A Most Amazing Explanation of the Questions Moshe asks the Spies with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the Ebina big madrash welcome home to Torah I am excited to see you all and this week's Parsha Sherlock inheritis in a partial behind so we're going to get started but as we know the we we use the clear car as the basis for the discussion the outline for the discussion and we'd like you to use the Hebrew sheets which you can find in the description box below you'll find the link and you have to find it also included in the link below are um links to previous classes other subjects other pursu game other verses that that have been dealt with by the Clear Car impartialach so we're in verse 18 in Chapter 13 of numbers okay numbers 13 verse 18. on the sheets I gave you it's the very bottom paragraph now if you become familiar on this English Source sheets at least read 18 19 and 20. so that's all on on page one so Moses is giving a directive to the the spies to the miraglim what he expects them to come back with some kind of a report he wants a report and he asked a bunch of questions that's how you formulate a report that you're looking for you shall see what kind of land it is it actually says what the land is first and then it says what about the people so URI tem ES I want to know what the land is like and what the people are like the next part of the phrase you may think is in the same order it's talking about the land and then the people is the land is the land now we we're going to see we're talking about the people okay is is it stronger is it weak imrav or is it few are they few or are they many I I don't want to read the Russia yet on that but then go to verse 19 which is number three on the story sheet and what of the land what of the land they inhabit is it good or bad what's the qualities of good or is it bad and of what of the cities in which they reside are they in camps or in fortresses in the Hebrew at the last part of the are they it says is it good or bad yeah he oh is it good or is it not so good and what about the cities fine are they are they open camps Without Walls I mean unworld cities open camps or are they in fortified cities with walls let's just go down to 20 right and number five so what is the soil like is the soil fat or is it lean are there any trees in it or not so just the Hebrew of the last verse is it fat or is it lean imayan are there treason is there a tree in it or not or trees okay it actually says tree we'll get we're gonna we're gonna deal with that so just keep in mind there's a pattern here the pattern seems you how you see how I emphasize the word seems allegedly like every adjective is good and then bad like is it good or is it bad are there few or are there many right are they okay so are there any trees are there no trees the problem we're going to see is the very first statement in verse 18. it seems backwards are they strong or are they weak see if everything is about good for us and bad for them right the first adjective is something good for us and it's going to be bad for them if the enemy we're about to go into the the land of Israel and there's seven canine Nations and they're strong is that good for us no maybe we'll find out so this is like an enticement for you guys to hang in there but that's going to be the groundwork of the first part the first part of the clear card is quite technical it sounds or may feel a little dry to you but don't worry because the latter part will be very moist okay so let's go look into the Clear Car itself and he quotes Rashi on verse 18. are they strong or are they weak Parish Rashi look at Rashi right away Simon Moser lehen the we don't have the whole Rashi in Hebrew but I have it in English here for you guys to look at it's the second part of Rashi he gave them a sign if they live in Open Cities what would you think if they live in open cities are they stronger are they weak weak that's exactly what you would think but no see if they live in Open Cities it means they're very strong they don't rely on external defenses they are and they're fearless and they feel no reason to put up any type of Defense you know physical defense because they can do it themselves so I'm reading Rashi to you if they live in Open Cities it's a sign they are strong since they rely on their might and if they live in fortified cities would it tells you what does it tell you it's a sign they are weak I'm going to tell you right now what the clear car is going to be bothered by is why does the why does Rashi mention this explanation here that God gave them a sign when it says are they strong are they weak wouldn't that sign I.E that comment by Rashi that God gave them a sign wouldn't that make more sense if it was for example in verse 28 look at verse 28 as number two on the story sheet Chapter 13 Verse 28. actually this is part of their there's this part of their answer go back to 19 okay so in verse 19. with the clear card is going to claim is it would have made more sense in verse 19. you have to turn the page over on the other side there you go is it good or bad right and what is the land they have is to go to bed and what of the Cities what are the cities in which they reside are they in camps camps are open areas or are they in portraits fortresses meaning um walled cities look at Rashi there it says are they in camps renders it which means they're open and exposed and unwalled okay so that's what a an encampment is it's unworth City it's not a fortress as opposed to a fortress the clear card is actually bothered why did Rashi bring this claim that God gave them a sign where in verse 18 it should have been in verse 19. that's all I know it sounds very technical but it's going to help us think things through let's look now at the Clear Car Paris Rashi simonmosa right away he mentions a question what's the question monolea Rashid where does Rashi know that this is the fact when it says are they strong are they weak that God gave they God gave them some kind of a Simmon he's claiming that it was really a difficulty to Rashi um how would the people know from any kind of sign if well let's just say if they're strong or weak we're going back to the verse itself if