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The Stories of The Mishkan, Two and a Half Tribes, and Caleb | Rabbi Nachman Winkler | May 7 2026
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Now, officially I'm going to begin a
little bit
I touched upon last time
with just one simple verse
which I am
which I
pointed out that um
it was when Yeshua
did something very crucial actually.
Um
and and that is he moved the Aaron
Mishkan
from where he was. Now, let's understand
[snorts]
again and I do it I do so not because I
think you forgot, but I think it's
something that's very interesting and
because it's not something that we
ordinarily remember and do.
When
um
Israel crossed the Ardein
into the land of what they called
Kenaan, eventually Israel.
Um they camped.
They camped at a place called Gilgal.
Gilgal is in the um valley of the Jordan
and um
as the Jericho was obviously.
And the Gilgal is where they stood
stayed stayed for about um
14 years.
So, in effect, when they came from the
Midbar into Eretz Israel, they actually
didn't change that much because the land
the nation remained where they were all
around
I should say focused around the Mishkan
and they and the army was there. And
yes, there were areas that had been
settled on the eastern part of the
Ardein, the two and a half tribes were
um
at least their families had settled in
um cities that they had basically taken
over
leaving a imagine some small
um guard
um
protection people for their families,
but for 14 years they did keep the
promise they made with
uh um Moshe Rabbeinu, with God as well,
and with Yehoshua, that they would lead
uh they would be in the vanguard
of the army in uh taking over
uh the land of Israel. Okay? So,
there were uh certain some who were
settled outside, but basically the whole
nation was in Gilgal. That's where they
uh men received their brit milah in the
first week after they uh just a couple
of days
after they crossed the Yarden, and
that's why they called it Gilgal, as it
says there that "God has God has removed
the uh the
uh the embarrassment of Israel and that
they had not yet been able to take that
to get be given the circumcision." They
did that. All right.
Um
So, that's where they're in the Gilgal.
Yehoshua takes a very, very um
I would say courageous and rather strong
um
decision
to move the um
Aaron, the holy ark,
and the Mishkan therefore,
uh outside of Gilgal.
And he does so,
um
uh
well,
after, let's say, the uh the the the uh
wars of conquest
had ended.
Um
So, it says there in uh perek het and
the four plucking before that.
And anyway,
I'm going to start today's discussion
with
why?
What was the importance of moving the um
uh
Misbe the the ark and the
and the Mishkan? Why not keeping it in
Gilgal? So, we'll go through that.
And then we'll begin what I really
just entitled the class as as um
All right. Look, I I called it the the
um
perfect closing. Cuz we're finishing now
with a sefer Yehoshua. It's
uh the perfect closing
or not.
I always leave things up to make you
nervous.
Um so,
that's what we hope to do and hope to
to be able to
reach that today. I don't believe we
will complete cuz I have so many good
things to say about the last three
prakim. And I'm not even starting with
them. I'm starting with this uh first.
So, I don't think so. Which would be
very well, cuz the next week will I'll
have the
a class. Then the week after that it's
erev Shavuot. And we don't want to learn
Torah, you know, in shuls and seven
kibbutz. So, uh
It'd be logical.
Uh and then the two weeks after that I
will not be here. I'm going to
going to meet with my see my children
and grandchildren.
Uh and I'll be back by um,
June
the June the 11th. Maybe I'll be I'm
coming back to them.
I believe yeah, by June 11th I will be
uh, back here. Okay. All right? It isn't
that long. It's twice as long.
I can I'll put it on No, I won't.
Anyway, so uh,
it's [clears throat] hard to talk to a
to a
to a a um,
machine, yes.
To a computer to a
it's not nice.
No. My jokes are not as good. It's
not good as that.
Yeah, that's right. That's all it's all
about.
Okay.
Um,
Joshua faces a real problem.
All right.
The basic
um,
I should say conquest was done.
As I mentioned more than once, there
were still enemies there. There were
still foreign I shouldn't say
foreigners. They after were were were
the
um,
people who lived in there and
and the Israelites were the foreigners
who were coming in.
But at any rate,
um,
there were the enemies enemies, but they
were not major armies and therefore they
were not threatening and that is why God
said and Joshua said, "Fine.
The big problems are over and now it's
everybody's responsibility, every tribe,
to re- remove the the pagans, the
idolaters
from the area where they are settling.
Yes, they could stay there if they
weren't part of these seven
seven nations the the if they take upon
themselves not to um
worship the uh
you know idols.
