Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Vezot Haberacha

happy holidays today on the day of hoshana rabba we are learning in preparation for umhat Torah when we are going to read the Torah portions the last Torah portion of the entire cycle and we are on page 11 13 of the article homage and this Parsha is of course the last day of Moshe rabino's life and he is after having rebuked the Jewish people for 40 years and especially in the last month the Jewish people heard from Moshe so many times what they have done wrong now finally Moshe is blessing them and these blessings are beautiful they are prophetic and the commentators compare these blessings to the blessings that yaakov gave to his sons in parashat before he died many um symbolic references many parallels are drawn anyone who has the time is encouraged to read the blessings that yaakov gave to his sons and compare them to the blessings that Moshe gave to the 12 tribes now chapter 33 verse 1 and this is the blessing that motion the man of God bestowed upon the children of Israel before his death Moshe is called the man of God or in Hebrew is either the man of God or godly man man of God means that he is devoted to Hashem means that he is a servant of Hashem the man that belongs to God that certainly is a good description of motion according to the other reading means he is a godly man he is more than a regular human being he is somewhere between a human being and an angel as the sages say Moshe from his waist down was a human being he had to eat Digest go to the bathroom however from his waist up he was an angel and this is something that is available to all of us we can attain it by controlling our desires exhibiting self-control in all areas in all our character traits when our mind is in control of our heart and our emotions our thoughts our desires we become purely logical being like God himself and we only use love when it's necessary we use kindness when it's necessary we use strict Justice when it's necessity we use self-control when it's necessary everything we do is measured then we become that that uh perfect wholesome individual that ultimate human being that Moshe Rabin was able to reach and that is the second explanation what does it mean Moshe is the man of God or he is a Godly Man and of course on the last day of his life that is the level that he reached and we hope that on the last day of our life we also will reach this lofty level or at least something very close to it that we can look back at our life and say yes my life I devoted to Hashem I am servant of Hashem I am the man that who belongs in his entirety to God and we can look at our being and we can say I became more divine rather than animalistic I took control of my body I trained my body I made my body into an angel and in fact that is what our job is when the Jewish people take a piece of lettuce something that grows from the ground something that is plant being it is on almost the lowest level the lowest level is inanimate object like stones and um sand and clouds and and water then you have plant beings they have some kind of uh spiritual um existence because otherwise they wouldn't be able to grow then you have a higher level animals they have a higher soul they have an intellect they may have some emotions then higher than that you have a human being and higher than that there are two more levels there is a a Jew who is dedicated to Hashem he has a higher soul and then you have an angel who is very close to Hashem and we the the people we are composed of the part or that is like an animal our body and the part that is like an angel our soul and depending on what we emphasize that's what we become if we emphasize our animalistic part our body we adore it we close it we bathe it we pamper it we uh put a lot of um effort into giving our our body pleasure then we become more body like we become more physical we become more animalistic with strength and the power of the body but if we strengthen our spiritual side if we work on our soul if we think about our soul the fact that we have a soul and what does it mean connection to Hashem infinite potential and we act accordingly then we become more spiritual we become more Angel like angelic now when we consume a plant we raise the procurement level why because we take something that is plant material and we incorporate it into a human being it becomes part of us now if we use the energy that the plant gives us we use it for Spiritual Pursuits then we make the plant into a human how and maybe even into an angel however if we take the plant material and we do basic routine running around working eating reproducing sleeping then we're using the plant for animalistic functions so yes it's still good for the plan to be consumed by a human if the human is using it well even for animalistic functions but animalistic functions are also necessary then the plant grows in its spiritual Dimension and becomes part of an animal body the human body part of a human and that is animalistic however there is a another level that if a human being consumes the plant the energy from the plant and uses it for sins for rebelling against God for evil then we damage the spiritual energy that's in the plant and we bring it down and there is a concept that even a human being and certainly whatever we eat if we misuse it becomes inanimate