they're stronger weak how would the people know if they're strong or weak they wouldn't know when we went into spies when the spies went in they were covert covert means they were not seen they didn't fight there was nobody fighting when you fight with somebody you can walk away and say wow he was Stronger he was weak so just by going in and observing that would not be just observing alone would not you wouldn't know if they were strong or weak it would only be in verse 19 are there cities uh fortified or not so here you have tiksha Aldi Raya maragling you should actually even ask on the words of the Moravian themselves in verse 28 that's what I want to take you to now in 1328 it's number two on the searching it says wrote now this is very weird why do I say it's very awkward because their answer was guess what the people are strong they are Mighty and why do we know they're mighty because their cities are huge and fortified one second didn't we just say that God gave them an assign if it's fortified it means they're weak and yet in verse 28 they come back and say they're strong and they have fortified cities are we all like on the same page here and this is the clear card laying out the question he says like this four lines down after the fact that they saw the cities strengthened with walls what they should have thought as a result of seeing that was that these people are actually weak en the very fact they're living in fortified cities they would come to the conclusion that they're actually weak so we're in a real pickle aren't we hello this is what they must have said it must have been that they had they saw either with their own eyes they said a certain sense that doesn't make sense whatever sign was handed over to us that if they're in fortified cities they're weak or if they're in open canvas they're they're strong no because they thought like this wrote even though these cities they're witnessing are in fortified cities they still concluded these people were strong Macomb they still concluded these people were strong now um now where did they come out with this idea from it must be that they said this concerning they must have been Giants it must be that they saw giants when I say Giants I'm talking about someone of a larger size physical um you know bigger than them okay they were they were tall midos as we can see in chapter 13 verse 32 this is how they described it look at number six uh the latter part well let's read the whole thing on 32 and they spread an evil report about the land which they had scouted telling the children of Israel the land we passed through to explore is the land that consumes its inhabitants and all the people we saw in it were men of stature they were giant there we saw giants sons of anak descended from the Giants and the Hebrew ansham anak Rashi mentions right there on in the middle when it says men of stature big and tall whose measurements are attributed to their unusual size like for example Goliath used the same idea so I want to go back into this that the cities were fortified which would mean they're weak but they also had eyes to see and they saw they were extremely large so they had what kind of conclusion so what the semen was not good just because your thought doesn't make you strong what do they say the the bigger you are the harder you fall just because you're tall doesn't mean you have great balance okay so now we're going to understand him the idea of being strong it's more like a question mark um a um a rhetorical question could it really mean that the people were it was the people who were strong I thought peace in in technical terms this word the word we actually have in the verse is that's the word with a bet he says if it really meant um not the people then when it said the machines that the cities were like encampments but the fact that it says with a bet it has to be referring to the people that were in the camps and therefore you're talking about the people not the camps so but look at what they say they actually said in verse 19 see the three words from the end with a bet if it was talking about the encampment itself it surely would have left out the bat then would have just said and it doesn't so shimamina what are we talking about the clear card concludes C it's talking about the people who are dwelling there it's talking about the people mikoma and he says nevertheless Rashi mentions that Simmons that sign was given over to the people when in verse 18. not 19. okay whether they're strong or weak so the clear car is making sense of why Rashi used the comment that Hashem or Moses here gave a Simmon to them whether they're strong or weak we're actually going to find out more in this next paragraph I think it really solidifies the question it makes it a very strong question but he's telling us Rashi nevertheless did it and he's going to tell us why okay now up until now we mentioned that there was an order and The Clique right in this next paragraph is going to tell how important it is what do we do at Abdullah in my house as soon as we say Gotham we break out in laughter because all beginnings can be tough can be rough and you want to soften it and you want to bring the the weekend with joy so the first thing we do after we say bori praying is laugh same thing when you are ever beginning a new endeavor know that the Satan the different forces maziken would love you to mess it up so you're faced with some real challenges at that point make sure you get it right how do you get it right Eve do essay know you're serving yourself with joy take time to do it correctly be nice to people be friendly with people I know there's a lot of pressure when you begin a new Endeavor but how you begin it is going to carry through we actually spoke about this on when we discussed the first day of circus taking all four of the species beginning with achtus and hopefully that after is that Unity of the people bring you the whole rest of the year because the tequila of the sibor is uh is the only thing that's answered really most of the year it's by the it's only during the 10 days of juva so you don't want to be during the year so get with everybody get good with everybody have a camaraderie be part of