Ancient Triennial Torah - the Mystery of Moses' staff-walk (Exodus 16-17 in secret Hebrew)

[00:00:03][music] the only daughter of >> Hey, shalom. Welcome.

[00:00:18]Today we continue here on Hebrew literacy with our ancient trial Torah portion.

[00:00:25]Today's para from the ancient cycle is Exodus 16 verse 28 through all of chapter 17 and it's called until when meaning how long will you refuse?

[00:00:48]The idea is like refuse to keep his Torah.

[00:01:06]Thi little is sh I saychech.

[00:02:08]Yeshua.

[00:02:10]All right, let's go ahead and get started. I'm going to be trying something slightly different today, but I think it might be better. You guys let me know. Give me some feedback afterwards. Let me know if you thought it was a nicer way to study together.

[00:02:29]So, here it is.

[00:02:31]doing things this way I can give you a larger text and then at the end if time is permitting we will go through the codecs as well also larger like this anyway let me know if this works for you I hope it works hope it's an improvement we're always looking at ways to make things better for my students here so let's go ahead and get into it chapter 16 verse 28.

[00:03:26]Then Hashem said unto Moshe, Moses, until is really what this says like until when or it can also mean where until where.

[00:03:42]On is an interrogative meaning where or to where like direction towards.

[00:03:48]So usually together the two together have the idea of how long.

[00:03:54]How long may so the verb here don't think that it's a min connected. It's not. It's me alon to refuse or reject. So meant so literally this is a perfect. So it sounds like it's saying until when you rejected or you refused. So this is just another indicator that time functions differently in biblical Hebrew. This is not to be considered a past tense only as it is in the modern Hebrew dialect.

[00:04:28]Lemo to hear.

[00:04:32]Pardon me to keep. I did mo for some reason to keep or to hedge.

[00:04:42]Mitzvot my commandments.

[00:04:46]Mitzvot is command.

[00:04:49]Mitzvot would be my command. Mitzvot with the a part there is my commands. That makes it plural. Okay. My commands the and to my Toras my Toras i.e. my laws.

[00:05:16]This is kind of interesting. You could make an argument for the existence of the oral Torah or at least some rudimentary oral Torah of it here because it's it's my Toras, right? It's the two Torres. It's a it's a plural, right? Torah is a me, right?

[00:05:35]So tora meaning law or the Torah, right?

[00:05:40]Torah toot would be Toras. So it could be laws or perhaps teachings.

[00:05:48]And then to would be the dual would be there are the two Toras. But when you put the suffix e on the end, there's they're morphologically the same. Toai could either mean my toas or my two toas. See what I'm saying?

[00:06:08]So it's not 100% proof of an oral Torah.

[00:06:13]But it is interesting that God says my commandments and my Torah is here. Of course, you could also interpret it as my teachings, which usually shim refers to my teaching in the singular. So, I'm not sure.

[00:06:28]Again, you it's really not a hammer. You could go either way with it, but it is interesting. I think that we have that.

[00:06:37]Rashi writes that as the saying goes, the cabbage is smitten along with the thorn, the good are disgraced by association with the wicked. Right? So there there were some good people receiving this message as long as well, right?

[00:06:55]Or as Messiah reiterates, God causes the rain to fall on the just and the wicked alike. Remembering that just in Hebrew, i.e. law obeyer, is the exact same word that means righteous. It becomes a little bit watered down in English when we just say righteous, right? It's always important to keep in mind the underlying sedc in Hebrew is talking about just a just person i.e. a person who keeps the law and applies it to others fairly without unequal weights and measures verse 29.

[00:07:48]imperative from but he went away. So see as in no right see here we have subject before verb. to the special emphasis that Adonai Adonai himself perhaps you could translate Natan has given to you all hashbat the Sabbath and it's interesting in this verse in the previous Moses is leaving off the definite direct object marker at [clears throat] which we would expect see what the textual note says here okay the Greek just says this day the day that this one like in true Hebrew fashion but the Hebrew says the Shabbat it's a gift from Adonai it's the invention from Hashem it's not to be changed because of later historical events okay you cannot change the day of rest when people take it too far and they say oh you know I believe in the concept of a Sabbath day's rest we should have a day to rest. Well, you're playing God when you do that.

[00:09:03]You're playing God. It's the only name in Hebrew, pardon me, the only day in Hebrew, like I'm fond of saying, many of you know, that has a name. All the other days of the week have no name in Hebrew.

[00:09:15]They're very mundane. Sunday is called day one. Tuesday is called, wait for it, it's super creative, day two.

[00:09:26]That was Monday, pardon me. Tuesday, day three. Wednesday, day four. Thursday, day five. Friday, we're getting uber creative.

[00:09:35]Day six. And then Friday night until Saturday night is Shabbat or hash Shabbat, the Sabbath day, the not the the cease doing, the cease working. Ashbat al therefore he has given to you alli bay in the day hashishi the sixth bread yayim now this is interesting here we have another dual ending like I was talking about with tootai could be it could be from tootim could be two Toras yayim two days the I am instead of E is masculine plural. I am is the dual for masculine or feminine two days.

[00:10:31]Therefore, he's given to you all on the sixth day bread two days like a two-day portion.

[00:10:54]This is from Yashin B. This is a weak verb. It's called a pay yod verb. It starts with a yod and the yod often times goes away as it has here. So instead of yu, we get shivu, right? Command, dwell or sit.

[00:11:15]This is plural. to everybody mimicking the see ish a man or a person often times can just mean each like each one even use of objects right when the temple is when there's instructions about how to sew together the parts and connect the parts you'll see is or is to mean each one right or a man to his neighbor or s such and such so ish person I've taken this is where we get the the Yiddish word theas because well there's no suffox here we read this as right and then there's no doggish on the tav in the Ashkenazi the German Jewish word or European Jewish pronunciation for the tav without a dogish is an s sound. So the way that you read under when you're reading Hebrew with an Ashkanazi accent, not dialect. Some people say dialect. It's not a different dialect. It's exactly the same biblical Hebrew, same grammar. Takas, just an accent like being in the south or in the north. We don't say dialect when they're saying the same words, right? Tas instead of so tas is your under part in anyway.