Um but basically if not they are to be
chased out.
That's what they have to do. That was
their job. As I've mentioned once,
twice, 87 times about uh
they didn't do that. They were you know
and otherwise as I tell you we could
have ended the whole uh with the the for
Yeshua everything would have been great.
Since then it hasn't been that good. I
want to tell you that yeah.
So um that is
uh precisely what was going on. So
Yeshua however now uh having basically
taken care of the powerful alliances
in uh
in
in Israel in Canaan um
and the first part of the mission
therefore was over. Um but um
the land and still
had to be settled.
So that means now as I told you the bulk
of the chapters in Yeshua let us know
where each tribe was settled including
by the way those tribes who said
they must have been Jewish. We don't
like this over here. We don't
You guys you don't like it? Fine, you
can conquer something else and they did.
We'll see that Dan does that also. Dan
is supposed to be down by Beit Shemesh.
They decided you know if I were to ask
you do you know where Dan is? Like like
the place of Dan.
You ever heard of the Banias? You ever
heard of that?
It's way up there. Yeah Dan by
Beersheba. So that's from north to
south. But Dan is actually down south
next to you somewhere next to Beit
Shemesh, basically right that area.
Um
it's very important
to show faith.
Last one that came from Dan. Anybody
know who came from Dan?
I know you're not going to guy by the
name of he was a big old, you know,
strong guy. Samson.
Yeah. Samson, yeah. You're from the Dan.
And he was from Beit
Shemesh.
Interesting how they had the name
Shimshon. They would say they could have
called him a Beiti, but they called him
Shimshon from Shemesh. Yeah.
Or maybe not. But anyway, that's when
you get to Shoftim, that's one of my
favorite things to go through. I have
this thing me and Shimshon did not get
together. I was Anyway.
Um
So therefore, he now has to put
have the problem.
Cuz when they were all settled or living
in Gilgal, and Yehoshua could say,
"Okay, go over here, do this and this
and this." And you know,
So they he had them connected, they had
them together, he had the power to tell
them what to do.
But now they're going to
as I've been saying that also,
do their job to do being a little more
independent.
Now they had to go into their areas. How
in the world
when unfortunately they hadn't quite
come in with the internet, how they
going to keep the people together?
How you going to know what's going to
say? At least they run from one tribe to
the other. When you're in the desert, no
problem. You got a little,
sand between your toes, but otherwise it
wasn't a problem. What are they going to
do when you have Yehudah down in south
in the Beersheba area, and you have
somebody else, Zebulun, that's up in the
north near what we call today Lebanon?
How How they going to stay as one
It's a tremendously difficult difficult
thing. And let me tell you,
with all of the remarkable miracles
of the simple
um
existence of the Jewish nation,
>> [snorts]
>> is that there's
interconnecting common until this uh you
know
How did they So it isn't from Beis Shean
to Dan, but it certainly is from Morocco
to Poland.
How do
The The connections were all there until
the New York Times came and they knew
what was lying and what was not. But
otherwise, you wouldn't know where they
are.
We have some interesting things. We
have, for example, in the Gemara, which
we hear things here when when Ulla came
to Listen to this. There were the great
um
uh Amoraim and some Tannaim, also, who
would go from uh Yisrael Yishon Israel
to Bavel, and they would swap with What
What did you say about this halacha?
What did you say? And the Gemara
discusses that. That's how they had at
least some connection, but that was a
common trade route back and forth. So
not a big deal.
But what do you do?
There's something called galus, you
know.
And if you want to know why there is a
Sephardi minhag and Ashkenazi minhag,
it's their fault.
It's galus's fault.
Think about it.
If all the Jews had stayed together,
would you have some people pronouncing
it correctly and not correctly
differently? I mean, even now, I know I
you know, I came to Israel,
[clears throat] so I made sure I
I try to speak the Hebrew.
Every once in a while when I remember a
a word, so I you know, fine.
But um
you could listen to Sefardim who having
a conversation and saying
What do you say?
Or you hear a some uh
someone from Eastern
uh Hasidic fellow you know from
the some Poland.
Who uh
uh says the kind of kind of kind of kind
of kind
Who?
What?
You know, sometimes we say, "Huh? What
When did that happen?" When did the A
become an I?
Uh hey, tell me when when did the
Ashkenazic O become an A?
Then again, and or the S became a T.
Everything depended on where you lived.
