The Stick & the Rock: The Rogatchover Reframes the Story - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] dominus haha Martin L was the finance minister of Spain and even though he was allowed to remain this stain after the expulsion of the Jews because of his unique contribution to the country thank you and is indispensable value to its economy the Bartman L chose to go into exile together with his people in the year 1492 he ultimately moved to Italy he wrote his commentary on Hamish then this commentary impartial took us he lists eleven divergent explanations on the story of mush and hitting the rock and as a result not being allowed entry into the promised land the fact that he numerate eleven different interpretations some of them completely different upon opposite demonstrates how obscure and ambiguous the story is an Amish in fact even though it's such an important story that such a Bible story forty years of leading the Jewish people in the desert towards the promised land suddenly the dreams they completely transformed that moisture denied entry into the land when you read the story to understand what happens what was it said what was his mistake what did he do wrong it is one of the most cryptic ambiguous stories in all of the Tanakh there is the Italian commentator known as chaton small dove in Lusaka and he writes on the story poor boys she says he committed one sin but the commentators imposed on him thirteen cents because he brings thirteen different sins he says he did one but they put on thirty cents the sacred war - a fish iron and he greets 25 sins that much nothing you did from all of the different interpretations let's see the

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