What is the first and fundamental mitzva that Moshe explains when he teaches the Torah to his people? Not Shabbos, not kashrus, but rather, seizing the land.
ed note–chock full o’ goodies, as we like to say here from time to time.
1. Please note the number of times that the word ‘Torah‘ (highlighted in red for those with short attention spans) appears in this piece–
A whopping 27 times.
Note as well how many times the word ‘Talmud’ appears–
A whopping zero.
We are forced to point this out due to the fact that there are entire legions of self-described ‘experts’ writing all sorts of books, essays, pamphlets, etc claiming that the Torah (Old Testament to Christians) plays no role whatsoever in the religious life of Jews, a statement revealed to be patently false once someone actually bothers to read with his/her own eyes & hear with his/her own ears exactly what it is that the Jews themselves write/say on a daily basis in their various media outlets.
Now, to some, this might seem like unnecessary hair-splitting, but it isn’t. The followers of this backwards cult and the book which they consider to be the infallible truth are not some insignificant, powerless group of Armageddonists living in some remote corner of the world who are of no consequence in the bigger picture. They represent the singular most powerful minority of people within the world who possess the crocodile’s share of money, media power, and political influence over the most powerful country in the world, the US. Entire nations have been wiped off the map per the demands of this very influential group and at present, the entire world is convulsing as a result of the control that this group possesses in terrifying/terrorizing everyone through their control of information.
2. Next, pay close attention to what our deranged Hebrew has to say, to wit–
‘The Torah wasn’t given to be kept in Sinai, Brooklyn, or Beverly Hills. The Torah isn’t a ‘religion’ like Christianity, G-d forbid. The Torah isn’t some abstract spirituality floating like clouds in the sky. The Torah has an EARTHLY BASE. Not Sinai. Not Brooklyn. Not Beverly Hills. The Torah is the DIVINE CONSTITUTION of the NATION OF ISRAEL, and every NATION needs its own LAND…’
That ‘land’ of which our deranged Hebrew speaks is very specifically detailed in terms of what and where it is as follows–
‘On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham, saying ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates’…–Genesis, 15:18
‘And God spoke unto us saying, ‘Go to the hill-country and all the places nigh thereunto… in the Arabah, the hill-country and in the Lowland… in the South and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates…Go in therefore and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, unto them and to their seed after them…’ Deuteronomy 1:6–8
‘Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border…’–Deuteronomy 11:24
‘…From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border…’–Joshua 1:4
In other words, everything lying between the ‘2 great rivers’, as visualized in the flag of the Zionist entity, to wit–
And notice, NOWHERE within those ‘holy’ texts originating in the Torah is mentioned anything about the ‘Palestinian state’ that DJT POTUS is proposing be created.
Do we understand a little better then why there has been a daily screeching campaign on the part of the JMSM for the last 4 years, as well as an impeachment, a hyped virus, an economic collapse, and everything else which these Torah-driven terrorists are planning to unleash in the coming weeks, months, and years?
Tzvi Fishman, Israel National News
Get ready to hear the Torah explained by the greatest Torah teacher of them all – Moshe Rabeinu, as we begin his review of the Torah in the Book of Devarim.
In this week’s parsha, Moshe goes over the teachings of the Torah as the Israelite Nation stands poised to enter the Promised Land. The Spies and their rebellious generation had all died in punishment for not wanting to make aliyah, but the pernicious influence of their tragic misunderstanding still remained. So at the very beginning of the Book of Devarim, Moshe begins to explain the Torah, as it says, “Moshe began to explain the Torah….” (Devarim, 1:6).
Rashi comments that Moshe explained the Torah in 70 languages. Apparently, he prophetically knew that the Jews would one day be scattered around the world, where they would speak French and Spanish and German and Russian and English and Yiddish, and Moshe didn’t want them to have the excuse, “We didn’t know we were supposed to live in Israel – we don’t speak Hebrew, so how can you blame us for not understanding the Torah?” So Moshe made sure to teach the Torah in 70 languages, so that every Jew would know.
And what is the very first thing Moshe teaches the Nation, who are all waiting to hear the explanation of the Torah from Moshe himself? You can read the words yourself:
‘Moshe began to explain the Torah, saying, the Lord our God spoke to us in Horev, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough in this mountain – TURN AND TAKE UP YOUR JOURNEY – go to the Land of Israel! BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU, GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND THAT THE LORD SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS, AVRAHAM, YITZHAK, AND YAACOV, TO GIVE THEM, AND TO THEIR SEED AFTER THEM’ (Devarim, 1:6-8).
The Torah wasn’t given to be kept in Sinai, Brooklyn, or Beverly Hills. The Torah isn’t a ‘religion’ like Christianity, G-d forbid. The Torah isn’t some abstract spirituality floating like clouds in the sky. The Torah has an EARTHLY BASE. Not Sinai. Not Brooklyn. Not Beverly Hills. The Torah is the DIVINE CONSTITUTION of the NATION OF ISRAEL, and every NATION needs its own LAND. And the holy CHILDREN OF ISRAEL have their own unique HOLY LAND.
What is the first and fundamental message that Moshe explains when he teaches the Torah to Am Yisrael? Not Shabbos, not kashrus, but rather, seizing the land.
‘Do you want to know what Torah is?” he asks them. ‘You really want to keep it? GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND! That’s the basis of Torah. Only in the Holy Land will you be able to understand what the Torah is all about, and only there can all of the Torah be kept.’
This is the teaching which Moshe wanted to sink into our hearts in order to uproot the tragic error of the Spies. We are to be our own HOLY NATION with our own HOLY LAND, and not live as a minority in someone else’s country performing a small handful of religious precepts. That may be the ‘Judaism’ of the exile, but it isn’t real Torah.
What is this like? It’s like a Jew who returns home from shul on a clear Sukkot night and eats his Yom Tov meal in his home under the roof of his house. Obviously, he hasn’t performed the mitzvah. Why? Because there is a place where the seudah of Sukkah night must be performed. The same thing is true with the Torah.
You don’t have to listen to me. Listen to Moshe. Listen to the roaring echo of his words, resounding out today from Torah scrolls all over the world:
YOU HAVE DWELT LONG ENOUGH IN BROOKLYN AND BEVERLY HILLS – YOU HAVE TARRIED LONG ENOUGH IN PARIS AND ANTWERP – YOU HAVE RUN AWAY FOR TOO LONG IN MELBOUNE AND MEXICO CITY – GO UP AND POSSESS THE LAND!!!!