So, that for example, you have uh those
who were in the dramatic areas, they
have the dramatic they had they
understood the differences between that
and and the other things. But, you live
in the Arabic areas. For example, you
know, there was a het and a chof.
Ashkenazim never had that. You know, so
so that's what depends upon. At any
rate, how did Jews stay together? And
that was Yehoshua's tremendous You know,
this this thing was open. What she
called
The door The window is open over here.
Oh, she said leave it open. Okay.
Anyways, um
um
So, what does he do?
What is going to keep the
uh
the Israelites together?
The Mishkan and the Aron. They got to go
do sacrifices there and so on and so
forth.
So, that becomes a center point. Okay.
So, they had it in Gilgal.
How is this different? It was a big
difference. Because when in whereas
Gilgal was down in the
in the low parts, really the very
Remember this whole thing of the Dead
Sea, the lowest spot in the uh earth,
yeah.
Well, Google wasn't too far away from
that.
It's down there.
And the And the tribes are way up there.
So, he takes the place called Shiloh,
which is where
not quite exactly equal, but closer to
everybody. He had, you remember, two and
a half tribes on the eastern side of the
Jordan who couldn't yet come in. Those
in the south and So, he found a place he
saw a place that was proper where the
majority of the of the tribes, when they
finally got
settled, as we'll see, because they had
not yet settled the territories when he
chose that, at least now they would find
This is where they eventually would do.
Therefore,
he leaves the or he takes the Mishkan,
the Tabernacle, from the lower plains
near Jericho, that area,
and he brings it up to the mountainous
areas of
Samaria, of Samron,
a little north of Bethel.
And that's where Shiloh is. I do suggest
to you, as I have in other times, if you
have a chance to take a tour and go to
Shiloh, it's absolutely fascinating.
What they
What they found there and so on and so
forth. I remember when I first went
there many moons ago, I remember when
they actually bring you down where they
think where the where the
Tabernacle stood, and you see where it
is. I mean, it shows where the whole was
and it
And everybody says, "No, well, said it
was 350
years 400 before the Ben Hamikdash is
built. So, you go crazy with the Ben
Hamikdash. One should be happy with the
Shiloh with these the
Mishkan was. It's a fascinating thing.
But anyway,
that's why he moves the
Mishkan.
And he also builds it not like the
Mishkan was in the Midbar.
In the Midbar in the desert and in
Gilgal, if you recall from the Torah,
you know, the parts that you sometimes
fall asleep in, how the different parts
of how to build the Mishkan. And you'll
have, you know, the how many cubits for
this and that. How many people know what
a cubit is? Anyway, you have to look at
that is how much is and what it is. It
was was built built with these poles,
actually wooden one, and uh
wrapped with uh
called it draping around with uh
call them drapes or things. And then
covered with other covers, three actual
types of coverings. The the you know,
it was goat skins and so on and so
forth.
God said, he brings it to Shiloh.
The Mishkan now he builds walls.
Builds walls
to make it more more
basic. Yeah, that's right. We ain't you
know, in effect, he's saying we ain't
moving around anymore that we have to
take down take it up there. This becomes
more solid, which is a very important
thing. And no longer that nomadic
lifestyle that he had in the Midbar in
this desert. And to a certain degree,
certainly here in Gilgal, he says, "Now,
you have to see things have become
settled. [snorts]
Like you have to settle the land." So,
that was the so important was that he in
effect by moving the holy ark, he now
makes a a religious center.
In
the middle of the country, and he now
teaches the
shvatim, the tribes, that yeah, this is
where you belong.
But this is you're not going to be
walking around anymore. This is where
we're going to stay.
And that was a very important message
for them.
They don't have to worry about running
around anymore. That was extremely
important. The wandering days are over.
And that's also why he made the mishkan
more permanent type of a building than
something a structure was much more
permanent. And
um
in effect
it goes back to what God had told and
Moshe had told them
that
there will be a place where you have to
go to. You have to go to to do these
things. In the desert, you didn't have
to go to any place for offering
sacrifices. In fact, the Gamorah says
there isn't an argument, but they say
basically that they didn't bring
korbanot
individually in the desert. It wasn't
didn't start until they got into the
land. But when they got into the land,
now
they learned they had a mitzvah that
says you shall go to the place.
What what place was it?
Once they spread out, they had none.
Well, now they do have one.