[00:12:36]under him or under it.

[00:12:44]He shall not go out ish a person.

[00:12:50]Oh, so here we have min combined. They contracted. That's why you got the dish and the mem min became. There's two mems here. So there's actually three mems.

[00:12:59]Mem and another mem the place of oh of him.

[00:13:06]I want you guys to think about this because it's very important about the sanctity of the Sabbath day.

[00:13:14]Look how God is hedging people directly.

[00:13:18]This is a command being delivered by Moshe.

[00:13:26]A person shall sit or dwell under it.

[00:13:32]say he is a person shall not go out from his place.

[00:13:42]So again, if you're listening to me while you're driving somewhere or you're going on a a bicycle ride or you're taking public transportation or or shalom, you're paying somebody to drive you or you're walking five miles or something on Shabbat.

[00:14:01]Say a person shall not go out from his m his place.

[00:14:10]And you might say, but what about synagogues and such people go to synagogue? Yes, the mishpatim, the judges decided a mishpot. We are commanded to keep mishpatim as well, right? They decided in Mishbot, a judgment that if it is an enclosed area like a gated community or there's there's it's a walled city, right, which we didn't have when we're in the desert, right, or in the when we're wandering in the wilderness. If you have a safe place like this, then you can go out and you can walk to your congregation, right? As long as it's under 6 miles, you can do that, right? It's called an arov in the states. If you're living in an arov, you can do that. And you can even carry something not too heavy if you're living in an arov.

[00:15:04]Okay.

[00:15:11]And I had to make it a little bit smaller so we can fit it all in there.

[00:15:19]B on I the day hash the the seventh on the seventh day.

[00:15:33]Okay, we have some text say hashabbat.

[00:15:36]The Samaritan Torah says hashabbat.

[00:15:42]Interesting here. But up above they said so they got this one. This one says on this day in the Septuent, right? And then down here we get bless Shabbats comments the institution is God's gift to Israel as the rabbis of the Talmud expressed it. The holy one, blessed be He said the de Moses. I have a precious gift in my treasure house called the Sabbath and I desire to give it to Israel. You can find this in Talmud tract Shabbat page 10b.

[00:16:22]There's other places in the Talmud as well. Oftentimes a a story or a legend is repeated in the Talmud. If you're new to the Talmud and you've heard how terrible it is and it says awful things, um, this is usually the perspective of the ignorant. Okay, you should be aware that those two passages that that are allegedly about the Messiah, modern Orthodox rabbis, the majority of them say that is not the same person.

[00:16:55]This is someone who came 200 years later.

[00:16:59]So there's that. That's not the way that the religion uses the Talmud sees it as that. And we usually trust the religion who uses it. We we go to the sources, right? Just as if we were critiquing Islam. We would go to the direct sources, not what some person on the street tells us, but we would look at actual Quran and at hadith, especially the sahi hadith, the sayings of their prophet. Right? even because someone may lie till they're blue in the face about what it says. But what do the commentators say? The classical commentators. Now, if you assume that those two sections are about, even if we grant it that these it's a few blurbs basically that says some bad stuff about the Messiah, then I would just implore you to understand exactly what the Talmud is.

[00:17:46]The Talmud is a very large collection of court decisions and midrashim that's like Jewish legends, right? Some might be true, some might not be true and sometimes even philosophy and stories and all kinds of stuff spanning centuries.

[00:18:10]And what's unique about the Talmud, I think it's unique. You could let me know if there's some other large enormous like encyclopedic size collection of religious literature. The Talmud though recorded by House of Hillel recorded by the Hillite Pharisees.

[00:18:33]Actually, let me just show you first a video that I think you should watch. So, if you go to my channel, yep, there I am blah blah about the channel [laughter] and you see on YouTube. So you'll do youtube.com/hebrew literacy and then you click the little search. Okay.

[00:18:55]Type who is wise.

[00:18:59]All right. And here I have a little 15minute video that I made for you guys about three years ago. Okay. It's just got a thousand views.

[00:19:09]Who's wise? A 15-minute overview of the Talmud with Rabbi Yera. That's me. or fully your mahu if you prefer. Anyway, uh this I kind of go over and summarize it so I don't have to redo the whole thing now. Okay, this is really good for those Messianic Jews or Hebrew roots or Christians who demonize the Talmud. You must watch my video. Okay, are these attacks fair or just another example of anti-semitism? I think it's the latter.

[00:19:34]It's not fair. It's another bit of anti-semitism.

[00:19:37]And if you check the video, I think we have a detailed subject index. Let me look here.

[00:19:43]Let's see.

[00:19:45]Let's see. Let's see.

[00:19:49]Ah, this one was never indexed.

[00:19:52]Okay. But, you know, there's some decent comments.

[00:19:56]A lot of people thought it was decent and they had some feedback. So, maybe you go watch it and add to and let me know what your take is on it. Okay. So, the title is who is wise? Basically, I'm quoting the Talmud there. That's why.

[00:20:08]So, okay. But the summary is the Talmud includes even the opinions of those who lost a court decision or lost the debate. Right? So even the Sadducees have opinions referenced in the Talmud.

[00:20:25]Even the Shamite Pharisees, those who argued with the master while he was like they are the ones in power later overruled by the Hillites where modern Judaism mostly comes from today. So even the minority, the losing opinion and even like crazy teachings from some boondocks rabbi get included, right? So it's it's unfair to judge. It's a collection of works. You understand?

[00:20:49]I mean, let me show you an example of this. So the Talmud, the holiness of the Talmud is nothing like that of the Tanakh, right, of the Bible, right? But would you read Shia Hashim Song of Songs to your 9-year-old or your six-year-old?

