How The Land of Israel Was Really Divided

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So, uh again, we're discussing the uh second part of Joshua, the first part of the safer, uh with seven years of kibbush, the seven years of conquest, and the second part of the safer is the chalukah, the division of Eretz Yisrael, uh among the conq- conquered territories, >> [snorts] >> according to Chazal, uh the conquest took seven years, and the [snorts] chiluk, the chalukah of the land actually took uh seven years. Uh remember, however, again, we've said it a number of times, and the psukim say it a number of times, that the conquest was actually not completed, meaning to say, they conquered most of the land, some of the land they did not conquer, they then divided all of the land, even the parts of the land that were not conquered. So, some people, some shvatim got chalukim of Eretz Yisrael that were not even conquered yet, so they literally didn't have any place to go home to. And as well, the Malbim is mechadesh, although there's no makor in Chazal directly, that there were certain stachim that were not assigned to any given shevet, and that allowed for potentially expansion. The shevet was given permission on its own to wage war, to conquer uh that territory, and use it for increased populations and the like. That's a shtikel chiddush. But the one thing that is not a chiddush, is very interesting thing, apparently, once land was allocated to a shevet,

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1. 0:00So, uh again, we're discussing the uh second part of Joshua, the first part of the…
2. 3:40Melech Emori, and Og, Melech HaBashan, east of the Jordan. It's called Ever HaYarden. And uh…
3. 7:16and a half tribes, and it was under Moshe Rabbeinu. On the other hand, it's not…
4. 10:51uh the cycle is gone through approximately twice, meaning you have 1 through 24 for 24…
5. 14:28don't want the cohen or the levi to own land so they should be able to…
6. 18:01blessing or curse. Remember we read two weeks ago about the story of Shechem where Shechem…
7. 21:36to apply it, but nevertheless this is the Rambam's famous Shita about Shimon and Levi. So…
8. 25:08Yisrael. How was it fulfilled with respect to shevet Shimon? So, here we we read in…
9. 28:44albeit in different ways, right? Levi, 48 cities in every tribe. Shimon, the cities are movla…
10. 32:19uh Okay, I don't want to I have to look at a map again, but I…

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