah 2:8) that Jerusalem will be expanded and happy.

And enough gold also from the words "And I have poured out a blessing upon you until my end" (Malachi 3:10) The Almighty God showed Moses the good and the bad.


After the Almighty showed him everything, Moses was almost one hundred and twenty years old, thirty-six Days before he passed away, the Midrash (Yelkosh, 3. 500g) says that people began to chant that Moses, after seeing such difficult things, lost his mind.



And the parable of the old man who is about to die and calls the lawyer and tells him about all his assets and what to do with them after his death, this son divides his property like this and this son like this. and asks him questions to check how strong and true the old man's mind is.

Asking him where he is now, where the house of an unknown person is, what day of the week it is and what the date is today.



This is how it was with Moses and the children of Israel. The children of Israel said that perhaps Moses was speaking without coming back to his senses. Perhaps the fear of death and being separated from the people of Israel influenced him to speak things that were not proper and true, and there is a divinity in his words. That is why Moses stands and says to them that they are in the desert, and this is facing the sea. end and it is a walking distance of eleven days from Mount Sinai. Moses stands and tells the Israelites all the details where they are and shows them that he knows everything he says and he is in the settlement of knowledge strong, that everything is a tender muscle and exists, because when a person is about to die from the world or when a person hears trouble And difficult things, his mind can go wrong and he can say wrong things, but Moshe shows them that everything is from God and he knows everything exactly.


And so we also find in Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 10:2) "in the fourth month at nine of the month of the valley, the city".



All commentators ask how it is possible to say that the city was conquered on the 9th of the month, after all it was conquered on the 17th of Tammuz, so how can it be said so on the 2nd of the month?



Our holy rabbis make excuses and say really it was on the 17th day of Tammuz, but because of the severe troubles that were due to the great troubles that the people of Israel had during that period of killing and captivity, out of grief they got the date and thinking wrong and started saying 9th of the month. Who asks how God assumed and left that a mistake and an incorrect thing would be written in the prophet that on the ninth of the month the city was destroyed, after all it was written by the prophet Jeremiah in the Holy Spirit, so how was a mistake written in the Holy Spirit?



Rather, our holy sages say this, Jeremiah the prophet saw the prophecy and it was extremely difficult for him, Jeremiah had the greatest difficulty and sorrow.

When he woke up from the prophecy and the vision he had, out of grief and anguish of soul he said on the ninth of the month even though it should have been for time because the same difficult thing caused him so much pain that he already felt on the ninth of the month that the city had been destroyed. God left it and did not want to change Because this is what Jeremiah felt and already said it in the prophecy on the ninth of the month, and even that it was a few days after the 17th of Tammuz.



The things of pain that a person lives through and feels great sorrow and regret, it is a very difficult thing. Between Moses and Jeremiah there was a difference, even for Moses God showed the destruction and the difficult things, but to Moses the Lord God showed the things in a different way, not like he showed Jeremiah. Our sages say to Moses the Lord God first of all showed the third Temple, that it would be the complete redemption, a very uplifting and happy thing The great light that will be in the future to come.



After God showed him the great light and the building of the Third Temple, He showed him the great exile that we are now in for more than two thousand years, and then Moshe Rabbnu did not have the pain that Jeremiah had who only saw destruction, but he first saw the good at the end and then he saw the destruction and so on until First verse, see from the end to the beginning from the good to the bad. But Jeremiah saw only the bad and more bad from that time of the destruction and onward, therefore Jeremiah the prophet was all filled with immense sorrow and great pain that cannot be understood and it was more difficult for him than Moshe Rabbnu.



Our sages say that God showed Jeremiah precisely in this way and not in another way, because Jeremiah was the prophet at that time of the destruction and had to live the things and feel them in order to prophesy the prophecies to the people of Israel, therefore God did not want to give him moments of comfort and hope because then Stop pressing and wake everyone up for destruction.

But Moses was not at the time of destruction but at the time of his death, God showed him everything in general in a future prophecy what would happen in the future, therefore it had no meaning for him to stand and shout at the people of Israel at that moment that they would repent.



And so we find in Jacob our father who was one of the fathers of the world, the Holy Torah says that Jacob our father had a dream in which he saw the temple both built and destroyed.

And our holy rabbis say about what our father Jacob said (Genesis 20:17) "How terrible is this place. It is not there, because it is the house of God and it is the gate of heaven." Temple.

For this, Jacob our father was sorry and prayed and said that if the house of God saw the Temple built and perfected what would be in the future to come.

Even when Jacob our father began to tell his sons about the end of days, the prophecy departed from Jacob our father, because when you see the pain and sorrow, the difficult prophecy and the joy decreases until sadness comes and when there is sadness there is no prophecy.



According to this we will understand, Moshe Rabbinu before his death stood and told the children of Israel the book of Deuteronomy which contains all the morals and all the future and great powers of the people of Israel.

You should know that in the book of Deuteronomy there are great powers that cannot be imagined or described.

Moses told it to future generations, the Israelites in the desert knew what was happening, they lived in the desert and studied the Torah, they saw the splitting of the Red Sea and the giving of the Torah.

Moses had to repeat all these things not for the generation that came out of Egypt, but for the generations to come that this book will be a part of them and will give strength to the Israelites until the Messiah comes and this is what is contained in the book of Deuteronomy.



So after G-d showed Moses all the good and difficult things, the construction and the destruction, after he stood and saw everything, Moshe showed everyone that he had not lost his mind and in the return of the knowledge he told them exactly where it was and the distance from the place it was found. And the return of the knowledge is so great Moses stands and says the Book of Deuteronomy in which all the Holy Names lie and all the gates of heaven are within it to reach the Almighty and this is the special feature of the Book of Deuteronomy that Moses gave to the people of Israel.

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