Zera Shimshon V'etchanan #3 & #5 5779 - Rabbi Zvi Kahn

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Good evening, Erev Tov. We are in the Zera Shimshon on Parshas Va'etchanan, and we are looking at Os Gimel, section three, on page Resh Sadi Gimel in the Sefer, and the before we take a look at the Zera Shimshon's text itself, let's read the first few pesukim of the parsha so we know what point he's addressing. The parsha begins, Va'etchanan el Hashem ba'et hahi lemor, "And I appealed to Hashem at that time saying." So, Moshe Hashem at that time saying." So, Moshe is relating to the fact that he appealed to Hashem uh about going into Eretz Yisrael, as we'll see in a moment. Hashem Elokeim, atah hachiloso laharos es avdecha, "You have begun to show your servant es godl ha'avias yadcha hahazaka, your greatness and your strong hand, asher mi el bashamayim uva'aretz, asher ya'aseh kema'asecha ucheguroscha, that which power in the earth in the that which power in the earth in the in the heavens or in the earth can do like your actions and like your strength. E'evira na, "Let me pass over, please, ve'ereh es ha'aretz hatovah asher be'ever hayarden, and I will see the good land on the other side of the Yarden, hahar hatov hazeh vehalelvanon, this good mountain and the Lebanon, which is the northern part of Eretz Eretz Yisrael." So, in a nutshell, in its simplest form, Hashem is telling

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1. 0:00Good evening, Erev Tov. We are in the Zera Shimshon on Parshas Va'etchanan, and we are…
2. 3:07question. The Midrash says, "Why did Moshe daven?" Moshe daven to go into Eretz Yisrael. But…
3. 6:41Zera Shimshon says, "Certainly Moshe Rabbeinu uh was not really trying to go into Eretz Yisrael…
4. 10:18Hamigaleh Amukos Tiyras, the Sefer Hamigaleh Amukos gives a different answer. D'vei Erchin, in Maseches Erchin,…
5. 13:55right in the Psukim that we read. V'zehu, and this is the real meaning of Va'eschanan…
6. 17:32everything he can to hint to Bnei Yisrael and to us that his real what his…
7. 21:06on. That's what he was is to do. And that's what the Medrish Medrish Yalkut Shimoni…
8. 24:42Va'eschanan, where uh Ruvein, Gad, and and Chatzi Menashe, and half of the tribe of Menashe…
9. 28:16Hashem would arrange it so the unintentional murderer here hadn't who had escaped the punishment of…
10. 31:53witnesses testifying to the event. Ella in Kein Yiyu K'negdam Kol Kach Meizidin, Sha Yahargu B'lo…

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