it goes down from being a human into an animal then it goes down to being a plant and then goes down to being an inanimate object as we have a concept that a human being can be reincarnated the soul of a human being can be put into an inanimate object because he used his body to such an extent for evil that he brought it down to animal level and then even worse to plant level and then even worse to inanimate object so anything we use in this world we can uplift whether it is plant material animal like what we eat and even inanimate objects we take water we take salt we take minerals and we even use stones for building a building a house and then if we use the chair we sit on the table the bed the house for spiritual um Endeavors we use it to come closer to God to do the will of God then all these physical objects become Servants of a human being and therefore they become Servants of God and therefore they are up raised they fulfill their mission and they may receive a higher spiritual existence so we call Moshe man of God or godly man anything he touches becomes Godly and of course being that he was our leader any Jew that he looked at became a better Jew and he drew that he spoke with became a better Jew any Jew that he blessed became a a Jew with a with a with a capital G and that is why it's important to read these blessings because words of exotic words of righteous man have an effect and words of Moshe especially the words of blessing have an effect and as we read them we imagine how he says it to us and the blessings that he said to the tribes they come to us as um Rashid the commentator says that at the end of His blessings to each tribe he put them all together and said all the blessings I said to ruven should apply to all tribes all the Jewish people all the blessings that I said to Shimon should apply to all the Jewish people all the blessings I said to each one of the tribes should apply to all the Jewish people for all generations to come so this is the blessing that Moshe gave the children of Israel before his death he said first a little bit of history that describes why Jewish people are special why they deserve the blessing Hashem came from Sinai to greet the Jewish people as they were coming to Sinai as the hatan as the groom comes to greet the Kalah the bride as we we know in a Sephardic tradition when the bride with her parents comes towards the Hupa the groom leaves the Hupa and walks towards the bride and he meets her halfway and then they together go back to the Hupa so Hashem came from Sinai the Jewish people are going to the Mount Sinai to receive the Torah and they see Hashem is greeting them having shown forth to them from Sierra now an interesting thing Moshe says Hashem came from Sinai but where did he come from to Sinai he came from the mountain of seir what was he doing there he was first visiting CE then he came to Sinai we know that Sierra is the land where Assaf lived that means Hashem came from asav to the Mount Sinai to give Torah to Jewish people why did he go to a cell first and the the sages say that because Hashem offered the Torah to a South he came to his father and said your whole life you were claiming that you deserve the right of the firstborn do you know that the firstborn is supposed to serve God the firstborn is supposed to be a kohen the firstborn is supposed to study the law of God would you like to deceive the law of God and his Nation said to Hashem what is written in that law of God and Hashem said well I'll tell you the hardest thing if you can manage it everything else is easy you're not allowed to kill not allowed to murder not allowed to fight unnecessary Wars and I saw when they heard it they said no no no it's not for us we don't need it it's too hard we love to kill we love to murder we love to fight Wars if you study history any war that was ever fought there was someone from a self-involved any War there were some descendants or blood mixture of a serve in it so Hashem said okay what can I do you don't want it I'm gonna go elsewhere now motion continuously says having appeared from Mount Paran but before ASAP Hashem went somewhere else and that was to the mountain of parang who lived in mountain of Paran and that was Ishmael the children of Ishmael that means that before going to the Jewish people Hashem went to itself and before going to Islam he went to Ishmael he came to Ishmael and said Ishmael I remember that you claimed that you should be the firstborn you should be the spiritual descendant of Abraham because you were born first from Hagar would you like to receive the Torah that will tell you how to serve God and then maybe you will be first born this is your chance and Ishmael said certainly but let me her hear first what does it say in your Torah and Hashem said I'm gonna tell you the hardest thing for you if you can handle it everything else is going to be easy for you so Hashem said According to some versions don't steal and they said no no it's too hard for us as it says in the Torah yeah the the the the hand off Arabs is in a pocket of everyone they love to grab things that belong to others and they said no there's one thing we cannot do and according to other versions of the midrash they said Hashem said to them the hardest thing for you is going to be forbidden relations exhibit self-control in moral matters in marital