[00:21:06]I mean, talking about stuff that makes us blush a lot of times. So, even the Bible itself, would it be fair? And actually, sometimes enemies of scripture do this. I've heard Islamic pmicists do this. They were, I believe they're attacking Christians at the time, but Christians have the same Hebrew Bible as Jews have. And they were basically saying, "Look at this. It's like pornography, blah blah blah," which of course is ludicrous. But but nevertheless, it's not for all ages. You don't read it to your six-year-old, your seven-year-old. You know, some false prophets marry six-year-olds, but you know, we don't do that. But anyway, just just putting that out there. if you think Song of Songs is bad. All right, so let's continue on. I hope you'll watch my Tomwood video and have some feedback on that. You know, just a highle overview, but I think it's important for people to understand what it is so you can defend it when you hear an anti-semite gleefully quoting from one of those two places where it seems like it might be bad. And it might be.

[00:22:10]It would be like us quoting from Martin Luther and from his from that evil person and his evil books calling to destroy Jews and to hurt our synagogues and to enslave us as he calls for. He calls for forcing Jews to do hard labor, right? So how fair would that be to say look all the Christian books are bad.

[00:22:26]Like if we made a collection we called it Tamuda of the Christian books over covering a few centuries and the Christian opinions and the from all the different sects, the different denominations and that'd be unfair, right? It's unfair. It's I believe it's a genetic fallacy of logic, right? To do that. All right. You take one little thing and you say, "Oh, look, everyone of that type is like it." Right? So, all right. Let us continue with verse 30.

[00:23:04]Hey, hey, Shabbat is where we get the word hashabat.

[00:23:10]Here's the word hashabat, the Sabbath.

[00:23:13]And here is the verb shabat, to stop working, to cease or even to cause, to cease. The call is sometimes translated as if it's a heil.

[00:23:34]They shall stop working who the people on the day hash the chev the seventh.

[00:23:45]Okay. So you see how in Hebrew it's impossible to come to the conclusion that the Sabbath has changed. We count we count Sunday's day one. Okay. If you're talking to a first c century Israeli or aka Israelite and you said to him, "Look, the Lord has risen on Sunday. So Sabbath is now Sunday."

[00:24:05]You're saying this day with a name, Hashabbat is now day one. Is now on day one.

[00:24:11]And Hash Shabbat is now day seven. We're going to call it I mean we're going to call it What would it be then? Uh I'm sorry. It's now day eight. It's even confusing to think through it. The day previously known as day one is now called a Shabbat. and Shabbat is now day six. You see how crazy it is? It's just ludicrous. It only works when you remove yourself from the holy tongue.

[00:24:44]Exodus 16 verse 31.

[00:24:52]That is pardon me.

[00:25:19]Sorry, that's a only one time this word.

[00:25:23]It's like a little kind of cake, a flat cake or pancake, something like that.

[00:25:27]Only here in the entire Bible is where we get this word. Threw me off at sec. I accidentally read it closer to scab.

[00:25:34]Sorry, which would not make sense. But anyway, then he called the B Israel, the house of Israel.

[00:25:46]Many ancient traditions have ben there instead his name or its name Shem. Oh the name of it man.

[00:25:58]So the children of Israel called it's not he called they called their subject Israel. Then the house of Israel called its name manu and it was like the seed of God. Gimmel dalot coriander. Coriander. This is only two or three times. I think three times in the entire Bible. All in the Torah.

[00:26:29]Lavan white.

[00:26:33]like Abraham's relative Lavan.

[00:26:36]Mommy named him Whitey named him White Lavan.

[00:26:41]Oh, and it's Tet and me. It's taste, which by the way, that's also what these things are down below, the taste markers, right? Or the sense signs as one scholar calls them whose name I can't think of right now. An Italian sounding name.

[00:26:59]K like like a flake cake or a flat pastry or a flat cake or a pancake. We're not exactly sure. Bash with dash with syrup.

[00:27:17]Some say honey. It's only honey if it's explicitly talking about the honeybees, right? Like with comb and such.

[00:27:27]Rashi explains that coriander seed is round but it is not white. It was the it was the mana that was white. It was like coriander seed in terms of its roundness and it was also white.

[00:27:41]Okay.

[00:27:44]Verse 32.

[00:27:46]Oh, maybe we should scroll it up a bit so we don't Oops.

[00:27:54]Here we go.

[00:28:10]Melo long verse. verse said this is the thing which commanded me like the or I should say the fullness of or the filling of the right that's the a unit of measurement like a measurement for grain or corn meu from it the mish to guard or to to keep for your generations so that now this is not to be fearful. It's racial olive that he went away that they may see at the bread. Remember they put a jar of it in the in the in the ark a with which So aal is to eat and this is very clearly with the he at the beginning a heil to cause to eat. So I I caused to eat meaning I fed you all just want to see what's the textual note that's fine.

[00:30:03]Okay, the septto's not much different.

[00:30:06]That which ate you in the wilderness.

[00:30:14]So this is a heil infinitive from the verb yatsa. Yatsa is to go out. The heel is to cause to go out. So to bring out.

[00:30:21]So this is be in or the bringing out of e of me in the bringing out of me which we interpret when I brought out may from the house of pardon me from the land of Egypt. My brain was floating to house of bondage [clears throat] from the land of Egypt. Good. Any comments or questions?

[00:30:50]How's everybody doing today?

[00:31:05]Izzar comments, "This passage ought to have been written after the building of the tabernacle, which is where one place something before the Lord, but the text wished to keep all the miracles connected with the mana together. in this case that one jar of it lasted throughout the ages. That's coming up in verse 33.

[00:31:26]33.

[00:31:38]A shel said this next verb is the lid went away.