the community in a solid kind of way in the very beginning of the year which is at Circus time because it's the Yom harishon we discussed that over there okay let's begin the next paragraph because this is really where he answers up this idea the nearest remember that we left off by saying that Rashi was putting according to the clear car that come in the wrong place it should have been in verse 19 but he put it in verse 18. so he says right away what must have been bothering Rashi Allah what is the best way to do things you always start out with the praise that's the best way the econis why in our case where it says are they strong or are they weak beginning with that which is negative meaning it's negative for us if the enemy is strong that's not a good thing if you go to uh Exodus chapter 3 verse 8 it discusses of course not the only time throughout the trail received many times that God is going to bring us to a good and spacious land right that where God is bringing us to is a good land so when God says is a good or bad right all these things of course God already knows this but going back to this other idea the very fact that God already promised us he already told us the land is good vadai and then I'm sorry virula Hatfield it would have been fitting always to begin with all the details we know fully well from Hashem the word of God and and look at the word of God itself in verse here I put down verse 19 and 20 although in number very liquidate look at number four on the source sheet it says carefully examine the order of the verses I added nine I added verse 18. are there few or are there many few is a good thing for us many is not such a good thing for us verse 19 and 20 is a good good comes first or is it bad is the soil like it is fat or lean fat is good lean is not so good are there trees in it or not having trees would be a good thing okay so the clear card begin it continues after he mentions that God always mentions the good stuff first all these statements always begin with the good but what's the clear card point out Khan ute what does it mean when we look at the words are they stronger are they weak in this case strong is does not seem to be good for us so why in our verse Verse 18 is strong said first right this idea that they're strong which Israel this is not a good thing for the Jewish people in fact it's gorimland kilkul it can actually bring our own downfall if the enemy we're facing are very strong pay raise therefore this is the way Rashi explained it right are they strong are they weak he actually gave the seminarity in verse 18. however ready for this on both ideas have something light or something hard in other words there's two sides to this coin and I'm going to spoon feed you a little bit because basically what he's saying is are they strong or are they weak you not necessarily is going to be good for you if they're weak because you know why like Barrel said if they're weak they're going to have these strong fortified cities and that's going to be very hard to defeat and if they're weak I'm trying if they're strong they're going to have easy to enter palaces right or cabinets okay so let's continue that's what he means when he says each one whether they're strong or weak there's there's a good side and a bad side to each one of these when it says that they're very strong or are they very strong that would be kushali Israel that could be hard for us because that would mean that the people are strong they're actually strong however it actually could be good for us it could be if they're strong most likely they're going to have very little external defenses and it would be very easy to enter and to defeat them now when it says are they weak the same problem you know what it could be good for us because they're weak become become lot of however it doesn't necessarily mean that it's good for us means it could be very hard for us because guess what they're in these highly fortified encampments right of fortresses him came uh here means they're equal there was no good or bad Better or Worse scenario and are they stronger are they weak and therefore that answers the question remember the whole question was well we see a consistency of always a good before a bad except here no there is no good or bad here are they stronger than weak doesn't matter there's going to be a problem either way or it's going to be easy either way and that's how the clear card is answering up that statement now he mentions again the fact that there's a bet in the word the same idea are they in open camps or are they in Walled cities you have the same advantages and disadvantages they are going to be equal also because that represents whether they're strong or weak but you're still going to have the outward barriers in which you have to penetrate okay so let's move on to the next paragraph so now we're moving on to verse 20 and if you read the verse again it's number five and are there any trees in it or not what does it mean are there any trees in a Hayes boat eights are there any trees in it or not so right away the clear card brings down a medrish it's actually in the talmud badly as well Baba bastra 15a and it mentions over there when Moshe asked is there a tree there look at number seven in the Middle where I underlined well maybe we should go back to the idea in the beginning that rather said that oh job Eve he lived at the time of the spies in fact we know that he was one of the three advisors to pharaoh so he was one of the he was he lived at the time of the spies whom Moses had sent out to scout the land of Canaan this has proven to be the fact as it says this is the first verse in job there was a man from the land of Utes OOTS I in love sadix of heat whose name was Eve job now over here the verse we just read was um if there's an eight or not whether there are trees in it or not now it's not plural I mean you could pluralize anything you want like fish but anyway whether there are trees in it or not the Gomorrah asked is this even comparable you're talking about job over there who's from the land of Utes and you're telling me there's some connection over here with it are there any trees or NH in the land of Israel Moses wants to know is