relations and they said no no we can't we want 18y we want 70 wives we want virgins when one Harem and they say no no it's not for us so Hashem said you don't want it they said no we're sorry we don't want it said okay I'm going to go elsewhere so from Ishmael he went to ASAP and from ASAP he came to harsinai and then approached the Jewish people with some of the Holy myriads many hundreds of thousands of Angels were with Hashem from his right hand he presented the Torah of fire to them very interesting Hashem gave them Torah with his right hand number one and number two it's the Torah of fire the Torah of Fire means that just like fire Torah can either build you can use fire to purify metals to burn wood to produce uh heat to cook to boil water to turn turbines fire is used to run Society so to Torah if used properly it will be like that spiritual fire that will Drive everything that that that goes on in the universe however fire can also burn fire can hurt fire can consume fire can destroy if used improperly and unfortunately many people have tried to use Torah improperly for their own benefit and they have grabbed the Torah and said that it's ours we are going to interpret it the way we want we know that this is what um early Christians attempted to do they took the Torah from the Jewish people and they started interpreting it their own way and even Greeks before the Christians and later the Muslims each one tried to take the Torah and and twist it and use it as a weapon against the Jewish people themselves that is the Torah of fire Hashem gave it to us and he gave it to us with his right hand right hand represents kindness right hand also represents what the sages State for the sake of Heaven means that if a person learns Torah for the right reason in order to find the will of God and in order to fulfill the will of God then the Torah becomes the Torah of Truth the total of kindness and the fire that's within the Torah becomes positive constructive force if however a person learns Torah from the left side from the left field he is doing it in order to make himself great to in order to make himself famous in order to earn money or to win an argument then the Torah becomes negative the Torah becomes damaging like a destructive fire that's the kind of Torah that's the kind of knowledge that Hashem gave to us now verse 3 indeed Moshe says you God loved the tribes greatly all its holy ones were in your hands and they planted themselves at your feet preparing the Yoke of your utterances this is a a beautiful verse that says that Hashem loves the Jews even when he has to rebuke them punish them God forbid remind them of the Forgotten Duty you still love the tribes greatly and unfortunately sometimes Hashem because of his great love and expectation for the Jewish people he has to punish them however all its holy ones the holy members of the Jewish people are in your hands that means that Hashem guards that they came the righteous people as if he is holding them in his hand and there is a good reason for it because they planted themselves at your feet they became dedicated to you like children sitting in a circle around their parents like students sitting in a circle around their teacher and listening to every word ready to fulfill their desire and not only that bearing the Yoke of your utterances they are ready to take the burden on their shoulder and the Jewish people have done it the righteous Among Us have suffered you can say they have lived a life of great accomplishment and of sleeping short hours eating very little working very hard for the sake of the community for the sake of the Jewish Nation for the sake of Hashem bearing the Yoke of your utterances and another married that the Jewish people have is that they Proclaim verse 4. Torah sivalan the famous verse the Torah that Moshe commanded us is the heritage of the congregation of yaakov the Jewish people recognize that the Torah is not man-made material rather it is divine the Torah that Moshe commanded us is the heritage of the congregation of yaakov and they further say in verse 5 he meaning God became king over yeshuru yishun is the highest name of the Jewish people Jewish people have three main names one is yaakov that is the name of the Jewish people when they are at the first stage of the history which is the majority of the history when they have to struggle when they have to fight when they have dark times then they have Israel when they have won when they accomplished when they are on top they are called Israel and the highest name is from the word yashar just like the word yes you should run also used both spell Out yashar means straight to God but our sages say that the name is the future name of the Jewish people when they become perfect God became king over the Jewish people who are now called with their highest name yeshurum when the numbers of the nation gathered the tribes of Israel in unity which means when does God become the king over the Jewish people the highest form when do the Jewish people attain that highest name that is when they gather all of them in unity when Jewish people have Unity then Hashem God is a king over them and they but considered by God as having fulfilled their true mission because just like a parent who loves to see that his children get along and his children love each other and they help each other so to