[00:32:05]So take it this is a jar one that's feminine for becomes beten sorry usually it's 10 that's from natan the first noon one away vet and give or place sha over there the fullness of an omare man of mana this is from the verb nu which is to rest Okay. So, cause to rest, which can also just mean like place something, right? You're I guess it's moving in your hand. You set it down. It's now you've caused it to rest. Okay. Notice the ancient w the middle root letter disappeared.

[00:32:49]So it so set it or place it before as Ezra was talking about for a service or for keeping for the for your generations which idatically means forever for an era for a period.

[00:33:18]Verse 34.

[00:33:32]notice became because of the accent mark according to how I commanded Moshe Moshe.

[00:33:44]So he placed it literally he caused it to rest. Who did Aaron before the uh the testimonies? These are the this means the two tablets right there are the the tablets of testimonies right the the tablets of stone leish mit for mishmerit for keeping verse 35 maybe I'll make that the song today about the ark of the the ark of the covenant coming back I know he did that not too long ago but that song took me a long time so I don't know maybe we'll [laughter] we'll share it So this look the subject's coming before the verb. So there's some kind of emphasis happening. Now the children of Israel, they ate the mana 40 year until the it's an infinitive. The coming of them, but that sounds weird in English. So we say until they came unto no shave is land and no shave is a participle right from the verb yash the yodas disappeared right so yash is descended to dwell so this is acting kind of like an adjective that's why it's feminine even though it's participible so is feminine land what kind of land a dwelling land is really what it says to unto a dwelling land the mana again it's emphasized at is coming before the verbal so it's really emphasizing the mana they ate until they entered enter is probably better way to translate came until big construct chain the edge or like the boundary of the land of Canaan.

[00:36:15]Rashi clarifies it's 40 years minus 30 days actually and then he he goes on he gives the whole count about that verse 36.

[00:36:34]Now the that measure for wheat or corn or it's telling you in case you don't know what that is. It's a tenth. Notice the roots is 10, right? Like the makes it like inverted like one over that thing, right? So if you have, for example, the word 40, the e is telling you it's for zero.

[00:37:02]you had the zero, right? But if you just have four, that's four. But if you say eat, you put that same ending eat, that's one over four. So 1/4. You understand?

[00:37:13]We're doing fractions in the Torah thousands of years ago.

[00:37:18]So one10enth of the apha. So that's how big the Om is. Who? He literally onetenth of the apha. Who he meaning? Is it? It is. Then you always got to think like Yoda.

[00:37:38]>> The eyes. Yes.

[00:37:43]I so old to young eyes.

[00:37:48]Sorry. It's hard to turn Yoda off. When you when you turn on Yoda, it's hard to turn him off.

[00:37:59]Okay, we're coming up on the end of chapter 16. Here's the last verse.

[00:38:06]Oh, we did the last verse. Yay.

[00:38:09]So, [clears throat] we're done with chapter 16. Now, we have all of chapter 17 to do.

[00:38:17]So, I think what I'll do, this is a good place to give you a little on egg break.

[00:38:20]Maybe we'll hear that arc of the covenant song. It's a song I wrote that teaches all the various ways that the ark of the covenant is called in Hebrew.

[00:38:28]But through imagining what it would be like if we found the ark today and it and we brought it out, the the priests brought it out, the kanim brought it up to war with us. We went to war. Then the whole world, there'd be no doubt whose god is the way I put it in the song is whose god is wow. [laughter] So sounds silly when you say it like that, but listen to the song. I'll try to put up the lyrics for you. Maybe. Okay, maybe.

[00:38:50]Last week I was really frustrated the lyrics didn't show up right. Even though my video editor when I checked it showed them right, but it exported kind of weirdly for the song. So I might not put them all up. We'll see. We'll see. Okay, enjoy your break. I'll see you when you get back from the egg.

[00:39:07]So here we are over on my Patreon where you can find this song.

[00:39:12]I wrote this [cough and clears throat] when we'd been at war with Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah, and it seemed war with Iran was inevitable. Imagine what if God allowed us to find the ark of the covenant again and it would come out to war with us as in ancient times. While listening, try to imagine it really happened when you listen. I have a vocabulary video that's related to that.

[00:39:34]Okay, hold on.

[00:39:43]Smoke [music] is [singing] coming down the alter.

[00:39:56]Fire cleansing [music] clearly.

[00:40:02]Glance [music] towards the throne room.

[00:40:05][singing] The covenantal ark has been found.

[00:40:12]>> [music] >> The ark of the pon [music] blinding in brilliance are a cottage [music] curian for the wrong [music] back now was gone. I run.

[00:40:42]>> [music] >> Now it's time [music] to face calling you B. No, they can't stop us now or again backing down. [music] They won't question who's got is around or even [music] if it's just starting to let driving success. [singing] There's no backing down here to blinding [music] and brilliant. Oh, how cold it is.

[00:41:30]You're ready to fall [music] back.

[00:41:38][music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:42:32][music] >> [music] >> All right, I hope you enjoyed that Hebrew literacy original about the Aron Hakodesh, the ark of the covenant or the Aron Habit or the also I think there's one I might have left out Elohim sometimes you might see it a bit rarer or just ha the ark if you enjoyed this and you enjoy the work I do please consider joining me becoming a subscriber to my Patreon that's patreon.com/hebrew literacy even if you're a free member still it's nice for the moral support to see that you're over there And some of the songs and stuff are free as well. So there are free teachings and some free music.

[00:43:41]All right, let's get back to our full lesson.

[00:43:46]Let's continue. Exodus chapter 17 verse 1.

[00:44:04]That is a big construct train. Look four words. All of the is the word that becomes congregation of the ban that's from children of Israel or minbar from the wilderness of sod also known as the Sinai. Sometimes it's written with yod as well.

[00:44:38]So this is masa it's like setting out to travel or travels for the traveling of him of them for their travels for their journeys by the command literally by the mouth of Hashem yode wah the verb is and they would camp or and they camped at but there was not water to to the hay went away to drink literally it's for the for the drinking of the people. So for the people to drink otherwise that sounds a little bit weird to us English speakers.

