The Stories of The Mishkan, Two and a Half Tribes, and Caleb | Rabbi Nachman Winkler | May 7 2026

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.