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Shimi Berger

Shimi Berger

Torah educator and recurring guest lecturer on the "5 Minutes of Torah" podcast, delivering short daily shiurim on the weekly Torah portion.

Sep 24, 2026

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We find throughout Sefer Devarim, the idea that HaKadosh Baruch Hu shows Moshe Rabbeinu Eretz Yisrael, but then tells him that he will not have the privilege of entering our Tzeinu HaKadoshah.
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Starting right in Parashat Devarim, through famously in V'eschanan, where after Moshe Rabbeinu Daven, Hashem says, and throughout many other places in Sefer Devarim.
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We also find this at the end of the Torah in Zeis HaBaruch Ha.
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where one final time Maishra Beinu ascends the mountain and Hashem shows him the land that he had given to the Bnei Yisroel as he had promised Avraham Yitzchak and Yaakov.
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And it always struck me as interesting that the last words of Maishra Beinu that he heard in his entire lifetime were those words.
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And I analogized it to imagine you had a company And a worker, the best worker, the best worker that the CEO had ever had, faithfully did everything that he had asked for, led his company to great success.

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