[00:45:28]Nakman's comments the text omits the intermediate stages here because the purpose of this passage is not to describe their route but to tell the story of the grumbling. When they first entered this wilderness they grumbled about bread now about water.

[00:45:47]Everybody with me? How you guys doing today?

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[00:45:54]We'd all like to hear what you have.

[00:45:59]All right. 17 verse two.

[00:46:14]Pardon me.

[00:46:17]for this is from the verb. It's a hollow verb. The yard went away. Is it a is a quarrel or a dispute?

[00:46:44]But the people quarreled. came Moshe with Moshe and they said from Natan give to us water that we may drink and Moshe or but Moshe said to him to them ma so ma is what like for what what's the purpose perhaps even I So the T is you. The U is plural. Vu is you all quarrel. Why are you arguing?

[00:47:24]Why are you quarreling? The noon at the end. This is the enigmatic paragic noon.

[00:47:30]It's an exclamation point. Why are you arguing?

[00:47:36]Don't say this in Israel today. It's a very ancient word. People will look at you weird with [clears throat] me.

[00:47:45]What or how you you the verb is ending in a hey the hey went away you put to the test for the auditory learners not with an olive which means to lift up right like nasa this is nasa with a hey why do you exclamation point it's p I'll put to the test W Ebenezar comments the plural verb shows that they said this both to Moses and to Aaron right the viru Moses never spoke with the people except to Aaron that's according to Iban Israel and the why do you quarrel with me he said this to the first group implying let us all cry out in prayer to God why do to try the Lord. He said this to the second group.

[00:48:45]A barbell comments on the on the Ben the plural give here was directed not at Moses and Aaron but at God and Moses according to a barbell. The tenu you all give. If it was just one person it'd be tame. Let's see what the Oh, interesting. up the uh you guys remember recently I told you that Tana we had I think it was in our cohelith on our Ecclesiastes class this last week I told you that Tana you can or maybe it's the week before you can understand as give or like you know some other meanings so here the Samaritan Torah as well as the the Septuagent and others understand this to be tan with the hey here singular Exodus 17 verse 3.

[00:49:51]Fore and the people were thirsty there.

[00:50:18]Lay for the water. But Yalin and the people they led vavon they looned in this case which can mean to murmur. They murmured against Moshe and he said for what purpose is this?

[00:50:43]Oh they okay the he is referring to the people. It's not much saying it. Okay so don't get confused.

[00:50:48]is a subject. Just continuing over to this verb and he said meaning the people for what purpose is this from the verb the went away it's a causive with the heil you have caused to go up us caused to go up you caused to go up no us so you brought us up from Egypt this is a heil from moat mo is die to cause to die is to kill to kill me. Now the e that mi is a bit weird since we have new over here. Let's see what the what the biblotensia says.

[00:51:29]Yeah. Okay. So the ancient versions mostly translated aso as us. Maybe that's what they saw in the text there.

[00:51:38]just are making it clear and also the also my children and also my my herds, my livestock with the with the thirst.

[00:52:03]Verse four.

[00:52:12]Pardon me. Wrong.

[00:52:27]the cried out to saying what the olive reminds us of the olive ini I what will I say what will what will I do for the people the this one is for a is people is the Z is this. So for this people still a little and they will stone me.

[00:53:10]Sakal with the understanding usually to stone to death to kill by hurling stones.

[00:53:19]It can also mean to clear stones of right. So you see this sometimes in agriculture and such.

[00:53:27]A barbell says he he interprets this as as a false prophet, right? Because they're going to they're dehydrating, right? And all the promises and all this stuff. So they're going to stone me as a false prophet.

[00:53:40]In other words, they might be righteous and stoning me.

[00:53:47]Verse five.

[00:53:54]El music is a heal.

[00:54:25]Then Hashem said unto Moses, this is the command from cross through cross over, pass by before the people.

[00:54:39]This is an imperative from and take is with you is it's from min. That's why there's a dot in the Zion. They contracted, right?

[00:54:52]Like cannot in English can become can't.

[00:54:55]The noon is inside the Zion. That's why we have two Z there. So min would have meant the same thing as Israel from the zakanim from the elders of Israel and the mate of and your staff a with which you struck bow with it at the Nile from take in the in the hand of you or perhaps And you shall go or you shall walk.

[00:55:35]You shall walk.

[00:55:41]Now it's interesting points out that by saying the mate, the rod that it's an illusion to the first plague as described in Exodus 7:17-24, right? Remember hitting the water. It conveys a subtle lesson. Whereas on the earlier occasion, striking the rod had deprived the Egyptians of drinking water, the same action now serves to satisfy Israel's need for water. Isn't that cool?

[00:56:14]Aaron comments regarding the Israel. take with you from some of the elders of Israel.

[00:56:23]Not young men who could protect you from the stoning you imagine is about to happen to you, but elders who will be too weak to protect you. I like that insight. So, Hashem's dealing with Moshe's faith here. Nice insight from Rabbi Abarban though. Yeah, it's for the people, but it's also from Moshe. God is so infinitely dimensional.

[00:56:45]He does this and his servants sometimes do this with multiple teachings at once.

[00:56:49]I like the example where the master he casts out the demons who called themselves legion from the man who's living in the graveyard. Right?

[00:56:58]Undoubtedly, that's where he got them from by sleeping in such a horribly un spiritually contaminated place. There's no contamination like the contamination of a nephesh, a human corpse. And so anyway, this what's what's the master do? He casts out the demons. So he frees the man, right? He frees the man. He gives him liberty and no doubt instructs him not to go back to the graveyard again, even though we don't have that recorded.

[00:57:26]Two, what's he do? There were sinners.

