Joshua

The seventh aliyah begins with 32:44.

Moses came, together with Hosea son of Nun, and recited all the words of this poem in the hearing of the people.

And when Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, he said to them, "Take to heart all the words with which I have warned you this day.

Enjoin them upon your children, that they may observe faithfully all the terms of this teaching.

It had come into being sometime in the second century before the Common Era, perhaps 300 or 350 years before Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, uh, because the question arose, how did Judaism develop? And, uh, uh, one perspective, or the perspective which, uh, would be, uh, applied to any judicial system, is that over time things, uh, change because circumstances change, because new questions arise, because, uh, the old teaching seems not to apply so much, and so on.

Uh, instead, uh, the oral Torah, the notion of the oral Torah says that when God gave Moses the written Torah at Sinai, God also gave Moses an oral Torah at Sinai, and that oral Torah was transmitted, uh, from one individual to another, uh, throughout Jewish history from Moses to Joshua to the elders to the prophets to the men of the great assembly, uh, which is, uh, what existed, uh, uh, during the time of the, uh, Persian rule.

And then, uh, uh, after that to the leaders of the Sanhedrin down to Hillel, who lived around the year zero of the Common Era, uh, and then to Rabbi Yo- Yohanan ben Zakkai, who lived after him.

And, uh, and that was, um, what gave Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi the authority to say that the Mishnah, which he had compiled with the assistance of many others, that that Mishnah was authoritative, uh, that it, um, uh, was not something that he invented, uh, by himself, but it was something that was handed down from generation to generation and had its origins from God to Moses at Sinai.

And the Lord said to Moses.

Take Joshua the son of Nun.

The Nun is a person.

Not Nun as you know Nun.

Let's go to.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.

He took Joshua and set him before Elias the priest and before all the congregation.

But the key word is they were laying hands on him.

The Torah alone cannot get you into the promised land.

Who follows Moses? Joshua, which is Yehoshua, which is the same root word as Yeshua, the salvation of Yah.

To keep in the promised land, you have to obey Moses.

Remember, we were just told that.

It is the covenant that you keep as promised land people.

But to get into the promised land, you need Yeshua.

And that's what Joshua represents.

His very name, Yehoshua, is the same root word as Yeshua.

Instead, the notion of the oral Torah says that when God gave Moses the written Torah at Sinai, God also gave Moses an oral Torah at Sinai.

And that oral Torah was transmitted from one individual to another throughout Jewish history, from Moses to Joshua to the elders to the prophets.

the men of the Great Assembly, which is what existed during the time of the Persian rule, and then after that to the leaders of the Sanhedrin down to Hillel, who lived around the year of zero of the Common Era, and then to Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, who lived after him, And that was what gave Rabbi Yehuda Anassi the authority to say that the Mishnah, which he had compiled with the assistance of many others, that that Mishnah was authoritative.

that it was not something that he invented by himself, but it was something that was handed down from generation to generation and had its origins from God to Moses at Sinai.

And Moshe came and spoke all of the words of this poem to the people so they could hear it.

Together with Yahushua, the Hosea, the son of Nun.

Rashi.

What does it mean together with Yeshua? It was a Shabbos of peers, meaning of two leaders.

And this was that later on, that when Moshe passes, the people should not say, hey, where did you come along all of a sudden? Where were you in the time of Moshe? You never said anything.

You didn't have the ability to lift your head and say anything and to be in charge of us and to be a rabbi.

Why all of a sudden now does his name change back to Hosea? Didn't we learn in the book of Numbers he was called Yeshua? Leimashli, Zohar died to Olaf to teach us that because of the humility that Joshua had, he never had any ego or prided himself with the very fact that Moshe appointed him as his successor.

Even though he was given this leadership position, he was still humble enough as if he was in his first days as a young man known as O'Shea before he was even popular.