So that is the
mishkan basically. And
now we're going to go to the sections
that I think it's going to take us a
while, and I'll give you out the papers.
Again,
there may be some paper uh uh some
source sheets that I started with in the
started with that um page 22. I have so
many first of all
the um
my computer is beginning to yell at me
and my printer God knows is but as I do
this and I can make the changes when I
I'm giving back to you. I think the last
page you may have is 22. Is that correct
or 21?
Even better. I started 22. That's great.
So I'll give you
Huh? You No, it's that's the 20 this
would be the rest of it.
No, yeah I gave I think to this one
also.
That's right. I should have said there.
Okay.
Well, you gave one away for me. I didn't
Okay. Yeah.
Yeah, so this is just 22 and 23.
See?
So you take the new 22.
Huh? All right?
Yeah, you had a 22. I don't know why.
I feel like it's a
baseball numbers 24 by Willie Mays. All
right, here we go.
22. This is from 20. Okay? If you need
any more, let me know.
Okay.
All right, good.
You were there. That's right. I told you
that it's
I said 369. Yeah, everything there.
You have to you know, when people don't
when they get to this I'm going to
people don't realize when I'm going to
get to say for
a show of team because it go it's only
22 chapters. We're okay. You know, the
story of of of David Hamelach goes
through one and a half books.
So, team goes over 350 years. Wow.
And that's why you have to understand
what I'm going to do that. It doesn't
just say, "Oh, this went then they went
then they went." It's not true. It
wasn't such a simply flowing thing.
There were times of fighting through
times where things were bad, times where
they were quiet and for 40 years 80
years at one point, you know, there was
nothing. But time goes on.
That's why it's very difficult not so
much in so team when it comes to the
books of the kings Malachim.
Yeah. Oh, and it says and he he ruled
for 14 years. Okay.
Does that mean 14 years or in the 14th
year the new
king come on and his first year was the
for his 14th year I think. So, it isn't
that precise. But we're into now Yeshua
as I said I will do and here we go. All
right.
So.
We start now with something very
interesting.
In the fact
um
>> [snorts]
>> we find the end of
the um
book
of Yeshua
to be as I said almost like a perfect
a perfect thing because of the fact
that as we'll get to but not quite yet
um
you'll find that the opening verses
in Yeshua
is part of the almost exactly one of the
the closing verses. But I know you're
very excited about this. I'm sorry, but
you have to wait a little bit.
That happens in the 23rd chapter.
But there's still the 22nd chapter which
is very very crucial. Really is.
The
second I'm sorry, the 22nd chapter
tells the story
of the two and a half tribes. There's
one very short little
uh
event that I think is important and
therefore I wanted to include that. It's
an event that we find in um
yeah.
Yeah, in the 22nd chapter. That's
exactly what I'm up to.
And um we read the following. If you
have page 20,
um you find on page 20, it may be the
other side of 21, I'm not sure.
Um
yeah, it is the other side of the 21. If
you have 21, you should have the other
side of the 22.
I really
see the way I've got this out.
I made sure that 20 is before 21. Yes.
Anyway,
there in the 22nd chapter, and again
these last three chapters of Joshua, 22,
23, 24,
in the 22nd chapter we read something
very very interesting, I believe.
Uh this to me it was very interesting.
And that we see is as follows.
Um
I just want to see 19.
Good good good.
Listen.
Mi Yakein, the first story in the 22nd
chapter is a very important one, as well
this short little story later on in the
22nd chapter. The first eight chapters
um
verses, first eight Sukim in Perek Yud
Aleph Khet Bet, first six actually,
is as in page 19 it says
a civil
And there and we'll we'll look at the
English, okay?
Then Joshua, Yehoshua, now summoned the
Reubenites, the Gadites, half tribe of
Manasseh and said to them, "You have
observed all that Moshe commanded you.
You have obeyed me in everything that I
commanded you. You have not forsaken
your kindred through the long years down
to this day and have fulfilled
faithfully observed the commands of
Hashem."
What do you think he's talking about
with these two half tribes? What were
they specifically told to do and they
are very faithful in doing so. Anyone
remember?
>> 14 years they have to uh help fight.
Right. They would be the vanguard. They
would lead the the army into and uh
fighting and taking over the land. Very
good. And they did do that exactly. And
Yehoshua gives them a shkoyach. You did
what you're supposed to do.
Now God has given your kindred What is a
kindred? Uh rest uh
as God promised them. In other words,
fighting is over.
