Why Didn't God Say 'Yes' to Moses? - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

Shalom Fellowship I hope everything's going well with all of you I'm sorry I'm not able to make it live today but as the fellowship is live I am celebrating with all of my family in the land of Israel my father's 80th birthday and so that's a big deal and um in honor of my father I want to give over the Torah of this week um you know this week it starts off with this one word and Moses prayed but in Hebrew means and I prayed specifically with the Olive in the beginning and maybe right there is the key I adila taught me this over Shabbat um you know it's like the one time where Moses isn't given what he asked so many times he prays on behalf of Israel and God hears him the greatest prophet of of the time and here he asks just to go into the land of Israel and he's told no that made trash really goes into it I mean Josh says that Moses says you know what turn me into an animal I'll give up life as a human I just want to walk in the land make me into some sort of you know make me a make me a cow make me a goat I just want to walk in the land of Israel God says no make me a bird I just want to fly I just want to fly over the Holy Land God says no sing me a fish I'll just swim right up to the banks of the holy land and be right on the Sands of the shore and then God says no and it's like why is God saying no here what is all this about and I think that the answer lies in the word and I prayed because why was he left alone I mean why weren't all of the Jewish people praying for Moses to enter into the land of Israel I mean I think I heard right from Goldberg say it's almost like you know if I could tell him WhatsApp group he's like all right we gotta pray together come on guys come join the WhatsApp group and he's alone in the WhatsApp to Helen group and he's there praying for himself and the Jewish people don't pray with him and the Mirage says that had the Jewish people all come together and had they prayed together with Moshe God would have said yes but the fact that Moshe was left alone in his own prayers it says it's just not meant to be he's not meant to be the leader that brings him into the land of Israel so what a beautiful thing that our fellowship is that all of us start the fellowship with a prayer together we all come from around the world from different backgrounds of different cultures and just praying for the welfare of Israel praying for the for the welfare of the Jewish people praying for the forces of good to overcome the forces of evil that our strength is in our Unity and you know this week's portion we talk about the Shema and you know that's so powerful every morning and every night you say you should love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and all your might and we've talked a lot about that bit ode the last word doesn't mean might that would means very it means to love God with all your heart with all your soul and all of your fairy it's really to love God with everything you have and um I don't think that's telling us how to love God it's not telling us well if you love well love like this and love like that and love with your heart in love also with your mind I think it's actually defining for us What Love Is to love something really is to love it with all your heart with all your soul and all your might that's what love is and Moses is saying I love the land of Israel so much I'll give it all I'll be an animal I'll be a bird I'll be a fish whatever I need I just love the land and so what do we learn from these two things juxtaposed to each other and saying that you know so many of us we have things that we love but we sort of hold ourselves back and we don't prioritize those things properly in our own lives and it's like we have been given such a gift to the things that we love the things that we love exist in our lives don't ever take them for granted love them with everything that we have it's um you know your father's 80th birthday if it's your anniversary that's coming up if you're at your child's birthday there's just so much good if we just open our eyes to see it and it's to love what we love and to not hold back and so this Fellowship we should all be blessed to love with all our heart with all our soul and all our mightins know that in this generation what Moses couldn't accomplish with all of his prayers we have the opportunity of being in the land of Israel and visiting the land of Israel and moving to the land of Israel just get on the next plane it's available to us now and so we should really love it with all our hearts with all our soul and all our might all right my friends I will see you again next week shalom