Why Is Israel Scared of the Truth? - Parsha Devarim - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Good evening. They tell the anecdote about four Europeans who go hiking together and they really get badly lost. First, they run out of food. Then, they run out of their drinks. The Englishman turns to the other three and he says, "You know, I'm so thirsty. I must have a cup of tea." The Frenchman turns to them and he says, "I'm so thirsty. I really can use a cup of wine." The German says, "I'm so thirsty. I must have a cup of beer." And the Jew says, "I'm so thirsty. I must have diabetes." Tonight, I to explore a story that's extremely relevant to our times as you shall see. Moses is about to pass on. It's merely 5 weeks before his death and he bids farewell to his people. During this long and moving speech recounted in the book of the volume Deuteronomy beginning with the portion of D'varim Eleh Had'varim Asher Devar Moshe. These are the words that Moses spoke. He reviews their 40 years together in the desert. He highlights certain major events gleaning the timeless insights and lessons from these events that the Jewish people must employ for their future journeys and successes throughout their long history. Moses describes the journey from Egypt throughout the Sinai Peninsula ultimately till the Jordanian River which they would later cross and enter into the West Bank of the Jordanian River, the land of Canaan Canaan which would later become the land of Israel Eretz Yisrael. During their long trek from Egypt through the Sinai Peninsula ultimately to Jordan they encounter various nations. Some of them, actually all of them quite antagonistic to the Israelites. Moses records during his last weeks on

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1. 1:09Good evening. They tell the anecdote about four Europeans who go hiking together and they really…
2. 3:45earth the instructions he gave the young Jews about how to deal with these nations and…
3. 6:50capital of Moab that I have given Ar as an inheritance. Don't provoke them to war.…
4. 9:53would encounter Seir, they would encounter Ammon. They were told not to entice them, not to…
5. 12:55And Helen Thomas, in her famous words said, and I'm not going to quote it verbatim,…
6. 16:03permission. When your great-great-grandparents were still entrenched in barbaric pagan rites Jewish children were studying God's…
7. 18:39deeply respect the Bible. Yet, you will really hear a self-respecting Jewish leader getting up to…
8. 21:44Begin inheriting his country. Hisgaber b'Milchama, provoke war against him. God tells Moses, the land of…
9. 24:50V'laif pakda turn al yeridfa mitzvas usually the Torah never told us to pursue the mitzvas,…
10. 27:56and defeated Sichon and conquered the land. These are not just stories of the past, these…

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