Hashem wants to see us the Jewish people that we look at each other with happiness we look at each other with approval we look at each other with love and we help each other now come the blessings first blessing is and not die and may his population be included in the count now this is interesting if he's gonna live then he's not gonna die why say both Moshe said meruen live and he should not die so the commentator says live a long life in this world because when Ruben made a mistake by interfering in his father's marital life and by recommending that his father should move his bed after his wife Rachel died he should move his bed to Reuben's mother's tent Leia yaakov said you cannot do that I choose where I move my tent I have three more wives and I'm gonna choose which one and miyakov moved his tent to Bill hasten who was Raphael's maidservant and Reuben of course didn't like it so he interfered and yaakov said you have no right to interfere in your father's marital life and that was a mistake that Reuben made however he regretted what he did and he became perfect Sadiq a righteous man and Moshi gave him a further blessing may he not die in the next world may he not be punished for any of it not only he should not be punished by early death God forbid he should live his whole life but not even a remainder not even a trace of his sin should stay for the next world may he have Olam Abba and his population should be included in the count the tribe of Reuben should not lose the Merit of being counted among the Jewish people just like when yaakov gave him the blessing um the Jewish people were counted right after Reuben made a mistake the Torah goes out of its way to say but the tribes of of uh Israel were 12 and ruvin was the firstborn which means the Torah right away says that Hashem forgave him because ruvin did the shuva now verse 7 the blessing to you and together with yudah Moshe gives blessing to Shimon because occupied the same territory but Shimon didn't have Fields rather they were given cities in the territory of Yehuda and this to Yehuda and Moshe said listen or Hashem to yehuda's voice May Hashem accept the prayers of yudah we descendants of yuruda majority of the Jewish people nowadays come from the tribe of Yehuda we have this power as well from the blessing of Moshe May our prayers be accepted and return him to his people when he goes out to war may he come back without any casualties may he come back intact to his people that is why David Hamill who comes from yudah was always Victorious may his hands fight his grievance always have Victory against his enemies and may you God be a Helper against his enemies and may may God always help yahudah in war now verse 8 the blessing to Levy of Levi Moshe said your to me your urim he's speaking to Hashem Hashem the urim and to meme the special Garment of kohen gadol that you gave in order to communicate with you it was um name of Hashem written on parchment inserted into a folded breastplate and through the Jewish people speaking to Hashem the stones on the breastplate would light up and give the answer so Moshe says Hashem they are proper for your devout one why because the tribe of Levy were the most loyal to Hashem in that that early history and Moshe lists a few examples where when the tribe of Levy remained loyal to Hashem whom you tested at Masa and whom you challenged at the Waters of merivan and the one who said of his father and mother I have not favored them and his brothers he did not give recognition and his children he did not know for they the Levites have observed the word and your Covenant they preserve now the earliest mentioned when the Levites were loyal to Hashem was when the Jewish people came into the land of Israel into the land of Egypt the Egyptians asked them we have priests every house of idol worship has their priests and our priests have a special privilege they receive a stipend from the government and they don't have to work and they don't have to pay taxes however they have to live with that stipend they cannot do business they cannot uh be involved in secular Pursuits do you have someone like that among you they ask the Jewish people now the Jewish people were surprised by that question because by us every Jew young or old is a servant of Hashem man or woman elder or child we all serve God every day the whole day so the Jewish people said no we don't have such a thing we're all equal however the levite said you know it wouldn't be nice if we say no we don't have because the Egyptians are going to misinterpret it and they're going to think that we are all equal in not serving God that we don't have special tribe that are dedicated to God they're not going to understand just like Paro later said who is going to serve God when Moshe came to him and Moshe said everyone our elders and our youngsters our women and our men everybody's gone Paro said don't make up stories such a thing doesn't exist it's only certain limited group of people who are priests who serve God everyone else the masses they have no connection to God so power couldn't believe it and the levite said to the Egypt to the Jewish people we must choose someone just to look like we also have people who are dedicated to God so the Levites volunteered and they said we are such a people we are going to accept upon ourselves the stipend of power and even though