[00:57:28]There were sinful farmers in the land of Israel raising pig, raising swine. This is in Israel. The master in his adult life, he never left the land of Israel, right? in his teachings only to the lost sheep of Israel and any and any righteous Gentiles or would be righteous Gentiles who live there and he gave him at the time. So he punishes the wicked, he destroys their livestock, right? They get punished. That's a severe financial loss. Three, he protects the community from further sin by destroying the source of the of the unclean meat.

[00:58:07]They're all dead in the bottom now, right?

[00:58:12]Four, the pig are freed from the inhumane lifestyle that is pig farming.

[00:58:18]A pig is smarter than a dog.

[00:58:21]It's so horrible to eat such an intelligent animal. And they know when their slaughter's coming. They're like shaking and fearful and such. Just horrible. So, he freed them. He freed them. Sweet death sometimes is better.

[00:58:37]It was a lesson for all the onlookers as well, showing who he is, that he can command not just an exorcism but an exorcism of a legion of demons.

[00:58:50]And finally, he declared who he was with I mean I mean he gave a lesson about the connection. It provides a connection of the swine and the living in a cemetery and all the unclean actions. And there's even a hint of redemption.

[00:59:06]We all are like those swine. We're unclean. What happens? They go down into mayam into baptismal waters. Waters which can purify from uncleanness, showing that there is hope. And he of course already shares to the Samaritan woman that he's the one who gives may living waters.

[00:59:31]Waters which to the first century Jewish mind would be understood are usable for purification.

[00:59:39]That's what that means. It's water that can be used for purification. Water with a source.

[00:59:49]Also interesting to me, following up on Rav Abarbanel's comment, by the way, nobody knows how to say his name. Some say it's Aravenel, some say Arabanel, some say Abarel.

[01:00:01]I'm I just picked one and stuck with it.

[01:00:03]Abanel. Okay, so I always call him that.

[01:00:05]It's kind of mysterious. There's no Nicod and it's not that common of a name. So, but look with his opinion that it's from Moshe to to know the reason why he's taking elders instead of young men, right? Look how it ends. The And you shall walk, you shall walk, you shall walk the with fidelity. Walk in the Jewish law with fidelity.

[01:00:32]This is something I like how our the gentile Christians, brothers and sisters, when they say, "How's your walk?" That's actually that's that's right from Hebrew. The halaka is your walk.

[01:00:45]But what they what they've lost from it.

[01:00:47]Sadly, many of them, many of our brothers and sisters who fear the God of Israel, what they've lost is you cannot separate your walk from his Torah because that's how you gauge how your walk is going. Are you a lawb breaker and breaking a whole lot? Are you living in anomia and lawlessness or are you walking in with the salvation of Yeshua?

[01:01:08]that verse in Ephesians it says to put on the helmet of sia of salvation or sia is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Yeshua so you can understand that it's putting on the helmet of Yeshua the helmet of the master and of course that parallels nicely that makes a nice gazer shava in content to Rafu's other teaching where he teaches that we shall have the mind of the Messiah Yeah, you've got his helmet over your head. So, we have his mind as well.

[01:01:49]All right. Exodus 17 verse 6.

[01:01:58]Behold, I will be standing. You notice with the participle we have to decide what kind of time to assign to it, right?

[01:02:09]before you literally to the pan of to the face of you sham there by the big rock and you shall this is a doubly weak verb the noon is missing and the hey is missing how about that and you shall you shall strike Or as Rashi says, strike in because of the bait vat in the rock or on the rock and will come forth from it water.

[01:03:02]Then the people will drink.

[01:03:16]So Moshe went away meaning he he did Cain thusly is to the eyes of the elders of Israel meaning in their presence they saw it.

[01:03:34]They saw it.

[01:03:40]Any comments or questions? I'm just going to have a little bit of my coffee here. Got iced coffee.

[01:03:55]More like a slurry or something. Was in the freezer for quite a while. Really nice.

[01:04:06]Verse seven and he called Hamak the name of the place.

[01:04:26]Sorry, my arrow isn't there. Masa Masa is testing and striving like having a dispute.

[01:05:05]on account of literally over like concerning Israel the dispute of the children of Israel and concerning the the the testing of the testing of them. They're testing putting to the test that's saying this is a hey interrogative it's like a question mark is existing in midst of no of us. So is adonai in our midst in or not?

[01:05:49]Excuse me. I need another drink quickly.

[01:06:04]Wow, that's great. Nice and cold.

[01:06:07]Very, very small ice crystals.

[01:06:10]It's espresso mixed with oat milk with no sugar added, [snorts] mixed with cream, no sugar added, mixed with caramel syrup. Sugar added or made from sugar [laughter] because it's Shabbat, ain't Shabbat.

[01:06:32]And here we have a pay. That's interesting. So, this is the end of an episode.

[01:06:44]All right. Exodus chapter 17 verse 8. By the way, like to pray for the family of Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina. He died at the young age of 71. Quite suspiciously, I feel after a trip to Ukraine. Remember, Russians and Ukrainians in Kev, they speak the same language. They look very similar. There's a lot of ethnic Russians who are Ukrainians.

[01:07:15]I don't know if this was foul play, but it sure seems like it.

[01:07:20]A lot of a lot of evil countries wanted him to be unal alived. Russia, well, I mean, they're they're despot leader, not all the Russian people, right? Communist Chinese, Iranian, foolish leadership.

[01:07:35]Graham was a great statesman and for those of you who didn't follow his career, he, you know, sometimes it upset me. He always was so nice even to Democrats. Even some Democrats had good things to say about him. You know, a true statesman and oftenimes accused of being a hawk, but at least he served in the military for a long time before becoming a senator. So, he walked the walk and he will be missed. I find it very sad that this great statesman is is now lost at such a young age. In these days in the states 71 is young.

[01:08:14]All right.

[01:08:17]Exodus 17:8.

[01:08:22]Then Amalcch came and he fought Israel with Israel at verse nine. Sorry if my my pointer doesn't always show. I'm trying something new.