Therefore, turn and go to your homes. As
I said beginning, their homes were
uh northeast
uh on the
eastern side of the Jordan and north up.
We call it Syria, but Yeah, that's
right. That's what it is.
And a little bit of Jordan and Syria.
And to the land of your holdings beyond
the Jordan that Moshe had assigned you.
This is what Moshe said, "This will be
yours if you do this." And you did it
great. So Yehoshua blessed them,
dismissed them, and they went home.
Good.
So far we're doing okay.
Problem. Look at the next source.
So
And so much for seeing Reubenites and
Gadites and I start to saying, you know,
they're bites. I don't know what this
is.
Um the So, the Bene Reuven and Bene Gad
and half of Manasseh, they leave the um
Bene Israel in Shiloh because that's
where now they are focused.
Most uh Yeshua gathered people when they
wanted to hear he needed now to have a a
a uh
convention of the leadership of the
tribes. It was done in Shiloh now, no
longer in Gilgal, right? And they made
their way back to the land of Gilead,
the land of their own holding, right?
Now, listen to this. When they came to
the region of the Ardeane in the land of
Canaan before they crossed over, right?
Before, which means before they went
into the eastern side, it's another law.
They built a mizbeach. They built an
altar there by the Jordan, a great
conspicuous altar.
All right.
Uh-uh, not all right.
A report reached the Israelites.
Again with the mosquito bites. Huh? Why
is it all right if they did it for
themselves?
Why did Ah, that's the whole point.
Let's see. Okay? So, Bene Reuven and
Bene Gad and half of He said, "They've
built an altar opposite the land of
Canaan in the region of the Jordan,
across from the Israelites." It was on
the other side of the line,
Then when the Israelites heard this, the
whole community assembled at Shiloh and
they were making war against them.
Chutzpah! What did they think?
That they [clears throat] were building
something for idolatry. Exactly.
They build What is the halakha is you
have one altar, one one god, and that's
where you have to serve him. First thing
they do when they get out of here is
they're making their own altar, meaning
they're going to have We're having a
different country, a different nation
will have a different God.
Very good. That's what they believe.
And of course being Jewish and very very
calm, they want to wipe them out. Get
the army they're going to kill. Yeah?
So,
but
sometimes
the rabbi noticed thing that's right.
Israelites sent the priest Pinchas to
them, you know, and when they came to
them it was it was
it was Pinchas and it was the other
Kohanim and the either it says others
came. They came there to see what's
happening. They spoke to them.
And they said, "Thus said all of
Hashem's community, what is the
treachery that you have committed this
day against God of Israel? Turning away
from God and building yourselves an
altar, rebelling this day against God?
If you rebel against God today, tomorrow
the divine wrath will be directed
against the whole community of Israel.
And
this is a great one of the great Sukkim
again.
If it is because the land of your
holding is impure,
cross over into the land of God's own
holding. Who said you have to go over
there?
There's a whole different shield that I
must get one they said, "What a
chutzpah."
God says this is your land and you said,
"But we like there's great grass and the
little ones over here. It's going to be
beautiful for my backyard." And all of a
sudden two and a half tribes say, "No,
we don't want to go where God says to me
to go." That's really what happened.
Right?
And God said, "You're Jewish. Okay." And
he let them go and he gave them a thing.
But what they're saying is that, "Yeah,
you're there, but that's not the holy
land.
Where we are is the holy land. If you
think your land isn't holy enough, then
so come over here."
That's what you could do, right?
Um
you know, says come to the land of God
told him where the Tabernacle and they
all belong belongs abides and acquire
holdings among us.
But do not rebel against God nor against
us by building an altar other than the
altar of Hashem.
Wow.
I was saying, I thought this would be a
nice ending for the for the for this the
book of Yeshua. Good story. I mean, the
movie would have been ended here.
Everybody's happy.
What happens here?
So, what happens here on page 21?
We find out what happens. You have to
turn over to what it is 21. Right?
There in this longing, I was a nice guy.
I gave a lot of this in English and
stuff because the story itself
explains what happened.
I could stand here and tell you, but you
could see what the what the text says
and it's magnificent.
So, these two two and a half tribes
replied to the heads of Israel. They
said, "God, the eternal God. God, the
eternal God surely knows
and Israel shall too shall know. If we
acted in rebellion or in treachery
against God, do not
vindicate us today.