we can do business and we can become professionals and earn a lot we are not going to because we for the sake of Hashem to preserve his uh Glory kidush Hashem we are going to take upon ourselves to serve him full time and because of that the Levites started receiving the stipend from Egyptians from part of the Egyptian government and they did not need to participate in the economy so at the beginning they were more poor because they couldn't develop Fields they couldn't build they couldn't have animals they were dedicated to learning Torah and serving God however later it paid off because whoever was a professional whoever was in the workforce became a slave to Paro and they were suffering and their children were killed however the Levites because they were the Priestly class so the Egyptians thought and the the Levites accepted upon themselves the small stipend of of the of Paro they were not touched they continued receiving the stipend and they continued having freedom to serve God and living Jewish way of life that was their first um sign of loyalty then when the Jewish people came out of Egypt they were tested with with the golden calf and majority of the Jewish people couldn't pass the test um they doubted although only a small percent or only about uh half a percent of the Jewish people actually served the idol only 3 000 men out of 600 000. men and no women so it was uh much less than one percent less than half a percent that actually sin but many Jews had doubts and worries and concerns whereas Marshall was going to be but not Levites all the levite men were loyal to Hashem and they did not have any thoughts of serving idols so that was another and further in sending the spies and other complaints that the Jewish people had the Levites always stood out so that's what it says that when time came to kill those that served the golden calf the Levites did not favor their relatives and they went out to support Moshe and they executed those that served the idol now verse 10 continues the blessing to the Levites they shall teach your ordinances to yaakov and your Torah to Israel the Levites became the teachers in the Jewish Nation and therefore in our times those that teach the Torah those that dedicate themselves to God and to public affairs they are considered Levites they're not really Levites they're not but they serve that role and therefore in among the Jewish people they are relieved of taxes because they dedicate their whole life they don't do business they don't become professionals rather they give up their independence and they serve the Jewish Nation the Jewish nation has to take care of them they shall Place incense before your presence part of Levites became kohanim the priests in the temple and they offered incense and burnt offerings on your altar bless oh Hashem his resources Hashem please give wealth to the Levites because we as we said Levites didn't do business they uh didn't pursue secular careers and therefore Moshe gives them a special blessing from Hashem that their par NASA should come clearly from God and not due to their own effort and favor the work of his hand accept their service in betamic dash smash the loins of his foes and his enemies that they may not rise and may the Levites be victorious in war when do we see that the the Levi's fought the War that we see in the story of Hanukkah the macabim they were a family of kohanim they fought and they were victorious and this blessing of Moshe is alluding to that smash his enemies and may they not rise the next blessing is to the tribe of binyamin verse 12. of binyamin he said May hashem's beloved but dwell securely by him by God binyamin is called God's beloved because the the talmud tells us that binyaman always wished and dreamed to be the one in whose portion with betamic Dash will be built and Moshe gives him this blessing may you who are God's beloved always dwell securely next to God God hovers over him all day long when the temple will be built in the land of binyamin and part of Jerusalem where the temple stood was in the land of binyamin and God's presence The Cloud of Glory hovered over the temple that is why it says he hovers over him all day long and rests between his shoulders next blessing is for yourself blessed by Hashem is his land with the Heavenly Bounty of Dew and the Deep Waters crouching below the land of Joseph had a lot of sources of water that it had to do it had Springs with the Bounty of the sun's crop they had abundant sunlight and with the Bounty of the moon's yield they had quickly ripening grains and with quick ripening crops of the early mountains the fruit trees in the land of yourself also gave fruit very early and with the Bounty of Eternal Hills and the land of yourself produces fruit even in drought that's why they're called Eternal Hills they produce fruit even when other lands have stopped with the Bounty of the land and its fullness the land of Joseph had variety of fruits great variety more than any other land and by the favor of him who rested upon the thorn bush which refers to Hashem the favor of Hashem is resting on the tribe of your state may this blessing rest upon Joseph's head and upon the crown of him who was separated from his brothers Joseph as we remember was sold and lived far away from his family that's what it says was separated from his brothers this word also means