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How The Land of Israel Was Really Divided

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz explains the division of the Land of Israel in the Book of Joshua.

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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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