If we built an altar to turn away from
God to offer burnt offerings or grain
offerings upon it, then may God demand a
reckoning. But we did this only out of
our concern
that in time to come, your children
might say to our children,
"What have you to do with the God of
Israel? God has made the Jordan a
boundary between you and us, oh you
Reuben and God. You have no share in
God."
They're afraid of what you're going to
say cuz we're the minority. Your kids
and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, they're going to
see you us living over there. You say,
"Well, wait a minute. Land of Israel is
here, this side of the Jordan. You're up
there. You're not part of God. You're
not part of the nation.
They were afraid of that.
So, such a children might
such your children might prevent our
children from worshipping God. So, we
decided to provide a witness for our
ourselves by building an altar, not for
burnt offerings or other offers or
sacrifices, but as a witness between you
and us
and between the generations to come that
we may perform the service of Hashem at
Shiloh
with burnt offerings and sacrifices and
offerings of well-being and that your
children should not say to our children
in time to come, "Uh you have no share
in God." We reasoned, "Should they speak
thus to us and to our children in time
to come, we would reply,
'See the replica of God's or altar which
our fathers made, not for burnt
offerings or sacrifices, but as a
witness between you and us.
Far be it from us to rebel against God
or turn away this day from God and build
an altar now other than the altar of our
God that stands before our tabernacle.'"
Wow, that's a very nice thing.
God forbid, I said.
Doing anything wrong with it. And
understand, they cared so much of
remaining part of the nation.
And therefore, they said, "We made
something you should know I'm always
part of the station this the the the
nation." Just like we do now.
Anyway, this is the people want to be
part of the nation.
That's what they said.
And as a result, as we see at the end,
when the priest Pinchas and the rest of
the people heard the explanation,
uh Pinchas said, "Now we know that
Hashem is in our midst since you have
not committed such treachery against God
and you
and you have saved the Israel from
punishment by God.
Then the priest the prince of the priest
Pinhas, of course Pinhas is a grandson
of Aaron and Kohain, right? And the
chieftains he turned
from there, you know, to the Israelites
in the land of Canaan and gave them
their report. And the Israel were happy
and they praised God and they spoke no
more of going to war against them to
ravage the land where Reuben and Gad
And it's one of those stories that not
everybody knows.
They have to listen to each other.
That's right. Yeah. Well, they wouldn't
have democracy. That was easier that
way, you know.
Remarkable. I really I always find I
mean it's one of these things that yeah,
you have to choose what I'm going to
tell you. This is I think such an
important story about unity and about
what it really should be all about. And
that's I think phenomenally important.
The second story oh, good.
In um Yeshua, I put here
uh in the
uh
Yeah, it's actually before this.
Beginning in on 18 where it says that
the division of the land by tribe um
that was the bulk of what these
these
um prakim
these chapters were about. I didn't go
through it cuz as much I wasn't going to
make you memorize and you know, how to
talk about the boundaries of uh Issachar
is. I mean, I don't know the meter. So.
But this is a
again not
it's a short little story. But again, I
think one that really
uh
teach it touches our hearts and it
teaches the connection in of the past
and keeping promises.
And here you have it if you have page 18
on top,
you'll have there
Well,
it depends which
It depends which 18 you have. I'm I'm
that's how crazy I was I put these
around. I apologize, I really do, but
what can I do?
Um
I get excited about these things I end
up putting in things that didn't happen.
I have the old ones and new ones also.
Anyway, now uh
I have this in English to the point
where the people who from the tribe of
Yehudah Judah are called the Judahites.
I love that one. I mean I have the
heights and mites and rights and
But then Yehudah approached Yehoshua at
Gilgal. This is the 20
Oh, this is act Yeah, this is actually
Yeah, in the in the 14th chapter. This
is earlier. I That's I when I was going
ahead cuz I was so excited I did
I'm sorry about that. It says
And
they approached Yehoshua and together
with them was a guy by the name of Caleb
Caleb ben Jephunneh. Does anybody find
anything
uh
familiar about the word of name of Caleb
ben Jephunneh? He was spies. With whom?
With Yehoshua.
>> Yeah.
They were pals. Yeah. And and
of course I'll show you I'll show you
that sure he got the good job. But
anyway, you know, Caleb ben Jephunneh
was one of the two tribes that God had,
you know, allowed to live uh and the
others were put to death.