[01:08:45]that say then Moshe said unto Joshua Yahosua not the same name as Yeshua though people try to do that these are different names different names very very similar the ha at our mountain literally or to us at I'm sorry not bear [laughter] choose choose lose lanu for us men and let them and go out fight against there. And now it all fits.

[01:09:31]It see little dot dot line there. It's on the mount. I wasn't paying attention to my own annotation.

[01:09:39]Maha tomorrow or mate Elohim.

[01:10:01]Tomorrow I will take a stand will be situated at the hill peak the the head of the peak of the hill rather of the ga it's like a hill not a full mountainate elohim and the rod of god bead E will be in the hand of E in my hand.

[01:10:30]And just a quick reminder here on the we are we learn in the the that whenever you see it tells us in scripture that the Holy Spirit is present.

[01:10:53]Now, it's interesting. Sarna points out that Joshua, although not previously mentioned, he's not further identified, which suggests that he is already wellknown. Later, he's revealed to be the son of Nun, a grandson of Elisha, who was a chieftain of the tribe of Ephraim. [snorts] According to Joshua 24:30, Joshua was buried in the hill country of the tribal territory of Ephraim.

[01:11:14]Okay, of course, we know he was the designated successor and all that stuff.

[01:11:25]verse 10. Let me just have another quick drink while you guys scan that.

[01:11:48]What a wonderful treat.

[01:11:53]Exodus 17 verse 10.

[01:12:26]Now Joshua did according to how Moshe Moshe said to him to fight ba against Moshe Now Moses Aaron and it's from Allah they went away they went up it's went up the the head of the hill now is Miriam's son and Khalv was her husband.

[01:13:09]This is according to tradition as shared by Rashi. Okay. And Rashi points out that this also demonstrates we have a a a Minhog a custom of having three men lead prayers before the ark on a fast day.

[01:13:29]So the Ben Israel were fasting on that day.

[01:13:32]So that's kind of an interesting take there.

[01:13:37]Ibn Ezra says the reason for mentioning is because they're the ones who will be holding Moshe's hands up later, remember in the battle. Well, we're going to see.

[01:13:47]It's coming up right now. Right now.

[01:13:49]Coming up.

[01:13:51]Verse 11.

[01:14:11]So it was or and it will be sorry it will be according to how or when Moshe Moshe causes to that means lifts up his hand the gavar is that Israel will be mighty will gavar will be prevailing where we get the word gv Gibbor, a hero or mighty man.

[01:14:39]And when he will rest his handcale will be prevailing.

[01:14:55]Now the rash bomb thinks that Moshi was actually carrying holding up some kind of symbol of note.

[01:15:14]Sorry, I got an ice cream headache.

[01:15:16][laughter] All right, verse 12.

[01:15:26]Heaven.

[01:15:49]Echive.

[01:16:01]Now the mohe again another duel. The hands of Moses were heavy and they held a stone.

[01:16:16]Sorry they took a stone. So instead of and let's say so that makes more sense.

[01:16:22]They the l is gone. They took an Evan, a stoneimo.

[01:16:27]I know we have an Evan here listening.

[01:16:28]Hey Evan, say hi if you're in the chat today. And they placed under him and he sat upon it.

[01:16:44]Those guys, the verb is they grasped or they held by his hands from here or from this one from this one. It's how biblical Hebrew says one on each side.

[01:17:13]So his hands were now not meaning faithful but more like reliable or steady. They were steady.

[01:17:21]They were affirmed like amen can mean I affirm, right? That's why only one person says amen. The one saying the prayer doesn't say amen. Okay? It's so silly to say amen. You're saying I affirm what I just said. Basically, of course you do. You said it, right?

[01:17:34]Everyone else says amen. Not the prayer or blessing say until the coming of hashamish, the shemesh, the sun, meaning the setting of the sun.

[01:17:50]13.

[01:18:10]Interesting. In in in olden is to scratch off, right? To scratch out. in Hebrew means to defeat or to make something weak. I guess defeating a battle makes them weak, right?

[01:18:25]So Yahosua defeated at the and oh the people of oh the people of him and his people. Interesting. What is the code the upright says? Oh okay interesting.

[01:18:42]Samaritan Torah adds and he smoked them.

[01:18:49]>> [snorts] >> by the mouth of the of the sword of the sword just meaning militarily doesn't mean he couldn't use a bow or something.

[01:19:04]I want to take a quick drink again. Hope you don't mind.

[01:19:17]Exodus 17 verse 14.

[01:19:52]Moshe, pardon me.

[01:19:55]Then Hashem said unto Moshe, what did he say?

[01:20:03]This is imperative from kav write or inscribe this zikaron remembrance or memorial in the scroll in place or a sign in the ears of Joshua.

[01:20:24]Here we have an infinitive absolute which means like indeed definitely I will blot out.

[01:20:32]This is what we say when we hear the name of a wicked person, right? Like Martin Luther. When we hear Martin Luther, we say Yamak Shimo, may his name be blotted out because he's just so incredibly evil, especially to the Jewish people.

[01:20:44]Shimo, may his name be erased. May be blotted out, meaning from God's book.

[01:20:50]For indeed I shall blot out, exterminate, wipe out the remembrance of Amalecch.

[01:21:02]Min became that's where there's a dog from under hash the sky.

[01:21:16]Any comments or questions?

[01:21:25]Okay.

[01:21:28]Verse 15. Actually, let me check make sure my microphone is okay. Still bouncing well.

[01:21:49]What is well? It's from the verb no which is to build hey verb hey away built m altar.

[01:22:01]Let's I'm curious what the apparatus says.

[01:22:04]Okay. Septuagent adds of Adonai and he called its name Adonai. I love how they name altars. Isn't that interesting? Hashem.

[01:22:19]Hashem is the n of E. He is my standard, my banner. Like an army has a banner showing their side. I'm on the Lord's side and he is on my side is what that's saying.