the crown of his brothers because Joseph was King over Egypt as well as all the Jewish people for 80 years from age 30 until age 110. and the descendant of Yusef became a king again Yeshua and later they had other kings a sovereignty is his acts like one that descendants of yourself will be powerful leaders an example is yahshua Majesty is his and his glory will be like the horns of the horns of ram a beautiful um beautiful um long horns this is the blessing of beauty that Moshe gives to yourself with them shall he Gore Nations together yourself in the future will have victory over um other nations this came true in times of yahushua when they conquered 31 Kings as well as as it says to the ends of the land later the Children of Children of Joseph were victorious in other Wars and in times of mashiach we have a tradition that there will be first a leader a mashiach from Yosef who will fight against the Nations and then he will be replaced by mashiach from the tribe of uh Yehuda from the lineage of David who will finish the job and bring um all the nations under one God they are the myriads of Ephraim which means tens of thousands that children of Ephraim killed in war and the thousands of minutes since the tribe of Yosef was split into two tribes Ephraim and minashe both are mentioned now next blessing is to zivaloon and yes and they're mentioned together because they were partners made partnership that zivulun will do business and will support who dedicated himself to Torah study of the volume he said Rejoice all live alone in your excursions in your business trips is blessed with success in Torah Torah study foreign the tribes will assemble at the mount the Jewish people will come to Jerusalem based on the calculations of the tribe of who using their thought of wisdom were able to calculate precise Deeds for all the Jewish holidays they established a calendar there they will Slaughter offerings of righteousness and when all the Jewish people assemble in Jerusalem born they will be able to bring bring offerings another interpretation is that we're talking about the success of the balloon the Nations will assemble at the mountain meaning when all the nations of the world will come to the land of Israel to do business with the were very successful merchants once they come to the land of Israel they will say you know what let's visit the capital let's visit the place where they serve their God and they will assemble at the mountain mountain where Peter mcdash is and there they will Slaughter offerings of righteousness the going will be so inspired nations of the world will see that the Jewish people are serving one God indivisible together unlike Nations where they have multiple gods multiple religions and they're all fighting each other they will see Unity they will see that we believe in one unified God and they will request to become Jewish to join the Jewish Nation they will become righteous Comfort converts and they will bring their offerings right then and there on the spot they will decide to be become Jewish for by The Riches of the sea they will be nourished the tribe of zevolon is blessed with successful fishing industry and doing business overseas using ships and by the treasures concealed in the sand the tribe of Zebulon was blessed with pearls and that um is produced from that that comes out from the sea both the pearls and the Hella the blue dye that we use to color our suit next is the blessing for God the tribe of God blessed is he blessed is God Hashem who broadens the tribe of God gives them wide land the tribe of God went out and conquered additional land in addition to what they received he dwells like a lion they will have a strong Army tearing off arm and even head they had powerful warriors who with one blow with their sword would slice the enemy with his uh head and neck and his torso and his arm they wouldn't chop off his head they would chop him in half and when the Jewish people would see a slain enemy with his head neck torso and arm chopped slanted all the way they would know that a Warrior from God sliced him up now Moshe gives a prediction he chose the first portion for himself for that is where the law giver's plot is hidden the tribe of God chose for themselves area where the mountain of Neville is that is where Moshe will be buried this is a prophetic um blessing because Moshe didn't die yet and Moshe doesn't know yet where he's gonna die and children of God already requested or will request that portion they will say we want the land where our leader Moshe is buried he came at the head of the nation the Warriors and the tribe from the tribe of God were leaders in war at the head of the nation carrying out hashem's Justice and his ordinances with Israel now the next blessing is for done of done he said done is the lion cub he will have a strong Army like a lion leaping forth from the Bashan they lived in Bashan and from there they went forth to fight Wars for the Jewish people next blessing is foreign they will have bountiful land they are filled with hashem's blessing go possess the sea and its sub South Shore the sea here refers to the kinet lake and the southern shore of Connecticut belonged to naphtalit next blessing is Asher of Asher he said the Most Blessed of children is Asher Asher is blessed with many children good children he shall be pleasing to his brothers