there a tree what does a tree do a tree by Essence is besides giving you fruit giving you but it gives you shade it gives you protection this is going to be very important listen to what Moses was asking hear the word that's the question here the word is OOTS and over there it's eights so the Gomorrah says this is what Moses said to Israel meaning to the spies he said is there a man named job still alive I'm sending you spies in there I want you to tell me if job's there whose years or as long as the years of a tree and who protects his generation like a tree very interesting by the way just as a side point I gave a whole series to nochides called beyond the seven and one of the statements I made in the beginning of the series is there's a Gamora that mentions that there are 45 righteous 45 righteous non-jews that are keeping the world going and out of the 45 it mentions third year in the land of Israel 15 are in kutzlars and there's another opinion it's vice versa but just like there are 36 sadiqi Jewish Sadiq in keeping the world going there are 45 non-jews keeping the world going now going back to our Point here is that yes ready for this so just hear the words of the of the gomor itself in Hebrew that's what Moses is asking the spies is there a kosher personage somehow protecting the Canaanites zet like this tree oh you say sail that actually provides shade or protection that gathered to find Refuge within his Shade that's a righteous person and there were righteous Gentiles job was definitely anybody out there that wants to know more about a righteous Gentile should learn the Book of Job look in Chapter 14 verse 9. in chapter 14 verse 9. that's one number eight on the source sheet but you shall not rebel against the Lord you will not fear the people of that land for they are as our bread listen to the Hebrew their protection is removed from them their protection is removed from them hear the rest and the Lord is with us the Hashem etanu and you have nothing to fear look at Rashi there what does it mean their protection is removed from them their shield and strength meaning their virtuous ones have died and who's that Rashi says job job a non-jew who protected them and you can find that in Gomorrah so to 35a there is and we will look at this other interpretation what is the shade or protection of the omnipresent had departed from them but not from us okay we're going to deal with these parts of the Rashi it's absolutely amazing so go back into the Clear Car all we did was we're second we're the second line of that second paragraph I'll send them our third line down that's why it says that SAR Sila malayam keep in mind the word silam their protection that job had already died that's what it means that their protection had been removed from them so now we're getting to a remes the REM is the word see lame itself REM is I want you to look at number 10 on the English sourcing it says the word protection which is sea lame the value is sadaklamid mam is 160. okay sorry one second uh live in men that's 70 right 30 and 40 plus 90. see 160. okay anybody doing the math it's early in the misbar eights it's the exact same as 160 eighths uh 90 and 70. it's 160. so their protection the word AIDS is exactly the same word so that's when Moses was asking is job still alive remember who is job he comes from Utes that was job the clear card says that was job who came from the land of Utes now all this first paragraph is referring to job wait to hear the second paragraph the aldera Khan nistar this is the real kabbalistic and hidden mysteriously the word nistar mysterious nature when Moses says imayan is there a tree or is there not a tree Israel this is very similar in language to what Israel said in Exodus chapter 17 verse 7. where this is right before a Malik comes we were in doubt something to do with Hashem listen to the words he named the place massive River that's based on the testing and the quarreling because of the quarrel the children of Israel because of their testing of the lord we tested Hashem what did we say regarding God Hashem Ayan just listen to the language the same words are being used about are there is there an Eights now we described in the previous paragraph eight being a righteous Gentile like job now we're going to talk about the protection the eights as what as God's protection so just wipe job out of your mind and we're asking now this is very similar when Moses says is there a tree there or not in the same words were used when we asked if God is with us or not now the clear card is going to preface this don't think for a moment the Jews didn't believe in God when they asked this question they're not asking is there God or not they're asking is God With Us is he in our lives big difference so that's what they asked they weren't in doubt whether God existed kilo Namar they didn't say Hashem IM is there a god or is there not a god no the only thing they had doubts about or questions regarding whether God was actually intimately involved in their midst and watching carefully over everything they do takas or whether God threw us under the bus so to speak if he threw us under where he released us under nature or I'm going to call it the Matrix right under the network okay when Moses sent them on the mission and asked them if there's a tree there or not again we're not talking about job anymore we're talking about the protection of God like I mentioned in that other Rashi if you look at number eight on the source sheet where it says their protection is removed from them and the Lord is with us and Rashi said over there at the very end another interpretation the shade the protection of the omnipresent had departed from them but not from us listen to the words of the Clear Car this is exactly what Moses wanted to look to investigate if the land itself was right Yoshi the the presence of God dwells there and we know in Deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 12 look at number 12 on the sushi that says this is a land that the Lord your God looks after the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it is it's a very important verse you should become familiar with that God has a very special relationship with the land