[01:22:34]Pretty good stuff.

[01:22:37]It's worth mentioning Sworno teaches that the full understanding of Adonc perhaps due to context is the Lord is my banner on high.

[01:22:48]Isn't that nice?

[01:22:52]Right.

[01:22:53]Verse 16 and then we are at the end of the chapter.

[01:23:18]We have a face show on the end of this part.

[01:23:24]Then he said for a hand against the case of Yah case.

[01:23:35]This is probably short for like the olive just got deleted somehow.

[01:23:40]Olive like the throne of Hashem as one word.

[01:23:56]waroni for Hashem against mid do. So the dog in the first dolllet is a strong dog. It's because we combine min to dora. It makes mid in ancient times mid. But the dog the doll the dogish in the second dolllet is a dogish lennia weak dog. And that one's there only because dal dollar is a bag kafhat letter right there's no vocal sound before it no vowel sound rather before it so it pronounced this way in ancient times that distinguish between the and so mid do from generation generation which is again one of Hebrew's ways of expressing forever forever now sarda comments this enigmatic verse sorry censored out Big sneeze for you guys. [laughter] This enigmatic verse appears to be a fragmentaryary citation from some ancient poetic text now lost.

[01:24:57]Perhaps the book of the wars of Adonai mentioned in Numbers 21:14 or the book of Yasher cited in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1 verse 18.

[01:25:11]First Kings 8 verse 13 or 53 also mentions a book of the song which probably represents a corruption of Hebrew Yashar. Right? because it's sheer to sheer. These works seem to have contained collections of war songs and poetic accounts of battles. They present the pardon me the present verse they they present the present verse may well be excerted from a poetic version of the battle against Amalcch.

[01:25:39]He said it means although the passage purports to be an explanation of the altar's name, the relationship between the two is difficult to discern.

[01:25:48]and hand upon the throne yad al case pardon me.

[01:25:55]Jewish exugesus ancient and medieval understood the unique case as kay throne and interpreted the phrase to be an oath formula uttered either by Moses or by God. It reinforces the promise of verse 14. By the way, you it it could also be a special name, right? Usually, we don't see the short form of God's name, the Yah. We don't see that written by itself and it's usually part of something else.

[01:26:21]Right? This one we can say it's a shortcut because we're not supposed to say alai. We're not supposed to pronounce that one. But the shortcut you can say although sparingly please. This one's usually [clears throat] a name. So quesa makes me think that it's probably a name of sorts.

[01:26:35]See oh the apparatus sing a lot.

[01:26:46]Yeah.

[01:26:48]Okay.

[01:26:50]All right. How'd you guys do?

[01:26:52]Did you understand a lot? Did you make You're making progress?

[01:26:57]I really hope you're moving forward with your Torah understanding.

[01:27:03]I think what I'll do is I will go ahead and continue to our lesson or takeaway rather and we'll close out the teaching and then I'll make a separate video for the reading from the codeex. All right, for those who are interested to practice their codeex reading so I can kind of serve everybody as best as possible.

[01:27:30]What is our leak for today?

[01:27:36]So often, Hashem, the Lord embeds a lesson or some training for us as individuals in the midst of an action taken for others or in the midst of reading about the history of an action taken for others.

[01:27:55]He did this for Moshe and this par sha as we shared, right? What did he do? He told Moshe Miznel, take some of the elders of Israel, right? When Moshe was worried that the people were about to sakal him, to stone him, to pelt him with stones. So instead of taking young, strong men who could defend him, he's supposed to bring old men so that he has more reliance on the Lord.

[01:28:31]I have an assignment for you guys this next week going forward.

[01:28:35]Try to identify how he does this for you in your scripture readings or even daytime interactions with others right when you're supposed to do something maybe even something you don't want to do after the fact. Can you see how he might have used it in reaching you as well? Even if you're teaching, you're giving a devar to something, how he can use that or you're studying the word and you're learning about something that happened long ago as we did today. How can he use that to train you up to stir you up as well? Our Lord is multi-dimensional. He's not confined to some flat space or 3D space time like we are. And so he's it's able for him and for his teachers whom he sends to accomplish the same thing in our lives.

[01:29:25]Let's say a prayer for our friends who [clears throat] are in harm's way.

[01:29:52]Lift the speech.

[01:30:16]Amen.

[01:30:21]There it is for in English for those of you want to know.

[01:30:28]And here it is in Hebrew for the American forces. The special Hebrew prayer.

[01:30:32]that you say for the forces of the United States. But that one we will say in English because that is the language of the United States. Almighty God on high, omnipotent king, look down from your sanctified abode and bless the valiant soldiers of the American military forces who risk their lives to protect welfare of all your creation.

[01:30:51]Benevolent God, be their shelter and fortress, and do not allow them to falter. May harmony dwell in their ranks. Victory in their battalions. Fill their hearts with faith and courage to thwart the evil schemes of our enemies and abolish every rule of evil. Protect them on land, in the air, and in the sea, and destroy their adversaries.

[01:31:10]Guide them in peace. Lead them toward peace. Return them speedily to their families alive and unharmed. As it is written, God will shield you from all evil. He will guard your soul, which could be in your life. God will safeguard your departure and arrival from now and forever more. Grant us true peace and fulfillment of the prophecy.

[01:31:31]Nation shall not lift up sword against another nation, nor shall they learn war anymore. Let all your the inhabitants of the world know that dominion is yours and your name inspires awe upon all that you have created. May this be your will and let us say amen.

[01:31:53]Cohen, Shalom.

[01:32:43]Everyone have a great and excellent and blessed day. May Adonai heal you from any suffering or pain or illness you have. And may you be truly blessed to become a head and not the tail as with us all.

[01:32:58]Bye-bye.

[01:33:06][music] Smoke [singing and music] is coming down the altar.

[01:33:18]Fire [singing] cleansing clearly.

[01:33:22][music] Glance [singing] to