and deep deep his feet in oil the land of Asher had abundant um olive trees from which they produced a lot of olive oil now the blessing for the entire Jewish people in verse 25 Moshe is now speaking to all the tribes may your borders be sealed like iron and copper May the Jewish people have seek Purity in their land and like the days of your youth so may your old age be good old age of the Jewish people which means just like in times of motion and yahushua our Prime we were successful we were together we were United later things were not so good the Jewish people fell off they rebelled they uh split May our old age be like our Prime May at the end of days Jewish people come again together under the our King mashiach and we may we again have unity and security now Moshe speaks on behalf of the Jewish people there is none like God or yeshurun he God rides across heaven to help you Hashem don't think that he's far away don't think that Hashem doesn't see in the Split Second you can be helped as if from one end of the universe to another Hashem hashem's help is always near he is The Shield of your help The Shield means that he will protect you from attacks not only after the trouble comes he will save you extricate you but he will shield you he will protect you so that no trouble comes to you at all foreign through the upper height now verse 27 . that is the Abode of God immemorial which means the heaven or the spiritual Dimension what we cannot see is the Abode of Hashem always and below which means the universe that we can see the physical world are the world's Mighty ones the Kings the Warriors the generals they think they own the world they can conquer lands and they think we are powerful but really they are blind they don't understand what's going on they are just like pawns they are just like um Tools in God's hands and God controls the whole history he drove the enemy away from before you Hashem flicks our enemies away and he said destroy with just his words he can destroy our enemies thus in the future the Jewish people shall dwell secure solitary and they're gonna be alone No Other Nation will join them individuals will join but not Nations solitary alone in the likeness of yaakov like the blessing that yaakov gave them are moshe's blessings in a Land of grain and wine even his Heavens shall drip with you this is the blessing that we always have in the land of Israel whenever the Jewish people are in the land of Israel the land becomes fertile it turns from being a desert into a beautiful garden fortunate are you or Israel who is like you or people delivered by Hashem The Shield of your help who is the sword of your grandeur your enemies will try to deceive you but you will trample their haughty ones at the end Jewish people will be victorious we just have to be calm and patient until the right time comes now chapter the the blessing finished and now chapter 34. this is the last uh chapter of the Torah Moshe ascended from The Plains of moth to mount Neville as we mentioned Mount Nebo is the mountain where Moshe for the last time looked over the entire land of Israel and he died on that mountain to the summit to the highest point of the cliff that faces and Hashem showed him the entire land both then and in the future for the next almost 4 000 years Moshe saw into the future what's going to happen to the land of Israel what's going to happen to the Jewish people the gilad as far as done he saw both the good times and the bad times the times when the Jewish people did they served Idols in the tribe of Dan as well as the victories of shimshon and he saw all of naftali and he saw the war against cicera and the Jewish victory over cicera and the land of Ephraim he saw Wars that yahushua who is from the tribe of Ephraim fought to the Jewish people and won and minase the victories of gidon against median and amalek and he saw the entire land of yeruda both present and future Wars the David fought and won as far as the Western sea Western sea is the Mediterranean Sea which means Moshe was standing on the other side of uh Jordan River and he saw all the way till the Western sea the Mediterranean however in Hebrew this word can also be read as the last day so the whole history until the last day of this world's existence he saw the entire history of Humanity Negev southern part of the land of Israel as well as with the graves of our forefathers and the plane the plane was preparing tools for the construction of betamic Dash the valley of Irish city of date palms as far as SOA now verse 4. and Hashem said to him this is the land which I swore to avraham it's the burial place of Hashem reminded I promise to avraham that I will give this land to the Jewish people and Allah of years have passed and now came time for me to fulfill my promise please go to avraham in the next world and tell them that I have fulfilled my promise I will give it to your Offspring I have let you see it with your own eyes but you shall not cross over there go and tell the forefathers that although I Moshe cannot go there I have to die here but dear avraham dear yes I'm here to tell you that the promise of Hashem was fulfilled and the Jewish people crossed over into the land you can greet your great-grandchildren again they are back home so Moshe servant of Hashem died there in the land of Moab by the mouth of Hashem now the Jewish