Uh and part of what he was told is I
have here in the second uh
this thing is that he was promised um
uh and says in Bamidbar um where it says
that uh
Yeah, that um
uh he tells of the
punishment
of the spies God does. He says none of
those involved who have seen my [snorts]
presence and yet tried tried me so many
times disobeyed me.
None of them shall see the land that I
promised to their fathers. None who
spurned me shall see it. However,
my servant Caleb Ben Yefuneh,
because he was imbued with a different
spirit
and remained loyal to me,
he I will bring into the land he
he entered and his offspring shall
possess it.
Now,
there's
everybody in of all of the tribes went
all over the land.
There's only one person in say if I in
Midbar in Parshat Shelach
that says to where he went.
And it says there that Caleb Ben Yefuneh
went to Anybody know?
Terrific.
And Maran Amarkel went to Hebron.
Hebron. Okay. Yeah. Kiryat Arba.
Correct.
Now,
you know, Caleb is still around.
Sleeping in the cave together. You
betcha.
God thinks so, too.
And so it says
the the
Caleb says to Yehoshua,
Josh He doesn't want to say Josh, man.
He says, "You know him, come on, you
know."
"You know You know
what instructions Hashem gave at Kadesh
Barnea to Moshe concerning you and me. I
was 40 years old when Moshe sent me from
Kadesh Barnea to spy the land and I gave
him a truthful report. And while my
companions who went up with me took the
heart out of the people,
I was loyal to my God.
On that day Moshe swore the land on
which your foot trod shall be
apportioned for you and your descendants
forever because you were loyal to God.
Now, God has preserved me just as he
promised. It is 45 years since Hashem
made this promise to Moshe. Right? And
here I am today 85 years old.
I am still as strong today as on the day
that Moshe sent me. My strength is the
same now as it was then.
So, therefore, assign to me this hill
country as God promised on that day.
Although you too heard
that on that day that the Anakim, the
Bene Anak, you know,
there with great fortified city before
if God alone is with me, I will dispo-
dispossess them and
as he promised.
So, I know there are big guys over there
and they're strong, but if God's with
me, I'll take over and that should be
you should give it to me. That's what he
said? That's right.
That's of course all the before he was
saying but remember that that means that
Joshua, I'm sorry, Caleb went to uh
Hebron, a Kiryat Arba, and he yes he yes
he did. That's what he's going to get.
So, Joshua blessed Caleb and assigned
Hebron to him as his portion. Thus,
Hebron becomes portion of Caleb and it
still is because he was loyal to God of
Israel. Cute little short story
which does touch. First of all, I guess
they
they learned shalach sometime you know
on shabbat they remember that story.
[snorts]
So, he's able it ties up what was. And
of course that the connection is the
same. And of course that was going to
do. The end of the whole story it's is
fun on page 19,
where I said
Caleb was given a portion among the
Judeans as Hashem told Joshua, namely
Kiriath Arba, that is Hebron.
Caleb dislodged from there the three
Anakim,
and from there he marched against the
inhabitants of Debir, also used to be
known as Kiriath Sepher. The Kiriath
Sepher of today is not what's over
there. The one over there was named
Hebron. Kiriath Sepher is what
opposite Lod in.
Um then Caleb announced, "I will give my
daughter Achsah
in marriage to the man who will attack
and capture Kiriath Sepher."
Um
Now, I don't know what Achsah looked
like anyway, but anyway, uh his kinsman
actually is in the it was part of the
Mishpacha this Othniel ben Kenaz.
You looked like you understand the
Othniel ben Kenaz, like you know who he
was.
Huh? No. No.
I was being nice. You said like this, I
figured you knew that name.
Othniel ben Kenaz is what we read as the
first Shofet.
He's the first Shofet.
Uh you we read it in in um in Sefer
Shoftim. It's this because he does this.
Anyway, he captured it, and Caleb gave
him his his daughter Achsah in marriage.
When she came to him,
well, is this a good Jewish girl? Uh she
induced him to ask her father
for some property.
She dismounted from her donkey, and
Caleb asked her, "What is the matter?"
She said, "Give me a present."
What? But come on. Any a 5-year-old
might he's going to say no to the kid.
Come on, she just got married, right?
"For you have given me away as
a negative land, So, give me springs of
water. It wasn't that much into it.
And he gave her the upper and lower
and that's how they were able to not
have just piece of land. They were able
now to farm it. They were able to farm
So, those are the two little stor-
stories I think that I want to just
include before we go to, like I said,
the perfect closing in the
park him of half camel and half ballot.