Where Did Half of Menashe Come From? The Amazing Approach of Tzror Hamor

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Yes. >> Okay, we're going to deal now with the question. We spoke about it Sunday. We gave two lamda share answers. Last night I found an amazing approach in the the Torah Hamar of Rabbi Avraham Saba. An amazing question and an even more amazing answer. If you look at the end of Matos, the Bnei Gad and the Bnei Reuven pack a lot of base, they they have a lot of cattle. They say, "Moshe, you know what? There's a lot of grazing land here. There's a lot of grazing land here. Let's stay right here." So Moshe says, "What? You're going to cause Klal Yisrael to waver about going into Eretz Yisrael? Don't you remember the chet ha meraglim?" They said, "No, no, no. If we we're going to go fight ahead of the Jewish people. And if we do that, we'll inherit here. And if we don't do that, then we'll go into Israel proper." So the So the Torah says, "Okay." Moshe says, "You're right." So the possuk says, "Moshe says to the Bnei Gad and the Bnei Reuven, and chatzi shevet Menashe, we got a deal." So where are the Bnei Gad and chatzi So where are the Bnei Gad and chatzi shevet Menashe? Where did they come Where did they pop out of? They weren't the ones who came to Moshe. They're They They were never mentioned. They never asked Moshe they would like the Eiver HaYarden. So why would Moshe allot the land to Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuven all of a sudden with chatzi shevet and chatzi shevet Menashe? You know why? Chatzi shevet Menashe. So on Sunday we said over from the Meshech Chochmah, um a lamda share answer, that if you marry Sprintza Al Tnai, that she puts

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1. 0:00Yes. >> Okay, we're going to deal now with the question. We spoke about it Sunday.…
2. 0:31There's a lot of grazing land here. Let's stay right here." So Moshe says, "What? You're…
3. 1:31she puts sausages in the in the cholent. There There people who do that. You know,…
4. 2:01Yenta have to put sausages in the cholent? Yes, the Yerushalmi says. Because once he made…
5. 3:03entirely. First, he wants to say, nah, the Menai Menashe Chatzi Shevet Menashe, they were much…
6. 4:06tnai. Only Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuven asked for the Eretz Yarden like the psukim say.…
7. 4:37Therefore, Moshe said to Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuven, "You want to go Eretz Yarden? But…
8. 5:39could work out, how much Yosef I could arrange for you to have. So Moshe tells…
9. 6:09Yosif and his sons are three. They're six halves. So, therefore, half of Manasseh will be…
10. 7:11piece of Yosif. So, the two have a half, and the other 10 have the other…

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