people are unique and they they do not try to defy their leaders we do not claim that our leaders when they die they really didn't die really they became Angels really they became God God forbid rather we say when our leaders die they just die and they are buried as it says Moshe died there by the mouth of Hashem and he buried him in the depression who buried him Hashem buried him or According to some Moshe buried himself but we don't say he went to heaven alive he became an angel or God God forbid and that is the further proof that the Torah is true because I don't know of other religions where they treat their leaders as regular people they try to boost themselves up and say oh our leader is special where as we say Moshe had a a body of a human being and therefore he had to die like every other human being and therefore his body had to be buried like the body of every other human being in the land of Moab he was buried opposite of and no one knows his burial place to this day although no one knows the burial place to this day so we could have easily used this fact that no one knows where he's buried to invent a claim that since we don't know where he's buried must be he's not buried since we don't have his body must be he just floated away into heaven we don't say that we say no no no he is buried we just don't know where he is but definitely he is on Earth buried and as much as people try to locate the site of of moshe's grave no one was successful verse 7. Moshe was 120 years old when he died his eyes had nothing even after he died he had a Clear Vision and his Vigor had not diminished his body did not decompose we have a tradition that said became righteous people who use their body properly only for good their body doesn't decompose specifically if they do not have any feelings of jealousy towards others they their body is impervious to worms and decomposition the now why did Moshe die he didn't die from old age not because he became blind he became lame he couldn't move he became paralyzed God forbid no he was as as as if he was still a young man the only reason why he died was because God said he must die no the children of Israel cried for Moshe in the plains of Moab for 30 days then the days of tearful morning for Moshe ended Moshe passed away on the seventh of Adat and until seventh of Nisan the Jewish people cried for motion then they prepared on the seventh of Nissan for the crossing and on the 10th of Nissan three days later they crossed into the land of Israel yahushua son of noon was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moshe had laid his hands upon him so the children of Israel obeyed him and dead as Hashem had commanded moshood Yoshua becomes the new leader now there's an argument who wrote these last few lines from verse 5 and on about moshe's death his burial and you should become the new leader some say wrote it instead of motion and some say Hashem dictated these last few verses to Moshe in a prophecy and Moshe wrote them down before they happened which means Moshe wrote down about his own death verse 10 never again has their Arisen in Israel a prophet like Moshe whom Hashem had known face to face moshe's prophecy is unique and no other Prophet had such Clarity and no other Prophet had such access to Hashem motion could see God whenever he wanted and the message that he received from God was clear unobstructed other prophets they have to interpret what they saw and they have to say it over in their own words with motion whatever he said was the direct message from Ashen as evidenced by all the signs and wonders that Hashem sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Power and all his courtiers and all his land all the Miracles and the ten plagues that Moshe performed in Egypt and by the by all the strong hand when Moshe received the tablets and he brought them down with his hand and awesome power that Moshe performed all the Miracles that Moshe made in the desert bringing out water and fighting Wars and bringing down the Monk leading the Jewish people for 40 years that Moshe performed before the eyes of all Israel and even the fact that Moshe broke the first set of tablets was something miraculous and that proved that whatever he did was from Hashem because who in his right mind would take the message that God gave him the Ten Commandments and smashed them from that act the Jewish people were shocked and they said it must be that Moshe actually receives the message from God and gives it to us clearly and they were shocked that Moshe smashed the tablet and Hashem came and said yes Moshe think of Smashing the tablets you fulfilled my desire and of course we know the story later Moshe prayed and Hashem gave them a new set of tablets but all the Miracles in Egypt in the desert and by Mount Sinai proved conclusively that Moshe was the the prophet of God the top most highest quality never again such a profit arose and this concludes parashat vasota and that can this concludes the entire five books of Moshe because be strong may we be strong and may we be strengthened masalto uh for finishing the Torah may we married to start and finish it many times over and may we go to other books of Torah and may we finish the entire written and oral Torah May everyone be sealed in The Book of Life and may we have a successful year and hugs thank you for joining us all the best