or is it just like any other land that's what Moses wants to know before we went in before we went in is the protection of God on the land or not we were promised it was but maybe either we messed up who knows I want to know I want to know and guess what we have a rem is the actual word eight when he says is the is there an H there or not it's a it's a hint to the sale shekai to the actual protection of God himself how do you know this you got to be sitting down for this if you look on number 13 on the source sheet it's going to spell it out for us he says the shame shall arba the shame shall Arbor Barrel is the good and the hey and the hey and it's it's hinted to the same word eights now how's that how is the UK VK hinted to the word AIDS H's 160. we saw that already we did the math before how's it so so you divide the urine hey from the is five and ten and the verb in the hay is six and five so you're going to take each letter and times it by the other letter so good that's 10 times 5 which is hey so that's 50 and you're going to come up with the same number in the other direction okay 10 times 5 and 5 times 10 is 50. so the first part of the word is 100. the second part 6 times 5 and 5 times 6 is 30 each that's 60. so all together the UK valve K times itself in in the way I just described is 160 which is Eights so that's what he just describes Joseph say in Hebrew cases that's a hundred the valve in the hey you got the above Palm meme hey and hey pal mean love now you have 60. then you got 160. can miss bar eights that's the word eights but guess what we already said it's the same gamaches ceiling as God's protection the tree is God's protection which means when we they said in Chapter 14 verse 9. chapter 14 is it 14 verse 9 that's number eight their protection is removed from them foreign those nine Jews living in the land of Israel are left to fate meaning they're left to happenstance they're left to chance but have this diverse end it says with us he's guarding us he's involved with our lives and he's saving us it says they removed from them what do we hear from that that the protection is still in the land not on the people those non-jews AR aside from the fact that it was the the God had been removed from them because of the evil those people who resided here of al-haarez but the land itself from its own aspect eres I share a NeNe Hashem remember that God's eyes seek out this land and have an intimate relationship with this land now in Chapter 13 Verse 20 we did see these words that said you shall be courageous and take from the fruit of the land now Moses has to tell them to be courageous to take the fruit of the land is this was the beginning remember this was like the summertime like now right 40 days before Tish above this is when the very beginning of the ripening of the of the grape season that's what it says this was the very beginning of the grape season's ripening this is when those Farmers would come out with their shotguns and say any trespassers beware because this is the beginning of the blossoming season we don't want to disturb the blossoms here nobody's taking nothing nobody's even attempt to right as long as I have my shotgun um but what is Moses telling them you're gonna just gonna there's a lot of reason to be afraid to take these grapes these beginning of the grape season because this is when the the owners are very courageous you have to be courageous this is when the owners are going to try to scare the heck out of you you should be courageous and be men that's what the statement is saying because Hashem is with you the outside Haram isamar now what does this really mean on another deeper level that the Jewish people themselves are compared to what to grapes listen to this it says in hoshiah that's Hosea chapter 9 verse 10. is number 16 on the source sheet like grapes in the desert I found Israel Israel so the Jewish people are compared to these Beginnings it says like a ripe fig on a fig tree in its beginning okay and then the measures it says in Genesis chapter 40 verse 17 and there's a measure that explains this verse um and its clusters ripened into grapes have Shiloh that's like Bishop becoming ripe ja that's the clusters of anavine so this is talking about um when Joseph was interpreting the dream of the cup Bearer the sarham within the dream itself I should say so that was the description over there this idea of the poor the word Coast appears four times over there it's an amazing comparison with the four cups of wine we drink on on pesach this is this managula when when Joseph is in freed from jail right freed from his own Miss Ryan so to speak so what does all this mean when the when the grapes become ripened they're ready to be ripened israeliot nigalim that's when it's time is ripe and I pun totally intended right to be redeemed okay got that pun that's why it says here in um in verse 20 in verse 20 where it says that when the grapes first began to ripen the very end of verse 20. where it says this was hagia's this was the perfect time when we see Jews returning to the land of Israel we know that the ghoula has begun and we're seeing with our own eyes now I just want to give a warning to all those people in America Now's the Time Now's the Time Enigma because they already became ripened there's like three different words for ripened nit bakra is right means it's ripe the nigmar means it's finished the process is ripe that this was they were ready to enter the land of Israel because they they had received the Torah and they were really you know processing it and growing in it no we call the generation of the desert dur hadea the generation of knowledge now we are 3 300 years plus later we're on a much lower level perhaps maybe maybe not maybe there's a plus and minus to those as well maybe we're much more advanced I don't know but the end is happening whether we hold our breath or not whether we're ready for it or not so bizarat Hashem the more Torah that we accept upon ourselves the more mits that we accept upon ourselves the more true we intend to learn and make every attempt to learn because should bring the Gula closer and closer and have a good shot with everybody and we'll see you next week [Music]