Mikra - Parashat Beshalach (B), Part 2

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Parashat Beshalach (B) IV A FINAL QUESTION When Yehoshua leads the people into the Yarden, he is commanded by God to appoint a representative from each tribe to take a boulder from the dried-up river bed and to set it up in the lodging where they sleep that night (4:2-3). Along with fulfilling this command, Yehoshua sets up another 12 rocks in the Yarden itself (4:9). He then orchestrates the Milah of Yisra'el - using sharpened flintrocks (5:2). Rocks (or boulders) continue to appear in the narrative - including the stone walls of Yericho which fall (6:20), the rocks used to bury various enemies (e.g. 7:26, 8:29, 19:27), the near-civil war caused by the construction of the Giladite altar (22:10) and the "rock-witness" to B'nei Yisra'el's acceptance of the B'rit (24:26). This, of course, in addition to the Avanim Gedolot cast down by God as the army chased its enemiy down the slopes of Beit Horon.

Mikra - Parashat Beshalach (B), Part 1

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Parashat Beshalach (B) Yehoshua Bin-nun: A Life(II) I THE APPEARANCE OF YEHOSHUA… ON THE STAGE OF HISTORY In the first installment of this week's shiur, we analyzed some enigmatic passages in the final chapter of Sefer Yehoshua - notably the delay of Yoseph's interment until after the passing of Yehoshua. In this second half of the shiur, as promised, I would like to further investigate the life and career of Mosheh's disciple, the great leader who brought us into Eretz Yisra'el - Yehoshua bin-Nun. We first meet Yehoshua in this week's Parashah: Then came Amalek, and fought with Yisra'el in Rephidim. And Mosheh said to Yehoshua, Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. So Yehoshua did as Mosheh had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Mosheh, Aharon, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Mosheh held up his hand, that Yisra'el prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Mosheh’s hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aharon and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Yehoshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Mikra - Parashat Beshalach (A), Part 2

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Parashat Beshalach (A) V RAV SAMET'S EXPLANATION Rav Elhanan Samet, of Makhon Herzog, suggests that we are misled in our understanding of Yosephs' dreams because we assume that the reactive-interpretations of both brothers and father are accurate. To wit, we believe that both dreams foretell Yoseph's future role as "king" of the family and that his brothers, father and mother(!) will bow to him in subjugation. That understanding seems to be adopted by Yoseph himself, as reflected by the evocation of these dreams when the brothers appear before him in Egypt:

Mikra - Parashat Beshalach (A), Part 1

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Parashat Beshalach (A) Yehoshua Bin-nun: A Life (I) I "THAT THE TORAH OF HASHEM SHOULD BE IN YOUR MOUTH" Parashat Bo (last week's reading) is the first to introduce Mitzvot which are an expression of the unique and exclusive relationship between God and the B'nei Yisra'el (note the comments of Rashi on B'resheet 1:1).